Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
The Impact of User Control and Transparency in App Design on Privacy Concerns and Behavior of Mobile App Users, Arwa Alawajy
Beyond Authorization: Toward Abolitionist Transliteracies Ecologies and an Anti-Racist Translingual Pedagogy, Lindsey Albracht
A New Feature Selection Method Based on Class Association Rule, Sami A. Al-Dhaheri
Essays on Green Finance, Elsa Allman
Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills, Lauren R. Alpert
Be Coming - Transcendence Born from the Concrete, Kathryn Alter
Is This My Body? A Manual on Navigating Child Masturbation Without Shame, Stephanie M. Amis
Educational Investments in Low-Income Households: The Role of Parental Occupational Identity and Substitutability, Aparna Anand
Using the Marcus Inverted Region and Artificial Cofactors to Create a Charge Separated State in De Novo Designed Proteins, Eskil ME Andersen
Encoding and Perception of Voicing and Aspiration in Native and Non-Native Listeners in Quiet and in Background Noise, Reethee Antony
Mechanism of Action of Dihydropteridine Reductase, Gabriela Arias De la Rosa
Reimagining Post-Secondary Training, Community College, and Welfare Supports, Aaron Azerad
In Order to Escort Her, Kimberly Baglieri
"Rivals and Partners”: The Competition for Control of Judenpolitik in Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–1944), Barbara Lynne Bailin
A Conceptual Replication to Investigate the Hostile Priming Effect, Charlotte Basch
Spilling the TEA in Bilingual Latinx New York City Department of Education School Social Workers: Towards Entre Nos, Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas
Frozen in Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach to the Study of Ice Bearing Planetesimals through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron
Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies of Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition Reactions, Lauren P. Bejcek
Constructing Curriculum: Centering Identities in Sex Education, Jozette Belmont
Son of Esther, Shah of the Persian Empire: The Judeo-Islamic-Persian Tapestry of Ardashirnameh’s Miniature Paintings, Gilad Bendavid
Caffeine Modulation of Attention and Focus in Task Performance, Claudia R. Berger
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
Reading the World: American Haredi Children's Literature, 1980–2000, Dainy Bernstein
Girl In Action: Junior Bazaar, 1945-1948, Rose D. Bishop
The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia, Isatou Bittaye-Jobe
Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants and the Navigation of Forced and Chosen Space, Daniel Bloch
How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism, Jane Clare Bolin
Monumentality, Fortification, and Movement: Preclassic Maya Developments as seen at Muralla de León, Petén, Guatemala, Justin D. Bracken
Silences of New York History: Legacies of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712, Jelissa N. Caldwell
The Space Between “Seen” and “Unseen:” Queer People and the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance, Claudia R. Campanella
Mexico’s Northern Border Migrant Attention Plan: A Case Study in Neoliberal Human Rights and Non-Punitive Extraterritorial Spaces of Containment, Anita Michele Cannon
Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Diversity and Belonging in Turkey, Ezgi Canpolat
Skyrmions and Biskyrmions in Magnetic Films, Daniel Capic
Contemporary Human Displacement: A Comparative Analysis of Syria, Yemen, Honduras, and Venezuela, Rav Carlotti
Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano
Marine Resource Specialization in Viking Age Iceland: Exploitation of Seabirds and Fish on Hegranes in Skagafjörður, Grace M. Cesario
Development and Maintenance of the Thymic Epithelial Microenvironment, Shami Chakrabarti
Membranes and Frames, Nurya Chana
BC Bound: A Pathway Designed To Support Non-Traditional Students, Fiona J. Chan
The Non-uniformity of Chinese Wh-indefinites through the Lens of Algebraic Structure, Zhuo Chen
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
Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids, Hannah Coleman
The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi, Jason Collins
Interactions of Organic Fluorophores with Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances, Robert J. Collison
Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Molecules with Selective and Poly-Pharmacological Actions at D1R, D3R and Sigma Receptors, Pierpaolo Cordone
