Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2017
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
Probing Consciousness, Samia Bouzid
Persistent Pleasures: Agency, Social Power, and Embodiment in Women's Solitary Masturbation Experiences, Christin P. Bowman
Personalizing an Implicit Measure of Job Satisfaction, Brittany Boyd
Pension Fund Evictions: Lessons for Housing and Labor, Marnie F. Brady
The Ratchet Race to the Bottom - Appropriation and Exaggeration as a Gendered Social Media Strategy, Em Branch
The effect of resource quality and species interactions on the colonization behavior of the black blow fly, Phormia regina (Meigen), Melissa N. Branker
Do Rio, Barbara Brasil Marcolini
Mapping How Culture in New York City and London Influences Respectively the Iconic Fashion Brands of Kors and McQueen: A Case Study, Carol Brathwaite
Assessing Behavioral Syndromes in Captive Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens) Using an Ethological Approach, Tyler C. Bray
Pockets of Proximity, Christian Breed
The Struggle to Re-establish Anglo Superiority in American Modernism and its Collapse into American Tragedy, Jeff Brelvi
The Second Pen, Nicholas D. Brennan
“A Desperate Pioneerism:” Laura Márquez’s Art and Social Engagement in 1960s Paraguay, Susan Breyer
The Role of Socioeconomic Context in the Association Between Educational Attainment and Morbidity and Mortality, Jennifer Brite
Language Ideologies and the Schooling of Caribbean Creole English-speaking Youth in New York City, Dale M. Britton
Semantic Attention: Effects of Modality, Lexicality and Semantic Content, David Britton
African American Male Veterans’ Illness Representation and Reported Self-Management Practices of High Blood Pressure, Tammie Brodie
Ecologies of Embodied Minds Embedded: Radical Romantic Perspectives on Architectures of Technology, Sharmaine Browne
Expanding Intersectionality Praxis: Informing Culturally-Responsive Programming for Black and Latino Gay and Bisexual Young Men, Justin T. Brown
New York's Daily Foster Care Reimbursements, Mariah Brown
A Eurafrican Future: France, Algeria, and the Treaty of Rome (1951-1975), Megan Brown
Richard Wright's and Chester Himes's Treatment of the Concept of Emerging Black Masculinity in the 20th Century, Peter M. Brown
Four Years, Three Months: Migrant Caregivers in Israel/Palestine, Rachel Brown
Evil and the Ontological Disproof, Carl J. Brownson III
Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics: A Program for the Naturalization of Metaphysics, Amanda Bryant
Three Essays on Fiscal Policy, Sinem Buber Singh
INTERTIDAL, Alta Buden
What Bitcoin Is, and How It Can Change Commerce, Jeffrey Bukhari
The Transnational Guqin Revival in Flushing, New York, TYLER L. BURBA
Diplomas vs Incarceration: Does Intersectionality Affect Black Men and Women Differently?, Chelsie Burchett
Light and Space, Lindsay M. Burke
The Legitimacy of Global Legal Governance: Institutional Power and Human Rights Bias in International Criminal Justice, Martin J. Burke
Dictatorship Across Borders: How Brazil Influenced the Chilean Coup d’état of 1973, Mila Burns Nascimento
The Unspoken Truth, Cherese Butler
Great Power Politics in the Twenty-First Century: The Ukrainian Example, Oksana Byeha
The Fat Female Bodies of Saturday Night Live: Uncovering the Normative Cultural Power of a Countercultural Comedy Institution, Katharine Cacace
Metronomic Irregularity: Investigating Eva Hesse's Sculpture Through Dance, Anna R. Cahn
Land of Women: Basilicata, Emigration, and the Women Who Remained Behind, 1880-1914, Victoria Calabrese
Walking as Ontological Shifter: Thoughts in the Key of Life, Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro
Examining School Leadership in New York City Community Schools, Stacey Campo
Morphogenesis and Growth Driven by Selection of Dynamical Properties, Yuri Cantor
Open Works: Between the Programmed and the Free, Art in Italy 1962 to 1972, Lindsay A. Caplan
A Necessary Lens: The History of Privacy in the United States 1890-1999, Lawrence Cappello
Webs of War in the Congo: The Politics of Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses 1996-2003, Tatiana Carayannis
By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising, Maria L. Carreon
Peer Rejection and Emotion Development: The Role of Peer Rejection and Coming Out on Emotional Health among Gay and Bisexual Men, Joseph A. Carter
Domestic Cat Ethology: Evaluating Social Media for Data Collection, Patricia Casey
Sonifying Hamlet, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield
