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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Environmental factors, not plants, contribute to functional diversity of soil bacteria in the dunes of lake michigan., Andrea Stark Howes
Unthink pink : master narratives and counterstories of breast cancer., Jessica C. Hume
Media framing and public opinion of refugees: news coverage of Hungarian refugees, 1956-57., Cecelia M. Hunt
Fantastical body narratives : cosplay, performance, and gender diversity., Tiffany M. Hutabarat-Nelson
Evaluating ligand assisted activation of small molecules through proton reduction and alcohol oxidation., Rahul Jain
Student attitudes on social media and perception of instructor social media use., Abi Mathew John
A curriculum of civic responsibility : transitioning Black American students to college-level writing., Jamila M. Kareem
Retellings : a collection of nonfiction essays., Jennifer Kiefer
Extending difference of votes rules on three voting models., Sarah Schulz King
Intraspecific differences in belowground associations and seedling root morphology for the biofuel crop, Panicum virgatum., Erin Renee Kinnetz
Traces of the (un)familiar : family, identity, and the return of the repressed in the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard., Hunter Martin Kissel
Controlled electrochemical synthesis of single one-dimensional metal nanochains across microgap electrodes., Amareshwari Konutham
The art of silence., Lydia Anne Kowalski
Moral time and homicide investigations., David Stuart Lapsey Jr.
Artificial olfactory system for multi-component analysis of gas mixtures., Alexander Aleksandrovich Larin
Urban governance reconsidered : assessing the roles of public-, private-, and third sector leaders in governing the modern city., Benjamin Colby Leamon
This is just a phase : the impact of population structure on haplotype phasing and linkage disequilibrium measures at functional genetic sites., Roxanne Kaaren Leiter
Development of recyclable gold nanoparticles for routine benchtop catalysis in organic transformations., Shengzong Liang
Some problems arising from mathematical model of ductal carcinoma in SITU., Heng Li
The military meets the university : mapping issues of literacy sponsorship across military and academic settings., Ashley Ludewig
Residuated maps, the way-below relation, and contractions on probabilistic metric spaces., M. Ryan Luke
Labor and happiness., Tyler Reid Madden
From damsel in distress to active agent : female agency in children's and young adult fiction., Megan Sarah McDonough
The knowledge economy : increasing human capital on the U.S. I-65 corridor., Brandon S. McReynolds
American emergency : catastrophe and culture in the U.S.A., from the Civil War to Hurricane Katrina., Lynda Kristian Mercer
James Franklin Bell : hard war in the Philippines., Daniel Michael
Short stories., Karley Miller
Characterizing reactive glutamines in fibrinogen and elucidating factor XIII substrate specificity., Kelly Njine Mouapi
A cross-sectional exploration of household financial reactions and homebuyer awareness of registered sex offenders in a rural, suburban, and urban county., John Charles Navarro
Sonic intolerance : aural yellowface during the golden age of American radio., Greyson Perry Neff
The influence of sport participation on youth binge drinking., Jason Nicholson
A spatial analysis of the relationship between violent neighborhood crime rates and alternative gentrification indicators in Louisville, KY (2010-2016)., George A. Noonan
Challenging the self : an examination of the media's role in creating idealized bodies and the artists that challenge them., Jessica Oberdick
Southern veils : the sisters of Loretto in early national Kentucky., Hannah O'Daniel
Chemoselective reagents for derivatization of trace--level volatile carbonyl compounds using a microreactor approach., Mumiye A. Ogunwale
Breaking the cycle of silence : the significance of Anya Seton's historical fiction., Lindsey Marie Okoroafo (Jesnek)
Trinity part one : food of the Gods., Thomas Edward Olges
Thomas Merton : evil, suffering, zen and the purified soul theodicy., David Edward Orberson
Transplantar : los frutos de sus labores Transplant : fruit of their labor., Marie-Elena Ottman
Nonspreading solutions in integro-difference models with allee and overcompensation effects., Garrett Luther Otto
Oil, space, and national imaginaries : discursive productions by standard oil New Jersey post WWII., Michael Poindexter
Moving mountains : a study examining long-term impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining on mortality in the Appalachian region using geographic information sciences techniques., James Howard Kent Pugh
Gene expression of ammonium transporters in Ustilago maydis and their role in pathogenicity and virulence., Kirsten Richardson
Organizational collaboration and its impact on immigrants and refugees in Louisville., Elizabeth Burdette Roberts
The lose-lose situation : identity prioritization and gendered communication in co-recreational intramural basketball., Megan Robinson
Ironic deference : an inquiry into the nineteenth-century feminist rhetoric of Kesiah Shelton., Melissa Rothman
Hard to see through the smoke : remembering the 1912 Hillsville, Virginia courthouse shootout., Travis A. Rountree
Remotely sensed heat : variation and change in surface urban heat islands in a temperate eco-region of the United States., Jeremy Sandifer
