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 2020

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The sick ones., Christian Loriel Lucas

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Marriage and cohabitation in the United States: the effects of union type on relationship quality., Courtney M. Lush

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Getting up: an ethnography of hip hop graffiti writers, their art, and perceptions of society's reactions., Theodore Malone

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Computational modeling of photolysis and catalysis reactions in vitamin b12-dependent enzymes., Abdullah Al Mamun

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Role of plant volatile organic compounds (VOCS) in seed priming and plant-herbivore interactions., Abhinav Kumar Maurya

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Practicing Pan-Africanism: West Indians and governance in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana., Nicholas C. McLeod

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Fatalism as a cultural influence on correlates of anxiety and worry in Latino/a adolescents., Judy Mier-Chairez

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A forgotten shade of blue: support for the union and the constitutional republic in southeastern Kentucky during the civil war era., Howard Muncy

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Contemporary francophone west African social movements in the rise of neo pan-africanism: a case study of y en a marre in Senegal., Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Ndiaye

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Search for new physics using lepton flavor violating signatures in modern particle colliders., Atanu Pathak

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Electrochemically-modulated surface plasmon waves at a nano-scale for investigations and applications of redox assemblies., Aymen Hasan Qatamin

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On the straight and narrow: how cultural beliefs about sex/gender manifest in college biology learning environments., Katherine Ray Kng

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Convolution inequalities and applications to partial differential equations., Matthew Reynolds

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The intersection of mindfulness and gratitude: examining the roles of gratitude and mindfulness practices within a 4-week mindfulness-based intervention on depressive symptoms in undergraduates., Allison Rodgers

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Peer verbal sexual harassment in early adolescence: a feminist and sexual scripts theoretical approach., Shawn M. Rolfe

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Good grief: an analysis of the character development of Tonya in August Wilson’s King Hedley II through the lens of “the five stages of grief”., Kala Ross

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American nocturne., Zahid Saeed

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Water cluster motifs in structurally similar N-(2-Aminoethyl)-1-Methylimidazole-2-Carboxamide metal complexes: synthesis, characterization, thermal and electrical properties., Nina Saraei

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Making modality: transmodal composing in a digital media studio., Chris Scheidler

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Undergraduate students use moral reasoning and belief in genetic determinism in response to a CRISPR/Cas9 socioscientific Issue., Katie M. Seiter

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Functional nanomaterials by combining aminooxy chemistry and iodine activation at momolayer protected clusters., Tirtha Raj Sibakoti

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Linear methods for regression with small sample sizes relative to the number of variables., Rajesh Sikder

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Assaults on law enforcement officers: a spatial and theoretical analysis through social disorganization., Brian Keith Simpkins

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Depressive symptoms and survival among lung cancer patients: biomarkers and potential benefits of an iPod- and mindfulness-based intervention., Chelsea J. Siwik

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(Pseudo)phase tuning in the service of synthesis: technologies for sustainable catalysis., Justin Douglas Smith

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Food insecuity in historically disenfranchised parts of Jefferson county, KY., Kaitlyn Smith

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Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide for the production of green fuels and chemicals., Jacob M. Strain

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A comprehensive study of the short-term variability of the migrating diurnal tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere., Lokupatabendige Ashan Shivantha Vitharana

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Hotel De Vagabundos: reviewing African American theatre journey., Manuel Francisco Viveros

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The long journey down market street: an oral history based biography of Mary Craik., Denise Vulhop Watkins

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Black middle-class neighborhoods in Louisville through multiple lenses., Jamar M. Wheeler

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Social media and fear: social media as a catalyst for political fear in the United States., Shane R. White

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Changing faces, changing places: understanding immigration, housing market and native out-migration in established and new destinations in the United States., Anqi Xu

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Regression and progression: portrayals of midnighter and apollo wildstrom and dc comics., Adam J. Yeich

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Use of anodic stripping voltammetry to study the size-selective electrophoretic deposition and aggregation-dependent oxidation of metal nanoparticles., Stacy L. Allen

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2D materials based heterostructures : a lithography free method., Adel Alruqi

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Religious coping measurement in the context of long-term care., Nathaniel David Andrew

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Send nudes : art on social anxiety and human connection in an internet driven society., Lauren A Bader

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Do LGBTQ-identified, postsecondary writing instructors come out in their classrooms?, Michael Baumann

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Exploratory learning activities in the physics classroom: contrasting cases versus a rich dataset., Campbell Rightmyer Bego

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Urban (un)planning and social vulnerability in the context of rapid urbanization and data constraints: a quantitative study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania., Sheliza Bhanjee

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Understanding worry and mindfulness through psycholinguistics., Elena Maria Clara Geronimi Bortoleto

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The tournament and chivalry as represented by Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, and Geoffrey Chaucer., Hailey Michelle Brangers

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"A trained and trustful soul" : life and literature of a black Louisville artist in minstrel America., Emma Christine Bryan

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Thinging : powerful objects., Tammy M. Burke

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A study of big field multivariate cryptography., Ryann Cartor

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Algebraic properties of neural codes., Katie C. Christensen

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The genesis and development of deathscapes in America -- a story of how Chicago and Louisville cemeteries demonstrate the shifting rationale of cemetery placement during the 19th and 20th centuries., Thomas D. Cleven

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Worker-owned cooperatives as urban economic development., Nick Conder

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Vital data : writing and circulating data in non-profits., Patrick Danner

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Wounds and writing : building trauma-informed approaches to writing pedagogy., Michelle L. Day

