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Dissertations from 2019
Dropping the Invisibility Cloak: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Sense of Belonging and Place Identity Among Rural, First Generation, Low Income College Students from Appalachian Kentucky, Brenda Abbott, Education (also CAGS)
Learning Linguistics, Teaching for Change: Preparing Secondary Educators to More Equitably Teach Disciplinary Literacies, Kathryn Accurso, Education (also CAGS)
DO NARCISSISTIC CEOS REALLY CARE ABOUT CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY? THE MODERATING ROLE OF OUTSIDE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Jin Sun Ahn, Hospitality & Tourism Management
‘BLACK INTIFADA’: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, PALESTINIAN POETRY OF RESISTANCE AND THE ROOTS OF BLACK AND PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY, Nadia Alahmed, Afro-American Studies
Partisan Policymaking: Research and Advocacy in an Era of Polarization, Zachary Albert, Political Science
FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF BONDED AND MECHANICALLY ANCHORED SHEAR INTERFACES OF EXTERNALLY APPLIED FRP SHEETS TO CONCRETE AND WOOD-CONCRETE COMPOSITES, Alaa Al-Sammari, Civil Engineering
WALKING FOR OBJECT TRANSPORT: AN EXAMINATION OF THE COORDINATIVE ADAPTATIONS TO LOCOMOTOR, PERCEPTUAL, AND MANUAL TASK CONSTRAINTS, Avelino Amado, Kinesiology
"No One is Gonna Tell Us We Can't Do This": The Development of Agency in Student-Initiated Community Engagement, Shuli A. Archer, Education (also CAGS)
Interfaith Education and the Quest for Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, Ezekiel Abdullahi Babagario, Education (also CAGS)
Production and Power at Idalion, Cyprus in the First Millennium BCE, Rebecca Bartusewich, Anthropology
POPULATION VIABILITY AND CONNECTIVITY OF THE FEDERALLY THREATENED EASTERN INDIGO SNAKE IN CENTRAL PENINSULAR FLORIDA, Javan Bauder, Environmental Conservation
(Social) class is in session: Examining the experiences of working-class students through social class identity, class-based allyship, and sense of belonging, Genia M. Bettencourt, Education (also CAGS)
SLEEP-DEPENDENT CONSOLIDATION OF LOCOMOTOR SEQUENCE LEARNING AND LOCOMOTOR ADAPTATION, Gabriela Borin Castillo, Kinesiology
Transgender Young Adults, Sibling Relationships, and Mental Health, Jordon Bosse, Nursing
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Pollinators as Vectors of Mummy Berry Disease in Highbush Blueberry, Matthew Boyer, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
ENGINEERING SYNTHETIC BIOMATERIALS FOR CANCER DRUG SCREENING, Elizabeth Brooks, Chemical Engineering
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Academically-Integrated Physical Activity Program on Classroom Behavior in Preschoolers, Sarah Burkart, Kinesiology
ENGAGED, MULTICULTURAL INDIVIDUALISM IN THE MILLENNIAL WORKS OF MARYSE CONDÉ AND ZADIE SMITH, Nicole Calandra, Comparative Literature
Chilean Teachers Responses to and Understanding of Student Interaction with Diverse Peers in the Classroom, Javier Martín Campos-Martínez, Education (also CAGS)
Flow-induced oscillations in floating offshore wind turbines, Daniel Carlson, Mechanical Engineering
Bridging the gap: Cultural wealth and college transitions for Upward Bound students, Ashley J. Carpenter, Education (also CAGS)
Pakistani Pro-Democracy Movement: From the 1960s to the 2000s, Sofia Checa, Sociology
Probing Quantized Excitations and Many-body Correlations in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Optical Spectroscopy, Shao-Yu Chen, Physics
SMALL FRUIT PHENOLICS: PHENOLIC VARIATIONS AND RELATED HEALTH RELEVANCE, Susan Cheplick, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
ENHANCING NANOPORE BASED BIOSENSENING TECHNOLOGY USING PORE FORMING PROTEINS, Christina M. Chisholm, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Flow Coating Mesoscale Assemblies: (i) Size and Geometry Scaling, (ii) Rapid Processing, and (iii) Double Helix Transformations, Satyan Choudhary, Polymer Science and Engineering
AN ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL OWNERSHIP AND DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORKS IN A CLASSROOM-AS-ORGANIZATION, Ovidiu Constantin Cocieru, Management
Black Men Who Betray Their Race: 20TH Century Literary Representations of the Black Male Race Traitor, Gregory Coleman, English
PRECIPITATION AND COACERVATION IN POLYELECTROLYTE-COLLOID SYSTEMS, Fatih Comert, Chemistry
Divorce Licensing: Separate Criteria for Predicate and Clausal Ellipsis, Tracy Conner, Linguistics
