Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023
The Numbers Don’t Lie: A Quantitative Examination of Trauma Outcomes Among Black Homeless Women, Lisa Marie Persad
The Dissonant History of Tristan and Isolde, Amanda Persaud
David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History, Nicholas K. Petaludis
Reflections on the Digital Memory of Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Vinh T. Pham
The Development of Novel Radioscandium and Hydroxypyridinonate Based Radiopharmaceuticals, Michael Phipps
Expanding the Role of the Temporal Dimension in Ecological Niche Models: A Study on Mexican Montane Small Mammals, Gonzalo E. Pinilla Buitrago
Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives, Karen C. Pitt
DIY The Process of Healing from Trauma through Woodworking, and Living Off Grid, Rachel A. Pollock
Design and Applications of Fmoc-Histidine and Aspartic Acid Tripeptides as Proton Conductive Materials, Shejla S. Pollozi
Sonorous Movement: Cellistic Corporealities in Works by Helmut Lachenmann, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Johan Svensson, John Popham
Rotation Period Distributions and Light Curve Morphologies of Low Mass Stars and Young Associations, Mark Popinchalk
Three Essays on Substructural Approaches to Semantic Paradoxes, Brian C. Porter
Neurodivergent Artists in NYC, Brianna R. Poulos
The Switch: Understanding the Perception of African American Linguistic Repertoires, Alyssa Powell
The Effect of Word Predictability on Proofreading Accuracy and Reading Time, Sam Prasad
Keeping it Real: The Evolution of the Black American Sitcom, Ebony E. Prescod
Dynamics in Designed Elastins and Enzymes, Jonathan M. Preston
Covering the Beatles: Tribute, Tradition, and Transformation, Alexander J. Prezzano
Exploration to Brand Communication on TikTok, Victoria M. Priola
Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis: Politics, Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Guido A. Proano
Clean Energy Transition Threatens Indigenous Land Rights, Jonnathan M. Pulla
Machine Learning driven Resource Allocation in Edge Cloud, Arslan Qadeer Dr
Drug Repurposing Using Gene Expression Data Mining, Yue Qiu
Millenial & Gen Z Experience- A Meta-Analysis, Karrine S. Rahman
Auditory Processing Deficits in MSH2-KO mice are linked to Aberrant Inhibitory Neuron Function in the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus, Sadia N. Rahman
Attenuated Typicality Effect in Category-based Inferences: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Janani Rajagopalan
A Female Pharaoh and The Emperor’s Wife: Hatshepsut, Julia Domna, and Female Authority in Antiquity, Gabriella E. Ramalho
Self-Employment Industry Selection: An Evaluation of Wealth and Demographics on Industry Choice in the U.S., Samuel Ramirez
Mechanisms of Bacterial Charity, Reima S. Ramsamooj
Celestial Bodies, Rebecca L. Rand and Mark Popinchalk
Future Trash, Xinan Ran
Beyond Punishment: A Critical and Interpretive Phenomenology of Accountability, Cameron Rasmussen
How Black Artists Are Helping To Destigmatize Mental Health Through Music, Ashley Reed
Between Two Messiahs: An Ethnography of Settler-Colonizers in the West Bank, Amir Reicher
Ethnic Tensions in the Western Balkans and the Experience of Ethnic Minorities, Nadina Resulani
The Impact of Utilitarian Public Policies on Minority Communities: A Comparison of New York City and New South Wales, Australia., Nicholas Reyes
Machines Don't Stop: Stories & Novel Excerpts, Alexander N. Richardson
Three Settings of "Cruda Amarilli:" Examining Melismatic Cadences and Word Repetitions that Convey Meaning, Peter Richardson
The Moderating Roles Of Racial Discrimination And Covid-19 Stress On The Association Between College Students’ Cannabis Use And Psychosocial Functioning, Shannique Richards
Observers' Perceptions of Rapport in Accusatorial Interrogations, Gabriela Rico
Statistical and Biological Analyses of Acoustic Signals in Estrildid Finches, Moises Rivera
The Pima County Jail in a “state of full-blown crisis”: Inmate deaths four times the national average, Natalie Robbins
The rise of mercury: the economic and health impacts of artisanal gold mining in Colombia, Jilmar D. Robledo Caicedo
“W”: Women in Afropop Entertainment At the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Culture, Coreen Robledo
EDWARD & SONS: AN IMPROVISED OPERA, Ian Robles
Black College Students Perceptions of the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Rickae Rodney
Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida, Jocelyn Elliott Rodriguez
Connecting with a Lost Heritage: The Indigenous Taino community of the Caribbean in New York City, Angeles R. Rodriguez Negron
Negotiating Liberty: Fine Ceramics for the U.S. American Market Before 1860, Presley Rodriguez
