This collection includes theses and dissertations from the College of Arts and Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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The rise of the nones: religion, leaners, and their connection with partisanship in America., Kevin C. Orr

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Ga-based III-V semiconductor photoanodes for solar fuels and novel techniques to investigate their photocorrosion., Sahar Pishgar

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Intercalation and high pressure studies of black phosphorous - pathways to novel materials and physics., Manthila Chathurange Rajapakse

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GIS predictive modelling in the Daniel Boone National Forest: settlement patterns during the intensification or horticulture., Jacob Max Ray

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Charting the unknown: examining the prevalence and correlates of seconday traumatic stress in Kentucky probation and parole officers., Amanda Marie Roberts

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A translingual approach to the theory and practice of basic writing., Rachel Rodriguez

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In a Victorian fog: constructing identities in female gothic novels., Hayley Salo

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Witness and testimony: the role of race and community in forming Black Aesthetics., Cathy Smith Shannon

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Social cognition, impulsivity, and emotion regulation factors in aggressive behavior among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder., Kelly E. Slaughter

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The peacock in the room: confronting the hidden curriculum of androcentrism and gender bias in undergraduate biology education., Sarah Hamilton Spaulding

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The economic rationality of consumption in the Mycenaean political economy and its role in the reproduction of social personae: modeling prestige networks., Devin Alexander Stephens

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Shifting sands., Rachid Tagoulla

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GIT (gender-informed trauma) in black n blue boys / broken men: how concepts of gender restrict the black male actor’s creative process and the methods he can use for creative freedom., Tyler Tate

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Computational investigations of the photochemical properties of B12-dependent systems: from solution to enzymes., Megan Toda Mackintosh

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Framing the guard: a content analysis of how the news media frames the national guard during times of crisis., Taylor L. Tolles

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Manipulating mindful breathing versus mindful eating: examining the effect of specific mindfulness mechanisms on food intake and eating disorder symptoms., Irina Alexandrovna Vanzhula

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-rhiza., Katherine E. Watts

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A remote sensing perspective: mapping the human footprint in the Zambezi region of Namibia., Ariel E Weaver

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Love labor: literal symbols and true abstractions., Karen Weeks

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Distribution and ecological effects of Azteca Chartifex/Trigona in the Barro Colorado Nature Monument., Rachel LeAnn Wells

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In the balance: perceptions of work-family balance for women in higher education., Aubrey Radford Woolley

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Mass spectrometry based metabolomics and Lipidomics., Fang Yuan

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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An actor's process in bridging the gap between first-generation and multi-generational African-American identities., Mutiyat Ade-Salu

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A structural study of correlated materials: incipient mott insulators and low-dimensional systesm., Alaa Alfailakawi

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Development and applications of condensed phase cavity ring-down spectroscopy for studies of electrochemical and interfacial., Shadi Ahmad Alnaanah

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Aboveground-belowground interactions: roles of soil biotic and abiotic factors on switchgrass's (panicum virgatum) growth, defense against herbivory and cell wall chemistry., Binod Basyal

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Predictors of urban homeless rates., Andrew John Bates

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Comparative secretomics and functional analysis of effectors utilized by the Microbotryum genus of anther-smut fungal pathogens, and their role in host-specificity., William Christopher Beckerson

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Long for death., Ashley William Bittner

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Analysis of twenty-first century zines., Anna Blake

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"Don't put an 'or' where God puts an 'and'": constitutive rhetoric in queer Appalachia., Brooke Elizabeth Boling

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Atomization as colonial strategy in Palestine., Christian Alexander Brawner

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Mitigating black claustrophobia: space, trauma, and healing modalities in the postcolonial narrative., Saleema Mustafa Campbell

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Investigating the disorder and compaction of designed Minielastin using nuclear magnetic resonance., Ma Faye Charmagne Aquino Carvajal

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Design, synthesis and application of Janus gold nanoprisms for directed self-assembly., Md. Emtias Chowdhury

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The utilization of metal-ligand cooperativity for electrocatalytic reduction and catalytic hydration., Steven Cronin

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Gun ownership as an expression of whiteness and masculinity., Michael Daugherty

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Geographic imaginaries of urban spatial segregation: a case study of the west end neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky., Amber Dock

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Radical renewal, the sisters of Loretto, Nouvelle Theologie, and the second vatican council., Carol Bolton Easterly

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Costs and benefits of HIPV-mediated eavesdropping under field conditions., Grace Ellin Freundlich

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A content analysis of Olivia Pope: how scandal reconfirms the negative stereotypes of black women., Chelsy LeAnn Golder

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Invocation., Shae Taylor Goodlett

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Development of in vitro models to study the rapid extraintestinal dissemination of salmonella., Adarsh Gopinath

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How nondiscrimination takes root: an examination of methods to implement statewide nondiscrimination legislation in Kentucky., Blake Nona Gould

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The sidewalk less traveled: evaluating change in community and police perception., Jennifer Lee Hall

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Connecting right-wing authoritarianism to environmental beliefs and behaviors: a pilot study., Rebecca Halpryn

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Language ability and concurrent predictors of pragmatic communication in children with williams syndrome or 7q11.23 duplication syndrome., Amanda G. Harmon

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A king's royal scars., Xavier Mikal Harris

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Predictors of binge drinking among military veterans: a general strain theory approach., Emily Ann Hayden

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Evaluation of a jail reentry program., Bailey Elisabeth Holland

