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

Follow


Theses/Dissertations from 2016

PDF

The Birth of an Arts Scene, William Goldberg

PDF

Schoolgirls: Embodiment Practices Among Current and Former Sex Workers in Academia, Jennifer Heineman

PDF

Notes from Reconstructing Illness, Scott Hinkle

PDF

Nindanishinaabewimin: Ojibwe Peoplehood in the North American West, 1854-1954, Margaret Huettl

PDF

The Skinny House, Leo August Jilk

PDF

Explaining the Dynamics of Civil War: Exposure, Violence, and Consolidation against Civil War, Karim Kardous

PDF

Inner Experience and Self-Ratings of Inner Speaking, Jason Michael Kelsey

PDF

Investigating Inner Experience While Reading an Erotic Short Story, Leiszle Rae Lapping-Carr

PDF

Food Processing and Cooking Technology of the Mimbres Mogollon (Early Pithouse Period through the Mimbres Classic A.D. 200-1130), Ashley Morgan Lauzon

PDF

Water, Prestige, and Christianity: An Ecocritical Look at Medieval Literature, Cortney Nicole Lechmann

PDF

Mouthy Bones, Shaun Leonard

PDF

Mr. Universe Wants To Live Forever, Oksana Marafioti

PDF

The Effect of Gender, Not Math Anxiety, on Working Memory Tasks, Amy J. Mcauley

PDF

Of Wolves & Thieves: A Love Story, Kayla Miller

PDF

The Effects of Psychopathic Traits on Social Support Networks, Stephanie Marie Molina

PDF

Globalization and the Rise of Militant Islamic Social Movement Organizations: The Case of UAMSHO (Awakening) Group in Zanzibar., Deogratius Mshigeni

PDF

Perceiving Hierarchical Musical Structure in Auditory and Visual Modalities, Jessica Erin Nave-Blodgett

PDF

From Access to Excess: Agribusiness, Federal Water Programs, and the Historical Roots of the California Water Crisis, Tracy Marie Neblina

PDF

Heaven on Their Minds, Rebecca Kate Robison

PDF

Identifying Maltreated Youth at High Risk for Posttraumatic Symptom Clusters Using Nonparametric Modeling, Emma H. Ross

PDF

Tearing up the Tallgrass, Brett Salsbury

PDF

Bursting the Backpacker Bubble: Exploring Backpacking Ideology, Practices, and Contradictions, Mark J. Salvaggio

PDF

Growing Together? Community, Culture, and Gardening in Downtown Las Vegas, Tyler S. Schafer

PDF

"Mother, I will": Female Subjectivity and Religious Vision in the Brontës Novels, Amanda Scott

PDF

Keep Moving: Stories, Syed Haider Shahbaz

PDF

Shakespeare's Dowry: Subjectivity and Resistance in The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice, Homer Lee Simms

PDF

A Natural History of Teasing: British Women Writers and the Shakespearean Courtship Narrative, 1677-~1818, Mary Vance

PDF

Building Categories to Guide Behavior: How Humans Build and Use Auditory Category Knowledge Throughout the Lifespan, Christina M. Vanden Bosch Der Nederlanden

PDF

Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective, Mandy Walsh Walsh

PDF

Stay Brave My Hercules, Ernie Wang

PDF

Consanguinity Protocols, Kinship and Incest in Literature of the Anglo-Saxon through Early Renaissance Periods, Richard J. Warren

PDF

Testing a Comprehensive Model of Body Image, Anxiety, and Eating Pathology Among College Men, Emily Katherine White

PDF

The Proof Is in the Pots: Residue Analysis of Virgin Branch Puebloan Ceramics, Brenna Lynn Wilkerson

PDF

Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Postpartum Maternal Affect, Health, and Recovery, Sharon Marie Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

PDF

The Influence of Iron on Arctic Thule Migration Patterns, Alina T. Aquino

PDF

Nevada Legal Services: The Legal Services Corporation Restrictions and the Diminishing Capacity of Access to Justice for the Poor, William Todd Ashmore

PDF

Alaska Natives And The Power Of Perseverance: The Fight For Sovereignty And Land Claims In Southeast Alaska, 1912-1947, Bridget Lee Baumgarte

PDF

The Bioarchaeology of Social Order: Cooperation and Conflict Among the Mimbres (AD 550-1300), Kathryn Mary Baustian

PDF

The Painted Motifs of Cypriot Ceramic Art: A Study of Iconography & Identity, Paige Bockman

PDF

Inner Experience while Reading Fiction: A Descriptive Experience Sampling Exploration, Vincent Peter Brouwers

PDF

Multiplicity, Marianne Leslie Chan

PDF

Objectification Theory and Eating Pathology in Latina College Students: Testing a Culture-Specific Model, Kimberly Claudat

PDF

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry, Christopher T. Conner

PDF

Cycle of Return, Clancy Gabriel Daniell Mcgilligan

PDF

Examining Resilience In Relation to PTSD Symptomatology In Maltreated Youth, Timothy Day

PDF

Watercraft, People, and Animals: Setting the Stage for the Neolithic Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands of Cyprus and Crete, Katelyn Dibenedetto

PDF

Water From the Rain Gauge, Austin Ely

PDF

How to Keep the Girls Inside, Regina M. Ernst

PDF

Who Is This About? An Exploratory Study of Erotic Self-Focus, Evan Fertel

PDF

The Pleasantly Problematic Nature of J.D. Salinger's Glass Family Stories, Ceasare Joseph Filipelli

