Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
Emulating the "Country Fiddler": A Performance Analysis of Fiddle Parodies and Impressions in Charles Ives's Second Violin Sonata, Emily Vold Weiss
Which Way South? A Chronicle of the Autoworkers’ Ill-Fated Quest for a Land Route from Detroit to Chattanooga (with a Brief Sojourn in Germany), Abraham Walker
The Drive for Disability, Aliyah Walker
Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace
Applying Deep Learning on Financial Sentiment Analysis, Cuiyuan Wang
New Chinese Music in New York City: From Revival to Musical Transnationalism, Serena Yiai Wang
Exposure Characterization and Assessment of Airborne Chemicals and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in New York City Nail Salons, Amelia P. H. Watkins
Nation(s) and Narrative(s) in Forms of Chinese Culture, Angela Chun Ling Wei
some (im)material girls, living in (im)material worlds, with seeds, stars, and shit, Matthew Weiderspon
How Psychotherapists Practice In the Digital Era, Josh Weinstein
Litigation Strategies for Suggestive Identification Evidence, Elaina Welch
International Migration from the Latin American-Caribbean Region: Taking Environmental Indicators into Consideration, Chelsea Wepy
Disinhibition and Persistent Maladaptive Behavior, Angela T. West
The Internal Determinants of International Organization Actorness: The European Union and Climate Change?, Vanessa West
HOW THE DREAM PARALYZES HOLLYWOOD ASSISTANTS, Alexandra White
The National Interest and the Roots of American-Saudi Diplomacy, Oliver B. Wiegel
Who Pays? New York State Political Donor Matching with Machine Learning, Annalisa Wilde
What Do You Think She’s Gonna Do With a Set of Real Claws?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Onscreen Portrayals of Women Werewolves, Ashleigh K. Williams
From the Voices of Five African American Teenage Girls: Demystifying the Role of Stress in School, Selena M. Williams-Yii
The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts, Adam Wilson
TikTok has influenced the way we buy beauty, Keira R. Wingate and Angela Palumbo
The Trial of Anthony Sims, Jeff Winter
Enhanced Platinum (II) Drug Delivery for Anti-cancer Therapy, Marek T. Wlodarczyk
What We Owe to Our Audience: The Hermeneutical Responsibility of Fiction Creators, Kathryn Wojtkiewicz
Teaching Choral Music of the African Diaspora in the United States: Toward a “Living Black History”, H. Roz Woll
Progress Narratives in Trans Internationalism: Surveying a Collected Archive of the Global Trans Movement, 2008–2018, Flora P. Wolpert Checknoff
I Wasn't There, Lily Wong
No One Told Me What Infertility Would Be Like For a Black Man. That's Because Nobody Knows., Keith "Jared" Wright and Zachary Smith
Essays on How Cultural Factors Affect the Sentiment and Behavior of Financial Market Participants, Runze Wu
Gay for English: Postcolonial In(queer)ies into Contemporary Hindi Cinema, Hardik R. Yadav
Collective Memory and Arab Jewish Identity, Maya Yadid
Refugee Higher Education and Participatory Action Research Methods: Lessons Learned from the Field, Hadas Yanay
Three Essays on Spatial Econometrics: the Matrix Exponential Spatial Specification, Ye Yang
The Role of Placental Genes on Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay, Maedot A. Yidenk
Institutions, State Capacity, and Intra-State Conflict: Evidence from a Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal, Nishant Yonzan
From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution, Mason Youngblood
Contracting in Direct Asset Sales, Xin Yuan
Place Branding as a Mode of Urban Governance and Verticalisation: The Case of Tokyo and New York, Z. Ruya Yuksel
Impact of Warnings on Gamified Personality Assessments, Sabrina Yu
The Hamite Must Die! The Legacy of Colonial Ideology in Rwanda, Awa Princess E. Zadi
"Our Strength Is Unity:" Delivery Bikers In Their Own Words, Connor W. Zaft
Targeting AMPA Receptor Modulation during Early Life Adversity: A Mediator for Threat Associated Memories, Roseanna M. Zanca
The Crisis of Chad: Men’s Rights Movements and Contemporary Anti-feminism, Kendrick Zapata
Changes in the Black-White Sentencing Gap after United States v. Booker, 2008-17, shuhao zhang
Novel Hybrid Resampling Algorithms for Parallel/Distributed Particle Filters, Xudong Zhang
Essays on Economic Uncertainty and Housing Market in China, Humenghe Zhao
Anti-Cancer Effects by Interleukin 24, Xuelin Zhong
