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About the Collection
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 2023
Public Transportation, Benjamin Stallings
Experiences of Violence and Captivity: Labor Divisions at La Plata (AD 600-1250), Kathleen D. Stansbury
A Tale of Two Townsites: The Formative Years of the Las Vegas Valley 1902-1907, Joseph Thomson
Multiple Approaches to Examining Gender Norms in Romantic Relationships, Carrie Underwood
Examining the Effects of Perspective-Taking and Empathetic Concern on Attractiveness Biases in Millennial and Generation X Adults, Stephanie Verba-Quinones
Examining Oppressive Social Systems: Activism, Academics and Alpha Males, Kristin Dee Vierra
The In/visible Stockade: Sex Offender Management, Governmentality, and the Search for Normal Life, Christopher Wakefield
The Floating World Around and Between; Print Culture, Racial Blurring, and Japanese Views of Black People from the 15th to the 19th Century, Angel J. Wakiihuri
The Role of Small Puebloan Architectural Sites on the Southern Shivwits Plateau, William M. Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Utilizing Nonparametric Statistical Methods to Inform Equitable and Inclusive MTSS Models of School Attendance/Problems, Victoria Bacon
The Model Minority Myth and The Mental Well-Being of Academically Struggling Asian Americans, Jan Michael Roa Ballesteros
Screwball, Nicholas Barnette
Stability of Neurocognitive Abilities in Heterogeneous Subgroups of Schizophrenia, Megan L. Becker Wright
Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Practices at the Lake Roberts Vista Site (LA71877) Gila National Forest, New Mexico, Laura A. Benedict
Leaving Babylon: A Memoir of Repatriation, Soni Brinsko
Exodus Arena: Cashman Field and the (Re)Development of Sports and Recreation in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Ryan Browar
Beyond the Numbers: A Deeper Dive into the Dearth of Girls and Women in STEM, Jennifer John Buck
Horse Loose: Essays on Fear and Attachment, Alyse Burnside
The Stability of the Speech-to-Song Illusion and Individual Differences, Rodica R. Constantine
That Hidden Country: The Travels of Jacob Singleton, A Novel, James Earp
Racialized Places: Community Development within the Historic Westside of Las Vegas, Camisha Fagan
Family Functioning in Youth with Bipolar Disorder, Kayla Fobian
Evaluating the SCL-90-R for Use in Collegiate Athletes, Elena Gavrilova
Changes in Cognitive Networks as a Result of Sport-Related Concussion, Grace J. Goodwin
Psychometric Properties of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire: Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance by the Intersection of Race and Gender, Jessica H. Habashy
“Who Says Lowriders Are Only For Men?”: Lowriders In Las Vegas, Nevada, Alejandra Herrera
A Name No One Should Know, Mohammed Jahama
First-Day Expositional Interviews, Iterative Training, and Participant Skill in Descriptive Experience Sampling, Cody Michio Kaneshiro
Mediating Religion in Las Vegas: An Ethnographic Exploration of Technology, Celebrity Culture, and Place Attachment in a Multisited Megachurch, Josiah Kidwell
Policing Sin City: The Creation and Impact of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 1973-1985, Richard Kim
Cognitive Testing for Sport Concussion: The Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT), Julia E. Maietta
Dimensionality of Natural Auditory Scene Perception: A Factor Analysis Study, Margaret A. McMullin
Saving the Bad Kids, Caging Los Chicos Malos: Racialized Juvenile Justice and Latinx Youth in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands, 1900-1970, Doris S. Morgan Rueda
Hunter-Gatherers in Context: Hadzabe People and Early Nutrition Transition, Trevor Pollom
Disentangling Instrumental and Reactive Aggression in the Competitive Reaction Time Task and Their Associations with Factors of Meanness in Psychopathy, Ashley Michelle Poston
Awareness and Knowledge on Aging and HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder: Service User and Provider Perspectives in Southern Nevada, Brandon C. Ranuschio
Chimaera: A Collection, Robert Ren
Locating a Marketplace at the Ancient Maya City of Lakamha’, Mexico Using the Configurational Approach, Jonathan Roldan
Consumers of Sex, Romance and the Spectacle: An Ethnographic Study of Female Tourists in Bangkok’s Adult Entertainment Zones, Jason H. Scott
The World of the Living, Bronwyn Scott-Mccharen
An In-Depth Examination of the Literature on Early Pubertal Timing and Disordered Eating in Women and Girls: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Megan Marie Shope
Our Mountains, Jordon Christena Smith
Comparing Forgetting Rates Between Pattern Separation and Item Recognition, Rhiannon N. Soriano Smith
Examination of the Relationship Between Loneliness and Binge Eating Symptoms, Kimberly Stevens
Understanding the Role of Identity Salience in the Relationship between Experience of Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Mental Health Symptomatology, Michelle Strong
The Impact of Alzheimer Disease on Semantic Knowledge, Maileen G. Ulep
