Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023
Social and Cultural Processes that Impact Physical Activity among South Asian Americans Managing Hypertension: A Mixed Methods Study, Sugandha Gupta
Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol Effect on Dopamine Transporter Expression and Function, Delia M. Guzman
Phase Transitions and Thermal Stability of the Magnetic Dual Chiral Density Wave Phase in Cold, Dense QCD, William G. Gyory
Diasporic Women’s Mutability in South Asian Postcolonial Literature, Tasnim S. Halim
“For ‘Their Own Good’”: Education, The Performing Arts, and Social Justice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1915–2023, Anna S. Harb
Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota, Anthony J. Harb
Metabolic Reprogramming in KRAS-driven Cancer Cells, Ahmet Hatipoglu
A Critical Study of Contemporary Palestinian Musical Culture, Karl H. Hausmann
Understanding Failure Mechanisms using Multi-Scale Analyses to Improve the Performance of Zinc Metal and Lithium-ion Batteries, Brendan E. Hawkins
The Unitary Executive Theory: Benefits and Dangers, Dani Heba
The Impact of Municipal Broadband Restrictions on COVID-19 Labor Market Outcomes, Saket Hegde
Haunting at Troy: Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature, Woo Ree Heor
Loca, Alejandro Heredia
Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals and Intimate Partner Violence Resources in LGBTQ+ Organizations, Claire Herr
Uncertainties in Retrieval of Remote Sensing Reflectance from Ocean Color Satellite Observations, Eder I. Herrera Estrella
Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008), Maria Heyaca
Kingdoms Becoming: Dialectic of Black Romanticism, Rasheed M. Hinds
Finding Autonomy Under the Russian Bear: Explaining Central Asia’s Response to the Invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Hitch
Woman FlyTrap, Brianna Jo Hobson
Tongues Out of Place: Narratives of Hereness and Images of Be(long)ing, Christopher Hoffman
Creating Space for Black Queer Narratives: A Conversation Between Nella Larsen and James Baldwin, Trinity L. Hollis
ZEUS IV, Lauren Holmes
Public Privacy and Info-Liberal Authoritarianism, Christopher Hongach
Babel, Daniel Horowitz
Design and Synthesis of Surface-Functionalized Nanomaterials for Cancer Theranostics, Hailin Huang
Almost Human, Sarah Huang
Alfred Barr, Water Lilies, & the Resurrection of Claude Monet, Ally Huchro
Navigating Through World’s Military Spending Data with Scroll-Event Driven Visualization, Hong Beom Hur
Icons in Lyari: Resonance, Visibility, and Global Blackness in an Indian Ocean Port Town, Zehra Husain
Accelerating Parameter Identifiability of Differential Models with Applications to Parameter Estimation, Ilia Ilmer
Pakistan, India and the Indus River Basin, Muquadas Ilyas
Recursive Functional Learning in Nonfluent Aphasia, Gerald C. Imaezue
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Studies Investigating the Role of the DLPFC in Memory and Metamemory, Casey M. Imperio
Public Perceptions and Punishment of Sex Offenders, Emily R. Ives
Regulating the Care Boom: Labor Standards Enforcement and Paid In-Home Care Work, Isaac Jabola-Carolus
The Effects of Music Therapy on Elderly Adults with Dementia, Jeante J. Jackson
Contact Sheet, Jiwoong Jang
“Everywhere You Go It’s Morning”: Photo-Topographies in Bernadette Mayer’s Memory, Liz Janoff
Concerned Student: Institutional Violence and Embodied Abolition in the University of Missouri Protests, Gaurav Jashnani
"Where Sex is Directly Concerned" Agatha Christie and the Feminization of Detective Fiction, Barbara Javori
Interaction of ADHD severity and neighborhood-level SES on Preschoolers’ Risk for Obesity at School-Age, Ramya V. Jayanthi
Genres of Labor: Wageless Work and the Aesthetics of Stagnation, Martin A. Jensen
Emotional Landscapes, Jin Young Jeong
Electrochemical Resistive-Pulse Sensing in Biological Systems, Rui Jia
Keeping Both History and Magic Alive: Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018) at The Museum of Modern Art, Beatrice M. Johnson
A “Neighborhood” Approach for Using Remotely Sensed Data to Post-Process Species Distribution Models for Conservation Assessments, Bethany A. Johnson
Determining the Influence of Abiotic and Biotic Predictors on Ecological Niche Models, Erica Johnson