Dancing Through Time: A Biographical Look on the Evolution of Tap Dance, Jaimie Cranford
Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney
Cognitive Changes Caused by LPS-induced Neuroinflammation, Nancy De La Torre
From Object to Icon: The Unpredictable Path to Everlastingness, Donna M. Desideri
Non Ego Laudari Curo: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy, Federico Di Pasqua
The Gridded Time of Waiting; or Is Not Aristotle’s Metaphysics; or A Kind of Idealist Trap; or In My Secret Life, Olivia DiVecchia
The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice, Emily C. Eagen
Spirits in the Dark: Black Community Education and the Light it Bears, Sydoni A. Ellwood
A Geospatial Habitat Suitability Model to Determine the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ulva Blooms in Jamaica Bay, New York, Kristine T. Erskine John
An Evaluation of An Application Designed for the iPad® to Measure Stimulus Overselectivity for Future Use in Autism Research, Adrienne A. Fitzer
Reimagining What it Means to be Black in the United States: Family Cultural Socialization Practices that Shape Racial Identities among Diverse Young Adults, Latifa T. Fletcher
Prevention in Context: An Examination of Factors Associated with Recent HIV Testing Among Men in New York City, Anthony Freeman
The Politics of Hip Hop: A Political Analysis of Hip Hop’s History and Its Complicated Relationship with Capitalism, Danielle Garcia
Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X, Layza M. Garcia
The Dutch Atlantic and American Life: Beginnings of America in Colonial New Netherland, Roy J. Geraci
Synthetic and Biological Studies on Benzazepine Derivatives as Dopamine Receptor Ligands, Rajan Giri
When Is a Sandwich Too Much? A Critical Look at Teenage Parenthood and Its Impact on the Lives of Their Parents, Shirley P. Grant
Machine Learning Classification of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Versus Healthy Controls Using Arterial Spin Labeled Perfusion MRI, Vanessa I. Grass
Unsettling, Cynthia Groya
El Chapo's Trial as Legitimation of the War on Drugs: A Neoliberal Mechanism of Social Control and Imperial Intervention, Maurizio Guerrero
Direct Recruitment of eIF4GI and/DAP5 to the 5' UTR of a Subset of Human mRNA Drives Their Cap-independent Translation, Solomon A. Haizel
Stranger’s Window, Nation’s Mirror, Kyoko Hamaguchi
The Second Kashmir (Informational) War of 1965, Navdip Hans
School Recess and Changes to Children's Play Opportunities in New York City, Keyonna Hayes
Learn Biologically Meaningful Representation with Transfer Learning, Di He
The Effects of Multisensory Imagery on Vocabulary Learning, Lawrence A. Herman
Auto®Ficción Latinx de Nueva York (1999–2020), Jacqueline Herranz Brooks
Situational Awareness, Maeve Higgins
Becoming Material: Devotional Encounters Between Humans and Objects in the European Middle Ages, Debra L. Hilborn-Davis
Producing Movement Space in New York City's Solidarity Economy, Lauren Taylor Hudson
Essays on Behavioral Finance and Household Finance, Chih-Ching Hung
The American Symphony Orchestra Today: Problems in Community, Diversity, and Representation, Hilary Slade Jansen
The Role of Perceived Warmth and Competence in Civil Trials with Corporate Litigants, Alexander C. Jay
Us, AbunDantly: From Africa to the Americas, Karisma Jay
Fantasies of Representation: Methods of Feminist Literary Analysis, Alexandra Johnson
Broken Harts: Mourning the Human/Animal Divide in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Wordsworth’s “Hart-Leap Well”, Jennifer Jourlait
Essays on Financial Economics and Insurance, Andreas Kakolyris
Ivan Puni's Berlin Period: 1920-1924, Elena Kakuriev
Legal Purgatory: Why Some Animals are Neither Persons nor Property, Sharisse Kanet
Morkovcha [Korean Carrot Salad], Lidiya A. Kan
Sound Ecologies: Music and Vibration in 19th-Century American Literature, Christina Katopodis
The Alphorn in North America: “Blown Yodeling” Within A Transnational Community, Maureen E. Kelly
The Fate of National Socialist Visual Culture: Iconoclasm, Censorship, and Preservation in Germany, 1945–2020, Denali Elizabeth Kemper
A Study of How We Perceive People, Muriel Kosaka
Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?, Sarah L. Kostecki
Incentivizing Injustice: Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis?, Sari Krieger Rivera
The Power and Attraction of Transgression: John Martin's Depiction of Lucifer, Kseniia Krivileva
Dealer Networks in Over-The-Counter (OTC) Financial Markets, Richmond Kyei-Fordjour