University of Southern California

GeographyGeography

Union Station Las Vegas Graffiti Verdugo Reconstruction

Theses & Dissertations

Ph.D.


Mark Lange, (Fall 2008)

Suspended Sediment Transport at a Tidal River Divergence

Lorena Munoz, (Summer 2008)
Tamales...Elotes...Champurrado: Transforming Latino Vending 'Street-Scapes' in Los Angeles

Jason Byrne, 2007

A Political Ecology of Latino Utilization of the Urban-Wildlands Interface: The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Rigoberto Rodriguez, 2007
Facilitating Active Citizenship: Mexican Immigrant Mobilization and Local Governance in Santa Ana, California

Maria Chona Sister, 2007
Park Supply and Demand in Southern California

Zaria Tatalovich,  2006
Spatial Temporal Modeling of Risks

Donna Houston, 2006
Topographies of Memory and Power: A Case Study of Environmental Injury, Justice and Citizenship in the Nuclear Great Basin

Graeme Aggett, 2005
Applying Advanced Geospacial Data and Methods to Monitoring and Modeling Fluvial Processes

Yongxin Deng, 2005
Evaluating Input Data for DEM-Based Environmental Analysis and Classification

Mary Roche, 2004
Rival Geographies: A Comparative Study of Resistance to State Violence, Los Angeles and Derry, Northern Ireland
 
Andreas Baas, 2003
Formation and Behavior of Aeolian Streamers
 
J. Dallas Dishman, 2003
Anti-Gay Violence in the City of West Hollywood

Martin, Kammerer, 2003
Stress Partitioning and In-Channel Performance of Bedload Models in an Alluvial River Channel
 
Jinkang Wang, 2003
The Generation of Cusps on Gravel Beaches: An Evaluation of Edge Wave and Self-Organization Hypotheses

Steven E. Flusty, 2002
De-Coca-Colonization: Postmodernity, The World-City, and the Everyday Practices of Global Formation 

Geoffrey DeVerteuil, 2001
Welfare Reform and Welfare Neighborhoods: Institutional and Individual Perspectives   
 
Steve E. Koletty, 2000
The Role of Circulation in the Modernization and Spatialization of Fa'a Samoa

Unna Lassiter, 2000
In This Nature: Culture, Place and Attitudes Towards Marine Animals
 
Paul L. Robinson, 2000
Class & Place Within the Los Angeles African American Community, 1940-1990
 
Steve Namikas, 1999
Aeolian Saltation: Field Measurements and  Numerical Simulations

Robert Wilton, 1999
The Social and Spatial Construction of Disability

Chris Mayda, 1998
Passion on the Plains, Pigs on the Panhandle 

Jianchun Yi, 1997
Aeolian Boundary-Layer Characteristics Across a Sand Beach

Wei Li, 1997
Spatial Transformation of an Urban Ethnic Community: From Chinatown to Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles

James A. Tyner, 1995
Migration as a Socially-constructed Process: The Case of Philippine International Migration

M.A.

Django Sibley, 2002
Divisions of Labor in Policing: Police, Communities and Sex Offender Control

Kamron Michele Barron, 2001
Anthropogenic Alterations of Fluvial Sedement Supply to the San Pedro Littoral Cell of California

Hallie Krinski, 2001
Shatterbelts and Society: The Place of Identity in Los Angeles Based "Yugoslav" Immigrants

Yan Xu, 2001
Spatial Patterns of Population Growth and Habitat Change in the Santa Monica Mountains Under Different Local Policy Constraints

Alejandro A. Alonso, 1999
Territoriality Among African-American Street Gangs in Los Angeles

Kevin Romig, 1999
Images and Representations of California in Popular Music

Thomas Gaines, 1998
The Geography of Tourism

Lyndell Nelson Whitley, 1998
Diverse Cultural Attitudes Toward Marine Wildlife

Jessica Cecille Walsh, 1997
Laboring at the Margins: Welfare and the Regulation of Mexican and Central American Workers in Los Angeles

J. Dallas Dishman, 1996
Digital Dissidents: The Formation of Gay Community on the Internet

Robert Jurgen von Mahs, 1996
Dimensions of the Locational Conflict Around Siting Service Facilities for the Homeless

Jayanta Kumar Das Purkayastha, 1996
Feeding the Inner City: Geographies of Food Retailing in South Los Angeles

Robert Wilton, 1994
Diminishing Worlds: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Geography of Everyday Life

Gregg Wassmansdorf, 1994
Public-Private Dialectics in the Planning and Development of Los Angeles, 1781-1993

M.S.

Christine Lam, 2003
Comparison of Flow Routing Algorithms Used in Geographic Information Systems

Isaiah David Mack, 2003
Quantitative Assessment of the Surfability of Pratte's Artificial Surfing Reef Santa Monica Bay, CA

Julie Eurek, 2002
Modeling Recreational Boat Traffic in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

David James Hansen, 2002
An Evaluation of Boat Wake Energy Attenuation by a Tule Stand on the Sacramento River

Jean Taylor Ellis, 2001
Assessing the Impacts of an Organic Restoration Structure on Boat Wakes

James McDermott, 2001
Sediment-Level Oscillations in the Swash Zone

Blaine Kinter Jones, 2000
Hec-Ras Simulation of the Los Angeles River: Sensitivity to Manning's 'N'

Eugene John Farrell, 1999
An Investigation of Surface-Airflow Interactions for Aeolian Saltation: Field and Laboratory Experiments

Alon Yaari, 1999
Modeling Wind Waves and Bank Erosion Potential on the Sacramento Delta

Jeremy George Venditti, 1997
Spatial and Temporal Turbulence Structure over Sub-Aqueous Dunes: Field and Laboratory Experiments