Theses/Dissertations from 2015
PERPETUUM MOBILE AN EXPLORATION OF PERPETUAL MOTION IN MUSIC, Lily Wohl
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ’S IMAGERY OF MATERNAL LOSS, Emma Claire Wolin
UNTIL IT’S YOURS: CHILDBIRTH KNOWLEDGES AND EMBODYING CULTURAL [RE]PRODUCTION, Jessica Wopinski
AN EXAMINATION OF THE HEAT METHOD FOR GEODESIC DISTANCE COMPUTATION, Daniel Kevin Xie
PREY SELECTION OF OCTOPUS VULGARIS CUVIER, 1797 BASED ON SHELL COMPLEXITY, Tiphaine Yeramian Le Roy
FIND IT, FIX IT? AN ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT SOCIAL MEDIA AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, Victoria Zuber
CREATURES OF THE NIGHT: THE EMERGENCE AND COMPLICATION OF THE FEMME FATALE IN EROTIC LOWBROW ART, Rachael Zucker
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
SICKLE CELL PAIN AND THE CARE AND SUPPORT OF CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND TEENS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE (SCD) AT THERAPEUTIC RECREATION SUMMER CAMPS, Jacob Arthur Albanese
CORNERSTONE OF ZION: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS, Matthew Lee Andersen
POLITICAL DETERMINANTS AND MACROECONOMIC OUTCOMES OF STATE BALANCED BUDGET REQUIREMENTS, Carl Backen
CIRCADIAN REGULATION OF OXIDATIVE FAT METABOLISM IN C2C12 MYOTUBES, David Bacsik
WHOSE CITY? LIVE MUSIC AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA, David W. Baker
ON THE TIME-VARIATIONS OF OKUN’S LAW AND THE EFFECT OF LABOR’S SHARE, Gary Glenwood Baker
Further Research Towards the Synthesis of the Novel Ligand 1,4-Dibenzyl-1,4,7-Triazacyclononane-7-Monoacetate (Bn2TCMA), Stephanie Bamberger
IF THEY CUT OFF BOTH OF MY HANDS, I WILL WRITE MUSIC ANYWAY: DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH’S INTERPRETATION OF THE POETIC VOICE IN OPUS 143 AND OPUS 146, Erich Barganier
THERAVADA BUDDHIST RELIGIOUS ACTORS IN THE TRANSITION FROM WAR TO PEACE IN SRI LANKA AND THAILAND, Bennet Bastian
DEVELOPING DISCRIMINATION: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND THE ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN THE BORDERLANDS OF BURMA, Wesley Beggs
PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY: A HERITAGE STUDY OF THE PONCE DE LEON’S FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK IN ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Arielle Bernhardt
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A CHIRPED-PULSE MILLIMETER-WAVE FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER OPERATING FROM 110 TO 170 GHZ, Lauren Elizabeth Bernier
Violent Conversions on Minorca: Examining Severus’ Epistula, Sophia Blair
BEHIND BLUE EYES: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES OF DOSTOEVSKY’S CRIMINALS, Emily Bolotin
Kinetic Characterization of the C. elegans Metabolic Enzyme IDH-1, Noah Bourlett
PERFORMANCE DIALOGUES: CONVERSATIONS IN POETRY AND DANCE, Rebekah Moriah Bray
FEMINISM AND ROMANCE NOVELS, Abigail Brennan
FINDING OUR WAY BACK TO THE WORLD: A CRITIQUE AND REFORMULATION OF RORTY'S ETHICS, Jacob Burg
INITIATING SYNTHESIS OF MULTIDENTATE LIGANDS WITH SULFUR AND NITROGEN DONORS FOR STUDY OF THEIR COPPER COMPLEXES, Melissa Campbell
A Wreck of a Site: An Archaeological Examination of Cauldrons from the Storm Wreck, 8SJ5459, Annie E. Carter
A MATHEMATICAL MODEL RELATING SOIL ORGANIC MATTER DECOMPOSITION TO MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, Vanessa Chastain
THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION ALLEVIATES PARKINSON’S DISEASE SYMPTOMS, Brendan Clark
JUST A MOMENT: TORSIONAL RIGIDITY AS A NON-SPECTRAL GEOMETRIC INVARIANT, Joseph F. Comer
THE ANTI-POVERTY EFFECTS OF THE MINIMUM WAGE, Zoe Curlee-Strauss
Four Essays on Theater, Nicholas Daugharty
UNJUST DESERTS: FOOD INSECURITY, STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY, AND COMMUNITY AGENCY IN NEWTOWN, FL, Juliana Dearr