Negotiating With Myself: A Grounded Theory Study of How Women With Sporadic Unilateral Early-Stage Breast Cancer Choose Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy, Nancy Ellen Roecklein
Grand Strategy at the End of History: Chinese Strategic Thought in the 21st Century and its Western Perceptions, Daniel A. Rogers
Higher Law and Lincoln's Antislavery Constitutionalism: What It Means to Say the Civil War Was Fought Over Slavery, Joel A. Rogers
Dimensionality Reduction Techniques in Macroeconomic Analysis, Abigail Rogot
“Investment in Inertia”: Language Ideologies of Instructors and Students of Spanish as a Heritage Language, Michael E. Rolland
Darkroom, Alexandra Romero
El Cuerpo Armónico (The Body Harmonic), Luis Emilio Romero
Hydrodynamic and Physicochemical Interactions Between an Active Janus Particle and an Inactive Particle, Jessica S. Rosenberg
Contrafreeloading in the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris), Liza Rothkoff
Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer-Based Complex Nanomaterials, Prashun G. Roy
Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation, Natalie Ruby
Stock Splits and Corporate Peer Effects, Albert J. Saad
Thermodynamics of Learning With Parametric Probabilistic Models, Shervin Sadat Parsi
School weigh-ins are dreaded. They also don’t work., Amanda G. Salazar
A SILENT NEW THREAT TO THE TRANS COMMUNITY: The unregulated use of AI without public consent raises ethical concerns, Eduardo Salazar Uribe
Skin Echoes, Andreia Santana
Scalable Quantum Compilation Approaches For Reliable Quantum Computing, Vedika Saravanan
The Development of Novel Radioimmunoconjugates for the PET Imaging and Radioimmunotherapy of Cancer, Samantha M. Sarrett
Gender Role Conflict, Campus Climate, and Satisfaction among Male Undergraduate Nursing Students, Randelle Sasa
Metabolic Control of Proliferation and Differentiation in Oligodendrocytes, Sami Sauma
Ultrastructural correlates of axons and synapses belonging to different circuits in ferret primary visual cortex, Anjelique Sawh
Incels, Violence, and Masculinity: How Masculinity and Membership to Online Communities Shape Perceptions of Violence, Meghan Scarlott
Authoritarian Coalitions in Democracies: The Politics of Elite and Mass Engagement with Democratic Backsliding, Dean G. Schafer
You Don’t Even Need the Ghosts: A Writer’s Look at The Turn of the Screw, Andrea M. Schenkel
Early Adversity, Emotion Regulation, Object Relational Functioning, and the Moderating Effect of Gender Identity: A community sample study, Victoria Schilder
Wave-ing Away Stereotypes: The Rise of Black Surfers, John J. Schilling III
Metaperceptions of Interactions Between Asian and African American Adults, Ariana Schlegel
“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media, Martha Schulenburg
Gaps of Speculation: Refusing Representation in Queer and Postcolonial Fiction, Sarah Schwartz
Transformation and Abstraction to Aid Comparison of Binary Executables Across Compilation Environments, Jeremy D. Seideman
Learning to Fly while Staying Grounded: How Forcibly Displaced Individuals Develop a Sense of Belonging in Disempowered Cities, Janina L. Selzer
Indigenous Performances in Contemporary Indian Urban Public Theatres: Coloniality, Globalization, and the State, Mayurakshi Sen
The Association between Mental Health Diagnoses and Trial Competency Assessments in Defendants: A meta-analysis, Danielle C. Severe
“I’m Now Always Thinking About Math”: Exploring Mathematics Identities, Beliefs, and Lived Experiences Through YPAR, Maya A. Severns
Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative, Jess Shane
Voice Leading in Fugue, Yuval Shapira
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, and Disgust in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Zinaida Gippius, Yelizaveta Shapiro
Memetic Epidemiology: A Mathematical Model for Tracking the Spread of Linguistic Features across Western Europe, Benjamin Shavitz
Insidious Fibs: Early Stories of Henry James, Katherine Shloznikova
Modulatory Effects of Schreckstoff on the Startle Escape Response of Goldfish (Carassius auratus), Denis Shor
From Doormats to Three-Dimensions: The Evolution of Female Characters in Anime’s Action Genre, Sajina Shrestha
The Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic, E. Paisley Shultz
Changing Homelands: The Election of Menachem Begin and The Diplomatic Campaign to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Abraham Silberstein
Laypeople’s Perceptions of Secondary Trauma in Criminal Justice System Workers, Mariah Simone
Pedagogies of Reform: The Role of Game-Based Learning in Recontextualizing Education, Hamad Sindhi
Death Becomes Her: Rejecting the Muse and Reclaiming the Female Body in Leonor Fini’s Skeleton Women, Janna Singer-Baefsky
