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About the Collection
This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV College of Liberal Arts. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
Madres, Hijas, y la Frontera: an Analysis of the Relationship Between Mexican Mothers and Mexican-American Daughters, Arianna Gabriela Razo
Eyewitness Recall and Identification Accuracy: Effects of Stress in an Extreme Haunt and a Haunted House, William Blake Ridgway
Depressive Symptoms as a Moderator of Diurnal Trends in Reward Seeking, Erick Albert William Rogers
Sad Water and Sand, Karli Tokala Rouse
Narratives of Belonging and Citizenship: Race and Gender in the Hemispheric American Novel, Ariel Jade Santos
Examination of Factors Reported by Athletes to Interfere with Their Lives Outside of Sports, Jesse Scott
The Transformation of Edgar Huntly: An American Awakening, Willie C. Sosa
Menstrual Cycle Changes in Dysregulated Eating Symptoms, Kimberly S. Stevens
Tales of Thriving: Identifying the Underpinnings of Women's Success in STEM Careers, Sarah E. Thoman
Changing Paradigms: Creating an Apache Borderland Cattle Economy, 1730-1799, Jenni Tifft-Ochoa
Excavating Gender: The Embodiment and (Re)presentation of Social Relations in Mierzanowice Communities of the Early Bronze Age, Mark Paul Toussaint
Shakespeare’s As You like It and James Cameron’s Avatar: Reharmonizing Society with Nature, Erin Rebecca Turner
Gender and Race in Four Contemporary Productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Antony and Cleopatra, Dorothy Christine Vanderford
Memory and Stereotypes for Lesbian/Gay Characters, Amber Rose Williams
Dark Tetrad Responses to Moral Dilemmas, Kayli Wrenn
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Disordered Eating and Body Dysmorphic Concerns in Asian American Women: Sociocultural and Culture-Specific Predictors, Liya Akoury
Restructuring of the Axon Initial Segment in Mouse Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Rachel Ali Rodriguez
The Symbolism of Play Behavior in Child-Centered Play Therapy, Kaitlin Andrewjeski
Does It Mean? Gene Wolfe: Perverse Puzzle Maker, Marc Anthony Aramini
Virtually Healthy: Using Virtual Ethnography to Survey Healthcare Seeking Practices of Transgender Individuals Online, Rogelio Arenas
On Muddy Banks: An Ecoethnography of a River Island Community, Nicholas Baxter
Face Affect Perception in Schizophrenia and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Lisa Beckman
Eyes on the Street: Los Angeles Police Department Surveillance, Policing, and Crime in Black South Central from William Parker to Rodney King, Stephen Bohigian
Reduced GABAergic Signaling at the Axon Initial Segment Decreases Vigilance State Transitioning, Austin John Boren
Email is Alive: How to Communicate with Graduate College Students, Valarie C. Burke
Floating Head Touching Earth, Carrieann Cahall
Identifying Risk Factors for Youth Hospitalization in Crisis Settings: A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis, Yen-Ling Chen
Blanche DuBois: A Woman's Journey from Belle Reve through Tarantula Arms to The Elysian Fields, Raluca Daniela Comanelea
The Search For Home: An Analysis of American-Socialized Filipino American Identity in Literature, Julianna Marie Crame
External Voting in Developing Countries: Strategic Bargaining and the Role of Remittances, Hafthor Erlingsson
The Effects of Sex Role Stereotype Endorsement and Work-Family Conflict on Emerging Adult Aspirations, Andrea Fink-Armold
Empirical Justification for Supportive Other Involvement in Collegiate Athletes’ Mental Health Intervention, Elena Gavrilova
Encyclopedia of My Body, Alice Hastings
Riding My Bike in Paradise with Margaret Fuller: A Phenomenological Study, Nanette Rasband Hilton
“On the Altar of Sectarianism”: Orson Murray’s Anti-Biblical Thought and the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-1863, James Carson Howard
An Alternative Reading of Feminist Criticism on S. Weir Mitchell, Erika Hylton
Consequences of Math Anxiety and Stereotype Threat: An Intersectional Perspective, Jennifer E. John Buck
Literal Dope, Frank Johnson
Reconsolidation: Unique Cognitive Process or State Dependent Learning?, Chris Kiley
Exploring the Pristine Inner Experience of Individuals in Psychotherapy, Alek Emily Krumm
Attitudes toward Marijuana Legalization: Temporal and Thematic Trends, Daniel James Krystosek
The Effects of Problems Attributed to Culture on the Mental Health of Athletes, Corey Rae Kuhn
Multimethod Investigation of Pristine Inner Experience, Leiszle Rae Lapping-Carr
A Binding Sisterhood of Transnational Feminism: A Close Look at Iran and Argentina, Bernadette Mary Lazar
Visual Attention and Emotion Regulation in Schizophrenia, Bern Lee
