Theses/Dissertations from 2018
CONFRONTING HETERONORMATIVE STANDARDS OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRANSGENDER DADS PREGNANCY AND BIRTH EXPERIENCES, Annie Rosenblum
“STRONG IS THE NEW SKINNY”: EXPLORING THE REPRODUCTION OF GENDER AS A STRUCTURE THROUGH PERSPECTIVES OF BODYPUMP INSTRUCTORS, Charlie Eden Rowe
CHARACTERIZING THE BACTERIAL MICROBIOME OF CORALS RESILIENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IN ST. JOHN, US VIRGIN ISLANDS, Constance Sartor
ART, ABUSE, AND ANGER EXPLORING TRAUMATIC MEMORY, Ariel Sartori Amsberry
TESTING, TESTING, 1 2 3: EXPLORING THE MITIGATING EFFECTS OF SOUND ON TEST PERFORMANCE, Phoebe Viola Sartori Amsberry
“CANADA IS THE ESSENCE OF NOT BEING”: A STUDY OF RURAL VOTING IN CANADA, Mollie Saumier
RELATIONSHIPS COME FIRST: ATTEMPTING COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY IN A PLACE OF WORK, Alexandra Schelle
FACING THE FUTURE: READING REPRODUCTION THROUGH SCIENCE AND SPECULATIVE FICTION, Rory Sharp
KINETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE, Maria Simmerling
Soul at Hazard: American Violence and Landscape in Film Score, Joshua Smith
CATHOLIC EMPIRE: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND THE NATIONALITIES QUESTION, Mason Gerald Smith
“SELF-INDULGENT NONSENSE”: WHY ACADEMICS WRITE BADLY AND WHY IT MATTERS, Liliana Solomon
EMBODIED LEARNING: FINDING THE CREATIVE PROCESS BY LIVING LIFE, Allie Stachura
MODELING ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF SEA LEVEL RISE ON WETLANDS IN SARASOTA COUNTY, Brandon Stevens
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIETAL BOUNDARIES IN REPORTING SEXUAL ASSAULT, Lauren Stewart
THE EFFECT OF MOSQUITO DITCHING ON CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS, Race Stryker
CRASH LAND FALLING THROUGH IMMERSIVE THEATRE: An Examination of and Experimentation in Audience Engagement in Live Performance, Carlyle Styer
INSANE CLOWN POSSE AND THE LIMINAL WORLD OF CARNIVAL, CLASS, AND JUGGALO FAMILY, Magdalene Taylor
FROM THE CRADLE TO NIRVANA: CAREGIVER PARENTING STYLES IN CHILDHOOD AND DISPOSITIONAL MINDFULNESS IN ADULTHOOD, Kira Thoenes
SOMETHING ABOUT NOTHING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NOTHINGNESS, SUFFERING, AND SUICIDE IN THE WORKS OF EMIL CIORAN, Alexander Emory Thornton
BROKEN BUT UNFIXABLE?: THE STATE OF THE U.S. HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM, George Thurlow
INNUMERABLE VIEWS OF THE SUNSHINE STATE: LOCATING FLORIDA IN THE LITERATURE OF THE EVERGLADES AND CENTRAL FLORIDA, Chelsea M. Torregrosa
How Florida Allocates Funds to its Universities Demonstrates the Shifting Utility Of Higher Education over Time, Olivia Van Housen
NAVIGATING & NEGOTIATING PLURALISTIC ETHICS: MORAL THINKING AND THE USE OF NARRATIVE IN META-MORAL PEDAGOGY, Diego Venegas
Impact of Urbanization on Salinity of Sarasota Bay Tidal Creeks, Claudia Vila
MENSTRUATION AS A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE: THE MEANS OF EMPOWERMENT, Marissa Vitols
AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF FEATHER DAMAGING DISORDER IN BLUE AND GOLD MACAWS (Ara ararauna), Codee Vogler
CLASSICAL REALISM: DITHERING BETWEEN REALISM AND IDEALISM, James von Hollen
A RESUME AUDIT STUDY OF THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY, WITH AUTOMATION PROTOTYPES, Eric Voorhis
A GUIDE TO SELECTED HERPETOFAUNA OF CAYO COCHINO GRANDE, HONDURAS, Kasia Wake
EFFECTS OF ABRASION ON SPONGES (Phylum Porifera) FROM SARASOTA BAY, Nicolas Charles Webley
