Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
The Dark Underbellies of the Littles: A History of the Indo-Guyanese Diaspora, Race and Identity, Kiran J. Baldeo
Hustle Culture and the Implications for Our Workforce, Arianna Balkeran
Federation Divided, Max M. Balton
Living in a World of “Stop, Question and Frisk” and “Trespass Enforcement”: Black and Latinx Youth Engaging in Police Reform in New York City, Jeanene Lee Barrett
The Stories We Tell for the Narrative We Need, Ayana Bartholomew
On the Divisor Class Group and Special Units of Multiquadratic Real Fields, John E. Basias
Regulation of a Messenger: Raising oskar, It Takes a Village, Livia V. Bayer
The Relationship Between Impact Energy and Glass Fracture via .177 Caliber Steel BBs, Jocenel Beach
Industrial Strength Charmer, Hannah Beerman
Bones, Burials, and the Riddle of Truth: Reconstructing the Past Through What Has Been Left Behind, Jelena M. Begonja
The Effects of Self-Esteem and Motivation on Cognitive Control, Andrea Benavides
Prohibition and Religion: William H. Anderson, the Anti-Saloon League, and The Rise and Fall of a Protestant Evangelical Crusade Against Alcohol in New York, Lionel Benavidez
An Open Bag, Matilde Benmayor
Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education, Erik Carl Bennett
Developing a Maceration Method for Isolation of DNA from Cancellous Bones, Bryan Bernal
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DESERVEDNESS IN MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY DESIGN: A QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF STATE POLICY RESPONSES TO THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, Carmina Bernardo
The Long Return, Diane Bezucha
Influence Graphs for Modeling of Cascading Failures in Electric Distribution Networks, Muhammad S. Bhatti
A Grounded Theory Investigation of the Subjective Responses From Partners in Couples Where Infidelity Has Occurred, Malika Bhowmik
New Approaches to Frequent and Incremental Frequent Pattern Mining, Mehmet Bicer
Sinorhizobium meliloti Changes Motility Phenotypes in the Presence of Serum, Eris K. Bisal
Identity and Counterparthood in a Many Worlds Universe, Sophia A.M. Bishop
Structural and Functional Brain Markers of Trauma-related Symptoms, Glenn Blessington
Spheres of Identity: Theorizing Social Categorization and the Legitimacy of Criminal Justice Officials, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Pratiquer ou incarner la vertu? l'agentivité des femmes chez Marie de France et Christine de Pizan, Kathe Blydenburgh
From the Unspoken to the Verbalized: Different Ways of Communication and their Relationship to Culture in a Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin”, Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov
A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat, Brian E. Bond
Music as a Tool, Kayla Boone
Creating Content for a Healthy New Life, Valeria C. Borja Lopez
Humanizing Higher Education: Disrupting Racial Injustice in Teacher Preparation Through Critically Caring Communities, Melissa M. Boronkas
Threat Perceptions and Russian Foreign Policy: From Cooperation to Assertiveness, Angela Borozna
The Argentines of Paris: Theatrical Networks and Assemblages, Stefano Boselli
The Leap and the Gap: Writing Suicide in Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
Time Machine Research and Approach, Tarek Bouraque
Logical Pluralism and Vicious Regresses, Daniel Boyd
At the Interface of Algebra and Statistics, Tai-Danae Bradley
Digital Occult Library, Alexis Brandkamp
Proactive and Reactive Aggression, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Sleep in Adolescents, Allison L. Brasch
Tactics for Thriving on Multiplicity: Liliana Porter’s Photo-Drawing-Installations, 1973–Present, Jennifer Bratovich
Small Molecule Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors, Marcelo F. Bravo Carranco
Assistive Listening Devices: A Guide, Alexa Brody
Collective Healing: A Restorative Justice-Based Response to Sexual Abuse, Delene Bromirski
Missing Time: Remembrances of History’s Return, Marissa Brostoff
No More Funeral Marches: How an Orchestra Conductor is Using Music to Heal His City, Carolyn Brown
‘The struggle is real’: NYC’s Black-owned businesses face grim 2021 outlook, Dalvin Brown
False Cures of U.S. Nationalism: The Border Wall – A Raucous Call from the Silent Center, Tatiana N. Browne-Kai
Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison, Tanzania S. Browne