Essays on Investor Sentiment, Media, and Trading, Changyun Zhou
Instrumentalizing the Past: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Poland, Jonathan Zisook
Evolution and Development of the Seed Coat in Gymnosperms, Cecilia Zumajo
How Frustration Impacts the Relationship Between Potential for Child Physical Abuse Perpetration and Emotion Processing, Amanda L. Zwilling
Daily Benefits of Leader Dogs in Addition to Medical Treatment For Individuals With Usher Syndrome: A Case Study, Samantha H. Zwolan
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Does Resilience Moderate the Impact of Children’s Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination on Internalizing Problems?, Dahlia Abbas
Blurring the Gender Lines: Margaret of Anjou's use of Gender as Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy, Blythe Abramowitz
50 Years On, Holes Remain in the Clean Water Act, Benjamin H. Abrams
Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law, Yuval Abrams
In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman
Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets, Miguel Acosta Henao
Measuring Preschool Parents’ Attitudes Towards Science: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Parent Version of the Dimension of Attitudes Towards Science Instrument., Alexandra E. Adair
If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams
Symmetric Rigidity for Circle Endomorphisms with Bounded Geometry and Their Dual Maps, John Adamski
Mechanisms of Value-Biased Prioritization in Fast Sensorimotor Decision Making, Kivilcim Afacan-Seref
Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, El sainete, and Spanglish, Margarita J. Aguilar
Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI, Joan C. Aguirre
Elucidating the Role of APL-1, the C. elegans Ortholog of the Human Amyloid Precursor Protein, Adanna G. Alexander
Building Baghdad: The Construction of Urban Space in Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger
Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s, Walaa AlGhussein
Paraphilias: A Survey of Experts, Cecilia Allan
Effect of non-muscle myosin II inhibition on epigenetics during oligodendrocyte development, Amr Almaktari
Shock and Awe, Sectarianism, and Violence in Iraq Post-2003, Sarim Al-Rawi
The Effects of Air Pollution on School Attendance in the United States, Debanhi G. Alrich
Popular Education in the Civil Rights Movement: Bridging Depth and Scale, Amanda Altman
Glotopolítica de la Desigualdad: Ideologías del Mapudungun y el Español en Chile (2009–2019), Gabriel E. Alvarado Pavez
NCAA and Title IX Compliance, Doris Alvarez
LPS, A TLR-4 AGONIST AND VIPER A TLR-4 INHIBITOR UPREGULATE PHAGOCYTOSIS OF ZYMOSAN IN BV2 CELLS, Sherouk Alzeory
PROXIMITY TO COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE AND THE UTILIZATION OF FACILITY-BASED DELIVERY SERVICES ACROSS SIX LOW-AND-MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES, Chioma T. Amadi
Generating Entanglement with the Dynamical Lamb Effect, Mirko Amico
Maximum Sound Output Levels of Pediatric Marketed Headphones: The Development of Healthy Listening Habits in Children, Adrienne L. Ammirati
Encounters: System for Creative Improvisation, Drake R. Andersen
The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown, Drake R. Andersen
The Nature of Government and Civic Responsibility in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Nirvani V. Anoop Ms.
The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey, Demet Arpacik
Karla Arroyo - Deeper Than Hair Social Journalism Practicum, Karla Y. Arroyo
HuR Ubiquitination by BRCA1/BARD1 and Its Role in Controlling Gene Expression During DNA Damage Response, Gamage M. Aruggoda
The Berbers: Constructed Identities by Foreigners on African Soil, Zineb Askaoui
Young Children's Play in High-rise Housing: A Window into the Changing Lives of Urban Middle-class Families in Pune Metropolitan Area, Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar
The Politics of Femicide: Woman Making and Woman Killing in Turkey, Sumru Atuk
Does Overweight/Obesity Moderate the Association between ADHD and Internalizing Difficulties in Young Adults?, Breanna Badripersaud
The Potency of Emptiness, Kennedy L. Bailey
Pointing the Zinc Finger on Protein Folding: Energetic Investigation into the Role of the Metal-Ion in the Metal-Induced Protein Folding of Zinc Finger Motifs, Inna Bakman-Sanchez