Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Censorship and Book-Burning in Imperial Rome and Egypt, Susan Rahyab
...A Placebo, An Embryo, A Mosquito, My Libido, Andy Ralph
The Relationship Between Traumatic Brain Injuries, Impulsivity, and Crime, Brian Ramanauskas
Reflections on the Eating of Bologna Sandwiches: A Memoir, Benjamin M. Raphael
The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: A Comparative Analysis of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administration Policies in Afghanistan, Mohammad Rasouli
Snow-Albedo Feedback in Northern Alaska: How Vegetation Influences Snowmelt, Lucas C. Reckhaus
Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution, Alexander C. Redlins
Visual Perspective Taking in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Erin L. Reilly
Benevolent Women and an Orphan Asylum: The Case of Rochester, New York, Joseph Resch
Exploring Vicarious Resilience among Practitioners Working with Clients Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events, Adam Reynolds
Kinetics of Nesquehonite Nucleation, Halla Rezgui
Exploring Influences on Autistic Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood, Ariana Riccio
Daphne Odjig: Indigenous Art and Contemporary Curatorial Practices, Lucy Kay Riley
Exploring the Relationship Between Anger, Aggression, and Perpetrator Substance Use in the Commission of Sexual Offenses, Dominique Rivera
Discrimination of Monozygotic Twins using DNA methylation levels of one CpG site at Chromosome 3, Dino O. Robinson
Evidence of Incipient Song Divergence in a Hawaiian Population of Warbling White-eyes, Jesse D. Robinson
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
George Hill’s Fight for Freedom, Maria Robins-Somerville
Cinegrafia: literatura, espectadores y cinefilia contemporanea en latinoamerica, Rojo Robles Mejias
Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide, Manuel Rodeiro
Connecticut’s Liberal Image Hides a History of Systematic Housing Inequality, It’s Time For A Change, Ashley Rodriguez
Exploration of the Complex Relationship among Multilevel Predictors of PrEP Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States, Kristina M. Rodriguez
Inspirations for Awake: Expressions of Trauma Through Fiction and Autoethnographic Literature, Sophia Rodriguez
Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland
What I Wish I Had Known - A guide by and for entry level Latinx Journalists, Michaela Roman
The Sounds of Sikles Gurung: A Phonetic and Phonological Description of a Tibeto-Burman Language of Nepal, Danielle Ronkos
Unique Image Representation as a Tensor, Bharat Rosanlall
Profits for Spotify, Pennies for Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg
Democracy for Homework: A Review of Civic Engagement in Urban Public Schools, Amanda B. Rosenblum
Object Relations, Identity Formation, and Transitional Space in Religious Conversion, Arielle Rubenstein
A stroke of misfortune, Madison Ruffo
Convexity and Curvature in Hierarchically Hyperbolic Spaces, Jacob Russell-Madonia
Fact and Fiction in Mexican Film: 1970s, 2000s, Lily M. Ryan
Paper House: The Revolution, the Disappeared, and the Historicity of Lebanon, Elsa Saade
Building for Culture: How Municipal Ownership of Cultural Facilities Influences Annual Arts Funding in American Cities, Adam M. Sachs
Legalization of Marijuana and Its Effect on Alcohol Related Accident Fatalities, Azamat Sadikov
Beast-Gods, Bandits, and Beggar-Kings: The Traveler in Political Thought, Nader Sadre
The Failed Principle of Reformed Female Politeness – Exploring Tactical Silence and Voices in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Punrada Saengsomboon
Developmental Outcomes of Young Children Exposed to Early Childhood Adversities, Inga Saitadze
A Narrative Inquiry to Explore the Connection Between Gender and Discipline in Grades Pre-K–8, Nicole Salazar
Aprendizaje remota: Cómo dos madres de hijos con necesidades especiales están lidiando durante la pandemia, Lisa Salinas and Arlyn Sorto
Truth Telling: Exploring Sexuality in Widowed and Single Older Black Women, Margaret A. Salisu
Maryland’s Historically Black Institutions: In Pursuit of Equity in Higher Education, Maureen Samedy-Cooke
Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making, Patricia Y. Sanchez
Adaptive Effort Classifiers: A System Design For Partitioned Edge/Cloud Inference, Divya Sankar
The Impact of Anti-Corruption Laws: Evidence from the U.K. Bribery Act's Extraterritorial Reach, Amanda Sanseverino
