Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Raspberry Pi Granular Synthesizer, Dylan Purvis
TOWARDS A NEO-FOLK STORYTELLING TRADITION, Prince Quamina
THE USE OF SPECULATIVE FICTION IN CONSTRUCTING GENDER IDENTITY, Claire Quin
THE LOCAL CONSUMER FOOD ENVIRONMENT OF SARASOTA, FLORIDA: AN ASSESSMENT OF ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD CHOICES BY MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME, Elizabeth Ramsamooj
A SURVEY OF MODERN ASTRONOMY, Meghan Retaleato
CIRCUS LYFE : A NARRATIVE LIFE SIMULATION GAME, Erik Ridd
THE ROLE OF COCA IN INDIGENOUS CULTURES OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS OF COLOMBIA, Salua Rivero
Integrating RAARR (Robust Automated Assignment of Rigid Rotors) into AUTOFIT: Progress and Prospects, Arianna Rodriguez
PREY CAPTURE AND RELATED BEHAVIORS OF THE BIG CLAW SNAPPING SHRIMP, ALPHEUS HETEROCHAELIS (Say, 1818) (Crustacea; Decapoda; Alpheidae), Lauren Rodriguez
MODELING OF TWO NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS IN GLASS, Rivka Romano Diaz
THE EFFECTS OF REPRESSION ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND PRACTICE IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA, Eshel Rosen
“FOODWAYS AT TWIN OAKS INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY”: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF EATING, WORKING, AND GROWING TOGETHER, Amaranth Sander
ON THE OUTSIDE: INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, SELF-TRANSFORMATION, AND ALIENATION IN FILM AND LITERATURE, John Sapp
GLITCH HEALING, Zachary Schoenblatt
Making It Real: Shanzhai Culture in China, Kearsten Sehr
A Preliminary Survey of Macroinvertebrates Inhabiting Southwest Florida Storm Drain Inlets, Natali Shafer
A PHILOSOPHY OF CHANGE: COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF RISING SEA LEVELS, Olivia Siegel
A Precis of an Undergraduate Education in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, Nika Sigua
ANALYZING THE EFFECT OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES ON THE CATALYTIC RATE OF C. ELEGANS CYTOPLASMIC MALATE DEHYDROGENASE, Melissa Simmons
EPISTEMIC LIMITATIONS AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: A VIRTUE BASED APPROACH, Hannah Sine
CHINA’S AVANT-GARDE LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION: GE FEI, Shannon Smith
THE END OF HISTORY? FAR-RIGHT AUTHORITARIAN PARTIES IN EUROPE AND THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS, James Stewart III
SEDUCTION, SECRETS, AND SUPERIORITY: A STUDY OF BLUEBEARD AND MODERN RETELLINGS FROM ANGELA CARTER AND JOYCE CAROL OATES, Amanda Suits
The Other Side of Paradise: An Exploration of the Masculine Crisis within the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tyler Thompson
Footprints In The Atmosphere: Quantitative Analysis of Carbon Emissions to Identify the Potential of Community Climate Action, Meredith Todd
RARE EVENT DETECTION OF SOMATIC PDGFRB ACTIVATING VARIANTS IN A MOSAIC AND ANEURYSM PATIENT, Daphne Salime Toglia
MAPPING THE SEASONAL ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF MARINE DEBRIS ON LIDO BEACH AND SIESTA BEACH: AN ANNUAL GIS STUDY, Raquel Valdes
Tales from the Sarasota Bay: An Informal Environmental Education Approach to Teaching Students from Sarasota County about Their Local Ecosystems, Camila Vallejo
