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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Making Your Voices Heard? The Tajik Civil War, the Kyrgyz Revolutions, and the Development of State-Society Relations in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Christopher Bechtol

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The Forgotten Battlefield: Orthodox Church Politics, Nationalism, and Russian Propaganda in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Christopher Bechtol

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Authoring the Subaltern Voice: Storytelling as Pathways to Reconstructing Truth in Postcolonial Literature, Lily Beeson-Norwitz

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Criticizing Cartographies: James Rennell’s Maps of India, Brooke Brown

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CHILE DESPERTÓ: Culture, Memory, and Deliberation in the Struggles for Authentic Democracy, Liam Crisan

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Exploring Friendship: An Interpretation of Plato's Lysis, Garrett Culbertson

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“I Just Donated, and You Should Too!”: Examining the Effects of Moral Emotions on Donation-Related Prosocial Behavior on Instagram, Katherine M. Ellis

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Sing, Goddess: Contemporary Female Novelistic Retellings of the Iliad, Molly Fording

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'The Spoils of the East': Science and Orientalism in A Voyage into the Levant, Abigail Foster

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The Exchange of Goods and the Construction of Identity: A Comparative Analysis of Byzantium and Al-Andalus, Samantha Goldenson

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“Do you think I will grow up to be a Freak?”: Tomboys and Sissies in McCullers and Capote’s Southern Gothics, Eva House

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Changeling Girlhoods: Fairy Folklore and Proto-Feminist Explorations of Childhood and Education In Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Clara Kempf

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Telomere and Plumage Dynamics in Adult Barn Swallows, Yujie (Serena) Liu

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Mechanisms Underlying Emergence of a Sub-G1 Population of Cells in a Mutant Xenopus laevis Line Lacking AHR1α, Paige Milhon

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Unpacking Rural Resource and Social Networks: A Case Study of Center of Hope, Elliot Moore and Austin H. Johnson

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Elizabeth Inchbald: Popular Appeal and Morality on the Eighteenth-Century Stage, Zoe Neirink

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Organizing Voices: Examining Indigenous Representation Organizations in Japan and New Zealand, George Novotny

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Effects of Membrane-Permeant Organic Compounds, pH, Growth Phases, and their Interactions on mRNA Expression of PMF-Driven Drug Efflux Pumps in Escherichia coli, Minh Pham and Joan Slonczewski

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Ink and Oil-Spills: Eco-Art in Contemporary Chinese Art, Ian Prescott

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On Social Positions and Social Influence: Society’s Impacts on White, Male Serial Killers, Lilly Richart

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The ‘Fallen Woman’ in a Falling City: The Social and Civic Policing of Prostitution in Victorian Bristol, United Kingdom, Alice Riley

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Cultural Differences in Holistic Processing: A Behavioral and EEG Study, Zhixing Sun

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Antagonism of the Xenopus laevis Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors, Alexandra Thoms

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An Inclusive Black Nationalism: An Examination of Ideological Diversity During the Black Arts Movement, Benjamin Weiner

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Does Visual Working Memory Predict Learning of Japanese Script? A Comparison of Logographic and Syllabary Script, John Apsley

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Probing the functions of COP1-like genes in seasonal reproduction of the moss Physcomitrium patens, Jo Bùi

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Deforestation and Tree Kinship in Medieval Iceland, Lynn Butzlaff and Lynn Butzlaff

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Dislocated: A Three Stage Approach to Translation using Natsume Sōseki’s Ten Nights’ Dreams for the 2020’s, Nathan Chu

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What Kind Of People Do We Need To Be? American Political Thought: 1776-1788, John Conway

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Tags temporarily decrease takeoff velocity and trajectory in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), Katherine Crawford

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Spring in Gambier, Bella Creel

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Sexual dimorphism in avian flight structures is predicted by mating systems and parental investment, Jonah S. Dominguez

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Simulating the high-energy Universe, from the Big Bang to black holes, Ericka Florio

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Numerical Simulations of Nonlinear Physics in the Universe, Mary Gerhardinger

