Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2016
The Post Banishment Films of Jafar Panahi, Christopher L. Inoa
Obesity over the Life Course: Perspectives in Health and Mortality, Noura E. Insolera
REPETITION: A Study in Visual Form Using Selected Artworks by Edward Hopper, Lauren Irwin
Investigating the Construct of Psychopathy in Lebanese and American Adults, Marie-Anne Issa
WOOF, Joseph D. Jaafari
Little Data on Whether Charters Make a Difference When College is the Goal, Erica Jackson
Public-Private Partnerships: Instruments to Enhance Education, Training and Employment Opportunities in the Republic of South Africa, Lynne Scott Jackson
The Conflicts of Coexistence: Contested Meanings of Carnivore Management and Conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Hannah F. Jaicks
Popular Culture in 1970s and 1980s Poland, Monika Jankowski
Metabolic Profiling of Genetically Modified Potato Periderm Tissues, Liqing Jin
Individual Thought Patterns: Women in New York's Extreme Metal Music Scene, Joan M. Jocson-Singh
Investigating Attachment Behavior in Shelter Dogs, Anamarie Johnson
Post-Apartheid Citizenship and the Politics of Evictions in Inner City Johannesburg, Anthony Johnson
The French Revolution in the French-Algerian War (1954-1962): Historical Analogy and the Limits of French Historical Reason, Timothy Scott Johnson
Does Intergroup Threat Cause Distinct Contact Orientations for High and Low Status Groups?, Brian M. Johnston
The Effect of Cognitive Load on Liars and Truth Tellers: Exploring the Moderating Impact of Working Memory Capacity, Sarah Jordan
Folklore as a Health Patterning Modality, Mary Augusta Joseph
Synthetic and Biological Exploration of (+)-Boldine - Identification of potential CNS receptor ligands, Sujay Joseph
Data-Driven Synthesis and Evaluation of Syntactic Facial Expressions in American Sign Language Animation, Hernisa Kacorri
The Fictions of Whiteness: Transatlantic Race Science, Gender, Nationalism, and the Construction of Race in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1823-1867), Philip E. Kadish
LIM Protein Ajuba Participates in the Repression of ATR-Mediated DNA Damage Response in Human Cells, Sampada Kalan
Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding, Ervin Kallfa
Synthesis of Novel Aporphine-Inspired Neuroreceptor Ligands, Nirav R. Kapadia
On Sums of Binary Hermitian Forms, Cihan Karabulut
Delusional Disorder: Treatment and the Restoration of Adjudicative Competence, Martin Kassen
Firms' Decisions to Enter a Market of Highly Differentiated Products: Apparel Industry and New York Fashion Week, Yoko Katagiri
The Versatile Singer: A Guide to Vibrato & Straight Tone, Danya Katok
What Factors Influence Urban School Leaders Arts Programming Decisions, Jennifer Katona
Internet Access and Freedom: Constructing and Reacting to Transnational Norms about Internet Diffusion and Use, Heather L. Katz
Imagining a "Poethical" Classroom, Erica Kaufman
Publication in Martial's Time and the Publication of his Works, Jack Kaufmann
‘Open, and Always, Opening’: Trans- Poetics as a Methodology for (Re)Articulating Gender, the Body, and the Self ‘Beyond Language’, Lizzy Tricano Kaval
On The Raised-ness of People, Places & Things, Miatta Kawinzi
Shepherds, wolves and lizards: Exploring the truck stop sex trade during the last days of the American trucker, Joshua Keefe
From Tulsa to Ferguson: Redefining Race Riots and Racialized Violence, Hesley R. Keenan
Hope and Health Related Quality of Life of Older Women Who Have Had Heart Attacks, Alice Mary Kelly-Tobin
Trauma and Human Objecthood, Leslie Kelman
Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island, Tim Keogh
Normalization Policies with Cuba: Implications for Political and Economic Reform, Ramona N. Khan
Chamber-specific Patterns of Epicardium Formation in Zebrafish, Sana Khan
How Should We Motivate Effort, Shamima Khan
Refractions Through the Secular: Islam, Human Rights and Universality, Zara Khan
GIVE-ME: Gamification In Virtual Environments for Multimodal Evaluation - A Framework, Wai L. Khoo
Identity in Sociocultural Context: Life Stories of Korean Youth in New York City, Hannah Hyunkyung Kim
Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy, Jinwon Kim
On The Free and G-Saturated Weight Monoids of Smooth Affine Spherical Varieties For G=SL(n), Won Geun Kim
The European Union at stake? A comparative analysis on the dimensions of EU decisionmaking in crisis settings, Franziska Kipp
Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer's Disease: Insights from In Vitro and In Vivo Models of Inflammation, Magdalena J. Kiprowska
