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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
Dianne Elizabeth Boetsch
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Evidence for Kinetic Range Turbulence in the Bryn Mawr Experiment
Carlos A. Cartagena-Sanchez
Physics

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Primary Care Physicians’ Experiences Treating Patients with Behavioral Health Needs
Lauren E. Dennelly
Social Work and Social Research

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The Indivisible System: Modeling The Metal-Pterin-Dithiolene System In Molybdenum And Tungsten Cofactors
Cassandra Gates
Chemistry

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Reading Selves/Writing Selves: Tracing the Intellectual History of Writing as a Technology of the Self
Olivia Hopewell
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Towards a Performative Migratory Aesthetics in Work by Womxn-Identifying Practitioners in the United States, 1970–2018
Laurel V. McLaughlin
History of Art

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Curiosity and Collection in the Constcamer Paintings of Frans II Francken (1581-1642)
Jamie Richardson Sandhu
History of Art

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The Role of Validation Experiences and Sense of Belonging in Academic Self-Concept and Intent to Persist Among Four-Year College Students
Sarah Slates
Social Work and Social Research

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Jurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
Thu Ta
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
Audrey Wallace
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Speech and Enchantment in Early Greek Thought from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period
R. J. Barnes
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Magnetic and Mechanical Properties of Ultrasoft Magnetorheological Elastomers
Andy T. Clark
Physics

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Distribution of Holonomy about Closed Geodesics on Compact Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Lindsay Dever
Mathematics

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The Votive Deposits from the Hera Sanctuary at Perachora: From Deposits to Maintenance
Mackenzie Heglar
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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Radiant Sites: Projection and the Mobile Spectator in Contemporary Moving-Image Installations
Taylor Hobson
History of Art

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Tracing the Evolution of Welfare Discourse from 1990 to 2016
Jenifer A. Norton
Social Work and Social Research

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Understanding and Harnessing the Structural Features that Govern HMG-CoA Reductase Activity
Edwin Ragwan
Chemistry

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The Rural Settlements of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic Central Asia: an Archaeology of Indigenous Life under Colonial Rule
Zachary W. Silvia
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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Delaware’s Multidisciplinary Teams for the Investigation of Child Abuse: Communities of Practice?
Lori Sitler
Social Work and Social Research

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How Do Refugees Experience a “Sense Of Place” in a Community Garden? Exploring an Intervention to Mitigate the Consequences of Displacement
Amy E. Stein
Social Work and Social Research

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Schemata: The Language of the Body in Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
Nava Streiter
History of Art

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Khovanov Homology & Uniqueness of Surfaces in the 4-ball
Isaac Sundberg
Mathematics

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Resistance to the Rise of the Principate: An Analysis of Literary Allusions to Augustus’ Rivals
Christina McGuire Villareal
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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The Art of Burial in the Medieval Nile Valley: Christian and Islamic Interchange in Religious Funerary Contexts
Arielle Winnik
History of Art

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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White Clinicians’ Way of Being with Their Black Clients
Briana Bogue
Social Work and Social Research

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Text and Images of Authority: The Inscribed Seals from the Persepolis Fortification Archive
Christina Chandler
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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The Neo-Latin Supplements to Virgil’s Aeneid, 1400–1700
Luca A. D'Anselmi
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Imperial/Non-Imperial Encounters in the Gulf during the Late Pre-Islamic Period: The Glazed Pottery from Southeastern Arabia and Tepe Yahya, Iran
Matthew F. Jameson
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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Tensions in Welcoming LGBT Older Adults: Discourses of Legitimization and Silence in a Senior Center
Megan C. McCoy
Social Work and Social Research

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Exploration of the use of Palladium and Nickel to Catalyze Enolate Cross-coupling and the Enantioselective Mizoroki-Heck Reaction.
Mary Elizabeth Sexton (Charlton)
Chemistry

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On the distribution of central values of Hecke L-functions
Daniel White
Mathematics

