Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2017
IN LIBERIA: A SILENT HEALTH CARE CATASTROPHE REPLACES A VIRAL ONE, Clarissa Sosin
Everything Nothing Something, 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
Environmental Changes Turn on the Sinorhizobium Melitloti ExoR-ExoS/ChvI (RSI) Host Invasion Switch, Shari N. Walcott
Understanding Resilience Strategies Among Minor-Attracted Individuals, Allyson Walker
History and Politics in the Thought of Karl Jaspers, Nathan Wallace
Of Rats and Men, Thomas S. Walsh
My Name is Jing, Jing Wang
Mermaid Song: The Notebooks of the Writing Woman, Gianna T. Ward-Vetrano
In Brownsville, a Struggle for Revitalization Without Displacement, Katherine Warren
Sol LeWitt: The Synagogue Project, Fred Wasserman
Decoding DarkMatter, Crystal J. Waterton
Dogs, Cats, and a Lambkin: Speechlessness and the Animal in Ulysses, Pierce R. Watson
Understanding the Role of the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Emotional Memory using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, R. Rachel Weintraub-Brevda
From Design to Completion: The Transformation of U.S. War Memorials on the National Mall, Sara Jane Weintraub
Incorporating Place and Space: a Hierarchical Spatial Approach to Exploring Preventable Congestive Heart Failure Hospitalizations in New York City, Rachael Weiss Riley
The Column of Constantine at Constantinople: A Cultural History (330-1453 C.E.), Carey Thompson Wells
The Devil's Advocate: Empire, Cynicism, and the Politics of Decadent Literature (From Baudelaire to Burroughs), Henry A. Wermer-Colan
Development of 90th Percentile Norms for Ipsilateral Acoustic Reflex Thresholds: A Feasibility Study, Iris Wertheimer
Transitional Healthcare Coordination in New York City Jails among People with Chronic Health Conditions: Contributions to Reduced Reincarceration and Improved Health, Janet J. Wiersema
Should We Talk?: Examining Individual and Aggregate Level Predictors of Mediation Selection at the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, Cynthia-Lee Williams
The Behavioral Effects Divorce Can Have on Children, Wanda M. Williams-Owens
The Needed Man: The Evolution, Abandonment, and Resurrection of the Roman Dictatorship, Mark B. Wilson
Retrieval-Induced Forgetting via Social Media: The Mnemonic Consequences of Posting Pictures on Instagram, Chi Lap Wong
Conceptualizing the Emergence of Social Capital in Young Children, Courtney Wong
Performing Human Rights in Neoliberal Asia: Artistic and Activist Engagements in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Melissa Wansin Wong
