Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Investigating Proton Spin Structure: A Measurement of G_2^p at Low Q^2, Melissa Ann Cummings
A Confluence of Cultures: Complicating The Interpretation of 17th Century Plantation Archaeology using Data from Rich Neck Plantation, Thomas John Cuthbertson
Floristic Change Spanning 45 Years of Global Change in the College Woods, Williamsburg, Va, Caitlin Cyrus
The Constitution of Disability in the Early United States, Laurel Richardson Daen
Modulation of Watershed Nutrient Loads By Tidal Creek Ecosystems on The Virginia Eastern Shore, Britt Leighanne Dean
Characterization of Interfacial Interactions By Functionalized Afm Probes, Laura Rickard Dickinson
Oh Shenandoah! The Northern Shenandoah Valley's Black Borderlanders Make Freedom Work during Virginia's Reconstruction, 1865-1870, Donna Camille Dodenhoff
Voiceless in Medical School: Students with Physical Disabilities, Michael J. Donlan
Prior Knowledge/esto Perpetua Respublica Americana, Phillip Louis Emanuel
Ac Zeeman Force with Ultracold Atoms, Charles Fancher
Optical Characterization of Interface Magnetization in Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures, Fan Fang
District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington, Seth Feman
Teacher and Principal Perceptions of A New Evaluation Program for Teachers, Ruth Shannon Finnegan
"Turkey is the Key": Studies on America's Relationship with the Ottoman Empire, The Turkish Republic, and Islam in the Near and Middle East, Maureen Julia Fischer
Morbid Love: American Decadence in the 1890s, Nicolette Gable
Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World, Lindsay Garcia
“Sugary Mixed-Plate”: Landscape of Power and Separation on 20Th-Century Hawaiian Sugar Plantations, Joshua Timsing Maka'ala Gastilo
Neurometric Profiling of Autism Spectrum Disorder using The Brief Neurometric Battery: A Novel Eeg Based Task, Leigh Catherine Gayle
Relationships, Credit, and Value: Analyzing Money as a Social Institution in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Marine benthic predator-prey interactions and global change., Cassandra N. Glaspie
Enhancing The Sensing Capabilities of Mobile and Embedded Systems, Daniel George Graham
College Athletes’ Reflective Judgment: A Moderator between Sport and Sociocultural Pressures, Body Ideal Internalization, and Body Dissatisfaction, Catie A. Greene
Dietary Mercury Exposure in Male Zebra Finches Does Not Decrease their Attractiveness to Females, Virginia Greene
"What Would Jesus Do?": Modern Revival in the Marketplace, 1896-2000s., Jennifer L. Hancock
School Counselor Involvement in Partnerships with Families of Color: A Social Cognitive Perspective, Pamela Nadine Harris
Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis, Travis Terrell Harris
Different Faces in Our Classrooms: Teachers' Cultural Perspectives of Heterogeneous School Environments, Paige Hendricks
Algonquian Taskscapes and Changing Landscapes: Archaeobotanical Findings from Tidewater Virginia, Jessica Marie Herlich
Muskogee Internationalism in An Age of Revolution, 1763-1818, James L. Hill
Molecular and Performance Properties of Poly(Amides & Imides) and the Use of Graphene Oxide Nano-Particles for Improvement, John-andrew Samuel Hocker
Emerging from Resistance: The Origins of the Virginia Technical College System, Richard Allen Hodges
Development of forested wetland ecological functions in a hydrologically controlled field experiment in Virginia, USA, Herman W. Hudson
The Politics of Empire: The United States and the Global Structure of Imperialism in the Early Twenty-First Century, Edward P. Hunt
New Teacher Induction: A Program Evaluation, Warren Hunter
Gas-Phase Thermochemical Properties of Proline-Containing Dipeptides and Fluorinated Alcohols using the Extended Kinetic Method, Kathy Tang Huynh
Does Sound Help Prevent Birds from Flying into Objects?, Nicole Ingrassia
Experimental Apparatus for Quantum Pumping with a Bose-Einstein Condensate., Megan K. Ivory
Thyroid Hormone Receptor Nucleocytoplasmic Transport, Zhang Jibo
Methodism, Slavery, and Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1770-1820, Christopher Cannon Jones
Testing The Unconscious Effect of Visual Context Illusions, Evan Douglas Jones
The Infusion of Stars and Stripes: Sectarianism and National Unity in Little Syria, New York, 1890-1905, Manal Kabbani
Influence of Structural Complexity and Location on The Habitat Value of Restored Oyster Reefs, Melissa Ann Karp
Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750-1860, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
A Comparative Case Study of the Role of the School District in Influencing School Improvement: Supporting and Turning Around Low-Performing Schools, Christopher J. Kelly
The Thin Ribbon Silk of the Brown Recluse Spider: Structure, Mechanical Behavior, and Biomimicry, Sean Robert Koebley
Contact and Explicit and Implicit Bias Towards Latinos/as, Jasmine Maria Koech
Developmental, Physiological, and Transcriptomic Analyses of Neurons involved in the Generation of Mammalian Breathing, andrew Kottick
Methods for Estimating The Diagonal of Matrix Functions, Jesse Harrison Laeuchli
Sturgeon (Acipenseridae) phylogeny, biogeography, & ontogeny., Katie May Laumann
