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Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations

Capstones from 2020 2020

‘The struggle is real’: NYC’s Black-owned businesses face grim 2021 outlook, Dalvin Brown

False Cures of U.S. Nationalism: The Border Wall – A Raucous Call from the Silent Center, Tatiana N. Browne-Kai

Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison, Tanzania S. Browne

Semi-quantitative Detection of Signature Peptides in Body Fluids by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), Tebah N. Browne

Edwidge Danticat as Literary Archeologist, Justine A. Browning

Psychoanalytic Determinates of the Love/Work Balance in a Cohort of African-American Men, Joseph Ellison Brown

NYC’s Boom: More Jobs and Housing, No Affordability, LaCandis Brown

Development of an ABA Tool Kit for Audiologists to Increase Hearing Aid Wear Time in Individuals with Autism, Lindsay Brown

Black Males Matter, the Educational Marathon Continues: The Relative Impact of Student-, Family-, and School-Level Domains on the Educational Outcomes of Black Males, Shawn F. Brown

Nutritional Strategy and Social Environment in Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), Margaret Bryer

In The Air, Episode 01: Too Low, Too Fast, Megan Burney

Does Clicker Training Lead to Faster Acquisition of Behavior for Dog Owners?, Brian J. Burton

The Absurdity of Healing, Alexander Bustamante

Through the Screen: Disability, aging and Technology, Shoshannah E. Buxbaum

Repealed: Indigenous fight for an independent press, Bryce A. Buyakie

The Women that No One Wanted to See: The Duality of the Women within the Holocaust, Valerie Cabezas-Iacono

Proton Pumping Mechanism in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Xiuhong Cai

Assessment of wild ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) populations in southwestern Madagascar with implications for the illegal pet trade, Samantha D. Calkins

Investigating the Modulatory Effect of Expectations on Memory Retrieval During Sentence Comprehension, Luca Campanelli

Does the Word "Chien" Bark? Representation Learning in Neural Machine Translation Encoders, Emily Campbell

Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis, Emily B. Campbell

Norman Lewis: Linearity, Politics, and Pedagogy in His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Andrianna T. Campbell-LaFleur

Mindful Mind Project, Toussaint Campbell

Goals, Power, and Culture: The Effects of School Organizational Features on Parental Involvement, Vandeen A. Campbell

Slavery and Confederate Military Strategy and Policy, 1860–1865, David M. Campmier

“An Instrument in the Shape / of a Woman”: Reading as Re-Vision in Adrienne Rich, William J. Camponovo

Dietary Development and Nutritional Ontogeny in Gorilla beringei : A Multi-layered, -Omics Approach, Emma C. Cancelliere

Analysis of Cannabinoids in Serum by GC-MS/MS, Christie Cannarozzi

Spatial and Collective Memories of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study, Bryanna Caraballo

The Mnemonic Consequences of Posting “Self” and “Other” Photos on Social Media, Chloe L. Cardinale

Judith Leyster: A Study of Extraordinary Expression, Nicole J. Cardinale

Topics of The Sky: Ashbery's Involving Search for The Poem, Tom M. Carlson

All Day in the Trey-Fold: Sound, Objecthood, and Place in the Mixtapes of DJ Screw, Matthew K. Carter

Identifying Construct-Irrelevant Variance and Construct Under-Representation as Support of External Evidence of Validity, Jennifer Case

“I’m Real I Thought I Told Ya”: Developing Critical Media Literacy Through U.S. Latinx Digital Media Representations, Solange T. Castellar

A LatinX Religion By Another Name: How Latinas Lead the Un-Monolithic Conversion to Islam, Ambar Castillo

Apocalipsis cultural e imaginación política: el caso de Madrid en el periodo entre crisis (2008–2020), Natalia Castro Picón

Divorce as Liberation: Marital Expectations Among the Working-Class in the 1950s, Kristin M. Catrone

The Object Memory Palace, Amra Causevic

Fed up, desperate and daring enough to unionize, Suzannah C. Cavanaugh

The Role of Perceived Heterosexism in Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Severity Among Trauma-Exposed Sexual Minority Individuals, Natalie M. Cereseto

Evidence based practices at a New York City youth justice services organization, Betsy Delissa Cespedes

Performance, Ritual, and Procession: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Our Lady of Cocharcas, Evelin M. Chabot

Mum’s the Word: Are mothers choosing to give up their careers or being booted out of the labor force?, Harini Chakrapani

The Portrayal and Reception of Multiracial Couples and Families in Advertisements, Kiran A. Chand

Multimodal Data Integration for Real-Time Indoor Navigation Using a Smartphone, Yaohua Chang

Tonal Adaptation of Loanwords in Mandarin: Phonology and Beyond, Zhuting Chang

Method Development for Identifying Counterfeit Cigarettes Using Environmental Pollen Analysis, Tiffany Chan

Essays on Anomalies in International Equity Markets, Xiao Cheng

Computational Modeling of Charge and Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in Complex Environments, Ning Chen

