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This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV College of Liberal Arts. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Binge Eating Behaviors in Muslim Women During Ramadan Fasting, Hoor Ul Ain
Beyond Monuments: The Built Environment of Las Vegas and Los Angeles in the Twentieth Century, Nicole Rae Batten
Personal Genomic Services for Companion Animals: Pet Owner Experiences and Veterinary Perspectives, Nikki E. Bennett
Gender Biases: The Interaction Between Children and Voice Assistants, Trà Hương Bùi
The Speech-To-Song Illusion Across Development and the Effects of High-Level Expectations, Rodica R. Constantine
Highways to Hell: How the Intersections of Cinema, Rock Music and the Resurgence of Evangelicalism Influenced the 1985 Senate Hearing on Rock Music, David J. Fewell
Animal-Assisted Ministry and Multispecies Sociality in a Christian Therapy Dog Organization, Heather Renee Frigiola
An Examination of The Purity Culture Beliefs Scale and The Interaction of Religiosity, Purity Culture Beliefs, And Pornography Use in A Census-Matched United States Sample, Kaelyn R. Griffin
Stronger Together: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Identity, Efficacy, And Emotions in Young Adults’ Collective Action, Kindy Insouvanh
The Dual Impact of Moral Injury: Links to PTSD Symptoms and Disinhibited Externalizing in U.S. Combat Veterans, Bianca S. Islas
Performance Optimization-Focused Family Behavior Therapy to Address Verbal and Physical Aggression in an Adolescent Diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder: A Case Report, Sierra Ann Ramirez Jarvis
The “Asian”-Ness of Women Influencing the Romance Plot in Contemporary YA Literature, Janetsa Jane Keovorabouth
Housewerk: How Drag Performers Engage in Emotional Labor While Navigating Community Care, Steph O. Landeros
Vegas Reborn: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Fans of The National Hockey League’s Vegas Golden Knights, Dawn Lighthiser
Ecological Momentaty Assessmet of Mood, Affect, and Perceived Criticism: Investigation of Daily Patterns and Family Impact, Kayla Mcginty
Exploring the Processing of Objects, Settings, and Global Properties in Natural Auditory Scenes, Margaret A. Mcmullin
Mimbres Social Organization at The Micro-Scale: Households at The ELK Ridge Site, Southwestern New Mexico, Jared Keith Miles
The Inclusion of Multiracial Participants in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Stacey Moeller Juthapan
The Role of Prediction Error in Episodic Memory, Kevin D. Mohawk
Identifying Appropriate Clinical Cutoffs for Traumatic Dissociation in Maltreated Youth, Amanda L. Mraz
Tractors on the Mall: Unraveling the New Deal, Political Shifts, and the 1980s Farm Crisis, Tracy M. Neblina
Error Processing in Psychopathy: An Analysis of Event Related Brain Potentials and Post-Error Task Behavior, Ananda Liz Peixoto Couto
Desert Slavery: How the Old Spanish Trail Sustained Captivity and Coerced Labor in the North American West, Kristen Lynn Phipps
Qualitative Analysis of the Influence of Military Culture on the Resocialization of Combat Veterans, Kyle N. Rodgers
Internalized Weight Stigma as a Mediator Between Past Weight Stigma and Current Healthcare Avoidance/Comfort in Seeking Medical Care, Shannon Joyel Sagert
School Absenteeism in Children with Disabilities: An Analysis of School Climate and Academic Mindset, Karolyne Bastos Stucki
The Relationship Between Positive and Negative Experiences with Sport Culture and Psychiatric Symptoms in Collegiate Athletes, Angelos Tsalafos
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Contextualizing Historical Bioarchaeological Accounts with Contemporary Social Issues, Katharine Chiyono Woollen
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Racial Microaggressions Research: Intersectionality, Coping Strategies, and Groups Impacted, Aldo M. Barrita
“But…. They Don’t Look Like Me.” An Examination of Mentoring Relationships with Hispanic and Latinx Students, Diana Ruby Beltran
Postmodern Paranoia: Conspiracy Theories as Network Anxieties in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Underworld, Madison Browne
Trauma-Related Cognitions and Discrimination as Predictors of Maladaptive Coping Among Marginalized Maltreated Youth, Shadie Burke
Institutional Design of Intergovernmental Organizations: Cooperation, Vitality, and Evolution, Darrell James Carter
Impact of Placement Disruption on School Outcomes in Maltreated Youth, Mallory Constantine
Rewriting the American Work Narrative: Modernist Literature and the Paradox of Patriotic Labor, Jesse Cook
“Sex is Fun”: A Study of Hook Up Behaviors and Experiences of Post-College and Middle-Aged Adults, Joshua Corum
Relationships Between Psychopathology, Impulsivity, and Disordered Eating, Repairer Etuk
From Extraction to Attraction: Case Studies in Historic Preservation, Heritage Tourism and Interpretation, 1945-2010, Paige Figanbaum
Gender Stereotyping in an Agricultural Sample, Andrea Fink-Armold
Contextualizing High Fragmented Remains as Complex Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest (AD 700-1700), Julia Cristina Freiberger
The Phenomenon of Creative Seeing as Discovered by Descriptive Experience Sampling: A Case Study, Amber Goto
Monstrous Women: Adaptation as Humanization, Amie Greene
The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Binge Eating in a Demographically Diverse US Community Sample, Jessica H. Habashy
Leveling the Playing Field: An Ethnographic Study of Latinx Youth Soccer Leagues in Las Vegas, Jeannette Hernández