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Characterizing Sphagnum spectral physiology across a 3000km latitudinal transect., Chris Goodall

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Atmospheric Deposition and the Ecosystem Impacts Along an Agricultural-to-Urban Gradient in Ohio, U.S., Ansley Grider

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THE HEROIC MEDICAL PRACTITIONER AND SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN VICTORIAN NOVELS OF THE MIDCENTURY, Dylan Hartman

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The Cultural Interaction of Material Objects Between Eighteenth Century France and India, Olivia Hoffmann

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Examining the Effectiveness of a Feminist-Inspired Video Intervention for Women’s Body Dissatisfaction, Adrienne Kvaka

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Defining the role of tcf15 in Danio rerio peripheral nervous system patterning, Lauren Limbach

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Who is Guarding the Guardians? Tracking Changes in Civil-Military Relations in the United States from Vietnam to the Forever Wars, Ayla Gayle McBreen

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Sport in the German Democratic Republic: Unpacking Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc, Clare McMahon

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Seeds of Sovereignty: Contact, Agency, and Ecological Power in Haudenosaunee America, Zoë Packel

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Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of DIO2 regulation in response to cortisol in a human extravillous trophoblast cell line, Rodaba Rahim

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Chronic Prenatal Maternal Stress in the Mouse Alters Type II Iodothyronine Deiodinase Expression and Thyroid Hormone Bioavailability in the Placenta, Salome Shubitidze

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The Effect of Social Support From Parents, Friends, and Professors on College Students’ Perceptions of Academic Success, Lauren Smith

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Identification of nerve development factors via gene expression profiling of stl159 zebrafish mutants, Sierra Smith

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Understanding the American Expressionist Anti-Heroine: Chrononormativity and the Deviant Bodies of Pinwheel, The Subway, and Machinal, Katie Stevenson

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GIRLKUNSTPOLITIK: jennicam.org and the evolution of digital portrayal, pornography and play, Rebecca Turner

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Early life factors affect telomere length and dynamics in nestling barn swallows, Charlie Voirin

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Coherent Control of Processes That Break the Dipole Blockade, Tomohisa Yoda

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“Shall I At Least Set My Lands in Order?” Gender, the Grotesque, and the Waste Land Cycle of Rejuvenation in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sydney Zimmerman

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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"When Goths were Goths and Tamora was Queen": Gothic Worlds and Shakespeare's Spectre in Walpole and Radcliffe, Alexia Mandla Ainsworth

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Between Chastity and Heresy: A Study of Female Mystics, Hannah Aronson-Paxton

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The Nearsightedness of Media Spectacles: Measuring Appraisals of Aggression through Psychological Distance, Henry Biedron

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Machiavelli and Hobbes: The Fox and Lion on Ambition, Philip Brain

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“All of the Work and None of the Enjoyment”: College Instructors’ Diminished Occupational Well-Being in the COVID-19 Crisis, Paige Bullock

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Functional characterization and immunolocalization of insect sodium-dependent cation-chloride cotransporter 2 (NaCCC2), Phu Duong

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Siegfriedism: Myths Behind Mirrors, Hanna P. Feuer

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Sarah Kane's Poetics of Subjectivity, Katherine Franco

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Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation Disrupts Endocrine Control of klf9, a Gene Central to Metamorphosis, David Han

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Affiliation During a Pandemic: How Gender, Gender Role Adherence, and Social Support Affect Adjustment, Hannah Haynes

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Intimacy and the Fellowship It Can Bring, Oliver Martin

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Comparing two paralogs with one program: A sequence analysis of the cation transporters CCC2 and NKCC1 in mosquitos and fruit flies, Tobias McCabe

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Tinder Use, Attachment, and Loneliness in College Students, Annie Mogilnicki

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“it is the sound of a dream”: Visions of The Real in Frank Stanford’s The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You, Nicolás Pulido Amador

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The Choreography of Modernism: Lawrence, Woolf, and Representations of Dance in the Novel, Meredith E. Sauer

