Thesis and Project Titles
Each graduate student completes either a Master's thesis or project. For an overview of the diverse research conducted by Environment and Community students, please refer to the list of thesis and project titles below.
Advocacy as Humanitarian Politics: Toward a Broader Conception of Humanitarian Action
James Phelan, December 2006
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
Margaret Donovan-Kaloust, December 2007
Community Supported Agriculture: A Case Study in Humboldt County
Courtney DeLello, May 2004
Confessions of an EarthQuaker: Toward Testimony on the Unity of Creation
Carl Magruder, July 2003
Corporations and Resistance in the Redwood Empire: Towards a Corporate History of Humboldt County (1579-1906)
Ryan Emenaker, December 2005
Creating Affordable Housing in Humboldt County
Deborah T. Waxman, May 2006
Creating Affordable and Livable Communities in the Sierra Nevada
Brandy A. Fox, December 22, 2003
Cultural Resource Management During the Suppression of Wildland Fires: Roles and Relationships
Mary M. Kliejunas, May 2005
Defining Water Rights for the Greater Klamath Basin: Issues of Social Justice
Bruce Kallenberger, May 2003
Dual Economies or Dueling Economies? An Analysis of the Intersection of the Cash and Subsistence Economies from the Social Sustainability Perspective
Christy Prescott, May 2007
The Environment at Risk: Ecological Crisis and Environmental Education in our Public Schools
Morgan King, May 2003
Environmental Justice for Latinos in Humboldt County - A Survey of Environmental and Social Organizations
Jessica Milz, August 2007
Environmental justice, Central Valley (CA) air pollution, community responses.
Jennifer Saklar, May 2008
Environmental Justice on the California-Mexico Border: A Border Reality Tour Reader
Dawna Kristin Knapp, August 2003
Environmental justice, National Environmental Policy Act, Native American Sacred Sites, U.S. Forest Service.
Brennan Lagasse, August 2008
Experimental Learning: Bay to Dunes Education - In and Out of the Classrooms
Carrie Gergits, June 2003
Faith Based Environmental Ethics: A Case Study of Jaguar Creek
Belize, Tamira E.A. Jones, May 2003
Farm-to-School in Humboldt County: Opportunities for Economic Growth for Small Farmers and Strategies for Change in Public Schools
Jill Barnett, November 2005
Farm to School in Humboldt County: What Form Should it Take
Daniel W. Tainow, August 2003
Fish, Forests, Fire, and Freedom: Infringements of Karuk Religious Freedom Through Federal Natural Resource Management
Robert Holmlund, May 2006
Framing is Important, but not Everything: A Comparison of the Success and Failure of the Anti-GE Campaigns in Mendocino County and Butte County, California
Christine Caurant, December 2006
Giving Voice to Juana Maria's People: The Organization of Shell and Exotic Stone Artifact Production and Trade at a Late Holocene Village on San Nicolas Island
California, Amanda C. Cannon, August 2006
The Importance of Place-Based Fisheries to the Karuk Tribe of California: A Socioeconomic Study
Amy M. Stercho, August 2006
Latinos and Their Environment in Humboldt County: An Outreach and Radio Program
Laura De La Rosa, August 2003
Learning in Place: Environmental Education for Humboldt County
Megan Elizabeth Suarez, April 2003
A Market Study and Financial Feasibility Analysis of Permanent Supportive Housing for Mentally Ill Homeless Individuals Residing in Humboldt County, California
Elizabeth R. Matsumoto, August 2006
Microlending and Its Role in Building Community Networks
Laura Clapper, May 2005
Organic Agriculture in Humboldt County, From a Social Movement to Economic Development: Interviews With Organic Dairy and Row Crop Farmers
Allyson Carroll, July 2006
Participatory Development and the Ugunja Community Resource Center
Christopher Todd Beer, December 2003
A Policy Analysis of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Hydroelectric Relicensing Process
Jay D. Wright, August 2006
Rural Settlement Patterns and Growth Management: A Study of Farmland Loss in Humboldt County
Ellen Gibson, August 2004
Water Insecurity in the Twenty First Century: The Commodification, Privatization, and Trade of Global Freshwater Resources
Cari Marie Pogan, May 2003
Water Policy and Prosperity in Humboldt County
Rebecca S. Price-Hall, May 2005
The Water Privatization Debate: A Critique of and Alternative to the International Financial Institutions' Promotion of the Private Provision of Water Services
Rachelle Curran, April 2006