Flowers for Abiah: Emily Dickinson's Claim to Live According to Her Own Rules, Carmen M. Santiago
Parent–Child Relationship, Resting Heart Rate, and Callous–Unemotional Traits in Adolescents, Eva M. Santucci
The Effects of Public Policy on Charitable Giving, Arielle Sauer
UN Trust Funds as Agent to Fulfill the Norm Adapting and Diffusing Functions, Mikiko Sawanishi
“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind, Hunter M. Sawyer
Mutational Analysis and Domain Characterization of the Apolipoprotein L-1 Ion Channel, Charles M. Schaub
Notes on Relations, Anna Kristina Schmidt
A Quadratic Analysis of Trait Anxiety and Heart Rate Variability, Katlyn Schroder
Structural Studies of Peptide Toxins and Their Binding Properties Towards the Voltage Sensing Domain of Nav1.7, Ryan Schroder
The Flower Paintings of Albert York, scott seaboldt
Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds, Adam See
When The City Sells Some Landlords’ Tax Debt Year After Year, It’s The Tenants Who Suffer., Peter Senzamici and Allison Dikanovic
Mexican Modernism’s Other: The Contemporáneos, Gender, and National Identity, 1920–1940, Joseph S. Shaikewitz
Whose War Is It Anyway? How Afghanistan Became a Battlefield Over Global Hegemony During the Cold War, Kathryn Shapiro
On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic, Alaa M. Sharif
A Modelist Proposal, Jian Shen
A Crisis of Kelp, Rachel L. Sherman
The Chôra of Dionisy’s Wall-Painting (1500-1502) at the Nativity of the Mother of God sobor, Ferapontovo Monastery, Maria M. Shevelkina
The Epidemiology of Somatic Depression and Eating Disorders: The Relationship Between Depressive Subtypes and Symptoms of Disordered Eating, Anita M. Sicignano
Breast Dressing: A Critical Review of Post-Surgical Bras, Adi Sieradzki
Essays on Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Capital Flows, Luis E. Silva-Yanez
Under the Skin, Silvana Silveira
The Reproductive Health and Academic Impact of the New York City School-Based Health Center Reproductive Health Project for Adolescents, Michelle Silverio
Contemporary Art and Food: An Examination of Three Case Studies Using Anthropology and Diaspora as Key., Viridiana S. Mayagoitia
Gender Differences in Personality: An Item-Level Analysis, Casey C. Smith
Presence and Degree of Contrafreeloading in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus), Gabriella E. Smith
The Perception of Prosody in English-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Grace R. Smith
Bomba and the Evolution of Puerto Rican Activism in New York, Katherine Smith
“There are Bulls and Almost Wild Horses There”: Vincent van Gogh and the Landscape of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Lisa E. Smith
Listen to Liston: Examining the Systemic Erasure of Black Women in the Historiography of Jazz, Victoria E. Smith
Mayoral candidates Scott Stringer, Eric Adams travel different roads on police reform, Ryan Songalia
All-Offender Ignition Interlock Laws & DUI Arrest Rates, Kathleen E. Soper
A learning nightmare for an immigrant family, Arlyn J. Sorto
The Coherence of Left-Libertarianism: A New Approach to Reconciling Libertarianism and Socialism, Jesse E. Spafford
Awful Nearness: Rape and the English Novel, 1740–1900, Erin A. Spampinato
Two Techniques For Automated Logging Statement Evolution, Allan R. Spektor
How to Break an Addiction: A Case for Planetary Post-Capitalist Recovery, Ann Marie (Annie) Spencer
Shakespeare's Problem Comedies as Self-Critique, John-Paul Spiro
Plasma proteins that may cause Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis: a Mendelian Randomization study, Brigid A. Staley
Translation Distance and Fibered 3-Manifolds, Alexander J. Stas
Labor, Land Use, and the Luxury City, Samuel Stein
Turning and Turning, Nicola Stephanie
Testing the Perceptual Magnet Effect in Monolinguals and Bilinguals, Michael C. Stern
The Battle For The Battle of Adwa: Collective Identity and Nation-Building, Joseph A. Steward
Landscape and Lore: River Acheron and the Oracle of the Dead, LaShante St. Fleur
Some Way In Between, Noah D. Stitt
Who's Mess?, Jordan Stohl
Memory for Episodic Details of Naturalistic Events Remains Stable Over the Course of One Week, Kennedy E. Stomberg
Two Cello Works of Pēteris Vasks: Structure, Symbolism, and Identity, Caroline Bean Stute
Accomplices in Art: The Expansion of Authorship in the 1970s and '80s, Sydney Stutterheim
Tracing the Human-Avian Relationship in Iceland, Melanie Sua