Theses/Dissertations from 2017
INCORPORATION, ASSIMILATION, AND COMMUNITY: A STUDY OF ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR, Paige Pellaton
THE STOCK IMAGERY OF CRISIS: INCORPORATION AS METHODOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL TOOL IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL CULTURE, Francisco Andres Perez
CAMERA OBSCURA: PICTURE BOOKS AND IMAGE-TEXT RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH A HISTORICAL LENS, Maguire Peters
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A NATURAL EXPERIMENT IN ARGENTINA’S PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE, David Pinski
HOW TO REWRITE A FAIRYTALE: THE EVOLUTION OF SLEEPING BEAUTY IN TEXT AND FILM FROM BASILE TO STROMBERG, Carly Pomeroy
MAPPING PARADISE: CUT PAPER AND THE FRAGILITY OF THE FLORIDAN LANDSCAPE, Julia Pope
CITY OF ASYLUM: AN ARTS NONPROFIT IN A DIVERSE BUT DIVIDED NEIGHBORHOOD, Oriana Reilly
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND SELF-ESTEEM FOR MINORITY STUDENTS OF BALLET, Jasmine M. Respress
“Cool It, Man”: Race and Policing before Mass Incarceration in Florida, 1967, Melissa Rettig
PLANNING SEED COLLECTIONS FOR ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION, Dylan F. Ricke
“There is No Longer a Spotlight Shining on Me”: Differences in Motivation to Undergo Bariatric Surgery, Cassidy R. Roberts
A POSTMODERN BODY OF WORK: THE PERFORMANCE OF INSTITUTIONAL SPACE IN MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ’S MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE ART, Ashely Rodrigues
CONFLICTED CURRICULA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFRO-JAMAICAN COMMUNITIES AND EDUCATION IN POSTEMANCIPATION JAMAICA, Zachary Roper
GAMBIT OF ONE: GAME DEVELOPMENT AND THE ROLE-PLAYING GENRE, Sarah Russell
IN SEARCH OF A MODERN, CHINESE THEATER: THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Samantha Sanford
“Myself Yet Not Quite Myself”: Women and Madness in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, Lena Santos
THE REMAINING HOURS: A CONTEMPORARY MIDRASH, AND ITS ANALYSIS, Logan Schulman
Cultivating Resistance: An Ethnographic Study of Herbal Activism and Solidarity, Sophia Schultz
THE OVARY ACTION OF STATE LEGISLATURES: STATE LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, Sarah Scully
SURREALIST SUBVERSIONS OF PATRIARCHAL IDEOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF LEONORA CARRINGTON AND DOROTHEA TANNING, Jade Sheinwald
HOW TUNICATES HANDLE OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: EXPRESSION OF THE V-TYPE PROTON ATPASE IN CIONA INTESTINALIS IN RESPONSE TO CO2, Hannah Sheperd
THE UTILITY OF INTEROCEPTION: TESTING GAME-BASED BIOFEEDBACK ON ANXIETY LEVELS IN ADULTS, Olivia L. Short
DIGITIZATION OF NEW COLLEGE’S MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS, Adelle Singer
REHABILITATIVE READINGS: NARRATIVES OF INCARCERATION AND COLLECTIVE HEALING, Scott Smedley
PHOTOMETRIC SUPERNOVA CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING, Madison Smith
FORMATION KINETICS OF COPPER NANOPARTICLES IN PHOSPHATE GLASSES, Robert Forrest Smith
Time Will Tell: Examining the Influence of Time on Moral Disengagement and Collective Guilt Within Intergroup Conflicts, Melissa Damaris Solis Sanchez
MODELING INTERNATIONAL RESERVES COMPOSITION: CENTRAL BANK DEMAND FOR GOLD, Adriana Souza
AN AMERICAN HISTORY OF PLANT PATENT ENTITLEMENT, Nancy Rose Spector
SEXUAL MINORITY WOMEN’S GENDER EXPRESSION, CONNECTION TO THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY, AND SELF-ESTEEM, Shelby Statham
Theoretical Approach Towards a Greener Synthesis of Macrocyclic Ligands for Iron Based Oxidation Catalysts, Eric Stephens
A COMPOSITION FOR MELODIC DRUM SET, Brandt Stirling
