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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
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
The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire
Alexander Brey
History of Art
Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando's Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
Mark A. Castro
History of Art
Combat-Related Reproductive Trauma: Implications for Quality of Life and the Reproductive Narrative
Laura S. Covington
Social Work and Social Research
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
Social Workers’ Beliefs about Reporting Suspected Elder Abuse to Adult Protective Services
Rebecca G. Laster
Social Work and Social Research
Immersed Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Submanifolds via Generating Families
Samantha Pezzimenti
Mathematics
Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental Film
Katherine Rochester
History of Art
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
The contribution of psychosocial factors to speech comprehension in normal aging: “What did you say?”
Jacoba Johnson Zaring
Psychology
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
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
Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
Lee Burnett
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Toward A More Comprehensive Model of Economic Vulnerability, Family Stress, and Children’s Social-Emotional Competence
Margo Campbell
Social Work and Social Research
Exploring Highly Excited, Long-Range States of H2 Near the Third Dissociation Limit
Alexander Michael Chartrand
Physics
Reconstructing the Dedicatory Experience: Flexibility and Limitation in the Ancient Greek Dedicatory Process
Nicole M. Colosimo
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
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
Making It Work: Small-Town System Building in Homelessness Service
Jennifer M. Frank
Social Work and Social Research
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
The Molybdenum Cofactor: Modeling the Swiss Army Knife of Metabolic Diversity
Douglas R. Gisewhite
Chemistry
The Therapeutic Alliance and Psychotherapy Outcomes for Young Adults Aged 18 to 34: A Systematic Review
Stacy Green
Social Work and Social Research
Exploration of Synthetic Pathways to Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters and Fused Ring Systems via Birch Reductions
Andrew Thomas Krasley
Chemistry
The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
Charles Nestor Kuper
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
A Product Structure on Generating Family Cohomology for Legendrian Submanifolds
Ziva Myer
Mathematics
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
The Athletic Turn in Contemporary Art
Nathanael Roesch
History of Art
Explicit Formula for the Mean Square of Dirichlet L-Functions to Prime Power Moduli
Frank Romascavage III
Mathematics
Understanding Language Gain in the Overseas Immersion Context: Multi-Modal Assessment of Young Adult Learners of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian
Jane R. Shaw
Russian
Recontextualizing Military Structures along the Stanegate and Hadrian’s Wall Utilizing Aerial Photography and GIS Mapping
Sara Sieteski
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
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
Slice implies mutant ribbon for odd 5-stranded pretzel knots
Kathryn Bryant
Mathematics
The Effect of Exposure to Aversive Stimuli on Activity Based Anorexia
Anne Castley Burdzy
Psychology
Emotion Recognition and Aging
Devon S. Dautrich
Psychology
Age Comparison of Valence Effects Across Cognitive Domains: Support for Stability?
Lindsey A. Dever
Psychology
Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
Guy Feldman
Social Work and Social Research
Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
Guy Feldman
Social Work and Social Research
The Experiences of Emerging Adult Siblings of People with Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Jillian Graves
Social Work and Social Research
The Experiences of Emerging Adult Siblings of People with Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Jillian Graves
Social Work and Social Research
Patterns and Predictors of Behavioral Change Among Children Enrolled in an Intensive School-Based Mental Health Program
Karen M. Grundy
Psychology
Neighborhood Violence Perceptions and TANF Receipt
Rachel S. Kirzner
Social Work and Social Research
Health Care Utilization among Bhutanese Refugees in Philadelphia: Exploring Vulnerabilities, Access, and Needs
Jessica Euna Lee
Social Work and Social Research
The Relationship between Attachment and Grit
Toni Mandelbaum
Social Work and Social Research
The Relationship between Attachment and Grit
Toni Mandelbaum
Social Work and Social Research
Changing Perspectives: Can a Short-Term Intervention Promote Relationship Satisfaction?
Mary McManaman
Psychology
Parent-Adolescent Cross-Informant Agreement: Findings from Two Clinical Samples
Jillian L. Neill
Psychology
Whose gender? Whose identity? Trans medicine, psychiatry, and the symbolic order
Michael Pfeiffer
Social Work and Social Research
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Religion of the Roadways: Roadside Sacred Spaces in Attica
Johanna Best
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Ancient Understanding of Grafting
Clay M. Cofer
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
The Portrait Potential Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320
Maeve Doyle
History of Art
Egon Schiele’s Double Self Portraiture
Lori Anne Felton
History of Art
Nonexistence of Solutions to Certain Families of Diophantine Equations
Eva G. Goedhart
Mathematics
Growth in Math Skills and Response to Math Intervention in Kindergarten
Hannah R. Hebin
Psychology
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
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
Cangianti and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
Melissa Jane Meier
History of Art
The Influence of Comorbid Trauma Symptomatology on the Treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder with Exposure and Response Prevention
Beth L. Mugno
Psychology
Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice
Justine Polster
Social Work and Social Research
Culture-in-Action: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Doctor-Patient Interactions in New Zealand General Practice.
