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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 2013
"What's in a name?": Heteroglossia and History in Native Alaskan Names, Shannon Hannahs
Chronologies of Pain and Power: Violence, Inequality, and Social Control Among Ancestral Pueblo Populations (AD 850-1300), Ryan Patrick Harrod
The Quebec Act and the Demise of Greater Britain, Trevor Michael Henson
Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry
Sex Worker Rights Organizing as Social Movement Unionism: Responding to the Criminalization of Work, Crystal A. Jackson
Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson
The Impact of Sexual Arousal on the Category Specificity of Women's Visual Attention to Erotic Stimuli, Sarah Jones
The Relationship Between Sex-Typing and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Adults, Joshua Juvrud
Examining the Inner Experience of Four Individuals with Bipolar Disorder Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Johanah Kang
James Joyce and Post-Imperial Bildung: Influences on Salman Rushdie, Tayeb Salih, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Robert Michael Kirschen
Flack, Joseph G. Langdon
Eating Pathology, Supplement Use, and Nutrition Knowledge in Collegiate Athletes, Holly Beth Lapota
Beliefs in Action: Ideologies, Motivations, and Capital among English as a Second Language Learners, Damon Lasiter
There Are Moments That Hang Suspended, Mark B. Lennon
Mer, Mary Martin
Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky
Examining the Inner Experience of Three Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder and Three Individuals with Bipolar Disorder, Janell Marie Mihelic
Comparative Direct Democracy: A Study of Institutions and Individuals, Donald D. Mirjanian
Examining the Inner Experience of Left-Handers Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Aadee Mizrachi
Maps on the Backs of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson
The effects of chronic calcium dysregulation on behavioral and pathological features of Alzheimer's disease, Jonathan Sabbagh
Our Turn: Working Women In The Las Vegas Valley, 1940-1980, Irene B. Scholl Rostine
On the Merits of the Resource Curse Theory: Resource Rents and Corruption, David Paul Snyder
Congressional Preferences and the Advancement of American Nuclear Waste Policy, Rhoel Gonzales Ternate
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
Testing Orthodox Utilitarian and Extrajudical Determinants of Incarceration in the U.S. at the State-Level, 1980-2005, Pavel V. Vasiliev
An Empirically-Supported Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Maltreated Youth, Adrianna Wechsler
"My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below": Community and Penance in Early Modern English Drama, Benedict John Whalen
The Role of Social Physique Anxiety and Social Appearance Anxiety in the Body Checking Behaviors of Male and Female College Students, Emily Katherine White
In What Array That They They Were In and Participating Godlike Food, Thomas Jackson Wills
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Using Negative Feedback to Guide Behavior: Impairments on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Relates to Psychosis, Sally Barney
Captivity, Adoption, Marriage and Identity: Native American Children in Mormon Homes, 1847-1900., Michael Kay Bennion
The Regime Legitimacy of One-China: How the Vatican Can Make China Whole Again, Jonathan David Bradley
Prehistoric Foraging Strategies in the Piute Valley of Southern Nevada, Christopher Alan Brosman
Relationship Competence: Can Trainee Interpersonal Skills Be Measured Reliably and Do They Predict Clinical Effectiveness?, Jacqueline Camp
"Carefull" Ethos: The Construction of Ethos in Dorothy Leigh's The Mothers Blessing, Julia D. Combs
The Influence of Parent Factors on Child Perfectionism: A Cross-Sectional Study, Lisa Caitlin Cook
New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy, Michael Dean Duchemin
Wobble, Said the Hedgehog, Mary Elder
Sociosexuality, mate preferences, and sex steroid hormone levels among breastfeeding women in Manila, Michelle Escasa
American Propaganda, Popular Media, and the Fall of Jacobo Arbenz, Zachary Carl Fisher
Monsters in our Midst: An Examination of Human Monstrosity in Fiction and Film of the United States, Michelle Kay Hansen
An Investigation of the Role of GABAb Ligands on Cued and Contextual Fear Conditioning, Chelcie F. Heaney
Blurring Boundaries: Mexican-American Border Patrol Agents Performing Border Guard Roles and Experiencing Emotional Labor, Aaron Hockman
Love is Just a Word for the Last Body I'd Like to Keep Vigil Over, Robert Jagger
Creating a Nation in Adversity: Advent of Egyptian Nationalism in British Occupation, Kathryn Louise James
Do Toddlers Exhibit Same-Sex Preferences for Adult Facial Stimuli?, Andrea Jane Kayl
Exploring Reasons Why Men and Women Refrain from Sex Despite Desire, Alessandra Lanti
Archiving Joyce & Joyce's Archive: Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Copyright, Jessica Michelle Lucero
