Theses and Dissertations
Theses from 2021
Racial Microaggressions Against Black Women in the Workforce, Marie Della Thomas
Cross-sectional Variation of Stock Options Behavior, Meng Tian
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Laxman Timilsina
The Making of an Avant-gardist: A Study of Rafael Aponte-Ledée’s Early Life and Works (1957–1966), Noel Torres-Rivera
Cloning and Characterization of the Vasopressin-Oxytocin Neuropeptide Signaling System in the Vocal Control System of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Emily R. Tortora
Determination of Human Shedding Propensity Based on STR Results, Genevieve Trapani
Can Racial Disparities in Poor Birth Outcomes Be Partially Attributed to Stress: A Mendellian Randomization Study, Madeline Travers
Dolphins in NY? Researchers Turn to Boat Tours For Sightings, Aaron K. Tremper
Direct and Indirect Effects of Alcohol Craving and Demand on Obsessive and Compulsive Drinking Characteristics: The Role of Impulsivity, James V. Turner IV
Computational Representation of Russian Aspectual Morphology with a Focus on Perfective Prefixation, Natalia Tyulina
Cell Cycle Progression Effects of Albumin, Sharmeen Uddin
The Influence of Text on Coherence of Story Retells, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Eye Gaze: A Computer-Based Story Telling Task with Eye Tracking, Nicholas J. Ullrich III
Mother’s Understanding of the Newborn Infant Hearing Screening (NIHS) and the Audiologist’s Role in Healthy Hearing, Chaya T. Ungar
Leadership Conversion: From Command-and-Control to People-Centered Approach, Elli Unt
Countersexuality in Times of Neomachismo: Representations of Gender in Contemporary Spanish Performance (1988–2019), Mara I. Valderrama
Tools and Strategies for the Patterning of Bioactive Molecules and Macromolecules, Daniel J. Valles
Diffraction-Based Studies of Magneto- and Baro-Caloric Materials, Steven P. Vallone
Digital Earth: The Impact of Geographic Technology Through the Ages, Mishka Vance Huq
Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry, Brent A. Van Horne
The Role of Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Regulating Messenger RNA 3’ End Processing and Controlling Gene Expression in Breast Cancer Cells, Sophia Varriano
The Female Body in the Works of Débora Arango and Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo: Colombian Modernism, Religion, and Politics, 1930s-1950s, Gina M. Vásquez
The pandemic Changed the Face of Retail. Here’s how Center City, Philadelphia — the state’s leading job market — is Faring on the Road to Recovery, Francisco O. Velasquez-Turcios
To the Studio, in the Studio, Home, Miquel R. Veldkamp
The “Muddle” of Landscape and Machinery in E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End and A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading, Ryan Ignatius Vera
Development of an LCMS Analytical Method with Applicability to Determination of Trace Level Explosives in Environmental Waters, Cristina I. Veresmortean
The Role of Authoritarianism in the 2020 Election, Brandon Vigil
Interrogating the Light Bugs, Ana C. Villagomez
The LinkNYC Kiosk: Phone Booths, Urban Culture, and the Neoliberal Dream for New York City, Michael A. Villanova
Predictors of Lexical Accessibility of Common and Proper Nouns in Older Age: Evidence from the Tip-of-the-Tongue State, Amy Victoria Vogel-Eyny
Emulating the "Country Fiddler": A Performance Analysis of Fiddle Parodies and Impressions in Charles Ives's Second Violin Sonata, Emily Vold Weiss
Which Way South? A Chronicle of the Autoworkers’ Ill-Fated Quest for a Land Route from Detroit to Chattanooga (with a Brief Sojourn in Germany), Abraham Walker
The Drive for Disability, Aliyah Walker
Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace
Applying Deep Learning on Financial Sentiment Analysis, Cuiyuan Wang
New Chinese Music in New York City: From Revival to Musical Transnationalism, Serena Yiai Wang
Exposure Characterization and Assessment of Airborne Chemicals and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in New York City Nail Salons, Amelia P. H. Watkins
Nation(s) and Narrative(s) in Forms of Chinese Culture, Angela Chun Ling Wei
some (im)material girls, living in (im)material worlds, with seeds, stars, and shit, Matthew Weiderspon
How Psychotherapists Practice In the Digital Era, Josh Weinstein
Litigation Strategies for Suggestive Identification Evidence, Elaina Welch
International Migration from the Latin American-Caribbean Region: Taking Environmental Indicators into Consideration, Chelsea Wepy