Corporate-Led Financialization on the Farmland, Land Crisis, and Farmers’ Experience in the Sugar Industry in Dwangwa, Malawi, Foster C. Kamanga
Exploring the Everyday Inner Experience of Grapheme-Color Synesthetes, Cody Michio Kaneshiro
Music and Narrative Memory, Maxwell Kayser
Liminal Embodiment and the Changing Parental Body, Torisha Khonach
Reframing Addiction as a Coping Response: A Needed Shift in Modern Public Health Paradigms, Anthony King
Psychopathy and Moral Decision Making, Dimitra Kourtesi
“Vice Cannot Afford to Have Virtue Dictate All the Terms of Its Existence”: The Viability and Visibility of Urban Prostitution in Nevada, 1859-1923, Christina M. Lamoureux
Self-Perception and Positive Stereotype Endorsement, Aileen Lovitt
Incarcerated Nations: Confinement, Removal, and Policing on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Mary Ludwig
Age, Gender, and Sexual Orientation and their Effects on Online Dating Motivations, Jenna Leigh Mcpherson
Parsing the Plains: Placing Emporia, Kansas in the Great Plains Midwest, Joseph Noce
Notes of a Nostalgic Nigerian, Ucheoma Onwutuebe
“Everyone’s Favorite Dead Girl”: Historical Crime Fiction and Postwar Policing in James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia, Mauricio Ortiz Zaragoza
Case Trial Evaluations of an Optimization Approach to Mental Health and Sport Performance for Adolescent Athletes, Dereck Davy Phrathep
Examining the Risks and Resilience of Older Adults Living with HIV/AIDS: Qualitative Community-Based Participatory Research Studies in Southern Nevada, Brandon Ranuschio
Under the Neon Lights: Examining the Memories of Las Vegas' Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, William B. Ridgway
Sourcing Clays and Styles: Interaction Networks at the Elk Ridge Site, Southwestern New Mexico, Danielle M. Romero
The Dogs / The Ghosts, Michael David Rudolph
Symptom Network Comparisons Between Pre- and Post-Concussion, Christine Salva
The Role of Cognitive Dysfunction in Late-Life Depression, Matthew Schurr
Cultural Crisis, Performance and Ritual: A Bioarchaoelogy of Violence in Early Precontact North Alabama (8,000-3,000 BP), Diana Sherman Simpson
Understanding the Role of Discrimination in the Experience of Traumatic Stress in Latine, Michelle Strong
Excavating the Archives: A Re-analysis of Artifacts Recovered from Catclaw Cave, Emily C. Swett
The Effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation on Excitability of the Primary Motor Cortices and Complex Motor Task Learning, Erik Woodruff Wilkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Ga(y)zing Backward: Queer Desire in Ovid, Shakespeare, and Scaimma, Falynn Blayre Brickler
Four Junes, Sara Brown
Illness Under the Microscope: Disease in Colonial Discourse, a Disruptive Study, Sujata Chattopadhyay
Cultural Mechanism of Mothers' Perceptions of Youth Psychopathology, Yen-Ling Chen
Resilience on the Iron Road: A Collaborative Bioarchaeology of Overseas Chinese Laborer Exploitation and Exclusion (1850-1920), John Joseph Crandall
Negotiating a World in Upheaval: Resiliency of Indigenous Systems of Warfare among Yuman Groups, Joseph B. Curran
MENA Terrorism and the West: Explaining Why Terrorist Groups from the Middle East and North Africa Target Western Democracies, Michael A. Defeo
Transnational Actions, Domestic Outcomes: How Diasporas Effect Change in Their Countries of Origin, Nadia Eldemerdash
Examining Emotion Regulation Strategies as Predictors of Posttraumatic and Depressive Symptomatology in Maltreated Youth, Kinsey Ellis
Developmental Differences in School Climate Predictors of Chronic School Absenteeism, Michael Fensken
The Relationship Between Psychopathy and Sexism Across Self-Report, Vignette, and Novel Dialogue Tree Tasks, Arianne Fisher
Black Girl Magic: History, Identity, and Spirituality in Contemporary Fantasy and Science-Fiction, Taylore Fox
An Examination of the Association of Religiosity, Purity Culture, and Religious Trauma with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety, Kaelyn R. Griffin
Maternal Health in the Context of Social, Political, and Economic Change Among Hadzabe Foragers of Tanzania, Kristen Herlosky
Genre and Gender: A Rhetoric of Irony in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, Nanette Rasband Hilton
Examining the Factor Structures of the ERQ-CA, RCADS, and RSCA to Identify Unique Predictors of PTSD Symptom Clusters in Maltreated Youth, Amanda N. Howard
How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Relationship between Human-Animal Interactions and Human Well-Being, Elizabeth A. Johnson
Toolstone Use and Procurement Along Holocene Ivanpah Dry Lake, CA, Kara Jones
Feminine Aesthetics of Embodied Cognition: Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Audre Lorde, Jenessa L.w. Kenway
A Cultural History of Anti-Feminism in Marvel's Scarlet Witch, Madison M. Kooba
Clinical Utility of the Substance Use Items of the Sport Interference Checklist in Collegiate Athletes, Igor Kowal
Measurement Invariance of Impact in Bilingual and Monolingual High School Athletes, Hana Cecilia Kuwabara
Development of Cultural Familiarity Influences Musical Tempo, Jared W. Leslie
A Slow Act of Vision, Alice Letowt
The Force That Sets the Stage: The Professional Performances and Emotional Labor of Black Academic Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions, Christian Joy Lewis
Initial Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Mental Health Optimization Checklist (MHOC), Raymond E. López
Evolving Expressions of Trauma in James Joyce, Jean Rhys, and Caryl Phillips, Sean M. McCray