Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Racial Microaggressions Research: Intersectionality, Coping Strategies, and Groups Impacted, Aldo M. Barrita
“But…. They Don’t Look Like Me.” An Examination of Mentoring Relationships with Hispanic and Latinx Students, Diana Ruby Beltran
Postmodern Paranoia: Conspiracy Theories as Network Anxieties in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Underworld, Madison Browne
Trauma-Related Cognitions and Discrimination as Predictors of Maladaptive Coping Among Marginalized Maltreated Youth, Shadie Burke
Institutional Design of Intergovernmental Organizations: Cooperation, Vitality, and Evolution, Darrell James Carter
Impact of Placement Disruption on School Outcomes in Maltreated Youth, Mallory Constantine
Rewriting the American Work Narrative: Modernist Literature and the Paradox of Patriotic Labor, Jesse Cook
“Sex is Fun”: A Study of Hook Up Behaviors and Experiences of Post-College and Middle-Aged Adults, Joshua Corum
Relationships Between Psychopathology, Impulsivity, and Disordered Eating, Repairer Etuk
From Extraction to Attraction: Case Studies in Historic Preservation, Heritage Tourism and Interpretation, 1945-2010, Paige Figanbaum
Gender Stereotyping in an Agricultural Sample, Andrea Fink-Armold
Contextualizing High Fragmented Remains as Complex Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest (AD 700-1700), Julia Cristina Freiberger
The Phenomenon of Creative Seeing as Discovered by Descriptive Experience Sampling: A Case Study, Amber Goto
Monstrous Women: Adaptation as Humanization, Amie Greene
The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Binge Eating in a Demographically Diverse US Community Sample, Jessica H. Habashy
Leveling the Playing Field: An Ethnographic Study of Latinx Youth Soccer Leagues in Las Vegas, Jeannette Hernández
Corporate-Led Financialization on the Farmland, Land Crisis, and Farmers’ Experience in the Sugar Industry in Dwangwa, Malawi, Foster C. Kamanga
Exploring the Everyday Inner Experience of Grapheme-Color Synesthetes, Cody Michio Kaneshiro
Liminal Embodiment and the Changing Parental Body, Torisha Khonach
Reframing Addiction as a Coping Response: A Needed Shift in Modern Public Health Paradigms, Anthony King
Psychopathy and Moral Decision Making, Dimitra Kourtesi
Self-Perception and Positive Stereotype Endorsement, Aileen Lovitt
Incarcerated Nations: Confinement, Removal, and Policing on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Mary Ludwig
Age, Gender, and Sexual Orientation and their Effects on Online Dating Motivations, Jenna Leigh Mcpherson
Parsing the Plains: Placing Emporia, Kansas in the Great Plains Midwest, Joseph Noce
Notes of a Nostalgic Nigerian, Ucheoma Onwutuebe
“Everyone’s Favorite Dead Girl”: Historical Crime Fiction and Postwar Policing in James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia, Mauricio Ortiz Zaragoza
Case Trial Evaluations of an Optimization Approach to Mental Health and Sport Performance for Adolescent Athletes, Dereck Davy Phrathep
Examining the Risks and Resilience of Older Adults Living with HIV/AIDS: Qualitative Community-Based Participatory Research Studies in Southern Nevada, Brandon Ranuschio
Under the Neon Lights: Examining the Memories of Las Vegas' Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, William B. Ridgway
Sourcing Clays and Styles: Interaction Networks at the Elk Ridge Site, Southwestern New Mexico, Danielle M. Romero
The Dogs / The Ghosts, Michael David Rudolph
The Role of Cognitive Dysfunction in Late-Life Depression, Matthew Schurr
Cultural Crisis, Performance and Ritual: A Bioarchaoelogy of Violence in Early Precontact North Alabama (8,000-3,000 BP), Diana Sherman Simpson
Understanding the Role of Discrimination in the Experience of Traumatic Stress in Latine, Michelle Strong
Excavating the Archives: A Re-analysis of Artifacts Recovered from Catclaw Cave, Emily C. Swett
The Effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation on Excitability of the Primary Motor Cortices and Complex Motor Task Learning, Erik Woodruff Wilkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Ga(y)zing Backward: Queer Desire in Ovid, Shakespeare, and Scaimma, Falynn Blayre Brickler
Four Junes, Sara Brown
Illness Under the Microscope: Disease in Colonial Discourse, a Disruptive Study, Sujata Chattopadhyay
Cultural Mechanism of Mothers' Perceptions of Youth Psychopathology, Yen-Ling Chen
Resilience on the Iron Road: A Collaborative Bioarchaeology of Overseas Chinese Laborer Exploitation and Exclusion (1850-1920), John Joseph Crandall
Negotiating a World in Upheaval: Resiliency of Indigenous Systems of Warfare among Yuman Groups, Joseph B. Curran
MENA Terrorism and the West: Explaining Why Terrorist Groups from the Middle East and North Africa Target Western Democracies, Michael A. Defeo
Transnational Actions, Domestic Outcomes: How Diasporas Effect Change in Their Countries of Origin, Nadia Eldemerdash
Examining Emotion Regulation Strategies as Predictors of Posttraumatic and Depressive Symptomatology in Maltreated Youth, Kinsey Ellis
Developmental Differences in School Climate Predictors of Chronic School Absenteeism, Michael Fensken
The Relationship Between Psychopathy and Sexism Across Self-Report, Vignette, and Novel Dialogue Tree Tasks, Arianne Fisher
Black Girl Magic: History, Identity, and Spirituality in Contemporary Fantasy and Science-Fiction, Taylore Fox