Semi-quantitative Detection of Signature Peptides in Body Fluids by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), Tebah N. Browne
Edwidge Danticat as Literary Archeologist, Justine A. Browning
Psychoanalytic Determinates of the Love/Work Balance in a Cohort of African-American Men, Joseph Ellison Brown
NYC’s Boom: More Jobs and Housing, No Affordability, LaCandis Brown
Development of an ABA Tool Kit for Audiologists to Increase Hearing Aid Wear Time in Individuals with Autism, Lindsay Brown
Nutritional Strategy and Social Environment in Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), Margaret Bryer
In The Air, Episode 01: Too Low, Too Fast, Megan Burney
Does Clicker Training Lead to Faster Acquisition of Behavior for Dog Owners?, Brian J. Burton
The Absurdity of Healing, Alexander Bustamante
Through the Screen: Disability, aging and Technology, Shoshannah E. Buxbaum
Repealed: Indigenous fight for an independent press, Bryce A. Buyakie
The Women that No One Wanted to See: The Duality of the Women within the Holocaust, Valerie Cabezas-Iacono
Proton Pumping Mechanism in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Xiuhong Cai
Assessment of wild ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) populations in southwestern Madagascar with implications for the illegal pet trade, Samantha D. Calkins
Investigating the Modulatory Effect of Expectations on Memory Retrieval During Sentence Comprehension, Luca Campanelli
Does the Word "Chien" Bark? Representation Learning in Neural Machine Translation Encoders, Emily Campbell
Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis, Emily B. Campbell
Norman Lewis: Linearity, Politics, and Pedagogy in His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Andrianna T. Campbell-LaFleur
Mindful Mind Project, Toussaint Campbell
Goals, Power, and Culture: The Effects of School Organizational Features on Parental Involvement, Vandeen A. Campbell
Slavery and Confederate Military Strategy and Policy, 1860–1865, David M. Campmier
“An Instrument in the Shape / of a Woman”: Reading as Re-Vision in Adrienne Rich, William J. Camponovo
Dietary Development and Nutritional Ontogeny in Gorilla beringei : A Multi-layered, -Omics Approach, Emma C. Cancelliere
Analysis of Cannabinoids in Serum by GC-MS/MS, Christie Cannarozzi
Spatial and Collective Memories of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study, Bryanna Caraballo
The Mnemonic Consequences of Posting “Self” and “Other” Photos on Social Media, Chloe L. Cardinale
Judith Leyster: A Study of Extraordinary Expression, Nicole J. Cardinale
Topics of The Sky: Ashbery's Involving Search for The Poem, Tom M. Carlson
All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw, Matthew K. Carter
Identifying Construct-Irrelevant Variance and Construct Under-Representation as Support of External Evidence of Validity, Jennifer Case
“I’m Real I Thought I Told Ya”: Developing Critical Media Literacy Through U.S. Latinx Digital Media Representations, Solange T. Castellar
A LatinX Religion By Another Name: How Latinas Lead the Un-Monolithic Conversion to Islam, Ambar Castillo
Apocalipsis cultural e imaginación política: el caso de Madrid en el periodo entre crisis (2008–2020), Natalia Castro Picón
Divorce as Liberation: Marital Expectations Among the Working-Class in the 1950s, Kristin M. Catrone
The Object Memory Palace, Amra Causevic
Fed up, desperate and daring enough to unionize, Suzannah C. Cavanaugh
The Role of Perceived Heterosexism in Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Severity Among Trauma-Exposed Sexual Minority Individuals, Natalie M. Cereseto
Evidence based practices at a New York City youth justice services organization, Betsy Delissa Cespedes
Performance, Ritual, and Procession: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Our Lady of Cocharcas, Evelin M. Chabot
Mum’s the Word: Are mothers choosing to give up their careers or being booted out of the labor force?, Harini Chakrapani
The Portrayal and Reception of Multiracial Couples and Families in Advertisements, Kiran A. Chand
Multimodal Data Integration for Real-Time Indoor Navigation Using a Smartphone, Yaohua Chang
Tonal Adaptation of Loanwords in Mandarin: Phonology and Beyond, Zhuting Chang
Method Development for Identifying Counterfeit Cigarettes Using Environmental Pollen Analysis, Tiffany Chan
Essays on Anomalies in International Equity Markets, Xiao Cheng
Computational Modeling of Charge and Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in Complex Environments, Ning Chen
Spectral Sequences for Almost Complex Manifolds, Qian Chen