Theses/Dissertations from 2018
THE FALL OF KING COAL: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS LEADING TO THE DECLINE OF THE U.S. COAL INDUSTRY, Julien Baruch
THE EFFECTS OF REPEATED RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ON THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING OF BLACK AMERICANS, Jada Bennett
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: RECAPTURE RATES OF THE BLACKTIP SHARK (CARCHARHINUS LIMBATUS) IN THE NOAA GULFSPAN SURVEY (2000-2016) AND THE TERRA CEIA BAY AND SARASOTA BAY, FLORIDA STUDY (2017), Justina Mei-Jing Bernard
CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION HYPOTHESIS, Raymond Blaha
CALORIMETRY OF GLASS TRANSITION OF PHOSPHATE GLASSES, James Blood
METAMORPHOSIS OF SELF: A MONSTROUS EXPLORATION OF EMOTIONS AND DREAMS, Kierra Boyd
JEWISH CONVERSION, INTRAGROUP STIGMA, AND ANTISEMITISM: A REGIONAL AND COMMUNITY ANALYSIS, Arlee B. Boyett
SUGARCOAT: THE LINE BETWEEN SELLING AND PRESCRIBING, Sarah Bradicich
THE EVENING OF ELECTRAS, Brianna Brand
STRESS, SASHAY AWAY: EXAMINING STRESS RESILIENCE IN DANCERS, Mackenzie Browning
Phenomenological Ethics: Virtues of the Body in its Sexual Existence, Jessica Brown
NOVEL ANTIBIOTIC DESIGN: SYNTHESIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF N-HETEROCYCLIC OXAZOLIDINONES, David J. Bruch
Lessons from the South African Expanded Public Works Programme, Sean Brueggemann
AUDIBLE SOUND TREATMENT OF CHLORELLA VULGARIS Beijerinck (1890) HAS NO EFFECT ON GROWTH RATE, Nathan Burnaman
FINANCIAL INEQUALITY IN MODERN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL: IDENTIFYING AND BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN EUROPE’S ELITE AND OTHER CLUBS, Steven Burns
Partial Synthesis of a Novel Oxazolidinone Analogue, Jessica Calzadilla
The Nature of Relationships in Combat and Their Impact on PTSD Outcomes, Matthew Came
Living With/In Disaster: Interpreting Heritage Through Performance in the Time of Climate Change, Rachel Lyn Ceciro
It’s A Catch: Paradigms of iOS Applications, Mimi Nadia Chenyao
THE BLADE OF WITCHCRAFT: THE CONSTRUCTION OF EVIL AS THE FLAWED OCCAM’S RAZOR OF FEMININE SPIRITUALITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES, Conner Nicole Cherniak
Mathematical Linguistics: The Pumping Lemma and Classification of Natural Languages, Naimul Chowdhury
MORE RINGS MORE PROBLEMS: A DISCUSSION OF NUMBER FIELDS FOR HOMOMORPHIC CRYPTOGRAPHY, Jeremy Cohen
You Will Be Wrong a Lot, and That’s OK: An Introduction to Computational Thinking and Other Life Skills, Sarah Cohen
DEVELOPING A MOBILE MAP FOR VISITORS TO GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Cora Coleman
Sie sind wieder da: The Return of the Far-Right to German Parliamentary Politics, Ryan N. Coleman
FROM OVERTOWN TO ROSEMARY: EXPLORING RACE AND SPACE THROUGH ORAL HISTORIES OF SARASOTA’S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN DISTRICT, William Cooney
THE SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE “SELF-HATRED” IMAGE IN BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANS BEFORE & DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, Lorraine Cruz
CPT Violating Correction to Nonabelian Gauge Field Winding Energies, Zachary David
MAGNA LATROCINIA: MONEY AND GOVERNANCE IN ENGLAND AND NORTHERN ITALY BETWEEN THE TENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES, Victoria Deal
DETERMINISTIC AND STOCHASTIC SIMULATION OF THE DYNAMICS OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS WITH AUTOREGULATION, Blaise DeFranco