An Examination of the Association of Religiosity, Purity Culture, and Religious Trauma with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety, Kaelyn R. Griffin
Maternal Health in the Context of Social, Political, and Economic Change Among Hadzabe Foragers of Tanzania, Kristen Herlosky
Genre and Gender: A Rhetoric of Irony in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, Nanette Rasband Hilton
Examining the Factor Structures of the ERQ-CA, RCADS, and RSCA to Identify Unique Predictors of PTSD Symptom Clusters in Maltreated Youth, Amanda N. Howard
How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Relationship between Human-Animal Interactions and Human Well-Being, Elizabeth A. Johnson
Toolstone Use and Procurement Along Holocene Ivanpah Dry Lake, CA, Kara Jones
Feminine Aesthetics of Embodied Cognition: Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Audre Lorde, Jenessa L.w. Kenway
A Cultural History of Anti-Feminism in Marvel's Scarlet Witch, Madison M. Kooba
Clinical Utility of the Substance Use Items of the Sport Interference Checklist in Collegiate Athletes, Igor Kowal
Measurement Invariance of Impact in Bilingual and Monolingual High School Athletes, Hana Cecilia Kuwabara
Development of Cultural Familiarity Influences Musical Tempo, Jared W. Leslie
A Slow Act of Vision, Alice Letowt
The Force That Sets the Stage: The Professional Performances and Emotional Labor of Black Academic Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions, Christian Joy Lewis
Initial Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Mental Health Optimization Checklist (MHOC), Raymond E. López
Evolving Expressions of Trauma in James Joyce, Jean Rhys, and Caryl Phillips, Sean M. McCray
“And I’m Going to Destroy You.”: Persona and Gender Performativity in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden, Nicole Minton
The Influence of Prediction Error Strength on Reconsolidation, Kevin D. Mohawk
Getting Hitched and Unhitched: The History of Marriage and Divorce in Las Vegas, 1931-1965, Angela Christine Moor
Identifying Trauma Related Predictors of Dissociation in Maltreated Youth, Amanda L. Mraz
The Effect of Sleep and Emotion on Pattern Separation, Alanna N. Osmanski
Comparing Comics and Illustrated Texts in Multimedia Learning, Jackson S. Pelzner
The Role of Style in Community Identity and Group Affiliation: An Archaeological Study of Virgin and Kayenta Branch Ceramics, Daniel Melvin Perez
Rock Or Relic? Lithic Technology and Social Life in the Mimbres Mogollon Region of Southwestern New Mexico, Jeffrey Dylan Clark Person
Gendered Bodies, Engendered Lives: Bioarchaeological Exploration of the Intersectionality of Gender, Health, and Trauma at Turkey Creek Pueblo, Arizona (AD 1225-1286), Claira Elizabeth Ralston
Identifying Clinical Profiles in a Community Sample of Youth with Selective Mutism, Melanie Rede
Examination of Performance Validity and the Relationship to Cognition and Symptoms in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Erick A. Rogers
The Psychopathology Circumplex+: A Novel Conceptualization of Psychopathology and Associated Measure, Edward A. Smith
Sight Words: Poems, Benjamin Harrison Socolofsky
Public Transportation, Benjamin Stallings
Experiences of Violence and Captivity: Labor Divisions at La Plata (AD 600-1250), Kathleen D. Stansbury
A Tale of Two Townsites: The Formative Years of the Las Vegas Valley 1902-1907, Joseph Thomson
Multiple Approaches to Examining Gender Norms in Romantic Relationships, Carrie Underwood
Examining the Effects of Perspective-Taking and Empathetic Concern on Attractiveness Biases in Millennial and Generation X Adults, Stephanie Verba-Quinones
Examining Oppressive Social Systems: Activism, Academics and Alpha Males, Kristin Dee Vierra
The In/visible Stockade: Sex Offender Management, Governmentality, and the Search for Normal Life, Christopher Wakefield
The Floating World Around and Between; Print Culture, Racial Blurring, and Japanese Views of Black People from the 15th to the 19th Century, Angel J. Wakiihuri
The Role of Small Puebloan Architectural Sites on the Southern Shivwits Plateau, William M. Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Utilizing Nonparametric Statistical Methods to Inform Equitable and Inclusive MTSS Models of School Attendance/Problems, Victoria Bacon
The Model Minority Myth and The Mental Well-Being of Academically Struggling Asian Americans, Jan Michael Roa Ballesteros
Screwball, Nicholas Barnette
Stability of Neurocognitive Abilities in Heterogeneous Subgroups of Schizophrenia, Megan L. Becker Wright
Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Practices at the Lake Roberts Vista Site (LA71877) Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Laura A. Benedict
Leaving Babylon: A Memoir of Repatriation, Soni Brinsko
Exodus Arena: Cashman Field and the (Re)Development of Sports and Recreation in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Ryan Browar
Beyond the Numbers: A Deeper Dive into the Dearth of Girls and Women in STEM, Jennifer John Buck
Horse Loose: Essays on Fear and Attachment, Alyse Burnside
The Stability of the Speech-to-Song Illusion and Individual Differences, Rodica R. Constantine
That Hidden Country: The Travels of Jacob Singleton, A Novel, James Earp
Racialized Places: Community Development within the Historic Westside of Las Vegas, Camisha Fagan