Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Criminalized Houseless Women, Jesus, and the Praxis of Kinship: An Outsider’s Liberative Ethic, Sarah A. Neeley
Broadening the Capability of Kinetics Analysis in Biomechanics, Nicholas Nelson
Child Abuse and Revictimization: Improving Models of Revictimization Risk, Julie M. Olomi
Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four—Can’t Get Through the Dressing Room Door?: An Examination of Excess as Queer Failure, Miranda Dottie Olzman
Use of Research Tradition and Design in Program Evaluation: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study of Practitioners’ Methodological Choices, Margaret Schultz Patel
Mechanisms of Sensory Adaptation in the Primate Visual System, Boris Isaac Peñaloza Rojas
Competition in Economic Theory and the Skew in U.S. Corporate Wealth Creation, Marc H. Pentacoff
Optimal Sizing and Operation of a Pumped Thermal Energy Storage System, Matthew Perez
Turning the Tempest for God’s Forgotten: Psalm 42 as Synecdochic Lead of the Elohistic Psalter, David P. Pettit
Lawthy: Holding Flowers, Bailey Pittenger
Psychological Factors that Impact White Counseling Trainees’ Responses to Cultural Ruptures, Emma Freetly Porter
The Relationship Between the Supervisory Alliance and Novice Supervisees’ Risk-Taking Behavior, Aleis Pugia
The Design, Development, and Determination of a Virtual Reality Classroom, Victoria Alexxis Reddington
The Orient in the Empire’s Poetry: Scholarship, Translation, and Imaginative Geography (1770-1857), Zeeshan Riyaz Reshamwala
Statistical Modeling of Positive Peer Support on Longitudinal Adolescent Substance Use, Kady Rost
Observation of New Particle Formation in the Northern Hemisphere at Altitude from 4 to 20 km, Mohamed Saad
The Days Beyond Recall, Rowland Saifi
Plantation Economy Model as Developed by Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi Levitt: The Case of Jamaica, Paula-Leone Samuda
Pulling Back the Curtain: A Student Collaborative Case Study of Equity Issues in Colorado’s School Finance System, Amy Jo Schwartz
Dislocation Mechanics of Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Combined Experimental and Computational Analysis, Michael Scinto
College Transition Experience: First Year Undergraduate Students and Self-Identified Mental Health Challenges, Kathlene R. Seymour
Hotel Executives’ Perceptions of Effective Promotion Processes and the Successful Transition from Single-Unit to Multi-Unit Management, Mark A. Sharkey
Violence After Victory: Explaining Variation in State Repression Following Contentious Politics, Christopher Wiley Shay
Instructional Coaching for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Kelly Shorb
Demystifying School Resource Officers: A Case Study, Alexis Sliva
Luke Was Not a Christian: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Jewish Authorship of Luke and Acts, Joshua Paul Smith
“It's Like a Phantom Limb. It Feels Like It’s There. It's Supposed to Be There, but It's Not.”: Birthmothers’ Metaphors of Ambiguous Loss, Melodee Lynn Sova
Exploring the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Paternal Warmth: Does Racial Identity Moderate this Relationship and Does Depression, Anxiety, and Physical Health Mediate this Relationship?, Stephanie Rachel Speer
FXS-Causing Point Mutations in FMRP Disrupt Neuronal Granule Formation and Function, Emily L. Starke
Preconception Stress, Affect-Biased Attention, and Negative Affectivity: Assessing Pathways and Early Markers of Psychopathological Risk in Infancy and Childhood, Danielle A. Swales
The Ecological Resilience of a Tropical Montane Pine Forest to Droughts, Fire, and Hurricane Disturbance, Daniel Erland Brugger Swann
Biased Technical Change, Institutional Shift, and the Functional Distribution of Income: Who Benefits from Economic Growth?, Adam Szymanski-Burgos
Correlating with Local Variation in Collagen Level and Mechanical Properties of the Heart Tissues, Talayeh Tavangar
Children’s Health and Maternal Work Activities, Termeh Tavangar
Design of Lower Legs of Mithra, a High-Performance Backdrivable Humanoid Robot, Drake Taylor
A Grounded Theory Inquiry into the Pedagogical Socialization of Graduate Students Within Graduate Quantitative Methods Courses, Amanda Kay Thomas
The Duality of Reality: Perception Creation Using Symbolic Management, Christopher J. Thomas
So What, Now What? Using Social Media Activism to Inform Power-Conscious Prevention of Gender-Based Violence, Andrea R. Thyrring
Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England, Jennifer Topale
Material Interactions: Early Modern Women’s Textual Embodiments, Olivia R. Tracy
Airbnb Release of Latent Economic Value and Return to Equilibrium, Daniel Joseph Trujillo
Supporting Ambitious Mathematics Practices in the Face of School Reform: A Case Study of High School Leadership, Jacklyn Van Ooyik
Challenging the Limitations of Asserting Jurisdiction: A Case Study of the South China Sea, Joshua Villanueva
Teachers Who Collaborate With a Professional Writing Organization: The Importance of Critical Stance, Paul A. Viskanta
Righteous Remixes, Sacred Mashups: Rethinking Authority, Authenticity, and Originality in the Study of Religion, Seth M. Walker
Monitoring of Overhead Polymer Core Composite Conductors Under Excessive Mechanical Loads Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors, Daniel H. Waters
