Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
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
American Lotto, Kris Parker
The Jamaican Maroons of the 17th and 18th centuries: Survivalists of the New World, Lance J. Parker Jr
The Making of Transpacific Video Art, 1966–1988, Haeyun Park
Beyond Pathology: Specters of Suicidality in the Queer Community, Alison E. Parks
Smashing Solidarity: Two New York Strikes at the Start of the Postwar Wave, Joseph D. Parziale
Examining the Effect of Longstanding Deafness on Health Literacy: A Systematic Review, Sara S. Payami
The U.S.–Mexican War: Visualizing Contested Spaces from Parlor to Battlefield, Erika Pazian
Understanding and Predicting the Distribution of Biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest, Andrea Paz Velez
Black Gold, Natalie Peart
Trans Sex Workers - A Community in Resilience, Alejandra Pedraza Buenahora
From Rulay to Rules: Perceptions of Prison Life and Reforms in the Dominican Republic’s Traditional and New Prisons, Jennifer Peirce
Displacing the Border: Refugees, Law, and Geography in Turkey, Mert Peksen
The Losses, The Heartbreaks, The Hungers..., Nestor Perez-Moliere
Not Again, Victor M. Perez III
Long Term Nutrient and Chlorophyll a Dynamics across Long Island Sound and Impacts on Dissolved Oxygen Conditions within the Western Sound (1991-2019), Sherry Perreira
Filling Information Gaps in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park Neighborhood, Kynala J. Phillips
Teaching for Transformation: Developing Agency and Solidarity Consciousness in a Critical-Transdisciplinary, Garden-Based Urban Environmental Studies Program, PIeranna Pieroni
Effect of Age and Sex on the Discrimination of Monozygotic Twins using cg18562578 DNA Methylation in Saliva, Carla Pierre Louis
Proof of Love: Immigration through marriage in the United States, Cai Pigliucci
"Cultura Gamer: Esteriotipos de América Latina"., Roberto Bolanos Pinela Mr.
Water-Responsive, Peptide-Based Crystals, Roxana Piotrowska
Evaluating the 2019 New York State Bail Reform on Quality of Life Offenses in New York City, Nodira Pirmukhamedova
Nacido en Cuba: Imaginarios del Niño y la Patria, Justo Planas
Experience and Satisfaction with Hearing Aid Services Delivered via Teleaudiology in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review, Shelby Platia
The Relationship Between Arts Education and Beliefs About Equality and Social Action, Naomi B. Podber
Observation of Saltwater Marsh Resiliency to Sea Level Rise in Jamaica Bay, Long Island’s Oyster and Great South Bay: 1995 to 2020, Helen Polanco
A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches, Yohamy C. Polanco
Synthesis, characterization and applications of peptide-coated nanoparticles, Mina Sadat Poursharifi
Redlining, Neighborhood Decline, and Violence: How Discriminatory Government Policies Created Violent American Inner Cities, Richard Powell
Behavioral Patterns of Goldfish (Carassius auratus) Exploring A “Fish Tower”, Sasha Prasad-Shreckengast
Handbook for the Deceased: Re-Evaluating Literature and Folklore in Icelandic Archaeology, Brenda Nicole Prehal
Effects of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure on Offspring Emotional Development and Stress Response, Alexandra Pritchett
A Schema-Theoretic Approach to Hierarchy in Eighteenth-Century Tonality, Simon K. S. Prosser
Optimizing Communication in Palliative and Hospice Care: A Toolkit for Audiologists, Sherry E. Queen
Improving the Assessment of Practical Judgment Ability in Older Adults, Crystal G. Quinn
Here Time Becomes Space: The Victorian Spatial Imaginary, Jonathan E. Rachmani
Neo-Extracting Gilded Welfare States: A Comparative Study of Extractivism and Latin American Welfare State Formation, Pabvitraa Ramcharan
The Social Contract Theory in the Face of Empirical Morality: Integration and Its Consequences, Margaux F F Ramee
The Power of a Sound Mind: Exploring Meditation and Sound Therapies for Treating the Emotional Impact of Tinnitus, Sabeena A. Ramnanan
We Miss Each Other, As in We Are Missing Each Other, Lily L. Randall
Harlem to Infinity: An Intellectual History and critique of historical frameworks on the New Negro Renaissance, Jeryl Raphael
Starless Nights, Deepak Rauniyar
Circuits Underlying Serotonin Mediated Sex Differences in Fear Learning, Rebecca Ravenelle
Lobster Palaces in Times Square: The Public Stage Where America Discovered Itself Through Play and Leisure, Lydia E. Ravnikar
Third Harmonic Generation: A Method for Visualizing Myelin in the Murine Cerebral Cortex, Michael Redlich
Treatment, Diagnostic, Demographic, and Historical Factors Affecting Mental Health Diversion Outcomes, Amanda L. Reed
Examining the Transient Neural Dynamics Underlying Working Memory Maintenance for Complex Visual Stimuli, Chelsea Reichert Plaska
The Role of Tbx2 in Germ Layer Suppression and Dorsoventral Patterning during Early Vertebrate Development, Shoshana Reich
How Are Refugees Depicted in the Amarillo Globe-News?, Shannon Reimers
A Roda de Choro in New York City: The Regional de NY in a Global Imagined Community, Maurice Restrepo
Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Colombian Political Landscape, Heidi A. Rhodes
The Seduction of Pessimism: Eros, Failure, and the Novel, Tom Ribitzky
Public Educators Shaking up Classrooms, Elizabeth Richards
Henry Adams: An Education in Autobiography, Marcellus Richie
Critical Climates: Stimmung, Voice and Mythopoesis in German Literature from 1950–1989, Marc Cesar Rickenbach
"Never Forget": Embodied Absence and Extended Relations of Care After 9/11, Sophie L. Riemenschneider
Pandemic Schooling: Lessons in Equity, Advocacy, and Racial Justice, Donna Rivera
No Hair! Don't Care! Resistance and Empowerment of Bald and Low Shaved Black Women, Monica Rivers
Always Wednesday, Danielle Roberts
Effects of Feeding Enrichment on the Behavior of Ex-Pet Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta), Amanda Rodriguez
Delayed Modulation of Glutamate Receptors by Anti-Epileptic Drugs after Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats, Edgar Rodriguez
After Abstract Expressionism: Reconsidering the “Death of Painting” at Midcentury, Natasha Roje
DNA Extraction and Genotyping from Burned Skeletal Remains, Kayla M. Rooney
The Exact Factorization Equations for One- and Two-Level Systems, Bart Rosenzweig
A Comparison of Simulated Schizophrenia in Mental Health Experts and Genuine Schizophrenia in Psychiatric Patients, Amanda Rosinski
Development of light actuated chemical delivery platform on a 2-D array of micropore structure, Hojjat Rostami Azmand and Hojjat Rostami Azmand
