Theses and Dissertations
Theses from 2017
Procedural Justice and Citizen Compliance: Police Officer Demeanor and Crime Severity, Shiny Sharma
Second Harmonic Generation – A Novel Approach in Retinal Imaging, Denis Y. Sharoukhov
Writing for Strangers: Structural Transformations of the Public Letter, 1640-1790, Shang-yu Sheng
The Forgotten Caste of the Quadroon in Nineteenth Century Literature, Johanna Sherrier
Effects of Fluoxetine on Social and Startle Behavior in the African Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni, Stephanie Shih
Displaced Once More: Armenians flee Syria to Montreal, Sean A. Shoemaker
The Dangers of Dairies: How immigrant laborers fight for the right to organize in New York's agricultural industry., Matthew Shortall
No More False Heavens: In the Wake of Campus Sexual Violence, Destry Sibley
Risk and Prevalence of Personality Disorders in Sexual Offenders, Allison Sigler
Examining the Concurrent and Predictive Relations of Working Memory in Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Ashley N. Simone
Féminisme Oblige: Katharine Susan Anthony and the Birth of Modern Feminist Biography, 1877-1929, Anna C. Simonson
Noodling Changes: The Development of Xylophone Improvisation in New York City (1916-1942), Jonathan D. Singer
Characterizing the Impacts of Contaminants on Fish Embryogenesis and Revealing an Alternate Molecular Mechanism of AHR Mediated Cardiac Defects, Corinna Singleman
Food Plight, Pauliina Siniauer, Rahimon Nasa, Lizeth Beltran, and Jeremy Ibarra
Aesthetic Geographies: Art, Crises, Urban Imaginaries, Erin Siodmak
Aspects of Biological Explanation, Derek J. Skillings
Community, Identity, and Tradition within a Progressive Christian Congregation, James W. Skinner
From Gorbachev to the Present: Russian Migration to the United States, Kate Slavashevich
ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch, Brian D. Sloan
"The Engine of Free Expression": The Political Economy of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States, Nora Slonimsky
Writing the Projected Image: American Fiction and Early Screen Culture, Yair Solan
Mask On: How Fashion Erased the Politics of Streetwear in 2017, Frances Sola-Santiago
The Effect of Risk and Time Preferences on Agricultural Decisions Among Farmers in Malawi, Sheena Som
Invisible Invisibility, Eugina Song
Essays on the Law of One Price in Financial Markets and the Recent Financial Crisis, Igor Sorkin
IN LIBERIA: A SILENT HEALTH CARE CATASTROPHE REPLACES A VIRAL ONE, Clarissa Sosin
Everything Nothing Somegthing, Chris Spangler
Parallels of Love and Hate Defined by Attachments, Nicole Spann
Customer Management in the Internet Age, Joshua Sperber
The Financial Crisis and White-Collar Crime: An Examination of Brokerage-Failure and Its Link to Ponzi Schemes, Marie Springer
Local Immigration Enforcement Entrepreneurship in the Punishment Marketplace, Daniel L. Stageman
Essays on Capital Structure and Public Debt Markets, Viktoriya Staneva
Food and Negotiation of Identity among the Russian Immigrant Community of Brighton Beach, Elena Starkova
Spotlight on Superfund: How Are New York’s Most Toxic Waste Sites Doing Under Trump’s E.P.A?, Sarah Stein Kerr
For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self, Natallia Stelmak Schabner
Range of Detection for Proteins and DNA from Fingerprints on Fired and Unfired Cartridge Casings, Stacey-Ann R. Sterling
Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal, Gioia Stevens
Sick Systems: How Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Became Practically Incurable in Romania, Jonathan Stillo
Mutagenesis of Human Alpha-Galactosidase A for the Treatment of Fabry Disease, Erin Stokes
Nomadic Dispossessions: Representations of Land, Labor, and Mobility, 1780–1815, Maria Ah Hyun Stracke
Literary Theories of Circumcision, A. W. Strouse
The End of AIDS: Gender, Race and Class Politics in New York's Campaign to End the Epidemic, Lauren Suchman
Control of Light-Matter Interaction in 2D Semiconductors, Zheng Sun
Moving Forward: Railways in Puerto Rico, Gricel M. Surillo Luna
Travel Mode Identification with Smartphone Sensors, Xing Su
Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Requirements: An Exploration of National Health Policy Models, Justin P. Swearingen
Lexical Access in Children with Specific Language Impairment and Auditory Processing Deficits, Laura E. Sylvia
Underrepresentation of Women in Politics: Focus on New York City, Yuliya Szczepanski
