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 2013

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Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective, Alyson Kay Baker

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Dressing Indian: Appropriation, Identity, and American Design, 1940-1968, Alison Rose Bazylinski

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Always Away, Mollie Bergeron

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Examining the Testing Effect using the Dual-Process Signal Detection Model, Nicole Jessica Bies-Hernandez

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Actresses Redefining Theater and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France, Rebecca Anne Bolen

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Alternations of NMDA and GABAB Receptor Function in Development: A Potential Animal Model of Schizophrenia, Monica Bolton

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Exploring the Relationships Between Rap and Hip-Hop Music Use and Objectified Body Consciousness, Body Dissatisfaction, and Gender Norms in Female Juvenile Delinquents, Nina Simone Brathwaite

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Pyramid of the Sun, James Joseph Brown

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Claiming Citizenship: Las Vegas' Conventional Women's Organizations Establishing Citizenship Through Civic Engagement, Cynthia Cicero

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The Role of Body Surveillance, Body Shame, and Body Self-Consciousness during Sexual Activities in Women's Sexual Experience, Kimberly Claudat

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The Influence of Person Familiarity on Children's Social Information Processing, Andrew J. Cummings

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The Impacts of Colonial and Environmental Processes on Ceramic Plainware at Salinas Province, New Mexico, Lindsey Elizabeth Daub

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Investigating Potential Factors that Influence Recruitment for Parenting Skills Classes, Rachel Elizabeth Davis

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Resilience and Trauma in Maltreated Youth, Timothy Day

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Examining Household Identity Through Lithic Technology at the Harris Site, Justin Albert Demaio

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Who Will Tell the Story? Terrorism's Relationship with the International News Media, Katherine Eugenis

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The International Monetary Fund, Power Politics, and the Changing Political Economy of the Twenty First Century, Eduardo Flores

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A Bird Cannot Fly With One Wing: A Study of Women's Responses to and Attitudes Toward Sexual Infidelity in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dana Renae Foster

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From Daimon to Demon: The Evolution of the Demon from Antiquity to Early Christianity, Hailey Marie Fuller

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Our Side of the Fence: Investigating the New Nativism in the United States, Candace Griffith

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Assessing the Conceptual Equivalence of Measure of Suppression in Culturally Diverse Samples, Amanda Louise Haboush

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"What's in a name?": Heteroglossia and History in Native Alaskan Names, Shannon Hannahs

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Chronologies of Pain and Power: Violence, Inequality, and Social Control Among Ancestral Pueblo Populations (AD 850-1300), Ryan Patrick Harrod

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The Quebec Act and the Demise of Greater Britain, Trevor Michael Henson

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Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry

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Sex Worker Rights Organizing as Social Movement Unionism: Responding to the Criminalization of Work, Crystal A. Jackson

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Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson

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The Impact of Sexual Arousal on the Category Specificity of Women's Visual Attention to Erotic Stimuli, Sarah Jones

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The Relationship Between Sex-Typing and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Adults, Joshua Juvrud

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Examining the Inner Experience of Four Individuals with Bipolar Disorder Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Johanah Kang

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James Joyce and Post-Imperial Bildung: Influences on Salman Rushdie, Tayeb Salih, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Robert Michael Kirschen

Flack, Joseph G. Langdon

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Eating Pathology, Supplement Use, and Nutrition Knowledge in Collegiate Athletes, Holly Beth Lapota

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Beliefs in Action: Ideologies, Motivations, and Capital among English as a Second Language Learners, Damon Lasiter

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There Are Moments That Hang Suspended, Mark B. Lennon

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Mer, Mary Martin

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Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky

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Examining the Inner Experience of Three Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder and Three Individuals with Bipolar Disorder, Janell Marie Mihelic

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Comparative Direct Democracy: A Study of Institutions and Individuals, Donald D. Mirjanian

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Examining the Inner Experience of Left-Handers Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Aadee Mizrachi

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Maps on the Backs of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson

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The effects of chronic calcium dysregulation on behavioral and pathological features of Alzheimer's disease, Jonathan Sabbagh

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Our Turn: Working Women In The Las Vegas Valley, 1940-1980, Irene B. Scholl Rostine

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On the Merits of the Resource Curse Theory: Resource Rents and Corruption, David Paul Snyder

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Congressional Preferences and the Advancement of American Nuclear Waste Policy, Rhoel Gonzales Ternate

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The Role of Music-Specific Representations When Processing Speech: Using a Musical Illusion to Elucidate Domain-Specific and -General Processes, Christina M. Vanden Bosch Der Nederlanden

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Testing Orthodox Utilitarian and Extrajudical Determinants of Incarceration in the U.S. at the State-Level, 1980-2005, Pavel V. Vasiliev

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An Empirically-Supported Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Maltreated Youth, Adrianna Wechsler

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"My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below": Community and Penance in Early Modern English Drama, Benedict John Whalen

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The Role of Social Physique Anxiety and Social Appearance Anxiety in the Body Checking Behaviors of Male and Female College Students, Emily Katherine White

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In What Array That They They Were In and Participating Godlike Food, Thomas Jackson Wills

