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Events from 2019
“It Lurks in the Saying, Not What’s Being Said”: Possible Worlds Theory and Gender Performativity in Marina Carr’s Low in the Dark, Andie Madsen and Susan Reese
Fault Deformation at the Base of and within the Crescent Formation along the Dosewallips River, Olympic Mountains Peninsula, Washington, USA, Christine Meryl Maher
An Examination of Non-waged Labor and Local Food Movement Growth in the Southern Appalachians, Amy Kathryn Marion
Large-Scale DER Aggregations of Electric Water Heaters and Battery Inverter Systems, Kevin Marnell
Making Imaginaries: Identity, Value, and Place in the Maker Movement in Detroit and Portland, Stephen Joseph Marotta
Translation Wars: The Influence of Semantics and Translation on the More-Tyndale Polemic, Annika H. Marshall
Transformation of TFB2 Overexpression Plasmid into Hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus COM1, Brent Marsonette
Examining Human Behavior and Tool Use through Experimental Replications and a Technological Analysis of Ground Stone in the Lower Columbia, Kelley Prince Martinez
Suicidal Ideation and Mindfulness Practice in LGBTQ Youth, McKenna R. Martin
The Tangle of Institutional Care and Control at a Shelter for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, Liat Tzvia Mayer
May Issue vs. Shall Issue Concealed Carry Laws: an Exploration of the Breakdown of Crime, Victim Relationship and Location, Patrick R. Mazzella and Christopher Carey
The Cosmological Empire of Pliny the Elder: an Examination of Political Themes in the Second Book of the Historia Naturalis, Kevin Alan McCormick
Lloyd Urban Village (LUV), East Portland, Shellee McCullick, Cait Olds, Eriko Shimada, Damon Tidwell, Eric Zechenelly, and Nikki Zhao
Visual Characteristics of the Mockumentary Format, Connor J. McGarry
An Evaluation of Clackamas County's Transition Center Using Propensity Score Modeling, Alicia de Jong McKay
Working Paper No. 50, Alexis de Tocqueville on American 'Exceptionalism', Zachary McKinster
The Relationship between Teachers' Perceptions of a Lack of Parent/Family Support and Teachers' Self-Efficacy, Carson S. McNamara
A State of Longing: Perspectives from Nagorno-Karabakh IDPs, Isabelle McRae
Diagnostic Imaging of Structural Concrete Using Ground Penetrating Radar and Ultrasonic Array, Sina Mehdinia, Thomas Schumacher, Eric Wan, and Xubo Song
The Influence of Age at Migration on Criminal Offending Among Foreign-Born Immigrants, Omar Melchor-Ayala
"All Things to All Men": the Life and Work of Monsignor Thomas J. Tobin, Priest of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, Samuel Richard Mertz
"A Sudden Sunset", Alexander Meyers
Imprisoned Within the National Narrative: a Case Study of the Modern Chinese Move Toward Pragmatic Nationalism, Madeline C. Michalk
A Data Collection Program for Reducing IPV in LGBTQ+ Communities, Alexandra Michel, Nicholas Cheke, Lourdes Gonzalez, and Rachel Greim
Revitalization in Philadelphia, 1940-1970: Rebuilding a City but Straining Race Relations, Abigail E. Millender