Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
Organic Photochemistry: Remote Delivery of Reactive Oxygen Intermediates via a Heterogeneous Approach, Niluksha Walalawela Abeykoon
Conditions of Personhood and Property, Zachary James Acree
How Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly) Contributed to Second-Wave (White) Feminism, Anam Rana Afzal
Doing Their Best: How Teachers in Urban Social Studies Classrooms Integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Historical Literacy Instruction, Maria Akinyele
Anti-Proliferative Effects of Garcinia Fruits in Breast Cancer Cells, Harini Anandhi Senthilkumar
Aluminum-26: A Canonized Cosmochemical Conundrum, John Anton
Slave to the Rhythm: Variation in the Acoustic Signaling of Picoides Woodpeckers, Alex Baer
Contemporary Archaeological Looting: A Criminological Analysis of Italian Tomb Robbers, Marc Balcells Magrans
Functional Interactions of tau, Pin1, p53 and mRNA 3′ Processing Factors in Non-Neuronal Cells, Jorge E. Baquero
Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art, Elizabeth Sarah Berkowitz
Splendid Disarray: The Music of Andrew McKenna Lee, Nina Berman
Electrode and Headgear Design for Accurate TDCS, Henry Bernstein
Exploring the Roots of Chronic Underdevelopment: The Colonial Encomienda and Resguardo and their Legacy to Modern Colombia, Pedro Bossio
Information Content, Charge Transport Properties, and Computational Capacities of Proteins, Joseph Murphy Brisendine Jr.
Educational Relevance as a Motivating Operation for Equivalence Class Formation: Implications for Application, Julia Brodsky
Disordered: Conversations about Mental Health and Society, Rachel Brown
The Production of Space: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the Peruvian Amazon, Christian Calienes
PARP PET Imaging Agents, Brandon Carney
Tragedy and Theodicy: The Role of the Sufferer from Job to Ahab, Nora Carroll
The impact of the 2008 economic recession on the food security level of veterans relative to non-veterans, Galo Casals
Long Vacation In BK, Doll Chao
SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA AND HER EARLY TEACHERS, Lily Chin
Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba, Gonzalo Cordova
Factors of Annual Reproductive Success in North American Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) in Shared Greenspace, Joseph Czeisel
Social Capital and Analyst Forecasts, Jing Dai
MicroRNA 1207-3P in Prostate Cancer, Dibash Das
Queer Repurposed Artifacts: The State of New York City’s Contemporary West Village Bars, Stephanie DeBiase
Discovery and Development of a Three-Component Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition and Its Application Towards alpha-Hydroxytropolone Synthesis, Michael P. D'Erasmo
Asexual People’s Experience with Microaggressions, Tamara Deutsch
From Invisibility to Liminality: The Imposition of Identity among Non-Federally Recognized Tribes within the Federal Acknowledgment Process, Christopher M. Drake
Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle
Lexical Access in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy and Severe Speech and Physical Impairment, Iris Fishman
Tailoring Landscapes: Multivalent Terrain and the Politics of Black Geography in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, Cara Fitzgerald
Reducing Arsenic Exposure from Private Well Water in the United States: The Use, Effect, and Potential of Testing Requirements, Sara Flanagan
Gradient Estimation for Attractor Networks, Thomas Flynn
For Better, For Worse: The Effect of Maternity Leave Policy on Divorce Rates, Toni S. Forde
On A and B Theories of Time, Edward Freeman
Evolution of Floral Morphology and Symmetry in the Miconieae (Melastomataceae), Maria Gavrutenko
Do You Feel Like a Fraud? How Experiencing the Impostor Phenomenon Influences Consumption Choices, Emily Goldsmith
Acceptability Study and Pilot RCT of a Guide to Understanding Reproductive Health for Ladeez (GURHL) Code: An HIV Risk Reduction App Intervention for Black and Latina Young Women in New York City, Sonia K. Gonzalez Gladstein
A Discourse of True and False: An Analysis of the Publications of the AFL-CIO Between 1955-1965 as Archived in the Tamiment Library, John J. Gorham Jr.
