• Enhancing Natural Capital to Improve Mental Health and Well-Being in Rural Communities in Minnesota 

  Zidon, Ashley (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  This paper explores how green space can aid in improved mental health outcomes for individuals who live in rural communities in greater Minnesota. The mental health landscape across the state is complex and layered, ...

• Understanding Rural Red Communities: Socialist History and Structural Causes of Contemporary Ideologies in North Dakota 

  Mathews, Marisa Nicole (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  The rural-urban divide is discussed between scholars (Pew Research Center, 2018), politicians (Siegler, 2020), and everyday Americans (Badger, 2019). Those in urban blue states (majority voting Democrat) blame those in ...

• Pioneers and Pestilence: Emotion, Memory, and Historical Narratives at the Harrison Township Cholera Cemetery 

  Hubin, David Royce (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  This thesis examines the interplay between emotion and social memory in the historical narrative (re)formation of the Harrison Township Cholera Cemetery in the village of Lockbourne, Pickaway County, Ohio. The research ...

• Vaccine Skeptical Mothers in the Upper Midwest and their Kitchen-based Care Practices 

  Haarstick, Kimberly Allison (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  While many Americans view vaccination and medical intervention as benefits to society and for the greater good, vaccine skeptical mothers not only reject vaccinations but most biomedical interventions as well. In place of ...

• Exploring the Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Domestic Violence Victim-Serving Agencies and Professionals 

  Bibi, Damaris Enyonam Mosope Eyitayo (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  This study explores the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the domestic violence victim-serving agencies and professionals through the interview responses of eight professionals working in domestic violence shelters in ...

• Growing Green Finland: A Short-Term Study Abroad Program With a Sociological Focus 

  Cary-Waselk, Natasha Ann (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  This paper is an example of theory-based practice in the field of international education through program and course design. Environmental sociology will be the focus of the class readings, discussions, and course work as ...

• Up in Flames: Using Anthropology to Analyze the Increasing Cremation Rates in North Dakota 

  Basta, Natalie Anne (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  Cremation rates within North Dakota, and the greater US, have been rapidly increasing over the recent decades. Funeral directors, coroners, and death investigators alike have noticed the increase; however, nobody has made ...

• Parents of Children with Autism: The Stigma and Emotion Work Associated with Navigating, Advocating, and Managing Autism 

  Stark, Paige DeAna (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  This study analyzes the experiences of stigmatization and emotion work through the interview responses of eight parents of children with autism. Developing from Goffman’s theories of direct stigma and associative stigma ...

• The Effects of Traditional Gender Norms on the Fate of Girls' Education in Tajikistan 

  Yakubova, Parvina (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Tajikistan is the only post-Soviet republic that went through a civil war after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which negatively impacted all aspects of the country as well as education, particularly girls’ education. ...

• Lithic Organization, Mobility, and Place-Making at the Frog Bay Site: A Community-Based Approach 

  Cheli, Elizabeth Louise (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  The Frog Bay site (47BA60) has been excavated for three field seasons. Excavations in 1979 located the site and continued in 2018 – 2019 by the Geté Anishinaabe Izhichigéwin community archaeological field school. This ...

• How It Meets the Eye: Altering Locus of Control Through Environmental Data Visualization 

  Wilhelmi, Briana Rose (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  Locus of control (LOC), first defined as a trait determining one’s sense of control over outcomes, continues to be refined. Originally treated as a generalized expectancy, scholars have extended its range for queries in ...

• Stable, Affordable Housing and Its Effects on Human Capital (Wealth, Health, and Education) 

  Sauceda, Marisa (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  This paper was written with the intent to inform or persuade policymakers and state and local officials on the topic of affordable housing. The guiding question in the below research asks what the effect stable, affordable ...

• Sexual Health Perspectives of Pastoral Adolescent Girls in Samburu County 

  Odera, Doreen Awino (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  Teenage girls from the Turkana pastoral community in Northern Kenya have varying views of sexuality. Some parents choose to send their daughters to school creating disparate levels of knowledge about their bodies and sexual ...

• A Geospatial Analysis of the Northeastern Plains Village Complex: An Exploration of a GIS-Based Multidisciplinary Method for the Incorporation of Western and Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Discovery of Diagnostic Prehistoric Settlement Patterns 

  Lindsey, Daniel Clayton (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  This thesis research analyzes how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) can be used to understand extant Northeastern Plains Village (NEPV) settlement strategies in aggregate for the purposes of subjoining a subsequent ...

• Integration of Bosnian Immigrant Women in the US 

  Basic, Elvedina (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  The number of immigrants from different countries has increased in the United States in the past few years. Fargo/ Moorhead area was enriched with individuals and families from various post-war and undeveloped countries. ...

• Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault That Impacts Women and Child Welfare 

  Ahadujjaman, FNU (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Domestic violence is a global problem of immense proportions. At least one in every three women globally has been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in some other way; most often by someone she knows, including by her ...

• Political Representation of Visible Minorities at the Local Level: A Case Study 

  Edwards, Janice Marie (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  Visible minorities – i.e., persons defined by the Government of Canada as those who are not Aboriginal, Caucasian in race, or white in color – account for roughly 22% of Canada’s population. Yet this group continues to be ...

• School Integration in Arizona's White Mountains 

  Reeck, Adam Nicholas (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  Due to Arizona’s mandated open enrollment policy for public schools, Blue Ridge Unified School District’s (BRUSD) population of Native American students has increased by 148% over the last 12 years as students migrate into ...

• Ghostly Narratives : A Case Study on the Experiences and Roles of Biafran Women during the Nigeria-Biafra War 

  Okigbo, Karen Amaka (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  Since the end of the Nigcria-Biafra war in 1970, political and social theorists, journalists, and scholars have discussed the significance of the war and the major players. Yet one perspective is often omitted, and that ...

• Land Use and the Human-Environment Interaction on Olosega Island, Manu'a, American Samoa 

  Quintus, Seth James (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  The human-environment relationship has often been characterized as one of human adaptation. This particular view has now come into questions as critiques have shown that the relationship is complex and dynamic. In archaeology, ...

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