The New College Arboretum: A Site-Specific Analysis of Trees in an Urban Landscape, Malcolm Wells
Internal Rotation of Small Molecules as Probed by Microwave Spectroscopy, John H. Westefield
MULTI-CRITERIA SUITABILITY ANALYSIS OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE TARGETED AT GROUNDWATER RECHARGE AND FLOOD MITIGATION IN SARASOTA, FL, Julia Windsor
Living Arrangements: A Historical Survey of the Relationship Between European Art Music and Jazz, Gordon "Z" Winner
AMAR Y AMPARAR A NUESTRAS HERMANAS: SISTERHOOD IN THE SUBTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY CUBAN CINEMA, Kirsten Wood
THE VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CULT OF SAINT THOMAS BECKET, Abigail Youngblood
NOT ANYWHERE, ELSEWHERE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC LOOK AT A COMMUNAL ARTS SPACE, Ava Zelkowitz Howard
“WEAKNESS IS A CRIME, DON’T BE A CRIMINAL”: MORAL PANIC AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF FITNESS IN THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, 1850 - PRESENT, Cole G. Zelznak
ELASMOBRANCH DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE IN A KNOWN SHARK NURSERY TERRA CEIA BAY, FLORIDA, Danielle Zeris
SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL FOR TWO SPECIES OF SOUTH FLORIDA LAWN TREES, Zach Zildjian
DNA MICROARRAYS: APPLICATIONS AND PROSPECTS IN DENTAL MEDICINE, Gavin Zitman
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
THE MANIPULATION OF NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE IN ALDOUS HUXLEY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD AND FRANK HERBERT’S DUNE, Taylor Allyn
IS SECURITY WORTH IT? A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE DODD-FRANK ACT, Nathan Ambrose
THE ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECT OF SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITION, Michael P. Bailey
THE EFFICACY OF FLOWER, A PROTO-SERIOUS GAME FOR MENTAL HEALTH, Robert Barber
A CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF EARLY EVENTS IN PLANT GRAVITROPISM, Emile C. Barnes
Stability-Modifying Mutations of C. elegans Cytoplasmic Malate Dehydrogenase, Thomas Bekman
A TILLICHIAN ANALYSIS OF HIP HOP AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR COMMUNAL COURAGE AND RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION, Andrew Blackowiak
AN INVESTIGATION INTO ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIAL POPULATIONS IN UNDIFFERENTIATED AND NEWLY DIFFERENTIATED ORGAN TISSUES OF BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS, Alexander Bowman
EVALUATING OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGNS AND THEIR USAGE OF DESIGN PATTERNS, Dalen W. Brauner
SYNTHETIC APPROACHES TOWARD A MODEL FOR THE ACTIVE SITE OF HEMOCYANIN, Ryan Briggs
The Concept of Condemnation in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Akira Kurosawa’s Hakuchi, Samuel Cingiser Brodeur
EFFECTS OF SUCROSE, GLUCOSE AND STEVIA ON THE LONGEVITY AND FAT STORAGE OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS, Emily Bruce
THE PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY OF PERCEIVED STRESS AND CHRONIC PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS AS A THREAT TO HOMEOSTASIS, Madison B. Bryan
HEROINES, HEALERS, AND HERETICS: EXAMINING THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE WITCH FROM ANTIQUITY TO NOW, Eve Burns
APORETIC JUSTICE AND ITS IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITY IN DERRIDA, LEVINAS, AND CRITICAL LEGAL THEORY, Kasia Burzynski
