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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Life history evolution and locomotive investment: testing Dial's hypothesis regarding avian flight evolution, Jess Kotnour
Experimental Evolution of Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 Under Iron and Acid Stress, Karina Kunka
Law-and-Order Rhetoric in the Victims’ Rights Movement: The Spread of Victims’ Rights Constitutional Amendments Across the States, Joshua McClain
Demonstration of Photodynamic Molecules as Larvicides towards the Aedes aegypti Mosquito, Cole Meier
Permeant Aromatic Acid Stress Selects Against Acid-Tolerance Genes and Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli K-12, Jeremy Moore
Exploring stl93: a novel Danio rerio neural development mutant with distinct axon and glial phenotypes in the CNS and PNS, Anoohya Muppirala
Multifield Preheating and Nonlinear Simulations at the End of Inflation, Rachel Nguyen
What They Were Really Building, Daniel Olivieri
A Place in the African Sun: Carl Peters, German Imperialist Ideology, and the Development of Nazi Lebensraum, Grace Richards
The Visigothic Law Code: A Study in Late Antique Christian Identity Formation, Emily Ward
Community, Culture, and Care: Examining Rurality as a Fundamental Cause of Disease, Evangeline Warren
Der Mythos und die Heldenfahrt in Der unendlichen Geschichte, Ella Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Sous Les Astres Immobiles: Stéphane Mallarmé and the Magic of Photography, Jessie Alperin
"As a Woman is Above a Worm": Dystopian Femininity in British Interwar Novels, Zoe Case
Aromatic Acid Mediated Loss of Antibiotic Resistance: An Investigation Into Evolutionary Tradeoffs, Frederick S. Ditmars
“The Dream and Dread of Home”: Memory and Identity Across Generations in Post-Soviet Émigré Life Writing, Linnea Feldman Emison
“One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –”: The Novelistic Afterlives of Emily Dickinson, Sarah Modlin
“No Frigate Like a Book”: An Argument for Moral Understanding through Literature, Kathryn Petroff
Born with a Plastic Spoon in Mouth: Food in the Experience of Low Income Kenyon Students, Jenna Rochelle
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Gender and the Civilizing Discourse in Anti-Imperialist Poetry, 1898, Juliet Bellin Warren
Salicylate's Impact on Mouse Fecal Microbiome, Adama Berndt, Joan Slonczewski Dr., Frederick Ditmars Mr, et al.
Making Our Science Meaningful: Sartre’s Theory of Emotions, Adam H. Brill
Reimaginar a Marilyn: Estudio y traducción feministas de 'la llave marilyn' de Laura Yasan, Phoebe Carter
Modeling Advanced LIGO Calibration Error and its Effects on Parameter Estimation, Theresa Chmiel
Emile in America: Understanding the Roots of Anger in Politics, Sarah-Marie Choong
“Muharrar al-Mar’a” (The Freer of Woman): State Feminism and the Contestation of the “Woman Question” in Postcolonial Tunisia, Emma Wilder Conover-Crockett
Violence Towards Gay Men: An Examination Among Straight Men, Juntao Dai
The Space Between You and Me, Emily Daluga
Moshiach is Here: Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Chabad-Lubavitch, and the 20th Century Campaign for Messiah, Olivia A. Desilva
An Amateur in Decline: Richard Christopher Carrington and the Rise of the Specialist Society in Victorian Britain, Vincent Femia
Turning Up the Mic: Representative Voice, Democratic Poetics, and Community Building in Hip-Hop Lyrics, Matthew Fillmore
"Entre los dos cielos": Estudio y traducción de la obra poética de Gabriel Chávez Casazola, Morgan Harden
Who Killed the World?: Imagining the End of Hegemony in Twenty-First-Century Apocalyptic Fiction, Liam Horsman
Does SNAP Have an Ameliorative Effect on Food Insecurity?, Katherine Leisek
The Old Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry: A Battle for the State and the Soul, Deborah Malamud
"The Jie and the Acholi Are No Longer Relatives": State Policy and the Evolution of Herder-Farmer Relations in Northeastern Uganda, Samuel Meyerson
Testing a Predictive Model of Denitrification: Spatial and Temporal Variability in Natural and Restored Ohio Wetlands, Lauren Michael
The Effect of Isolated Face Parts on the Identity Sensitive N250r ERP, Sarah Mohr
GABAA2 Subunit Agonism Improves Social Interaction and Object Recognition Memory in BTBRT+tf/J Mice, Sarah Naguib
Probability Currents in Quantum Thermal Machines, Graham Reid
From the "Aura" to James Baldwin's Devil: Reading the Photograph in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Julia Beth Richards
Politicizing the Demesne: Womanhood and Domestic Space in Irish "Big House" Literature, Deirdre Sheridan
Non-Linear Gravity at the End of Inflation, Avery Tishue
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Where the Wild Things Are: Sex Differentiated Foraging Behavior in Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), Sarah E. Adrianowycz
Analysis of the Demand for Conventional and Organic Milk in the United States, Kayla Arnold