Coming Together Over Table: The Role of Food in Georgian Conflict Resolution Practices, Raisa Wells
Adding a Dimension: Illustrating Triple Consciousness Theory in the African American Literary Tradition, Asia Wesley
The Combined Impact of Continuous and Ordinal Auxiliary Variables on Missing Data Imputation in SEM, Salina Wu Whitaker
The Role of Vps54 in Drosophila melanogaster Neuronal Development and Age Progressive Neurodegeneration, Emily Wilkinson
Design, Manufacture, and Test of a Hybrid Aerial-Ground Robotic Platform, William Garrett Willmon
Operationalizing a New Method for Defining and Scaling Social Innovations Using Tiny Home Communities as a Case Study, Jennifer H. Wilson
Student Expressions of Aesthetic Learning Experiences, Jodie L. Wilson
Remembering Together: Native Boarding School Stories on Display, Lydia Nancy Wood
Let the Forest Go, Justin B. Wymer
Tibial Strains and Tray-Bone Micromotions After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Computational Studies Evaluating the Tibial Fixation, Huizhou Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Automated Change Detection in Privacy Policies, Andrick Adhikari
Investigating New Methods to Develop Perovskite Solar Cells, Amani Hussain Alfaifi
Measuring the Connective Action of Black Lives Matter Activists: A Psychometric Investigation into Twitter Data, Paige Alfonzo
Experimental Evaluation of Medium-Voltage Cascode Gallium Nitride (GaN) Devices for Bidirectional DC–DC Converters, Salah Salem H. Alharbi
Experimental Investigation of Low-Voltage Silicon Carbide (SiC) Semiconductor Devices for Power Conversion Applications, Saleh Salem H. Alharbi
Thermally Driven Spin Transport in Ferromagnetic Metals, Wafa Saud Aljuaid
Impact of Grid-Following and Grid-Forming DERs on Resilient Operation of Holonic Grid, Ali M. Alsenan
Do Guest Workers Have an Impact on The Wages of Native Workers in Saudi Arabia?, Sultan Alsubaiee
Urban Informality, Environmental Xenophobia, and Infrastructures of Citizenship: The Political Lives of Nicaraguan Migrants in the Informal Settlement of La Carpio, Costa Rica, Nikolai Alexander Alvarado
In Vivo Data Capture Using HSSR for Calibration of Computational Models, Thor Erik Andreassen
Examining Artifacts of the Watershed Segmentation, Emily Jo Armitage
How Parents, Teachers, Psychologists, and Educational Environments Influence Developmental Transitions of Preadolescent Twice-Exceptional Students, Karen B. Arnstein
Social Work, Social Justice, and the Causes to Which We Are Called: Attitudes, Ally Behavior, and Activism, Brittanie Atteberry Ash
Rock Glacier Development in the San Juan Mountains, Brandon K. Bailey
Urban Green Space: Mitigator or Multiplier of Inequality in the Denver Metropolitan Area?, Joshua Charles Baldwin
Fluid Dynamics Characterization of Transcatheter Aortic Valves, Mohammed Barakat
The Emerging Metamodern Sensibility in Narrative: A Case Study of Things Left Forgotten and the Dai Gyakuten Saiban Games, Gina Barbieri
Creating Life-Long Relationships With the Arts: A Caring Philosophical Approach, Jennifer Sparkman Bartee
People and Place: A Journey Through Film, Tourism, and Heritage, Sarah Beals
Impacted Youth: Why School Psychologists Need to Consider Diverse Approaches of Support, L. Morgan Beidleman
2D Confinement of Thermal Gradients in Metallic Non-local Spin Valves, Rachel K. Bennet
Youth with Juvenile Justice Contact: Special Considerations in Measurement, Anne Elizabeth Biehl
Social Support Among Undergraduate Students: Measure Development and Validation, Heather M. Blizzard
Empathy and Understanding: The Impact of Gifted Adults in the Field of Gifted Education, Laura N. Boroughf
Living Words; Dying Flesh: The Truth and Testimonies of Desdemona in Othello and Pompilia in The Ring and the Book, Martha Clare Brinkman
School Facet Through Surrounding Factors: A Geospatial Analysis of Community Social Capital Impacting Elementary Schools, Sajjid Budhwani
The Interplay Between Economic Growth and the Environment: The Case of China, Christian D. Carpio-Thomas
Caballerismo in Latinx Men in Higher Education, Victor Carrasco
Comprehensive Research Synthesis: An Approach to Mixed Methods Research Syntheses, Lilian Linialy Chimuma
Pivotal Perceptions: A Phenomenological Exploration of Trauma-Informed Practices in an Urban School, Marni Choice-Hermosillo
English Language Proficiency and General Intellectual Ability: Is There a Relationship?, Emily Kathleen Coggin
Controlling Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkyne Annulations Utilizing Polarized Ynol Ethers, Brandon L. Coles-Taylor
Cellular and Developmental Insights into the Early Evolution of Muscle, Jeffrey J. Colgren
Student Outcomes in Online and Face-to-Face Classes at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), Rebecca S. Cottrell
Using Natural Language Processing to Categorize Fictional Literature in an Unsupervised Manner, Dalton J. Crutchfield
Educational Achievement, Engagement, and Persistence in Choctaw Nation: A Study of the Success Through Academic Recognition Program, Suzanne Delap
When Repatriation Doesn’t Happen: Relationships Created Through Cultural Property Negotiations, Ellyn DeMuynck
Comparing Modern Day Acquisition Costs of Trafficked Individuals: Implications for Anti-Trafficking Measures, Chelsea Reneé Dillane
Behind the Exhibit: Exploring the Processes of Indigenous Rights Representation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Madison Caroline Dillard