Theses/Dissertations from 2011
“'You done cheat Mose out o' de job, anyways; we all knows dat'”: Faith healing in the fiction of Kate Chopin, Karen Kel Roop
The role of metrical structure in tonal knowledge acquisition, Matthew Rosenthal
The relationship between the functions of school refusal behavior and family environment, Rachel Marie Schafer
The Watchmaker Series, Christopher Michael Seelie
The impact of age, education, political knowledge and political context on voter turnout, Roy Edward Snyder III
Testosterone and vasopressin in men’s reproductive behavior, Eric T. Steiner
Pain tolerance and thresholds in women with dyspareunia: Do pain and sex primes have differential effects?, Lea Thaler
A landscape approach to Late Prehistoric settlement and subsistence patterns in the Mojave Sink, Tiffany Ann Thomas
Consensus on the Colorado: Issues in the allocation of a limited resource, Jeffrey D. Tilton
Gambling with lives: A history of occupational health in southern Nevada, 1905--2010, Michelle Ann Turk
Challenges in Researching the Relationship Between Delinquency and Family Dynamics in Juvenile Sex Offenders, Dio Kevin Turner II
Bioarchaeology of compassion: Exploring extreme cases of pathology in a Bronze Age skeletal population from Tell Abraq, U.A.E., Jamie D. Vilos
The Whiter lotus: Asian religions and reform movements in America, 1836-1933, Edgar A. Weir Jr.
On the back of the army: A comparative study of Romanization in Britain and Egypt, Renee Wiseman
The Dilemma of minors’ access to adult content on the Internet: A proposed warnings solution, Helen Zaikina-Montgomery
Indigent women and access to prenatal care, Zoe Ann Zelazny
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Neuropsychological and emotion processing deficits in adults with bipolar disorder, Christina M. Armstrong
Composite of complexity: Manifestations of whiteness and class among Las Vegas Italian Americans, Danielle Nicole Axt
From ‘baggage’ to not ‘non-persons’: Levy v. Louisiana and the struggle for equal rights for ‘illegitimate’ children, Sherrie Anne Bakelar
Mariah Black: A Novel, Mark D. Baumgartner
Health status of infants and children from the Bronze Age tomb at Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates, Kathryn Mary Baustian
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto, Maile Chapman
Fire on the mountain: Growth and conflict in Colorado ski country, Michael W. Childers
Saints in Sin City: Religion and community building in twentieth century Las Vegas, Matthew R. Davis
Latino locales: Does context matter?, Matthew C. Dempsey
The Gendering of Nevada politics: The ERA ratification campaign, 1973-1981, Caryll Batt Dziedziak
Ælfric and the Orient, Jacqueline Geaney Elkouz
The Advisor-advisee relationship: A qualitative study of advisee perspectives, Paula M. Emke-Francis
Multiform segregation in the context of the urban crises in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, 1930 - 1980, Colin M. FitzGerald
History and transnational identities in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Brian Joseph Flores
Plato’s Gorgias: Rhetoric, the greatest evil, and the true art of politics, Paul A. George
Altering explicit and implicit racial prejudice towards African American males, Veronica A. Glover
The Effects of cellular theta breathing meditation on cell mediated immune response: A controlled, randomized investigation of altered consciousness and health, Marjorie D. Hardgrave
Relative deprivation, relative gratification, status, and health, Samuel A. Holland
Shakespeare adapting Chaucer: “Myn auctour shal I folwen, if I konne”, Scott A. Hollifield
The Influence of perspective and gender on the processing of narratives, Jeremy A. Houska
Use of an animal model to explore prenatal predictors of insulin and glucose metabolism in Southwestern Alaskan Yupiit, Julie Jo Kachinski
Weapons labs and city growth: Livermore and Albuquerque, 1945-1975, Layne Rochelle Karafantis
Civil-military relations: A case study of Pakistan, Najiyah Khan
The Culture of revolution: Revolutionary transformation in Iran, Autoosa Elizabeth Kojoori-Saatchi
The Boys' club: An exploration into the social world of a Las Vegas casino sports book, Frederick W. Krauss
Initial development of a healthy living curriculum within family behavior therapy for substance abuse, Holly B. LaPota
A Longitudinal study of neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in bipolar disorder, Brian D. Leany
The Experience of feelings in depression, Noelle L. Lefforge
Building DuPont: Capitalism, manufactures, and place in early America, 1800-1820, Christopher Manning
Bordered identities: Class, ethnicity, and transnational social networks, Rayette Ellen Martin
Inferring rules from sound: The role of domain-specific knowledge in speech and music perception, Aaronell Shaila Matta
