Theses/Dissertations from 2018
First Measurements of the Parity-Violating and Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetries in Elastic Electron-Aluminum Scattering, Kurtis David Bartlett
We Shall Remain: Indigenous Influence in Sixteenth-Century "La Florida" and the Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Arctic, Daniella F. Bassi
Education Reform in the New American Republic/education and the Charity of Edward Hopkins, Christina L. Beck
"To Milk the Yankee Tourists": Mid-20Th-Century Heritage Practice and the Social Construction of Whiteness in the American South, Jessica Bittner
The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia, Janine Yorimoto Boldt
Applications of Lattice Qcd to Hadronic Cp Violation, David Brantley
"By the Dear, Immortal Memory of Washington"/The Baptists, Culture, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Douglas Breton
Factors that Contribute to Motivation and Burnout among Teachers of Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders, Adam Joseph Brown
Making a Home Out of No Home: ‘Colored’ Orphan Asylums in Virginia, 1867–1930, August Butler
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Studies of Organic Dyes for Art Conservation and Ph Sensing Applications, Shelle Nicholle Butler
Parent and Friend Emotion Socialization as Correlates of Adolescent Eating Behavior, Margaret Eileen Cameron
Usability, Efficiency and Security of Personal Computing Technologies, Nancy Carter
Buried Beneath The River City: Investigating An Archaeological Landscape and its Community Value in Richmond, Virginia, Ellen Luisa Chapman
History of Prostitution/Vampires in the American Republic, Shannon Elizabeth Christensen
Education Reform as Moral Disengagement: the Racist Subtext of the State Takeover of Little Rock School District, Davis Clement
Impacts of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and Coastal Nitrogen Fluxes on Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia, Fei Da
Range-Wide Variation in Common Milkweed Traits and its Effect on Larvae of the Monarch Butterfly, David De La Mater
Probe of Electroweak Interference Effects in Non-Resonant Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering, James Franklyn Dowd
The Gap on the Block: Aboriginality, Subjectivity, and Agency in Contemporary Urban Australia, Jennifer Michelle Ellis
An exploratory study of leadership, literacy assessments and acceleration for closing the reading achievement gap by third grade, Laura Frances Estes
Proton Spin Structure from Monte Carlo Global Qcd Analyses, Jacob Ethier
The Duality of Dual Enrollment: How The Relationship between Student Demographics, Academic Metrics, and College Enrollment Adds Up, Tiffany Noel Ferrari
Memories in Stone/Reconstructing the Street, Samuel C. Florer
Dissociating Alzheimer’s Disease from Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment using Time-Frequency Based EEG Neurometrics, Wendel Matthew Friedl
Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel, Frank Anthony Fucile
Investigating Emerging Security Threats in Clouds and Data Centers, Xing Gao
Mixed-Weight Open Locating-Dominating Sets, Robin M. Givens
Characterizing the Biological Impacts and Human Dimensions of the U.S. East Coast Recreational Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery, William Morris Goldsmith
Salud Mental: The Conceptualization and Experiences of Mental Health among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants, Edith Gonzalez
The Serving Supervisor: Supervisor Servant Leadership as a Protective Factor for Counseling Residents’ Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, Colleen Grunhaus
Utilization of Unnatural Amino Acids to Modulate Protein Structure and Function, John Halonski
Settler Colonialism in Russian America/Alaska and the Indian Reform Movement, Ian Lee Halter
Applicable Outcomes: A Program Evaluation of the Investigations Math Program, Sean Marco Hamer
A Program Evaluation of A Technology Based Formative Assessment for Algebra Readiness, Cassandra Harris
Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Songbird Social Networks, Carly Elizabeth Hawkins
The Effects of Mating Strategy on Religiosity: Church Attendance as a Mating Strategy Component and the Role of Religious Belief., Jacob Thomas Henicheck
The Actions Institutional Agents Take to Support First-Generation Latino College Students at A Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution: An Embedded Case Study, Diana Marie Hernández
Reproductive Investment in Crassostrea Virginica as an Indicator of a Tolerance Response to Perkinsus Marinus, Lauren Irene Huey
Shifting Patterns of Ribbed Mussel Distribution and Ecosystem Services in Response to Sea Level Rise, Robert Earl Isdell
Strategic Representations of Black Women in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Masculine British Print, Joan Elizabeth Jockel
The Transitional Generation: Faculty Sensemaking of Higher Education Reform in Ecuador, Mary Amanda Johnson
Vengeance with Mercy: Changing Traditions and Traditional Practices of Colonial Yamasees, Patrick Johnson
A Phenomenological Investigation of the Lived Experiences of Female African American Undergraduate Stem Students at an Elite Predominantly White Institution, Reginald O. Johns
“Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference”: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann’s Southern Landscapes, Laura Keller
A Program Evaluation of an After-School Reading Intervention Program in a Small Urban Elementary School, Erin Kershner
“When I Put on My Firespitter Mask”: Jayne Cortez’s (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations, Renee Michelle Kingan
On The Margins of Empire: An Archaeological and Historical Study of Guana Island, British Virgin Islands, Mark Kostro
Beach-Ridge Sedimentology as an Archive of Terrestrial Climate Change: Insights From Geochemical and Stratigraphic Study of the Tijucas Strandplain, Southern Brazil, Julie Lauren Krask
Who Have Always Been Secret Enemies/King of the Irish Traders, Ryan P. Langton
History of Archaeological Research in the Yoruba-Edo Region of Nigeria: New Directions for Urban Earthenworks, Olanrewaju Blessing Lasisi
Of Mammies, Minstrels, and Machines: Movement-Image Automaticity and the Impossible Conditions of Black Humanity, Joseph Frank Lawless
“God Sends Meat and the Devil Sends Cooks”: Meat Usage and Cuisine in Eighteenth-Century English Colonial America, Dessa Elizabeth Lightfoot
An Order to Society/A Place Where "You Can Live Freedom", James Franklin Lowe
On Improving (Non)Functional Testing, Qi Luo
The Public Face(s) of Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire/"The Shop on the Corner of Wing's Lane", Alexandra Macdonald
Zone-Decorated Pots at the Hatch Site (44Pg51): a Late Woodland Manifestation of an Ancient Tradition, Douglas Makin
Individual- and Population-Level Effects of Temperature and Hypoxia on Two Demersal Fishes in Chesapeake Bay, Benjamin Marcek
Critical and Creative Thinking in General Education: A Descriptive Case Study, Nicholas Richard Marsella
The Magnificent Seven: a Narrative Analysis of Suppressed Discourses in Psychiatric Diagnoses, Clayton Vance Martin
The Relationship Between Reproduction and Mortality in Triploid Crassostrea Virginica, Joseph L. Matt
Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensors in Aqueous Environments, Matthew August McCarron
Teacher Perceptions of the Implementation Processes of the Imagine Learning Program in Title I Elementary Schools, Brigitt Angelica McGuinness
The Effects of Dietary Mercury Exposure on Male Fertility in the Zebra Finch, Ananda Menon
Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Tidal Wetland Extent and Distribution, Molly Mitchell
Lattice Qcd for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Short Range Operator Contributions, Henry Jose Monge Camacho
Automating Software Development for Mobile Computing Platforms, Kevin Patrick Moran
A Case Study of the Dynamics of Trust in a Reconstituted Urban Middle School, LaMarr Moses
A Measurement of Nuclear Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering in Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions, Anne Norrick
The Development of Fiddler Crabs (Uca Spp.) as a Comparative Model System for the Parasitic Dinoflagellate, Hematodinium Perezi and its Natural Host the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus, Patricia Anne O'Leary
Performative Circulations of St. Martín De Porres in the African Diaspora, James Patrick Padilioni, Jr.
Searching for A Dark Photon in the Hps Experiment, Sebouh Jacob Paul
Psychophysiology of the Stress Response and the Hierarchical Structure of Emotional Disorders, Molly Penrod
Principal Support and Academic Optimism in Urban High Schools, Todd Edward Perelli
"Miss Rebecca Story's Book" / "Marrying a Minnister", Anne Catherine Powell
Measuring Hypodescent in the Social Categorization of Multiracial Targets, Matthew Steven Preda
Iron Polypyridyl Catalysts Assembled on Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Nicholas Race
These Graves and Ruinous Houses/So Pertinacious Has Been the Misery, Maddison Jane Rhoa
Producing The Latina Disney Princess, Ashley Sarah Richardson
Carry-Over Effects in Complex Life Cycles: Linking Larval Food Supply with Juvenile Recruitment Success in Sea Stars, Emily Richardson
Ecology and Evolution of Common Milkweed, Angela Ricono
Multi-Scale Phylogenomics of Gadiformes With Emphasis on Hakes (Merluccius, Merlucciidae), Adela Y. Roa-Varon
Effect of Pigment Volume Concentration on Physical and Chemical Properties of Acrylic Emulsion Paints Assessed using Single-Sided Nmr, Mary Therese Rooney
Exotic Phases in Attractive Fermions: Charge Order, Pairing, and Topological Signatures, Peter Rosenberg
Dynamics of Systems With Hamiltonian Monodromy, Daniel Salmon
Radiation Shielding Bricks for Mars Using Martian Regolith Simulant and Hydrogen-Rich Polymers, Sara Sargent
Monitoring Infection of E. Coli By Bacteriophage T7 through Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics, Amy Swayne Schienschang
Bound among Nations: Labor Coercion in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Schmitt
A State-Level Superintendent Evaluation Policy Analysis, Tracey L. Schneider
Knowledge, Perceptions, and Beliefs of Elementary Principals Regarding Whole-Grade Acceleration for Gifted Students, Allison A. Sheppard
Byting Out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere, Nabeel Siddiqui
Rural Students’ Experiences at Selective Four-Year Colleges: Pathways to Persistence and Success, Amy Sikes
Investigating the Spatiotemporal Distribution of a Tick-Borne Pathogen, Ehrlichia Chaffeensis, Dylan Simpson