Criminal Inequality: Ex-Prisoners in a State of Reentry, Lucius J. Couloute Jr, Sociology
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: ADOLESCENT CAREGIVER EXPERIENCES IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, Renee Crizer, Nursing
USING BRAND CONCEPT MAPPING AND NETWORK ANALYSIS TO STUDY BRANDS, abdullah demirel, Sport Management
PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF VITAMIN C LOSS IN SPACEFLIGHT FOODS, William Dixon, Food Science
TUNING ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS AND CHEMISTRY TO ENHANCE THE FLUX AND FOULING RESISTANCE OF ULTRAFILTRATION, Kerianne Dobosz, Chemical Engineering
DIRECT PATTERNING OF NATURE-INSPIRED SURFACES FOR BIOINTERFACIAL APPLICATIONS, Feyza Dundar, Polymer Science and Engineering
Blood Supply Chain Networks in Healthcare: Game Theory Models and Numerical Case Studies, Pritha Dutta, Management
Investigating the Challenges of Capability Development: An Integrative Review and Exploration of Strategic Initiatives, Erim Ergene, Management
Introducing faba bean as a new multi-purpose crop for Northeast U.S.A., Fatemeh Etemadi, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
Hashtag Holocaust: Negotiating Memory in the Age of Social Media, Erica Fagen, History
THREE ESSAYS ON EMPIRICAL ASSET PRICING, Fei Fang, Management
Sparsity in Machine Learning: An Information Selecting Perspective, Siwei Feng, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Retrofitting Educators Through Sheltered Instruction Training: A Longitudinal Case Study Examining the Efficacy of a Five-year District-wide Intervention Effort, Marisa Ferraro, Education (also CAGS)
PRO-SOCIAL CONSUMER AND FIRM BEHAVIOR IN IMPERFECTLY COMPETITIVE REGIONAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETS, Jill Fitzsimmons, Resource Economics
A Generational Divide: The Reconstruction of American Party Politics, 1865-1912, Christopher Fobare, History
Poetry: Identification, Entity Recognition, and Retrieval, John J. Foley IV, Computer Science
A Multiline Anchor Concept for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Casey Fontana, Civil Engineering
Public and Private in the Blogosphere, Sarah Ford, Sociology
EQUITY AND EFFICIENCY IN MULTI-MODAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, Nicholas M. Fournier, Civil and Environmental Engineering
MODELING FIRE OBSERVATIONS, IGNITION SOURCES, AND NOVEL FUELS TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN IMPACTS ON FIRE REGIMES ACROSS THE U.S., Emily Fusco, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
AGING-IN-COMMUNITY: THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON ACCESSORY-DWELLING UNIT ACCESS AND UTILIZATION AMONG OLDER AMERICANS, Travis M. Gagen, Public Health
Applications of Machine Learning Methods in Macroscopic Crash Analysis for Transportation Safety Management, Somaye Garmroudi Dovirani, Civil and Environmental Engineering
STEERING AGAINST THE TIDE? PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP AND DIVERSITY AT AMHERST COLLEGE, Letha Gayle-Brissett, Education (also CAGS)
FROM OPTIMIZATION TO EQUILIBRATION: UNDERSTANDING AN EMERGING PARADIGM IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING, Ian Gemp, Computer Science
A Discrete-Time Technique for Linearity Enhancement of Wideband Receivers, Mohammad Ghadiri Sadrabadi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The effects of social and physical interactions on lizard morphology, behavior, and ecology, Casey Gilman, Biology
Determining Kinetic Parameters of Thiamine Degradation in Three NASA Spaceflight Foods in Thermal Processing and Long-Term Storage AND Methods for Analyzing Microstructure and Precipitant Development in Real and Model Wines, Timothy R. Goulette, Food Science
Re/Reading Paulo Freire & Lorenzo Milani: Critical Pedagogies for the 21st Century, Simone Gugliotta, Education (also CAGS)
Physical and Biological Drivers of Juvenile Fish Distributions in Unstructured Shallow Tropical Nearshore Habitats, Christopher Haak, Marine Sciences and Technology
Modeling the Local Political Economy of Adulis: 1000 BCE-700 ACE, Daniel Habtemichael, Anthropology
Modulating Dopant-Defect Interactions in Transition Metal Doped Colloidal Strontium Titanate Nanocrystals, William Harrigan, Chemistry
Design, Synthesis and Study of Functional Amphiphilic Polymers and Their Applications, Huan He, Chemistry
QUEERING KINSHIP: LGBTQ PARENTS AND THE CREATION OF REAL UTOPIAS, Laura V. Heston, Sociology
Active Site Design and Exploitation of Allosteric Sites in Proteases, Maureen Hill, Chemistry
