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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 2019
The Effects of Sex Role Stereotype Endorsement and Work-Family Conflict on Emerging Adult Aspirations, Andrea Fink-Armold
Empirical Justification for Supportive Other Involvement in Collegiate Athletes’ Mental Health Intervention, Elena Gavrilova
Encyclopedia of My Body, Alice Hastings
Riding My Bike in Paradise with Margaret Fuller: A Phenomenological Study, Nanette Rasband Hilton
“On the Altar of Sectarianism”: Orson Murray’s Anti-Biblical Thought and the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-1863, James Carson Howard
An Alternative Reading of Feminist Criticism on S. Weir Mitchell, Erika Hylton
Consequences of Math Anxiety and Stereotype Threat: An Intersectional Perspective, Jennifer E. John Buck
Literal Dope, Frank Johnson
Reconsolidation: Unique Cognitive Process or State Dependent Learning?, Chris Kiley
Exploring the Pristine Inner Experience of Individuals in Psychotherapy, Alek Emily Krumm
Attitudes toward Marijuana Legalization: Temporal and Thematic Trends, Daniel James Krystosek
The Effects of Problems Attributed to Culture on the Mental Health of Athletes, Corey Rae Kuhn
Multimethod Investigation of Pristine Inner Experience, Leiszle Rae Lapping-Carr
A Binding Sisterhood of Transnational Feminism: A Close Look at Iran and Argentina, Bernadette Mary Lazar
Visual Attention and Emotion Regulation in Schizophrenia, Bern Lee
States, Satellites, and International Crisis Behavior, Roman Lewis
Stone Bouquets, Angelo Santino Ligori
From Deviant Symbol to Cultural Icon? Understanding Pit Bull Stigma, Genevieve Minter
Nonstate Actors and International Law: Just War Theory or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?, Jason Lee Mitchell
Multi-Polygenic Risk Score Prediction Model for Bipolar Disorder, Travis Mize
Is Easier, Better? A Reevaluation of the Use of Non-Remodeled Bone as a Histological Predictor of Age-at-Death From the Femoral Midshaft Using GIS Software, Mariah Elaine Moe
Validating Empathy as Captured by the Meanness in Psychopathy-Self Report, Stephanie Marie Molina
How to Break Your Own Heart, Ryan Molloy
The Post-Soviet Voter: Evidence From The Caucasus, Rafael Oganesyan
The Bioarchaeology of Instability: Violence and Environmental Stress During the Late Fort Ancient (AD 1425 - 1635) Occupations of Hardin Village, Amber Elaine Osterholt
Irredenta, Oscar Oswald
In Pursuit of Social Justice at the Postmodern Turn: Intersectional Activism through the Lens of the Ecosexual Movement, Jennifer Jean Reed
The Pleasures of Conversation: Samuel Johnson's Social Epistemology, Brandon Schneeberger
A Community of Care: Patterns of Pathology and Trauma with a Focus on the Bioarchaeology of Care at Carrier Mills, IL (10,000 – 1000 BP), Alecia Schrenk
Breaking Free from the Snake Strangling America, Kate Marjorie Shapiro
Trends in the Rate of Inpatient Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis between 1996 and 2015, Samantha Sherwood
Elucidating the Lasting Influence of Early Pubertal Timing on Disordered Eating Symptoms, Megan Marie Shope
Living on the Move: the Digital Nomad Mobile Phenomenon Identity and Practice, Virginia Rachele Smercina
Assessing Factors of Physical Risk-Taking in a Novel Behavioral Measure, Edward A. Smith
Amasamiento, Lorinda G. Toledo
Turbulent Waters: Navigating The Maelstrom of Water Insecurity and Ethno-Environmental Conflict, Michael Wayne Trevathan
The Parallel Security Apparatus: Examining the Cases of Baathist Iraq, Syria, and Iran, Donald Utchel
Forgetting Distractors: Inhibition or Decay?, Laura Werner
Forget Me Not & Other Stories, Zach Wilson
Changes in Hippocampal-Anterior Cingulate Cortex Interactions During Remote Memory Recall, Ryan A. Wirt
Beyond Suffrage: Intermarriage, Land, and Meanings of Citizenship and Marital Naturalization/Expatriation in the United States, Shiori Yamamoto
The Ruins of Doves, Mariah Tahera Yusofzei
Empire and Other Stories from the Black Rock, Alex Zenz
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Pilgrimage of the Soul, Joyce Ahn
Utilizing Teacher Response to Help Students Meet and Transfer First-Year Composition Course Objectives, Clyde Aidoo
Examining the Influence of Executive Resources and Mathematical Abilities on Framing Biases, Gabriel Allred
& One Night the World Will Have Changed, Hanna Andrews
Before and After Her Body, Shannon Austin
Contesting and Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Women's Roller Derby, Suzanne Becker
A Land to Call Their Own, Timothy James Buchanan
