Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
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
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
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
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
Two Cello Works of Pēteris Vasks: Structure, Symbolism, and Identity, Caroline Bean Stute
Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students, Janice Summers
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
Devotional Literature of the Prophet Muhammad in South Asia, Zahra F. Syed
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
The Effects of Two Kinds of Stereotype Threat on Implicit Racial Bias in African-Americans, Brad Thomas
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
'Odd Secrets of the Line': Emily Dickinson and the Uses of Folk, Wendy Tronrud
Anger, Genre Bending, and Space in Kincaid, Ferré, and Vilar, Suzanne M. Uzzilia
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
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
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
An Analysis of the Parental Structure and Involvement on Subsequent Delinquency, Bosco Villavicencio Jr
Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy, 1945–Present, Antonella Vitale
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
Imagining Wildernesses: Susan Howe’s Poetic Corrective, Samantha R. Walsh
Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Visual Percepts Elicited by a Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Technique, Kelly Webster
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
Rethinking Gaming & Representation Within Digital Pedagogy: An Instructor’s Guide, Anthony Wheeler
Shadow Standards and the Logic of Costs: Care, Stewardship, and Data in U.S. Community Health, Margarite J. Whitten
Black Skin, White Gaze: The Presence and Function of the Linchpin Character in Biopics About Black American Protagonists, Nicole N. Williams
Holding Both: Witness Aid Workers' Experiences Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in District Attorney Offices, Ovita Williams
Diversity Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Examination of “Diversity” in Graduate Education, Tellisia M. Williams
Where Do We Go from Here? Québécois Identity in the Road Novel from 1964 to 2008, Antoinette Williams-Tutt
Black and Brown Students’ Mathematics Anxiety in Elementary School: The Use of Restorative Justice Circles and Critical Concepts of Care, Hope, and Love, Mariana E. Winnik
“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776–1955, John C. Winters
Accessibility Across the Curriculum: An OER Website on Accessibility, Amy Wolfe
Outcomes of Tinnitus Post-Cochlear Implantation in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review, Evangeline Wong
Knowledge of the Present Perfect by Albanian/English Bilinguals, Erjon Xholi
Arithmetic of Binary Cubic Forms, Gennady Yassiyevich
Analysis of PRO-drop Errors in L2 English by L1 Spanish Speakers, Marcos R. Ynoa
Medical Cannabis in New York State, David Steven Younger
Walking Through Fire: Black Men’s Quest for Autonomy in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and King Hedley II, Natasha Young
Generalized Four-Dimensional Effective Hadronic Supersymmetry Based on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), Enxi Yu
Promiscuous Waves, Xuan Zheng
Uniform Lipschitz Continuity of the Isoperimetric Profile of Compact Surfaces Under Normalized Ricci Flow, Yizhong Zheng
A Neural Mechanism for Capnotaxis in the Naked Mole-Rat, Michael Zions
Development of Ligand Guided Selection (LIGS) to Identify Specific DNA Aptamers Against Cell Surface Proteins, Hasan Ekrem Zumrut