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 2021

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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

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Re-Analysing Astronomical Alignments of Potential E Group Structures to Demonstrate the Utility of Archeoastronomy Research About the Ancient Maya, Elizabeth Karen Shikrallah

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Italianness on the Strip: Stereotypes, Dreams, and Nostalgia in Las Vegas Italian-Themed Attractions, Marta Soligo

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Blue Lives Matter: Identity and the Internet, Jennifer M. Stevens

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The Concept Album as Postmodern Literature: A Critical Examination of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, Kelly E. Stith

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The Optimum Performance Program in Sports - Youth: A Case Study, Karolyne Bastos Stucki

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The Barbaricum Trilogy: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Deciphering Sarmatians’ Saga on the Great Hungarian Plain, Cristina Tica

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Hybridity, Ecocriticism, and Feminist Perspectives in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Sarah Warso

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Acoustic and Semantic Processing of Speech and Non-speech Sounds in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Breanne D. Yerkes

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Ricky & Grams, Berthold Brock Albin

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Identifying School Climate Predictors of School Absenteeism, Victoria Bacon

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Network Analysis of Cognitive Symptom Domains in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Abigail Rose Baily

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Development and Initial Validation of the Veterans Educational Transition Scale (VETS): A Brief Scale to Predict Successful Transition of Student Veterans to College, Lisa Beckman

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Globalization: A Veto Player Perspective, Alec Brown

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An Integrative Assessment of Post-Migratory Health and Violence at Point of Pines Pueblo (A.D. 1265-1450), Maryann Calleja

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The Factor Structures of Ability and Trait Emotional Intelligences Relative to General Intelligence and Personality, Nicholas Carfagno

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Middle Powers, Capital Subscriptions, and the Inter-American Development Bank, Aaron Coates

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The Economy of (Dis)Honor in the Americas: A Transnational Rupturing of American Literature through Faulkner, García Márquez, and Silko, Clayton Neil Cobb

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The Fabric of Civil War Society: The Effect of Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1861 to 1939, Shae Cox

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Functional Capacity Profiles in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Ashley Sara Emami

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An Investigation of White-Collar Criminal Sentencing Disparities in Six Federal District Courts, Lauren Frances Elizabeth Galloway

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Anxious and Oppositional Behavior Factors in a Community Sample of Youth with Selective Mutism, Andrew Gerthoffer

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Nothing Orphic, Nothing Foreign, Samuel Merriman Gilpin

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Validity and Diagnostic Accuracy of an ADHD Symptom Rating Scale for Identifying Adults with ADHD, Stacy Jean Graves

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Examination of the Relationship Between Sport-Specific Thoughts and Emotions and Anxiety and Depression in College Athletes, Marina Elizabeth Harris

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Examining the Factor Structures of the A-Des and PTCI to Identify Unique Predictors of PTSD Symptom Clusters in Maltreated Youth, Amanda Howard

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Strategic Resistance in an African Owned Hair Salon: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Nationality in U.S. America, Nicole Jenkins

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A Bara by Any Other Word: Female Subjectivity and Cultural Crises in Japanese Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Gary Dean Lindeburg

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The Relationship Among Sociocultural Assimilation, Dietary Behavior, and Physical Activity in Adult Latinxs in the U.S., Erick Lopez

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The Relation between Positive Stereotypes, Negative Stereotypes, and Discriminatory Behavior toward Hispanic and White Populations, Aileen Ynez Lovitt

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Zooarchaeology of Bone, Antler, and Ivory Technologies: A Case Study from the Central Anatolian Bronze and Iron Age Site Kaman Kalehӧyük, Sarah Raffae Macintosh

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Stirring the Pot - The Application of Electoral Gender Quotas in Africa, Jonathan Georges Mehanna

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Thatcherism in the Contemporary British Novel, 1978-2012, David Mowatt

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Investigating the Inner Experience of Individuals Attending Psychotherapy at a Community Mental Health Center, Stefanie A. Moynihan

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Musical Meter: Examining Hierarchical Temporal Perception in Complex Musical Stimuli Across Human Development, Sensory Modalities, and Expertise, Jessica Erin Nave-Blodgett

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Love in South Korea: Transformations of Intimacy and Gender Relations in Korean Romantic Relationships, Alex Joseph Nelson

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Addressing Disparities in Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Assessment, Alicia Nuñez

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Beyond Maidens and Mothers: A Study of Till We Have Faces, Tamar Peterson

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Examination of the Influence of Consumer Preferences for Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Components and Consumer Effort during Treatment Sessions on Child Welfare Outcomes, Christopher Philip Plant

