Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2018
The Fight Before the Fight: Weight-Cutting in Mixed Martial Arts, Michael T. DeSantis
Baryons and Interactions in Magnetic Fields, Amol Deshmukh
Asexual People’s Experience with Microaggressions, Tamara Deutsch
Pregnancy Induced Alterations of Reproductive Tract Collagen and Elastin in a Murine Model, Basant K. Dhital
Knockdown of Heparan Sulfate Via NDST1 knockout Does Not Inhibit Mouse Aortic Endothelial Cell Alignment In-Vivo, John Diaz de Leon III
Construction Narratives, Pablo M. Diaz
Essays on the Market Structure of the U.S. Health Care System, Ayse S. Diebel
Food Network Fallout: Why There Are Labor Shortages in Restaurant Kitchens, Jennifer M. Dillon
A Race of Angels and Their Nameless Longings, Andrew Van Dinh
Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore, Naeem U. Din
Murmur/Murmuro, Paola M. Di Tolla
Is it Morally Permissible to have Children, Awinyandji W. Djebou
Did You Just Lie to Mom and Dad? Parental and Cultural Influences on Perceptions of Lie Acceptability, Rosaura Dominguez
Creating 1968: Art, Architecture, and the Afterlives of the Mexican Student Movement, Mya B. Dosch
Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature, Anahi A. Douglas
What can we learn from rapper and provocateur, Azealia Banks?, Robert A.R. Dozier
From Invisibility to Liminality: The Imposition of Identity among Non-Federally Recognized Tribes within the Federal Acknowledgment Process, Christopher M. Drake
The Relationship Between Parenting and Child Trauma: An Intergenerational Investigation, Miriam A. Dreyer
Disorderly Histories: An Anthropology of Decolonization in Western Sahara, Mark Drury
America's New Favorite Food, Laura E. Duclos and Sshiva Tejas M
The Essential New York City Films, Nikola M. Durkovic
Understanding the Nexus between Cryptocurrencies and Transnational Crime Operations, Sarah Durrant
Final Call: Rank-and-File Rebellion in New York City, 1965-1975, Glenn D. Dyer
Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle
Under the Influence: Drinking and Immersion in New York City Theatre and Popular Entertainment, 1850 to Present, Chloë R. Edmonson
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Education: Fostering Collaboration Between State Prisons and State Universities, Miriam Edwin
Merging Subsistence Perspective and Buen Vivir: An Alternative to Damming the Mekong, Aaron B. Eisenberg
Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017, Elizabeth C. Eisenberg
Instituting Protest (FILM), Joshua Eisenberg
Reading Comprehension Instruction for Young Students with High Functioning Autism: Forming Contextual Connections, Karen S. Engel
Women are being cut during childbirth without need or consent, Molly Cora Enking
Exploring the Relation Between Sectoral Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment: Case for Turkey, Selin Erkan
Telling the Good News, Allyson R. Escobar
Private Rainbows, Mikey F. Estes
A Philosophical Defense of Judicial Minimalism, Cory A. Evans
The Color of Desire: Contradictions of Race, Sex, and Gay Rights in the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher B. Ewing
The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction, Jared D. Fagen
Determinants of the Acquisition and Display of Behaviors Associated with “Guilt” (Appeasement Behaviors) by Companion Dogs, Parvene Farhoody
Non-canonical Activation of CREB/crh-1 Mediates Neuroprotection in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model of Excitotoxic Necrosis, K. Genevieve Feldmann
The Body and the Sacred in Contemporary Italian Women Writers, Laura R Feola
Studying the Space of Almost Complex Structures on a Manifold Using de Rham Homotopy Theory, Bora Ferlengez
Ansiedades épico-criollas y el mecenazgo de Indias en el Arauco domado de Pedro de Oña, Andrea L. Fernandez
Resonant Texts: The Politics of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture, Paul Fess
Beyond the Binary: Gender Identity and Mental Health Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults, Chassitty N. Fiani
Proposition 47 and Crime: A Difference in Differences Analysis of Incarceration Rates and Crime using border counties, Brian J. Fischer
Lexical Access in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy and Severe Speech and Physical Impairment, Iris Fishman
Tailoring Landscapes: Multivalent Terrain and the Politics of Black Geography in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, Cara Fitzgerald
