Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023
A Study of Geo-Regional Place-Consciousness in American Literature, Eugene Slepov
Red: Stories and Novel Opening, Josephine Sloyan
AI’s Next Frontier — Dermatology? How It May Help Close The Health Gap For Dark-Skinned Patients, Gretchen B. Smail
Reimagining the Inner Ear: A Morphometric Modeling Approach for Establishing Shape Change in the Evolution of the Human Otolith System, Christopher M. Smith
gloria rehearsal (excerpt) A Feminist Mechanism for Metabolization, Eleanor Smith
The Association between Rape Myths and Continued Contact with the Perpetrator Following Sexual Abuse, Jainee Smith
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, Phillip C. Smith
Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives, Quincy Smith
Police Academy Attrition Rates: A Long-Term Analysis of Female Candidates in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona, and New Jersey, Shamus W. Smith
Metamorphis, Luca Lee Sobarzo Faust
The Effect of Google Fiber on Incumbents' Average Broadband Speed, Erick J. Solis
Pleasure and Power in a Cover Culture: Audiences, Musicians, and Venues in İzmi̇r’s Popular Music Scene, Yılmaz Onur Sönmez
The Incurable Fanny Price: Disabled Perspective and Resistance to the Cure Narrative in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Aurora C. Soriano
A Multifaceted, Non-Militarized Approach to Security Dynamics in Protected Areas: From Foot Patrols, to Tourism, and Local Communities, Monique Sosnowski
Uprooting Patriarchy: Meditations on Gender, Masculinities, and Healing Through Buddhist Practices, Noah Souder-Russo
Caring for Individuals who are Experiencing Homelessness: An Audiologist’s Toolkit, Jenna Marie Sparacio
The Study of Excitons in 2D Novel Materials and Their van der Waals Heterostructures in the Magnetic Field, Anastasia Spiridonova
Notes on Insurgent Universality In Ambedkar’s Social and Political Thought: A Critique Of Postcolonial Anti-Universalism, Sitharthan Sriharan
Voiding the Unwanted Self: An Examination of Racialized Violence in the United States, Benjamin Stark
Subject to Change, Shauna Steinbach
Investigation of the Effect of Senescence on Daily Activity Patterns in Male Octopus insularis, Mariam Steinblatt
Benumbed Compulsion, Philip E. Stern
Digital Against the Digital, Gemma Stevanella
The Contribution of Syntactic Awareness to Vocabulary Learning, Harry M. Steves
Narratives In, On, and Around Contemporary Queer Film: A Study of Adam and its Paratexts, Jeremy Stoller
The Antagonistic Anatomy of Anti-shippers: A Thematic Analysis, Adrian A. Stone
“Addiction” in U.S. Political Culture, Be Stone
Belief and Success Health Management Self-Efficacy: A National Survey of Black Adults, Stephanie Y. Store
Coloniality, Western Science, and Critical Ethnic Studies in STEM Education, LaToya M. Strong
Reviews of Applications for Smartphone-Connected Hearing Aids and Implications on Counseling, Rebecca Strong
Effects of the OTX2ECR2 enhancer & PROX1 overexpression in murine retina development, Erick J. Subillaga
Developing a Scale to Measure Internalization of Oppression Among Latinx Living in New York City, Jeannette A. Sucre
On The Spectrum of Quaquaversal Operators, Josiah Sugarman
Exploring the Potential of Hearing Screening Smartphone Applications to Enhance Access to Hearing Healthcare: A Literature Review, Adam Sulaiman
Precarious, Abby Sumner
Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing, Sophia N. Sunseri
L'impuissance de La Représentation : Sur La Possibilité de La Représentation du Terrorisme, Youtian Sun
Factors Associated with Technology Adoption by Community-Dwelling Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elizabeth A. Sutton
Erasing Race, Emily Swanson
On the Second Case of Fermat's Last Theorem over Cyclotomic Fields, Owen Sweeney
What is the ‘E’ in ESOL? Three Papers on Linguistic Borders, Normativity, and Race in Adult English Education, Kelsey Swift
A Sentiment Analysis of "Filipinx" on Twitter Using a Multinomial Naïve Bayes Classification Model, Clarisse Taboy
Analyzing ‘Fight the Power’ Part 1: Music and Longevity Across Evolving Marketing Eras, Shokolatte Tachikawa
Immigrant Risk, Self-Discontinuity, and the Role of Nostalgia, Leila Talhouk
Artist-Scholar: Tradition and Modernity in the Work of Tseng Yuho, Jennie Tang
A Gift To My Self: A Psychoanalytic Approach To Understanding The Experiences of Women Who Choose Not To Have Children, Irina D. Tchania
Cashing Out (Documentary), Girard Tecson
