Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019
Piano at the Conservatoire de Paris During the Interwar Period: A Study in Pedagogy and Performance Practice, Audrey Abela
'We Are Abolitionizing The West': The Union Army and the Implementation of Federal Emancipation Policy, 1861–1865, Scott Ackerman
The Effect of Per Capita Relief Spending on County Level Joblessness in the United States in 1937 & 1940, Mohammad S. Ahmed
Effects of Type I Diabetes on Labor Force Participation: A Propensity Score Match, Ore Aina-Badejo
The Effects of Environmental Education on Children's Knowledge of Elephant Conservation in Rural and Urban Thailand, Tamara Aird
You Are Here: Mapping the World System of Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction, Terrie Akers
Philosophic Movement: Enlightened Theory and Practice in Colonial New York, 1743-1753, Nabila Akthar
Death of the Caliphate: Reconfiguring Ali Abd al-Raziq’s Ideas and Legacy, Arooj Alam
Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300–1500, Jennifer R. Alberghini
Different Strokes for Different but Reasonable Folks: Comparison of Legally Relevant Observers’ Perceptions of Custody, Fabiana Alceste
Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization, Ashna Ali
Behind Closet Doors: Horror and Dislocation in the Queer Closet, Corey C. Allen
History of Military Interventions in Political Affairs in Pakistan, Hina Altaf
Thornfield, Wragby, and Their Discontents: Nature and Civilization in Jane Eyre and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Marianna Alvarado Teuscher
Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays, Alicia Page Andrzejewski
Online Learning and Planning for Crowd-aware Service Robot Navigation, Anoop Aroor
Sex is Always on the Table, Jordan D. Artim
Migrant Domestic Labor in the Global South: The Plight of Filipina Domestic Workers in Morocco, Sara Asselman
CONSTRAINT and CONTROL, Patricia Ayres
Afghanistan: The Crossroads of Conflicting Regional Interests, Sabera Azizi
Adorno and the Language of the Intellectual in Exile, Ana Baert
The Subject of Jouissance: The Late Lacan and Gender and Queer Theories, Frederic C. Baitinger
Losing Louisiana: Race, Techno-Science, and the Disappearing Geographies of the Lower Mississippi River Delta, Monica Patrice Barra
Culture as Sustainability: The case study of Govardhan Ecovillage and Vedic culture in India, Danielle Lella Bartolone
Consumers’ Reactions to Multiple Instances of Negative Publicity: The Role of Publicity Domain Similarity, Berna Basar
Coercive Control in Long Term Sex Trafficking Relationships: Using Exhaustion to Control Victims, Nicole C. Bassil
The Role of Women in Terrorism, Zeynep Bayar
A Resistance from Within: An Experience of Pakistani Migrant Women, Ramsha Begum
The Impact of Legalization of Marijuana on Opioid Overdose Deaths, Radhika N. Bharadwaj
Nude in a Classroom: The Contemporary World of Life Modelling, Kannaki Bharali
Queerness, Witchcraft, and Embodied Presence: Aesthetic Knowings of What a Body Can Do, Megan Bigelow
How Black Lives Matter Has Influenced and Interacted with Global Social Movements, Arelle A. Binning
Rituals of Remaindered Life in the Films of Kidlat Tahimik, Alison R. Boldero
The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Collapse of the USSR: Soviet Intellectuals and the Idea of the West, Alma Boltirik
Refugees from Somalia, Burma/Myanmar and Iraq: Navigating New Lives in the US in Post-9/11 Context, Ivona Boroje
Landing Points, Matt Boyle
Contextually Modulated Avoidance Behavior in Rats Post-Pavlovian Extinction, Lauren Branigan
Using Oximeters Heuristically: A Case for Emotionally Adaptive Pedagogy, Corinna Brathwaite
Just a Buncha Clowns: Comedic-Anarchy and Racialized Performance in Black Vaudeville, the Chop Suey Circuit, and las Carpas, Michael Shane Breaux
Culture Clubs: Processing Speech by Deriving and Exploiting Linguistic Subcultures, David Guy Brizan
Post-Synaptic Mechanisms of Early and Late Prepulse Inhibition in the Goldfish, Daniel Bronson
"A War Within a War": Policing Gender and Race in New York City During World War II, Emily Brooks
Anywhere Out of this World, Amanda C. Brown
Training as Restructuring: Cases from Entry-Level Healthcare and Manufacturing Workforce Training in Eastern Connecticut, Shelley Buchbinder
The 5-HT1A-R Knockout Mouse as a Model of Later Life Anxiety Disorders: Implications for Sex Differences, Tatyana Budylin
Molecular Analysis of Cone Photoreceptor Genesis from a Specific Retinal Progenitor Population, Diego F. Buenaventura
North American Data, Joseph A. Burwell
At the Risk of Enchantment, Amy M. Butowicz
Brrap Brrap Pew Pew: Representations of Abortion in Adult Animated Television Comedy, Erika A. Byrnison
