Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
Mechanism of Action of Dihydropteridine Reductase, Gabriela Arias De la Rosa
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano
The C. neoformans Cell Wall: A Scaffold for Virulence, Christine Chrissian
Broadway in the Age of American Idol: Celebrity and the Broadway Musical, 2003–2018, Emily E. Clark
Interactions of Organic Fluorophores with Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances, Robert J. Collison
Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney
The Gridded Time of Waiting; or Is Not Aristotle’s Metaphysics; or A Kind of Idealist Trap; or In My Secret Life, Olivia DiVecchia
Legal Purgatory: Why Some Animals are Neither Persons nor Property, Sharisse Kanet
Sound Ecologies: Music and Vibration in 19th-Century American Literature, Christina Katopodis
Incentivizing Injustice: Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis?, Sari Krieger Rivera
Some Model Theory of Free Groups, Christopher James Natoli
Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal
Lobster Palaces in Times Square: The Public Stage Where America Discovered Itself Through Play and Leisure, Lydia E. Ravnikar
The Seduction of Pessimism: Eros, Failure, and the Novel, Tom Ribitzky
3D Object Detection, Instance Segmentation and Classification from 3D Range and 2D Color Images, Xiaoke Shen
Cell Cycle Progression Effects of Albumin, Sharmeen Uddin
What Do You Think She’s Gonna Do With a Set of Real Claws?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Onscreen Portrayals of Women Werewolves, Ashleigh K. Williams
Collective Memory and Arab Jewish Identity, Maya Yadid
Anti-Cancer Effects by Interleukin 24, Xuelin Zhong
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Does Resilience Moderate the Impact of Children’s Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination on Internalizing Problems?, Dahlia Abbas
Blurring the Gender Lines: Margaret of Anjou's use of Gender as Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy, Blythe Abramowitz
Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law, Yuval Abrams
In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman
Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets, Miguel Acosta Henao
Measuring Preschool Parents’ Attitudes Towards Science: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Parent Version of the Dimension of Attitudes Towards Science Instrument., Alexandra E. Adair
If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams
Symmetric Rigidity for Circle Endomorphisms with Bounded Geometry and Their Dual Maps, John Adamski
Mechanisms of Value-Biased Prioritization in Fast Sensorimotor Decision Making, Kivilcim Afacan-Seref
Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, El sainete, and Spanglish, Margarita J. Aguilar
Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI, Joan C. Aguirre
Elucidating the Role of APL-1, the C. elegans Ortholog of the Human Amyloid Precursor Protein, Adanna G. Alexander
Building Baghdad: The Construction of Urban Space in Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger
Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein
Paraphilias: A Survey of Experts, Cecilia Allan
Effect of non-muscle myosin II inhibition on epigenetics during oligodendrocyte development, Amr Almaktari
Shock and Awe, Sectarianism, and Violence in Iraq Post-2003, Sarim Al-Rawi
The Effects of Air Pollution on School Attendance in the United States, Debanhi G. Alrich
Popular Education in the Civil Rights Movement: Bridging Depth and Scale, Amanda Altman
Glotopolítica de la Desigualdad: Ideologías del Mapudungun y el Español en Chile (2009–2019), Gabriel E. Alvarado Pavez
NCAA and Title IX Compliance, Doris Alvarez
LPS, A TLR-4 AGONIST AND VIPER A TLR-4 INHIBITOR UPREGULATE PHAGOCYTOSIS OF ZYMOSAN IN BV2 CELLS, Sherouk Alzeory
PROXIMITY TO COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE AND THE UTILIZATION OF FACILITY-BASED DELIVERY SERVICES ACROSS SIX LOW-AND-MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES, Chioma T. Amadi
Generating Entanglement with the Dynamical Lamb Effect, Mirko Amico
Maximum Sound Output Levels of Pediatric Marketed Headphones: The Development of Healthy Listening Habits in Children, Adrienne L. Ammirati
Encounters: System for Creative Improvisation, Drake R. Andersen
The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown, Drake R. Andersen
The Nature of Government and Civic Responsibility in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Nirvani V. Anoop Ms.
