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 2010
Fiber optic chip for fully-guided Raman iterrogation of molecular adsorbates., Jennifer Burnett
The trickster, the griot, and the goddess : optimal consciousness in the works of Ntozake Shange, Kara Walker and India. Arie., Tiffany D. Caesar 1985-
The changing discourse of death : a study of the evolution of the contemporary funeral industry., Lisa Suzanne Crabtree 1980-
Assurance and frustration : from Ireland and the Netherlands to Jamestown., Keith A. Donahoe
Vincent van Gogh, a formal and psychological analysis of the final years at Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers., Sue Ann Grey 1943-
Bum hunters : the simulations and neutralizations of negative actions taken against the homeless on YouTube., Elizabeth Anne Griffith 1986-
New Deal printmaking : politics and protest., Andrew Joseph Hardin
Life history and convervation of Elliptio crassidens from the Blue River, Indiana., Cassandra L. Hauswald 1975-
Insiders or outsiders? : the rhetoric of compromise in post-Reconstruction institutionally-sponsored African American literacy., Anne Lawson Whites Heintzman
Seeking a spiritual home for women : a comparative study of Chen Ran's and Amy Tan's fictions., Jing He 1979-
Pursuing pleasure, attaining oblivion : the roles and uses of intoxicants at the Mughal court., Stephanie Honchell 1984-
Size and composition dependent electrochemical oxidation and deposition of metal nanostructures., Olga S. Ivanova
The content and critical metaphor analysis of illustrated print advertisements in China., Chun Jiang
Freedom in middle French Enlightenment : interpreted through a picturesque garden., Ning Jia 1977-
Difference as identity in "The other story" and the 1993 Whitney biennial., Vanessa Faye Johnson
The gorilla and the cuttlefish., Nick Karl 1982-
The production and migration of educational capital : some states win and others lose., Patrick J. Kelly
Cultivating our mosaic : understanding the language choices of Canadian immigrant students., Julia E. Kiernan
The role of HSL7 in morphology and pathogenicity and its interaction with other signaling components in the plant pathogen Ustilago maydis., Charles Ben Lovely 1977-
The laws will fall silent : Ex Parte Quirin, a troubling precedent for military commissions., Brad P. Luebbert 1968-
Female Gothic, Chinese and American styles : Zhang Ailing's Chuanqi in comparison with stories by Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers., Zuqiong Caroline Ma 1980-
Re-conceptualizing the Bible Belt : Southern spirituality in the novels of James Wilcox., Ashton Moats
Politically divided : a comparative analysis of German right-wing extremist voter support., Carolyn Marie Morgan
From Edmund Husserl's Image consciousness to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's flesh and chiasm: the phenomenological essence of image., Sara J. Northerner
A manifestation of all life : intersections of virtue ethics, philosophy of emotion, and philosophy of literature., Derek Lee Penwell 1965-
Small farmers, slavery, and the political economy of Kentucky's Green River, 1790-1850., Christopher P. Petzold 1982-
Gender role stereotypes in advertising : a test of the match-up hypothesis on advertising effectiveness., Sara Picklesimer
The effects of estrogen and phytoestrogens on focal infarct, PTEN, and p-AKT expression in aged rats., Karen Powell
Role of eukaryotic Sel-1 like repeat containing genes in Helicobacter pylori evolution and pathogenesis., Kalyani Putty
"Still I rise!" Public discourse surrounding the development of public schools for African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky, 1862--1872., Michelle Bachelor Robinson
The personal and social benefits of airplane piloting as a serious leisure activity for women., Frances Louise Shupe 1956-
The electrochemical synthesis, chemical synthesis, and galvanic exchange of silver nanostructures directly on surfaces., Grzegorz W. Slawinski
Writing in/on the Borderlands : (basic) writers and the writing center., Allison Egnew Smith
Do sovereign wealth funds mitigate authoritarian rule?: a statistical analysis of sovereign wealth funds and the resource curse., G. Jason Smith
Testing the use of molluscs to infer climate with special reference to the late Cenozoic molluscs of the Meade Basin, southwest Kansas., Brian William Steffen 1975-
Data mining and analysis of lung cancer data., Guoxin Tang
Messianic light : utopian discourse in the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Luce Irigaray and Giorgio Agamben., Heather Anne Thiessen 1956-
Postwar Sierra Leone : are programs of reconstruction addressing the causes of war?, Lovetta Anita Thompson 1985-
More real than real : an anthropological and phenomenological exploration of imagistic sacred space in the contemporary elegy and fine art photograph., Amy Liann Tudor 1968-
Daily emotional experiences, stress, and PTSD symptoms among midlife women exposed to intimate partner violence : an experience sampling study., Rebecca Ann Weigel
Queer tension : Le Teuer inside me., Nicholas Ryan Wood 1986-
"Upside down from the word go" : Kentucky's black farmers speak out on the issue of land loss., Willie Jamaal Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Electrochemically mediated charge transfer effects on single-walled carbon nanotubes., Buddika KA. Abeyweera 1980-
In the wor(l)d but not of it : literacy practices of an Amish community in southeast Ohio., Tabetha Adkins
