Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Collective Chemotaxis of Retinal Neural Cells from Drosophila Melanogaster in Controlled Microenvironments, Stephanie Zhang
Domain-Specific Knowledge Exploration with Ontology Hierarchical Re-Ranking and Adaptive Learning and Extension, Grace G. Zhao
Observational Representation of A Rural Chinese Family's Life: The Return, Lingyun Zheng
Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work, Philip Zigman
The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource of a Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer
Can Mindfulness Training Reduce Stress Reactivity in First-Year College Students?, Liat Zitron
Individual’s Self Awareness of Mental Illness: The Effects on Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, and Racial Discrimination, Sarah Zoubaa
How and Where to Make a Fortune: Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility through Work in British Literature, 1719–1809, Heather Zuber
Capstones from 2017
Lost Wisdom of the Elders, Miamichelle Abad
Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Right-Wing Populism and Mainstream Cooption in Germany and France, Jihan Abdalla
Interstructure Lattices and Types of Peano Arithmetic, Athar Abdul-Quader
Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jinu R. Abraham
Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from Nearby Molecular Clouds as a Probe of Cosmic Ray Density Variations, Ryan Abrahams
Mi Familia, Pnina Abramovich
Inmate Death in Private and Public Prisons, Alexis Acevedo
The Association of Feline Behavior to Acoustical Features of Kitten Directed Speech, Daniela Acevedo
Running Out of Options: The Threat of Declining Competition, Tanvi P. Acharya
Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning, Julie Ackerman
Green card veterans - deported and forgotten, Vicki Adame
HOW THE WILLOWBROOK CONSENT DECREE HAS INFLUENCED CONTEMPORARY ADVOCACY OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES, Kristen S. Addessi
I LIKE AMERICA: Painting in the Expanded Field, Isaac Aden
Making a Case for Social Innovation as a Structural Counterpart to Public Participation in Regional Planning, Manju A. Adikesavan
Heavy Ink: A Documentary on the Comicbook Revolution, Renzo Adler
The Untold Story of Africa: What Advertising from Africa Reveals to the Rest of the World About the Continent, Rachael F. Afolabi
Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom, Neil S. Agarwal
Automatic Optimum Atlas Selection for Multi-Atlas Image Segmentation using Joint Label Fusion, kofi agyeman
Back to Square One: Understanding the Role of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Ahmed A. Ahmed
A Combinatorial Framework for Multiple RNA Interaction Prediction, Syed Ali Ahmed
Narrating the Future: Understanding How Student Narratives Relate to Outcomes in Community College, Tanzina Ahmed
The Politician and the Professor: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Strains of Modern American Liberalism, Peter-Christian Aigner
Without a Caveat: How an Ethiopian Immigrant Deconstructs Race in America, Priscilla Alabi
Could Reducing Compulsory Years of Schooling in a Developing Country be Beneficial?, Dina Al Ajmi
Minding the Baby®: Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Treatment Outcomes in a Mother-Infant Home Visiting Program, Jessica G. Albertson
2D Vector Map and Database design for Indoor Assisted Navigation, Luciano Caraciolo Albuquerque
Lichen Conservation in Eastern North America: Population Genomics, Climate Change, and Translocations, Jessica Allen
The Racial Politics of Elementary School Choice for Black Parents Living in Brooklyn, NY, Shannon N. Allen
MY GIANTS, Teodora Altomare
Patterns of Injury in Homicide Relationships: Clinical, Psychological, and Investigative Implications, Shea L. Alvarez Cussen
Chemical Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Herbal Incense Products, Karol F. Alvarez Heredia
The Legacy of Slavery and the Continued Marginalization of Communities of Color Within the Legal System, Julia N. Alvarez
Using Video in a Collaborative Teacher Team Within a Special Education School: A Case Study, Belinda Akua-Kisiwaa Amoako
Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially Just Writing Center Assessments, Erin M. Andersen
TWO-WAY CONTRACTS: THE SOLUTION FOR THE NBA, Stefan Anderson
A Corpus in First-Person: Weegee and the Performance of the Self, Emily Annis
The Effect of Changes in Racial Composition on Housing Prices: A Study of the Most Diverse Place in the World, Youseph Anwar
