Theses, dissertations, professional papers, and doctoral projects from graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Ga(y)zing Backward: Queer Desire in Ovid, Shakespeare, and Scaimma, Falynn Blayre Brickler

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Four Junes, Sara Brown

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Illness Under the Microscope: Disease in Colonial Discourse, a Disruptive Study, Sujata Chattopadhyay

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Negotiating a World in Upheaval: Resiliency of Indigenous Systems of Warfare among Yuman Groups, Joseph B. Curran

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MENA Terrorism and the West: Explaining Why Terrorist Groups from the Middle East and North Africa Target Western Democracies, Michael A. Defeo

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Developmental Differences in School Climate Predictors of Chronic School Absenteeism, Michael Fensken

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Black Girl Magic: History, Identity, and Spirituality in Contemporary Fantasy and Science-Fiction, Taylore Fox

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An Examination of the Association of Religiosity, Purity Culture, and Religious Trauma with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety, Kaelyn R. Griffin

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Maternal Health in the Context of Social, Political, and Economic Change Among Hadzabe Foragers of Tanzania, Kristen Herlosky

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Genre and Gender: A Rhetoric of Irony in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, Nanette Rasband Hilton

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How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Relationship between Human-Animal Interactions and Human Well-Being, Elizabeth A. Johnson

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Feminine Aesthetics of Embodied Cognition: Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Audre Lorde, Jenessa L.w. Kenway

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A Cultural History of Anti-Feminism in Marvel's Scarlet Witch, Madison M. Kooba

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A Slow Act of Vision, Alice Letowt

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The Influence of Prediction Error Strength on Reconsolidation, Kevin D. Mohawk

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Getting Hitched and Unhitched: The History of Marriage and Divorce in Las Vegas, 1931-1965, Angela Christine Moor

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Identifying Trauma Related Predictors of Dissociation in Maltreated Youth, Amanda L. Mraz

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The Effect of Sleep and Emotion on Pattern Separation, Alanna N. Osmanski

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Comparing Comics and Illustrated Texts in Multimedia Learning, Jackson S. Pelzner

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The Role of Style in Community Identity and Group Affiliation: An Archaeological Study of Virgin and Kayenta Branch Ceramics, Daniel Melvin Perez

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Rock Or Relic? Lithic Technology and Social Life in the Mimbres Mogollon Region of Southwestern New Mexico, Jeffrey Dylan Clark Person

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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

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Sight Words: Poems, Benjamin Harrison Socolofsky

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Public Transportation, Benjamin Stallings

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Experiences of Violence and Captivity: Labor Divisions at La Plata (Ad 600-1250), Kathleen D. Stansbury

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Multiple Approaches to Examining Gender Norms in Romantic Relationships, Carrie Underwood

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Examining the Effects of Perspective-Taking and Empathetic Concern on Attractiveness Biases in Millennial and Generation X Adults, Stephanie Verba-Quinones

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The In/visible Stockade: Sex Offender Management, Governmentality, and the Search for Normal Life, Christopher Wakefield

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The Role of Small Puebloan Architectural Sites on the Southern Shivwits Plateau, William M. Willis

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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The Model Minority Myth and The Mental Well-Being of Academically Struggling Asian Americans, Jan Michael Roa Ballesteros

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Screwball, Nicholas Barnette

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Stability of Neurocognitive Abilities in Heterogeneous Subgroups of Schizophrenia, Megan L. Becker Wright

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Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Practices at the Lake Roberts Vista Site (LA71877) Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Laura A. Benedict

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Leaving Babylon: A Memoir of Repatriation, Soni Brinsko

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Exodus Arena: Cashman Field and the (Re)Development of Sports and Recreation in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Ryan Browar

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Beyond the Numbers: A Deeper Dive into the Dearth of Girls and Women in STEM, Jennifer John Buck

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Horse Loose: Essays on Fear and Attachment, Alyse Burnside

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The Stability of the Speech-to-Song Illusion and Individual Differences, Rodica R. Constantine

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That Hidden Country: The Travels of Jacob Singleton, A Novel, James Earp

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Racialized Places: Community Development within the Historic Westside of Las Vegas, Camisha Fagan

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Family Functioning in Youth with Bipolar Disorder, Kayla Fobian

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Evaluating the SCL-90-R for Use in Collegiate Athletes, Elena Gavrilova

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Changes in Cognitive Networks as a Result of Sport-Related Concussion, Grace J. Goodwin

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Psychometric Properties of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire: Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance by the Intersection of Race and Gender, Jessica H. Habashy

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“Who Says Lowriders Are Only For Men?”: Lowriders In Las Vegas, Nevada, Alejandra Herrera

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A Name No One Should Know, Mohammed Jahama

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First-Day Expositional Interviews, Iterative Training, and Participant Skill in Descriptive Experience Sampling, Cody Michio Kaneshiro

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Mediating Religion in Las Vegas: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Celebrity Culture, and Place Attachment in a Multisited Megachurch, Josiah Kidwell

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Policing Sin City: The Creation and Impact of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 1973-1985, Richard Kim

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Historical Patterns of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequities in the Utilization of Maternal Health Care in Tanzania, East Africa, Neema Langa

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Stigma Towards Sex Workers in the Clinical Setting: Sixteen Guidelines for Therapists to Improve Their Practice and Provide Ethical Mental Health Services to Sex Workers, Alessandra Lanti

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Cognitive Testing for Sport Concussion: The Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT), Julia E. Maietta

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Dimensionality of Natural Auditory Scene Perception: A Factor Analysis Study, Margaret A. Mcmullin

