Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
Embracing the Emergent Nature of Research in Early Childhood Education and in Life, Anna Malyukova
From an Art to a Science: Features and Methodology in Computational Authorship Identification, Jonathan I. Manczur
Semantic Network Activation Contributes to the Relationship between Mood and Inhibition, James S. Maniscalco
Three Essays on Exchange Rate Models and Their Applications, Azza A. Mansour
Investigating Distribution of Legionella Pneumophila in Urban and Suburban Watersheds, Azlan Maqbool
Bonded by Nature: The Prevalence of Landscape Subjects within Abstract Expressionism and their sources in American Art, Aileen F. Marcantonio
Signal to Noise: Harmonic Temperaments and Patterns of Interference, Dylan A. Marcheschi
Uncovering Potential Biofilm Modulators, Liliana Margent
Very Two, Very One: Reading as Friendship, Amelia Marini
Using fNIRS to Identify Brain Regions Involved in Emotional Face Processing in Infants at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Christian Martinez
El Pueblo Unido: How Threats Increased Latinx Turnout in Arizona’s 2020 General Election, Conner Martinez
Behind the Plexi, Janina E. Martinez-Fields
Song from a Chamber, Miguel A. Martinez
Counterstories of Black High School Students and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study, Kahdeidra M. Martin
Effectiveness of a Novel Paradigm Examining the Impact of Phubbing on Attention and Mood, Kimberly Marynowski
The Production of Russian Vowels /i/ and /ɨ/ by Russian-English Bilingual Children, Evgeniya Maryutina
Role of Protonation State Changes and Hydrogen Bonding Around the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II, Divya Matta
The Communal Roots of the Tree of Life: The Performativity of the Torah Scroll in Jewish Ritual, Joseph Maybloom
An Outlaw in Babylon: Hélio Oiticica’s Transgressive Strategies in the Margins of New York, 1970–1978, Daniela Mayer
Pepón Osorio and Merián Soto: Multidisciplinary Collaborations, from 1985 to 1995, Zuna Maza
Infant Behavioral Speech Discrimination Procedures: A Systematic Review, Allison L. Mazzella
A Student Conduct Administrator’s Journey to Wellness, Corie Amanda Marie McCallum
Mucinomics: A Bioinformatic Analysis of Snail Mucins, and Their Function, Maxwell B. McDermott
Points of Reference: Humanities Content for Media Studies, Carolyn A. McDonough
Connecting Communities to Coastal Resilience: Enhancing Sustainability through Public Participation in Salt Marsh Management and Restoration in Suffolk County, NY, Jennifer L. McGivern
Xanthus Smith: Marine Painting and Nationhood, Eva C. McGraw
Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria, Alexander K. McKeever
Modern Dance, Embodiment, and Society: The Graham Technique’s Resistance to Conditioned Physicality, Cara McManus
The Relationship of Pathological Narcissism to Empathic Functioning, Antonia M. McMaster
Working Memory Task Performance in Children With SLI: A Behavioral and ERP Study, Megan V. McVeety
The Devotees to Disconnection, Keith Paul Medelis
Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Examination of Gene X Environment Interactions, Amy L. Medina
Retail Workers on the Frontlines, Anthony L. Medina
On the Improvements of Boundary-Layer Representation for High Resolution Weather Forecasting in Costal-Urban Environments, David Melecio-Vazquez
Shared Idiosyncrasies: Stuart Davis and Giorgio de Chirico, Virginia Melvin
Mitochondrial Distribution of Glycine Receptors in Motor Neuron Cell Lines, Katsiaryna Milashevich
When Misclassification Is Misgendering: Gender Prediction in the Context of Trans Identities, Sean Miller
Working in New York City With a Disability: Nowhere Near Easy, Milette S. U. Millington
Mentorship and Support Matters: A Praxis of Resilience for Black and Latinx Males in an Academic Context, Lisa R. Millsaps-Graham
Dog Leading a Dog, Ariel LD Mitchell
Our House, Alina Mogollon-Volk
Our Place: Notes on Love and Longing, Nadia M. Mohamed
Reimagining Recovery: Debt, Mutual Aid, and Disaster Governance in Puerto Rico, Sarah Molinari
Art and Environmental Racism in the United States: Through the Works of LaToya Ruby Frazier, Pope.L, and Mel Chin, Veronika Anna Molnár
Criterion Validity of the Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification Method in a Criminal Justice Sample, Sarah M. Monaghan
Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing Madame Bovary, Francesca Montalti
Dream City: Post-Millennials and Millennials Navigate School, Work, and Housing in New York City, Omar Montana