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF COPPER-BASED PARTICLES: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND DISSOLUTION OF Cu2+, Margaret Swerdloff
RADICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWING, Olivia Talton
MORE THAN JUST LOOKING: AN ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE IN THE WORKS OF KARA WALKER, Francesca Tignor
CHARACTERIZATION OF LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA EFFECTOR PROTEIN LPG1496, Taylor Cassidy Toro
SHE’S SICK OF ALL THE DRAMA: THE PORTRAYAL OF FEMALE SICKNESS IN CHINESE LITERATURE AND TELEVISION DRAMA, Natalie true
SHE’S SICK OF ALL THE DRAMA: THE PORTRAYAL OF FEMALE SICKNESS IN CHINESE LITERATURE AND TELEVISION DRAMA, Natalie true
MICROPLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT: RECOMMENDED SAMPLING AREAS AND SAMPLING PROTOCOL FOR SARASOTA COUNTY, Rylee R. Twinam
ASSOCIATIONS OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND BILINGUALISM TO PROGRAMMING SKILLS OF CHILDREN AGE 5-6, Julie Van Hart
In The Behemoth’s Wake: How Meat Eating, Terrorism, and Journalism Intersect With Your Rights, Paul Vila
STORE WINDOWS AS PUBLIC ART: LUCY LIPPARD AND PRINTED MATTER, 1976-1986, Joseph A. Vincennie III
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE HERO’S TALE: SELF-ACTUALIZING VIA AN ARTISTIC MEDIUM SUCH AS MUSIC A THREE PART INTROSPECTIVE JOURNEY, Alexander Walzem
CALL & RESPONSE: LOVE, PAIN, FREEDOM, & STRUGGLE IN THE BLUES, Jazz Weigel
GROWTH AND INEQUALITY DURING THE LIBERALIZATION OF THE CHINESE AND SPANISH ECONOMIES, James D. Wells III
The Call of Duty: How Self-Efficacy, Calling, and Extrinsic Motivation Relate to Career Choice, William Kevin Wilborn
ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN REPLICATION TIMING AND H3K27ME3 LOCALIZATION IN DNMT MUTANTS, Kelsey Wimbish
THE EFFECTS OF SUBSTRATE TEXTURE ON THE RHEOTACTIC BEHAVIOR OF THE BLIND MEXICAN CAVE FISH (Astyanax Mexicanus), Alexander Witter
DECENTRALIZED DATA INDEPENDENT VECTOR ANALYSIS, Nikolas Wojtalewicz
ETUDES IN ABLETON: A SHIFT TO A NEW MUSICAL ERA, James Y. Xu
EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING PLANT-SOIL FEEDBACK, Junhwi Yoo
ACROPORID SUCCESS IN CAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: FROM REEFERS TO RESTORATIONISTS, Eric H. Young
News Narratives of Homelessness and Reader Preference for Criminalization: A Study of Public Opinion in Sarasota, FL, Pariesa H. Young
HOUSING AN UNSPEAKABLE MEMORY: ABSTRACTED MANIFESTATIONS OF THE VOID OF JEWISH LIFE WITHIN THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF BERLIN, Allya Yourish
Three- Dimensional Shape Discrimination in the Little Skate, Leucoraja erinacea, Rachel J. Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
LORENTZ VIOLATION IN THE COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS OF BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES, Nick Abboud
MAKING SPACE FOR QUEER NARRATIVES: FEMINIST ART, AND ANIMATION, Davin Aberle
EXTRACTION-LED DEVELOPMENT IN BOLIVIA: EVO’S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET, Sophia Elena Aitken
Corruption and Inequality: Narratives and Implications in Nigeria and South Africa, Kira Albiez
“A NEED TO KNOW BASIS:” AN ACCOUNT, ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE OF THE INTERSECTION OF PRENATAL TESTING AND INFORMED CONSENT, Dan Anderson-Little
VISUAL DYSFUNCTION SCREENING ON rmTBI MOUSE MODELS USING AN OPTOMOTOR ASSESSMENT, Destinee Aponte
BELIEF, CONSTRUCTION, AND LANGUAGE: PHILOSOPHICAL LENSES ON ISSUES OF UNDERSTANDING AND COGNITION IN MATHEMATICS, Bradley Thomas Baker
DJICA: A NEW ALGORITHM FOR DECENTRALIZED INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS, Bradley Thomas Baker
