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 2012

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Rethinking human and nonhuman animal relations in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello (2003)., Rodrigo Martini Paula

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The unruly woman in prime time animated sitcoms., Sarah Pennington

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"Lessons and exercises in polite literature" : the pedagogy and literature curriculum of Mother Columba Carroll, a Sister of Charity of Nazareth., Anna M. Powell

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The Ilkhanid Mongols, the Christian Armenians, and the Islamic Mamluks : a study of their relations, 1220-1335., Lauren Prezbindowski

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Emotional labor in a gendered occupation : the work of a female funeral director., Allison Scott Pruitt

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Visualizing female agency : space and gender in contemporary women's art in Mexico., Jamie L. Ratliff

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Fenichel's theorems with applications in dynamical systems., Jeremy Warren Riley

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Asymptotics and confidence estimation in segmented regression models., Rebekah Ann Robinson

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Alternative performances of race and gender in hip-hop music : nerdcore counterculture., Jessica Elizabeth Ronald

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From the "war on poverty" to Reagan's "new right," what's in a name? : the symbolic significance of the "welfare queen" in politics and public discourse., Kem Roper

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Unearthing Charles Rolwing : the problem of documentation in the small museum., Elizabeth A. H. Rue 1988-

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Richard III and a comedian's eye., William S. Salmons

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Carbon-sulfur bond formation/cleavage reactions of metal-stabilized thiyl radicals by electrochemical and chemical methods., Kagna Ouch Sampson 1983-

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Turkish housing policies : a case study on mass housing provision in the last decade., Salih Ozgur Sarica 1983-

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An analysis of Hindi women-centric films in India., Srijita Sarkar

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A model of resilience in children at risk for the development of anxiety., Matthew David Hartman Schrock

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Ideological tensions, pedagogical gaps : multilingual engineering scholars' response to language variation in academic writing., Ghanashyam Sharma

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Zooplankton in freshwaters : potential responses to global warming, nutrient enrichment, and exotic jellyfish., Allison S. Smith

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An exploration of African folktales among the Gullah community of the South Carolina Sea Islands : history, culture, and identity., Tytianna Nikia Maria Wells Smith 1987-

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P.A.I.N.T. : a case study in engaging the community through public art., Katherine Jo Sowada

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Fear of criminal victimization in relation to specific locations on a college campus., Nancy M. Steinmetz 1955-

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Examining crime symbiosis : the impact of alcohol outlets on violence in nearby neighborhood park environs., William Cameron Stelzig 1986-

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Ibrida., Dawn N. Struck

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Narrative of modern Chinese masculinity in Ha Jin's fiction., Lezhou Su

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Consumer culture, material desires, and images of women in American novels and art at the turn of the 20th century., Janna S. Tajibaeva

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Journey towards artistry : Blues for an Alabama sky., Jacqueline L. Thompson 1979-

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Adolescent steroid use : a logistic regression analysis., Anthony Gennaro Vito 1987-

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Of mice and sigma : conferred antibiotic resistance in the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium murine model., Rena Margaret Wallen 1981-

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A Sartrean reading of American artists : Walker Percy, Edward Hopper, and Mike Nichols 1940-1970., Zhenping Wang 1963-

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Collections care and management at the Howard Steamboat Museum, Inc., Katherine LeClerq Wanke 1988-

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Finding the brutal aesthetic., Marcy R. Werner

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Albert Taylor Bledsoe : Whig intellectual and proslavery theorist., Lori Jean Wilson 1974-

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The Paramount Ballroom in the 1930s : a modernist social and architectural space., Xi Zhang 1987-

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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A reconsideration of the apse of Hagia Eirene., Eston Adams 1979-

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Historiography, disciplinarity, and the future(s) of composition., Lisa R. Arnold

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Dealing with manhood : general strain theory, masculinity, and the engagement in illicit drug trafficking., Sonita L. Arnold

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Rational design, synthesis and characterization of amide functionalized pyridine and benzimidazole transition metal complexes., Samuel S. K. Asem

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Functionalized nanoparticles for AMF-induced gene and drug delivery., Souvik Biswas

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Motor observation, motor performance, and motor imagery : an ERP study., Eric Brian

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Delinquency : a trajectory analysis of African-American males., Wyatt Brown 1985-

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Neutral magnesium as a probe of high column density QSO absorbers., Joseph N. Burchett

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Application of microfabrication in electrochemical sensing., Susan Carroll

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Addressing identity/redressing the museum., Sarah Guadalupe Cassidy

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Demography of the monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) in the central region of Thailand., Apinya Chaitae 1977-

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The madness is catching : transsexuality and the Cartesian subject., Andrew Edward Clark 1986-

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Electrochemically-fabricated metal nanostructures for sensing, resistive switching, Raman enhancement, and making contact to molecular junctions., Radhika Dasari

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Achievement motivation and self-evaluative emotions in preschool children from low-income families., Crystal A. Day

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Pattern play : pieced works on paper., Gweneth A. Dunleavy 1954-

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Execution ritual : media representations of execution and the social construction of public opinion regarding the death penalty., Emilie Dyer 1987-

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Priest, prophet, pilgrim : types and distortions of spiritual vocation in the fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy., Todd Edmondson

