Submissions from 2025
Shadowed Identities: The (Mis)Representation of Communities of Color in Classic Film Noir, Yolanda Porter
Framing Narratives About Policy: Character Race Impact on Welfare Support, Stereotypes, and NIMBYism, Josephina Quintana-Mori Struck
Safe-Haven Ignorance: The Epistemic Refugee, Purya Rabet
More Than Just a Criminal: Talking Back As a Critical Autoethnographic Journey, Anakin Rivera Ramirez
Manifesto of an Arab Female, Diditta Rizk
Shanghai's Stateless Immigrants: Anti-Bolshevik Russians in Shanghai from 1917-1949, Anna E. Roberts
The Role of Cultural Mathematical Caring Relations in Supporting Two Latina Undergraduates’ Rate of Change Development within a Constructivist Teaching Experiment: An Anti-Deficit Investigation Bridging Sensemaking and Cultural Experiences, Christopher Orlando Roman
What This Work Really Takes: Lessons, Tensions, and Student Perspectives in a Social Justice Math Classroom, Kathryn Elizabeth Roman
Why Democracy Has Lost the Trust of Modern People in the Modern Era, Erica Rubel
Experiences of Minority Workers: A Three-Study Dissertation Evaluating Recruitment and Workplace Experiences for Minority Workers, Jennifer Saucedo
A Comprehensive Literature Review of Gender Differences in Perception and Response to Stress, Zoe M. Shankland
College Outcomes for Young Adults with and Without Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Formal-Disability-Programming and Informal-Disability-Supports, Dara R. Shifrer, Rachel Springer, Hannah Sean Ellefritz, and Ned Tilbrook
Access to Healthcare for Rural Transgender Adults in the United States, Devon Smith
Exploring Health Equity with Culturally Specific Providers of Permanent Supportive Housing, Judith Solomon
Inciting Action by Analyzing Pachirat, Rhi N. Soto
Issue Cover Art: Homecoming Collage, Rhi N. Soto
In-Between Spaces: First-Generation College Immigrant Experiences, Silvina Alamo Sousa-Ransford
“Through Science to Justice” Magnus Hirschfeld’s Role in Queer Liberation, Katarina L. Stoll
A 14-Year Content Analysis of School-Family Partnership Publications in Counseling: Trends, Gaps, and Future Directions, Yi-Wen Su and Dan Li
Estimating Historical Age-Sex Distributions of a Tribal Population: A Case Study of the Hopi, 1900 to 1940, David Swanson and Jeff Tayman
A Fifty-Year Assessment of Historical Planning Processes and Green Space Distribution (1975-2025): A Case Study of Portland, OR, USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo
A Postcolonial Re-Telling of the Life and Times of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, Lucille Marie Walker
Beyond the Genome: The Racialized Exposome, Flourishing, and Stress Biology in African Americans, a Non-Exhaustive Review, Enye Washington
Evaluating The Elder Justice Act: Challenges In Funding, Implementation, And Coalition Dynamics, Annabelle Weberg
Identity, Bodies, and Time: Analysis of Transgender Education Curricula in K Through 12 Grades, Dean Weiler-Zilberman
We Who Are Not Cared For: Social Death, the Lie of Educational Equity, and a Radical Replanting Praxis, Chantell Wesley
Submissions from 2024
Binary Gendered Language: A Qualitative Study of PSU Students, Dakota Abercrombie
English As the Scholarly Language: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Implications for Academic Reference and Instruction Librarians, Linda Ueki Absher and Michelle R. Desilets
The Conflict between the United States and Iran and its Effect on Iraq, Sarah Alsalih
Health Equity in Stroke Prophylaxis for New Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department, Mariam Anwar
Subvert the Dominant Paradigm: Reimagining Academic Library Hiring Processes, Xan Arch and Isaac P. Gilman
Including Voices and Mitigating Bias: Evaluative Practices for Final Interviews, Xan Arch and José Velazco
Identity in Question: Middle Eastern Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, Julian F. Balsley
Evicted in Oregon: County Eviction Profiles (2022-2023), Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Colleen Carroll, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Jacen Greene, Minji Cho, Andrew Lindstrom, and Marisa Zapata
