Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Nineteenth Century Enslaved African Americans' Coping Strategies for the Stresses of Enslavement in Virginia, Allison Michelle Campo
"In Noe Wise Cruelly Whipped": Indentured Servitude, Household Violence, and the Law in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, Caylin Elizabeth Carbonell
Afro-Barbadian Foodways: Analysis of the use of Ceramics by Freed Afro-Barbadian Estate Workers, Camille Lois Chambers
Internally Hydrogen-Bonded PRODAN Derivatives, Douglas William Cheek
Two-Component, Four Reaction Domino Sequence toward Novel Tricyclic 1,4-dihydro-2H-benzo(f)sochromenes, Yuzhou Chen
Building a consensus on the professional dispositions of counseling students: A content analysis on counseling student retention policies, Jeffrey Kyle Christensen
Development of Boron-Containing Polyimide Materials and Poly(arylene Ether)s for Radiation Shielding, Brittani May Collins
The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the "New York Ledger", and Sentimental Capitalism., Kathryn Conner Bennett
Women in the Trenches: Barriers to Female Staff's Advancement in Higher Education, Carla A. Costello
Evaluation of a Brief Neurometric Battery for the Detection of Neurocognitive Changes Associated with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Probable Alzheimer's Disease, Emily Christine Cunningham
The Corporate Person: How U.S Courts Transformed a Legal Phantom into a Powerful Citizen, Zachariah J. DeMeola
Influence of Emotional Stimuli on Working Memory in Schizotypy, Docia L. Demmin
African American Civil Rights Museums: A Study of the R.R Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia, Christina S. Draper
Human Induced Cyclical Erosion Due to Altered Sediment Bypassing Mechanisms of a Barrier Island and the Resultant Impact on the Housing Market, Andrew R. Fallon
An Investigation of Hermaphroditism in R sp SB 347, Maureen Catherine Farrell
"A Mode of Correcting the Existing Evils": Swindlers, Inland Passage Tickets, and the Federalization of Immigration Policy in the Antebellum United States, Joseph Patrick Fitzgibbon
Surface-Enhanced Raman and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of Fugitive Artists' Pigments, Kristen A. Frano
The Influence of Zostera marina and Ruppia maritima on Habitat Structure and Function in a Changing Environment in the Chesapeake Bay, Emily D. French
The Reproductive Biology of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in Chesapeake Bay, Carissa L. Gervasi
Of Circuit Riders and Circuit Courts: A Case Study of the Methodist Border Conflict in Antebellum Virginia, Douglas Paul Gleason
Performing Jane: a cultural history of Jane Austen's fans in America, Sarah G. Glosson
Influences of Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom on Bias, Melissa Anne Gomez
Beating the Odds: Towards Understanding How Principal Leadership Practices in High Schools Support School Completion for African American Males with Learning and Emotional Disabilities, Elaine Butler Gould
Inviting the Principle Gentlemen of the City: Privacy, Exclusivity, and Food Complexity in Colonial Taverns, Lauren Elizabeth Gryctko
Hawaiian Emancipation?: Slavery, Free Labor, and Indentured Labor in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, Mark Thomas Guerci
Understanding the lived experiences of students in a comprehensive four-year undergraduate leadership development program, Jessica Walker Hench
Culture Clash: A case study of the issues that non-traditional college presidents face in adjusting to academic culture, Sean Michael Heuvel
Diel, Seasonal, and Interannual Patterns in Mesozooplankton Abundance in the Sargasso Sea, Jami Alora Ivory
Habitat use of the Declining Wood Thrush in Coastal Virginia, Vitek Jirinec
The Influence of Environmental Factors and Resource Availability on Zostera marina Flowering Intensity, Andrew J. Johnson
"Members, Don't Git Weary": Max Roach, "Treme", and the Sound of Resistance, Brian Edward Jones
The Influence of Short-Term Events on the Hydrographic and Biological Structure of the Southwestern Ross Sea, Randolph M. Jones
"Pretty girls and fascinating boys" : the adolescent journey of evangelical youths, 1970-2000, Maria Alexandria Kane
Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America, Julia Kaziewicz
Stressed, Pregnant, and Behind Bars, Caroline Malory Kelsey
Could You Point Me to Your Nearest Clay Source, Please?: A XRF Study of Barbadian Historic Era Ceramics, Benjamin Crossley Kirby
"The Pretended Riot Explained": Citizen Sovereignty and the Mashpee Revolt, Michaela Kleber
Neurotransmitter Systems and Age Related Cognitive Decline: A Focus on Attention and Plasticity, Christine Teal Kozikowski
A Model of Carrying Capacity and Ecosystem Impacts in a Large-Scale, Bivalve-Dominated Agro-Ecosystem: Hard Clam Aquaculture in Cherrystone Inlet, VA, Michael A. Kuschner
Development of a Solid-Supported Glaser-Hay Reaction and Utilization in Conjunction with Unnatural Amino Acids, Jessica S. Lampkowski
To experience something greater than myself: An exploratory case study of the impact of a faculty-led short-term study abroad on college student identity, E. Ashleigh Schuller Lee
The use of functional traits to elucidate the causes and consequences of biological diversity., Jonathan S. Lefcheck
Development of a Three Step Cascade Synthesis of 2,4-Dihydro-1H-benzo[f]isochromenes, Shane E. Lewis
Linking structure and function of microbial communities responsible for sedimentary nitrogen processes in North Carolina estuaries, Jessica A. Lisa
Noble Metal Free Catalysts for Hydrogen Generation from Aqueous Solutions, Dan Liu
Spread and interaction of epidemics and information on adaptive social networks, Yunhan Long
