Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Asymmetric Alliances and Side Payments: Alliance Politics Between Unequal Powers, Muhammad S. Kabir
The Failure of Post-War Reconstruction in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Indebtedness, Caste Exclusion and the Search for Alternatives, Ahilan Kadirgamar
Words of Change: How Linguistic Shifts Over the Course of a Short-Term Exposure Therapy Represent Movement Towards Psychological Health, Zachary A. Kahn
Toward a Social Ontology of the Family, Laura W. Kane
Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric, Allannah K. Karas
Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population, Maryam E. Karimi
How the “Greatest Rapper Alive” Returned Hip Hop to its Political Roots, Meeran Karim
HOMAGE TO THE FLORENTINE TONDO, Geraldine Karnbach
911 Dispatchers: Their Role as Evidence Collectors, Brittany P. Kassis
From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016, Joshua Katz-Rosene
Design of Collagen-Mimetic Peptides, Parminder Jeet Kaur
Our Vile Age: Women and Class in the Interwar Novels of Nancy Mitford, Kelley Kawano
Worlds of If: Analyses of the Composed and Improvised Works of Robert Dick, Melissa Keeling
A Sentiment Analysis of Language & Gender Using Word Embedding Models, Ellyn Rolleston Keith
Half a Mile to Hope, Ryan Kelley
Adult human perception of distress in the cries of bonobo, chimpanzee and human infants, Taylor Kelly
Control Freak: How an injured esports athlete got back into the game, Imad Khan
Secure and Efficient Delegation of a Single and Multiple Exponentiations to a Single Malicious Server, Matluba Khodjaeva
Expectations and Aspirations of Motherhood for Young Women in Foster Care, Joanna Kibel-Gagne
The Search for Authenticity in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder, Nino Kiguradze
A Tale of Two Seasons, Fran Kilinski
African Wild Dog, Lycaon pictus, Coloration Patterns and Social Aggregation, Ayong J. Kim
Investigating the Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Korean Immigrant Women in America, Chunrye Kim
"La Belle Dame in bobby socks":Keatsian Echoes in Lolita, Heajin-Hailie Kim
Spirits' Dance: Sunrise Overture, Jeonghun Kim
Turaev Surfaces and Toroidally Alternating Knots, Seungwon Kim
Healthy People Are Bad for Capitalism, Eri King
Beyond the Vale: Visualizing Slavery in Craven County, North Carolina, Marissa N. Kinsey
Between the Cloud and the Page: Repetition and Textuality in Post-Conceptual Poetics, Michael Kirby
Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure, Thomas Kivatinos
Cooperation and Reciprocity in Anonymous Interactions: Other-Regarding Preferences and Quasi-Magical Thinking, Gregory Klevans
The Relationship Between Non-Traditional Instructional Strategies and the Multicultural Competence of School Psychologists, Jacqueline Kluger
Effect of Implementation of Simulation on Critical Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Joanne M. Knoesel
Criminal Responsibility: Meta-analysis and Study Space, Lauren E. Kois
Perspectives on Emotional Climate Associated with Classroom Interactions, Hiro Komatsubara
Gender and Financial Risk Aversion, Efstathia Korkou
Effects of a Computer-based Simulation on Chemistry Self-Efficacy, Yolanta V. Kornak-Bozza
Mahlerian Tonality: Challenges to Classical Foreground Structures in the Music of Gustav Mahler, Ryan Kosseff-Jones
The Life and Death of Urban Ethnic Enclaves: Gentrification and Ethnic Fragmentation in Brooklyn's 'Polish Town', Aneta Kostrzewa
Optimizing A Method For Simultaneous Recovery of Proteins and DNA from Fingerprints, Steven Kranes
The Art of Cognition: British Empiricism and Victorian Aesthetics, Rachel Kravetz
A Partial Nonlinear Extension of Lax-Richtmyer Approximation Theory, Aradhana Kumari
The P53 Independent Functions of Estrogen-Activated MDM2 in Cell Signaling and Mammary Architecture, Nandini Kundu
From Food to Food Justice: Pathways and Narratives of Young Food Activists in New York City, Amy Kwan
“Without Stopping to Write a Long Apology”: Spectacle, Anecdote, and Curated Identity in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, Anjelica La Furno
Personal Privacy And Data Security In The Age Of The Internet, Alexandra Langone