Lawn Story Short, Sarah Johnsrude
Blacklash: Phenomenological Hermeneutics in Black Dance, Darvejon A. Jones
How Adults Use Reddit to Cope with Being Children of Divorce, Tamera A. Joseph
Navigating Families, Negotiating Identities: Asian-White Mixed Family Experiences, Hayden Daeshin Ju
New Music for a New World: Robert Ashley’s Television Operas, Nicole Kaack
Battery Energy Storage Systems Applications and Deployment in Dense Urban Areas, Mohamed K. Kamaludeen
The Case of the Disappearing Owner: Do Dogs Show Behavioral Evidence of Violation of Expectation?, Rita Kanagat
An Archival Exploration of Lineup Fairness in Eyewitness Research, Phoebe Kane
Neural Network vs. Rule-Based G2P: A Hybrid Approach to Stress Prediction and Related Vowel Reduction in Bulgarian, Maria Karamihaylova
Evocative Visualization of Void and Fluidity, Tomiko Karino
The Queer Comedy Boom: The History of LGBTQ+ Stand-up Comedy, Marcelle Karp
Ukraine’s Quest for Justice: Accountability for Atrocities Committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, Tetiana Karpus
Caring for Children with Mental Health Concerns: The Experience of Being a School Nurse, Jeannine Kaskoun
Uber, the gig economy, and African Americans: Digital anti-Blackness in the new technological age, Bill Kaso
Examining the Role of Evidence-Based Suspicion in Racial Disparities in Wrongful Convictions, Jacqueline Katzman
I Could Never, Chad Kaydo
Bearer Negotiable Instruments: Addressing a Financial Intelligence Gap and Identifying Criminogenic Weaknesses, Hollis B. Kegg
Publishing the Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper and its Modernities, Philip E. Keisman
Civil Society Organizations Serving Children in Vietnam: Opportunities and Constraints Working with Government Agencies, Trang P. Kelly
Predatory Helpfulness: A Replication (And Expansion) Study Examining Grooming and Recruitment Tactics in Sex Trafficking, Tatum E. Kenney
The Archival Impulse: English Family Record Keeping and Archives, ca. 1450–1700, Maura Kenny
The Making of Counter-Insurgent Geographies in Post-Revolutionary Cairo, Baltaga and Maslaha at Bulaq Abule’lla, Omnia Khalil
Non-Governmental Organizations and the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Uzbekistan, Sayyora Khaydarova
Propensity Score Analysis and Machine Learning: A Comparison and Application to Post-Secondary Education Data, Khudodod Khudododov
Power and Authority in Karl Marx, Niccoló Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes, Ekim Kilic
Diversity Still Matters: School-Level Racial Diversity, Poverty and Performance of New York City Public Schools, Byunghwa Kim
Leonora Carrington’s "Down Below": Transgressive Renderings of the Grotesque Female Body, Kelsey King
Into the Unknown: Exploring the Role of Uncertainty in Threat-Safety Discrimination, Maia Kinney-Petrucha
SERS for the Detection of Trace Materials, Omari Kirkland
The Origins of the Iraq War: The Role of Anthrax in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Claims, John P. Koenig
Identity and Complexity in Chaya Czernowin’s INA, Eliav Kohl
Cartographic Subjectivity in Fernand Deligny’s lignes d’erre, Anya Komar
Analyzing Relationships with Machine Learning, Oscar Ko
Reproduction: The Ultimate Enemy of Racial Passing in Harlem Renaissance Literature, Veronica Kordmany
The Impact of Semantics and Syntax on Lexical Retrieval in Individuals With Aphasia, Marta M. Korytkowska
The Search for Existential Meaning: Tracing Leo Tolstoy’s Nihilism Through his Later Works, Elisabeth Koyfman
Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions with Enantioenriched Electrophiles, Iv Kraja
Who Are Our Teachers? The Impact of the Composition Teaching Practicum on Writing Studies, Maxine Krenzel
TOWARDS CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY IN GIFTED EDUCATION TEACHER PREPARATION, Inna Kruvi
Does the APOE-ε4 Allele Differentially Influence Cognition: A Longitudinal Investigation in Healthy Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease, Aditya Kulkarni
Illuminating the Drivers of Genomic Diversification in Lamprologine Cichlids of the Lower Congo River, Naoko P. Kurata
Trust but Verify: The Influence of Social Media and Core Values on Consumer Trust in Business, Zoie M. Lagoudis
Defining Twice Exceptional Learners: A Study of Self-Concept, Alyssa D. Landau