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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‘The Oracular Tale’ and the Oracles of the Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, and Oracular Ambiguity in Herodotus’ Histories and its Historical and Cultural Context
Daniel J. Crosby
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Impacts of Housing Insecurity on Health Care Utilization and Parental Awareness of the Early Intervention Program
Sarah M. Farash
Social Work and Social Research

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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
Collin Miles Hilton
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Reframing Femininity: Collecting Pictures of Early Christian Virgin Martyrs in Seicento Naples
Justinne K. Lake-Jedzinak
History of Art

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“An American Sun Shines Brighter”: Art, Science, and the American Reinvention of Photography
Michelle Smiley
History of Art

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Byzantine Enamel and the Aesthetics of Technological Power, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
Shannon Steiner
History of Art

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Magnetic Skyrmions in Multilayers with Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions
Xiao Wang
Physics

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Visions of their Land: Młoda Polska & The Making of Landscape
Amalia C. Wojciechowski
History of Art

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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The Use of Trauma-Informed Care in Programs Serving Families Experiencing Homelessness
Lisitski L. Jeannine
Social Work and Social Research

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“It’s Complex:” Student Sex Workers Constructing Their Lives in the 21st Century A Modified Qualitative Content Analysis
Jennifer C. Jones
Social Work and Social Research

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A Break In Communication: The Synthesis, Characterization, DNA Binding and Photocleavage of a Novel Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complex Containing an Electronically Isolated Pyrene Group
Samantha Klein
Chemistry

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Exotic Phenomena in Dimension Four
Hannah R. Schwartz
Mathematics

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Estimates on Oscillatory Singular Integral Operators
Danielle Smiley
Mathematics

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The Terracotta Altars of Morgantina: A Study of the Form, Production, Use, and Development of Arulae from Hellenistic Sicily
Andrew Tharler
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices: Seal Use and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Greece
Maggie Beeler
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire
Alexander Brey
History of Art

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Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando's Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
Mark A. Castro
History of Art

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Combat-Related Reproductive Trauma: Implications for Quality of Life and the Reproductive Narrative
Laura S. Covington
Social Work and Social Research

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The L30e ribosomal protein from S. cerevisiae binds to its transcript RNA more strongly than to its primary target helix 58 of ribosomal RNA
Bashkim Kokona
Chemistry

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Social Workers’ Beliefs about Reporting Suspected Elder Abuse to Adult Protective Services
Rebecca G. Laster
Social Work and Social Research

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Immersed Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Submanifolds via Generating Families
Samantha Pezzimenti
Mathematics

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Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental Film
Katherine Rochester
History of Art

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Finding the Local within the Global: A Comparative Study of Public Architecture and Urban Development in Roman-period Lycia
Rachel Lynne Starry
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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The contribution of psychosocial factors to speech comprehension in normal aging: “What did you say?”
Jacoba Johnson Zaring
Psychology

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Decoding Meaning in Athenian Vase-Painting of the Archaic and Classical Periods: A Study of Expressions of Communication and Targeted Audiences
Danielle Smotherman Bennett
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
Lee Burnett
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Toward A More Comprehensive Model of Economic Vulnerability, Family Stress, and Children’s Social-Emotional Competence
Margo Campbell
Social Work and Social Research

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Exploring Highly Excited, Long-Range States of H2 Near the Third Dissociation Limit
Alexander Michael Chartrand
Physics

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Reconstructing the Dedicatory Experience: Flexibility and Limitation in the Ancient Greek Dedicatory Process
Nicole M. Colosimo
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) as an Adjunctive Treatment for Eating Disorders: Exploration of AAT through the lens of Attachment and Affect Regulation
Patricia Flaherty Fischette
Social Work and Social Research

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Making It Work: Small-Town System Building in Homelessness Service
Jennifer M. Frank
Social Work and Social Research

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Shortage of Foster Parents: An Exploratory Study of the Attrition of Prospective Foster Parents During the Licensing Process
Laurie Friedman
Social Work and Social Research

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The Molybdenum Cofactor: Modeling the Swiss Army Knife of Metabolic Diversity
Douglas R. Gisewhite
Chemistry