Ni Site Structure and Function in Biological Sensing and Enzyme Activity, Hsin-Ting Huang, Chemistry
Scalable Data-driven Modeling and Analytics for Smart Buildings, Srinivasan Iyengar, Computer Science
PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR IDENTIFYING AND EXPLAINING CONTROVERSY, Myungha Jang, Computer Science
AZOBENZENE-BASED POLYMERS FOR ORGANIC ELECTRONICS AND PHOTO-THERMAL BATTERIES, Seung Pyo Jeong, Chemistry
Increasing the Effectiveness of a Social Emotional Learning Program Through Cultural Adaptation for African American Students’ Internalizing Symptoms, Courteney Johnson, School Psychology
What Will You Do Here? Dignified Work and the Politics of Mobility in Serbia, Dana N. Johnson, Anthropology
Cultural and Family Challenges in Type Two Diabetes Self-care for Puerto Rican Identified Hispanic Adults, Jalil Johnson, Nursing
WHITEWASHED: THE RACIALIZATION OF AMERICA’S MIDDLE CLASS IDENTITY, Kaylee Theresa Johnson, Political Science
CHARACTERIZATION AND MANIPULATION OF THE MAGNETIZATION OF NANO-SCALE MAGNETIC STRUCTURES, Wenming Ju, Physics
Northeastern Species in Hybrid Cross Laminated Timber, Hamid Kaboli, Environmental Conservation
Engineering for Sustainable Energy Education within Urban Secondary Schools, Moijue Kaikai, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
CHEMORECEPTOR DYNAMICS AND SIGNALING: NMR MEASUREMENTS WITHIN FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES, Maryam Kashefi, Biochemistry
Synthesis of Magnetic Ion Doped II-VI Benzenechalcogenolate Molecular Clusters, Fumitoshi Kato, Chemistry
Language Learners as Agentive Meaning-Makers: Exploring Learners' Investment and Meaning-Making, Shinji Kawamitsu, Education (also CAGS)
AMPHIPHILIC ASSEMBLIES WITH RESPONSIVE CHARACTERISTICS AT SURFACES AND INTERFACES, Piyachai Khomein, Chemistry
Embodied Location Effects: Affecting Consumer Product Attributions Through Location-concept Associations, Kaeun Kim, Management
The Influence of Amazon Deforestation in Brazil on the Soil Microbial Community Composition and Active Methane-Cycling, Marie Kroeger, Microbiology
DOUBLE-NETWORK MATERIALS VIA FRONTAL POLYMERIZATION & SUPERCRITICAL CO2 PROCESSING, Matthew Joseph Lampe, Polymer Science and Engineering
HYBRIDIZED POLYMERIC NANO-ASSEMBLIES: KEY INSIGHTS INTO ADDRESSING MDR INFECTIONS, Ryan Landis, Chemistry
Hierarchical Belief Spaces for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation, Michael W. Lanighan, Computer Science
Methods for Making Policy-Relevant Forecasts of Infectious Disease Incidence, Stephen A. Lauer, Public Health
ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN MALAWI, Nellipher Lewis Mchenga, Nursing
NEGOTIATING CRITICAL BILITERACIES: LANGUAGE AND LITERACY LEARNING IN A BILINGUAL ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM, Jing-Ji Marsha Liaw, Education (also CAGS)
THE PREVENTION OF OBESITY-ASSOCIATED COLORECTAL CANCER VIA DIETARY SUPPRESSION OF INFLAMMATION-DRIVEN WNT-SIGNALING, Jinchao Li, Public Health
A TOP-DOWN APPROACH FOR OPTIMALLY DESIGNING MULTISTAGE-ADAPTIVE TESTS, HWANGGYU LIM, Education (also CAGS)
Motherhood Wage Penalty Across Life Course and Cohorts, Misun Lim, Sociology
Every Pawn is a Potential Queen: How Female Early-Career Faculty Play the Game of Tenure, Bethany Lisi, Education (also CAGS)
Multiscale Simulations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Xiaorong Liu, Chemistry
REVISITING THE EAST ASIAN MIRACLE: LABOR REGIMES, PROFITABILITY AND ACCUMULATION, Zhongjin Li, Economics
RECOLLECTIONS: MEMORY, MATERIALITY, AND MERITOCRACY AT THE DR. JAMES STILL HISTORIC OFFICE AND HOMESTEAD, Marc Lorenc, Anthropology
CHEMICAL STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE INFLUENCE OF CHOICE SUBSTITUENTS AND CORE CONJUGATION OF ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, Jack Ly, Polymer Science and Engineering
The Power of Psychological Ownership: How Managers' "Sense of Possession" and Auditor's Conversation Starters Influence Managers' Response to Audit Inquiry, Nicole MacKenzie, Management
Young Adult Early Childhood Home Visitors’ Perceptions of FAN (Facilitating Attuned Interactions) and Its Potential Protection to Burnout, Lee MacKinnon, Education (also CAGS)
Probing Apoptotic Caspase Allostery and Exosite Interactions for Alternative Regulation, Derek J. MacPherson, Chemistry
A CRITICAL LENS OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN PUERTO RICO, Robin Marion, Education (also CAGS)
WILDFIRES IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES: EVALUATING FIRE OCCURRENCE AND RISK IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, Daniel R. Miller, Geosciences