My Body, No Apologies, Maxine Montilus
Effects of Working Memory Load on Ensemble versus Individual Object Processing, Clark Moore
Magnetic Resonance Characterization Studies of Sodium and Lithium-based Energy Storage Materials, Daniel J. Morales
Three LC-MS Plant Metabolomics Studies of Hop (Humulus) Species: Wild H. neomexicanus, Drought Stress, and Agricultural Terroir, Taylan Morcol
Chosen Family: One Woman’s Fight to Become Her Best Friend’s Next of Kin, Yessenia M. Moreno
Meditations, Adrian D. Mosby
Disaster and Hope in the Comic Universe of 'Gardening in the Tropics', Molly Mosher
Analysis of uncertainty in hydrometeorological ensemble forecasts, Carolien N. Mossel
The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence, Emanuel D. Moss
Art After Dark: Economies of Performance, New York City 1978–1988, Meredith Mowder
Illegitimate Tasks and Performance Outcomes: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Coworker Sharing Illegitimate Tasks Experiences, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi
The Local Accountability Journalism Tracker, Sandy Mui
Essays on Universal Basic Income, Nana Mukbaniani
Another Time, Another Place: The Truth of Silence in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Sara T. Murphy
Double Documents: Imaging and Installation in Sturtevant’s “Duchamps”, Chris Murtha
China in Africa: Partner or Exploiter? The Case of Zambia, Chansa E. Mushota
Hybrid EthnoBotanical Practices: Afro and Indigenous Place-Making in the Contemporary Colombia Andean Pacific, Rafael A. Mutis Garcia
Framing the Border: Liminality in the Network Narratives of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Muhammad Muzammal
Interview, Elizabeth Naiden
Development of High-Throughput Methods for Screening Venom Peptides, Tanya Napolitano
Divergent Expectations and Dynamic Price Discovery, Shankar Narayanan
Dating Apps, or, Ghosts in the Viral Affect Machine, Gregory Narr
Some Model Theory of Free Groups, Christopher James Natoli
Agency, inclusion, and empathy as power: The last dispatch from my MA in Engagement Journalism (and my Final Report), Jacqueline Neber
Meeting their Needs: The Algebraic Knowledge and Instructional Preferences of Students with Learning Disabilities, Kayla Neill
Dynamic Parameter Estimation from Partial Observations of the Lorenz System, Eunice Ng
Modeling and Analysis of Affiliation Networks with Subsumption, Alexey Nikolaev
Creating Home, Ludovic Nkoth
The Lodge in the Wilderness: Ecologies of Contemplation in British Romantic Poetry, Sean M. Nolan
Quiet: Art Set Between Utopia, Dystopia, and Atopia, Dana A. Notine
Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels: Language Contact, Variation, and Change, Chaya R. Nove
Be The Hammer, Jonathan M. Novick
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Thai Probation Department, Thanaphon Nunphong
Lost at Sea, Anny Oberlink
Impact of Blood Collection Tubes in Cannabinoid Quantitative Analysis, Tega E. Obruche-Akponah
Training and Individual Predictors of Attitudes Toward Serious Mental Illness Amongst Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students, Lauren K. O'Connor
Aloof: Black Divas of Refusal, Kwame K. Ocran
“Matrimonio”: Italian Brides, Grooms and Birthplaces at Our Lady of Pompei in Greenwich Village, 1924-1933, Brendan O'Hagen
On the Cusp Film, Rommel H. Ojeda and Rommel H. Ojeda
Ethnic Politics and Constitutional Developments in Nigeria, Nancy Ojochogwu Oji
Not So Black and White: How Second-Generation Nigerian Americans Decide Whom to Marry, Karen Okigbo
Reassessing the Ranging Behavior of Black-And-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, Jelisa R. Oliveras
The Curtain Fell, Opal M. Ong
When a Woman Goes to Jail, Renee Onque and Emily Nadal
Analysis of Transplantable Photoreceptor Replacement Cell Chemotactic Mechanisms in Retinal Biomimetic Ligand Gradients, Onyekwere Onwumere
Gus Solomons Jr.: Analyzing the Dances of an Early Black Postmodernist, Zsuzsanna Orban
The Different Components of Active Shooter Incidents: Examining the Co-occurrence of Offender and Incident Characteristics, Jeffery R. Osborne
“A Space Where You Can Imagine In”: Queer World Building with Wynne Greenwood’s Tracy + the Plastics, Colleen M. O'Shea
Police Spending and Crime Rates: Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1985 – 2010, Daniel Padrick
Systematic Review: The Effect of Hearing Aids on Balance and Falls, Natalia Beatriz Pagan-Guadalupe
The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads, Daniel S. Palmer
America's Homeschool Lobby, Harrison Parker