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The Therapeutic Alliance and Psychotherapy Outcomes for Young Adults Aged 18 to 34: A Systematic Review
Stacy Green
Social Work and Social Research

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Exploration of Synthetic Pathways to Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters and Fused Ring Systems via Birch Reductions
Andrew Thomas Krasley
Chemistry

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The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
Charles Nestor Kuper
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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A Product Structure on Generating Family Cohomology for Legendrian Submanifolds
Ziva Myer
Mathematics

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Representations of Human and Satyr Children Through Stages of Childhood Development in Athenian Art of the Sixth to the Fourth Century B.C.E. An Iconographical and Contextual Approach.
Hollister Nolan Pritchett
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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The Athletic Turn in Contemporary Art
Nathanael Roesch
History of Art

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Explicit Formula for the Mean Square of Dirichlet L-Functions to Prime Power Moduli
Frank Romascavage III
Mathematics

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Understanding Language Gain in the Overseas Immersion Context: Multi-Modal Assessment of Young Adult Learners of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian
Jane R. Shaw
Russian

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Recontextualizing Military Structures along the Stanegate and Hadrian’s Wall Utilizing Aerial Photography and GIS Mapping
Sara Sieteski
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

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Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
Abbe Lind Walker
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Slice implies mutant ribbon for odd 5-stranded pretzel knots
Kathryn Bryant
Mathematics

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The Effect of Exposure to Aversive Stimuli on Activity Based Anorexia
Anne Castley Burdzy
Psychology

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Emotion Recognition and Aging
Devon S. Dautrich
Psychology

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Age Comparison of Valence Effects Across Cognitive Domains: Support for Stability?
Lindsey A. Dever
Psychology

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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
Guy Feldman
Social Work and Social Research

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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
Guy Feldman
Social Work and Social Research

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The Experiences of Emerging Adult Siblings of People with Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Jillian Graves
Social Work and Social Research

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The Experiences of Emerging Adult Siblings of People with Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Jillian Graves
Social Work and Social Research

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Patterns and Predictors of Behavioral Change Among Children Enrolled in an Intensive School-Based Mental Health Program
Karen M. Grundy
Psychology

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Neighborhood Violence Perceptions and TANF Receipt
Rachel S. Kirzner
Social Work and Social Research

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Health Care Utilization among Bhutanese Refugees in Philadelphia: Exploring Vulnerabilities, Access, and Needs
Jessica Euna Lee
Social Work and Social Research

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The Relationship between Attachment and Grit
Toni Mandelbaum
Social Work and Social Research

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The Relationship between Attachment and Grit
Toni Mandelbaum
Social Work and Social Research

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Changing Perspectives: Can a Short-Term Intervention Promote Relationship Satisfaction?
Mary McManaman
Psychology

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Parent-Adolescent Cross-Informant Agreement: Findings from Two Clinical Samples
Jillian L. Neill
Psychology

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Whose gender? Whose identity? Trans medicine, psychiatry, and the symbolic order
Michael Pfeiffer
Social Work and Social Research

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Religion of the Roadways: Roadside Sacred Spaces in Attica
Johanna Best
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Ancient Understanding of Grafting
Clay M. Cofer
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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The Portrait Potential Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320
Maeve Doyle
History of Art

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Egon Schiele’s Double Self Portraiture
Lori Anne Felton
History of Art

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Nonexistence of Solutions to Certain Families of Diophantine Equations
Eva G. Goedhart
Mathematics

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Growth in Math Skills and Response to Math Intervention in Kindergarten
Hannah R. Ebin
Psychology

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The Santo Sepulcro in Torres del Río (Navarra): Historiography, National Identity and a Reconsideration of “Mozárabic” and “Mudéjar” Architecture
Robin Haedong Kim
History of Art

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Copper Metallurgy in Cilicia and the Amuq in the Second Millennium BC: Insights into Aspects of Bronze Age Technology and Trade
Emre Kuruçayırlı
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

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Cangianti and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
Melissa Jane Meier
History of Art

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The Influence of Comorbid Trauma Symptomatology on the Treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder with Exposure and Response Prevention
Beth L. Mugno
Psychology