The New York With Instance, or Abject in the Personal Environment, liam kirby
Breakdown: Treatment Gaps in New York City's Mental Health System, Christine Brink Kjeldgaard, Noah Caldwell, Mary Hanbury, Mike O'Brien, Joanna Purpich, and Anthony Izaguirre
Long Odds: Inside The Process of Applying for Affordable Housing Through NYC’s Lottery System, Scott Klocksin
The Pop Behind Pop-Ups, Lauren Klose
“God Is Near": American Theocracy and the Political Theology of Joseph Smith, Alan P. Koenig
Predictability of Bond Risk Premia with an Affine Term Structure Model, Sibel Korkmaz
Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review, Hershel Korngut
Life Experience: Freddy Got Fingered As Neo-Surrealist Masterpiece, Frank Koshel
Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn, Amy Kraizman
p-adic L-functions and the Geometry of Hida Families, Joseph Kramer-Miller
ThisCollegeStory.com: How Interactive Writing Media Influenced the Way First-Year Students Made Sense of their College Transition, Philip Kreniske
Direct current stimulation modulates LTP and LTD: activity-dependence and dendritic effects, Gregory Kronberg
Essays on Institutional Investor Trading, Karolina Krystyniak
Hedonia and Eudaimonia: Associations with Academic Success, Wellbeing, and Neuropsychological Functioning, Maria Kryza-Lacombe
Hohoemigaeshi (Smiling Back), Takayuki Kubota
Lessons from the Past: Unfolding the Dynamics among Climate, Balkan Landscapes, and Humans over the Past Millennium, Charuta J. Kulkarni
Gertrudes Altschul and the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante: Modern Photography and Femininity in 1950s São Paulo, Paula V. Kupfer
Statement, Elektra Kuznetsova Blanco
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Strategy and Structure in the 2010-11 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike, José A. Laguarta Ramírez
Professional Wrestling and/as Theatre: Bodies, Labor, and the Commercial Stage, Eero Laine
Where Is the "Korean" in the Korean War Memorial: Kissena Park's Korean War Memorial, Alice Lam
Behavioral Avoidance and the Evaluation, Expression, and Intensity of Emotions in Generalized Anxiety and Major Depressive Disorders, Laura Lamantia
Vocal Rhythm Coordination and Preterm Infants: Rhythms of Dialogue in a High-Risk NICU Sample, Adrianne E. Lange
Modern Foraminiferal Assemblages of the Denmark Strait, Laura Larocca
The New Reflexivity: Puzzle Films, Found Footage, and Cinematic Narration in the Digital Age, Jordan Lavender-Smith
Interfictional Identities: Transformation and Dissimulation in the Early Modern Period, Yael Nezer Lavender-Smith
Art beyond the object? Art beyond grad school? (a Kickstarter fundraiser): Help me complete my MFA and kickstart my life as an artist., Hsini D. Leary
Masculine Identities Among Asian American Men: Negotiating Varying Masculine Ideals for the Self and Others, Elisa J. Lee
Toxic Toys, Bad Vibrations, Samantha Lee
Technetium: Productivity Tracking for Version Control Systems, David Leonard
An Exploration of the Paradox of Bisexuality in Women: The Dawn Research Study, Anna Levy-Warren
Interface: Fringe Landscapes and Identity, Elizabeth T. Lewin
Drink Me and Abort Your Baby: The Herbal Abortion Tea, Maya Lewis
Excavating ePortfolios: What Student-Driven Data Reveals about Multimodal Composition and Instruction, Amanda M. Licastro
Becoming Serpent: Mapping Coils of Paranoia in a Neocolonial Security State, Rachel J. Liebert
The Bodies, Minds, Desires and Scorn of Britain's "Stepdaughters of War", Alexandra J. Lightle
The Effect of Gambling Expansion on Health, marina li
How I Made an $880 Jacket for $37, Hayley Lind
Vehicle Engine Classification Using of Laser Vibrometry Feature Extraction, Chi Him Liu
Essays on Investor Attention, Hongqi Liu
Do Executives Have Fixed Effects on Firm-Level Stock Price Crash Risk?, Jiaxin Liu
Social Support, Social Companionship, and Social Distress in Young Adults with Cochlear Implants, Arta Ljubanovic
Health, Education and Children’s Rights: A comparability analysis of Kenya and Brazil, Charlette Lopez
Predictors of Substance Use, Relationship Arrangements and Intimacy Expectancies among Gay Couples and Associations to Erikson Intimacy Development, Jonathan Lopez Matos
McCarthyism and the Id: "Forbidden Planet" (1956) as a Veiled Criticism of McCarthyism in 1950s America, William Lorenzo
Filología reflexiva: Hacia una pedagogía “evaluadora”. Reflexión y evaluación del campo filológico español (1936-1968), Jose Antonio Losada Montero
Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales, Rebecca Lovering