Spectral Sequences for Almost Complex Manifolds, Qian Chen

The Functional Role of the Anterior Insular Cortex in Cognitive Control, Yu Chen

The Transcription Factor ATF5 Protects Cortical Neurons from Toxicity Induced by Prostaglandin J2, Fanny Cheung

Applying a Metacognitive Framework in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Susan Y. Chi

Tamalin/GRAS-1 Connects Glutamate Receptor Activity to the Insulin/IGF Signaling Cascade to Regulate Neuroprotection in a Nematode Model of Excitotoxicity, Ayesha Chowdhury

An Examination of Defense Attorney Knowledge of Dispatcher Practices in Eyewitness Calls, Elena Christofi

Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation, Christopher Clarke

A Comparison of Tribal Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Environmental Justice at the EPA’s Onondaga Lake and Tar Creek Superfund Sites, Thomas Clark

Tracking Keywords in American Studies, Thomas Cleary

Exploring Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Plea Bargain Decisions, Melanie Close

Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation, Jaime Shearn Coan

Transcription Initiation and Termination of Chemically Synthesized Small RNA Expression Vectors, Jose Cobo

Corporeal Analysis: The Performing Body as Analytic Site, Laura Cocks

Diana: Unapologetic and Unafraid, Kirkpatrick B. Cohall

Dangerous Exhibitions: Erotic Justice and Comparative Constitutional Law, Elena Cohen

Through the Back Door: Proteins Escape Cells without Conventional Permission, Michael J. Cohen

“From The Heart, May It Go To The Heart”: Liturgy and Embodiment in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Brigid J. Coleridge

Bawdy Tales, Emily R. Collins

International Influence on the Development and Reception of Cello Playing in England, 1870–1930: Robert Hausmann, Auguste Van Biene, and Guilhermina Suggia, Hannah E. Collins

The History of Martha J. Lamb: Her Origin, Rise, and Progress., Mary Collins

The Determination of G1 and G7 Ballistic Coefficients of .22LR Caliber Ammunition in Gypsum Board through Doppler Radar Acquisition, Jose A. Colon Jr.

Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making, Connor Concannon

A Plan for Democratic Public Schooling, Diana Concepcion

Jornada, Mary Conlon

I Think of Your Mother, Natalie Elizabeth Conn

Seeking Clemency: A Profile on Jacob Rouse, Jocelyn A. Contreras and Sarah Gabrielli

Cracks in the Bathroom Stall: A Discourse Analysis on Transgender Bathroom Usage at Garden Spot High School, Kirsten D. Corneilson

Integrating Affect Perception Tasks from the New York Emotion Battery into a Comprehensive Measure of Neuropsychological Change across the Lifespan, Melinda A. Cornwell

Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?, Edir Coronado

Being and Becoming: Voice and the Performance of Self by Black and Brown Women Members of An Educational Space Organized in Whiteness, AnaMaria Correa

African American Existential Heroes: Narrative Struggles for Authenticity, Michael Cotto

An Affective Events Theory Analysis of Conflict Perception Emergence, Michael J. Covell

Investigating the Impact of the Nursing Practice Environment (NPE) on Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) among Older Adults in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Kristen A. Cribbs

Mobilizing Museums Against AIDS: Visual AIDS and Day Without Art, 1988–1989, Kyle Croft

NYC Communities Battle Flooding, But Not From Coastal Storms, Danielle C. Cruz

“Lay down my soul at stake”: Of Female Friendship in The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Winter’s Tale, Audrey-Melody Cubas

Several Houses, Anthony L. Cudahy

Thrown off Course: School Suspension and Its Consequences for Students’ Educational Trajectories and Outcomes, Celina Cuevas

Linear and Non-Linear Elastic Constants of Crystalline Materials from First-Principles Calculations, David Cuffari

Applications of Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Macroeconomic and Financial Forecasting, Andi Cupallari

Responses of North American Birds to Recent Climate Change: Effects of Distributional Changes on Migration Distances, Community Structure and Biodiversity Patterns, Shannon R. Curley

A World Ruled By Unknowns: The Psychological Effects of the Supernatural and Natural Worlds in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Jordan Cymrot

The Impact of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on the Length of Hospital Stay, Honamattie Dabydeen

Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals, Christina N. Dadurian

Narcissus and Beauty: A Renaissance of Paterian Aesthetics, Amir Dagan

Political Culture in the Cities of the Northern Black Sea Region in the "Long Hellenistic Age", Emyr Dakin

The Afterlives of Government Documents: Information Labor, Archival Power, and the Visibility of U.S. Human Rights Violations in the “War on Terror”, Rachel Daniell

Intra-familial Microaggressions, Object Relations, and Racial Identity Formation in Multiracial Individuals, Ashley Danies

Data and Information as Our New Transport Infrastructure: An Exploration into How the Modern Transport System Is Being Shaped by Information Communication Technology, Adam Davidson

Asians Applying for Postsecondary Success: Students, Schools, and Socioeconomic Status, Avery M.D. Davis