States, Satellites, and International Crisis Behavior, Roman Lewis
Stone Bouquets, Angelo Santino Ligori
From Deviant Symbol to Cultural Icon? Understanding Pit Bull Stigma, Genevieve Minter
Nonstate Actors and International Law: Just War Theory or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?, Jason Lee Mitchell
Multi-Polygenic Risk Score Prediction Model for Bipolar Disorder, Travis Mize
Is Easier, Better? A Reevaluation of the Use of Non-Remodeled Bone as a Histological Predictor of Age-at-Death From the Femoral Midshaft Using GIS Software, Mariah Elaine Moe
Validating Empathy as Captured by the Meanness in Psychopathy-Self Report, Stephanie Marie Molina
How to Break Your Own Heart, Ryan Molloy
The Post-Soviet Voter: Evidence From The Caucasus, Rafael Oganesyan
The Bioarchaeology of Instability: Violence and Environmental Stress During the Late Fort Ancient (AD 1425 - 1635) Occupations of Hardin Village, Amber Elaine Osterholt
Irredenta, Oscar Oswald
In Pursuit of Social Justice at the Postmodern Turn: Intersectional Activism through the Lens of the Ecosexual Movement, Jennifer Jean Reed
The Pleasures of Conversation: Samuel Johnson's Social Epistemology, Brandon Schneeberger
A Community of Care: Patterns of Pathology and Trauma with a Focus on the Bioarchaeology of Care at Carrier Mills, IL (10,000 – 1000 BP), Alecia Schrenk
Breaking Free from the Snake Strangling America, Kate Marjorie Shapiro
Trends in the Rate of Inpatient Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis between 1996 and 2015, Samantha Sherwood
Elucidating the Lasting Influence of Early Pubertal Timing on Disordered Eating Symptoms, Megan Marie Shope
Living on the Move: the Digital Nomad Mobile Phenomenon Identity and Practice, Virginia Rachele Smercina
Assessing Factors of Physical Risk-Taking in a Novel Behavioral Measure, Edward A. Smith
Amasamiento, Lorinda G. Toledo
Turbulent Waters: Navigating The Maelstrom of Water Insecurity and Ethno-Environmental Conflict, Michael Wayne Trevathan
The Parallel Security Apparatus: Examining the Cases of Baathist Iraq, Syria, and Iran, Donald Utchel
Forgetting Distractors: Inhibition or Decay?, Laura Werner
Forget Me Not & Other Stories, Zach Wilson
Changes in Hippocampal-Anterior Cingulate Cortex Interactions During Remote Memory Recall, Ryan A. Wirt
Beyond Suffrage: Intermarriage, Land, and Meanings of Citizenship and Marital Naturalization/Expatriation in the United States, Shiori Yamamoto
The Ruins of Doves, Mariah Tahera Yusofzei
Empire and Other Stories from the Black Rock, Alex Zenz
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Pilgrimage of the Soul, Joyce Ahn
Utilizing Teacher Response to Help Students Meet and Transfer First-Year Composition Course Objectives, Clyde Aidoo
Examining the Influence of Executive Resources and Mathematical Abilities on Framing Biases, Gabriel Allred
& One Night the World Will Have Changed, Hanna Andrews
Before and After Her Body, Shannon Austin
Contesting and Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Women's Roller Derby, Suzanne Becker
A Land to Call Their Own, Timothy James Buchanan
“Need We Mention Our Fashions? “The Educational, Entertaining, and Nostalgic Uses of Godey’s Lady’s Book Fashion Plates, 1830 To 1940, Maggie Bukowski
Mixing the Business of Pleasure: How Mixing Shaped the Labor and Narratives of Female Entertainers in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Evan Maryl Casey
Literature in the World: A Critical Discourse Study of World Literature Pedagogy, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders
Virginia Woolf and the Flâneuse: A Geocritical Approach to Mrs. Dalloway and the Voyage Out, Kayla Dean
Investigating Land Use by the Inhabitants of Western Cyprus During the Early Neolithic, Katelyn Dibenedetto
Life in Roman Canterbury: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Health Status in a Late Romano-British Cemetery (AD 300-400), Elizabeth Sara Duffy
Mate Preferences among Single Mothers, Carol Yvette Franco
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder within Clinically Referred Youth, Breanna Garcia
To Remain Near the "Water Ditch," Paiute Sovereignty and United States Settler Colonialism, Owens Valley, California, 1870-1937, Lee Murray Hanover
Postpartum Maternal Mood among Hadza Foragers, Kristen Herlosky
"The Only People Who Can Get AIDS-Are People": The AIDS Crisis in Mainstream Crisis, 1981-1995, Franklin Howard
Examination of Mental Health and Family Relationship in Collegiate Athletes, Julia Hussey
Waiting For Nothing, Jiwoong Hyun
Change Deafness: A Comprehensive Examinations, Vanessa Claire Irsik
Supranational Identity Politics: Sovereignism in the EU, Emilio Jacintho