Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Mission at 311, Nan Li
We Refugees, Again, Aaron Linas
A 3D Characteristics Database of Land Engraved Areas with Known Subclass, EnTni Lin
Institutional Quality and Illicit Financial Flows in Developing and Developed Countries: An Empirical Assessment, Zin Kyaw Lin
Status, Power, and Apologies: How Status and Power Shape the Willingness to Apologize and the Perception of Victims, Louis Lipani
The Patterns and Prosecutions of Media Leakers, Julia M. Lipkins
Wukongism: Monkey King, Kungfu/Jazz, and Asian/American Performance, Sissi Liu
Essays on Innovation, Analyst Coverage, and Corporate Finance, Yang Liu
Social Influences on Songbird Behavior: From Song Learning to Motion Coordination, Iva Ljubičić
Poverty in New York City: Consumption Expenditure as a Poverty Predictor, Michael Lomtevas
NIMBY: Not In My Backyard, Ariama Long
The Place Where All Ends Meet, Benjamin Long
Memory in Memoir & Biography: Science, Place, and Agency, Johnathan E. Longo
Deconstructing City Hall Park: The Development and Archaeology of the Common, Alyssa Loorya
Just Drop My Body on the Steps of the FDA: Emotion & Activism at ACT UP’s “Seize Control of the FDA” Action, Mariana Lopez de Castilla
Essays on the Economics of Health and Human Capital, Paloma Lopez de mesa Moyano
Territories of Contestation in Medellín: Destierro, Memory, the Youth, and the State, Joan C. Lopez
Singing and Stress, Joseline Lopez
Unpacking Ostalgia: Where Biography Meets History, Melanie Lorek
This Land Is Ours Land, Richard J. Loria
Compact Gene Regulatory Cassettes Support Hallmark Features of T-Cell Receptor (TCR)-alpha Gene Locus Control Region (LCR) Activity, Jordana Lovett
Remembrances Reconsidered: Site-Specific Affective Retellings, Melanie W. Lozier
When Humor Hurts: The Detrimental Effect of Humor on Brand Attitudes After a Brand Transgression, Lama Lteif
Grieving Behaviors During Parental Bereavement in Western Societies, Victor A. Luna
Interdisciplinary Studies of Complex Network and Machine Learning and Its Applications, Shaojun Luo
Assessing the Outcomes of a Jail-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program: A Quasi-Experimental Approach, Laura Lutgen
The Y-Screen Assay: Validation and Evaluation of Subsequent STR Success, Kassandra Luyando
The Dark Side of Charismatic Leadership: A Social Exchange Perspective, Bin Ma
“Community in Solitude”: The Solitary Self, Social Critique, and Utopian Longing, Colin S. Macdonald
"Betwixt the World Destroyed and World Restored": Subjectivity and Paradisal Recovery in John Milton's Late Poems, Chihping Ma
Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Self-competency Regarding Individualized Developmental Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Patricia Macho
Surviving A Death Sentence, Amy K. Mackinnon
De-centering the Monolingual: A Psychophysiological Study of Heritage Speaker Language Processing, Christen N. Madsen II
The Effects of Pyramidal Training on Staff Acquisition of Five Behavior Analytic Procedures, Lindsay M. Maffei-Almodovar
Still ACTing UP? Voices from ACTUP's Oral History Project on the Current State of the LGBTQ Community, Michael D. Mahana
Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition, Kathryn L. Mahaney
The Musicality of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka
The Psychology of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account, Daniel Mailick
Taxonomy, Taphonomy, and Bioerosion of Lamniform and Carcharhiniform Shark Teeth from Onslow Bay, North Carolina and an Example Extension from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the U.S.A., Harry M. Maisch IV
Neural Underpinnings of Walking Under Cognitive and Sensory Load: A Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Approach, Brenda R. Malcolm
On paper, immigrant detention centers meet standards to prevent sexual assault. But assault continues. Why?, Samantha A. Maldonado, Sarah V. Matusek, and Paula Moura
Essence, Explanation, and Modal Knowledge, Antonella Mallozzi
Guardians of Virtue, Tamsen Maloy and Tasia Jensen
An Analysis of Successful and Unsuccessful Terrorist Assassinations: Informing Counterterrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention, Marissa Mandala
Economics, Politics and the Environment, Ron Mandelbaum
Opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives, Henry J. Manwell
The Distribution of Totally Positive Integers in Totally Real Number Fields, Tianyi Mao