Reducing Arsenic Exposure from Private Well Water in the United States: The Use, Effect, and Potential of Testing Requirements, Sara Flanagan
Representing Struggle: Raquel Forner’s Social and Political Engagement in the 1930s and 1940s, Diana Flatto
The Diaspora at Home, Ivan A. Flores
Gradient Estimation for Attractor Networks, Thomas Flynn
A.V.O Boyz: The Rise of Afrobeats Through Dance, Oumou Fofana
Politically-connected Nonprofit Makes Millions Putting Homeless Families in Unsafe Homes, Benjamin Foldy
Speech Perception in Mandarin- and Cantonese-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Sum Yee Fong
Oops!... I Infringed Again: An Analysis of U.S. Copyright and its Intended Beneficiaries, Gabriele A. Forbes-Bennett
For Better, For Worse: The Effect of Maternity Leave Policy on Divorce Rates, Toni S. Forde
Difficult Subjects Scatting and Scattered: A Poetics of Dissolution in Black Expressive Culture, Tonya M. Foster
Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare, Bradley Fox
Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story, Angela Francis
"I Was Not Sick and I Didn't Need to Recover": Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) as a Refuge from Criminalization, David Frank
On A and B Theories of Time, Edward Freeman
From Establishment to Final Independence: A Study of the National Archives of the United States of America from 1934–1985, Daniel M. Frett
Demystifying the Placebo Effect, Phoebe Friesen
Critical Paradigm Theory: A Deconstruction of the Dominant Discourse Shaping Public Education in America, Kevin Froner
Visiting the "Golden God": Roundtrip from Chinatown to the Blackjack Tables, Katherine Fung
Motherfuck, Emily Furr
English Influence on L2 Speakers’ Production of Palatalization and Velarization, Jennifer C. Gabriele
Rachmaninoff and the Flexibility of the Score: Issues Regarding Performance Practice, Tanya Gabrielian
Poetry, Photography and the Place of Longing: A Return, Victoria R. Gandolf
Impacts of Antepartum Health Status and Health Insurance Coverage, Anjelica Gangaram
THE URBAN FOOD DESERT AS A MODEL FOR THE URBAN HEALTH CARE DESERT: FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS, Estevan A. Garcia
Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Youth With Gender Dysphoria, Felix L. Garcia
Un Buenos Aires ibérico: Cultura impresa y modernidades divergentes en el exilio (1936-1959), Pablo Garcia Martinez
Haunted Stories, Haunted Selves: Ghosts in Latin American Jewish Literature, Charlotte Gartenberg
Identification of Animal Species by Utilization of Processed Remains, Melissa I. Gaud
Evolution of Floral Morphology and Symmetry in the Miconieae (Melastomataceae), Maria Gavrutenko
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Neural Bases of Metamemory Judgments, Alexandra M. Gaynor
Democracy Later, Dave A. Gentile Mr
Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Sentence Representation, Liam S. Geron
Re-Architecting Mass Storage Input/Output for Performance and Efficiency, Robert Gezelter
Synthetic Control and Dynamic Panel Estimation: A Case Study of Iran, Orkideh Gharehgozli
Three Essays on Capital Structure and Cross-Listing, Saeed Ghasseminejad
Mechanisms Adopted by Dengue-2 Viruses to Induce Autophagy in Mammalian Cells, Sounak Ghosh Roy
Examining the Effects of a Content-based Peer Feedback Writing Intervention in Community College Classrooms, Jennifer M. Gilken
Renal Risk Variants of Apolipoprotein L-1 Form Channels at the Plasma Membrane that Lead to a Cytotoxic Influx of Calcium, Joseph A. Giovinazzo
Linda Collazo: A Bronx Aria, Jose A. Giralt
Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers, Dana Glaser
Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline, Erin R. Glass
Madison Washington’s Journey to Freedom: Protagonist Development in Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave, Hallie Rene Gleasman
Amenazado en Venezuela, en espera en EE.UU., Hernan Goicochea and Juan Garcia
Perceived Knowledge and Defense of Political Attitudes, Matthew H. Goldberg
Do You Feel Like a Fraud? How Experiencing the Impostor Phenomenon Influences Consumption Choices, Emily Goldsmith
The Fragmented Mind: Working Memory Cannot Implement Consciousness, Javier Gomez-Lavin
Out of the Shadows: Women of the FMLN Guerrilla Army in El Salvador’s Civil War, 1979–1992, Erica Gonzalez