Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
The Development of Novel Platforms for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography, Brendon E. Cook
The Domino Effect: Politics, Policy, and the Consolidation of the Sugar Refining Industry in the United States, 1789–1895, Brendan Cooper
A Qualitative, Phenomenological Study of Psychotherapists’ Perception of Ethnic Identity Shifts in Immigrant Patients, Ricardo Corbetta
Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett
Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba, Gonzalo Cordova
Leadership Ineffectiveness: The Interactive Effects of Leader Personality, Job Demands, and Job Resources on Ethical Climate and Employee Turnover Intentions, Michelle D. Corman
The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography, Melissa Coss Aquino
Making Sounds, Patrick Costello
Pawns of Policy and Problematized Perception: The Sustainability of Inequality Through the Space of African-American Childhood, Jen-I S. Costosa
Dear Diary : Musings from an Invisible Mixie, Sarah C. Creagen
Reimagining Essex Street Market, Madeleine M. Crenshaw
Culture Care Needs of Puerto Rican Women Receiving HIV Care from Nurse Practitioners in New York City, Michele Crespo-Fierro
Mahoma en dos textos aljamiados del siglo XVI: La filosofía perenne y el monomito de los moriscos, Emil L. Cruz Fernández
Trade Rout: As Trade Tensions Built Between U.S. And Canada, This American Border Town Felt The Freeze, Matt Cutler and Isaac Carey
Factors of Annual Reproductive Success in North American Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) in Shared Greenspace, Joseph Czeisel
Strengths and Resiliencies of Black MSM in New York City Who Maintain HIV-Seronegativity, Jagadisa-devasri Dacus
Double Splinters, Theresa M. Daddezio
Social Capital and Analyst Forecasts, Jing Dai
Optimizing a Method for DNA Recovery while Preserving Latent Prints on Paper, Niti Dalal
A Comparison of Quiz Grading Criteria, Exam Question Type and Novelty, and their Effects on Exam Scores, Samantha Dalfen
Layered Histories, Interpretive Desires, Rachelle Dang
MicroRNA 1207-3P in Prostate Cancer, Dibash Das
Chile’s Decree-Law 1094: A Source of Immigrant Vulnerability, Joao M. Da Silva
Bias-Motivated Homicides: Toward a New Typology, Lindsey Sank Davis
A Contribution Toward a Global Monograph of Gyroporus: Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Biogeography, Naveed Davoodian
Queer Repurposed Artifacts: The State of New York City’s Contemporary West Village Bars, Stephanie DeBiase
Creator and Creation: Artistic Development in Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, the Ambiguities and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Magdalena M. De La Cruz
Braque and Picasso in the Dark Years: A comparative consideration of the still-life paintings completed during the Occupation of Paris, 1940-1944, Shelley DeMaria
Venezuela: Oil and Madness. Politics, Propaganda, and Realities of the Chavista Era, Alvaro E. de Prat
Discovery and Development of a Three-Component Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition and Its Application Towards alpha-Hydroxytropolone Synthesis, Michael P. D'Erasmo
The Fight Before the Fight: Weight-Cutting in Mixed Martial Arts, Michael T. DeSantis
Baryons and Interactions in Magnetic Fields, Amol Deshmukh
Asexual People’s Experience with Microaggressions, Tamara Deutsch
Pregnancy Induced Alterations of Reproductive Tract Collagen and Elastin in a Murine Model, Basant K. Dhital
Knockdown of Heparan Sulfate Via NDST1 knockout Does Not Inhibit Mouse Aortic Endothelial Cell Alignment In-Vivo, John Diaz de Leon III
Construction Narratives, Pablo M. Diaz
Essays on the Market Structure of the U.S. Health Care System, Ayse S. Diebel
Food Network Fallout: Why There Are Labor Shortages in Restaurant Kitchens, Jennifer M. Dillon
A Race of Angels and Their Nameless Longings, Andrew Van Dinh
Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore, Naeem U. Din
Murmur/Murmuro, Paola M. Di Tolla
Is it Morally Permissible to have Children, Awinyandji W. Djebou
Did You Just Lie to Mom and Dad? Parental and Cultural Influences on Perceptions of Lie Acceptability, Rosaura Dominguez
Creating 1968: Art, Architecture, and the Afterlives of the Mexican Student Movement, Mya B. Dosch
Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature, Anahi A. Douglas
What can we learn from rapper and provocateur, Azealia Banks?, Robert A.R. Dozier