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Lithium molybdate-sulfur battery., Ruchira Ravinath Dharmasena

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Disentangling the negativity bias: 7-9-month-old crawling and non-crawling infants' responses to fearful and angry expressions., Katherine C. Dixon

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Changing internal identity through physical crafting in performance., Lauren Elizabeth Dobbs

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Exploring place as a producer of localized art styles and its role in a contemporary global art world., Alexis Doerr

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Experimental immunology and the potential for osteopathological reconstructions : pursuing an experimental foundation for the skeletal inflammatory index., Megan Elizabeth Duncanson

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Anthropogenic landscapes of Amazonia : a spatial analysis of landscape modification and settlement organization at Macurany, Brazil., M. Grace Ellis

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Vlogging truth to power : a qualitative study of resilience as practiced by transgender youtube content creators., Corey J. Feger

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Impartiality, social network effects and collective memory: three essays on trust in police., Matthew Robert Fischer

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Emotion regulation is associated with peer victimization among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder., Nicholas D. Fogleman

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Police stress, depression, and substance use among police officers: a general strain perspective., Kyra Nicole Fritz

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User's ability to detect fake news in online environments., Aleeza N. Gardner

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"Model and patriarch" of southern settlements : neighborhood house in Louisville, Kentucky, 1896-1939., Kalie Ann Gipson

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Learning and laboring : student-workers’ networked experiences of literacy, agency, and mobility in the Neoliberal University., Layne Porta Gordon

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Behavioral and cognitive correlates of intolerance of uncertainty in children with and without anxiety disorders., Colette Marie Gramszlo

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Trauma narratives in mental health interpreting : a qualitative study., Miranda Hale

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Towards a theory of human mobility and wall-building: a comparative analysis of Hadrian's Wall and the Iron Curtain., Timothy Heine

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A new fantasy of crusade : Sarras in the vulgate cycle., Christopher Michael Herde

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Subversive sponsorship : organized literacy education and the long civil rights movement., Jaclyn Hilberg

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The captivity narratives of Cynthia Ann Parker : settler colonialism, collective memory, and cultural trauma., Treva Elaine Hodges

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Oxygen deficient perovskites: effect of structure on electrical conductivity, magnetism and electrocatalytic activity., Ram Krishna Hona

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The actor’s rhythm, internal beat., Lashondra Cherell Hood

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Speech articulation in children with Williams syndrome or 7q11.23 duplication syndrome., Myra Jean Fallon Huffman

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An electrochemical instrument for the analysis of heavy metals in water via anodic stripping coulometry for applications in remote sensing., Kelsey Lynn Kaht

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Exploring the Indian opinion : interpretations of colonialism, anti-colonial activism, and Gandhi's influence in three African countries, 1950-1960., Alexander Ganesha Kaliannan

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Coming to terms with Gonzo journalism : an analysis in Russian formalism., Beau Kilpatrick

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Hybridity and political disorder : a mixed method approach to understanding the hybrid regime., Bryce Jamison Kleinsteuber

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A multi-plot assessment of vegetation structure using a micro-unmanned aerial system (UAS) in a semi-arid savanna environment., Nicholas E Kolarik

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Remaking identities, reworking graduate study : stories from first-generation-to-college rhetoric and composition PhD students on navigating the doctorate., Ashanka Kumari

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Marriage among U.S. international students : meanings and aspirations., Assel Kuzembayeva

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Evaluation of a learning community program for developmental reading students at a two-year college., Tonya Scott Lanphier

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Characterizing majority rule on various discrete models of consensus., Trevor Leach

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A study on radiative pion capture as a source of background in the search for muon to electron conversion at the Mu2e experiment., Joseph Leibson

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Representation and restraint : cross-national analysis of fractionalization and state-building., David Lian

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Queering black greek-lettered fraternities, masculinity and manhood : a queer of color critique of institutionality in higher education., Antron Demel Mahoney

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Brokering words and work: complexities of literacy sponsorship in the oilfields of south Texas., Jennifer L. Marciniak

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Denkyem (Crocodile): Identity development and negotiation among Ghanaian-American millennials., Jakia Marie

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Progressive city in the progressive era : child welfare reform in Louisville Kentucky., Mary K. Marlatt

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Curating an American immigrant identity : German and Latin American heritage weekends as placemaking in Louisville, Kentucky, 1974-1980., Sarah Elizabeth McCoy

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Developmental changes in reasoning about cross-classified individuals., Catherine H. McDermott

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Help-seeking for cognitive impairment by the patient : the role of self-compassion., Allison J. Midden

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Mapping rural literacy sponsorship networks : literacy infrastructures and perceptions in Abbyville., Amy McCleese Nichols

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Reading the readers : analyses of Shakespearean and Cervantine characters as (dys)functional readers., Erin Shannon O'Reilly

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Stability and reactivity analysis of single metal and bimetallic nanostructures by anodic stripping voltammetry., Dhruba Kumar Pattadar

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Involuntary memories after stressor exposure: contribution of hormonal status and rumination in women., Samantha C. Patton

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Laser spectroscopy investigations of jet-cooled metal-containing free radicals., Anam Chandra Paul

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Waiting room., Helen Payne

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Allee effects introduced by density dependent phenology., Timothy James Pervenecki

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Exploring individual and dyadic associations of dispositional mindfulness as an ameliorative factor of anxiety and roommate satisfaction among undergraduate roommates., Kala Phillips

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GC×GC-MS and parallel 2DLC-MS based untargeted metabolomics., Md Aminul Islam Prodhan