APPOINTMENTS WITH PEER TUTORS IN THE WRITING CENTER REDUCE EVALUATION ANXIETY IN STUDENTS, B. Van Aken
THERMAL COMFORT THROUGH VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE, Maria Van Allen
QUEER AND A MASTERPIECE, Kayden Van Antwerp
THE FIRE, THE FOREST, AND THE WITNESS WATCHING IT: MITSKI MIYAWAKI’S PHYSICAL AND MUSICAL EMBODIMENT OF GENDER, ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY, AND AUTONOMY, Hayley Vanstrum
BIOFUEL PRODUCTION: A REVIEW OF THE INDUSTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION OF TERMINAL ALKENE PRODUCTION, Gina Vazquez
PAN YULIANG’S EXPLORATION, CREATION, AND RECLAMATION OF HER IDENTITY, Amanda Vorce
AN EXPLORATION OF CENSORSHIP RESISTANT DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS, Benjamin Weisman
DRIVEN TO DISTRICTING: Analyzing Redlining, Interstates and School District Segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lana Wetherald
PUT YOUR STRANDS IN THE AIR: AN EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA AS A TOOL IN BIODIVERSITY MONITORING, Sarah Wilhide
An Observational and Spatial Analysis of Red Tide Events from Pinellas to Lee County Between 2000-2018, Justin Williams
ADOPTION OUT OF FOSTER CARE: USING SUBSIDIES AS A MEANS TO INCREASE ADOPTION RATES, Kaeli Williams
IMPLEMENTING MORE BIOLOGICALLY PLAUSIBLE NEURAL NETWORKS WITH MULTIPLE WEIGHTS IN NEAT, Elan Works
Cryptozoological Tourism, Savannah Worthington
CREATING A DATA VISUALIZATION OF THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE (TESS) DATASET, Tali Zacks
WHY DO YOU STREAM?: AN ANALYSIS OF NEEDS BEING MET VIA TWITCH STREAMING IN COMPARISON TO FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS, Caitlin Zarzeczny
POSITIVE VIBES ONLY, Samantha Zellner
DANCES WITH MICROBES: EXAMINING SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES IN URBAN SOILS, Jacob Zidek
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
LABOR OF LABOR: EXPLORING THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF 21st CENTURY MIDWIVES IN THE US, Alba Lou Abrams
IMPROVING MILLENNIALS’ DECISIONS: EFFECTIVE NUDGES THAT WORK IN FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING, Jeeda Abukhader
CHINA’S HIDDEN SHADOW AND UNDERGROUND FINANCING, Dimitri Angelov
EXTENDING HANSON'S THOUGHTS ON OBSERVATION, Shane Archuleta
“LESSONS FROM LIBERATION THEOLOGY: A LETTER TO EL BUEN VIVIR”, Paola Baez-Perez
THE EFFECTS OF RED TIDE (KARENIA BREVIS) ON UPPER TROPHIC LEVEL FISH COMMUNITIES IN SARASOTA BAY, FLORIDA, Alexa Baldino
"I’M SORRY I GOT US LOST": OVER THE GARDEN WALL, ADAPTATION, AND FAIRYTALE RETELLINGS IN POST-GOLDEN AGE DISNEY ANIMATION, Araya Hope Barnes
STRIPPED OF MEANING: REVISITING SUSANNA’S EROTICIZATION, Chloe Baron
THE NUTCRACKER QUEEN: AN ANALYSIS OF DROSSELMEYER AND MARIE IN E.T.A. HOFFMANN’S THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING, Diana Barroeta
TWO ESSAYS ON FINANCIALIZATION AND SUBORDINATION OF PRODUCTION, Noah Baslaw
Investigations into Elliptic Curve Cryptography with Diffie-Hellman, Brandon D. Baufield
Feminist visions of rural development: Methods of finding local well-being and global sustainability, Carolyn Beer
Rural Politics: a quantitative exploration of rurality and political behavior, Jack Knox Belk Jr.
