Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
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
Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language, Olga Parshina
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
Penetrating Dissonance, Miguel A. Payano Jr
Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden, Jacob E. Pearce
Many Forms of Black Death: Coal Extraction, Transnational Activism and the Value of Life in Colombia, Oscar H. Pedraza Vargas
Locke’s Rebellious Progeny: Phenomenology and Ethics of Leopardi’s A-Dialectical Materialism, Paolo Pellecchia
Emotion in Mind, Kathryn E. Pendoley
360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien'kéha (Mohawk), Joseph Pentangelo
Una isla, dos literaturas: Contrapunteo de la literatura de la isla y la diáspora dominicanas (1965–2018), Jose L. Peralta
A Study of CUSUM Statistics on Bitcoin Transactions, Ivan Perez
The Effect of Hurricane Sandy on Mental Health Outcomes of New Yorkers, Kacper Perkowski
A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements, Trace Peterson
Gun Country, John Philp
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in ADHD and Alcohol Use among College Students, Laurie Pierre-Paul
Los cuerpos en conflicto del chavismo: cuatro obras venezolanas en la era de la Revolución Bolivariana, Rebeca Pineda Burgos
Temporal Discounting and Sustainable Behaviors, Natalia Piskorski
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
“The Little Seed and the Wind”: Digital Intervention Tool for Geography and Empathy, Maritha Pocorni-Humphries
On the Energy Sustainability of Active and Passive Building Integrated Technologies in the Context of a Changing Climate for Tropical Coastal Cities, Rabindra Pokhrel
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
After NYPD: Scores of New York City Police Officers With Substantiated Complaints Move To New Public Safety Jobs., Luca Powell
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
Exploring Behavioral Flexibility, Problem-Solving, and Innovation in Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus), Amanda Puitiza
Hips that harm: when medical devices fail women, Sophie N. Putka
Ascriptive Nationalism, Demagoguery, and the Modern Presidency: A Case Study in Constitutional Decay, Christopher J. Putney
Resistimos, Diana Quiñones Rivera
Beyond Exposure: Markers of English Proficiency in School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
Como Olvidarte, Emilce Quiroz
How a Culture of Silence Is Threatening to Burn Down an Entire Community, Hafsa N. Quraishi
Projected impacts of climate change on risk of spring frost and fire blight for Malus domestica, Paul J. Racco
Spectacle, Spectatorship, and a New Reading of The Nine Heroes Tapestries, Katherine L. Rachlin
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
Female Labor Force Participation and Economic Growth: Granger Causality Test, Zulakha Rahman
Censorship and Book-Burning in Imperial Rome and Egypt, Susan Rahyab
...A Placebo, An Embryo, A Mosquito, My Libido, Andy Ralph
The Relationship Between Traumatic Brain Injuries, Impulsivity, and Crime, Brian Ramanauskas
Reflections on the Eating of Bologna Sandwiches: A Memoir, Benjamin M. Raphael
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
Snow-Albedo Feedback in Northern Alaska: How Vegetation Influences Snowmelt, Lucas C. Reckhaus
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
Daphne Odjig: Indigenous Art and Contemporary Curatorial Practices, Lucy Kay Riley
Exploring the Relationship Between Anger, Aggression, and Perpetrator Substance Use in the Commission of Sexual Offenses, Dominique Rivera
Discrimination of Monozygotic Twins using DNA methylation levels of one CpG site at Chromosome 3, Dino O. Robinson
Evidence of Incipient Song Divergence in a Hawaiian Population of Warbling White-eyes, Jesse D. Robinson
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
George Hill’s Fight for Freedom, Maria Robins-Somerville
Cinegrafia: literatura, espectadores y cinefilia contemporanea en latinoamerica, Rojo Robles Mejias
Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide, Manuel Rodeiro
Connecticut’s Liberal Image Hides a History of Systematic Housing Inequality, It’s Time For A Change, Ashley Rodriguez
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
Inspirations for Awake: Expressions of Trauma Through Fiction and Autoethnographic Literature, Sophia Rodriguez
Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland
What I Wish I Had Known - A guide by and for entry level Latinx Journalists, Michaela Roman
The Sounds of Sikles Gurung: A Phonetic and Phonological Description of a Tibeto-Burman Language of Nepal, Danielle Ronkos
Unique Image Representation as a Tensor, Bharat Rosanlall
Profits for Spotify, Pennies for Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg
Democracy for Homework: A Review of Civic Engagement in Urban Public Schools, Amanda B. Rosenblum
Object Relations, Identity Formation, and Transitional Space in Religious Conversion, Arielle Rubenstein
A stroke of misfortune, Madison Ruffo
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
Legalization of Marijuana and Its Effect on Alcohol Related Accident Fatalities, Azamat Sadikov
Beast-Gods, Bandits, and Beggar-Kings: The Traveler in Political Thought, Nader Sadre
The Failed Principle of Reformed Female Politeness – Exploring Tactical Silence and Voices in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Punrada Saengsomboon
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
Aprendizaje remota: Cómo dos madres de hijos con necesidades especiales están lidiando durante la pandemia, Lisa Salinas and Arlyn Sorto
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
Adaptive Effort Classifiers: A System Design For Partitioned Edge/Cloud Inference, Divya Sankar
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
