Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Fostering Inclusivity and Resilience: Challenges to Community-Based Empowerment for Trans Elders in Roanoke, Virginia, Summer Skye Allison
Time is Money: Using Delay Discounting and Reflection to Improve Decision-Making in the Iowa Gambling Task, Soha Munir
Prior Parental Incarceration and the Impact Towards Attitudes About Law Enforcement as Adults, Jennifer Spencer
Queering Intimacy: Reimagining Staged Intimacy Practices for Transgender, Gender Non-conforming, and Nonbinary Bodies, Mattie Tindall
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Insurance Meets Sentiment: An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Life, Health, and P&C Insurances, Akshi Agarwal
Predicting The Rise of the Celtic Phoenix: A Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis, Akshi Agarwal
Dirhenium Compounds Containing the Diphosphine Ligands Ph2PCH2PPh2, Ph2PCH(CN)PPh2, or Ph2PCH(CH3)PPh2: A Comparative Study, Hannah C. Arthur
The Role of Edge Effects on Emerald Ash Borer Infestation and Forest Responses, Bronte Hoefer
Educating the Future of the Arts, Anna Hollingsworth
Variability in Antimicrobial Properties of Multifloral Honey in Southwestern Virginia, Isabella Jessee
Renegotiating Liminal Spaces: Catholic Nuns as Spiritual and Feminist Activists, Emily M. Lauletta
The Desolate Scabiosa, Chloe Mahalek
Physical Spaces in the Digital Age: Legacies, Narratives, and Memory of Plantation History, Em Miller
Postcolonial Indian Ruling Texts: The Ramayana, Shuchi Sanyal
Who Are You Protecting?: A Feminist Analysis of Gay and Trans Panic Defense Bans, How They Are Defined, and Who They Protect, Tyler S. Sesker
Smoke Filled Back Hollars: The Impact of Traditional Barbecue on Modern Political Campaigns Within Western Virginia, Monica Thomas Fury
Rock, Rap, and Rage: Which genre elicits negative emotional contagion, Sarah Vinson
Women in American Pop Music: Christina Aguilera’s impact on cultural narratives, Chin Wai (Rosie) Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Imagining a New Nation: Patriotism and National Identity in the Writing of Late-18th Century American Women, Aysia S. Brenner
Differences between Asians and Pacific Islanders in Mental Health Stigma and Help-seeking Behavior, Kycel Butters
Use of LYMESIM 2.0 to assess the potential for single and integrated management methods to control blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis; Acari: Ixodidae) and transmission of Lyme disease spirochetes, Shravani Chitineni, Elizabeth R. Gleim, and Holly D. Gaff
“My Wife & All I Love”: Gender, Embodiment, and Female Husbands in Georgian England, Asha Fletcher-Irwin
Women Symbolic and Real: Situating Gender and Ethnicity in the Colonial Mexican Landscape, Maya Flores
Relationship between Social Media Addiction, Addictive Behavior, Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction, Marie-Laure Hengelhaupt
Predictors of Help-Seeking: Self-Concept Clarity, Stigma, and Psychological Distress, Hinza Batool Malik
Mothers, Morals, and Godly Motivations: Conservative Women’s Activism from Anticommunism to the New Christian Right, Kaitlyn C. Phillips
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Etiology and Symptomatology: The Potential Role of the Gut Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Hannah V. Schleupner
Methodology for C-glycosylation and synthesis of probes for the detection of cysteine containing proteins, Elizabeth Ward
The Influence of Infant Formula on the Growth of Commensal and Pathogenic Streptococcus Species in the Infant Oral Cavity, Geneva Waynick
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Human Trafficking Definitions to Eradication in Virginia: A Legislative Analysis, Hannah Kay Byrum
Growing More Than Coffee: Global Narratives and National Reconciliation Within the Rwandan Coffee Industry, Katie Grandelli
Analysis of Genetic Structure and Pathogen Dynamics of Ixodes scapularis in Southwestern Virginia, Leemu Jackson
On Becoming: Tracing a Lineage of Feminist Knowledge through the Creation of the Feminist Self, Hannah Jensen
Mindfulness Training's Effect On Stress, Attention, and Perfectionism and Their Relationship to Achievement Goals, Alexandra Lesniak
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Childhood Adversity & Daydreaming: Investigation of a New Form of Future-Oriented Coping, Rose E. Franzen
Limitation, Liberation, and The Latter-day Saints: The Establishment of Mormon Womanhood in The Woman’s Exponent, 1872-1890, Meaghan Harrington
Relationship of Near Shore Seagrass Meadows to the Health of Coral in St. John, USVI, Elaine Metz
Species Composition, Abundance, and Phenology of Ticks in Southwest Virginia, Ciera N. Morris
Mamas, Miners, & Movements: Women and Gendered Labor in Central Appalachia During the 20th Century, Devan M. Mullins
“Country Faggots” are Everywhere: Gay and Lesbian Life in Rural America, Katie Taylor
Printing Profanity: How the Homophiles Sought to Organize an American Gay Movement, Gina Wiese
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
"Somos Chile" contra "Somos indígenas": Nationalism myths within the Chilean State and the Mapuche People, Emily Garcia
The Structuration of Gendered Cultures within State Legislatures: A Communication Approach, Emily Miller
Economic and Ecological Benefits of Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay: An Optimal Harvest Management Tool, Lan Thi Ngoc Nguyen
Economic Growth and Changes in Forested Areas in Southeast Asia: Is Environmental Kuznets Curve Still Relevant?, Lan Thi Ngoc Nguyen
Uprooted: reROOT, the becoming, Paris Cian Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Metronormativity in the LGBTQ Imaginary and in Queer Geography: Confronting Heterosexism and Acknowledging Complexity in LGBTQ Lives, Monica Doebel
Wall Street of the Confederacy: The Antebellum Slave Trade in Richmond, Virginia, 1840 - 1865, Meika Downey
For You Will Not Abandon My Soul: Co-optation, Deradicalization and Renormalization of the Black Radical, Jalia Lashay Joseph
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
“Para Que Nunca Más Seamos Excluidos”? : Contradictions in the Rhetoric of Indigeneity and the Political Reality of the Bolivian Morales Administration, Pavithra Suresh
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Making the Arctic Canadian: Imagining the Arctic in Canadian Discourse, Jentry Elizabeth Campbell
“There Is No Such Thing as Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothing”- A Critical Analysis of the Forest School Movement in the UK, Hannah Furbush
Monster Code: "Pilot" Teleplay, Avery V. Morrison
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A Mythology for England: Tolkien's Attempt to Create an English National Myth, Michelle Douglas
Higher Education, Higher Costs: An Income-Contingent Approach, Catherine Hensly
"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book": Censorship and the Development of the Public Sphere in the English Civil War, Cecelia Parks
The Helpless Daughter of India: American Media Representations of a Gendered Global South, Kindra R. Wyatt
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Bound to Revenge: Multiple Revenge Tragedies in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Deirdra M. Shupe
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Germanna and the Transformation of Virginia, Elysse K. Stolpe
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Playing It Cool: the Effects of Air Conditioning on Culture in the United States, Brynn Hoffman