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Madres, Hijas, y la Frontera: an Analysis of the Relationship Between Mexican Mothers and Mexican-American Daughters, Arianna Gabriela Razo

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Eyewitness Recall and Identification Accuracy: Effects of Stress in an Extreme Haunt and a Haunted House, William Blake Ridgway

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Depressive Symptoms as a Moderator of Diurnal Trends in Reward Seeking, Erick Albert William Rogers

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Sad Water and Sand, Karli Tokala Rouse

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Narratives of Belonging and Citizenship: Race and Gender in the Hemispheric American Novel, Ariel Jade Santos

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Examination of Factors Reported by Athletes to Interfere with Their Lives Outside of Sports, Jesse Scott

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The Transformation of Edgar Huntly: An American Awakening, Willie C. Sosa

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Menstrual Cycle Changes in Dysregulated Eating Symptoms, Kimberly S. Stevens

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Tales of Thriving: Identifying the Underpinnings of Women's Success in STEM Careers, Sarah E. Thoman

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Changing Paradigms: Creating an Apache Borderland Cattle Economy, 1730-1799, Jenni Tifft-Ochoa

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Excavating Gender: The Embodiment and (Re)presentation of Social Relations in Mierzanowice Communities of the Early Bronze Age, Mark Paul Toussaint

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Shakespeare’s As You like It and James Cameron’s Avatar: Reharmonizing Society with Nature, Erin Rebecca Turner

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Gender and Race in Four Contemporary Productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Antony and Cleopatra, Dorothy Christine Vanderford

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Memory and Stereotypes for Lesbian/Gay Characters, Amber Rose Williams

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Dark Tetrad Responses to Moral Dilemmas, Kayli Wrenn

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Disordered Eating and Body Dysmorphic Concerns in Asian American Women: Sociocultural and Culture-Specific Predictors, Liya Akoury

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Restructuring of the Axon Initial Segment in Mouse Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Rachel Ali Rodriguez

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The Symbolism of Play Behavior in Child-Centered Play Therapy, Kaitlin Andrewjeski

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Does It Mean? Gene Wolfe: Perverse Puzzle Maker, Marc Anthony Aramini

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Virtually Healthy: Using Virtual Ethnography to Survey Healthcare Seeking Practices of Transgender Individuals Online, Rogelio Arenas

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On Muddy Banks: An Ecoethnography of a River Island Community, Nicholas Baxter

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Face Affect Perception in Schizophrenia and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Lisa Beckman

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Eyes on the Street: Los Angeles Police Department Surveillance, Policing, and Crime in Black South Central from William Parker to Rodney King, Stephen Bohigian

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Reduced GABAergic Signaling at the Axon Initial Segment Decreases Vigilance State Transitioning, Austin John Boren

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Email is Alive: How to Communicate with Graduate College Students, Valarie C. Burke

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Floating Head Touching Earth, Carrieann Cahall

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Identifying Risk Factors for Youth Hospitalization in Crisis Settings: A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis, Yen-Ling Chen

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Blanche DuBois: A Woman's Journey from Belle Reve through Tarantula Arms to The Elysian Fields, Raluca Daniela Comanelea

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The Search For Home: An Analysis of American-Socialized Filipino American Identity in Literature, Julianna Marie Crame

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External Voting in Developing Countries: Strategic Bargaining and the Role of Remittances, Hafthor Erlingsson

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Ethnic Power Dominance in a Resource-Rich Sub Saharan African State: An Analysis of Violent Conflict Accelerators and the Mitigating Influence of Civil Society in Nigeria, Victor O. Fakoya

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The Effects of Sex Role Stereotype Endorsement and Work-Family Conflict on Emerging Adult Aspirations, Andrea Fink-Armold

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Empirical Justification for Supportive Other Involvement in Collegiate Athletes’ Mental Health Intervention, Elena Gavrilova

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A Controlled Examination of Motivational Strategies: Reviewing Positive Consequences for Goal Achievement, Negative Consequences for Undesired Behavior, and a Relaxation Exercise, Yulia Gavrilova

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Encyclopedia of My Body, Alice Hastings

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Riding My Bike in Paradise with Margaret Fuller: A Phenomenological Study, Nanette Rasband Hilton

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“On the Altar of Sectarianism”: Orson Murray’s Anti-Biblical Thought and the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-1863, James Carson Howard

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An Alternative Reading of Feminist Criticism on S. Weir Mitchell, Erika Hylton

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Consequences of Math Anxiety and Stereotype Threat: An Intersectional Perspective, Jennifer E. John Buck

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Literal Dope, Frank Johnson

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Reconsolidation: Unique Cognitive Process or State Dependent Learning?, Chris Kiley