Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
Social Contract Theory and Transitional Justice: A Philosophical Approach to a Problem of Global Importance, Brendan Moriarty
Postcolonial Urban Vernacular Narratives in Contemporary Britain, Kathryn N. Moss
Closing the Chasm: Al-Fārābī on Islam and Politics, Onur F. Muftugil
Legal Frameworks for Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones, Marcie M. Muscat
Queer Displacements: Minorities, Mobilities, and Mobilizations in French and Francophone Literature, Thomas Muzart
The Life and Death of Mambo: Culture and Consumption in New York's Salsa Dance Scene, Carmela Muzio Dormani
Molecular Roles of Small Inner Membrane Proteins in Escherichia coli Cell Envelope Integrity, Aaron Mychack
Crafting Girlhoods, Elissa E. Myers
Campus Design and the Community College Experience: An Exploration of Stress, Belonging and Scholarly Identity, Vanita Naidoo
The Mock Doc Film Series: History of the Mockumentary Film, Victoria Napolitano
Hydrophobic Fluoropolymer Nano-Coatings: Study of Anti-Reflective and Anti-Soiling Properties and Applications, Illya Nayshevsky
Counterterrorism: The G5 Response Efforts to Combat Terrorism in the Sahel region, Ndeye Fatou Ndiaye
Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S., Sokhnagade B. Ndiaye
Audio Quality as Content: Everyday Criticism of the Lo-fi Format, Elizabeth Newton
Density Functional Theory Study of Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride Films, Pradip R. Niraula
Unpaid Care Work and Civic Engagement: A Review of Literature Suggesting Unpaid Care Work as Civic Engagement, William Novello
Examining the Impact of Competency to Stand Trial and Judicial Instructions on NGRI Verdicts, Erin K. O'Donnell
Economics of Higher Education Productivity, Uchenna K. Oparah
On the Distribution of Genetic Variation in Ecological Communities, Isaac Overcast
Advanced Computational Methodologies to Study Binding Free Energies of Biomolecular Complexes, Rajat Kumar Pal
Therapist Mentalization and Patient Outcomes in the First Year of Psychotherapy, Michael Palumbo
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors Predicting Distress and End-of-Life Planning among Individuals with Advanced Cancers, Aliza A. Panjwani
The Objectives of Public Higher Education in New York City Through the Lens of Language, John-Nicholas Parker
Age-Related Effects on Gait Parameters in Healthy Normal Aging Adults, Jamie C. Park
Reporting of Sexual Assault and Abuse of Males in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community, Yevgeniy Pastukhov Semchenkov
Desexualizing Queer Identities: Methods to Validating Non-Sexual Romantic Attraction and Relationships, Unnati Patel
Gene Regulation and Cell Fate Choice in the Developing Vertebrate Retina, Sruti Patoori
The Language Abilities of Justice-Involved Adults, Talaya Patton
Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden, Jacob E. Pearce
Locke’s Rebellious Progeny: Phenomenology and Ethics of Leopardi’s A-Dialectical Materialism, Paolo Pellecchia
Una isla, dos literaturas: Contrapunteo de la literatura de la isla y la diáspora dominicanas (1965–2018), Jose L. Peralta
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in ADHD and Alcohol Use among College Students, Laurie Pierre-Paul
The Effect of the 2014-17 Refugee Crisis on the Sicilian Labor Market, Tamara Planer
Identification and Quantification of Classic, Prescription, and Synthetic Opioids in Hair by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS), Natalia A. Platosz
Americans Collecting Natural History, Herbert A. Pollard IV
Essays in Retirement Economics, Gunnar Poppe Yanez
Narrating Intensity: History and Emotions in Elsa Morante, Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante, Stefania Porcelli
Overcoming Adversity in The STEM Classroom: Examining Learned Helplessness in First-Year Community College Students Using Salivary Cortisol, Surveys and Interviews, Diane M. Price Banks
Zoning – Neighborhood Character and Historic Overlays in Lexington, KY, Taylor S. Price
DH in Prison, Sabina Pringle
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Middle-Late Miocene Apes: Implications for Early Human Evolution, Kelsey D. Pugh
Ascriptive Nationalism, Demagoguery, and the Modern Presidency: A Case Study in Constitutional Decay, Christopher J. Putney
Beyond Exposure: Markers of English Proficiency in School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
Projected impacts of climate change on risk of spring frost and fire blight for Malus domestica, Paul J. Racco
Primary Care Physician Perceptions of Hearing Loss and Amplification: A Survey, Sophie Racine
The Paganist Totem Birds in Slavic Folklore: The Black and The White, Anastasia Radzievska
The Piety Movement in an American Suburb: The Experiences of Women of the Islamic Circle of North America on Staten Island, Aisha Raheel
...A Placebo, An Embryo, A Mosquito, My Libido, Andy Ralph
The Relationship Between Traumatic Brain Injuries, Impulsivity, and Crime, Brian Ramanauskas
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
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
Discrimination of Monozygotic Twins using DNA methylation levels of one CpG site at Chromosome 3, Dino O. Robinson
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
Cinegrafia: literatura, espectadores y cinefilia contemporanea en latinoamerica, Rojo Robles Mejias
Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide, Manuel Rodeiro
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
Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland
Democracy for Homework: A Review of Civic Engagement in Urban Public Schools, Amanda B. Rosenblum
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
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
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
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
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
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
Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds, Adam See
Whose War Is It Anyway? How Afghanistan Became a Battlefield Over Global Hegemony During the Cold War, Kathryn Shapiro
A Modelist Proposal, Jian Shen
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
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
The Perception of Prosody in English-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Grace R. Smith
All-Offender Ignition Interlock Laws & DUI Arrest Rates, Kathleen E. Soper
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
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