SYNTHESIS OF POSSIBLE ANTIBIOTIC CANDIDATES, Anna Blood
POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION IN COLOMBIA: CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING INTERIM STABILIZATION WITH EX-COMBATANTS OF THE FARC, Matthew Bocanumenth
Art of the Alien Timeline: Exploring how Nonlinear Narratives Achieve Brecht’s Theory of Alienation in Run Lola Run and Memento, Connor Borden
SELF-REFLECTION: A RECLAMATION OF IDENTITY, Elly Bovarnick
Electronic Music DIWhy Music Programming Languages in Theory and Practice, Sullivan Boyd
INTERPRETING FOLK THROUGH DESIGN AND LUTHERIE, Jack Brickhouse
BLOCKCHAINS: SECURE SYSTEMS, DISTRIBUTED DNS, ATTACK VECTORS, MULTIPLE SELFISH MINERS, Eric Brigham
MORE THAN STATISTICS: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF SCHOOL DISCIPLINE ON OPPORTUNITY, Ashley Brockway
Keep Calm and Cyclo on: A Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates through the Cycloaddition of Carbon Dioxide and Epoxides, Rowan Brower
AN EVALUATION OF ELASMOBRANCH ABUNDANCE, DIVERSITY, AND HABITAT UTILIZATION IN MANATEE RIVER, FLORIDA, Mauryn Brownback
The History, Current State, and Potential Future of Archaeological Illustration, Madison Brown
LET’S PLAY HONG KONG: DEFINING CULTURE AND REPRESENTING IDENTITY IN SLEEPING DOGS, Kris Lylah Brzostek
STARS, DINOSAURS, AND YOU: A PREHISTORIC PODCAST, Eliza Bychek
THE SF CITY KIDS: NOSTALGIA AND BOUNDARIES OF SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH COMMUNITY IDENTITY AND BELONGING IN THE FACE OF TECH-INDUSTRY GENTRIFICATION, Rebecca Luisa Caccavo
IDENTITY NEGOTIATIONS OF BILINGUAL LGBTQIA+ LATINOS/AS/ES/XS, Andreina Carrasquero
In The Heights: An Analysis of Transit-Oriented Development and Its Impacts on Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Alex Caruso
ENEMY AT THE GATES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CHANKA CONFEDERATION, Cesar Augusto Chavez Lecca
THE STORY OF LIES: PREPARATION EFFECTS AND PROSOCIAL DECEPTION, Renbourn Chock
A MUSICIAN MUSES ON MUSICAL AMUSEMENTS AS THE MOOD SUITS HER, Jacqueline Christie
DOES THIS TASTE FUNKY TO YOU? THE EFFECT OF AGING ON THE SENSORY QUALITIES OF NOVEL-FLAVORED BEERS, Hannah Lynn Coker
“VARIOUS ARE THE OUTCOMES OF WAR”: THE CHRONICON OF SAMPIRO IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION, Kaithleen Coñoepan
“IDLE HANDS MAKE FRETFUL MINDS:” THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELFTOUCH GESTURES AND NICOTINE USE, Benjamin Cook
“ALTERING THE EARTH TO FIT VERA” Analyzing Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management, Iyanu O. Corniel
AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO: WITCHCRAFT IN THE CULTURAL IMAGINATION FROM THE 17TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY, Claire Craven
“QUEER IS THE BEST WORD FOR IT”: EXPLORING PREFERENCE FOR AND INTERACTIONAL PROCESSES OF ‘QUEER’ IDENTITY, Jason D'Amoururs
“Doing Art Politically”: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, Abigail De Gregorio
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT INVOLVING GOPHER TORTOISES (GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS) ON THE SCRUBLANDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SARASOTA-MANATEE CAMPUS, Cassandra B. Detrio-Darby
Implementing a Network Based Approach to Learning Chinese Characters, Katherine Diamond
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ’S EXPERIMENTS IN PRINTMAKING: INTENSIFYING THE EXPRESSION OF MATERNAL LOSS, Shana Dickler
Anthropology’s [Digital] Skeletons: Photogrammetry and the Documentation of Human Remains, Kara DiComo
TAIWAN IS GIVING BUDDHISM BACK TO THE LIVING: A Study of the Four Great Mountains of Buddhism in Taiwan with a Focus on Fo Guang Shan, Lorelei Domke