Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
Examining Afro-cultural Values in African American Women with Childhood Sexual Abuse History: Its Relationship with Therapeutic Outcomes, Bibi Aneesa Subhan
Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students, Janice Summers
Armed Resistance in Providence: How the Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club is preparing for an armed future., Jaya Sundaresh
Microbial Degradability of Terrigenous, Marsh-Exported, and Estuarine Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in Long Island Sound, John R. Supino
Novel Fast Algorithms For Low Rank Matrix Approximation, John T. Svadlenka
Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, Krystle F. Sweda
BIOSCIENCE: How one industry won the pandemic and will change us all, Sonya Swink
Alternative Cichoń Diagrams and Forcing Axioms Compatible with CH, Corey B. Switzer
Devotional Literature of the Prophet Muhammad in South Asia, Zahra F. Syed
“Caring Is Sharing”: The Effect of Childhood Memories on Consumers’ Lending Behavior, Teodora Szabo-Douat
Describing the Dress of Women: Author’s Notes on the Development of Gender, Cassandra B. Tan
Motor Neuron Connections and Innervation of Muscles in Drosophila melanogaster, Sharon Tang
What’s for Lunch? Examining the Factors Associated with Food Choices and Food Insecurity Among CUNY College Students- A Mixed Methods Study, Rachel G. Taniey
Object-Oriented Musicology: Some Implications of Graham Harman's Philosophy for Music Theory, History, and Criticism, Eric Taxier
Beyond Movements: Senga Nengudi’s Art Within and Without Feminism, Postminimalism, and the Black Arts Movement, Tess Thackara
The Effects of Two Kinds of Stereotype Threat on Implicit Racial Bias in African-Americans, Brad Thomas
Capillary forces and wetting dynamics by diffuse-interface modeling, Fanny Thomas
Is the South (Still) America’s Sacrifice Zone? A Regional Analysis of Toxic Emissions, 1987–2017, Tanesha A. Thomas
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet, or @the_c_u_r_b, Candace B. Thompson
Slender FRP Elements as Discrete Reinforcement for Concrete, Yuan Tian
The “Olympiad of Photography”: FIAP and the Global Photo-Club Culture, 1950–1965, Alise Tifentale
Controlled Observation: The Challenges of Therapy for the Mentally Ill Incarcerated Population, Esther Tingué
Plein-air Drawing and Embodied Vision: Hans Hofmann's Landscapes, 1928-1935, Anna H. Tome
Model Minorities: Asian Americans and the White-Black Racial Paradigm, Jason Tom
Are Giant Pandas (Ailuropoda Melanoleuca) Averse to Inequity?, Miranda R. Trapani
A Comparison of Strain, Social Learning, Control, and Trauma Theories of Crime, Nicole Trauffer
'Odd Secrets of the Line': Emily Dickinson and the Uses of Folk, Wendy Tronrud
Occitan Musicians, Immigration, and Postcolonial Regionalism in Southern France, Sarah E. Trouslard
The Asian Diaspora, a storytelling project, Kevin Truong
Sugar-Derived Oleogels in Cosmetics and Food Applications: a Case Study of Trehalose- and Mannitol-Based Gelators, Polina Tsupko
The Effects of Eighth Years of Compulsory Schooling Enforcement in Turkey, Muhammed Tumay
How Should Context-Dependent Words Be Taught to Beginning Readers?, Abigail M. Turner
Stalking and Attachment Theory: Causes and Management, Zoe Turner
The Fourth Wall of Jericho: Wrestling with COVID, Cheyenne R. Ubiera
Representations of Hustling Women: The Figure of the Black Sex Worker in Ann Petry’s The Street and Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner, Deborah L. Uzurin
Anger, Genre Bending, and Space in Kincaid, Ferré, and Vilar, Suzanne M. Uzzilia
This Double Life, Jesse Vad
He’s ‘Like a Math Magician’: One Man’s Path Towards Clemency, Steven Vago
Examining the Contextual Effects of Racial Profiling, and the Long-Term Consequences of Punitive Interventions: Testing Labeling Theory with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Data, Margrét Valdimarsdóttir
Las verdades de la muerte: Discurso oficial y literatura peruana durante la guerra interna (1980–2000), Alberto Valdivia Baselli
The Capabilities of Students in Poverty: Student Outcomes from a United States Department of Education TRIO Program, Arthur Valiant
The Freddie Gray Uprising: Persistence and Desistance Narratives of Community-Engaged Returning Citizens, Maurice Vann
The Political Aesthetic of Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Judgment, and Culture, Quixote R. Vassilakis
Duality in a Model of Layered Superfluids and Sliding Phases, Steven Vayl
Experience-Dependent Changes in Nucleus Accumbens Activity Predict Cued Approach Learning: Contribution of NMDA Receptors, Mercedes Vega Villar
Variation in Personality Among Semi-Wild Myanmar Timber Elephants, Sateesh Venkatesh
A Quantitative Examination of Black and Hispanic Students’ Time-to-Graduation, Ferdinand A. Verley II
Phonologically-Informed Speech Coding for Automatic Speech Recognition-based Foreign Language Pronunciation Training, Anthony J. Vicario
Místicas y disidentes: feminismo teresiano en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX, Almudena Vidorreta
An Analysis of the Parental Structure and Involvement on Subsequent Delinquency, Bosco Villavicencio Jr
Archaeology or crime scene? Teeth micro and macro structure analysis as dating variable, Jessica A. Vincenty
Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy, 1945–Present, Antonella Vitale
For the Love of Existence, Paul Joseph Vogeler
Early Prison Releases and Hotel Placements Produce Unexpected Outcomes During the Pandemic, Buzz Von Ornsteiner
Early Prison Releases and Hotel Placements Produce Unexpected Outcomes During the Pandemic, Buzz Von Ornsteiner
Working Memory Training: Cognitive and Linguistic Implications in Adult English Language Learners, Deepti Wadhera
Do Bats Forage at Different Heights When in the Presence of Other Species?, Benjamin L. Wagenberg
Outlandish People: Gypsies, Race, and Fantasies of National Identity in Early Modern England, Sydnee Wagner
Ghost Peppers: Using Ensemble Models to Detect Professor Attractiveness Commentary on RateMyProfessors.com, Angie Waller
Reframing the Family Portrait: The Surrogate Mother in U.S. Theatre and Film 1939–1963, Alison Walls
Identity Development in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors, Rachel M. Walsh
Imagining Wildernesses: Susan Howe’s Poetic Corrective, Samantha R. Walsh
From close cooperation to potential ‘cold war’: What happened to the U.S.-China relationship?, Baidi Wang
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF RAIN-WIND-INDUCED VIBRATION OF STAY CABLES, HONGFAN WANG
Valid Time RDF, Hsien-Tseng Wang
Epistemic Injustice and Sexual Violence Intervention Advocacy, Jennifer Ware
Engaging Underserved Voters in West Virginia During the Pandemic Election, Jacob Wasserman
Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Visual Percepts Elicited by a Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Technique, Kelly Webster
Emulating Condensed Matter Systems in Classical Wave Metamaterials, Matthew Weiner
Effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Labor Participation of Female Registered Nurses in Outpatient Care, Deborah R. Weissner
TomTom Oracle, Grant B. Wells
The Mutability of the Score: An Examination of the Value of Score Alteration in Virtuosic Piano Repertoire, Wayne Weng
Promoting the Consumer Citizen: Seals, Spectacles, and the Gendered Consumer in Depression-Era America, Danielle B. Wetmore