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Fitness Tradeoffs of Multidrug Efflux Pumps in Escherichia coli K-12 Assessed Through Flow Cytometry Competition Assays, Samantha Schaffner

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THIS BODY A MIRROR OF ME, A. Shaikh

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Factors Contributing to the Peer Acceptance of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among College Students, Samuel Turecki

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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“The King of Jews”: Escalating Tensions Among the Crown, Nobility, Jews and Muslims in Fourteenth Century Castile, Kayla Alcaide

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The Medieval Dead: Living with the Restless Dead in the Middle Ages, Michael Audet

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Identification and Characterization of Three Putative Beta-Alanine Aminotransferases in Arabidopsis thaliana, Margo Goldfarb

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Omnifarious Believing - A Vision as a Spelling of Modern Subjectivity, Adam Hagewiesche

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Proliferating Subjectivities: The Work of Chris Ware and Lynda Barry as “L’Écriture Féminine”, Baxter King-Epping

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Varieties of Manufacturing: Remedying Rust in the Industrial Heartland, Lucas Kreuzer

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Violence and the Neo Fairy Tale, Erin LeVar

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“And Are We Not of Interest to Each Other?”: Global Intimacy as a Lens for Literary Analysis, Paola Melissa Liendo

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Pleasure in the Present Tense: Mapping Trauma on the Lesbian Horizon, Kylie Lohrenz

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El tejido de vida y poesía: La relación entre la vida y la poesía de Concha Méndez en sus primeros años de exilio, Kylie Milliken

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Empire of Prejudice, Prejudice of Empire: American Perception of Japanese Power During the Siberian Intervention, Aidan Murphy

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Constructing Cold War Masculinity: The US Military and Sex Work in Korea from 1953 to 1992, Lydia Claire O'Donnell

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The EcoGothic: An Examination of Fear and the Environment in Nineteenth Century Literature, Lily Stachowiak

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Calibration Uncertainty of Advanced LIGO and its Effect on Astrophysical Results, Madeline Stover

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Pope Boniface VIII: The Last Defender of the Medieval Papacy, Shenghao Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Rebranding Occupation: Gender and Sexuality in the Israeli Settler Colonial Project, Layali Awwad

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Control of ultracold molecular plasma dynamics by millimeter-wave and radio frequency fields, Fernanda Banic Viana Martins

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The “Grave Task” of Writing Turko-Mongol History: Mirza Haydar Dughlat as a Historian, Henry D. Brill

"Carrément Gang": Le langage non-standard et l'identité dans le rap français contemporain, Hannah Bryan

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Social-Emotional Competence in Preschool: The Relationship Between Behavioral Regulation, Social Skills, and Academic Performance, Samantha Culbert

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Saint Dominic's Modes of Prayer in the Dormitory Frescoes at the Convent of San Marco in Florence, Lynne A. Cullen

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"See Plato Soaring Upward": How Montaigne's Criticism of Platonic Rhetoric, When Compared to Plato's Use of Rhetoric in the Gorgias, Illuminates Their Political Philosophical Views, Emily Anne Davis

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Shady Characters: A Deep Problem for Indexical Reference, Jack Fantini

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How Performance Affects Identification with Avatars in Sports Games, Grace Fuisz

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"Fantastic Anger" ― Tiptree, Russ, and the Making of the Queer Posthuman, William Gardner

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Evolution of Escherichia coli K-12 in the presence of PMF uncoupler CCCP selects for mutations in genes affecting drug efflux including mprA, emrAB, and cecR., Jessie Griffith

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On Staying Sexy and Not Getting Murdered: Gender and True Crime Fandom Online, George Halliday

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Meronomic reference frames; or, How do you know your tictac is mine?, Austin Hulse

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Girlhood Beyond the Bedroom: The Creation of Alternate Private Spaces in Graphic Novels, Alexandra Kanovsky

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Life history evolution and locomotive investment: testing Dial's hypothesis regarding avian flight evolution, Jess Kotnour