A GIS APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF TROPICAL STORM FAY (2008) ON PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATES IN THE MIDDLE ST. JOHNS RIVER BASIN, Gregory Barber
THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING OF BEING, Jorge R. Barreto
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: THE IMPORTANCE OF AGE, Alexandra B. Bauman
“DON’T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME”: ATTACHMENT STYLE, INCLUSION OF OTHER IN THE SELF, AND RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION, Christine T. Baum
FROM TOM BROWN TO HARRY POTTER: RAISING AN ENGLISH CITIZEN IN THE BOARDING SCHOOL STORY, Bianca Benedi
POLITICAL POLARIZATION IN CONGRESS AND THE IMPACT ON THE SPONSORSHIP OF ECONOMIC LEGISLATION, Dannie Victoria Benedi
CULTURAL VALUES AND PERCEPTIONS OF DISABILITY: HOW INDIVIDUALISM AND COLLECTIVISM SHAPE SOCIAL ATTITUDES, Brena Bergman
COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION AND PERTURBATION OF THE HIV-1 VIRAL CAPSID, Shana Bergman
COSPLAY AT THE CON: The Negotiation of Text, Identity, and Performance, L. Blackburn
SELF-CULTIVATION OF THE MONKEY KING: A CONFUCIAN READING OF JOURNEY TO THE WEST, Ethan Block
Isolationism in American Politics: Economic Explanations for Foreign Policy Development, 1930-1950, Olivia R. Bloking
A CHAIRMAN BY CHAIRMAN ANALYSIS OF A DYNAMIC TAYLOR RULE: DOES THE CLASSIC MODEL STAND THE TIMES?, Reed Bourdon
THE LOUDER MY VOICE THE DEEPER THEY BURY ME: RESISTANCE POETICS IN THE MODERN UNITED STATES PRISON, Hannah Bowlus
Daughters of the Dharma: Buddhist Women Dissolving Divisions in the Past, Present, and Future, Ganga Devi Braun
Fiction, Imagination, Autonomy: Can Identifying with Fictional Characters Enhance a Reader’s Autonomy?, Donovan Brown
“SEEKING JUSTICE THROUGH UNJUST LAW”: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE NAVAJO NATION, Lillian Juliet Bryan
An Assessment of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Ilan Edward Bubb
THE P53ARG VARIANT IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED MUCOUS PRODUCTION AND BREAKDOWN OF TIGHT JUNCTIONS IN HUMAN BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS, Shane Caldwell
A GAME OF PARANOIA: Applying Ludology to Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, James Turner Campbell
THE ‘WAR ON TERROR,’ TELEVISED: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION THROUGH NARRATIVE IN THE WEST WING AND 24, David Canfield
Analysis of the Environmental and Economic Aspects of the United States Acid Rain Program, Katie N. Colasono
"FASCINATED BY FOOD AND OVERJOYED AT WEIGHT LOSS:” AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF SYMBOL, POWER, AND BELONGING ON MYPROANA.COM, Hedda Cooper
ACCESS AND OWNERSHIP: AN EMPOWERMENT APPROACH TO FOOD INSECURITY IN NEWTOWN, SARASOTA, Paula R. Cooper
IMAGES OF BEETLES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: FROM CHRISTLIKE TO COLLECTIBLE, Laura Costa
VISUAL HYBRIDITY: BRAZILIAN BEETLES AND HISTORIES OF REPRESENTATION, Laura Costa
The Effect of Allopregnanolone and Isoallopregnanolone on Cognition and Behavior in the Goldfish Carassius auratus auratus L., Katherine Cottrell
EFFECTS OF ALTERED LABORATORY LIGHTING REGIMENS ON THE CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS OF CAPTIVE NURSE SHARKS (Ginglymostoma cirratum), Lisa Marie Crawford
Collar Color and its Influence on Perceived Adoptability of Stigmatized Shelter Dogs, Eva Cross
Nature from a Distance: Western Conceptions of the Environment Through the Context of Postmodern Pastoral Poetry, Corey Culbertson
DIY IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: THE FEMINIST CULTURE OF NARRATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION IN ZINES, Allaire Cutshall
A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO THE BENEISH M-SCORE, Jacopo Dalmasso