“Need We Mention Our Fashions? “The Educational, Entertaining, and Nostalgic Uses of Godey’s Lady’s Book Fashion Plates, 1830 To 1940, Maggie Bukowski
Mixing the Business of Pleasure: How Mixing Shaped the Labor and Narratives of Female Entertainers in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Evan Maryl Casey
Literature in the World: A Critical Discourse Study of World Literature Pedagogy, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders
Virginia Woolf and the Flâneuse: A Geocritical Approach to Mrs. Dalloway and the Voyage Out, Kayla Dean
Investigating Land Use by the Inhabitants of Western Cyprus During the Early Neolithic, Katelyn Dibenedetto
Life in Roman Canterbury: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Health Status in a Late Romano-British Cemetery (AD 300-400), Elizabeth Sara Duffy
Mate Preferences among Single Mothers, Carol Yvette Franco
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder within Clinically Referred Youth, Breanna Garcia
To Remain Near the "Water Ditch," Paiute Sovereignty and United States Settler Colonialism, Owens Valley, California, 1870-1937, Lee Murray Hanover
Postpartum Maternal Mood among Hadza Foragers, Kristen Herlosky
"The Only People Who Can Get AIDS-Are People": The AIDS Crisis in Mainstream Crisis, 1981-1995, Franklin Howard
Examination of Mental Health and Family Relationship in Collegiate Athletes, Julia Hussey
Waiting For Nothing, Jiwoong Hyun
Change Deafness: A Comprehensive Examinations, Vanessa Claire Irsik
Supranational Identity Politics: Sovereignism in the EU, Emilio Jacintho
You're Out! Explaining Non-Criminal Diplomatic Expulsion, Anthony Jordan
Novice versus Expert Algebraic Problem-Solving Strategies: An Eye Tracking Approach, Krystal Kamekona-Mendoza
Investigating the Role of Liminality in the Cultural Transition of the Late Eighth Millennium BC on Cyprus, Levi Keach
Power and Authority of Royal Queen Mothers: Juxtaposing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Validé Sultan During the Early Modern Period, Reneé N. Langlois
School Bullying: Exploring Juvenile Victimization Trends with the NCVS School Crime Supplement (NCVS-SCS), Matthew Morris Le Claire
An Examination of Student-Athlete Stress and Risky Alcohol Use, Travis Albert Loughran
Fathers’ Caregiving in Fragile Families: Variation by Family Contexts, Gender Ideology, Race and Ethnicity, Rachel Teressa Macfarlane
Outer Space in a Western Place: How Environmental Perceptions of the American West Shaped the Space Race, William Marino
Working with Constraints: The Merit of Prudence, Matthew Martinez
Institutional Dissonance and Reserved Cooperation: Theory and Evidence from International Environmental Agreements, Erika Komura Masaki
Cultivating Children: Continuity and Change in African-American Child Labor During the Reconstruction Era, 1863-1877, Alan Mattay
How Instruction, Math Anxiety, and Math Achievement Affect Learning a Novel Math Task: Evidence for Better Instruction, Amy Jane Mcauley
Why Such Constriction of the Moral Sphere? The Importance of Social Coordination in Croatia’s Ethnic Conflict, Michael Arthur Moncrieff
An Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease-related Pathology in Two Different Models of Diabetes in Immune-challenged Mice, Andrew Scott Murtishaw
Why Musical Groove Makes Us Move: An Electroencephalographic Investigation, Samantha Reina O'connell
Fighting For Fellowship: An Ethnographic Exploration of Mixed Martial Arts Culture in Las Vegas, Brian O'hara
Assessing the Potential for a Backfire Effect on Citizen Perceptions: A Test of Hot Spot Policing in Las Vegas, Steven Andrew Pace
Epidemiology of Love: A Survey, Maegan Poland
Nutrition Transition of Hadza Foragers: Implications for Juvenile Behavior, Trevor Pollom
Disastrous Voting, Moritz Peter Rissmann
The Structure of Psychopathology and Its Relationship to Personality and EEG, Vincent Rozalski
Evaluation of a Brief “Surf the Urge” Intervention, Kimberly N. Schubert
Envisioning Shadows in Romantic Ekphrasis and Early Photography, Joseph Kevin Tuvera Sebastian
Beyond All of This, Jack Stilwell
Case Study: Armenian and Cuban Ethnic Interest Groups in American Foreign Policy, Harry H. Terzian
Beyond the Bench and the Bedside: Examining Women’s Success in STEM via Active Learning Projects, Sarah E. Thoman
Predictors of Child and Adolescent Bias and Flexibility in the Attractiveness Domain, Stephanie Verba
Corporate Social Responsibility and Consumer Purchase Behavior: The Moderating Role of Self-Presentation, Mandy May Walsh
The New Cambrian Children, Shin Watanabe
The Effects of Physical Attractiveness in the Health Care Industry, Richard Shane Westfall
Cosmic Valentine, Gabrielle Faith Williams