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THE MICROCANONICAL SUPERSPIN MODEL USING THE DEMON ALGORITHM, Sarah Dietz
GAZING UPON THE GOO-GOO LAND: CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE FILIPINO IDENTITY IN U.S. NEWSPAPERS, 1898–1904, Shane Donglasan
BIG BUILDING: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT IN COCONUT GROVE FLORIDA, Daniel Ducassi
DEFORMATIONS, DISCRETE SAMPLING, AND ROBUST TORIC IDEALS, Timothy F.E. Duff
ARCHITECTURE IN JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND MANSFIELD PARK: HOW TO BUILD CHARACTERS, Kelly Dwyer
LOCALIZATION OF WALL ASSOCIATED KINASES (WAKS) DURING GRAVITY STIMULATION IN B73 ZEA MAYS L. PULVINUS, Emily Eilbert
Drag it Out!: An ethnographic study of a drag performance nonprofit in South Florida, Josephine B.C. Evans
SHOCK AND AWE: THE DEVELOPMENT, OPTIMIZATION, AND USE OF EDUCATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS IN HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY EDUCATION, James Eveland
“YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE:” DETERMINING ACCESSIBILITY TO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IN THREE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS NEIGHBORHOODS, Taylor Lucas Filaroski
YOU DON'T LOOK SICK: THE INFLUENCE OF PERCEIVED STIGMA AND IDENTITY CENTRALITY ON DISCLOSURE DECISION MAKING IN PEOPLE WITH INVISIBLE ILLNESSES, Alexis Haley Echo Fischer
LANGUAGE-CHANGE AND LANGUAGE-MIXING IN A PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE TASK, Candice Frances
PURSUIT, PUNISHMENT, AND PERVERSION: VARIATION IN OVID’S METAMORPHOSES, Ashley Frost
POLITICAL EMBODIMENT IN THE WORK OF MAGRELA; CHALLENGING POWER, SPACE, AND GENDER IN SÃO PAULO, Paula Bettina Garofalo
Whose Food?: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Analysis of Sarasota Farmers Markets, Charles Gillig
PAST ON A PLATE: AN EXPLORATION OF ‘HEIRLOOM’ CULTIVARS AS POLITICALLY PALATABLE, Cady Gonzalez
SOCIALIZATION AND REGULATION: CAREGIVER CHARACTERISTICS AND PRESCHOOLERS’ EXPECTATIONS IN NEGATIVE EMOTION-ELICITING SITUATIONS, Allison Gornik
GO LALA GO!: GLOBALIZATION, CONSUMERISM, AND GENDER IN CHINESE ROMANTIC COMEDY, Morgan Southwell Gurr
CREATING A SPOTTED WING DROSOPHILA, DROSOPHILA SUZUKII (MATSUMURA), FRUIT PUREE DIET TO FACILITATE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES, Lynn Marie Gusman
IMAGINING INNOCENCE AND TEMPTATION: THEOLOGY OF THE FALL IN THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA AND THE HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY, Rachael Haensly
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING, NATURAL GAS EXTRACTION AND OIL PRICE, Daniel L. Henderson
Copper(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions for Functionalization of Enzyme Packaged Viral Nanoparticles, Robert Hincapie
PERFECT BODY, PERFECT SACRIFICE: CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE VIRGIN MARTYR BODY, Kailey Holtslander
Restoration by Defecation: Effects of Nutrient Enrichment via Bird Guano on Seagrass Propeller Scar Healing Times, Kelsey Hunt-Dolon
OPIOID ADDICTION AND TREATMENT, Anamaria Husar
“CLASHING IMAGES”: ISSUES OF TOURNAMENT AND IDENTITY IN THE CHIVALRIC LITERATURE OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, Dmitriy Istomin
RITUAL AND HEALING: EXPLORATIONS OF THE PLACEBO PHENOMENON AND PERUVIAN CURANDERISMO IN IQUITOS, PERU, Victoria Elizabeth Jara
THE MULTIPLICITY OF HERITAGE AT WARM MINERAL SPRINGS, Jodi L. Johnson
GENRE AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN OVID'S HEROIDES, Erin Black Kent
METHODS DEVELOPMENT FOR SPECTRAL SIMPLIFICATION OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE ROTATIONAL SPECTRA, Erin Black Kent
“WE’RE GAY BUT WE’RE NOT SUPER GAY ABOUT IT”: NEGOTIATIONS OF MASCULINITY AND EFFEMINACY ON R/GAYBROS, Rosalind Kichler