Urban Freight Transportation: The Interaction of Home Deliveries in Cities, Carla A. Tejada
A Typological and Chemical Analysis of Roman Oil Lamps from Poggio del Molino, Brandon Tejo
Bi Erasure and Bi Invisibility in Media and Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles
Optimization of Optical Nanosensor Response for the Detection of Anthracyclines Using a Binary Machine Learning Classifier, Myesha Thahsin
A Sociology of Gab: A Computational Analysis of a Far-Right Social Network, Nga Than
Evaluating the Effect of CCTV on Crime Occurrence and Case Clearances in Fayetteville, North Carolina: A Microsynthetic Control Quasi-Experiment, Amanda L. Thomas
Becoming George Lucas: From Avant-Garde, Auteur, Independent Artist to Studio Executive, Ryan Thompson
Do Ask, Do Tell: Lessons Learned from Marginalized Gay or Bisexual Males in Male-Dominated Organizations, Charles Tienken
I mondi incrociati di Machiavelli: il Principe e la Mandragola, Carrie Tighe Cristiano
Interventions That Move: Characterizing the Language of Therapist Responses to High Patient Arousal, Karen Tocatly
Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography, Aysha E. Todd-Stone
Pairings in a Ring Spectrum-Based Bousfield-Kan Spectral Sequence, Jonathan Toledo
Disclosure Harmonization and R&D Investment Efficiency, Lu Tong
Colonial Geographies of Gendered Violence and Mental Health in the United States and Puerto Rico, Lorraine Lizbeth L. Torres Colon
Race, Gender, Physical Activity, and Cancer: A Quantitative Investigation, Shawna A. Townsend
A Difference of One's Own: Race, Sex, Modernism, Ryan L. Tracy
Untangling the Nature and Timescales of Magmatic Processes Driving Eruptions at Quiescent Volcanoes: Examples from Momotombo, Nicaragua, and Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands, Samantha Tramontano
Literature, Development, and the Reaches of Literacy, 1979 to the Present, Stephen Tremaine
Typologies of Battering: Uncovering Patterns of Coercive Tactics Used by Abusive Men in a Mixed Methods Study, Abbie L. Tuller
Singlet Oxygen-Mediated Conformational Flexibility, Antioxidant, and Isomerization Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Oliver Turque
Hinchas de Nueva York: identidad latina en el negocio de la MLS, Francisco Uranga
Design and experimental observation of topological states in photonic metasurfaces, Anton Vakulenko
Exodus: The Cost of Leaving High-Control Religion and Life After Breaking Free, Hannah-Kathryn Valles
How Smoking Became a Moral Issue: A Complex Systems Perspective on Moralization, Matthew Vanaman
Political Economy in Lettres d'une Péruvienne: Françoise de Graffigny as Philosophe and Reformer, Marguerite J. Van Cook
This Little Light of Mine: The History of The Amalgamated Nursery School, Kimberly F. Vanderbilt
The Chicana Mural Movement: A Reclamation of Mesoamerican Iconography, Jennifer Vander Els
A Quantum Approach to Language Modeling, Constantijn van der Poel
tDCS effects on synaptic plasticity and motor skill learning, Forouzan Vasheghani Farahani
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Truth: How Client Assertion, Perception of Guilt, and Predictive Inaccuracy Influence Plea Recommendations, Anna D. Vaynman
Extraction of Challenging Forensic Samples Using the MicroGEM DNA Extraction Kit, Falyn R. Vega
CSI Botany: DNA Barcode “Fingerprints” Identify Cryptic Urban Flora, Luis R. Vega
“The American Dream” and The Second Wounding: An Exploration of the Institutions of America Through a Millennial Narrative of Self, Brittany B.C Vicars
Characterization and Modulation of the Emergent Material Properties of Biomolecular Condensates, Alfredo Vidal Ceballos
Investigating and Mitigating the Harmful Impact of Precarious Employment on the Health and Well-Being of New York City Food Workers, Emilia F. Vignola
Analysis of Chemical Elements in Basalts using Mislabeled Data, a Machine Learning Approach, Jenifer Vivar
Eight Essays, Suanny Y. Vizcaino
Maui Wildfires: A Case Study in Local Government Crisis Communication Response, Joshua A. Voda
Styling Sweatshops: Seamstress Imagery, Industrial Capitalism, and Nationalist Agendas in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the United States, Alice J. Walkiewicz
Staging Nature: Performing Environmental Crises in War, Housing, and Labor, 1935–1990, Erik Barrett Wallenberg
Somebody Gave Somebody Some Kind of Heat About Something: Teaching Controversial Topics in the Politically Polarized Suburbs, Melanie Waller