The Development of Affect and Defense in Childhood and Adolescence, Kari Gray
A Comparison of the Effects of Various Feedback Presentations on Typing Accuracy and Speed, Julieanne Guadalupe
Xu Zhen & MadeIn Company: The Phenomenon of Artist-Company, Qianfan Gu
Perspectives from the Streets and the Classrooms in the Same 'Hood: Linguistic Landscapes of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Luis Guzman Valerio
Better Than Before, Makia Harper
Musicking, Discourse, and Identity in Participatory Media Fandom, Aya Esther Hayashi
How the Egg Rolls: A Morphological Analysis of Egg Shape in the Context of Displacement Dynamics, Ian R. Hays
Female Autistic Perspectives: Limits in Diagnosis and Understanding, Alexandra Helmers
Contesting Representations of Gender and Womanhood in Mexico The Photomontages of Lola Álvarez Bravo, 1935–1958, Alana Hernandez
Women’s Suffrage in American Art: Recovering Forgotten Contexts, 1900-1920, Elsie Y. Heung
Powerhouse Chihuahua: Electricity, Water, and the State in the Long Mexican Revolution, Jonathan Hill Jr
Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Dietary Acculturation among Foreign-Born Blacks in New York City, Margrethe F. Horlyck-Romanovsky
“For Us, By Us": The Boondocks, Black Agency, and Black Spatial Reclamation in Comics, Luana Horry
Worldwide Distribution of the Human Apolipoprotein E Gene - The Association between APOE, Subsistence, and Latitude, Tiffany S. Ho
Vision-based Assistive Indoor Localization, Feng Hu
Together Without Consensus: Class, Emotions and the Politics of the Rule of Law in the Lawyers’ Movement (2007-09) in Pakistan, Salman Hussain
The Shari'a Courts of Mogadishu: Beyond "African Islam" and "Islamic Law", Ahmed Ibrahim
Out-Group Threat or Inter-Group Contact Theory? Out-Group Attitudes and Interaction in Times of Diversity Growth, Annette Jacoby
Exploring Shifting Moments of Remediation: An Analysis of Policies of Developmental Education Policies in the City University of New York, Charles Jordan
An Analysis of Self-Reported Suicide Attempts and Ideation in a National Sample of Incarcerated Sex Offenders, Kseniya Katsman
Cynic and Epicurean Parrhesia in Horace's Epodes 5 & 6: Appropriating a Parallel Philosophical Debate For Poetic Purposes, Kent Klymenko
Combatting the Illegal Pet Trade: Using Molecular Techniques to Determine the Provenience of Illegal Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) Pets, Jessica Knierim
Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity on the Down Low, Stephen Kochenash
The Potency of Policy?: A Comparative Study of Filipino Elder Care Workers in the United States and Israel, Abigail F. Kolker
Moral Mode Switching: From Punishment to Public Health, Stephen Koppel
Effects of Structural and Electronic Disorder in Topological Insulator Sb2Te3 Thin Films, Inna Korzhovska
EmBody: The Transformation of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations in Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg
Status, Power, and Apologies: How Status and Power Shape the Willingness to Apologize and the Perception of Victims, Louis Lipani
Social Influences on Songbird Behavior: From Song Learning to Motion Coordination, Iva Ljubičić
Memory in Memoir & Biography: Science, Place, and Agency, Johnathan E. Longo
Deconstructing City Hall Park: The Development and Archaeology of the Common, Alyssa Loorya
Just Drop My Body on the Steps of the FDA: Emotion & Activism at ACT UP’s “Seize Control of the FDA” Action, Mariana Lopez de Castilla
Singing and Stress, Joseline Lopez
Unpacking Ostalgia: Where Biography Meets History, Melanie Lorek
Grieving Behaviors During Parental Bereavement in Western Societies, Victor A. Luna
"Betwixt the World Destroyed and World Restored": Subjectivity and Paradisal Recovery in John Milton's Late Poems, Chihping Ma
Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Self-competency Regarding Individualized Developmental Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Patricia Macho
The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
Neural Underpinnings of Walking Under Cognitive and Sensory Load: A Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Approach, Brenda R. Malcolm
An Analysis of Successful and Unsuccessful Terrorist Assassinations: Informing Counterterrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention, Marissa Mandala
Economics, Politics and the Environment, Ron Mandelbaum
Neonatal Stimulation of PKC Epsilon Signaling Normalizes Fragile X-Associated Deficits in PVN Oxytocin Expression and Later-Life Social and Anxiety Behavior, Alexandra E. Marsillo
The Dictators’ Dilemma: Repression or Concessions in the Face of Resistance, Chris Massaro
A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner
Rising Above the Faithful: Monumental Ceiling Crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia, Alice Lynn McMichael
A Colony’s State of Sovereignty: Decolonization Has Yet to Take Place In Rwanda, Mahalia Mehu
Whether, When, and How: Fertility Intentions and Age in the U.S., Andrea Melnikas
Statistical Regularities in Melodic Phrases: Effects on Aesthetic Ratings, Daniel Meredith