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 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

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Visual attention to erotic stimuli in androphilic male-to-female transsexuals, Sarah A. Akhter

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An Evaluation of the performance characteristics of olivine temper in Pueblo II Virgin River Puebloan ceramics, Sharlyn Anderson

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The Relationship of child maltreatment potential and mothers’ satisfaction with their neglected children, Kelsey M. Bradshaw

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Summerview, Laura Breitenbeck

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The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin, Leisl Ann Carr Childers

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The Right to Privacy in Light of the Patriot Act and Social Contract Theory, Betsey Sue Casman

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Fertility symbols in rock art: Cupuls and incised grooves in the Lower Pecos, Texas, Cara D. Connolly

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To consult or not to consult? Investigating barriers to dysparenia treatment-seeking in young women, Robyn L. Donaldson

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Operation span task’s susceptibility to math anxiety: Support from fluid intelligence, Robert T. Durette

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Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation, Ken Eckert

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From khaki to brown: Community formation, homeownership, and mobility in Santa Ana, California, 1950-2000, Stefani Jan Evans

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1983: The most dangerous year, Andrew R. Garland

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Redefining security in sub-Saharan Africa, Winta Sintayehu Gebremariam

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Bilingualism and math cognition, Michelle M. Guillaume

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Examining experience in depressed and nondepressed individuals, Jedidiah D. Gunter

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Enhancing therapists' clinical judgments of client progress subsequent to objective feedback, Michael M. Haderlie

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The Relationship of Ethnicity and Familial Factors in the Expression of School Refusal Behavior in Clinical and Community Samples, Courtney Marie Haight

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School refusal behavior: The relationship between functions and symptom sets, Marisa Charlene Hendron

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The Effect of early environmental manipulation on locomotor sensitivity and methamphetamine condition place preference reward, Emily Hensleigh

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The Development and evaluation of a safety skill intervention for child victims of neglect, Heather H. Hill

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Beyond the demographic transition: The case of Japan, Mary Beth Horiai

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Deterrents to participation and retention in English as a second language (ESL) programs among adult Hispanic immigrants, Jose Irias

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Newe country: Environmental degradation, resource war, irrigation and the transformation of culture on Idaho's Snake River plain, 1805--1927, Sterling Ross Johnson

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The influence of ethnic identity and family support on posttraumatic symptoms in maltreated youth, Harpreet Kaur

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Odd variations on the species: Stories, Sarah Kokernot

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The Effect of working memory and math ability on decision making, Jeremy A. Krause

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Raise the Still Rabbit, Michael Kroesche

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To receive my services you must be dying and alone, Kathryn Kruse

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For the benefit of others: Harriet Martineau: feminist, abolitionist and travel writer, Laura J. Labovitz

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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in urban India, Heidi A. Manlove

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Taming the waters that taketh from the devil’s playground: A history of flood control in Clark County, Nevada, 1955-2010, Jarvis Marlow

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Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009, Juan Martinez

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Woman or warrior? How believable femininity shapes warrior women, Jessica D. McCall

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The effect of endpoint knowledge on dot enumeration, Alex Michael Moore

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A Montage in Its Leaves, Andrew S. Nicholson

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The Father Birth, Alissa Nutting

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Strike Out Across the Shoreless Ocean, Julia Claire Paajanen

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Jackpot! A legal history of Indian gaming in California, Aaron Peardon

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Sew speak! Needlework as the voice of ideology critique in The Scarlet Letter , "A New England nun," and The Age of Innocence, Laura L. Powell

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A New socialist world in Latin America?, Dana R. Ramos

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Examining the experience of recent war veterans who report posttraumatic stress disorder, Neda C. Raymond

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Executive function profiles in pediatric traumatic brain injury, Erik Nelson Ringdahl