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Saving the Bad Kids, Caging Los Chicos Malos: Racialized Juvenile Justice and Latinx Youth in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands, 1900-1970, Doris S. Morgan Rueda

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Hunter-Gatherers in Context: Hadzabe People and Early Nutrition Transition, Trevor Pollom

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Disentangling Instrumental and Reactive Aggression in the Competitive Reaction Time Task and Their Associations with Factors of Meanness in Psychopathy, Ashley Michelle Poston

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Awareness and Knowledge on Aging and HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder: Service User and Provider Perspectives in Southern Nevada, Brandon C. Ranuschio

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Chimaera: A Collection, Robert Ren

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Locating a Marketplace at the Ancient Maya City of Lakamha’, Mexico Using the Configurational Approach, Jonathan Roldan

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Consumers of Sex, Romance and the Spectacle: An Ethnographic Study of Female Tourists in Bangkok’s Adult Entertainment Zones, Jason H. Scott

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The World of the Living, Bronwyn Scott-Mccharen

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An In-Depth Examination of the Literature on Early Pubertal Timing and Disordered Eating in Women and Girls: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Megan Marie Shope

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Our Mountains, Jordon Christena Smith

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Comparing Forgetting Rates Between Pattern Separation and Item Recognition, Rhiannon N. Soriano Smith

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Examination of the Relationship Between Loneliness and Binge Eating Symptoms, Kimberly Stevens

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Understanding the Role of Identity Salience in the Relationship between Experience of Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Mental Health Symptomatology, Michelle Strong

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The Impact of Alzheimer Disease on Semantic Knowledge, Maileen G. Ulep

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College Students’ Attitudes Toward Condom Use in Pornography: Associations with Sexual History, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Pornography Use, Bailey M. Way

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Promoting Paradise: The Recruitment of Volga German Immigrants to the American Midwest, 1870-1900, Kassidy N. Whetstone

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The Antagonistic Tetrad and Romantic Attachment Styles, Kayli H. Wrenn

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Scientific Collaboration and the Cold War: 1945-1970, Autumn Wyland

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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The Castles We Built, Therin Aloïs Alrik

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Investigating Ancient Maya Late Postclassic Period Households and the Associated Function of the Buildings at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize, Melissa Badillo

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The Silence She Broke: Black Women Escaping Abuse Narratives, Regaining Personal Agency, and Healing, Tajanae LaBria Barnes

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Presumed Illegal Microaggressive Experience (Prime): A Microaggression Targeting Latinx Individuals, Aldo M. Barrita

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The Spark that Lit the Match: The Use of Petitions and the Emergence of Antislavery Politicians in the Movement to Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia, 1816-1829, Timothy Brown

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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis of Maltreated Youth, Shadie Burke

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Identifying Risk Factors for PTSD Symptom Clusters in Maltreated, Multiracial Youth Using Nonparametric Modeling, Mallory Constantine

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The Frontier of the Labor Movement: Latinas and the Longest Strike in Twentieth-Century Las Vegas, Maribel Estrada Calderón

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Measuring Erotic Self–Focus, Evan Fertel

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Defining Problematic School Absenteeism: Identifying Youth at Risk, Mirae J. Fornander

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Monumentalizing a Political Candidacy: Robert Lowell and Eugene McCarthy’s History, Jeremy Freeman

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The Old Brag of My Heart: Essays, Cody James Gambino

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Attention Bias in Irritability: A Social Information Processing Perspective, Breanna Garcia

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Party Central: Networks, Influence, and Party Change in the US House of Representatives, Sean M. Goff

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How Can We Reduce Racism? A Mixed Method Study of Factors That Influence Attitudes Towards Social Change, Kindy Insouvanh

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The Role of Working Memory in Fraction Arithmetic: Eye Movements During a Dual Task, Krystal Kamekona-Mendoza

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Are Gaming and Gambling Disorders Related? Examining the Roles of Money, Relative Deprivation, and Upward Mobility, Anthony J. King

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Is Pristine Inner Experience Linked To Biology? An Examination of Experience Across the Menstrual Cycle Among Women with Premenstrual Distress, Alek E. Krumm

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Thanks for Your Gift, Ruth Larmore

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"Till This Moment, I Never Knew Myself": Letters in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, Renee Maalouf

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A World of Infinite Possibilities: Recoding Popular Culture in Modern U.S. Ethnic Fiction, Todd Martinez

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Multiple Approaches to Auditory Rhythm: Development of Sustained Musical Beat and the Relation to Language, Development of Rhythmic Categories Via Iterated Production, and a Meta-Analytic Study of Neural Entrainment to Beat, Karli Marie Nave

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Exploring the Relation Between Musical and Dance Sophistication and Musical Groove Perception, Samantha R. O'Connell

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Constructing the Perfect Girlfriend: Gender, Class, Race, & Performativity of Paid Intimacy in Nevada Brothels, Christina Parreira

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Measures and Conceptualizations of Symptoms in Schizophrenia, Nina B. Paul

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Controlled Evaluation of a Family-Based Optimization Intervention Implemented Through Video-Conferencing to Address ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in an Adolescent Athlete, Dereck Davy Phrathep

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The Unfinished Enlightenment Novel: Comparative Studies in Indeterminacy and Democracy, Andrew Joseph Rhoades

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Soft Machinery, Chelsi Sayti

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Feasibility and Efficacy of Virtual Darkness in Reducing Intra-Individual Sleep Variability Among Young Adults with Insomnia, Samantha Nicole Sherwood