The Impact of a Conspecific and Age on the Reinforcing Properties of Cocaine in Adolescent and Adult Male Rats, Lauren S. Bailey Ms
WAVES OF COMMERCE: FORT ROSS, THE PACIFIC WORLD, AND THE CREATION OF A CALIFORNIAN BORDERLAND, Michael G. Buse
Laboratory Evolution of Escherichia coli K-12 under Aromatic Acid Stress: Adaptation in a Stressful World, Kaitlin E. Creamer
Examining the Contract-Year Phenomenon Through Sabermetric Statistics, Desmond G. Dahlberg
Xenopus laevis AHRs have distinct transcriptional functions and are differentially responsive to specific agonists, Scott H. Freeburg
Mapping the Induction of RpoS via High pH-Adapted Strains Obtained by Experimental Evolution, Issam N. Hamdallah
The Historical Transformation of Boundaries and Power: Examining the Relationship Between Communal Institutions and the Jewish Left in Argentina, 1930-2015, Simone B. Holzer
A Tale of Two Governments: The Complex Relationship Between the Viceroy of India and the British Cabinet 1878-1905, Stewart L. Huntsman
Grit, Failure, and Self-Efficacy: Does Grit Buffer Against the Negative Effects of Failure on Self-Efficacy?, Tyler Kimble
Expanding Personal Responsibility: On the Importance of Institution & Education, Trevor Kirby
Accent, Interlanguage, or Local Variety: The Phenomenon of “Bad” Putonghua, Ayako Kuki
Demand for Residential Solar PV Systems in California, John C. Nahra
Nonlinear Physics at the End of Inflation, Eva Nesbit
Informal Transportation and Associations: A Case Study of the Boda Boda, Bradley J. Raynor
"Architecture is Frozen Music": Diagrammatic Epistemology in Chris Ware's 'Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth', Wyatt E. Sarafin
The Kokosing River in Knox County, Ohio: Nature and the Environment in Local Experience and Meaning, Jennifer J. Seely
Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Function in XTC-2, a X. laevis Tadpole Cell Line, Sean R. Smith Jr.
Convergent Patterns of Functional Diversity Across Tropical and Temperate Mountain Forests, Kiri Staiger 2527511
La juventud del Proceso de Reorganización Nacional: Peligro, testigo y resistencia en el cine argentino, Mary Raynor Sturgis
Constructing an American Studies Class: Special Topics 103.00 César Chávez and the Delano Grape Strike, Dante G. Valvo
The Language(s) of Latinidad: Scripting Ethnic Identity in in ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A?, Mia Mundo, and Jane the Virgin, Camila Velasquez
Numerical Simulations of Non-Abelian Gauge Preheating, Zachary J. Weiner
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Arriving: Relationships, Authority, and Justice in Objective Knowledge, Meaghan E. Brennan
Is it Hot Enough Yet? Reconstructing Firing Temperatures for Prehistoric Honduran Ceramics through Re-Firing Experiments, Caroline Del Giudice
Do Different Types of Threat Moderate the Effect of Performance-Avoidance Goals on Female Math Performance?, Katherine M. Finnigan
Interactions between Thryoid Hormone and Dioxin Signaling in the frog Xenopus laevis, Megan M. Koenecke
"Detrás de otros cuerpos y otros deseos": Estudio y traducción de la obra poética de Raúl Gómez Jattin, Olivia Lott
Croce, Gentile, and the Question of Fascism: Divergences in Italian Idealism, 1815-1925, Thomas G. Mattes
Social Sex Selection in Jordan: Value Systems Converge, Sarah C. Miller
Sex Differences in Dopamine D2 Receptor Modulation of Striatal Dopamine in mGluR5-mediated Repetitive Self-grooming Behavior in the BTBR T+tf/J Mouse Model for Autism, Olubusola O. Olukoya
A Vampire for the Times: The Queer Historicity of the Vampire, Christine A. Prevas
Explaining the Margin: The Margin of Appreciation Doctrine in Article 9 Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, Kelsey L. Randhawa
Paupers, Pariahs, Patients: Lepers in Medieval Europe, Nicholas B. Rogers
Reheating the Universe, Timothy R. Scully
Beholding the Handmaids of the Lord: The Virgin Mary as Model in Thirteenth-Century Anchoritic Texts, Lydia Shahan
Cooled Relations, Cold War Sentiments, and Frozen Conflicts: The Ukraine Crisis and its Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy, Corbin J. Stevens
Via ad Cantuaria: Developments in English Pilgrimage Culminating in the Cult of St Thomas Becket, Julia Tomlinson
The Struggle for the AIRwaves: The Origin and Transformation of All India Radio in Late Colonial India, Anna M. Walley
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Molecular Characterization of Na+-dependent Cation-Chloride Coupled Cotransporters in the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti, Daniel C. Akuma
Tibetan Contention and the Chinese Regime: The Dynamics of Protest and Policy, Lauren Berke
Size-frequency distributions in forest and non-forest plant communities: A comparison of alternative models, Kelsey T. Dillon
A Garden for Viviana, Jameyanne Fuller
Political Cognition: Brains, Campaigns, and Society, Jonathan I. Green
Acid-adapted strains of Escherichia coli K-12 obtained via laboratory evolution, Mark M. Harden Jr
“El violento oficio de escribir”: el uso político de la crónica en las obras de Rodolfo Walsh y Carlos Monsiváis, Simon M. Hoellerbauer