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The norms are more guidelines than actual rules: applying Isomorphism to disability accommodations in the catholic church., Jonathon Holland

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A GIS-based method for archival and visualization of microstructural data from drill core samples., Elliott Holmes

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Examining corporate blameworthiness in relation to federal organizational sentencing for probation and corporate monitors., Emily M. Homer

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External homophobia and outness in gay men., Thomas Charles Isaak Jr

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Compassion or neoliberal governance: critiquing the discourse of compassionate Louisville., Ekramul Islam

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Gender-differential effects of perceived discrimination on lawyers' job satisfaction: a general strain theory approach., Caroline Isabelle Jalain

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White moves first: unearthing white privilege in the modern board game., Darrell A. Johnson

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Hirschman's voice, exit, and loyalty framework in the context of charter schools and secession: a discourse analysis of Indiana newspaper editorial items, 1990 to 2014., GlyptusAnn Grider Jones

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Afrosonic noise: a transnational Black Feminist musicological study of global Black joy in Black North American rock music and Afro Argentinian music performance., Jerika M Jones

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Exploring black "saviors": a content analysis of black characters and racial discourses in Obama-era films., Eric A. Jordan

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Genes involved in nitrogen assimilation in Ustilago maydis., Sunita Khanal

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Photoelectrical and photoelectrochemical characterization of the materials used in dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells., Pom Lal Kharel

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Reactive and regulative temperament dimensions, emotion regulation, and concurrent internalizing and externalizing pathology among youth with ADHD., Kirsten D. Leaberry

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Analyzing the effects of of seasonal land cover and precipitation on the sediment delivery ratio of an agriculture dominated watershed., Jonah Liebman

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The sick ones., Christian Loriel Lucas

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Marriage and cohabitation in the United States: the effects of union type on relationship quality., Courtney M. Lush

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Getting up: an ethnography of hip hop graffiti writers, their art, and perceptions of society's reactions., Theodore Malone

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Computational modeling of photolysis and catalysis reactions in vitamin b12-dependent enzymes., Abdullah Al Mamun

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Role of plant volatile organic compounds (VOCS) in seed priming and plant-herbivore interactions., Abhinav Kumar Maurya

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Practicing Pan-Africanism: West Indians and governance in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana., Nicholas C. McLeod

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Fatalism as a cultural influence on correlates of anxiety and worry in Latino/a adolescents., Judy Mier-Chairez

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A forgotten shade of blue: support for the union and the constitutional republic in southeastern Kentucky during the civil war era., Howard Muncy

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Contemporary francophone west African social movements in the rise of neo pan-africanism: a case study of y en a marre in Senegal., Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Ndiaye

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Search for new physics using lepton flavor violating signatures in modern particle colliders., Atanu Pathak

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Electrochemically-modulated surface plasmon waves at a nano-scale for investigations and applications of redox assemblies., Aymen Hasan Qatamin

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On the straight and narrow: how cultural beliefs about sex/gender manifest in college biology learning environments., Katherine Ray Kng

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Convolution inequalities and applications to partial differential equations., Matthew Reynolds

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The intersection of mindfulness and gratitude: examining the roles of gratitude and mindfulness practices within a 4-week mindfulness-based intervention on depressive symptoms in undergraduates., Allison Rodgers

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Peer verbal sexual harassment in early adolescence: a feminist and sexual scripts theoretical approach., Shawn M. Rolfe

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Good grief: an analysis of the character development of Tonya in August Wilson’s King Hedley II through the lens of “the five stages of grief”., Kala Ross

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American nocturne., Zahid Saeed

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Water cluster motifs in structurally similar N-(2-Aminoethyl)-1-Methylimidazole-2-Carboxamide metal complexes: synthesis, characterization, thermal and electrical properties., Nina Saraei

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Making modality: transmodal composing in a digital media studio., Chris Scheidler

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Undergraduate students use moral reasoning and belief in genetic determinism in response to a CRISPR/Cas9 socioscientific Issue., Katie M. Seiter

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Functional nanomaterials by combining aminooxy chemistry and iodine activation at momolayer protected clusters., Tirtha Raj Sibakoti

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Linear methods for regression with small sample sizes relative to the number of variables., Rajesh Sikder

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Assaults on law enforcement officers: a spatial and theoretical analysis through social disorganization., Brian Keith Simpkins

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Depressive symptoms and survival among lung cancer patients: biomarkers and potential benefits of an iPod- and mindfulness-based intervention., Chelsea J. Siwik

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(Pseudo)phase tuning in the service of synthesis: technologies for sustainable catalysis., Justin Douglas Smith

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Food insecuity in historically disenfranchised parts of Jefferson county, KY., Kaitlyn Smith

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Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide for the production of green fuels and chemicals., Jacob M. Strain

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A comprehensive study of the short-term variability of the migrating diurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere., Lokupatabendige Ashan Shivantha Vitharana

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Hotel De Vagabundos: reviewing African American theatre journey., Manuel Francisco Viveros

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The long journey down market street: an oral history based biography of Mary Craik., Denise Vulhop Watkins

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Black middle-class neighborhoods in Louisville through multiple lenses., Jamar M. Wheeler

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Social media and fear: social media as a catalyst for political fear in the United States., Shane R. White

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Changing faces, changing places: understanding immigration, housing market and native out-migration in established and new destinations in the United States., Anqi Xu

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Regression and progression: portrayals of midnighter and apollo wildstrom and dc comics., Adam J. Yeich