Label Use and Mixed Race Asian Americans: Discourses, Performances, and Boundaries, Ellen Macdonald
Reclaimed from a Contracting Zion: The Evolving Significance of St. Thomas, Nevada, Aaron James Mcarthur
Community Resources and Black Social Action, F Street, A Case Study, Robert Joseph Mckee
On Our Way Out: And Other Stories, Benjamin Champlin Wright Morris
Construct and Criterion Validity of the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test-Spanish Version in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Cristobal Neblina
All Aboard the Succulent Wave, Oscar William Oswald
Valley of Fire Petroglyphs: A New Perspective on an Old Idea, Eric John Pacl
Modality-Specific and Modality-General Encoding of Auditory and Visual Rhythms, Amanda Pasinski
Does Nation-Building Promote Liberty?, Lisa Jene Piergallini
Environmental Adaptations at Neolithic Ghwair I as seen from a Zooarchaeological Perspective, Doss F. Powell
Descriptive Experience Sampling Interactive Multi-media Training Tool for Subjunctification and Illustrative Interviews, Stacy Lynne Reger
Ask What Your Country Can Do For You: Social Spending and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America, Kenneth Retzl
James Jones's Codes of Conduct, Matthew Samuel Ross
"So Much for Fond Five-Dollar Memories": Prostitution in Las Vegas, 1905-1955, Marie Katherine Rowley
About a Yellow Ball, Shannon Alice Salter
Tiny Animals Made To Do Unnatural Things, Ashley Mary Siebels
To Set the World Right: Religious Pluralism and the Progressive Era, Lance Sorenson
Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Germany. A Transnational History., Julia Simone Stetler
Caught in the Immigration Cross-Fire: The Changing Dynamics of Congressional Support for Skilled Worker Visas, Maryam Tanhaee Stevenson
From Martyrs to Mothers to Chick in Choos: The Medieval Female Body and American Women's Popular Literature, Gina M. Sully
Affect Identification and Interpersonal Skills: An In-Depth Evaluation of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Griffin Pollock Sutton
Die Deutschen in Kalifornien: Germans in Urban California, 1850-1860, Carole Cosgrove Terry
The Initial Development of Child-Focused Interventions in the Treatment of Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Neglect, Kendra Tracy
Cooperation, Competition and the Development of Institutional Capacity: Civil Rights and Public Transportation in Southern Nevada, Bruce Erwin Turner
Formal, Bounded, and "Hyper" Rationality in Police Processing of Sexual Assualt Claims: Case Dispositions and UCR Reporting, Brooke M. Wagner
Frequency-specificity and pattern-specificity of the buildup of auditory stream segregation, David Michael Weintraub
A Turkish Dictionary, Andrew Wessels
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Visual attention to erotic stimuli in androphilic male-to-female transsexuals, Sarah A. Akhter
An Evaluation of the performance characteristics of olivine temper in Pueblo II Virgin River Puebloan ceramics, Sharlyn Anderson
The Relationship of child maltreatment potential and mothers’ satisfaction with their neglected children, Kelsey M. Bradshaw
Summerview, Laura Breitenbeck
The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin, Leisl Ann Carr Childers
The Right to Privacy in Light of the Patriot Act and Social Contract Theory, Betsey Sue Casman
Fertility symbols in rock art: Cupuls and incised grooves in the Lower Pecos, Texas, Cara D. Connolly
To consult or not to consult? Investigating barriers to dysparenia treatment-seeking in young women, Robyn L. Donaldson
Operation span task’s susceptibility to math anxiety: Support from fluid intelligence, Robert T. Durette
Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation, Ken Eckert
From khaki to brown: Community formation, homeownership, and mobility in Santa Ana, California, 1950-2000, Stefani Jan Evans
1983: The most dangerous year, Andrew R. Garland
Redefining security in sub-Saharan Africa, Winta Sintayehu Gebremariam
Bilingualism and math cognition, Michelle M. Guillaume
Examining experience in depressed and nondepressed individuals, Jedidiah D. Gunter
Enhancing therapists' clinical judgments of client progress subsequent to objective feedback, Michael M. Haderlie
The Relationship of Ethnicity and Familial Factors in the Expression of School Refusal Behavior in Clinical and Community Samples, Courtney Marie Haight
School refusal behavior: The relationship between functions and symptom sets, Marisa Charlene Hendron
The Effect of early environmental manipulation on locomotor sensitivity and methamphetamine condition place preference reward, Emily Hensleigh
The Development and evaluation of a safety skill intervention for child victims of neglect, Heather H. Hill
Beyond the demographic transition: The case of Japan, Mary Beth Horiai
Newe country: Environmental degradation, resource war, irrigation and the transformation of culture on Idaho's Snake River plain, 1805--1927, Sterling Ross Johnson