Trade and exchange in the Neolithic Near East: Implications of obsidian remains from Ais Yiorkis, Cyprus, Megan M. Melson
Exploring the phenomena of inner experience with descriptive experience sampling, Janell M. Mihelic
Examining the inner experience of left-handers using descriptive experience sampling, Aadee Mizrachi
The Determinants of U.S. foreign aid allocation to Sub-Saharan Africa in the pre-terror and post-terror security environments, Brendan Mark Morris
From main-travelled roads to Route 66: Transitions in Prairie Naturalism, Michelle Nicole Munkres
Preserving the past and planning the future in Pasadena, Riverside and San Bernardino, Charles Conway Palmer
Must pay now, David C. Perkins
Neuropsychological and emotion processing abnormalities in bipolar disorder I and II, Carol Randall
An Examination of the life and work of Gustav Hasford, Matthew Samuel Ross
Is there evidence for the observation and use of astronomy at the Harris Site in the Mimbres Valley?, Denise Ruzicka
Donepezil and galanin interactions in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease, Jonathan J. Sabbagh
Narrative comprehension for functional survival spatial relations, Paul James Schroeder III
Verbal and visual learning and memory deficits as trait markers for psychosis in bipolar disorder, Griffin P. Sutton
Monarchs in Love and Other Stories, Matthew Swetnam
Cluster analysis of the TOMAL standardization sample, Nicholas Shizuo Thaler
Mediating and moderating variables between discretionary purchases and happiness, Rebecca L. Thomas
The Effects of cultural experience and subdivision on tapping to slow tempi, Sangeeta Ullal
Political and civic engagement attitudes among Asian American college students, Matthew Vanada
Selling knowledge: A sociological analysis of attorney advertisement in Las Vegas, Giselle Velasquez
Atomic governance: Militarism, secrecy, and science in post-war America, 1945-1958, Mary D. Wammack
African American and Caucasian males' evaluation of racialized female facial averages, Rhea M. Watson
Transforming space into place: Development, rock climbing, and interpretation in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, 1960-2010, Megan Sharp Weatherly
The Crooked median, Monica Zarazua
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
'So manie gallant gentlemen': Imperial humanists and Tudor imperial identity, Karin Alana Amundsen
Neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in bipolar disorder, Danielle T. Bello
Descriptive experience sampling interactive multimedia training tool, Arva Bensaheb
Exploring erotic plasticity as an individual difference variable: Theory and measurement, Lorraine Benuto
Race stereotypic crimes and juror decision making: Hispanic, black, and white defendants, Joseph Francis Boetcher
Eminent domain: The unintended consequences of Kelo, Tracy Lynn Bower
Studying Personality In Juvenile Prostitutes: Aren't All Delinquents The Same?, Nina S. Brathwaite
Governor James G. Scrugham and the search for economic prosperity for Nevada, 1923--1927, Paul Robert Bruno
The Casaloma, Justin P. Burnside
Chinese transnationalism and the creation of a liberal public sphere, Lanelle Elizabeth Christman
Wraith Walking, Jason Coley
Diversity issues in recruitment and retention of clients for parenting classes, Rachel Elizabeth Davis
Adult estimation, eye movements and math anxiety, Robert T. Durette
Democracy and the environment in Latin America, Javier Albert Escamilla
Stigma Cities: Dystopian Urban Identities In The United States West And South In The Twentieth Century, Jonathan Lavon Foster
Sensory imagery and aesthetic affect in the poetry of Keats, Hopkins, and Eliot, Clare Louis Gerlach
Zoroastrians on the Internet, a quiet social movement: Ethnography of a virtual community, Helen Gerth
"The Varied carols I hear": The music of the New Deal in the West, Peter L. Gough
"Divine William" and the master: The influence of Shakespeare on the novels of Henry James, Amy M. Green
Patient-focused research: Examining the psychotherapist as a feedback receiver, Michael Haderlie
Water use and natural limits in the Las Vegas Valley: A history of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Christian Harrison
A Palestinian state, Jennifer A. Hileman-Tabios
Circuit Rider, Kimberley Harris Idol
Descriptive Experience Sampling of Individuals with Bulimia Nervosa, Sharon Jones-Forrester
Paradigmatic recrudescence: Classical realism in the age of globalization, Nerses Kopalyan
Gray Zones of modern genocide, Megan Dale Lee
When did the ancestors of Polynesia begin to migrate to Polynesia? The mtDNA evidence, David Lesniewski
Persuasiveness of the text: An analysis of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas", Carl William-John Linder
Architecture and nostalgia in the British modern novel, Heather Lynn Lusty