Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2020
'Odd Secrets of the Line': Emily Dickinson and the Uses of Folk, Wendy Tronrud
Occitan Musicians, Immigration, and Postcolonial Regionalism in Southern France, Sarah E. Trouslard
The Asian Diaspora, a storytelling project, Kevin Truong
Sugar-Derived Oleogels in Cosmetics and Food Applications: a Case Study of Trehalose- and Mannitol-Based Gelators, Polina Tsupko
The Effects of Eighth Years of Compulsory Schooling Enforcement in Turkey, Muhammed Tumay
How Should Context-Dependent Words Be Taught to Beginning Readers?, Abigail M. Turner
Stalking and Attachment Theory: Causes and Management, Zoe Turner
The Fourth Wall of Jericho: Wrestling with COVID, Cheyenne R. Ubiera
Representations of Hustling Women: The Figure of the Black Sex Worker in Ann Petry’s The Street and Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner, Deborah L. Uzurin
Anger, Genre Bending, and Space in Kincaid, Ferré, and Vilar, Suzanne M. Uzzilia
This Double Life, Jesse Vad
He’s ‘Like a Math Magician’: One Man’s Path Towards Clemency, Steven Vago
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
The Political Aesthetic of Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Judgment, and Culture, Quixote R. Vassilakis
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
Variation in Personality Among Semi-Wild Myanmar Timber Elephants, Sateesh Venkatesh
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
Místicas y disidentes: feminismo teresiano en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX, Almudena Vidorreta
An Analysis of the Parental Structure and Involvement on Subsequent Delinquency, Bosco Villavicencio Jr
Archaeology or crime scene? Teeth micro and macro structure analysis as dating variable, Jessica A. Vincenty
Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy, 1945–Present, Antonella Vitale
For the Love of Existence, Paul Joseph Vogeler
Early Prison Releases and Hotel Placements Produce Unexpected Outcomes During the Pandemic, Buzz Von Ornsteiner
Early Prison Releases and Hotel Placements Produce Unexpected Outcomes During the Pandemic, Buzz Von Ornsteiner
Working Memory Training: Cognitive and Linguistic Implications in Adult English Language Learners, Deepti Wadhera
Do Bats Forage at Different Heights When in the Presence of Other Species?, Benjamin L. Wagenberg
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
Reframing the Family Portrait: The Surrogate Mother in U.S. Theatre and Film 1939–1963, Alison Walls
Identity Development in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors, Rachel M. Walsh
Imagining Wildernesses: Susan Howe’s Poetic Corrective, Samantha R. Walsh
From close cooperation to potential ‘cold war’: What happened to the U.S.-China relationship?, Baidi Wang
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF RAIN-WIND-INDUCED VIBRATION OF STAY CABLES, HONGFAN WANG
Valid Time RDF, Hsien-Tseng Wang
Epistemic Injustice and Sexual Violence Intervention Advocacy, Jennifer Ware
Engaging Underserved Voters in West Virginia During the Pandemic Election, Jacob Wasserman
Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Visual Percepts Elicited by a Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Technique, Kelly Webster
Emulating Condensed Matter Systems in Classical Wave Metamaterials, Matthew Weiner
Effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Labor Participation of Female Registered Nurses in Outpatient Care, Deborah R. Weissner
TomTom Oracle, Grant B. Wells
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
Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy, Nicole Whalen
Rethinking Gaming & Representation Within Digital Pedagogy: An Instructor’s Guide, Anthony Wheeler
A pandemic revolution for workout devotees, their instructors, and the gyms they used to frequent, Erika Wheless
PrEP Use and Barriers to Use Among Adult and Young Sexual Minority Men in the United States, Thomas Whitfield
Shadow Standards and the Logic of Costs: Care, Stewardship, and Data in U.S. Community Health, Margarite J. Whitten
Female Torture Poetry: Petrarchan Love and Carpe Diem, Luke C. Widlund
LGBTV - A look into queer representation in television, Daisy J. Williams
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
QWASI: The Quantum Walk Simulator, Warren V. Wilson
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
Peter Warlock's The Curlew: Influences and Forces Driving the Narrative, Angela A. Wirbiezcas
Accessibility Across the Curriculum: An OER Website on Accessibility, Amy Wolfe
Mitigating Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation Using Counterfactual Data, Alan Wong
Outcomes of Tinnitus Post-Cochlear Implantation in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review, Evangeline Wong
The Scream of Nature, Noah Wood
Affect, Behavior and (Dys)Regulation: Integrating Youth's Projective Tests and Self-Reports, Laurel Wright
Control of Molecular Energetics and Transport via Strong Light-Matter Interaction, Rong Wu
Barriers to Health and Social Services Utilization for Immigrant Autistic Children in Canada, Fjoralba Xhaferri
Knowledge of the Present Perfect by Albanian/English Bilinguals, Erjon Xholi
Essays on the Short-Term Impact of Minimum Unit Pricing Policy in Scotland, Irena P. Xhurxhi
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation, Suicide Attempts, and Self-Injurious Behavior, Mariah Xu
Engaging with Arabic Speaking Refugee Mothers, Rawan Yaghi
Arithmetic of Binary Cubic Forms, Gennady Yassiyevich
Political Representation for Indigenous Peoples in the Andes, Jessica Yepez
Set Operators, Xiaojin Ye
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
Paper, Places, and Familias: Tracing the Social Mobility of Mexicans in New York, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa
Generalized Four-Dimensional Effective Hadronic Supersymmetry Based on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), Enxi Yu
Cytotoxic Analysis of Old Drugs: New Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease, Sebastian Yumiseba
When Clemency is a Lifeline, Shehzil Zahid
Asymmetric alpha-Stannylation of Heterocycles and Their Subsequent Use in Cross-coupling Reactions, Haoran Zhao
Essays on Trade Liberalization, Structural Change, and Technical Efficiency, Li Zhao
Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow's Renovation, Anna Zhelnina
Promiscuous Waves, Xuan Zheng
Uniform Lipschitz Continuity of the Isoperimetric Profile of Compact Surfaces Under Normalized Ricci Flow, Yizhong Zheng
Eco-Friendly Chemical Herders For Remediation Of Maritime Oil Spill, HAO ZHOU
Essays on Corporate Debt Features, Capital Structure, and Cash Policies, Xiaoyu Zhu
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Words Speak Louder Than Actions: The Power of Vocality and Oral Communication in Medieval Viking Literature, Yasmine Abdel-Jawad
Piano at the Conservatoire de Paris During the Interwar Period: A Study in Pedagogy and Performance Practice, Audrey Abela
