Theses/Dissertations from 2024
A Flora of the Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda County, Nevada, Peri Lee Pipkin
Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People: The Role of Minority Stress and Psychological Sense of Community, Apoorva Orcid Rajan-Sharma
Mentoring Latinas on Doctoral Journeys: Testimonios of Cultural and Gender Identity, Jacqueline Rangel
Lincoln's Shakespearean Education, Ted Jones Richards
Reviving the Sleeper Effect, Tehreem Riffat
Nature Images and Fractal Scale-Invariance upon Prosociality, Scott H. Roberts
Where’s My Teacher? Factors Influencing Teacher Retention/Attrition in a Post-COVID Landscape, Kyle Robinson
Empowering Voices: Perspectives and Experiences of Latino and Black Men in Minority Serving Institutions’ Male Success Initiatives, Reginaldo Robles
Steklov Eigenvalue Problems on Nearly Spherical and Annular Domains, Nathan Philip Schroeder
Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space, Marissa Paige Schuling
Do Women Have an Advantage When Leading Across Groups? An Examination of Gender, Self-Construals, and Intergroup Leadership, Jackie Shaib
Aversive Racism and Use of Force: Perceived Threat and Justification Decisions, Tiffany T. Shao
An Analysis of the Association between Foreign Investors Holdings and the Local Currency Sovereign Debt Yields, Yudistira Surjadi Slamet
Spatial-Temporal Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Using Graph Neural Networks, with an Application to Traffic Speed Prediction, Zhengming Song
The Redesigning of Thailand’s One-Stop-Service Portal for Business Licensing and Permission, Thawachsorn Sookthai
“The Scientist is Wrong”: Joseph Fielding Smith, George McCready Price, and the Ascent of Creationist Thought among Latter-day Saints in the Twentieth Century, Thomas Benjamin Spackman
Escaping the Peripherality: Local Experiences of the US Military Presence in Northeast Thailand, Wipawee Srifa
The Orchestral Music of Robert Nathaniel Dett: A New Critical Edition of his Orchestration of the Enchantment Suite, Michael Todd Stanley
Effects of Identity, Uncertainty, and Language Contact on Intergroup Relations, Heather Tamzyn Stopp
The Relationship Between Capital Inflow Surges and Stock Price Booms in Emerging Countries, Anna Terzyan
The High Maintenance Black Girl: Black Female College Students’ Experiences with Intraracial Stereotypes, Alexis Thrower
Promoting Continuous Learning and Organizational Improvement Through Role Based Evaluation Capacity Building, Haley Elizabeth Umans
Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968, Katherine J. Veach
Development of Culturally Tailored Needs Assessments for Sustainable LYTE Foundation Initiatives Leveraging the Support of Public Health Interns, Amalia Liana Vega
Conservation Genetics of Narrowly Distributed Annual, Erythranthe discolor (Phrymaceae), in the Southern Sierra Nevada, Selena Vengco
Decentralize, Depoliticize, Democratize: An Empirical Political Economy Analysis of Global Cryptocurrency Adoption, Jennifer L. Verdier
Answering the “Now What?”: The Development of a Transdisciplinary Breast Cancer Survivorship Nonprofit Organization, Vir-Iaesta Maniquiz Vergel de Dios
Exploring the Relationship Between Psychological Capital and Social Justice Evaluator Performance, Jennifer Pacheco Villalobos
What Text Information Helps to Reduce Default Risk, Guan Wang
The Relationship Changes Between Asian Countries and Advanced Economies Before and After 2008, Jingyu Wang
Exploring Loss Functions in Machine Learning, Yujie Wang
A Proposed Framework for a Community College Cybersecurity Program, Patrick Ward
Character of Coaching: The Work of Instructional Coaches in K-12 School Districts, Lorra Wells
Essays on Inequalities in Labor and Health, Wei Ye
Computational Approaches to the Nuclear Many-Body Problem, Ryan M. Zbikowski
Navigating Progress: The Role of State Capacity in Shaping China’s Internal Migration Dynamic, Yuzhu Zeng
The Interaction of Policy, Credit Demand and Credit Supply in Banking System, Ya Qing Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Marginalization of Fezzan Region in Libya, Amad Abukhzaam
Exploring The Relationship Between Heritage Language Teachers’ Professional Development Experiences and Their Self-Efficacy, Shahnaz Ahmadeian Fard
Opportunity Cost of Student Loan Debt Forgiveness: Testing the Impact of Four Policy Options on United States’ Economy, Emelia Akhlaghi
Essays on Marijuana Legalizations, Fawaz Alotaibi
From Macro to Micro: A Study of the Impact of Stock Market Development and Behavioral Factors on Charitable Donations During the COVID-19 Pandemic., Sahar Alqunaibit
Optimal Portfolio Construction for Oil-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds, Mohammed Saeed Alshowaikhat
Immigrant Muslim women’s belief and practice of the veil in Southern California, Fatimah Alsuhaibani