Spatial Modeling of a Realized Niche: Investigating the Invasion of Sweet Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill) into Coastal Habitats of Virginia's Eastern Shore, Kathryn Elizabeth MacCormick
Temperature, Photoperiod, and Life History Traits in Drosophila subobscura, Heidi Joan MacLean
Signature of Recent Sediment Accumulating in Prince William Sound, Alaska: A Record of Storms, Earthquakes, and Seasonal Inputs, Nicole R. Marshall
Phylogeny, Ontogeny and Distribution of the Ribbonfishes (Lampridiformes: Trachipteridae), Jennifer M. Martin
Some properties of meson excited states from lattice QCD, Ekaterina V. Mastropas
Canary Red: Preserving Cochineal and Contrasting Colonial Histories on Lanzarote, Sarah Mattes
Optical characterization of ferromagnetic and multiferroic thin-film heterostructures, Xin Ma
Mission us and historical empathy: A qualitative case study of sixth-grade students' experiences, James Richard Maxlow
Promoting Tourism, Selling a Nation: The Politics of Representing National Identity in the United States 1930-1960, Sarah Elizabeth McLennan
Understanding "Roadkill" through an Animal Method, Linda Angela Monahan
Enhancing Bug Reports for Mobile Apps, Kevin Patrick Moran
From Path to Portage: Issues of Scales, Process, and Pattern in Understanding New Brunswick Riverine Trail, Mallory Leigh Moran
The Brafferton Estate: Harvard, William and Mary, and Religion in the Early Modern English Atlantic World, Mark Mulligan
Effects of commercial clam aquaculture on biogeochemical cycling in shallow coastal ecosystems, Anna Elizabeth Murphy
The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community in New Orleans., Elizabeth Clark Neidenbach
Confrontation of Prejudice Towards Multiracials and Monoracials, Gandalf Nicolas
The Land Remembers: The Construction of Movement Possibility among Woodland Period Communities of the Virginia Peninsula, Josue Roberto Nieves
Integration and Differentiation as Distinct Dimensions of Personality, Victoria Claire Oleynick
Developing Methodologies for Studying Elasmobranchs and Other Data-Poor Species, Kristen L. Omori
Sea of change : race, abolitionism, and reform in the New England whale fishery, Justin andrew Pariseau
Determining the Efficacy of the Extended Kinetic Method for Determination of Thermochemical Properties of Small, High-Entropy, Organic Molecules, Mary Grace Pisano
In the "Spirit of Investigation and Experiment": John Minson Galt II and Social Reform at the Eastern Asylum, Elise Aminta Salles
Condition of Juvenile Fishes in Estuarine Nursery Areas: Measuring Performance and Assessing Temporal and Spatial Dynamics with Multiple Indices., Ryan W. Schloesser
Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians, Restoration in the Virginia Coastal Bays: The Role of Predation on Spring Vs Fall Cohort Survival, Erika L. Schmitt
Streaking and Straight Pins: Constructing Masculinity on an Antebellum College Campus, Erin Stock Schwartz
False Emissaries: The Jesuits among the Piscataways in Early Colonial Maryland, 1634-1648, Kathleen Elizabeth Scorza
"Distresses of Mind, Body, and Estate": The Connection between Status and Property in Colonial Virginia as Exhibited by Loyalist Claims, Kasey Marie Sease
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Proposed Restoration of the Lynnhaven River Ecosystem, Emily E. Skeehan
Chancellor's College success coach initiative: A formative program evaluation of the Virginia Community College system's initiative from the success coaches' perspective, Marcia C. Strange
Effect of Noise on the Social Structure of European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Autumn Swan
From Charlesfort to Jamestown: French and English Imperial Efforts in Early American History, Cornelia Thompson
Electronic properties of chiral two-dimensional materials, Christopher Lawrence Charles Triola
Oyster Reef Connectivity Inferred Via Population Genetic Analysis, Brendan Douglas Turley
Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939., Kevin C. Valliant
Networks in Favor of Liberty: St Eustatius as an Entrepôt of Goods and Information during the American Revolution, Sarah Marie Vlasity
The Continental Army: Leadership School of the Early Republic, David Lawrence Ward
Students' self-determined motivation, emotional intelligence and academic persistence: An examination of second year students at a public and a private historically black university, Evanda Shentelle Watts-Martinez
Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Social Influence on Emotion, Emily Catherine Willroth
Mercury Reduces Avian Reproductive Success through Direct Embryotoxicity Rather Than Altered Parental Behavior, Stephanie Yen Chin
Effects of virtual conversations on international, students' intercultural communicative competence, Jingzhu Zhang
Providing efficient services for smartphone applications, Yifan Zhang
Ultracold rubidium and potassium system for atom chip-based microwave and RF potentials, Austin R. Ziltz
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Empowered to Confront: Power and Confronting Sexism, Nicholas Peter Alt
Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance, Benjamin Park anderson
Living, learning, and leading from the middle: African American women administrators in student affairs, Melinda R. Jones anderson
'Tavern' by the Saltpan: New England Seafarers and the Politics of Punch on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, 1682-1782, Konrad A. Antczak
"Strength for the Journey": Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors, Judith Anne Bledsoe Bailey
Honoring the Ancestors: Historical Reclamation and Self-Determined Identities in Richmond and Rio de Janeiro, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Exhorting or Extorting?: George Whitefield's Financial Controversies, Kristen Elizabeth Beales