EYES, EARS AND GUESSWORK: CREATING ORTHOGRAPHIC AND PHONOLOGICAL MEASURES OF VOCABULARY BREADTH FOR BEGINNING AND ADVANCED SPANISH AND MANDARIN CHINESE SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNERS, Robert Matthew Klinkel
LOUD: CRITICAL PRACTICE OF FILM, SOUNDS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, Liat Krongrad
DOES FRUSTRATION EXPLAIN THE AGGRESSIVE CONSEQUENCES OF VIDEOGAMES?, Daniel Joseph Lane
DIGITAL PRAXIS: A MODEL OWL FOR CRITICAL INTERVENTION IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT, Kyle Larson
REDEFINING FREE SPEECH: THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE 1798 SEDITION ACT, Christopher Lay
SEEING THE LIGHT: SPIRITUALITY EMBODIED, Jessie Leasure
FLUCTUATIONS OF THE BETA RHYTHM: MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND PERIODIC FORCING OF A CORTICAL MICROCIRCUIT, Michael Leone
ANSELM KIEFER’S MEDITATIONS ON MELENCOLIA, Gracie Loesser
Model Legislation as a Tool for Policy Diffusion in the United States, Michael Long
THE MONSTER WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IDENTITY ASSIGNMENT AND CONSTRUCTION IN SLAVE NARRATIVES AND HORROR FICTION, Chelsey Lucas
Analysis of Copy Number Variation Association with GWAS Methylation Data, Jr., Steven Joseph Machusko
The Effects of Chronic Pain on Neurophysiology and Long Term Potentiation, Catherine Martini
CROSS-STRAIT TRADING, DOES ECONOMIC INTEGRATION LEAD TO POLITICAL INTEGRATION?, Tian Ma
TRANSLATING TRISTAN: RECONSIDERING MEDIEVAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE TRISTAN AND ISOLDE STORY, Holly McArthur
CHIRPED-PULSE MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY OF SMALL MOLECULES, Morgan McCabe
THE EFFECTS OF FISH WASTE NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT ON THALASSIA TESTUDINUM BANKS EX KÖNIG IN SARASOTA BAY, FLORIDA, Kyle McCormick
“AM I STILL LOST?”: CULTIVATING COMPLEX IDENTITIES AND SUBJECTIVITY IN 20th-CENTURY WOMEN'S WRITING ON MADNESS, Molly McCormick
Finsler Structures in the Photon Sector of the Standard Model Extension, Navin McGinnis
A FUSION OF MEDIUMS AND REVERSING EKPHRASIS: USING PHOTOGRAPHY TO RESPOND TO THE POETRY OF GEORGE OPPEN, Taylor Meredith
MISPLACING WHAT MATTERS: ELUCIDATING A COMMON PHILOSOPHICAL MISTAKE, Austin Mooney
myPOD: EXPLORING THE RHYTHMIC VESSEL, Matt Morgan
GROUP RING CRYPTOGRAPHY, Helen Moscardini
NO LEG TO STAND ON: DIFFERENCES IN THE STAND-UP COMEDY MATERIAL OF SUCCESSFUL MALE AND FEMALE COMEDIANS, Juliana Musheyev
I Be Goin Places: Sociolinguistic Assimilation in a Baltimore Boarding School, Kade Doyle Needham
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ELECTRIC CAR: AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE, Tyler Scott Neumann
FROM SAVING LIVES TO SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS: THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE ON URBAN REFUGEE LIVELIHOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Natalie Neville
TROUBLED GROUNDS: FLORIDA’S STAND YOUR GROUND LAW AND THE THREAT OF COVERT RACISM AGAINST BLACKS IN THE UNITED STATES, Alexander Nicoleau
CONFLICT, DIFFERENCE, AND ABJECTION IN POST-9/11 FICTION AND TELEVISION EXAMINING TERRORISTS, Denneillia Nugent
CÓMO SER LATINO EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS: THE FACTORS INFLUENCING ETHNIC IDENTITY CHOICES AMONG SECOND GENERATION LATINOS, Farrell A. Ocasio
“LIKE HAVING A MUSE IN THE ROOM WITH YOU”: THE EXCHANGES OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL, Jared O'Connor
Cultivating Blossoming and Healing Ecologies via Radical Virtue Ethics con Cariño: Encouraging Learning, Care and Restorative Justice, Andrea Alejandra Ortiz Sotelo
EFFECTS OF FREQUENCY AND DISTANCE OF INTRUDERS ON AGGRESSION OF THREESPOT DAMSELFISH (STEGASTES PLANIFRONS), Grace Otto
EXPLORING ANTHROPOLOGY’S POTENTIAL AS A CATALYST FOR REFORMATION IN AMERICAN PEDAGOGY, Nicole A. Ouellette
REPRESENTATIONS OF AGENCY AND COMMUNION IN NARRATIVES ABOUT THE SELF VERSUS GENDERED OTHERS, Taylor S. Parker