Using Transfer Learning in Network Markets, Kai Cai
An Exposition and Analysis of Kant’s Account of Sublimity, Paulina Simone Calistru
Forward, Backward, Colin Cannon
The Effect of the Dependent Coverage Provision of the Affordable Care Act on Opioid Use and Abuse, Christian Carrillo
The Transformation of Women's Roles in Fashion in Eighteenth-Century France: Femininity, Fashion, and Frivolity in Fiction, Christine M. Carter
A New and Unsettling Force: Information Technology, Popular Education and the Movement to End Poverty, Christopher Caruso
CK2 Negatively Regulates 5-HT4 Receptor Signaling in the Prefrontal Cortex and Mediates Depression-like Behaviors, Julia Castello Saval
The Ladies' Garment Worker Speaks Volumes for the Woman Worker and Writer, Carolyn J. Cei
Italian/Americans and the American Racial System: Contadini to Settler Colonists?, Stephen J. Cerulli
One-Dimensional Excited Random Walk with Unboundedly Many Excitations Per Site, Omar Chakhtoun
Reconstructing the demographic history of the critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, Aparna Chandrashekar
The Subject of the Novel: Aphra Behn, Charlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Samuel Beckett, Jin Chang
Mandarin Assessment in Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers, Jennifer A. Chard
An In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of the Anticancer Potential of Resveratrol and Pterostilbene Against HPV-E6 Positive Cancers, Kaushiki Chatterjee
Recognition by Flickering Components: The Effect of Temporal Modulation on Image Recognition, Alla Chavarga
Working Lives: Artistic Solidarity in Revolutionary Peru (1960–1980), Jose R. Chavarry
Shapes and Transitions of the Interest Rate Term Structure, Biwei Chen
The Determining Factors of the Self-Assembly of Collagen Mimetic Peptide, Fangfang Chen
Sexual Violation, Feminism, and Foucault: Against a Confessional Politics of Truth, Amber M. Chiacchieri
Humoring Violations: Uncanny Humor in Victorian Sensation Fiction, Christine Choi
Examining the Association Between Childhood Exposure to Substance-Abusive Environments and Factor Two Psychopathic Traits, Cordelia Chou
Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture, Aspen Christian
Exhibition Catalog on Rediscovering the Fashion of Hanboks and Kimonos: The Tale of Kisaengs and Geishas, Sylvia Chung
Clothing the Black Body in Slavery: What They Wore and How it Was Made, Wanett I. Clyde
Hrísheimar: Fish Consumption Patterns, Wendi K. Coleman
Revolution, Reform, and Class Conflict in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills, Thomas Collins
Expanding Experimentalism: Art and Popular Music at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, Sarah A. Cooper
Through the Eye and Into My Heart: Scenes of Embrace in Morgan MS M.245 and the Tactile Responses They Provoked, Zoe A. Coyle
Imagined Futures: Feminist Science Studies in an Era of Climate Change Denial, Emily K. Crandall
A Consideration of Kafka's Platonic Influences in The Trial, Shana N. Creaney Ms.
Testimonios in Liminal Spaces: Puerto Rican Women Living in Extended-Stay and Shelter Hotels in New York City After Hurricane Maria, Jessica Crespo
"He Who is Conscious of the Bright but Keeps to the Dark": The Fame and Legacy of Jack Kerouac, Regina Crotser
Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833, Michael Crowder
"The Hazards of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking in Infinite Jest, Josh Cunningham
Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum, Noah R. Cypher
Cosmopolitan Democracy: Re-evaluation of Globalization and World Economic System, Muhammad Dalhatu
The Body and Its Signifiers: Bodily Depictions in Niccolò de’ Conti and Odorico da Pordenone, Antonella Dalla Torre
Relational Processes in Support-Related Communication Among Young Adults with Cancer, Kathleen Darabos
A Study of Factors Influencing Hiring Decisions in the Context of Ban the Box Policies, Ronald F. Day
The Difficulties of Filming Syrian Refugee Populations Living in Jordan: Obstacles to Objectivity and Accuracy in Reporting, Thaddeus E. DeCaprio
Revisiting Juchitán: Witnessing an Indigenous Mexico Within the Latin American Archive, Michelle G. de la Cruz
Novel Biobehavioral Methods for Assessing the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Samantha Denefrio
Use of and Access to Abortion Services Among Asian and Immigrant Populations in the United States, Sheila Desai
Control of Energy Transfer and Molecular Energetics using Photonic Nanostructures, Rahul Deshmukh
Meaning Beyond Words: A Musical Analysis of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming, Javier Diaz