Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
Everyday Violence and Women's Lives in Zambia: An Autoethnography, Amina Shikupilwa
A Pedagogical Study of the "Four Lauds for Solo Violin" by Elliott Carter, Heesun Shin
Urbanely Chained: Issues Within A City, Esther Shittu
Diagnosing the Will to Suffer: Lovesickness in the Medical and Literary Traditions, Jane Shmidt
Lauretta Vinciarelli in Context: Transatlantic Dialogues in Architecture, Art, Pedagogy, and Theory, 1968-2007, Rebecca Siefert
Eternally Poor, Kalah Siegel
From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Camp LaGuardia and the Political Economy of an Urban Infrastructure, Christian D. Siener
Gendered Violence: An Analysis of State Legal Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Amongst Refugee Women, Maria Sigalas
The Pond & the Sauna, Kaija Siirala
African American Performers in Stalin’s Soviet Union: Between Political Promise and Racial Propaganda, Christopher E. Silsby
The Effects of Media Exposure on Perceptions of Residence Restrictions, Stephanie Simeone
Prints on Display: Exhibitions of Etching and Engraving in England, 1770s-1858, Nicole Simpson
Otologic Blast Injuries, Michelle Singer
Assessing the Ordinality of Response Bias with Item Response Models: A Case Study Using the PHQ-9, Venessa N. Singhroy
Audiometric Status, Self-Perception of Hearing Disorders, and Noise Dose in Audio Post-Production Engineers, Laura M. Sinnott
The Nature of Defenses Used by School-Aged Children with ADHD, Laurie G. Slodounik
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs Pick Up the Pieces After Defunding Scare, Camille Danielle Smith
The Role of Self-Disclosure in Improving Workplace Cross-Race Mentoring Outcomes, Christine R. Smith
Development of a Journaling Application to Track Progress of Adaptation to Amplification for Adult Patients: DEarDiary, Nicole C. Snider
Weaponization of Data for Governmentality, Juliana Son
Subthreshold PTSD and Associated Psycholgical Distress in Trauma Exposed Male and Female Veterans, Matthew A. Southard
The Romance Novel Cover, Jessica D. Spears
What Role is Neuroscience Playing in New State Raise-the-Age Laws?, Dane N. Stallone
Coincidence of Bargaining Solutions and Rationalizability in Epistemic Games, Todd Stambaugh
The Distant Early Warning Line: Geographies, Infrastructures, and Environments of Warning, Jordan Steingard
Family–School Partnerships and the Missing Voice of Parents, Laura R. Stein
Infinitely Many Solutions to Asymmetric, Polyharmonic Dirichlet Problems, Edger Sterjo
Seeing Whiteness: the Progression and Regression of White Identity in Four Post-Civil War Literary Generations, Sara N. Stone
Black Hair in Local Television: When Will Hair Just be Hair?, Shari Straker
Niche Shifts, Species Distributions, and Genetic Diversity in Gymnophthalminae Lizards, with a Focus on Microclimates and Thermophysiology, Maria Strangas
“I Am Going to College…Now What?!”: Becoming a College Student, Renata Strashnaya
The Bully and the Beast: Correlations between Psychopathic Traits and Bullying in a Sample of University Students, Nascha Streng
Linear Progress with Exponential Decay in Weakly Hyperbolic Groups, Matthew H. Sunderland
General Acceptance among Experts of Eyewitness Research Findings: Sources of Influence, Sneha Suresh
From the Humanitarian Impact Initiative to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: A Novel Approach to Nuclear Disarmament, Elisabeth Szeli
Nationalism, Soft Annexation and Hybrid Warfare: Putin's Recipe for Russian Resurgence, Brian E. Szlenk Straub
Beyond "The One"/ More Than "The One", Andrea Nicole Tagle and Shelby Boamah
Transformations: Suburban Cordoba During the Umayyad Caliphate, 929-1009, Carmen M. Tagle
The role of MDM2 in DNA damage signaling, Stanley Tam
Genetic Basis of Larval Crystal Cell Quantity Variation in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP), Brian Tang
Melting Crayons, Ho Lam Tang
What’s Your Story? Assessing Childhood Maltreatment Using the Thematic Apperception Test in An Adult Inpatient Population., Thachell C. Tanis
Capital Growth: Precision Agriculture and Vertical Farming in the Corporate Food Regime, Justin Taylor
Marginalidad y subversión en tres novelas de Juan Filloy de la década de 1930, Sonia M. Tejada
Linking Hostile/Helpless Maternal Representations in Pregnancy and Later Child Protection Involvement: A Pilot Study, Madeleine Terry
Creating Herstory: Female Rebellion in Arundhati Roy’s "The God of Small Things" and "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", Priyanka Tewari
Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945, Johnathan Thayer
Two Suites for Solo Instruments, Matthew O. Thomas
On Memory and the Radical Black Imagination, Todd Thomas
El negro y el haitiano en la literatura dominicana de la diáspora, Juan Nicolás Tineo
Dostoevsky as a Translator of "Eugénie Grandet", Julia Titus
Investigating Attitude Change Through Psychoeducational Interventions, Elizabeth Claire Toal
The College Application Essay Mediating Inequality Along the Path to Higher Education, Ralitsa S. Todorova
Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?, Violetta Torres-Baron
Wood trait preferences of Neotropical xylophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Christina Torres
Insecure Hegemony: The Cultural Construction of 'Righteous Retaliation' in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden, Marisa Tramontano
Making “Made in New York” Matter, Adeline Trento
Paper Memories: A Visual Memoir, Stephanie Trinidad
Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission, George F. Trivino
When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge
Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator, Eric J. Tsai
The Cult of Names, Shaydanay A. Urbani
Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro, Lorena Uribe Bracho
Mechanisms for Survival and Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells, Matthew B. Utter
La melancolía de Juan Ramón Jiménez: un estudio emotivo, Carmen Valenzuela Cervantes
An Analysis of Innovate Training with Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Raymond John Van Steyn
Revival, Anya van Wagtendonk
Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1943–1978, Francesca Vassalle
The Prediction of Personal Narrative on Features of Recovery Among People with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders, Beth Vayshenker
I AM A MAN: How legacy and inheritance bear a heavy burden on black masculinity in A Raisin in the Sun, Barbershop, and Creed, Aliyah D. Veal
Mechanism and Development of Peptide-Based Inhibitors to Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Self-Assembly, Jayson Vedad
A New Estimate for Neanderthal Energy Expenditure, Stephen J. Venner
El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo, Edgar Augusto Verastegui
Aurality as Methexis and the Rise of Castilian Literature: The Case of the Siete Partidas, Maristela Verastegui
Convergent Evolution of Biochemical Innovations in Polychaetes: Characterizing the Molecular Basis of Bioluminescence and Venom Production, Aida E. Verdes Gorín
Cross-Race Effect of African-Americans and Caucasians, Bianca Vidal
Detecting Cognitive, Functional and Behavioral Response to Donepezil in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Attention Tasks, Clara Vila-Castelar
Kinder Carnage, Talib Visram
Lost and Found in Translation: A Study of the Bilingual Work of Samuel Beckett, Julien Green, and Nancy Huston, Genevieve Waite
Hearing Loss and Third Party Disability: A Systematic Review, Kathleen H. Wallace
A Critical Assessment of the Internship at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, Ching-Kang Wang
Essays on Institutional Ownership and Corporate Finance, Qijian Wang
Politics as Loot: Reflections on Theories of Decline in Political Thought, Milo Ward
Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America, Sarah Ward
Essays on the Transmission of Risk and Volatility Across International Financial Markets, Evan Warshaw
The Upright Battle: Morphological Trends of the Bipedal Pelvis, Nicole M. Webb
A New Keynesian Approach to Estimating Welfare Losses Under Strict and Flexible-Targeting Regimes, Shawn Weber
Perceived Corruption in Ukraine: A National Analysis Using Individual Level Data from 2012-2014, Cody X. Weglinski
The Art of Fortune-Taking, Allison Weintraub
The Redemption of Goethe’s Eternal Feminine: Discovering the Reality and Significance of an Archetypal Phenomenon, Mariana Weisler
Infodynamics: A Naturalistic Psychosemantics, Daniel E. Weissglass
Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics, Kenneth R. Weisshaar
Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity, Suhua Wei
Investigating the Effects of Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation on The Expression of NKCC1 In Mice, Pasindu Weliwaththage
How Immigrants are Redefining Hudson Valley Dining, Kevin Wheeler
Cultural Relativism in the Age of Modernity: Are Human Rights Still up for Debate?, Devani N. Whitehead