Structure and properties of maximal outerplanar graphs., Benjamin Allgeier
Friedrich Schiller's play : a theory of human nature in the context of the eighteenth-century study of life., Susan M. Bentley
Applications of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz on bipartite graphs., Timothy M. Brauch
Model extensions and applications in mathematical imaging., John Marion Cochran
Hong Kong's cultural identity reflected in Jackie Chan's films., Yajuan Ding 1969-
Black female journalists : experiences of racism, sexism and classism in the newsroom., Amber Genile Duke 1981-
Would you like to talk? : the impact of media and interpersonal communication on knowledge about candidates and likelihood of voting., Donna M. Elkins 1968-
The quilt as concept., Denise Mucci Furnish
Race and city-county consolidation : black voting participation and municipal elections., Angela Stallings Hagan
From vice to nice : A case study of Newport, Kentucky's HOPE VI program., Matthew Jude Hanka 1980-
A Ferrari engine with bicycle brakes : mothers' perceptions of family communication patterns when having an ADHD child., Anita Hoag 1967-
Anticipatory grief in the context of dementia caregiving., Caitlin Holley
Sprawl, equity and fire department response times across the U.S., Matin Katirai
Integration of the avoidance cycle with the schema enmeshment model of pain : relationships with quality of life and disability in chronic, nonmalignant pain., Jeffrey A. Meyer
"Metaphors we teach by": representations of disciplinary and teacherly identity., Stephen Edwin Neaderhiser 1978-
The exploration of color theory in museum education using works found in the J. B. Speed Museum's collection., Jonathan Ratliff 1986-
Installing Anatsui : the politics of economics in global contemporary art., Brandon Reintjes
Ultrakinetic features of anime texts: revisioning composition theory and exploring visual rhetoric pedagogy., Karen Ware 1973-
Speech perception and the McGurk effect : a cross cultural study using event-related potentials., Jia Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Disappointment domains, quality of life, and the impact of mental illness : an evaluation of demographic differences., Christina Lynn Adkins
Playing House., Tracey Bennett 1979-
Multimodal and print composition : an examination of instructors and students transferring rhetorical knowledge in first-year composition., Sonya Compton Borton
Breaking into the tutor's toolbox : an investigation into strategies used in writing center tutorials., Kate Brown
Chemical signals as a means of determining health status and selecting mates in humans., Amy M. Cavanaugh
HD 100453 : an evolutionary link between protoplanetary disks and debris disks., Karen Alicia Collins 1962-
Drawing as an investigation of perception., Nicholas Croghan 1981-
Within walls., Melinda Floyd 1980-
Literacy practices in a First Nations community : women writing culture., Alanna Frost
Congress, framing, media and bankruptcy reform, 1997-2005., Dollie Jane Greenwell 1984-
Faery and the Beast., Abigail Heiniger 1985-
Advancing the knowledge of local health care policy through the growth machine thesis., David P. Houvenagle 1965-
Op art : perceptions of reality., Christine Michelle Humphrey 1982-
The consciousness of damnation : A hermeneutical phenomenology of the fall of the self in Matthew Lewis's "The Monk"., Becky Lee Meadows
Redox-regulated ethylene binding to a rhenium-thiolate complex., Kagna Ouch 1983-
"I had always been opposed to colonialism" : President Harry S. Truman and the end of European colonialism., Timothy J. Pifer 1957-
I. Studies of cyclic peptides containing the arginine-glycine-aspartic acid pharmacophore; II. Targeting drugs to bone., Natali Brooke Richter
St. Ambrose and the architecture of the churches of northern Italy : ecclesiastical architecture as a function of liturgy., Sylvia Crenshaw Schneider 1948-
Celtic subtleties : Brian Friel's appropriation of the O'Donnell clan., Leslie Anne Singel 1984-
Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants : a local or a global pollutant?, Paul Franklin Tirey 1961-
Sin city Kentucky : Newport, Kentucky's vice heritage and its legal extinction, 1920-1991., Michael L. Williams 1948-
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Young children's use of causal connections during storytelling : The role of context and individual differences in attention., Danielle D. Brown
The association of employment and out-of-pocket health care expenditures burden for poverty families., William A. Carroll 1960-
Making birth control acceptable : the development of the twentieth century birth control movement., Elizabeth Caskey 1983-
Constructing the Robert Kingsley papers., Heidi Caudill
Transnational advocacy networks in the international system : lessons from Ecuador., Isabella Marie Christensen 1977-
The unseen : one actor's journey from the mind to the stage., James Patrick Cronin 1982-
Violence and horror : the anti-technology of subjectivity., Christopher William Curry 1973-
André Jeunet : expanded educational opportunities for a photographic exhibition., Brian J. Davis 1958-
Circadian disruption in women with breast cancer., Eric Dedert
Soil phosphate detection and archaeology : in-stride phosphate detection and the elimination of arsenate interference to the malachite green method., Laura A. DeNeve
Ambiguity and triangles : United States policy and action during the referendum crisis of 2003-4., William David Frost 1982-
