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 2023
First principles study of 2D polar heterostructures., Safia Abdullah R Alharbi
To hell with 'that' religion: Malcolm X and an africana critical theory of religion., Jimmy Earl Butts III
The forest for the trees: how a local arboretum shapes rhetoric and discourse surrounding environmentalism., Cooper Day
The red deeps: a retelling of George Eliot's the mill on the floss., Emily Denton
Someone, stop her! The musical (the gallery show): The thesis document., Hannah DeWitt
The evolution of empathy: through the lens of a rodent model., Caroline Driscoll-Braden
Regeneration: restorative theatre practice in theatre education., Sarah Chen Elston
Mechanism and kinetics of photocatalytic partial oxidation of methane on single site MOx reaction centers., Clint Nathaniel Evrard
“The urgent necessity for more original creative works by transgender and gender expansive artists" is not the title of my thesis., Alicia Barnes Fireel Mx.
Spirits in my studio., Katelyn Gabbard
Understanding the impacts of global change: from students to microbes., Kylea Rose Garces
The well-tempered android: philosophical posthumanism in science fiction cinema., Cody Gault
Paragons of art and nature in eighteenth-century British aesthetic theory., Eduard B. Ghita
The conceptual compression of space and time as intimated in the depiction of the horse in China, circa 1250 BCE-CE 400., Robert Allan Jones
Super p-sulfur cathodes for quasi-solid-state lithium-sulfur-batteries., Milinda Bharatha Kalutara Koralalage
Structural, magnetic, electrical, pseudocapacitive, and electrocatalytic properties of bilayered ruddlesden-popper oxides., Chandana C W Kananke-Gamage
Working for yourself: A guide for performers with learning difference., Sa'id "Nxttime" Kelly
Development of nonorthogonal wavefunction theories and application to multistate reaction processes., Emily Michelle Kempfer
Author(iz)ing literacy: a rhetorical/historical analysis of literacy for college readiness in Kentucky from KERA to the Common Core (and beyond)., Susannah C. Kilbourne
Biotic and abiotic factors contributing to the invasion success of microstegium vimineum in eastern deciduous forests., Kimberly Anne Koenig
Second nature: Impressions of place., Trish Korte
Rainforests of the mind: Conceiving transnational composition from a mobilities perspective on knowledge., Tobias Christopher Lee
Mach and froude numbers on Mars., Camella-Rosa Nasr
Children's beliefs about hierarchical structures and relationships., Megan N. Norris
The landscape does not care it is a landscape: A utopian pessimist journey in Kentucky., Shachaf Polakow
Transmission and the evolution of diseases caused by chlamydia trachomatis, SARS-CoV-2, and plasmodium species., Nathan Steffens
Fear of becoming a victim of crime on a college campus: a visual and factorial experimental design survey analysis of location and demographic factors., Nancy McDaniel Steinmetz
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Divided we fall: gender-based occupational segregation in Kentucky’s executive branch 2012-2020., Hillary McGoodwin Abbott
Media portrayal of private prisons and inmates., Ladye Anna L. Adams
Surface-functionalized chemiresistive films that exploit h-bonding, cation-pi, and metal-halide interactions., Prasadanie Karunarathna Adhihetty
“I don' want to upset anyone - I just want to exist": nonbinary college student experiences at a public mid-southern University., Cat Renee Alexander
2D materials based heterostructure for quantum tunneling: a lithography free technique., Ali Alzahrani
A new SIR model with mobility., Ciana Applegate
Self-regulation in young school-aged children with Williams syndrome., Holley Pitts Arnold
Re-localizing writing assessment: sites of knowledge mobilization., Charlotte Asmuth
Alkylthiocarbamate metal complexes with antiproliferation activity., Kritika Bajaj
SRO roles and teacher behavioral intervention strategies: an analysis on behavioral approaches and student suspensions., Ivan Benitez
"Death can't touch them now": AIDS response and memorialization in Louisville, Kentucky, 1982-1992., Olivia A. Beutel
Search for a dark leptophilic scalar produced in association with taupair in electron-positron annihilation at center-of-mass energies near 10.58 GeV., Diptaparna Biswas
The reading of Sir Toby Belch: a queer and black exploration of William Shakespeare's twelfth night., Jahi E Bogard
Death of a bacterium: exploring the inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus by Burkholderia cenocepacia., Tiffany J. Brandt
Investigating the shared and unique mechanisms of the development of comorbid eating disorder-anxiety symptoms during adolescence., Leigh Cara Brosof
Investigating the income academic achievement gap: an exploration of the roles of mindfulness and self-concept clarity in low-income college students., Natalie Kaylyn Burke
Coping flexibility and academic resilience among low-SES college students., Benjamin J. Calebs
Unraveling DNA and identity: A humanistic perspective on epistemologies and ethics of genetic ancestry testing., Eve Carlisle Polley
Cultivating the human narrative: on Nietzsche, science fiction, and the aesthetics of life., Derek Carpenter
Taiwanese indigenous representation, rhetoric of resistance, and heteroglossia in warriors of the rainbow: SEEDIQ bale., John Yu-Choh Chang