PDF

Pushing for New Options in Childbirth: A Case Study in Contemporary Integrative Midwifery, Kerie Ann Francis

PDF

Creating the Black California Dream: Virna Canson and the Black Freedom Struggle in the Golden State’s Capital, 1940-1988, Kendra M. Gage

PDF

Analyzing Television News: Pro-Social & Anti-Social Effects of Criminal Depictions & Information Processing on Race Perceptions, Eunette Gentry

PDF

Assessing the Effect of Race Saliency in Measures of Children’s Implicit Bias, Veronica A. Glover

PDF

Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Maternal Postpartum Iron-Status, Laura Kathleen Gryder

PDF

Experience-Specific and Domain-General Effects on Simple and Complex Meter Processing, Sangeeta Gupta

PDF

A Comparison of the Effects of Different Doses of GABAB Receptor Ligands on Spatial Learning and Memory and Memory Flexibility, Chelcie Heaney

PDF

The Escape Artists, Daniel Gene Hernandez

PDF

The Effect of Sleep on Perceptual Learning and Memory Consolidation, Vanessa Claire Irsik

PDF

Picrolite and the Cypriot Neolithic: An Experimental Study, Forrest Dayton Jarvi

PDF

Examining the Inner Experience of Individuals with Bipolar Disorder, Johanah Yoosun Kang

PDF

Examining the Dynamics of Infant Face Processing Using State Space Grids, Andrea Jane Kayl

PDF

The Arab Uprisings: An Assessment of the Roots and Implications of Contemporary Mobilization in the Arab World, Autoosa Elizabeth Kojoori-Saatchi

PDF

A Comparative Study of the Assyrian and Guatemalan Genocides, Bernadette Mary Lazar

PDF

Integration of audio-~visual emotional information in schizophrneia, Bern Lee

PDF

Factor Analysis of the Sport Interference Checklist with Collegiate Athletes, Travis Albert Loughran

PDF

Chinese Soft power, Africa, and the United Nations General Assembly, Rayna Martinez

PDF

Diamonds, the Kimberley Process, and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa, Haley Anne Mccormick

PDF

Chipped Stone Analysis of the Yamashita Sites in Moapa Valley, Nevada: A Technological Organization Approach, Tatianna Menocal

PDF

misericordia, Brian Morris

PDF

Regulating the Dead: Rights for the Corpse and the Removal of San Francisco's Cemeteries, Lance Muckey

PDF

What Happens in Las Vegas? How Exhibitors Use the Tradeshow Floor and Social Venues to Facilitate Business, Chrissy L. Nanton

PDF

Las Vegas Paperboy, Matthew O'brien

PDF

Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895, Molly C. O'donnell

PDF

Who is Ophelia? An examination of the Objectification and Subjectivity of Shakespeare's Ophelia, Tynelle Ann Olivas

PDF

Without Mandate for Conquest: A Transnational Comparison of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Isabel Allende's Eva Luna, Vivianna Noelle Orsini

PDF

Bodies in Motion: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Migration and Identity in Bronze Age Cyprus, Anna Jean Osterholtz

PDF

Reviving a Spirit of Controversy: Roman Catholics and the Pursuit of Religious Freedom in Early America, Nicholas Pellegrino

PDF

Retroactive interference in recognition memory: The effects of mental effort and similarity on recollection and familiarity, Caleb Jordan Picker

PDF

The Neuroendocrine and Performance Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Males and Females, Meghan E. Pierce

PDF

Forms Abandon, Derek Pollard

PDF

Compass Rose, Rosemary Herman Powers

PDF

Ethnic and American Identity as Correlates of Eating Pathology in College Women, Liya Markovna Rakhkovskaya

PDF

Women Wooing Men, Aisha Elizabeth Ratanapool

PDF

Objective Circumstances of the Death and Complicated Grief: Examining Indirect Associations Through Meaning Made of Loss, Vincent Rozalski

PDF

Gender, Employment Status, and Unpaid Household Labor: A Test of the Time Availability Perspective on Housework, Child Care, and Emotion Work Before, During, and After the 2007 U.S. Economic Recession, Allison Sahl

PDF

The Convergence of Structure and Design Between Video Games and Video Gambling, Daniel Sahl

PDF

What do we see: number line estimation with eye tracking, Sarah Ann Salas

PDF

Uncommon Convergences: A Hemispheric and Comparative Approach to The Great Gatsby and Pedro Páramo, Ariel Jade Santos

PDF

Differences in Absenteeism Severity among Community Youth, Kyleigh Kay Sheldon

PDF

The Political Economy of Going Global: Understanding the Determinants of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East and Africa, Majid Shirali

PDF

The Experience of Participating in DES, Dio Turner Ii

PDF

Examining the role of supportive others in substance abuse treatment and child welfare, Jessica Marie Urgelles

PDF

Moon Called Her Visage Woman, Ann Michelle Villanueva

PDF

Functional capacity in schizophrenia: Relationship among effort, reinforcement learning and self-beliefs, Sally J. Vogel

PDF

An Investigation Into Human to Dog Attachment Systems and Their Influence on the Degree of Aversion Used in Training, Shelly Volsche

PDF

transplants, Denise Weber

PDF

Effect of Contextual Speech Rate on Speech Comprehension, David Michael Weintraub

PDF

Effects of Instructor Attractiveness on Classroom Learning, Richard Shane Westfall

PDF

What I Wore Today: Gender, Self, and Brand Culture in the Blogosphere, Jennifer Marie Whitmer