It's Going to be Okay: Experiences and Perceptions of People Who Seek Reassurance at Work, Liana Bernard
It's Disco, Baby: Queer Possibilities and Conservative Outrage, Lottie Bromham
An Ethnography of Frostbite Among Unsheltered People in Portland: Safety, Governance, and the Manufacture of Vulnerability, Muireall Brown
2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith
Looking at the Past to Change the Future: Showcasing Featured Collections, Building Communities, and Co-creating, Sherry Buchanan
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph R. Burns
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns
Fragments of a Dream: Armenia and the Shadow of Genocide, Ada A. Camp
Higher Expectations: a Systematic Review of Reporting the Science of Propensity Score Modeling in Criminal Justice Studies, Christopher M. Campbell, Ryan M. Labrecque, and Alicia d. McKay
Full Count of Eviction Cases Filed in Oregon Available for the First Time, Colleen Carroll, Minji Cho, Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Safia Goldsmith, and Jacen Greene
Learning to Teach about Climate Justice and Social Justice in Science Methods, Mindy J. Chappell
Fight, Flight, Freeze: How Access to Support Shapes Tenant Responses to Eviction in Multnomah County, Natalie J. Cholula, Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Marisa Zapata, Colleen Carroll, Jacen Greene, and Hadley Bates
Unjust and Unsafe: The Eviction Experiences of Latine Immigrant and Farmworker Tenants in Oregon, Natalie J. Cholula, Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, and Colleen Carroll
Exhibiting the Museum: Interrogating Spaces of Institutional Knowledge Production through Interactive Print Design, Malcolm Church
What Explains Male and Female Decision Making to Enter Law? Evidence From a Survey of US-Based Undergraduate Students, Abigail Cohen
An Exploratory Study of an Executive Team Leading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), Tara LaShawn Cooper
Gaza's Healthcare System in Collapse: An Exploratory Analysis of Healthcare Attacks in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) and Israel since October 2023, Vincenzo J. Cornacchione
The Nuanced Relationship Between Mindfulness, Racial Prejudice, and Policy Support, Jared Michael Cutler
On The Ordinariness Of Murdering The Black Psyque And Flesh: Antiblackness In Educational Policy And Practice In Brazil, Colombia And Ecuador, Éllen Daiane Cintra, Mauri Balanta Jaramillo, and Ethan Johnson
Zombies From Cultural Origin to Contemporary Uses, Conor Davenport
On Fire and Water: The Intersection of Wetlands and Burning Strategies in Managing the Anthropogenic Plant Communities of Yosemite National Park, Douglas Deur and Rochelle Bloom
Characteristics of Interventions That Address Racism in the United States and Opportunities to Integrate Equity Principles: a Scoping Review, Brooke DiPetrillo, Paris B. Adkins-Jackson, Ruqaiijah Yearby, Crystal Dixon, Terri D. Pigott, Ryan J. Petteway, Ana LaBoy, Aliza Petiwala, and Margaret Leonard
Black Transnationalism and Diaspora in Hip Hop: An Analysis of Billy Woods’ “Asylum”, Rayli Dornan
Body/Prose, J.T. Duncan
Exploring Decolonial and Indigenous mental health framework and practice to address complex trauma among Palestinian youth living under violence of settler-colonialism, Vivian L. Duong and Corrin Murphy
Wired for Success: A Neurobiological Approach to Improving the Academic Outcomes of Middle School Boys, Allison Emery
Critical Conversations on Teaching and Learning Decolonial Narratives: A Duoethnography of Firekeeper’s Daughter, Erica England, Shain Wright, and Dion Crommarty
Targeted, Harassed, and Displaced: The Role of Discrimination in Oregon Evictions, Alex Farrington, Natalie J. Cholula, and Lisa K. Bates
Sharing Stories of Hope and Transformation in U.S. Higher Education: An eReader by Portland State University Students, Óscar Fernández and David Peterson del Mar
Intersections between Science and Social Justice: A Conversation with Liza Finkel, Liza Finkel and Maika Yeigh
Social Justice in Social Work: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Erica Fonseca