El pulpo y el presidente: las causas del golpe de estado guatemalteco de 1954, Blaise DeFranco
HOW FAR DOES A WHISTLE TRAVEL? THE ESTIMATED ACTIVE SPACE OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (Tursiops truncatus) WHISTLE HARMONICS IN SARASOTA BAY, FLORIDA, Christianna St. John DeWind
“YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD”: EXPLORATIONS OF FEMININE WRITING IN THREE WORKS OF EXPERIMENTAL FEMINIST LITERATURE, Katia Diamon-Sagias
AUTHORITY, GENDER, AND SACRED SPACE: THE MUSICAL REFORM-ATION BROUGHT BY WOMEN CANTORS, Sophia Yvonne Reinier Doscher
Wolbachia Detection in the Tawny-edged Skipper (Polites themistocles), Gabriella Elmir
MUTATING RNA HELICASE A USING CRISPR-CAS9 METHODS IN C. ELEGANS, Najla F. Fawwaz
KEY WEST AFTER HURRICANE IRMA: AN EXPLORATION OF SELFEFFICACY, POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH, AND EVACUATION BEHAVIORS, Savannah Flak
A PATH TO A HAPPY LIFE: ANDEAN CULTURAL PRESERVATION AND QUECHUA IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE SACRED VALLEY, Walker Hull Fleming
MORE THAN JUST A RIVER OF GRASS: A SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC EXPLORATION INTO THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES, Olivia Forero
Wittgenstein's Coffee: An Exploration of Food/Art, Conceptual Art, and Context, Miranda Gale
Women’s Opinions of Body Positive Advertisements, Madeline Goncalo
THE COLOMBIAN PEACE DEAL, Jennyfer Gonzalez
LA PALABRA PUBLICADA PARA APODERAR Y ATERRORIZAR: THE CREATIVE RESISTANCE AND THIRD SPACE PRACTICES OF TATIANA DE LA TIERRA, Sara Gregory
ETHNO-JOURNALISM: THE WORK AND WRITING OF AN ETHNOGRAPHIC REPORTING FORM, Katelyn Grimmett
ARES’ CENTURY: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, Kristian Alexander Gronhaug
FEEDING FICTIONS: AN ARTISTIC EXPLORATION OF HUMAN TENDENCIES TO GROUP TOGETHER AND TO DIVIDE, Zeyna Hadidi
POLITICS OF THE EXPERIMENT: AN EXPLORATION OF ANARCHIST POLITICAL ENACTMENT THROUGH THE STUDY OF INFOSHOPS, Savannah Hawk
SARASOTA BAY: A NEWLY DEFINED NURSERY FOR BLACKTIP SHARKS (CARCHARHINUS LIMBATUS) ON THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA, Lukas Heath
EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF COVER CROPS ON SOIL ORGANIC MATTER IN WHEAT-FALLOW ROTATION SCHEMES NEAR PENDLETON, OREGON, Zoe Heuermann
BLACK LIVES MATTER! THE REPRESENTATION OF BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE PRESS, Giulia Heyward
THE EFFECTS OF BREFELDIN A ON DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM IN SINGLE AND CO-CULTURE ENVIRONMENTS, Spencer Hills
THE WAR ISN’T OVER: THE DECOLONIAL PRAXIS OF LAYING BARE ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE IN THE #NODAPL MOVEMENT, Sadé Holmes
Sanitized Diversity: Race and Family on Disney Channel in the Early 2000s, Keaton Hughes
I AM HERE: THE JOURNEY AND IMPACT OF MAKOTO SHINKAI’S INDEPENDENTLY DEVELOPED ANIMATED SHORT FILM “VOICES OF A DISTANT STAR”, Christian Ines
CULTURAL GENTRIFICATION: Hip-Hop & Racial Epistemologies in the United States, Miles Iton
“WOMEN BE SHOPPING”: INTERSECTIONALITY’S EFFECTS ON THE PERCEIVED PURCHASE BEHAVIORS, PURCHASE MOTIVATIONS, AND PERSONALITY OF WOMEN, Hannah Jacobs
A STUDY OF CREDIT UNIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, Alexis C. Jenkins
Increases in Soil Salinity Affect the Efficiency of a Thigmonastic Response in Mimosa pudica, Gabriel Joachim
Corporate Cuba American Money and the Creation of Castro’s Communism, Leo P. Jobsis Rossignol
The Stability of Theories from Categoricity to their Spectrum, Alexander Johnson