CANCER IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE EVASION: ITS COMPREHENSIVE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CORRELATIONS WITH OUTCOME, Hannah Carlo
Victor: Building Monitored, Secured, And Self-sustaining IOT Hydroponic Gardens, Benjamin Carothers
“La Colita No Vale:” Staging Griselda Gambaro’s The Walls in Translation, Cayli Caruso
EXPLORING THE DIVERSITY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FUNGI THROUGH THE AMPLIFICATION OF THE INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER REGION, Kristine Cerbone
Partial Synthesis of Novel Oxazolidinone Antibiotic Analogues, Ana Cheng
WORTH DYING FOR: DU LINIANG’S JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH, Marysia Chludzinski
The Mos and Mos Maiorum in Late Republican Rome, Kevin Cigala
Simulating the Self-Replicating Fracture Mechanism with Electromagnetic Fields, Emma Cockram
LESS IS MORE: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS BEYOND THE COMMON CORE, Morgen Coe
SALVATION IN VIEW: KIERKEGAARD AND NISHTANI ON “THE HUMAN CONDITION”, Jordan Colbert
The Challenge of Video Game Development, Dalton Collins
BRINGING ARENDT AND FOUCAULT TOGETHER: FREEDOM AS AN AESTHETIC PRACTICE, Zachary Conn
BOTH HOME & NOT: AN EXPLORATION OF BELONGING A PLAY, AND ANALYSIS OF THEATER AS RESEARCH, Jacob Alexander "Quake" Cooley
Topology of Neural Networks, Wiley Corning
“EDUCATION ISN’T THE FILLING OF THE BUCKET, SINO ENCENDER EL FUEGO”: BILINGUAL EDUCATION AS A PREDICTOR OF MOTIVATION TO LEARN, Sarah Courson
SAY BI BI TO MOMMY: INVESTIGATING DIFFERENCES IN BISEXUAL MOTHERS’ EXPERIENCES BY PARTNER GENDER, Meghan Cromie
THE CATEGORIZATION OF DISSONANCE & THE SIX INEVITABILITIES, Daniel Crumpler
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO MUSIC THEORY: THE MATHEMATICS OF MUSIC, Paul Cummins
Reconnecting People and Place: A Case Study of the Finger Lakes’ Local Food Movement, Shoshana Davidson
VOLATILITY IN THE MAGIC: THE GATHERING MARKET, Miranda Day
10 SQUARE MILES OF FOOD JUSTICE: HOW ITHACA, NEW YORK IS BREAKING BREAD TO BRIDGE COMMUNITIES, Julia de Aragon
DON’T BE SALTY: SALINITY DISCRIMINATION IN THE FLORIDA MANATEE (TRICHECHUS MANATUS LATIROSTRIS), Moriah Deimeke
MASCULINITY ON THE MARGINS: REDEFINING AMERICAN MANHOOD IN NEW ORLEANS AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA, Marley DiSalvo
INTUITION BEHIND KANJI, David Duffrin
AUTOMATED SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS USING THE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM: IMPLEMENTING A GUIDED SEARCH ALGORITHM TO AUTOFIT, Katherine Ervin
AN EXISTENTIAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO PROBLEMATIC CONCEPTIONS OF ABNORMALITY, Kourtney Eskins
WHERE EVERYTHING ABOUT THE BOOK SUDDENLY C H A N G E S : EXPLORING VISUAL FUNCTION IN MARK Z DANIELEWSKI’S HOUSE OF LEAVES, James A. Esposito
WHO WERE THEY? INTERSECTIONALITY, IDENTITY POLITICS AND ERASURE IN LOCAL NEWS REPRESENTATIONS OF PULSE SHOOTING VICTIMS, Eliza Fixler
PHYSICIAN BIAS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO INFANT MORTALITY RATES OF BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN INFANTS, Edline Francois
Storytelling for Conservation: A Case Study of The Florida Wildlife Corridor, Gabriella Marie Frankhouser
GREGORY VII AND CLERICAL CELIBACY, Tyler Freeman
“THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY”: HISTORY, CONVERSATION, AND IDENTITY AT JETSON’S BARBERSHOP AND HAIR SALON, Flannery French
POLLINATION AS AN ECONOMIC MARKETPLACE, Adrian Garcia