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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 2017
The Development and Testing of Potential Music Piracy Warnings, Joanne Ullman
Associations among Benevolent Sexism, Relationship-Contingent Self-Esteem, and Relationship Maintenance Strategies in Heterosexual Women, Carrie Underwood
Understanding Stress Reactivity in Schizophrenia, Mary Vertinski
Setting the Childless Free: An Ethnographic Study of the Practice of the Childfree Identity, Shelly Volsche
Are You Grieving Girl, Leia Penina Wilson
Neural Processes Underlying Auditory Context Effects, Breanne Yerkes
Development and Validation of a Brief Assessment of Social Cognitive Abilities, Ryanna Zenisek
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Hands, and Numbers, and Dots Oh My! Examining the Effect of Nearby-hands on Counting and Subitizing, Gabriel Allred
Family, Housing, and the Political Geography of Gay Liberation in Los Angeles County, 1960-1986, Ian M. Baldwin
Seers In Greensand, Michael Lawrence Berger
Homeland, Homestead, and Haven: The Changing Perspectives of Zion National Park, 1700-1930, Sara Black
The Edge of Mercury, Aurora Brackett
The Iterative Nature of Descriptive Experience Sampling: Do Interviewees Build Skills across Sampling Days?, Vincent Peter Brouwers
Commingled Tombs and ArcGIS: Analyzing the Mortuary Context and Taphonomy at Bronze Age Tell Abraq, Maryann Calleja
Working as Civic and Patriotic Duty for Consumption: A Critical Discourse Analysis of American Presidential Inaugural Speeches Since World War II, Michelle Leigh Casey
“The Ground You Walk on Belongs to My People": Lakota Community Building, Activism, and Red Power in Western Nebraska, 1917-2000, David Christensen
'The Only Thing That Matters': A Critique of the Editorial Practices in The Garden of Eden, Jesse Lee Cook
WOLF!!! VOL. 1, Jamison Crabtree
Crossing, Olivia Clare Friedman
The Birth of an Arts Scene, William Goldberg
Schoolgirls: Embodiment Practices Among Current and Former Sex Workers in Academia, Jennifer Heineman
Nindanishinaabewimin: Ojibwe Peoplehood in the North American West, 1854-1954, Margaret Huettl
The Skinny House, Leo August Jilk
Explaining the Dynamics of Civil War: Exposure, Violence, and Consolidation against Civil War, Karim Kardous
Inner Experience and Self-Ratings of Inner Speaking, Jason Michael Kelsey
Investigating Inner Experience While Reading an Erotic Short Story, Leiszle Rae Lapping-Carr
Food Processing and Cooking Technology of the Mimbres Mogollon (Early Pithouse Period through the Mimbres Classic A.D. 200-1130), Ashley Morgan Lauzon
Water, Prestige, and Christianity: An Ecocritical Look at Medieval Literature, Cortney Nicole Lechmann
Mouthy Bones, Shaun Leonard
Mr. Universe Wants To Live Forever, Oksana Marafioti
The Effect of Gender, Not Math Anxiety, on Working Memory Tasks, Amy J. Mcauley
Of Wolves & Thieves: A Love Story, Kayla Miller
The Effects of Psychopathic Traits on Social Support Networks, Stephanie Marie Molina
Globalization and the Rise of Militant Islamic Social Movement Organizations: The Case of UAMSHO (Awakening) Group in Zanzibar., Deogratius Mshigeni
Perceiving Hierarchical Musical Structure in Auditory and Visual Modalities, Jessica Erin Nave-Blodgett
From Access to Excess: Agribusiness, Federal Water Programs, and the Historical Roots of the California Water Crisis, Tracy Marie Neblina
Heaven on Their Minds, Rebecca Kate Robison
Identifying Maltreated Youth at High Risk for Posttraumatic Symptom Clusters Using Nonparametric Modeling, Emma H. Ross
Tearing up the Tallgrass, Brett Salsbury
Bursting the Backpacker Bubble: Exploring Backpacking Ideology, Practices, and Contradictions, Mark J. Salvaggio
Growing Together? Community, Culture, and Gardening in Downtown Las Vegas, Tyler S. Schafer
"Mother, I will": Female Subjectivity and Religious Vision in the Brontës Novels, Amanda Scott
Keep Moving: Stories, Syed Haider Shahbaz
Shakespeare's Dowry: Subjectivity and Resistance in The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice, Homer Lee Simms
A Natural History of Teasing: British Women Writers and the Shakespearean Courtship Narrative, 1677-~1818, Mary Vance
Building Categories to Guide Behavior: How Humans Build and Use Auditory Category Knowledge Throughout the Lifespan, Christina M. Vanden Bosch Der Nederlanden
Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective, Mandy Walsh Walsh
Stay Brave My Hercules, Ernie Wang
Consanguinity Protocols, Kinship and Incest in Literature of the Anglo-Saxon through Early Renaissance Periods, Richard J. Warren
Testing a Comprehensive Model of Body Image, Anxiety, and Eating Pathology Among College Men, Emily Katherine White
The Proof Is in the Pots: Residue Analysis of Virgin Branch Puebloan Ceramics, Brenna Lynn Wilkerson
Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Postpartum Maternal Affect, Health, and Recovery, Sharon Marie Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Influence of Iron on Arctic Thule Migration Patterns, Alina T. Aquino
Nevada Legal Services: The Legal Services Corporation Restrictions and the Diminishing Capacity of Access to Justice for the Poor, William Todd Ashmore
Alaska Natives And The Power Of Perseverance: The Fight For Sovereignty And Land Claims In Southeast Alaska, 1912-1947, Bridget Lee Baumgarte
The Bioarchaeology of Social Order: Cooperation and Conflict Among the Mimbres (AD 550-1300), Kathryn Mary Baustian
The Painted Motifs of Cypriot Ceramic Art: A Study of Iconography & Identity, Paige Bockman
Inner Experience while Reading Fiction: A Descriptive Experience Sampling Exploration, Vincent Peter Brouwers
Multiplicity, Marianne Leslie Chan
Objectification Theory and Eating Pathology in Latina College Students: Testing a Culture-Specific Model, Kimberly Claudat
Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry, Christopher T. Conner
Cycle of Return, Clancy Gabriel Daniell Mcgilligan
Examining Resilience In Relation to PTSD Symptomatology In Maltreated Youth, Timothy Day
Watercraft, People, and Animals: Setting the Stage for the Neolithic Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands of Cyprus and Crete, Katelyn Dibenedetto
Water From the Rain Gauge, Austin Ely
How to Keep the Girls Inside, Regina M. Ernst
Who Is This About? An Exploratory Study of Erotic Self-Focus, Evan Fertel
The Pleasantly Problematic Nature of J.D. Salinger's Glass Family Stories, Ceasare Joseph Filipelli
Pushing for New Options in Childbirth: A Case Study in Contemporary Integrative Midwifery, Kerie Ann Francis
Creating the Black California Dream: Virna Canson and the Black Freedom Struggle in the Golden State’s Capital, 1940-1988, Kendra M. Gage
Analyzing Television News: Pro-Social & Anti-Social Effects of Criminal Depictions & Information Processing on Race Perceptions, Eunette Gentry
Assessing the Effect of Race Saliency in Measures of Children’s Implicit Bias, Veronica A. Glover
Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Maternal Postpartum Iron-Status, Laura Kathleen Gryder
Experience-Specific and Domain-General Effects on Simple and Complex Meter Processing, Sangeeta Gupta
A Comparison of the Effects of Different Doses of GABAB Receptor Ligands on Spatial Learning and Memory and Memory Flexibility, Chelcie Heaney
The Escape Artists, Daniel Gene Hernandez
The Effect of Sleep on Perceptual Learning and Memory Consolidation, Vanessa Claire Irsik
Picrolite and the Cypriot Neolithic: An Experimental Study, Forrest Dayton Jarvi
Examining the Inner Experience of Individuals with Bipolar Disorder, Johanah Yoosun Kang
Examining the Dynamics of Infant Face Processing Using State Space Grids, Andrea Jane Kayl
The Arab Uprisings: An Assessment of the Roots and Implications of Contemporary Mobilization in the Arab World, Autoosa Elizabeth Kojoori-Saatchi
A Comparative Study of the Assyrian and Guatemalan Genocides, Bernadette Mary Lazar
Integration of audio-~visual emotional information in schizophrneia, Bern Lee
Factor Analysis of the Sport Interference Checklist with Collegiate Athletes, Travis Albert Loughran
Chinese Soft power, Africa, and the United Nations General Assembly, Rayna Martinez
Diamonds, the Kimberley Process, and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa, Haley Anne Mccormick
Chipped Stone Analysis of the Yamashita Sites in Moapa Valley, Nevada: A Technological Organization Approach, Tatianna Menocal
misericordia, Brian Morris
Regulating the Dead: Rights for the Corpse and the Removal of San Francisco's Cemeteries, Lance Muckey
What Happens in Las Vegas? How Exhibitors Use the Tradeshow Floor and Social Venues to Facilitate Business, Chrissy L. Nanton
Las Vegas Paperboy, Matthew O'brien
Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895, Molly C. O'donnell
Who is Ophelia? An examination of the Objectification and Subjectivity of Shakespeare's Ophelia, Tynelle Ann Olivas
Without Mandate for Conquest: A Transnational Comparison of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Isabel Allende's Eva Luna, Vivianna Noelle Orsini
Bodies in Motion: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Migration and Identity in Bronze Age Cyprus, Anna Jean Osterholtz
Reviving a Spirit of Controversy: Roman Catholics and the Pursuit of Religious Freedom in Early America, Nicholas Pellegrino
Retroactive interference in recognition memory: The effects of mental effort and similarity on recollection and familiarity, Caleb Jordan Picker
The Neuroendocrine and Performance Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Males and Females, Meghan E. Pierce
Forms Abandon, Derek Pollard