Promoting Paradise: The Recruitment of Volga German Immigrants to the American Midwest, 1870-1900, Kassidy N. Whetstone
The Antagonistic Tetrad and Romantic Attachment Styles, Kayli H. Wrenn
Scientific Collaboration and the Cold War: 1945-1970, Autumn Wyland
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Castles We Built, Therin Aloïs Alrik
Investigating Ancient Maya Late Postclassic Period Households and the Associated Function of the Buildings at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize, Melissa Badillo
The Silence She Broke: Black Women Escaping Abuse Narratives, Regaining Personal Agency, and Healing, Tajanae LaBria Barnes
Presumed Illegal Microaggressive Experience (Prime): A Microaggression Targeting Latinx Individuals, Aldo M. Barrita
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis of Maltreated Youth, Shadie Burke
Identifying Risk Factors for PTSD Symptom Clusters in Maltreated, Multiracial Youth Using Nonparametric Modeling, Mallory Constantine
The Frontier of the Labor Movement: Latinas and the Longest Strike in Twentieth-Century Las Vegas, Maribel Estrada Calderón
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Measuring Erotic Self–Focus, Evan Fertel
Defining Problematic School Absenteeism: Identifying Youth at Risk, Mirae J. Fornander
Monumentalizing a Political Candidacy: Robert Lowell and Eugene McCarthy’s History, Jeremy Freeman
The Old Brag of My Heart: Essays, Cody James Gambino
Attention Bias in Irritability: A Social Information Processing Perspective, Breanna Garcia
Party Central: Networks, Influence, and Party Change in the US House of Representatives, Sean M. Goff
How Can We Reduce Racism? A Mixed Method Study of Factors That Influence Attitudes Towards Social Change, Kindy Insouvanh
The Role of Working Memory in Fraction Arithmetic: Eye Movements During a Dual Task, Krystal Kamekona-Mendoza
Are Gaming and Gambling Disorders Related? Examining the Roles of Money, Relative Deprivation, and Upward Mobility, Anthony J. King
Thanks for Your Gift, Ruth Larmore
"Till This Moment, I Never Knew Myself": Letters in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, Renee Maalouf
A World of Infinite Possibilities: Recoding Popular Culture in Modern U.S. Ethnic Fiction, Todd Martinez
Exploring the Relation Between Musical and Dance Sophistication and Musical Groove Perception, Samantha R. O'Connell
Constructing the Perfect Girlfriend: Gender, Class, Race, & Performativity of Paid Intimacy in Nevada Brothels, Christina Parreira
Measures and Conceptualizations of Symptoms in Schizophrenia, Nina B. Paul
Controlled Evaluation of a Family-Based Optimization Intervention Implemented Through Video-Conferencing to Address ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in an Adolescent Athlete, Dereck Davy Phrathep
The Unfinished Enlightenment Novel: Comparative Studies in Indeterminacy and Democracy, Andrew Joseph Rhoades
Soft Machinery, Chelsi Sayti
Feasibility and Efficacy of Virtual Darkness in Reducing Intra-Individual Sleep Variability Among Young Adults with Insomnia, Samantha Nicole Sherwood
Re-Analysing Astronomical Alignments of Potential E Group Structures to Demonstrate the Utility of Archeoastronomy Research About the Ancient Maya, Elizabeth Karen Shikrallah
Italianness on the Strip: Stereotypes, Dreams, and Nostalgia in Las Vegas Italian-Themed Attractions, Marta Soligo
Blue Lives Matter: Identity and the Internet, Jennifer M. Stevens
The Concept Album as Postmodern Literature: A Critical Examination of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, Kelly E. Stith
The Optimum Performance Program in Sports - Youth: A Case Study, Karolyne Bastos Stucki
The Barbaricum Trilogy: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Deciphering Sarmatians’ Saga on the Great Hungarian Plain, Cristina Tica
Hybridity, Ecocriticism, and Feminist Perspectives in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Sarah Warso
Acoustic and Semantic Processing of Speech and Non-speech Sounds in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Breanne D. Yerkes
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Ricky & Grams, Berthold Brock Albin
Identifying School Climate Predictors of School Absenteeism, Victoria Bacon
Network Analysis of Cognitive Symptom Domains in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Abigail Rose Baily
Globalization: A Veto Player Perspective, Alec Brown
An Integrative Assessment of Post-Migratory Health and Violence at Point of Pines Pueblo (A.D. 1265-1450), Maryann Calleja
The Factor Structures of Ability and Trait Emotional Intelligences Relative to General Intelligence and Personality, Nicholas Carfagno
Middle Powers, Capital Subscriptions, and the Inter-American Development Bank, Aaron Coates
The Economy of (Dis)Honor in the Americas: A Transnational Rupturing of American Literature through Faulkner, García Márquez, and Silko, Clayton Neil Cobb
The Fabric of Civil War Society: The Effect of Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1861 to 1939, Shae Cox
Functional Capacity Profiles in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Ashley Sara Emami