The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald, Agata Szczodrak
Continuum Electrostatics Analysis of the Kok Cycle of Photosystem II, Witold Szejgis
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, Lisa Tagliaferri
Culture and Class in Marginalized Minority Educational Attainment, Alan R. Takeall
The Role of T-box Proteins in Vertebrate Germ Layer Formation and Patterning, Sushma Teegala
An Expression of Spirituality: Clothing, Skin, and Bodies in Xul Solar’s Early Figure Paintings (1915-1926), Erin Teeple
What is the Language of Islam?: Reform, Translation, and Secularism in Turkey, Yunus Dogan Telliel
An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Labor Display Rules and Performance in a Human Resources Sexual Harassment Interview Simulation, Jolie M.B. Terrazas
The Protagonist's Experience: Temporality, Narrative, and Harmonic Process in Brahms's Solo Lieder, Loretta Terrigno
Fighting for Justice, Anuz Thapa
POLICE SAY LEADERSHIP IS IGNORING PTSD., Tiffany Thomas
Affordable and Accessible Hearing Healthcare Interventions in the United States: A Literature Review and Prospective Analysis, Garrett Thompson
Physiological Correlates of Affective Decision-Making in Anxiety and Depression, Louisa I. Thompson
Foreign-Born Artists Making “American” Pictures: The Immigrant Experience and the Art of the United States, 1819–1893, Whitney Thompson
The Dream Deferred: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and the Destruction and Potential Resurrection of the Black Male, Alexandria L. Timoll
Schoenberg's "Phantasy" Form, Lisa A. Tipton
Land Change History of Oil Palm Plantations in Northern Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, Reconstructed from Landsat Satellite Archives, Atsushi Tomita
Labeling Histories: Mental Disability in American Schooling, Kylah Torre
Methamphetamine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference In Adolescent Male and Female Mice of Two Strains, Andre Bevil Toussaint
Ordinary Disorder, Jonathan S. Tracy
Toxic Gas Sensing on Nanoporous Carbons, Nikolina-Eleni Travlou
The Fight for Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Parenting Rights in The United States, Nancy Tresil
Treatment, Supervision, and Recidivism of Individuals Convicted of a Sex Offense in the United States: A Pilot Study, Gabriele F. Trupp
Sanctuary, Sumeja Tulic
Inside the grassroots money machine, Elizabeth Tung
Sewing Garments, Sowing Lives: Two Generations of Migrant Workers' Back and Forth to the Chinese Coast, Alice Tzou
Is There a Secular Tradition? On Treason, Government, and Truth, Ali M. Uğurlu
The Bourgeois Crown: Capitalism and the Monarchy in Thailand, 1946–2016, Puangchon Unchanam
A Validation of the Detection of Barbiturates in Hair by ELISA, Alisa M. Valentino
Left and Right: Politics and Images of Motherhood in Weimar Germany, Michelle L. Vangen
Tipping Point, Pang Z. Vang
Unemployment, Does It Really Hurt?, Claudia Vargas
Decidedly Uncertain, Sophia I. Varosy
Dehumanization: A Case Study, Regina Varthi
The Divinity of Crime: How spirituality can strengthen the resilience of criminal organizations, David R. Vegvari
The Effect of Paid Sick Leave on Physician Office-Based Visits, Korvin Vicente
The Emergence of Psychology and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: An Examination of Innovation and Narration, Rachel Viliusis
Taurine's effect on cocaine reward and neurogenesis in the adolescent male rat brain., Avery E. Villa-Gonzalez
The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s, Elvera L. Vilson
The Murder of Innocence, Milana Vinn
Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism in New York City During the Long Sixties, David C. Viola Jr.
Tandem 2.0: Image and Text Data Generation Application, Christopher J. Vitale
The Sounds of Silence; Or, Isabella’s Counter Discourse in Measure for Measure, Gina Vivona
Terrorism: A Tool For Shaping Public Opinion, Jonathan E. Voisich
Mechanisms of Navigation in Fiddler Crabs: An Analysis of Allocentric and Egocentric Contributions, Stephen G. Volz
Cognitive and Neurobiological Degeneration of the Mental Lexicon in Primary Progressive Aphasia, Jet M. J. Vonk
Is It All Relative? Relative Pitch and L2 Lexical Tone Perception/Tone Language Comprehension by Adult Tone and Non-Tone Language Speakers, Sloane C. von Wertz
The Fabric of Manhattan: Art and Industry in the Era of A.T. Stewart, Patricia Wadsley