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
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
Family Functioning in Youth with Bipolar Disorder, Kayla Fobian
Evaluating the SCL-90-R for Use in Collegiate Athletes, Elena Gavrilova
Changes in Cognitive Networks as a Result of Sport-Related Concussion, Grace J. Goodwin
Psychometric Properties of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire: Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance by the Intersection of Race and Gender, Jessica H. Habashy
“Who Says Lowriders Are Only For Men?”: Lowriders In Las Vegas, Nevada, Alejandra Herrera
A Name No One Should Know, Mohammed Jahama
First-Day Expositional Interviews, Iterative Training, and Participant Skill in Descriptive Experience Sampling, Cody Michio Kaneshiro
Mediating Religion in Las Vegas: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Celebrity Culture, and Place Attachment in a Multisited Megachurch, Josiah Kidwell
Policing Sin City: The Creation and Impact of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 1973-1985, Richard Kim
Cognitive Testing for Sport Concussion: The Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT), Julia E. Maietta
Dimensionality of Natural Auditory Scene Perception: A Factor Analysis Study, Margaret A. McMullin
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
Hunter-Gatherers in Context: Hadzabe People and Early Nutrition Transition, Trevor Pollom
Disentangling Instrumental and Reactive Aggression in the Competitive Reaction Time Task and Their Associations with Factors of Meanness in Psychopathy, Ashley Michelle Poston
Awareness and Knowledge on Aging and HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder: Service User and Provider Perspectives in Southern Nevada, Brandon C. Ranuschio
Chimaera: A Collection, Robert Ren
Locating a Marketplace at the Ancient Maya City of Lakamha’, Mexico Using the Configurational Approach, Jonathan Roldan
Consumers of Sex, Romance and the Spectacle: An Ethnographic Study of Female Tourists in Bangkok’s Adult Entertainment Zones, Jason H. Scott
The World of the Living, Bronwyn Scott-Mccharen
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
Our Mountains, Jordon Christena Smith
Comparing Forgetting Rates Between Pattern Separation and Item Recognition, Rhiannon N. Soriano Smith
Examination of the Relationship Between Loneliness and Binge Eating Symptoms, Kimberly Stevens
Understanding the Role of Identity Salience in the Relationship between Experience of Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Mental Health Symptomatology, Michelle Strong
The Impact of Alzheimer Disease on Semantic Knowledge, Maileen G. Ulep
Promoting Paradise: The Recruitment of Volga German Immigrants to the American Midwest, 1870-1900, Kassidy N. Whetstone
The Antagonistic Tetrad and Romantic Attachment Styles, Kayli H. Wrenn
Scientific Collaboration and the Cold War: 1945-1970, Autumn Wyland
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Castles We Built, Therin Aloïs Alrik
Investigating Ancient Maya Late Postclassic Period Households and the Associated Function of the Buildings at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize, Melissa Badillo
The Silence She Broke: Black Women Escaping Abuse Narratives, Regaining Personal Agency, and Healing, Tajanae LaBria Barnes
Presumed Illegal Microaggressive Experience (Prime): A Microaggression Targeting Latinx Individuals, Aldo M. Barrita
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis of Maltreated Youth, Shadie Burke
Identifying Risk Factors for PTSD Symptom Clusters in Maltreated, Multiracial Youth Using Nonparametric Modeling, Mallory Constantine
The Frontier of the Labor Movement: Latinas and the Longest Strike in Twentieth-Century Las Vegas, Maribel Estrada Calderón