Supporting Evolution and Maintenance of android Apps, Mario Linares-Vasquez
Electron Neutrino Appearance in the Nova Experiment, Ji Liu
The Relationship among Teacher Job Satisfaction, Trust in the Principal, and Principal Support, Natalie Elizabeth Lytle
Reducing Disproportional Discipline Referrals for African American Male Students at The Elementary Level, Kelly-Robin St. John MacPherson
A Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Aluminum and its Contribution to A Measurement of the Proton's Weak Charge, Joshua Allen Magee
Making Meaning with Multimedia in Secondary English Language Arts: A Multiple Case Study, Kerrigan Rose Mahoney
Personality Predictors of Academic Achievement in Gifted Students: Mediation By Socio-Cognitive and Motivational Variables, Sakhavat Mammadov
Assemblage Dynamics of Larval Fishes in the York River of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, Cindy Marlene Marin Martinez
Race, Sexuality, and Radicalism in the Piney Woods: The Industrial Workers of the World and the Brotherhood of Timber Workers, 1910-1916, David J. Marquis
Cherries from the Tree: National Identity and the Hero Construction of George Washington, 1799-1829, Jack Thomas Masterson
New South(Ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South, John Barrington Matthews
Expanding The Scope of Terminal Alkynes in Chemical Biology, Johnathan Charles Maza
Native Americans in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Morgan McCullough
College, Interrupted: A Case Study of the Mental Health Leave Process, Rachel L. McDonald-Schneider
Chronic Sorrow in Family Members of Addicts: An Investigation of Partners of Addicts and Divorcees to Explore Chronic Sorrow as a Theoretical Understanding of the Experiences of Family Members of Addicts, Victoria Grace McLaughlin
The Myth of Unity: The Contra War, 1980–1990, Benjamin Wyatt Medina
A Phenomenological Investigation of Women's Learning Experiences in Counselor Education, Lindsay Pennell Meyers
Inner City African American Female Adolescents:investigating Percpetions of Womanhood and Aggressive Behavior, Deneen Miller
Individual Differences in Social Cognitive Processes between Neurotypical College Students High and Low in Autistic Traits, Catherine Irene Mitchell
Quantitative Analysis of Periodic Breathing and Very Long Apnea in Preterm Infants., Mary A. Mohr
The Impact of Surface Normals on Appearance, Kathleen Dorothy Moore
The Mind of the State and Thinking about Sex, Brandon Wayne Dylan Munda
A Program Evaluation of Teacher Perceptions on the Fidelity of Implementation of Professional Learning Communities., Elondra D. Napper
Enhancing Mobile Device System using Information from Users and Upper Layers, Dung Nguyen Tien
'A Land Not Exactly Flowing with Milk & Honey': Swan River Mania in the British Isles and Western Australia 1827-1832, Matthew John Niendorf
Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Mobile Devices, Edmund Novak
Biogeochemistry of Redox-Sensitive Elements in the Subterranean Estuary, Alison E. O'Connor
Beyond The Campus Tour: College Choice and the Campus Visit, Justine Rebecca Okerson
Usufruct in the Land of Tribute: Property, Coercion, and Sovereignty on Early Colonial Eastern Long Island, Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich
Investigating The Relationship between Event-Related Potentials and Response Kinematics, Kenneth Juston Osborne
Trans-Atlantic Elements in the Domestic Policy Attitudes of the British and American Conservative Movements, 1980-1990., Samuel Inigo Packer
Matrix Results and Techniques in Quantum Information Science and Related Topics, Diane Christine Pelejo
Apocalypse Now: War and Religion in Late Colonial and Early Republic America, Nicole Marie Penn
Patterns of Abundance and Community Dynamics in Atlantic Coastal Sharks, Cassidy Peterson
Studies of Respiratory Rhythm Generation Maintained in Organotypic Slice Cultures, Wiktor Samuel Phillips
Cameras at Work: African American Studio Photographers and the Business of Everyday Life, 1900-1970, William Brian Piper
Security Supports for Cyber-Physical System and its Communication Networks, Zhengrui Qin
Resolution Limits of Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry with Pulsed Source, Guangzhi Qu
Study of Variations of the Dynamics of the Metal-Insulator Transition of Thin Films of Vanadium Dioxide with An Ultra-Fast Laser, Elizabeth Lee Radue
Solving Problems of the Standard Model through Scale Invariance, Dark Matter, Inflation and Flavor Symmetry, Raymundo Alberto Ramos
The Gilded South/exporting Abortion, Jenna Frances Ray
Chesapeake Coastal Community Flood Vulnerability--Prediction and Verification, Alexander D. Renaud
Finding their Place in An American City: Perspectives on African Americans and French Creoles in Antebellum St. Louis, Anna K. Roberts
Disorder Effects in Dirac Heterostructures, Martin Alexander Rodriguez-Vega
Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literatures of the Americas, Apostolos Rofaelas
Rethinking Privacy and Security Mechanisms in Online Social Networks, Xin Ruan
The Impact of the Social, Academic, and Moral Development Programs of an Achievable Dream on Students during their College and University Experience, Amy Lawrence Runge