All That We Are, Bennett Gilbert
Stalemate at Port Arthur: William James on War, Vulnerability, and Pluralist Personalism, Bennett Gilbert
Creating a New Border Culture in the Midst of the Climate Crisis: Activism and Pedagogy Strategies for Teacher Preparation, Puneet S. Gill
An Argument for the Integration of Black Psychology in Undergraduate Psychology Program, Kelsey D. Glass
Boxnard: Counterstories as Counterpunches | Boxnard: Contrahistorias como Contragolpes, Martín Alberto Gonzalez
Conchas, Coloring Books, and Oxnard: Using Critical Race Counterstorytelling as a Framework to Create a Social Justice Coloring Book, Martín Alberto Gonzalez
Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States, Aeleah M. Granger
Supporting Resource Equity for Oregon’s Home Visiting Workforce: Exploring Racial, Ethnic & Linguistic Differences, Beth L. Green, Nicole M. Lauzus, Yumi Lee, Erin Gaines, and Ron Joseph
Supporting Well-Being for the Home Visiting Workforce: Organizational Supports for Experiences of Bias & Discrimination, Beth L. Green, Nicole M. Lauzus, Yumi Lee, Ron Joseph, Erin Gaines, and Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services
Laundry Program Evaluation, Jacen Greene, Sandra Comstock, and Marisa Zapata
Alternative Shelter Evaluation Report, Jacen Greene, Todd Ferry, Emily Leickly, and Franklin Holcomb Spurbeck
2023 Oregon Statewide Homelessness Estimates, Jacen Greene, Franklin Holcomb Spurbeck, and Marisa Zapata
Wraithstruck: Chapters from the Adorese Forests, Clover Gullans
Exploring the Social Processes Influencing the Well-Being and Social Integration of Systemically Marginalized Students in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Zeinab Abbas Hachem
The Presence of Diversity Initiatives Leads to Increased Pro-White Hiring Decisions Among Conservatives, Zeinab A. Hachem and Tessa L. Dover
"Crush the Monster": Homosexuality and Moral Panic in 1950s Idaho, Ian Hadrick
Promoting Equity in Culturally Diverse Schools: A Literature Review of Third Space Pedagogy, Sarah E. Harrison and Heidi Curtis
Jewish Immigrants in Argentina: The Bund as a Transnational Connection, Naomi Hemstreet
An Additive Model of Engagement: Considering The Role of Front-End Criminal Justice Agencies in Treatment Provisions [Interim Report: Year Two], Kelsey S. Henderson, Christopher Campbell, and Brian Renauer
Climate and Extreme Weather Event Impacts on Administrators, Direct Care Staff, and Residents in Oregon Assisted Living, Residential Care, and Memory Care Communities, 2024, Dani Himes, Jacklyn Kohon, Madeline Fox, Laura Rodriguez, Sarah Dys, Diana Jacoby, and Paula Carder
How Can DEI Training Change the Culture of an Organization to Achieve Belonging and Retain Diverse Employees?, Kaisa S. Holt
Demagoguery and the Depression, David Horowitz
Racial Attitudes and Perceptions of Government Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Public Health Strategies., Man Hung, Jeremy D. Franklin, William A. Smith, Carlos J. Crespo, Evelyn U. Ezikwelu, Jerry Bounsanga, and Martin S. Lipsky
“What Keeps Me in School”: Oregon BIPOC Learners Voice Support That Makes Higher Education Possible, Roberta Hunte, Miranda Mosier-Puentes, Gita Mehrotra, and Eva Skuratowicz
Self-reported Follow-up Care Needs Can be Met in Both Facility and Self-managed Abortion: Evidence from Low- and Middle-income Countries, Laura E. Jacobson MPH
Supporting Self-managed Abortion Care in “practice not premise”: Provider Perspectives, Roles, and Referral Pathways in India, Laura E. Jacobson MPH, Caila Brander, P. Balasubramanian, Sruthi Chandrasekaran, Blair Darney, Julia Goodman, Ruvani Jayaweera, and Caitlin Gerdts
Sex Toys in the City: Pleasure, Profit, and Sex-Positive Cultures in Portland, Abigail Jobe
Afro-Latin Americans Living in Spain and Social Death: Moving from the Empirical to the Ontological, Ethan Johnson, Joy González-Güeto, and Vanessa Cadena
Compelling Care: A Grounded Theory of Transmasculine Self-Defense and Collective Protection at the Clinic., Sid P. Jordan
Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence, Mahesh Karra and Joshua Wilde