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 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

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Exploring the Pristine Inner Experience of Individuals in Psychotherapy, Alek Emily Krumm

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Attitudes toward Marijuana Legalization: Temporal and Thematic Trends, Daniel James Krystosek

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The Effects of Problems Attributed to Culture on the Mental Health of Athletes, Corey Rae Kuhn

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Multimethod Investigation of Pristine Inner Experience, Leiszle Rae Lapping-Carr

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A Binding Sisterhood of Transnational Feminism: A Close Look at Iran and Argentina, Bernadette Mary Lazar

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Visual Attention and Emotion Regulation in Schizophrenia, Bern Lee

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States, Satellites, and International Crisis Behavior, Roman Lewis

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Stone Bouquets, Angelo Santino Ligori

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From Deviant Symbol to Cultural Icon? Understanding Pit Bull Stigma, Genevieve Minter

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Nonstate Actors and International Law: Just War Theory or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?, Jason Lee Mitchell

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Multi-Polygenic Risk Score Prediction Model for Bipolar Disorder, Travis Mize

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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

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Validating Empathy as Captured by the Meanness in Psychopathy-Self Report, Stephanie Marie Molina

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How to Break Your Own Heart, Ryan Molloy

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The Post-Soviet Voter: Evidence From The Caucasus, Rafael Oganesyan

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The Bioarchaeology of Instability: Violence and Environmental Stress During the Late Fort Ancient (AD 1425 - 1635) Occupations of Hardin Village, Amber Elaine Osterholt

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Irredenta, Oscar Oswald

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In Pursuit of Social Justice at the Postmodern Turn: Intersectional Activism through the Lens of the Ecosexual Movement, Jennifer Jean Reed

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The Pleasures of Conversation: Samuel Johnson's Social Epistemology, Brandon Schneeberger

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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

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Breaking Free from the Snake Strangling America, Kate Marjorie Shapiro

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Trends in the Rate of Inpatient Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis between 1996 and 2015, Samantha Sherwood

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Elucidating the Lasting Influence of Early Pubertal Timing on Disordered Eating Symptoms, Megan Marie Shope

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Living on the Move: the Digital Nomad Mobile Phenomenon Identity and Practice, Virginia Rachele Smercina

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Assessing Factors of Physical Risk-Taking in a Novel Behavioral Measure, Edward A. Smith

Amasamiento, Lorinda G. Toledo

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Turbulent Waters: Navigating The Maelstrom of Water Insecurity and Ethno-Environmental Conflict, Michael Wayne Trevathan

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The Parallel Security Apparatus: Examining the Cases of Baathist Iraq, Syria, and Iran, Donald Utchel

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Forgetting Distractors: Inhibition or Decay?, Laura Werner

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Forget Me Not & Other Stories, Zach Wilson

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Changes in Hippocampal-Anterior Cingulate Cortex Interactions During Remote Memory Recall, Ryan A. Wirt

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Beyond Suffrage: Intermarriage, Land, and Meanings of Citizenship and Marital Naturalization/Expatriation in the United States, Shiori Yamamoto

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The Ruins of Doves, Mariah Tahera Yusofzei

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Empire and Other Stories from the Black Rock, Alex Zenz

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Pilgrimage of the Soul, Joyce Ahn

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Utilizing Teacher Response to Help Students Meet and Transfer First-Year Composition Course Objectives, Clyde Aidoo

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Examining the Influence of Executive Resources and Mathematical Abilities on Framing Biases, Gabriel Allred

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& One Night the World Will Have Changed, Hanna Andrews

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Before and After Her Body, Shannon Austin

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The Influence of Opponent Strategy and Psychopathic Traits on Point Gains and Cooperation in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, Mary Baggio

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Contesting and Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Women's Roller Derby, Suzanne Becker

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A Land to Call Their Own, Timothy James Buchanan

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“Need We Mention Our Fashions? “The Educational, Entertaining, and Nostalgic Uses of Godey’s Lady’s Book Fashion Plates, 1830 To 1940, Maggie Bukowski

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Mixing the Business of Pleasure: How Mixing Shaped the Labor and Narratives of Female Entertainers in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Evan Maryl Casey

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Literature in the World: A Critical Discourse Study of World Literature Pedagogy, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders

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Virginia Woolf and the Flâneuse: A Geocritical Approach to Mrs. Dalloway and the Voyage Out, Kayla Dean

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Investigating Land Use by the Inhabitants of Western Cyprus During the Early Neolithic, Katelyn Dibenedetto

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Life in Roman Canterbury: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Health Status in a Late Romano-British Cemetery (AD 300-400), Elizabeth Sara Duffy

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Identifying Youth at Risk for Problematic Absenteeism Using Nonparametric Modeling: The Impact of Youth Psychopathology and Family Environment Risk Factors, Mirae Fornander

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Mate Preferences among Single Mothers, Carol Yvette Franco

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder within Clinically Referred Youth, Breanna Garcia

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To Remain Near the "Water Ditch," Paiute Sovereignty and United States Settler Colonialism, Owens Valley, California, 1870-1937, Lee Murray Hanover

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Postpartum Maternal Mood among Hadza Foragers, Kristen Herlosky

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"The Only People Who Can Get AIDS-Are People": The AIDS Crisis in Mainstream Crisis, 1981-1995, Franklin Howard

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Examination of Mental Health and Family Relationship in Collegiate Athletes, Julia Hussey

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Waiting For Nothing, Jiwoong Hyun

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Change Deafness: A Comprehensive Examinations, Vanessa Claire Irsik

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Supranational Identity Politics: Sovereignism in the EU, Emilio Jacintho

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You're Out! Explaining Non-Criminal Diplomatic Expulsion, Anthony Jordan

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Novice versus Expert Algebraic Problem-Solving Strategies: An Eye Tracking Approach, Krystal Kamekona-Mendoza

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Investigating the Role of Liminality in the Cultural Transition of the Late Eighth Millennium BC on Cyprus, Levi Keach