Over the past decade, students in various disciplines, including gerontology and leisure studies, have used oral history in their M.A. theses. However, it is mainly students in History and Interdisciplinary Studies who have worked directly under the supervision of the oral history program. Below are the theses completed by these students in the past six years, as well as those currently in progress.
Theses with accompanying oral history interview tapes
Bartolotto, Juliane Marie, "An early history of women's studies at California State University, Long Beach: 1968-1976"
Carver, Kaaron, "The conflicting visions and versions of the oral and public history of Klamath"
Wilson, Karen s. harper [aka Karen Harper], "In Hmong Mountain: See Lee's Oral Narrative as History and Poetry"
Other theses using oral history
Milkovich, Barbara, "A study of the impact of the oil industry on the development of Huntington Beach, California, prior to 1930"
Shults, Jane Beemer, "The Ku Klux Klan in Downey during the 1920s"
Wright, Wayne. "The Education of Cambodian American Students in the Long Beach Unified School District: A Language and Educational Policy Analysis"
Theses in progress
Elham Bayour on Palestinian women political prisoners [Interdisciplinary Studies: Anthropology, Women's Studies] - anticipated completion date, Winter 2002
Dominique Brummond on the meaning of hippie clothing [Interdisciplinary Studies: History and Consumer Science] - anticipated completion date, 2002
Sharon Cotrell on Gabrieleño-Tongya [Applied Anthropology] - anticipated completion date, 2002
Jane Cressinger on the battered women's shelter movement [Interdisciplinary Studies: Anthropology and Women's Studies] - anticipated completion date, Spring 2001
Gina Haw on the Chinese language schools in Vietnam [Interdisciplinary Studies: Education] - anticipated completion date, Summer 2001
Allison Kim-Ebisuya on the Englist Standart School system in Hawaii, 1940s-1950s [Interdisciplinary Studies: Educational Foundations] - anticipated completion date, Fall 200
Deepa Narayanan, "Socio-Cultural Impact of Tourism on a Spanish Peasant Community" [Applied Anthropology] - anticipated completion date, Fall 2001
Huang Tran on the Vietnamese Buddhist monk rebellion [Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian Studies]] - anticipated completion date, Fall 2001