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF OIL SPILLS ON MANGROVE SPECIES IN FLORIDA, Leanna Johnson
STATE ESTIMATION OF AN UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE USING INEXPENSIVE SENSORS, Noah Johnson
STRIVING TO BE SEHAT: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF INDONESIAN MEDICAL PRACTICES, Trevor Johnson
Searching for Nowhere: Two Visions of Utopia in the Work of Thomas More and Robert Nozick, Gregg Johnston
Paths to Success: The relationship between Health and Education In developing countries, Cheikhou Akhmed Kane
Beyond Words: Poetic Authority and Voice in the Works of Claudia Rankine and John Taggart, Azia Keever
THE PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT (PISA) AND ITS IMPACT ON GLOBAL EDUCATION POLICY, Chloe Kimball
Power Is Sexy; Climate Change Is Not: A Look into How Green Energies Can Mitigate Climate Change While Allowing Growth, Daviana King
IDENTITY DISSONANCE AND POWER SHARING: INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS FOR MITIGATING COUNTER-STATE VIOLENCE, Matthew Kirchman
Epigenetics of Gulf War Illness, Gaurav Kiri
A DEATH IN VENICE, Mel Klenk
SURVEY OF MODERN PASSIVE INVESTING, Thomas Knight
“THE CORDS OF ALL LINK BACK”: TRANSHISTORICAL TRAUMA AND HYBRID STORYTELLING IN JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES AND DEREK WALCOTT’S OMEROS, Brian M. Landes
“HOW NOT TO SMASH PLANETS BY ACCIDENT”: ALLEGORY, HISTORY, AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF FANTASY, Ross Leach
AN ANALYSIS OF AUTOMATED DRONE IMPLEMENTATION IN DELIVERY SYSTEMS, Brendan Legel
A CRITIQUE OF THE DARWIN-BATEMAN-TRIVERS PARADIGM AND AN EXPLORATION OF ITS SOCIETAL IMPACT ON PERCEPTIONS OF GENDER, Marlo Leikam
BLURRED LINES: SEXUAL CONSENT IN POPULAR MUSIC LYRICS, Robin Lindsley
ADVANCING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: UNPACKING BLACK STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA, Paul Loriston
A Social-Ecological Sustainability Analysis of Sarasota Food Forests, Kaylynn Elizabeth Low
A Synthetic Model of Hemocyanin, Ross Lustgarten
WRITING SELF-EFFICACY AND COLLABORATION IN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS STUDENTS, Anne Virginia Magee
CEASEFIRE: HOW EFFORTS TO CURB THE SUPPLY AND PRESENCE OF GUNS IN URBAN AREAS CAN REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE., Kyle Mayans
YOU’VE GOT TO BE JOKING: AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE PHILOGELOS, Annie McCabe
URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND TUDOR PERIOD ENGLAND, Adilyne McKinlay
BIG DATA ANALYSIS OF LOCAL BLACK CARBON EMISSIONS AND SNOW ALBEDO IN CHILEAN ANDES, Carlos Mejia
REDIVIVUS Destruction & Renewal, Rebecca Miles
PAWS OFF! THE ETHICS AND BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF FELINE ONYCHECTOMY, Stacia Mintner
THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF HEAD INJURIES, Connie J. Miranda
ACTION AND REACTION: PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN FLORIDA DURING THE AMERICAN COUNTERCULTURE, Dario Macieira Mitchell
THEY LOVE ME… THEY LOVE ME NOT: REJECTION SENSITIVITY AND ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP EXPECTATIONS, BEHAVIORS, AND SATISFACTION, Jewel Morrison
“THEY DO EVIL BECAUSE OF FEAR”: ANTI-HEROISM AND AMERICAN ANXIETIES IN FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, Rachael A. Murphy
TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS OF FICTION SINCE THE DAWN OF THE INTERNET, Rachel Nogues
The Effects of Bilateral Trade Preferences on Corruption and Polity in Sub-Saharan African Regimes: China, A New Paradigm?, David I. Nowak-Laird