Theses/Dissertations from 2009
How They Did It and Why It Worked: A Sociological Examination of the United Faculty of Florida Between 1968-1981, Abigail B. DeAtley
In Defense of Passion, Anyelle Johanna De León
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Planning: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of European and American Land-Use Practices and Policy, Daniela DeMaria
Raman Studies of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Suspended in Polystyrene, Ross DeMike
A Planet in Our Solar System, John Dillon
Imagining Heaven and Earth: Cosmology and the Irish Tradition in SALTAIR NA RANN, Michelle DiPietro
Preaching Cleanliness and Peddling Purity: The Sacred and Secular of Soap, Charles Harris Dohn
Language as Prosthesis: The Re-embodiment of Four Disabled Authors, Dorothy Dubrule
Do Children Who Know More, Care More? Environmental Knowledge and Scope of Justice, Jennifer Dyer
The Irreligious American: Italian Immigrants in Ybor City, Florida, Madeline Edison
Horizontal Models for Social Movement Organizations: A Case Study of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Jolene Elberth
Women, Peace and (In)security? Rape, Armed Conflict and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 A Cross-Comparative Analysis, Tierney Elison
Perspectives on Status Consumption, Alexander English
Global Transitions: A Visual Portrayal of Anthropogenic Impacts on the Environment, Deanna Erickson
The Ecological role of Cattle Grazing in Montane Meadows of Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, Jenna M. Ervin
Out On a Limb--Forest Canopies Science and Environmental Education Utilizing a Traveling Exhibit, Zachary Evers
A Historical and Algorithmic Study of Fux's Approach to Counterpoint, John Ewing
Distribution and Abundance of Ciliates in a Green Roof Demonstration, Mustafa Fakhri
Development and Decline: Perspectives on Oratory in Early Imperial Rome, John Falter
Synesthesia: An Exploration of the Behavior, Biology, and Individuality of Cross-Modal Experiences, Blaine Farmer
Into the Primitive, Alejandra Ferreyros
Self-Monitoring and Social Desirability as Factors Associated with Discrepancy Between Indicated Type and True Type on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Katherine Filippi
Eighteenth-Century London and the Birth of Consumer Culture, Lisa Fisher
Chicks with Picks: An Ethnography of Female Rock Instrumentalists in Tampa, FL, Adele Fournet
Cellular and Genetic Factors in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Histological Analysis, Christopher Ganey
Constructing a Public Archaeology at Historic Spanish Point in Osprey, Florida, Steven Garte-Wolf
An Investigation of Shared Intentionality as Evidenced by Informative Communication in Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes), Maya Nicole Gonczi
The Political Economy of Development in South Korea, Geoffrey Gordon
Cultural Hybridity: Self-Monitoring and Cultural Frame Switching in Third Culture Kids, Ingmar Gorman
Striving for Participation: An Analysis of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana, Catherine Gowan
Grand Perversions: Sex and Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Melissa Grady
Precedented Yet Unparalleled: How New is the "New Terrorism" of the Al Qaeda Network?, Harrison Duke Grandwilliams
WAVES An Exploration of Sound and Light, Erica Gressman
Autres Realites: Trois Romans de la Diaspora Haitienne, Anne-Laure Grignon
Loss of P2RX7 Receptor Activity in MRL lpr/lpr T Lymphocytes Correlates with the Expression of B220, Anne-Laure Grignon
Interlocking Systems of Oppression and the Paradox of Privilege: An Application of Patricia Hill Collins' and Allan Johnson's Theories to MAID IN AMERICA and MAID IN MANHATTAN, Frederick Alexander Guadalupe Medina
More than Heavenly Power Permits: The Faust Myth and Man's Striving in Marlowe's DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Goethe's FAUST and Bulgakov's THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, Carlos Guzman-Verdugo
Searching for the Author's Hand: Narrators, Readers, and the Fictive World In Vladimir Nabokov's Short Fiction, Laura Hampton
Presentations of Female Monarchy: Elizabeth I and Victoria, Paul Harries
"Not a Man, But a Miracle": Escape(s) from Heteronormativity in Dorothy L. Sayers's GAUDY, Kateland Harte
The Ethnobotany of Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens (Bartr.) Small) in Florida, Bethany Highsmith
The EU Political System Under Stress: Managing Political Uncertainty in Genetically Modified Organisms Policy, Diana Hinova
Representations of Women in the Work of Gustave Flaubert and Leo Tolstoy, Jillian Horowitz
Exploring Abram's Animism as an Approach to Environmental Activism: The Importance of Relating to the Other-Than-Human World, Montana J. Ikemire
Between Two Worlds: Internalized Anti-Semitism in Isaac Babel's Short Fiction, Melissa Yael Jacobowitz
Smiling Inside: Routinization, Representation, and Rat Race, Eric Jakobsen
