Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023
Completive 'todo': Implications for Possessives, Existentials, and Locative Expressions, Carolina Fraga
Syntactic Parsing of Relative Clauses and Wh-Questions in L2 Italian, Pamela Franciotti
COMPARISON OF VARIOUS INTERMITTENT FASTING DIETARY INTERVENTIONS TO THE KETOGENIC DIETARY INTERVENTIONS AND ITS EFFECTS IN MITIGATING HUNGER IN OBESE ADULTS, Aston Earl Francis Jr
The Persephone Series: Storytelling, Art, and Making Sense of Myself, Katie M. Frank
Structural Perspectives: Mitigating Information Poverty among Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Populations in the Queens Public Library System, Richelle L. Frederick
The Makings of Creativity and Empathy: Maps of Maternal Representations, Anielle M. Fredman
Settling Into Inequality: Resettled Afghans in the Washington DC Metro Area, Harry Frey
(Not) Knowing, Jared Friedman
Muscling Through: Athletic Women in Victorian Popular Representation, 1864–1915, Julia G. Fuller
Every Force Evolves A Form, Nicholas Fusaro
Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies, Ricardo Gabriel
Exposing the Governmental Amnesia of the Human Rights Violations that Occurred in the Magdalene Laundries, Sarah G. Gallagher
The Lives and Afterlives of the Arenberg Gospels: Materializing Medieval Oaths, Sarah Ganzel
Hands. Words. Mirrors. A letter to my mother., Iliana Emilia García
“Here in America”: Broadway Musicals and the Making of Jewish Americans, Barrie Gelles
dulce sueños de tierra, sweet dreams of earth, Jordany Genao
Fluidity of Ptolemaic Tomb Architecture: Third to Second Centuries BCE, Caroline Gerkis
Population Genomics, Ecology and Conservation of Asterias Sea Stars in the North Atlantic, Melenia I. Giakoumis
Social Identities and Campus Belonging as Predictors of Flourishing Among College Students, Christine Gilchrist
“Delicious Libation”: The Art of the Coffee Trade from Brazil to the United States, 1797-1888, Caroline L. Gillaspie
Whose Imagination Are We Living In?: An Examination of Feminist Utopia through the Lens of Pragmatism, Mia A. Gindis
Made in Italy: Gli effetti della musica italiana (t)rap sulla società e sulla lingua, Paraskevi Z. Gkana-Alberico
Audible Futures: Scenes of Sonic Encounter in Cold War Kurdistan, 1923–2023, Nicholas S. Glastonbury
Health Care Providers' Attributions of Blame for Unintended Pregnancy and HIV Acquisition Among Cisgender Women, Alison J. Goldberg
Political Theatre After Occupy: Participation, Interpellation, and the Search for New Subjectivities in the Theatre, Andrew J. Goldberg
Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film, Ethan Goldberg
Paper, Clay, and Thread: Tools of Decolonization in the work of Guadalupe Maravilla, Juan Javier Salazar, and Julieth Morales, Alexandra J. Goldman
CEO Narcissism: An Unconventional Approach to Understanding the Importance of Further Research, Melissa Goldsmith
The Landscape of Daughterhood: A Redefinition, Sarah Goldstone
The Effect of Race on Housing Stratification Among Latinos, Julia T. Gomez
Form in Hip-Hop Music: Sections, Songs, and History, Stephen M. Gomez
Economic Factors and Theories of Decline and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire C. 1789–1911, Peter S. Gomori
Making and Taking: Evaluating the Ethnographic Gaze in Graciela Iturbide’s Los que viven en la arena, Lauren Gonzales
WORKING CONDITIONS, TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS, AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS IN LATINO AND OTHER MINORITIZED GROUPS LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES, Tailisha M. Gonzalez
Examining Indigenous Engagement in the Formulation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): A Comparative Study of Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia, Viviana K. Gonzalez
To Love, and To Be Loved: The Art and Relationships of Gwen John (1876-1939), Karina Grady
Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani
Avoiding Success: How Does Fear of Success Impact Today's Workforce?, Bradley E. Gray
The Construction of Marijuana Possession Laws and Policies: How Policymaking and Enforcement Racialized the War on Marijuana, Edwin Grimsley
Staying, Flowing, Resounding: Children's Interactions and Space-Based Attachments on a Manu'a Island, Mariapaola Gritti
Queer Aesthetics in Dancehall Lyrical Content: 2013-2023, Robert Guchinov
Seasonal Crop Foraging Habits of Asian Elephants and the Response of Farmers Near the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Scott J. Gulizio
