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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 2026
Unknowing Sacrifices: Public Health and Radiation Illness in New Mexico and Nevada, 1940s-1960s, Beatriz Avila-Marquez
Spatial and Embodied Forms of Resistance in the Dark Carnival of Something Wicked This Way Comes, Safiyya Bintali
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Psychotherapy for Anxiety and Depression in Later-Life, Lilla Brody
“A Land No One Would Want”: Environmental Activism and the Rejection of ‘Wasteland’ Narratives in Southern Nevada, Steven Butler
Voices Under Constraint: College Students’ Self-Censorship, Empowered Resistance, and Solidarity, Richard Chang
Perception of Emotions in Autism With Controlled Elicitation, Rachel E. Dewald
Functional Domains’ Ability to Predict Outcomes in Comparison to Absenteeism in a National Sample of School Age Children, Randolph Dupont
A Technical Analysis of Ground Stone From the Group IV Neighborhood at Palenque, Mexico, Alexandra Castillo Espinoza
Constructing Imperial Connectivity: State Infrastructure Projects and the Imperial Gaze in Bengal Presidency, 1849-1856, Richard William Bradley Gaspers Iii
"Home Means Nevada": Latinx Belonging in a New Destination, Maria G. Hermosillo
Named and Unnamed: An Analysis of Southern Nevada’s Unidentified Persons, Liam James Johnson
Prepulse Inhibition and Emotion: A Systematic Review, Jennifer U. Le
Impairment and Disability in Mesoamerica: Bioarchaeological Evaluation and Interpretation of the Maya of Palenque, Dayanira Lopez
Shaping Narratives by Defying Math: How Black Congressional Candidates Frame Economic Issues From 2018–2022, Dante Allen Miller
Organizing the Life Story: The Structure, Retrieval, and Flexibility of Autobiographical Memories, Erin Murphy
True Biz: A Fusion of Written English and Printed ASL, Elysha O'brien
Consuming Identities: Food, Appetite, and the Making of the British Self, 1719-1945, Danielle Pollaro
Justice in Paradise: The Rise of Nevada’s Law School, 1973-2021, Douglas H. Smith
Is Forgetting Independent of Learning? An Examination of Initial Learning Across Alternative Forgetting Analyses, Rhiannon Nicole Soriano Smith
Future Orientations: Speculative Fiction, Settler States, and the Anthropocene, Carlos Robert Tkacz
The Therapeutic Courtroom: Power, Compliance, and the Performance of Change in Dependency Court, Mary Elizabeth Underwood Hood
Performing Politics: Identity, Emotions and Micro-level Activist Displays, Emily Wagner
Navigating the Unknown: Understanding the Impact of Mentorship for First-Generation Students in Stem, Shanika Roshanie Wickramarachchi
Collegiate Athletes’ Perceived Quality and Satisfaction with Psychiatric and Performance-Based Assessments, Lidia Wossen
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Binge Eating Behaviors in Muslim Women During Ramadan Fasting, Hoor Ul Ain
Beyond Additive Risk: Longitudinal Associations Between Discrimination and Positive Affect Development Among Adolescents with Single and Multiple Marginalized Identities, Vanni Jefferson V. Arcaina
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 Maroons: The First Black Nationalists of The Americas, Marquise K. Camp
Examining Religiosity, Suicidality, And Internalized Homonegativity Among Ethnoracially Diverse Sexual Minority Students, Danica Christy
The Speech-To-Song Illusion Across Development and the Effects of High-Level Expectations, Rodica R. Constantine
If I Should Die Tonight A Love Story, Dominque Demetrea Conway
Intervention Outcomes of A Family-Based Intervention: A Case Review of An Asian American Adolescent at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis, Monica Elizabeth Done
An America for the (In)Visible and Nameless: Comparing Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Ellison’s Invisible Man, Janah Esplana Balane
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
Misidentified Bodies and Missing Data: Exploring Forensic Disempowerment and Skeletal Narratives of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals in the United States, Taylor M. Flaherty
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
Face Recognition Ability: The Role of Facial Experience Across the Lifespan, Kirsty Kulhanek
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
Gaming: An Untapped Resource for Women in Computer Science Careers?, Claudia Quynh Luu
Ecological Momentary Assessment 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
Demographic Similarity, Psychopathy, and Perceived Inherent Value: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Moral Decision Making, Ashley Michelle Poston
Hypervigilance in Emerging Adulthood: The Impact of Trauma, Milestone Achievement, and Minority Identity, Alexis Rice
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