Capitalism and Unfreedom: Louis D. Brandeis and a Liberty of the Left, Eric L. Apar
Musicalization: Early Childhood Music Access, Discourse, and Praxis in NYC Charter Schools, 2014-2015, Andrew Aprile
Nervous Salomes: New York Salomania and the Neurological Condition of Modernité, Margaret K. Araneo
Fit for the Stage: Regency Actors and the Inspiration Behind Romantic Drama, James Armstrong
Nonlinear Optical Studies of Defects and Domain Structures in Perovskite-Type Dielectric Ceramics, David J. Ascienzo
The Gift that Keeps One Living, Scott R. Axelrod
Subversion and Transcendence in the Latin American Modern Travel Novel (1928-1976), Andrea Babsky
The Twilight Zone: The Confluence of Childhood Scenes and Future Anxiety, Jongwon Bae
Fear of Terrorism in Armenia: Anxiety, Moral Panic and the Role of the Media, Gurgen Balasanyan
Bodies of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender in the Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano
You Need Violence and Sincerity: Godard and the Manufacturing of a Revolutionary Cinema, Matthew Ballinger
Out of the Shadows: Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and the Will to Persist, Juella Baltonado
A cross-cultural examination of the conformity effect when co-witnesses discuss a crime, Sungil Bang
The Socioemotional Impact of Disparate Student Discipline: An Examination of Racial Bias and Out-of-School Suspensions, Amelia Barbadoro
How Does Child Participation in Early Head Start Programs Affect Their Mother’s Employment and Educational Attainment?, Pamela Barcelona
Why Some Take Pleasure in Other People’s Pain: The Role of Attachment, Competition, and Cooperation on Schadenfreude, Alison Baren
Harm and Victim Age as Factors in the Determination of Intentionality and Culpability, Donal David Barnard Jr.
The Effect of a Single Bout of Physical Exertion on Expressive Language and Word Finding in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Marissa A. Barrera
Spatial-Relational Learning and Memory Deficits Associated with NMDAR Autoantibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Brittany L. Bascetta
W.E.B. Du Bois: Freedom, Race, and American Modernity, Elvira Basevich
Manifold Convergence: Sewing Sequences of Riemannian Manifolds with Positive or Nonnegative Scalar Curvature, Jorge E. Basilio
The Analysis of Musical Dramaturgy in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Danielle J. Bastone
“The Monster They've Engendered in Me”: Gothic Strategies in African American and Latina/o Prison Literature, 1945-2000, Jason Baumann
Production of Energy and Environmental Protection as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development, Diana Baus
Overpopulation and the Impact on the Environment, Doris Baus
Absence Is Presence With Distance, James Bayard
Public Art Between Authoritarianism and Democracy (The Case of the Maidan Protest in Ukraine), Asia Bazdyrieva
The Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect in Men, Robert A. Beattey Jr.
Two Types of Gods: Narratives and Imagined Orders of Islamic Spain, Brian Beegan
Sneaker Culture Has Given Black Men Fashion Freedom While Creating Restriction, Shaquille-Omari Bekoe
Hindsight Bias in Clinical Decision Making, Amanda Beltrani
Influence of Fibroblasts on Metastatic Cancer Cell Drug Resistance in a 3D Microfluidic Cell Array, Elizabeth C. Benoy
Diversity's Impact on the Quality of Deliberations, Amanda N. Bergold
Maybe That's What It Means, Anael Berkovitz
Tropes Trump Politics, Aaron Berkowitz
Owing and Owning: Zubayr Pasha, Slavery, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Sudan, Zachary S. Berman
Histomorphology of trauma in charred and decomposed remains, Mariya Bezugly
Breadcrumbs: Privacy as a Privilege, Prachi Bhardwaj
Ecologies of the Passions in Early Modern English Tragedies, Roya Biggie
The Formation of Fine-Grained Chondrule Rims in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites, John Bigolski
Quantum Optical Interferometry and Quantum State Engineering, Richard J. Birrittella Jr
Narrating School, Narrative Self: Identity, Agency and the Hidden Curriculum of (Hetero)Normativity, Mikela Bjork
The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Layla Blodgett Carrillo
Machine Learning Algorithms for Automated Satellite Snow and Sea Ice Detection, George Bonev
Mixed Feelings: Growing Up Biracial in America, Alexandra Boothe
Between The Alarm Clock and The Cell Phone, Sam Bornstein
Multilingualism And Ego Depletion In Interference Task Performance – Are Multilingual Brains More Intelligent Than Monolingual Brains?, Dorota B. Botwina