Seaport Vulnerability to Criminal Networks: A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Criminological Vulnerability in the Top 30 U.S. Container Ports, Leonid Lantsman
Psychopathy, Empathic Concern, and Emotional-Sentence Processing: An N400 ERP Study, Farren Larson
Claude III Audran: Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style, Barbara Laux
Saving DIY Spaces, Katherine Lavacca
A New Approach to the Analysis of Timbre, Megan L. Lavengood
On Vinyl: Revival & Survival, Thom Leavy
Interrogation Techniques in South Korea: What Happens in a Korean Interrogation Room?, Hyunjoo Lee
The Possibilities of the Video Game Exhibition, Elizabeth Legere 2762328
Gustave Vogt's Musical Album of Autographs: A Scholarly Edition, Kristin Leitterman
La nación está en otra parte: cultura y neoliberalismo en México (1977-1996), Rafael Lemus
Who Am I to You? Using Function Words as a Measure of Transference, Jon William P. Lentz
The Advanced Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue and Explosives, Jennifer M. Leonard
Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South, Jenny LeRoy
A Quasi-Experimental Study of a Health Patterning Modality about Childhood Vaginitis and Power in Haitian Primary Caregivers, Anne Marie Berthe Leveille-Tulce
Three Essays on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis with a Special Focus on Greece, Flora Leventi
Some Results in Combinatorial Number Theory, Karl Levy
The Fear Factor: Exploring the Impact of the Vulnerability to Deportation on Immigrants' Lives, Shirley P. Leyro
Albert Camus's Mediterraneanism in La Peste, Jacquelyn Libby
The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business, David A. Liburd
Weight Loss Maintenance: Women's Experience During Perimenopause, Karren B. Liebert
Multiple Perpetrator Sexual Assault: The Relationship Between the Number of Perpetrators, Blame Attribution, and Victim Resistance, Yi Jin Genevieve Lim
Recreational Music Exposure and Music-Induced Hearing Loss: A Systematic Literature Review, Carolyn Lindenbaum
Computational Investigation of the Pore Formation Mechanism of Beta-Hairpin Antimicrobial Peptides, Richard Lipkin
Hell in Hand: Fear and Hope in the Hellmouths of the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, stephanie lish
Trump’s “America First” Trade Policy and the Politics of U.S. International Investment Agreements, Jesse Liss
Get Me Out of Here, Wendy F. Liszt
Olfactory Receptor Antagonism in the OR-I7 Aldehyde Receptor and the Mammalian Olfactory System, Min Ting Liu
Cruising Borders, Unsettling Identities: Toward a Queer Diasporic Asian America, Wen Liu
The Feminization of Violence, Caitlin Logan
Marsh-Exported Dissolved Organic Matter Fate in Estuaries, Laura Ann Logozzo
Towards Telepathic Ecologies: A Presentation of Sources for Image Production within Information, Lewis A. Longino
Archaeology of Void Spaces, Cory Look
Like A Natural Woman - Black Women’s Theatre Aesthetics: Agency & Resistance on the Chitlin’ Circuit, Adrienne R. Lotson
Surplus Consumption, Habit Utility and Moody Investors, Jun Lou
The Relationships Among Different Traits of Masculinity and Intimate Partner Violence, Jennifer E. Loveland
Mechanisms of Shear Zone Localization and Raman Thermobarometry in Spinel Peridotites from the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Emily J. Lubicich
A New Thin Layered Structural Coating on a Metal Substrate for Enhanced hydrogen Production from Steam Methane Reforming, Michael A. Lugo-Pimentel
El Spill de Jaume Roig. Estudio de relaciones semióticas con la picaresca, Raul Macias Cotano
“It’s a Kind of Killing:” Afghan Refugees in Shadow of the EU Fear They’re Forgotten, Kyle Mackie
Cognitive and Affective Control Deficits in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Melissa-Ann Mackie
Queering Addiction, TaraRose Macuch
Why Do Negative Employment Outcomes for Workers with Disabilities Persist?: Investigating the Effects of Human Capital, Social Capital, and Discrimination, Martine Maculaitis
Body Size Regulation via BMP Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, Uday Madaan
Functional Isolation: Understanding isolation in trafficking survivors, Liz Mahan
Affective Afterlives: An Ethnography of Activism Between Movements, Manissa Maharawal
Una sensibilità scientifica: Giacomo Balla’s Painting of Light, 1900-1914, Luise Mahler