From Invisibility to Liminality: The Imposition of Identity among Non-Federally Recognized Tribes within the Federal Acknowledgment Process, Christopher M. Drake
The Relationship Between Parenting and Child Trauma: An Intergenerational Investigation, Miriam A. Dreyer
Disorderly Histories: An Anthropology of Decolonization in Western Sahara, Mark Drury
America's New Favorite Food, Laura E. Duclos and Sshiva Tejas M
The Essential New York City Films, Nikola M. Durkovic
Understanding the Nexus between Cryptocurrencies and Transnational Crime Operations, Sarah Durrant
Final Call: Rank-and-File Rebellion in New York City, 1965-1975, Glenn D. Dyer
Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle
Under the Influence: Drinking and Immersion in New York City Theatre and Popular Entertainment, 1850 to Present, Chloë R. Edmonson
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Education: Fostering Collaboration Between State Prisons and State Universities, Miriam Edwin
Merging Subsistence Perspective and Buen Vivir: An Alternative to Damming the Mekong, Aaron B. Eisenberg
Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017, Elizabeth C. Eisenberg
Instituting Protest (FILM), Joshua Eisenberg
Reading Comprehension Instruction for Young Students with High Functioning Autism: Forming Contextual Connections, Karen S. Engel
Women are being cut during childbirth without need or consent, Molly Cora Enking
Exploring the Relation Between Sectoral Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment: Case for Turkey, Selin Erkan
Telling the Good News, Allyson R. Escobar
Private Rainbows, Mikey F. Estes
A Philosophical Defense of Judicial Minimalism, Cory A. Evans
The Color of Desire: Contradictions of Race, Sex, and Gay Rights in the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher B. Ewing
The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction, Jared D. Fagen
Determinants of the Acquisition and Display of Behaviors Associated with “Guilt” (Appeasement Behaviors) by Companion Dogs, Parvene Farhoody
Non-canonical Activation of CREB/crh-1 Mediates Neuroprotection in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model of Excitotoxic Necrosis, K. Genevieve Feldmann
The Body and the Sacred in Contemporary Italian Women Writers, Laura R Feola
Studying the Space of Almost Complex Structures on a Manifold Using de Rham Homotopy Theory, Bora Ferlengez
Ansiedades épico-criollas y el mecenazgo de Indias en el Arauco domado de Pedro de Oña, Andrea L. Fernandez
Resonant Texts: The Politics of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture, Paul Fess
Beyond the Binary: Gender Identity and Mental Health Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults, Chassitty N. Fiani
Proposition 47 and Crime: A Difference in Differences Analysis of Incarceration Rates and Crime using border counties, Brian J. Fischer
Lexical Access in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy and Severe Speech and Physical Impairment, Iris Fishman
Tailoring Landscapes: Multivalent Terrain and the Politics of Black Geography in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, Cara Fitzgerald
Reducing Arsenic Exposure from Private Well Water in the United States: The Use, Effect, and Potential of Testing Requirements, Sara Flanagan
Representing Struggle: Raquel Forner’s Social and Political Engagement in the 1930s and 1940s, Diana Flatto
The Diaspora at Home, Ivan A. Flores
Gradient Estimation for Attractor Networks, Thomas Flynn
A.V.O Boyz: The Rise of Afrobeats Through Dance, Oumou Fofana
Politically-connected Nonprofit Makes Millions Putting Homeless Families in Unsafe Homes, Benjamin Foldy
Speech Perception in Mandarin- and Cantonese-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants: A Systematic Review, Sum Yee Fong
Oops!... I Infringed Again: An Analysis of U.S. Copyright and its Intended Beneficiaries, Gabriele A. Forbes-Bennett
For Better, For Worse: The Effect of Maternity Leave Policy on Divorce Rates, Toni S. Forde
Difficult Subjects Scatting and Scattered: A Poetics of Dissolution in Black Expressive Culture, Tonya M. Foster
Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare, Bradley Fox
Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story, Angela Francis
"I Was Not Sick and I Didn't Need to Recover": Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) as a Refuge from Criminalization, David Frank
On A and B Theories of Time, Edward Freeman