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Using Negative Feedback to Guide Behavior: Impairments on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Relates to Psychosis, Sally Barney

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Captivity, Adoption, Marriage and Identity: Native American Children in Mormon Homes, 1847-1900., Michael Kay Bennion

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The Regime Legitimacy of One-China: How the Vatican Can Make China Whole Again, Jonathan David Bradley

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Prehistoric Foraging Strategies in the Piute Valley of Southern Nevada, Christopher Alan Brosman

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Relationship Competence: Can Trainee Interpersonal Skills Be Measured Reliably and Do They Predict Clinical Effectiveness?, Jacqueline Camp

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"Carefull" Ethos: The Construction of Ethos in Dorothy Leigh's The Mothers Blessing, Julia D. Combs

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The Influence of Parent Factors on Child Perfectionism: A Cross-Sectional Study, Lisa Caitlin Cook

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New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy, Michael Dean Duchemin

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Morphological Features of the Proximal Femur: Investigations of Habitual Activities, Sex and Health in a Bronze Age Population from the Arabian Peninsula, Animikha Dutt

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Wobble, Said the Hedgehog, Mary Elder

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Sociosexuality, mate preferences, and sex steroid hormone levels among breastfeeding women in Manila, Michelle Escasa

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American Propaganda, Popular Media, and the Fall of Jacobo Arbenz, Zachary Carl Fisher

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Monsters in our Midst: An Examination of Human Monstrosity in Fiction and Film of the United States, Michelle Kay Hansen

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An Investigation of the Role of GABAb Ligands on Cued and Contextual Fear Conditioning, Chelcie F. Heaney

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Blurring Boundaries: Mexican-American Border Patrol Agents Performing Border Guard Roles and Experiencing Emotional Labor, Aaron Hockman

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Love is Just a Word for the Last Body I'd Like to Keep Vigil Over, Robert Jagger

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Creating a Nation in Adversity: Advent of Egyptian Nationalism in British Occupation, Kathryn Louise James

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Do Toddlers Exhibit Same-Sex Preferences for Adult Facial Stimuli?, Andrea Jane Kayl

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Exploring Reasons Why Men and Women Refrain from Sex Despite Desire, Alessandra Lanti

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Archiving Joyce & Joyce's Archive: Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Copyright, Jessica Michelle Lucero

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Label Use and Mixed Race Asian Americans: Discourses, Performances, and Boundaries, Ellen Macdonald

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Reclaimed from a Contracting Zion: The Evolving Significance of St. Thomas, Nevada, Aaron James Mcarthur

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Community Resources and Black Social Action, F Street, A Case Study, Robert Joseph Mckee

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On Our Way Out: And Other Stories, Benjamin Champlin Wright Morris

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Construct and Criterion Validity of the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test-Spanish Version in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Cristobal Neblina

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All Aboard the Succulent Wave, Oscar William Oswald

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Valley of Fire Petroglyphs: A New Perspective on an Old Idea, Eric John Pacl

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Modality-Specific and Modality-General Encoding of Auditory and Visual Rhythms, Amanda Pasinski

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Does Nation-Building Promote Liberty?, Lisa Jene Piergallini

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Environmental Adaptations at Neolithic Ghwair I as seen from a Zooarchaeological Perspective, Doss F. Powell

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Descriptive Experience Sampling Interactive Multi-media Training Tool for Subjunctification and Illustrative Interviews, Stacy Lynne Reger

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Ask What Your Country Can Do For You: Social Spending and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America, Kenneth Retzl

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James Jones's Codes of Conduct, Matthew Samuel Ross

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"So Much for Fond Five-Dollar Memories": Prostitution in Las Vegas, 1905-1955, Marie Katherine Rowley

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About a Yellow Ball, Shannon Alice Salter

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Tiny Animals Made To Do Unnatural Things, Ashley Mary Siebels

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To Set the World Right: Religious Pluralism and the Progressive Era, Lance Sorenson

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Germany. A Transnational History., Julia Simone Stetler

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Caught in the Immigration Cross-Fire: The Changing Dynamics of Congressional Support for Skilled Worker Visas, Maryam Tanhaee Stevenson

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From Martyrs to Mothers to Chick in Choos: The Medieval Female Body and American Women's Popular Literature, Gina M. Sully

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Affect Identification and Interpersonal Skills: An In-Depth Evaluation of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Griffin Pollock Sutton

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Die Deutschen in Kalifornien: Germans in Urban California, 1850-1860, Carole Cosgrove Terry

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The Initial Development of Child-Focused Interventions in the Treatment of Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Neglect, Kendra Tracy

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Cooperation, Competition and the Development of Institutional Capacity: Civil Rights and Public Transportation in Southern Nevada, Bruce Erwin Turner

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Formal, Bounded, and "Hyper" Rationality in Police Processing of Sexual Assualt Claims: Case Dispositions and UCR Reporting, Brooke M. Wagner

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Frequency-specificity and pattern-specificity of the buildup of auditory stream segregation, David Michael Weintraub

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A Turkish Dictionary, Andrew Wessels