Colorism in Assessor Ratings: Exploring the Roles of Social Dominance Orientation, Metaphorical Associations and Skin Tone Stereotypes, Tiwi D. Marira
Neonatal Stimulation of PKC Epsilon Signaling Normalizes Fragile X-Associated Deficits in PVN Oxytocin Expression and Later-Life Social and Anxiety Behavior, Alexandra E. Marsillo
Sunken II Chords and Inwardness: A Correspondence Complex in Robert Schumann’s Liederjahr Songs, Alexander J.J. Martin
Unlocking the mysteries of Weed and Mexico, Eddy Martinez
There’s Nothing Here: Tenure, Attachment, and Changing Perceptions in Gentrifying Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Sara Martucci
The Dictators’ Dilemma: Repression or Concessions in the Face of Resistance, Chris Massaro
Violence in Prostitution, Serena Maszak
James Baldwin's Soundscape and Grain of the Racialized Body, Vallerie M. Matos
Standard and Anomalous Wave Transport Inside Random Media, Xujun Ma
OPERAbbit, Mariel C. Mayz
To Be Everything: Sylvia Plath and the Problem That Has No Name, Alanna P. McAuliffe
The Brotherhood: Black Officers, Prisoners, and New York’s Crisis in Corrections, 1962–1984, Katherine Logan McBride
Adults’ Perceptions of Children with Mental Illness Labels Who Tell Truths and Lies, Jessica Lynn McCurdy
On Some Geometry of Graphs, Zachary S. McGuirk
Diseased Lineage: An Intersectional Feminist Perspective, Kelly McIntosh
A MODERN-DAY AFFLICTION: DID WIFI MAKE JOEL DEAN SICK?, Dominic McKenzie
Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry, Andrew McKinney
State Unbuilding: Presidents and the American National Security State, 1952–2016, Adam M. McMahon
A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner
Rising Above the Faithful: Monumental Ceiling Crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia, Alice Lynn McMichael
Imagination or Proof: The Use of Imagery and False Evidence in Eliciting Internalized False Confessions, Kendall McMillen
Are Cyber Operations Having an Impact on State Electoral Processes?, Sean Joseph McNicholas
“The idea of self in the land of self-help”: Globalization and a structure of feeling in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Sharmeen Mehri
A Colony’s State of Sovereignty: Decolonization Has Yet to Take Place In Rwanda, Mahalia Mehu
The Things They Do Here: Work and Greek Orthodox Death in New York City, Paul Melas
Painting, Geography, and the Body: Charting the First Two Decades of Mary Corse’s Art, Sarah A. Meller
Whether, When, and How: Fertility Intentions and Age in the U.S., Andrea Melnikas
“After-Ozymandias”: The Colonization of Symbols and the American Monument, H. R. Membreno-Canales
Lords from the Desert, Caroline Mercado
Statistical Regularities in Melodic Phrases: Effects on Aesthetic Ratings, Daniel Meredith
From Fear to Reverie: Incidents in Isolation in the American Wilderness, Serhiy Metenko
A History of Employee Ownership in the United States, Christopher Michael
The Structurally Adjusted School: School Restructuring and Youth Political Incorporation in Suburban America, Erin Michaels
Militarization of Conservation, Daniel Ryan Michel
From Virtual to Physical: Video Game Streaming Communities, Avery Miles
Behind the student loan debt crisis, new benefits solutions, Sarah Min
The Connection Between Race and Performance of NBA Draft Picks, Jeremiah Mitchell
Impact of Neurodevelopmental Genes on the Trajectory of ADHD Severity: A Pilot Study, Agnieszka Mlodnicka
Testing the Efficacy of Interventions to Decrease Racial Bias in Jury Selection, Karima Modjadidi
Environmental Factors Affecting Rapid Shear in Fibers from the Passage of a Bullet, Laura Molina
Evidence of the 1762 Arakan and Prior Earthquakes in the Northern Sunda Subduction, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal
Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism, Kaitlin Mondello
Bacterial LPS at the Immune Modulating Component in Juzen-taiho-to, Diego Montenegro
Digesting Democracy: A Theoretical Analysis of American Food Regimes, Angela R. Moore
Transnational Nationalists: Cosmopolitan Women, Philanthropy, and Italian State-Building, 1850-1890, Diana Moore
A Leak in the Pipeline: College in Jail from the Participants’ Perspective, Kathy Mora
Multimodal Depression Detection: An Investigation of Features and Fusion Techniques for Automated Systems, Michelle Renee Morales
Bayesian State Space Representation Model: Applications to Macroeconomics and International Finance, Hiroshi Morita