Essays on the Labor Market, Hard Drug Use, and Traffic Fatalities, Abdullah Alswelh
Natural Law Theory Under the Sun How Iranian Political Thought Viewed Tyranny as Opposed to The West, Shahram Arshadnejad
The Role of Mediators in the Relationship Between Export Diversification and Economic Development, Hajer Abdulla Basodan
Female Pleasure and Theories of Desire in Narrative Structure: Evolution, Futurity, and Species Survival in the Post-Human and Science Fiction Imaginary, Laura L. S. Bauer
The Future of Community Health Center Executive Leadership A Mixed-Method Formative Evaluation, Lizbeth Bayardo Cardenas
The Value of Mentoring in Living Out Your Calling, Megan Benzing
True Connections: High-Quality Connections in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape, Alyssa Birnbaum
Exploring Data Science at Institutions of Higher Education: Competencies, Skills, Proficiencies, and Professional Experiences, James LaMar Bolden
Women's Legislative Representation: Attitudes and Institutions, Laura Bouamrane
Undergraduates’ Preparedness for College-Level Work in STEM: The Importance of Reading and Understanding Scientific Theories, Arguments, and Data, Ewa M. Burchard
As Below So Above: Reconstructing the Neo-Babylonian Worldview, Heather Marie Burrow
What is a “Helpmate”? Using Comparative Semitic Linguistics to Propose New Translations for Ezer Kenegdo, Rebekah Call
Outside the Coffee Belt: A Study on the Suitability and Sustainability of Coffee Plants in California Due to Climate Change Using GIS, Vanessa Arias Casillas
Dismantling Education’s “Wicked” Problems, Amanda M. Castillo
Exploring College Knowledge: Diálogo Between College Counselors and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Latinx Public High School Students, Maritza Azucena Salazar Cha
Communal Appropriation: Considerations of Heritage and Cultural Preservation, Nikia Chaney
Territorial and Maritime Disputes in South China Sea: The United States' Strategic Plan of Response, Jung Lin Chang
Epistemology and Authority in Two Latter-day Saint QAnon Conspiracy Theorists, Indra Jean Louise Chapman
Staying Engaged During the Remote Work Revolution: An Integrated Job Crafting Perspective, Christopher Legion Chen
The SS: The Phony Elite and Brutal Preparators of the Holocaust, John E. Cordero
Certain That I Belong in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM): Women's Authentic Belonging and Men's Inclusion Actions Through Job Crafting, Cecelia Lee (Dotzler) Corson
Signaling Dynamic Authenticity as a Leader, Laura Dannhäuser
17th Century Colonial Witchcraft: Before Salem, Andréa Diane Davis
Influenced: Performing Gender and Femininity in Mormon and Evangelical Online Spaces, Kathryn Ann Davis
Institutional Researchers and Equitable Outcomes: An Examination of Factors Driving Their Success, Qiana Nichole Davis
Commodifying the Conifer: The Rise of the Christmas Tree Industry in the United States, Kerri Dean
Under Threat: An Empirical Test of the Social Identity Theory of Psychological Safety, Jessica Brull Barrett Diaz
Comics Ideology: Racism in American Comics During World War II, Luke Diep-Nguyen
Playing with Power: An Autoethnographic Study of "The Last of Us" as a Black Gamer, Adrienne Domasin
The Effect of Bureaucracy on the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment: A Comparative Study of Libya and the United Arab Emirates, Abdurraouf Abdussalam Elakder
“I’ve Been Murdered”: An Autoethnographic Narrative of the School-to-Death Nexus, layá elita
Stairway to Fairness: The Impact of Explanations on Applicant Reactions to Automated Video Interviews, Benjamin E. Falls
Three Essays in Behavioral Economics, Zhou Fang
Lattice Extensions and Zeros of Multilinear Polynomials, Maxwell Forst
Saftey of Covid-19 Vaccines in Real World Studies, Khawla Amar Mohamed Gammudi
A Jotería Identity and Belonging: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Queer and Trans Latinx Graduate Students in Higher Education, Sergio A. Gonzalez
The Effect of Age, Syntax Complexity, and Cognitive Ability on the Rate of Semantic Illusions, Sara Anne Goring
A Systems-Based Patient Aid Design Artifact for Active Medication Management in Type 2 Diabetes, Ibrahim A. Hamzah
Advancing Internet Viewpoint Diversity: A Novel Algorithm and a Corpus Creation Tool, Jeffrey Harwell
Judgments of Learning and Retrospective Confidence Judgments: A Qualitative Exploration of Difference in Processes, David Hengerer
Assessment of Founders in Venture Capital Investment Decisions, Gregory Gerald Hennessy
Social Capital and the Transition to College for Asian Americans, Chia S. Her
Prospects for Professional Art and STEM Collaborations to Create STEAM Programs and Projects, Darius K. Hines
The Green Revolution in California: The Real Costs and Benefits of Changing Electricity Production, Joseph James Hoffman
Disruption, Dissent, and Dialogue: YPAR as a Pedagogical and Institutional Tool, Charlene E. Holkenbrink-Monk