Building the Business: From Startup to Management, Product Development to Mass Distribution, A Look into the Creation and Development of Vaerda Technologies, LLC, Taylor A. Jamrok
Ludic Transformations: Game and Play in Julio Cortazar's 62 MODELO PARA ARMAR and Georges Perec's LA VIE MODE D'EMPLOI., Alba Jaramillo
Reflections of Cultural Voices in the Magic Mirror of "Snow White", Ashley Rose Johnson
Strangely Familiar: Finding Place in Nonplace, Mia Johnson
Striking the State Apparatus through Indigenous Mobilization: A Comparative Analysis of Central Andean Movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru, Serena Simone Jones
Weimar Women: (De)constructing Urban Identities in the Art of Women Realists, Mackenzie Karp
An Evolutionary Model for the Stable Marriage Problem, Sarah Rose Karr
Soteriology as a Gift System: Religious Practice Among the First Tibetan Buddhist Nun Scholars, Junmei Georgia Kashnig
Liminal Spaces: Video Art as a Tool for Representing Subjectivity and Poeticizing Perception, Chloë Kendall
Telling Secrets: Alternative Paths to Truth in Alice Munro's OPEN SECRETS, Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark
Risky Business: A Case for Cat-Bonds in Florida's Insurance Crisis, David A. Kling
Que se Vayan Todos!: Democratic Consolidation and Collective Action Framing in Argentina's PIQUETERISMO and Uruguay's FRENTE AMPLIO, Sarah Ann Knotts
Transience, Fragmentation, and Fruit: Modernizing VANITAS Still Life Paintings, Angela Faustina Kramer
Guide to the Neurobiology of Dental Analgesics, Amanda Lebofsky
The 1.5 Generation of the Bosnian Diaspora, Jennifer H. LeLaurin
The African National Congress: An Analysis of Political Frames, Lindsay Levinson
Two Jails in One: Impediments to Professionalization for Modern Jail Corrections Officers, Chelsey Lora
An Examination of the Causal Mechanisms Behind Latin America's Populist Revival and Corresponding Move to the Left, Andrea Lynch
Who is Responsible for an Accident? Defensive Attributions and the Self-Determination Theory, Kelly Maher
Changing Attitudes Toward the Elderly through Intergenerational Massage: A Case Study, Rachel Marine
Herbivory in the Amazon Lowland Tropical Rainforest, With a Special Focus on Myrmecophytes (Genus TOCOCA), Meghan McAvoy
Difficult Hope: An Ethnography of the Bread and Puppet Theater, Austin McCann
Balance in Herodotus' HISTORIES, Ana McGrath
The Grobner Annihilator Graph of a Ring, Trevor McGuire
Worker Cooperatives, Law and the State, Jordan McLaughlin
Psychosomatic Healing through Alternative Therapy, Erika Mitchell
Confronting Japan's Past: Nostalgia and Abandonment in Hayao Miyazaki's SPIRITED AWAY, Laura Mohai
To Hell House and Back: Theatre as Evangelical Outreach, Suzanne Mooney
Predicting Graduation Rates at Liberal Arts Colleges, Bradley Moore
The Texture and Mineralogy of Two Sarasota County Beaches and Implications for Beach Nourishment, Steven Norton
Phonation Production and Synchrony in the Bottlenose Dolphin (TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS), Caitlin M. O'Brien
Fashion, Feminism, and Fascism: The New Woman and the Crisis of Modernity in France and Germany, 1920-1945., Kinley Paisley
This Is Your Brain on Mindfulness: Dispositional Mindfulness and Neural Activity in Attentional Networks, Natalie Paul
Relegation, Rejection, and Revolts: The Spatial Isolation of the French Banlieue, Aaron Phillips
The Tenth Muse: Sappho's Poetry and Influence, Kali Rainwater
WAS BEDEUTET BIO FUR EUCH? Exploring Collaborative Research on a Demeter Farm in Germany, Lee Ellen Reed
Jordanes' GETICA: Groundwork for a New Translation, Danielle Reid
Cold Tolerance of the Mayan Cichlid (CICHLASOMA 'NANDOPSIS' UROPHTHALMUS) and the Effects of Temperature on Teleost Physiology, Peter Repenning
The Tango Legacy: Unique Visual and Auditory Elements that Make Tango Dance Appealing, Megan Robinson
Eulogy for Apollo: Synesthesia and Musicality in Andrei Bely's PETERSBURG and James Joyce's ULYSSES, David Rodriguez
'The Power of Your Voice Could Redirect Every Truth': Rap as Resistant Discursive Practice, Alexandra Rogers
Taking Perspectives: Imaginary Friends and Shared Meaning, Christina Rogers-Hehr
Film-Poetry Synthesis and the Birth of Experimental Cinema in France, Scott Ross
Sea Level Rise and Local Land Use Planning: The Florida Example, Elisabeth Salinas
"Lie With Me!": UnBounded Female Sexuality in Early Biblical Interpretation, Samantha Samson
"Soldiers of Paper and Ink": American Intellectual Interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, Adam D. Schafer
Enriching Music with the Sound of Life, Enriching Life with the Music of Sound: Synthesizers, Nature and Listening, Jimmy Schaus
Depression: Experiences, Perceptions and Attitudes, Krisztina Schlessel
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Story and Resilience, Erica Schoon
Towards a Greener Future: GC-MS Analysis of Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate (P3HB) Content in PANICUM VIRGATUM., Adesh Seuraj