Social and Cultural Processes that Impact Physical Activity among South Asian Americans Managing Hypertension: A Mixed Methods Study, Sugandha Gupta
Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol Effect on Dopamine Transporter Expression and Function, Delia M. Guzman
Phase Transitions and Thermal Stability of the Magnetic Dual Chiral Density Wave Phase in Cold, Dense QCD, William G. Gyory
Diasporic Women’s Mutability in South Asian Postcolonial Literature, Tasnim S. Halim
“For ‘Their Own Good’”: Education, The Performing Arts, and Social Justice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1915–2023, Anna S. Harb
Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota, Anthony J. Harb
Metabolic Reprogramming in KRAS-driven Cancer Cells, Ahmet Hatipoglu
A Critical Study of Contemporary Palestinian Musical Culture, Karl H. Hausmann
Understanding Failure Mechanisms using Multi-Scale Analyses to Improve the Performance of Zinc Metal and Lithium-ion Batteries, Brendan E. Hawkins
The Unitary Executive Theory: Benefits and Dangers, Dani Heba
The Impact of Municipal Broadband Restrictions on COVID-19 Labor Market Outcomes, Saket Hegde
Haunting at Troy: Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature, Woo Ree Heor
Loca, Alejandro Heredia
Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals and Intimate Partner Violence Resources in LGBTQ+ Organizations, Claire Herr
Uncertainties in Retrieval of Remote Sensing Reflectance from Ocean Color Satellite Observations, Eder I. Herrera Estrella
Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008), Maria Heyaca
Kingdoms Becoming: Dialectic of Black Romanticism, Rasheed M. Hinds
Finding Autonomy Under the Russian Bear: Explaining Central Asia’s Response to the Invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Hitch
Woman FlyTrap, Brianna Jo Hobson
Tongues Out of Place: Narratives of Hereness and Images of Be(long)ing, Christopher Hoffman
Creating Space for Black Queer Narratives: A Conversation Between Nella Larsen and James Baldwin, Trinity L. Hollis
ZEUS IV, Lauren Holmes
Public Privacy and Info-Liberal Authoritarianism, Christopher Hongach
Babel, Daniel Horowitz
Exploring Information Leakage in Historical Stock Market Data, Edison Hua
Design and Synthesis of Surface-Functionalized Nanomaterials for Cancer Theranostics, Hailin Huang
Almost Human, Sarah Huang
Alfred Barr, Water Lilies, & the Resurrection of Claude Monet, Ally Huchro
Navigating Through World’s Military Spending Data with Scroll-Event Driven Visualization, Hong Beom Hur
Icons in Lyari: Resonance, Visibility, and Global Blackness in an Indian Ocean Port Town, Zehra Husain
Anomaly based Intrusion Detection System through Remote Virtual Machine Introspection, Huseyn Huseynov
Accelerating Parameter Identifiability of Differential Models with Applications to Parameter Estimation, Ilia Ilmer
Pakistan, India and the Indus River Basin, Muquadas Ilyas
Recursive Functional Learning in Nonfluent Aphasia, Gerald C. Imaezue
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Studies Investigating the Role of the DLPFC in Memory and Metamemory, Casey M. Imperio
Public Perceptions and Punishment of Sex Offenders, Emily R. Ives
Regulating the Care Boom: Labor Standards Enforcement and Paid In-Home Care Work, Isaac Jabola-Carolus
The Effects of Music Therapy on Elderly Adults with Dementia, Jeante J. Jackson
Emotional Labor in Front-facing Jobs in University Settings, Khushboo Jain
Contact Sheet, Jiwoong Jang
“Everywhere You Go It’s Morning”: Photo-Topographies in Bernadette Mayer’s Memory, Liz Janoff
Concerned Student: Institutional Violence and Embodied Abolition in the University of Missouri Protests, Gaurav Jashnani
"Where Sex is Directly Concerned" Agatha Christie and the Feminization of Detective Fiction, Barbara Javori
Interaction of ADHD severity and neighborhood-level SES on Preschoolers’ Risk for Obesity at School-Age, Ramya V. Jayanthi
Genres of Labor: Wageless Work and the Aesthetics of Stagnation, Martin A. Jensen
Emotional Landscapes, Jin Young Jeong
Electrochemical Resistive-Pulse Sensing in Biological Systems, Rui Jia
Keeping Both History and Magic Alive: Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018) at The Museum of Modern Art, Beatrice M. Johnson
A “Neighborhood” Approach for Using Remotely Sensed Data to Post-Process Species Distribution Models for Conservation Assessments, Bethany A. Johnson
Determining the Influence of Abiotic and Biotic Predictors on Ecological Niche Models, Erica Johnson
Lawn Story Short, Sarah Johnsrude
Blacklash: Phenomenological Hermeneutics in Black Dance, Darvejon A. Jones