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Quidam homo est asinus : the originality and influence of Peter Abelard upon Medieval thought., Timothy Ernst 1982-

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Lessons from the journey : developing and applying an actor's process through embodying "Uncle Peck" in How I learned to drive., K. Obadiah Ewing-Roush

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Methods and software for nonparametric estimation in multistate models., Amanda Nicole Ferguson

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Social-emotional behaviors in African-American toddlers : the role of risk and protective factors., Paulette Flores 1970-

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Teenage pharmapocalypse? : an exploratory examination of prescription drug abuse., Lorin Brooke Friley

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Noir ontology : existing in the fragmented spaces of Los Angeles., Jacob Andrew Goessling

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Leo Wrye Zimmerman : return to Main Street., McKenna Graham

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Louisville-Jefferson County police consolidation : officers' perception of organizational justice., Joseph Sterling Grant 1962-

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That terrifying center : poetry, language, and embodied subjectivities., Yalonda J. D. Green 1980-

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Attaining the church universal : imagination, popular theology, and ecumenism in the ministry of S. Parkes Cadman, 1920-1936., James C. Hall 1986-

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High dynamic range imaging for the detection of motion., Jeffrey Robert Hay

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Counter-Reformation agenda in the paintings of the Virgin Mary., Sharon Lynne Heaphy 1987-

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They are in silence : refugee women's narratives., Erin Elizabeth Herbert

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Embodied consciousness in non-fiction illness narratives : a phenomenological-sociological approach., Kathryn A. Jacobi

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Power in plaster : the installation of stuccowork during the late antique and early Byzantine periods., Kaelin Merritt Jewell

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Avoiding, pretending, and querying : three combinatorial problems., Adam S. Jobson

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The regulatory function of social referencing in preschoolers with Down syndrome or Williams syndrome., Angela E. John

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Worry in children : proposal and test of a cognitive model., Sarah Jane Kertz

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The nature of anisotropy in gain control pools., Yeon Jin Kim

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Self-control theory : an exploration of racial disparities in offending., EmmaLeigh E. Kirchner

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Quantum and classical description of spin systems with application to coherent relaxation in a resonator., Andrey Klots

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In the words of another : on the promises and paradoxes of rhetorics of empathy., Eric Wallace Leake 1980-

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The dialectic of trauma in Charlotte Salomon's Life? or theatre?, Brooke Leeton

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Marginal nonparametric inference for waiting times in multistage models : hypothesis testing and regression., Douglas J. Lorenz

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A social networking space : a study on the productivity of Twitter in museum practice., Cara C. Lyons

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An exploration of the earthen feminine : the vessel., Sharon Madison 1955-

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Thermolysis stability, solution reactivity and structural studies of a thioperoxide-bridged dimolybdenum(V) dimer., Ackim Maduvu

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The effects of stereotype disconfirming information and self-disclosure on stereotype endorsement, prejudice, and social tolerance of schizophrenia and major depressive disorder., Nicole Leigh Meyer 1983-

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Shifting parenting styles and the effect on juvenile delinquency., Thomas J. Mowen

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The moonlight schools : adult literacy education in the age of Americanization., Samantha Hope NeCamp

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Cycling and women's rights in the suffrage press., Christine Neejer

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For Union, for Confederacy, for slavery : motivation for enlisting & serving among Kentucky's Civil War soldiers., James F. Osborne 1987-

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Regulation of morphogenesis by ammonium transporters in Ustilgo maydis., Jinny A. Paul

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The name of the sandwich itself., Amanda Lee Phillips

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Invisible woman : a case study on black women's experiences in graduate degree programs in central Kentucky., Ciara Nicole Pierce

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Away to freedom : African American soldiers and the War of 1812, Omar Shareef Price

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Acute myocardial infarction patient data to assess healthcare utilization and treatments., Pedro Ramos

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Computationally generated music using reinforcement learning., Kristopher W. Reese

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Three revolutions : a comparative study of democratization and youth movements in the post-Soviet sphere., Christy Lynn Rhodes

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Writing out the storm : trauma and the work of composition., Scott L. Rogers

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Retrograde movements and the educational encounter : working-class adults in first-year composition., James Eric Romesburg

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Theory of mind, social functioning, and awareness of ability in older adults., Sarah Vedrody Rowe

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Species composition, demographics, and ecosystem services of residential trees in Louisville, Kentucky., Shannon A. Scroggins

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Working class in British films 1950s-2000s : identity, culture, and ideology., Tongyun Shi 1961-

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Constructing British identity : Tobias Smollett and his Travels through France and Italy, Michael Anthony Skaggs 1987-

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(An)other gender : a cross-cultural analysis of war-torn France and Great Britain in which Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf redefine "woman"., Anna Stamp 1979-

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Algebra knowledge in early elementary school supporting later mathematics ability., Scott A. Strother 1979-

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Use of statistical analysis, data mining, decision analysis and cost effectiveness analysis to analyze medical data : application to comparative effectiveness of lumpectomy and mastectomy for breast cancer., Beatrice Ugiliweneza

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Gold catalysis and its applications in synthesis of fluorinated organic compounds., Weibo Wang

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Statistical analysis and data mining of Medicare patients with diabetes., Xiao Wang