Theses/Dissertations from 2015
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
"The Fatal Year": Slavery, Violence, and the Stamp Act of 1765, Joshua Fogarty Beatty
Surreptitious Spaces: Cabarets and the French Contest for Empire in Martinique, 1680-1720, Lynch D. Bennett
Adaptation of H pylori to Changing Environments Based on Allelic Variation of Sensor Histidine Kinase Arss, Monique R. Bennett
Sediment Deposition and Reworking: A Modeling Study using Isotopically Tagged Sediment Classes, Justin J. Birchler
Emotional Competence and Co-Rumination Within Early Adolescent Friendships: Implications for Emotion Socialization, Sarah K. Borowski
The Pamunkey Indian Museum: Collaboration, Display, and the Creation of a Tribal Museum, Rachel Elaine Bowen
An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation at the End of the Seventeenth Century, David Arthur Brown
Structure, Drivers, and Trophic Interactions of the Demersal Fish Community in Chesapeake Bay, Andre Buchheister
Liberty's Kids: Toys, Children's Literature, and the Promotion of Nationalism in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States, August M. Butler
The Impact of Leadership Behaviors of Blue Ribbon Catholic School Principals on School Culture, Rosaline Cardarelli
The Effects of Medium on the UV-Induced Photodegradation of Rhodamine B Dye, Carolyn Louise Carta
The Fruits of their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse Complex and the Rise of American Botany in Early Federal Philadelphia, Sarah Jane Chesney
Phylogenetic Systematics of the Prickleback Family Stichaeidae (Cottiformes: Zoarcoidei) using Morphological Data, Todd R. Clardy
Leadership Challenges in Implementing a Balanced Literacy Model in Elementary Schools, Amy C. Colley
Math talent development of elementary school students: The relationship of gender, math motivation, and goal orientation to math achievement, Ann Haimburger Colorado
Use of Pattern Classification Algorithms to Interpret Passive and Active Data Streams from a Walking-Speed Robotic Sensor Platform, Eric Allen Dieckman
A Multi-Method Investigation of Approach and Avoidance Temperaments: Self-Report, Physiological, and Daily Diary Measures, John Thomas Dombrowski
Pain Perception and Perspective Taking in Spinal Cord Injury Patients, Caitlin J. Duckett
Grandfathers at War: practical politics of identity at Delaware town, Melissa Ann Eaton
A Novel Test of the Immunocompetence Handicap Hypothesis, Jessica H. Ebers
Entertaining Education or Purely Entertainment: A Case Study of the Yorktown Victory Center, Jordan Margaret-May Ecker
The relationship between teachers' computer self-efficacy and technology integration in a school district's bring your own technology initiative, Ashley F. Ellis
Teacher self-efficacy, content and pedagogical knowledge, and their relationship to student achievement in Algebra I, Antonia M. Fox
Long-Term Change in Copepod Community Structure in the Western Antarctic Peninsula: Linkage to Climate and Implications for Carbon Cycling, Miram Rayzel Gleiber
Teachers' Perceived Influences on Technology Integration Decisions: A Grounded Theory on Instructional Decisions after Professional Development, Karen Larsen Greenhaus
The Reynolds Affair, Party Politics and Sexuality in the Early Republic, Alexandra Marie Gross
Identifying SUMO Protease Targets and Investigating E3 Ligase Interactions, Mark Guillotte
Dealing in Metaphors: Exploring the Materiality of Trade on Virginia's Seventeenth Century Eastern Siouan Frontier, Madeleine Ailsworth Gunter
Towards Secure, Power-Efficient and Location-Aware Mobile Computing, Hao Han
Amine- and Sulfide-Sensing Copper(I) Iodide Films and the Structure, Dynamics, and Photophysics in the Copper(I) Iodide-Tetrahydrothiophene System, Kylie Marie Henline
Evaluating a School-Based Day Treatment Program for Students with Challenging Behaviors, Antoine Lewis Hickman
Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906, Zachary Michael Hilpert
Studying and Enabling Reuse in android Mobile Apps, andrew Steven Holtzhauer
Assessing the Effects of Workplace Aggression and Normative Unethical Behaviors on Counselors' Perceptions of Ethicality using an Integrative Understanding of Morality, Eleni Maria Honderich
Possessing the Holy Land: The Palestine Exploration Fund and the American Palestine Exploration Society, Ashley M. Irizarry
Anthropogenic Modifications of Connectivity at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Ecotone in the Chesapeake Bay, Robert Earl Isdell
Thoroughly Modern: African American Women's Dress and the Culture of Consumption in Cleveland, Ohio 1890-1940, Deanda Marie Johnson
Principals' perceptions of the effectiveness of a network support structure in a large urban school system, Racquel Jones
Development of the Involuntary Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire (IAMQ), Song Hee Kang
The Relation between Selective Cross-Modal Attention and Emotional Multisensory Integration, Jamie Christine Klein
Toward the global public good: Accountability for higher education in the twenty-first century, Angelo J. Letizia
Behind the Scenes at William and Mary: Front Stage History and Backstage Archaeology, Tiffany Olivia Little
Development of a Large-Scale Storm Surge and High-Resolution Sub-Grid Inundation Model for Coastal Flooding Applications: A Case Study during Hurricane Sandy, Jon Derek Loftis
Effective Resource and Workload Management in Data Centers, Lei Lu
'I Get a Kick Out of You': Cinematic Revisions of the History of the African American Cowboy in the American West, Stephanie Anne Maguire
Using a Sonic Net to Deter Pest Bird Species: Excluding European Starlings from Food Sources by Disrupting their Acoustic Environment, Ghazi Mahjoub
The Roles of Dispersal and Predation in Determining the Seedling Recruitment Patterns of a Zostera marina System, Stephen R. Manley
"Genuine made-in-Americans" : living machines and the technological body in the postwar science fiction imaginary, 1944-1968, Kimberly Lynn Mann
An evaluation of Project iRead: A program created to improve sight word recognition, Theresa Meade Marshall
Building professionals: The intersection of professional learning communities and trust., Patrick McClintock-Comeaux
Measuring fidelity of implementation using the survey of enacted curriculum, Edward Sean McDonough
Fostering parental engagement in a rural Title I elementary school, Joyce R. McDowell