Disinhibition and Persistent Maladaptive Behavior, Angela T. West
The Internal Determinants of International Organization Actorness: The European Union and Climate Change?, Vanessa West
HOW THE DREAM PARALYZES HOLLYWOOD ASSISTANTS, Alexandra White
The National Interest and the Roots of American-Saudi Diplomacy, Oliver B. Wiegel
Who Pays? New York State Political Donor Matching with Machine Learning, Annalisa Wilde
What Do You Think She’s Gonna Do With a Set of Real Claws?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Onscreen Portrayals of Women Werewolves, Ashleigh K. Williams
From the Voices of Five African American Teenage Girls: Demystifying the Role of Stress in School, Selena M. Williams-Yii
The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts, Adam Wilson
TikTok has influenced the way we buy beauty, Keira R. Wingate and Angela Palumbo
The Trial of Anthony Sims, Jeff Winter
Enhanced Platinum (II) Drug Delivery for Anti-cancer Therapy, Marek T. Wlodarczyk
What We Owe to Our Audience: The Hermeneutical Responsibility of Fiction Creators, Kathryn Wojtkiewicz
Teaching Choral Music of the African Diaspora in the United States: Toward a “Living Black History”, H. Roz Woll
Progress Narratives in Trans Internationalism: Surveying a Collected Archive of the Global Trans Movement, 2008–2018, Flora P. Wolpert Checknoff
I Wasn't There, Lily Wong
No One Told Me What Infertility Would Be Like For a Black Man. That's Because Nobody Knows., Keith "Jared" Wright and Zachary Smith
Essays on How Cultural Factors Affect the Sentiment and Behavior of Financial Market Participants, Runze Wu
Gay for English: Postcolonial In(queer)ies into Contemporary Hindi Cinema, Hardik R. Yadav
Collective Memory and Arab Jewish Identity, Maya Yadid
Refugee Higher Education and Participatory Action Research Methods: Lessons Learned from the Field, Hadas Yanay
Three Essays on Spatial Econometrics: the Matrix Exponential Spatial Specification, Ye Yang
The Role of Placental Genes on Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay, Maedot A. Yidenk
Institutions, State Capacity, and Intra-State Conflict: Evidence from a Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal, Nishant Yonzan
From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution, Mason Youngblood
Contracting in Direct Asset Sales, Xin Yuan
Place Branding as a Mode of Urban Governance and Verticalisation: The Case of Tokyo and New York, Z. Ruya Yuksel
Impact of Warnings on Gamified Personality Assessments, Sabrina Yu
The Hamite Must Die! The Legacy of Colonial Ideology in Rwanda, Awa Princess E. Zadi
"Our Strength Is Unity:" Delivery Bikers In Their Own Words, Connor W. Zaft
Targeting AMPA Receptor Modulation during Early Life Adversity: A Mediator for Threat Associated Memories, Roseanna M. Zanca
The Crisis of Chad: Men’s Rights Movements and Contemporary Anti-feminism, Kendrick Zapata
Changes in the Black-White Sentencing Gap after United States v. Booker, 2008-17, shuhao zhang
Novel Hybrid Resampling Algorithms for Parallel/Distributed Particle Filters, Xudong Zhang
Essays on Economic Uncertainty and Housing Market in China, Humenghe Zhao
Anti-Cancer Effects by Interleukin 24, Xuelin Zhong
Essays on Investor Sentiment, Media, and Trading, Changyun Zhou
Instrumentalizing the Past: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Poland, Jonathan Zisook
Evolution and Development of the Seed Coat in Gymnosperms, Cecilia Zumajo
How Frustration Impacts the Relationship Between Potential for Child Physical Abuse Perpetration and Emotion Processing, Amanda L. Zwilling
Daily Benefits of Leader Dogs in Addition to Medical Treatment For Individuals With Usher Syndrome: A Case Study, Samantha H. Zwolan
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Does Resilience Moderate the Impact of Children’s Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination on Internalizing Problems?, Dahlia Abbas
Blurring the Gender Lines: Margaret of Anjou's use of Gender as Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy, Blythe Abramowitz
50 Years On, Holes Remain in the Clean Water Act, Benjamin H. Abrams
Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law, Yuval Abrams
In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman
Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets, Miguel Acosta Henao
Measuring Preschool Parents’ Attitudes Towards Science: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Parent Version of the Dimension of Attitudes Towards Science Instrument., Alexandra E. Adair
If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas, Charlene Adams