The dangers and self protective behaviors of ride share drivers., M. Angela Schwendau
Transversal approaches and ecological artwork., Madison DeAnna Sevilla
The otaku phenomenon : pop culture, fandom, and religiosity in contemporary Japan., Kendra Nicole Sheehan
Finding exuberance for the role Shelby in Baltimore., Danielle Smart
Fabrication and functionalization of carbon nanocages for use in CFx batteries., Nathan Smith
Norton Commons, Clifton, and social equity : a neighborhood, inter-neighborhood, and regional comparison of new urbanism and “old” urbanism., Aaron J. Stephenson
Colorectal cancer FIT screening in the hope vi population of Jefferson County, Kentucky., Jeffrey D. Stone
Cumulative trauma, emotion reactivity and salivary cytokine response following acute stress among healthy women., Yvette Z. Szabo
The sources of behavioral reinforcement : an examination of nonsocial reinforcement theory., Heather Tolle
Dead places : American horror, placelessness, and globalization., Katherine Ashley Wagner
Emotion socialization and families of children with and without ADHD., Danielle M. Walerius
LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination laws in Kentucky., Christopher M Wales
Regulation of haplid phenotypes in Ustilago maydis by ammonium transporters and components of the b mating locus., Rena Margaret Wallen
Embeddedness and commitment : tracing patterns of family instability and child wellbeing over time., Heidi Michele Williams
Examining the link between press freedom and politics., Megan Wollerton
The cultural creation of Fulvia Flacca Bambula., Erin Leigh Wotring
An analysis of the relationship between snowpack and groundwater across Utah watersheds., Samuel Wright
Transient absorption studies of CdSe nanocluster passivated with phenyldithiocarbamate ligands., Yizhou Xie
Farmscapes : picturing land transformation in nineteenth-century America., Eileen L Yanoviak
How Muslims help : an ethnography of Muslim voluntary assistance for Syrian refugees in Louisville, KY., Irene Levy Yates
Heterogenization of complexes with redox active ligands for hydrogen evolution reaction., Wuyu Zhang
Spatial patterning and human behavior in level "F" at Lapa do Picareiro., Brandon K Zinsious
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Synthesis, characterization, and electronic properties of novel 2D materials : transition metal dichalcogenides and phosphorene., George Anderson
Effect of migration, carrying capacity, and fecundity on the formation of clinal patterns during range expansions., Neha J. Angal
Effects of glyceollin on mRNA expression in the female mouse brain., Sanaya Firdaus Bamji
When the silver screen fades to black : an analysis of black faces in film., Travesheia Rashel Bass
How the city of Indianapolis came to have African American Policemen and Firemen 80 years before the modern civil rights movement., Leon E. Bates
Patterns of early lexical and gestural development in children with Williams syndrome., Angela M. Becerra
Learning from science lectures : students remember more and make better inferences when they complete skeletal outlines compared to other guided notes., David Bradley Bellinger
Applying situational crime prevention to terrorism against airports and aircrafts., Molly Mae Block
Investigating the influences of climate on the high elevation snowpack hydrology in the upper Colorado region., Claire-Louise Bode
An environmental history of the Rio Grande in the Panama Canal zone, 1521- 1950., Francisco Javier Bonilla
Crime and culture : a thematic reading of Sherlock Holmes and his adaptations., Britney Broyles
A nativist upsurge : Kentucky's Know Nothing Party of the 1850s., Eric B. Brumfield
The colored librarian : Thomas F. Blue and the Louisville Free Public Library's Colored Department, 1905-1935., Jacob Carlton Burress
An evaluation of Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis applied to Landsat 8 OLI images for mapping land cover in southern Africa's Savanna., Fernando Ferreira Caixeta
"If this stuff matters, why isn't it being shared?" : citations, hyperlinks, and potential public futures of online writing in rhetoric and composition., Elizabeth Frances Bergeron Chamberlain
Site responsibility : eco-art and environmental ethics in the anthropocene., Nicholas Flint Collins
A study of the radiative pion capture process as a background to the search for muon to electron conversion with the mu2e experiment., Jacob Colston
Working from the outside in., Byron Lee Coolie Jr.
Exploring differences between the health and wellness of state police officers and community corrections professionals., Rodney Allen Copenhaver
"We weren't created to do it by ourselves" : good mothering and maternal support across race, class, and family structure., Cheryl Lynn Crane
"Puritan hypocrisy" and "conservative Catholicity" : how Roman Catholic clergy in the border states interpreted the U.S. Civil War., Carl C. Creason
The queer child and haut bourgeois domesticity : Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt., Jessica Cresseveur
"A part of, rather than apart from" : Louisville's black arts scene in the mid-twentieth century., Wesley Sawyer Cunningham
Examination of the relevance of PI3K and PTEN pathway in Ustilago maydis., Nathaniel Edward Dalton
Negotiating resistance with the character G in Naomi Izuka’s Polaroid stories., Konrad Ormand Davis Jr.
Secular but not superficial : an overlooked nonreligious/nonspiritual identity., Daniel G. Delaney