Justine Polster
Social Work and Social Research
Exploring Pteridine Chemistry in Two Bioinorganic Systems
Benjamin R. Williams
Chemistry
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Theory of Mind and Metamemory in Old Age
Alyssa Caroline Bressler
Psychology
Mindfulness and Cognition in Older Adults
Rebecca Bubb
Psychology
Enantioselective Conjugate Additions to a Hindered Cyclohexenone System
Sarah Burke
Chemistry
Resonant Dipole-Dipole Energy Transfer Dynamics in a Frozen Rydberg Gas
Donald P. Fahey
Physics
An investigation of the redox properties and application of Ru (II) and Ir (III) complexes containing multiple metal c enters
Ryan J. Fealy
Chemistry
Cinema at the Crossroads: Bruce Conner’s Atomic Sublime, 1958 - 2008
Johanna Gosse
History of Art
The Archaeology of Hittite Imperialism and Ceramic Production in Late Bronze Age IIA Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey
Steven Karacic
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Individual differences in frequency and type of gesture production: Relationship to personal characteristics
Kristin Kopple
Psychology
Reading Achievement in High - Stak es Testing: Patterns and Predictability Across Time
Karen E. Landman
Psychology
Predicting and Tracking Mathematics Growth Using High - Stakes Test Scores: An Examination of Latent Growth and Latent Class Models
Thomas C. Mack
Psychology
Evidence-based Practice: An Exploration of Meaning Making Among Leaders of Community Coalitions
Gail Manza
Social Work and Social Research
Roman Nostalgia Exemplarity and Romanitas in Late Republican and Imperial Literature
Eleanor V. Mulhern
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Intention Discrimination and Attribution
Suzanne Mischell Nangle
Psychology
Work experience, coherence, and well - being: an examination of coherence and later work measures
Amy M. Paris
Psychology
Analyzing Well-being in Late Life: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Sarah E. Scheckter
Psychology
Kaluza-Klein Reduction of Pure Gravity and its Implications for K3 Surface Compactifications
Elliott Tammaro
Physics
"Prospering in the Trees": The Meaning of Privacy for Incarcerated Women
Barb Toews
Social Work and Social Research
Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
Irina K. Walsh
Russian
A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Psychosocial Interventions for Adults who were Sexually Abused as Children
Jessica Schaffner Wilen
Social Work and Social Research
Valued Copies: Devotional Practice and Painting Workshop Production in the Burgundian Netherlands
Angélique R. Wille
History of Art
Design and Synthesis of Hydroxylamine Derivatives as Indoleamine - 2,3 - Dioxygenase Inhibitors
Maria Winters
Chemistry
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Synthesis of a Family of Polyether-Substituted Phenacenes
Alyssa Bohen
Chemistry
Lapithos: the Upper Geometric Cemetery
Stella Diakou
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
How to Ask for a Favor: An Exploration of Speech Act Pragmatics in Heritage Russian
Irina Yevgenievna Dubinina
Russian
Resonant Space, Sonorous Time: The Varieties of Acoustic Phenomena in the Art of Christian Marclay
Matthew C. Féliz
History of Art
Dark Matter Detection with the Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber Collaboration
Vincent C. Gregoric
Physics
A Colony Within: Art and Identity in London’s East End since World War II
Amy E. Haavik-MacKinnon
History of Art
Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes
Carrie Robbins
History of Art
Why Be Mindful?: A Profile Approach to Understanding the Role of Motivation in Emotion Regulation
Joanna Scott
Psychology
Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Jessica M. Sisk
Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Young Children’s Perceptions of Morally Relevant Behavior in Adults and Children
Sarah Ashley Teague Duda
Psychology
Temperament in Infants at Heightened Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Breanna M. Winder
Psychology
To Educate a Nation: A Case Study on Adult Literacy & Women in Ghana
Kyra Turner Zogbekor
Social Work and Social Research
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
Benjamin W. Anderson
History of Art
Explicit Grammar Instruction and the Acquisition of Second Language Verbal Morphology: A Framework for Generalized Learning in Second Language Acquisition
Mark W. Baugher
Russian
Staging the Post-conflict City: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Emily Bereskin
History of Art
Investigating Syntactic and Lexical Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian
Evgeny Dengub
Russian
The Development of Pragmatic Competence and Perception of Requests by American Learners of the Russian Language
Valentina N. Amelkina Dunn
Russian
Malevich’s Post-Suprematist Paintings and the Construction of History
Marie E. Gasper-Hulvat
History of Art
Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine
Jennifer Griffiths
History of Art
A Walk through the Past: Toward the Study of Archaeological Museums in Italy, Greece, and Israel
Andrea Guzzetti
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
The Mechanics of Regaining Balance in Pirouettes
Melanie B. Lott
Physics