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 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
Re-localizing writing assessment: sites of knowledge mobilization., Charlotte Asmuth
Alkylthiocarbamate metal complexes with antiproliferation activity., Kritika Bajaj
"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
Investigating the shared and unique mechanisms of the development of comorbid eating disorder-anxiety symptoms during adolescence., Leigh Cara Brosof
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(De)Legitimizing genres: rhetoric and tactical institutional critique., Walker Smith
Black women burdening: the process of "unburdening" realism in Dennis McIntyre's split second., Brandi L. Threatt
Characterization of microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae secreted effector proteins that manipulate its host plant, Silene latifolia., Ming-Chang Tsai
Betwixt & between., Xuanyi Wang
Dimension and Ramsey results in partially ordered sets., Sida Wan
Rewriting writing as transmodal and translingual: Tranßcribing Japanese., Alex Way
The role of accuracy in children’s judgments of experts’ knowledge., Allison J. Williams
The glass coffin: gothic adaptations and the formation of sexual subjectivity., Colton T. Wilson
Transformation., Jingshuo Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A spatial analysis of supply-demand of public transportation in Jefferson County, Kentucky., Nastaran Abdoli
A study of Arab and South Asian American men with immigrant-family origins in new-immigrant destinations., Jack Trey Allen
Sustainable urban groundwater governance in Faisalabad, Pakistan: challenges and possibilities., Shahbaz Altaf
"If fear wasn't enough?!": African American perceptions of policing after Breonna Taylor's unprovoked death., Moriah Antoinette Bellamy
Visualizing Anhydrobiosis: Liquid-liquid phase separation, membraneless organelles, and cellular reorganization., Clinton J. Belott
Study of neutral hadron production in a high intensity particle physics experiment., Jake W. Berg
Incidental exposure, political activity and perceived trust., Brianna Berry
But also full of seeds for a future that could have turned out differently., Megan Marie Bickel
Letting the days go by: an Investigation into the artistic and functional nature of calendars., Elise Alexandra Blankenship
Acting on what we hear: the impact of a listening methodology in a community literacy program., Megen Farrow Boyett
In pursuit of innocence: A study of race and ethnicity differences in time to exoneration., Virginia E. Braden
Exploring socialization processes for leisure-based esports: a qualitative study., Joseph R. Brewer
Defending Judge Roy Moore: a case study of persuasion resistance strategies., Stephen F. Brockman
Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic activity of functionalized metal Bis(thiosemicarbazones)., Caleb Aaron Calvary
Prageru as a parasite public., Ryan A Corso-Gonzales
The impact of criminal justice involvement: examining experiences in a housing first program., Amanda N. Denton
Resonating otherness: rethinking the body through Octavia Butler's dawn., Tristan DeWitt Carr
Black codes re-envisioned: the Dred Scott Majority opinion as an antiblack performative speech act., Tiffany Dillard-Knox
Habitation and interaction in the lower Illinois river valley: a case study on household structure and ceramics at the German site (11C377)., Catherine Zoe Doubles
Micellar nanocatalysis for efficient reactions., Uyen T Duong
Imagination in practice: writing studies and the application of hospitality., Edward Alan English
"When the voices of children are heard": evaluating the biological effects of socioeconomic status on children in postmedieval London., Ashley R. Ezzo
Synthesis, crystal structure and ionic conductivity of ruddlesden-popper oxide materials: effects of ionic radii and defects on lithium-ionic conductivity., Selorm Joy Fanah
Transnational writing program administration: mobility, entanglement, work., Joseph Franklin
Typological and technological analyses of multi-component Lithic collection from Eastern Kentucky., Isaac C. Garvin
Theoretical investigation of the Co-C bond activation in methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin-dependent systems: mechanistic insights., Arghya Pratim Ghosh
Explosive family dinners: bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy & me critical afterword convulsive family dynamics: when mental and neurological disabilities entangle and isolate., Elizabeth Lane Glass
Ultrafast magnetic entropy dynamics with time-resolved pump-probe magneto-optical technique., Sahar Goharshenasanesfahani
Improvised power: finding an authentic acting aesthetic in an adaption of Mowatt's fashion., Alexander Louis Gordon
General strain theory and violent behavior in a military sample., Leslie A. Greenwell
Literacy abilities of children and adolescents with Williams Syndrome., Caroline Greiner De Magalhaes