Western Christianity and the origins of antiblackness, eurocentrism, and white supremacist ideology., John Chenault
Meat the future., Xin Chen
Reaching Syrians in need: an analysis of humanitarian aid in the 21st century., James Gregory Clark
The on-line width of various classes of posets., Israel R. Curbelo
The a-word: destigmatizing abortion in American culture., Kathryn Lafferty Danner
Quality of life and end-of-life plans: the inclusion of sexual health., Jacinta Dickens
A content analysis of the female TikTok influencer: how SMIs alter their image and self-presentation based on their communities., Sydney R Dotson
The underbelly of residential segregation, bussing to integrate and the educational ramifications: a case study of Louisville Kentucky., Camara Douglas
Classifying the 2022 status of Tsuga Canadensis (Eastern Hemlock) along the Kentucky portion of the Pine Mountain Wildlands Corridor., Grace M. Embree
Spectroscopic measurements of meibum compositional, structural, and functional relationships to elucidate the role of meibum in dry eye., Anthony Chigozie Ewurum
The effects of stigma on quality of life and psychological outcomes in participants with varying reports of subjective cognitive decline., Lauren Flaherty
Combating frailty: application of a modified skeletal frailty index in modern military and civilian populations., Emily M. Frazier
Properties and classifications of certain LCD codes., Dalton Seth Gannon
The effects of gang membership and transitions in a gang on within-individual changes in offending., Leon Sergio Garduno
A decade of car-cyclist collisions in Louisville: a spatio-temporal analysis., Elizabeth Ferguson Greenwell
Cross-validation for autoregressive models., Christina Han
Contemporary blackface theatre: exploring split second from an authentic black lens to combat white stereotypes., Lamar Alonzo Hardy
La Casita center: an accompaniment based approach to social justice and social service., Ben Harlan
Changing public perception of dementia: the effect and credibility of three informational models., Diana T. DiGasbarro Hedrick
Foreign policy in media: an examination of the Captain America films., Kat Hernandez
Disparate sense of exclusion between young people of color living within variable social infrastructures., James M. Joyce
Determination of the functional role of Rab-GGT in Physcomitrium patens., Hyun Jin Jung
Structural, charge transport, gas sensing, magnetic, pseudocapacitive, and electrocatalytic properties of perovskite oxides., Surendra Bahadur Karki
Effects of top-down attention and individual differences on recognition memory and recollective experience., Anna Maureen Kelley
Small-scale variability in warm season, precipitation around an urban area: a case study of Louisville-Jefferson County, KY., Isaiah I. Kingsberry
A mesonet-based analysis of severe convective winds in west Texas., Quint Long
Effects of monovalent and divalent ions in factor xiii activation and crosslinking., Richard Laporca Lumata
A computational model of the line-1 retrotransposon life cycle and visualization of metabolic networks in 3-dimensions., Michael D. Martin
The impact of sea-level rise in numerically modeled landfalling hurricanes: Katrina and the gulf coast., Serenity Nadirah Mercuri
Development and novel applications of halogenating agents., Sagar Ravso Mudshinge
Sustainable nanocatalysis in water for C–C and C–N Cross-Couplings., Tharique Ahammed Ansari Nalakath
Understanding racial disparate treatment of juvenile interpersonal violent offenders in the juvenile justice system using focal concerns theory., Suzanne M. Overstreet
Factors influencing American Indian adolescents' abstention and desistance from drug usage., Ruben Olegovich Pavlov
Functional role of PPAL and potential for moss in industrial applications., Susana Perez Martinez
Authentically (un)real assessing VH!'s basketball wives and its violent & colorist portrayals of black women., Wilma Denae Powell
Beyond a divide: reconceptualizing digital capital and links to academic proficiency., Ryan Price
A new direction for public understanding of science: toward a participant-centered model of science engagement., Christopher Ritter Rickels
Barriers and opportunities to sustainable urban agriculture: the case of Louisville, Kentucky., Sait Sarr
Progymnasmata and practicality: classical composition in the contemporary classroom., Chelsea Murray Schaper
Plant-pollinator communities responsive to local and landscape level factors in grassland restorations., Aaron Sexton
Definitions and depictions of rhetorical practice in medieval English Fürstenspiegel., Joseph Ethan Blaine Sharp
As above, so below: magical poetics and queer alchemy & a planetary spell.., Robert Eric Shoemaker
Porphyromonas gingivalis, ethanol, and chronic diseases., Nicholas Alan Short
Age-related differences in the relationship between activity familiarity and well-being., S. Kelly Shryock
Putting colorism on trial intraracial colorism and its impact on crime trajectory among African Americans., Shaderica Ta'shawn Sibley
Kurt Vonnegut, modernity, and the self: a guide to the good life., Josh Simpson
Role of Galactose, Thiazolidinediones, and NEET proteins in Mitochondrial physiology and therapeutic development., Robert Anthony Skolik
Black ads matter: an analysis of black representation in advertising., Elyssa Quinn Smith
