Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
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
Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300–1500, Jennifer R. Alberghini
Behind Closet Doors: Horror and Dislocation in the Queer Closet, Corey C. Allen
Thornfield, Wragby, and Their Discontents: Nature and Civilization in Jane Eyre and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Marianna Alvarado Teuscher
Sex is Always on the Table, Jordan D. Artim
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
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
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
Rituals of Remaindered Life in the Films of Kidlat Tahimik, Alison R. Boldero
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
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
Anywhere Out of this World, Amanda C. Brown
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
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
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
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
Shapes and Transitions of the Interest Rate Term Structure, Biwei Chen
The Determining Factors of the Self-Assembly of Collagen Mimetic Peptide, Fangfang Chen
Examining the Association Between Childhood Exposure to Substance-Abusive Environments and Factor Two Psychopathic Traits, Cordelia Chou
Hrísheimar: Fish Consumption Patterns, Wendi K. Coleman
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
Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833, Michael Crowder
Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum, Noah R. Cypher
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
Novel Biobehavioral Methods for Assessing the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Samantha Denefrio
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
Internal Displacement in the United States: A Result of Climate Change and U.S. Policy, Ahmad T. Diop
The Past is Never Dead: Amorphous Time in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique, Anthony E. Dominguez
Broadway Bodies: Casting, Stigma, and Difference in Broadway Musicals Since "A Chorus Line" (1975), Ryan Donovan
Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona, Emily Duwel
The Relationship Between Workplace Environment, Teacher Well-Being, and Young Children’s Behavioral Outcomes, Sarah G. Elbaum
Preclinical Evaluation of Gold-Based Chemotherapeutic Candidates for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cancer, Benelita Elie
Just Borders: The Foundations of Immigration Policy, Cody Fenwick
The Music in His Words: The Art of Sound and Folk in Louis Armstrong’s Manuscript for Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, “The Armstrong Story”, Adriana C. Filstrup
Visualizing the Decline of the Corset Business, Iris Finkel
"Mute Flesh": Women's Death-Worlds in David's Story and Waiting for the Barbarians, Kate Finley
Neighborhood Ecology and Recidivism: A Case Study in NYC, Sarah Picard Fritsche
Presidential Power: Assessing the Unitary Executive as the Strongest Determinant of Presidential Success, Maxwell J. Fuerderer
Phylogenetic History of the AMY Gene Cluster in Catarrhines, Christian M. Gagnon
Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Iodine-124 Labeled Nucleoside Analogs as Pet Imaging Agents to Predict Response to Gemcitabine Therapy, Kishore Kumar Gangangari
Deconstructing the Image of Woman: Video Portraiture and Women’s Performance for the Camera 1972-1980, Olivia Gauthier
Who Needs Blame?: Answerability Without Expressed Blame, Sarah Gokhale
Reversing borrón y cuenta nueva: The Curative Power of Family Memory in the Novels of Loida Maritza Perez and Nelly Rosario, Ivonne Gonzalez
Access to Mental Health Facilities and Homicidal Circumstances, Shalini Hathurusinghe
Private Funding of the United Nations, Consequence and Future of the World Intergovernmental Organization, Kossi H. Hator
Why is the Black Population of Central Brooklyn, the Mecca of Black NYC, Diminishing?, Jamell N.A. Henderson
Between the Living and the Dead, Laura Henriksen
An Alphabet, Michelle Hernandez
A Parade of Identities: Negotiation of Ethnic Identities in Three New York City Cultural Parades, Julia M. Herrera-Moreno
Racial Becoming: How Agentic (Self-Initiated) Encounter Events Inform Racial Identity Refinement, Devin A. Heyward
Immigration, Small Business and Assimilation: Three Stories of Small-Time Capitalism on the Lower East Side, Marcus Hillman
Guilty by Association: A Critical Analysis of How Imprisonment Affects the Children of Those Behind Bars, Whitney Q. Hollins
The Post-9/11 LGBTQ Human Rights Struggle in Egypt, Donna K. Huaman
Magnetic Resonance Studies of Free Radicals Generation and their Impact in Different Polymers, Sunita Humagain
My Sight's Shadow, Lili Jamail
The Effects of Tactile and Visual Deterrents on Honey Badger Predation of Beehives, Abigail S. Johnson
Characterization of Immunomodulatory Microbial Factors in Medicinal Plants, Kriti Kalpana
Ungodly Freedom: How Philosophers Rise and Empires Fall in the Work of Leo Strauss, Eli Karetny
Performing Desire in Times Square: Sailors, Hustlers and Masculinity, Kel R. Karpinski
Integrating the Effects of Biotic Interactions into Models of Species Distributions, Jamie M. Kass
A Defense of Pure Connectionism, Alex B. Kiefer
The Equal Right to Sing: The American Zeitgeist and Its Implications for Music Education, YoungEun Kim
The Shape of Knowledge: The Postwar American Poet's Library, with Diane di Prima and Charles Olson, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh
HEARTMTNDEMON: Mourning Ritual, Alison M. Kizu-Blair
The Material Turn: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin and the Art of Embroidery in Louis XV’s France, Pamela J. Koons
The Influence of Pointing Accuracy in an Object-Choice Task with Domestic Horses (Equus caballus), Elizabeth A. Krisch
A Meta-Analysis of Information Processing Measures of Intelligence, Performance, and Group Score Differences, Elliott C. Larson