The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey, Demet Arpacik
HuR Ubiquitination by BRCA1/BARD1 and Its Role in Controlling Gene Expression During DNA Damage Response, Gamage M. Aruggoda
The Berbers: Constructed Identities by Foreigners on African Soil, Zineb Askaoui
Young Children's Play in High-rise Housing: A Window into the Changing Lives of Urban Middle-class Families in Pune Metropolitan Area, Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar
The Politics of Femicide: Woman Making and Woman Killing in Turkey, Sumru Atuk
Does Overweight/Obesity Moderate the Association between ADHD and Internalizing Difficulties in Young Adults?, Breanna Badripersaud
Pointing the Zinc Finger on Protein Folding: Energetic Investigation into the Role of the Metal-Ion in the Metal-Induced Protein Folding of Zinc Finger Motifs, Inna Bakman-Sanchez
The Dark Underbellies of the Littles: A History of the Indo-Guyanese Diaspora, Race and Identity, Kiran J. Baldeo
Hustle Culture and the Implications for Our Workforce, Arianna Balkeran
Living in a World of “Stop, Question and Frisk” and “Trespass Enforcement”: Black and Latinx Youth Engaging in Police Reform in New York City, Jeanene Lee Barrett
The Stories We Tell for the Narrative We Need, Ayana Bartholomew
On the Divisor Class Group and Special Units of Multiquadratic Real Fields, John E. Basias
Regulation of a Messenger: Raising oskar, It Takes a Village, Livia V. Bayer
The Relationship Between Impact Energy and Glass Fracture via .177 Caliber Steel BBs, Jocenel Beach
Industrial Strength Charmer, Hannah Beerman
Bones, Burials, and the Riddle of Truth: Reconstructing the Past Through What Has Been Left Behind, Jelena M. Begonja
The Effects of Self-Esteem and Motivation on Cognitive Control, Andrea Benavides
Prohibition and Religion: William H. Anderson, the Anti-Saloon League, and The Rise and Fall of a Protestant Evangelical Crusade Against Alcohol in New York, Lionel Benavidez
Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education, Erik Carl Bennett
Developing a Maceration Method for Isolation of DNA from Cancellous Bones, Bryan Bernal
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DESERVEDNESS IN MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY DESIGN: A QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF STATE POLICY RESPONSES TO THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, Carmina Bernardo
A Grounded Theory Investigation of the Subjective Responses From Partners in Couples Where Infidelity Has Occurred, Malika Bhowmik
New Approaches to Frequent and Incremental Frequent Pattern Mining, Mehmet Bicer
Sinorhizobium meliloti Changes Motility Phenotypes in the Presence of Serum, Eris K. Bisal
Identity and Counterparthood in a Many Worlds Universe, Sophia A.M. Bishop
Structural and Functional Brain Markers of Trauma-related Symptoms, Glenn Blessington
Spheres of Identity: Theorizing Social Categorization and the Legitimacy of Criminal Justice Officials, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Pratiquer ou incarner la vertu? l'agentivité des femmes chez Marie de France et Christine de Pizan, Kathe Blydenburgh
From the Unspoken to the Verbalized: Different Ways of Communication and their Relationship to Culture in a Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin”, Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov
A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat, Brian E. Bond
Creating Content for a Healthy New Life, Valeria C. Borja Lopez
Humanizing Higher Education: Disrupting Racial Injustice in Teacher Preparation Through Critically Caring Communities, Melissa M. Boronkas
Threat Perceptions and Russian Foreign Policy: From Cooperation to Assertiveness, Angela Borozna
The Argentines of Paris: Theatrical Networks and Assemblages, Stefano Boselli
The Leap and the Gap: Writing Suicide in Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
Time Machine Research and Approach, Tarek Bouraque
Logical Pluralism and Vicious Regresses, Daniel Boyd
At the Interface of Algebra and Statistics, Tai-Danae Bradley
Digital Occult Library, Alexis Brandkamp
Proactive and Reactive Aggression, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Sleep in Adolescents, Allison L. Brasch
Tactics for Thriving on Multiplicity: Liliana Porter’s Photo-Drawing-Installations, 1973–Present, Jennifer Bratovich
Small Molecule Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors, Marcelo F. Bravo Carranco