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 2016

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Patchwork : a southern family portrait., Rebekah Dement Farmer

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Teacher bias in elementary school and the factors that aid it., Camara Uras Douglas

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Challenging conventional wisdom : section 8 housing and the real impact on neighborhood values in Louisville, Kentucky., Paul Francis Dries

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Putting Christians on the map : topographic mosaics from late antique Jordan as representations of authority and status., Tracey Elizabeth Eckersley

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To write a life : three women in history., Justy Louise Engle

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Master Buddha & the jolly golly fun time gang., Todd Edward Evans

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"This machine kills fascists" : the public pedagogy of the American folk singer., Harley Ferris

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9/11 memorials : contested memory, competing narratives, and healing., Jennifer A. Fraley

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Constructing urban life : a study of automobile dependency in 148 mid-size U.S. cities., Chad Paul Frederick

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Kentucky's first statesman : George Nicholas and the founding of the commonwealth., Benjamin Michael Gies

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Impact of luminance and spatial parameters on the generation of the human pattern electroretinogram., Kate A. Godwin

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Using a mouse model to investigate male bias in autism spectrum disorder incidence., Elizabeth Ann Gordon

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Chemoselective reactions and their applications in metabolite isolation and analysis., Sadakatali Shokatali Gori

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Urban flooding and sewer inundation on the University of Louisville Belknap campus., Justin T. Hall

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The process of empathetic bonding with Berniece Charles., Candice Renee Handy

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Computation of Least Angle Regression coefficient profiles and LASSO estimates., Sandamala Hettigoda

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The evolution and analysis of legal protection for medical conscientious objectors., John Peter Hill

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Mechanisms responsible for the development of causal perception in infancy., Nicholas A. Holt

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Murakami-ego : collective culpability and selective retention., Yun Kweon Jeong

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Reel racism, real consequences : a multiple case analysis of savior films as racial projects., Eric A. Jordan

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Materials design and band gap engineering of complex nanostructures using a semi-empirical approach : low dimensional boron nanostructures, h-BN sheet with graphene domains and holey graphene., Cherno Baba Kah

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Exchange patterns and relations in collaborative governance., Charles Wharton Kaye-Essien

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Assessing cultural competence in a mental health outpatient facility., Alexis N. Keen Crook

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To my betas, endless chocolate frogs! : exploring the intersections of emotion, the body, and literacy in online fanfiction., Brittany Kelley

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Social comparison processes as contributors to consistent physical activity., Holly M. Knight

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Identities without origins : fat/trans subjectivity and the possibilities of plurality., MC Lampe

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Woody plant communities of three urban wetlands and the success of an invasive shrub (Lonicera maackii) over natural and experimental flooding gradients., Meghan Rhea Langley

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Plant community responses to the removal of Lonicera maackii from an urban woodland park., Elihu H. Levine

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"Clarity" and "The romantic Marvin Milkweed"., Adam Christopher Lippert

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Nurses' intentions to initiate an antipsychotic or behavioral intervention with nursing home residents : the role of norms, being evaluated, self-efficacy, time pressures, and staffing., Brian M. Ludwin

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Effects of invasive shrub honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) and forest composition on bird communities in woodland stands., Katie Rae Lynch

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The zodiac army., Keith Charles Marks

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Casting calls on the hillbilly highway : a content analysis of Appalachian-based reality television programming., Dan Thelman Martin

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Let's keep in touch : conversations about access and tactility., Whitney E. B. Mashburn

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Race, rebellion, and Arab Muslim slavery : the Zanj Rebellion in Iraq, 869 - 883 C.E., Nicholas C. McLeod

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A qualitative analysis of communality in Louisville community gardens., Victoria Ann Montgomery

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Care, constraint, and collaboration : situating gender and power among multidisciplinary human service organizations., Christa Jane Moore

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Presence and the actor's craft., Casey Richard Moulton

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"The quality of women's intelligence" : female humanists in Renaissance Italy., Julie Myers-Mushkin

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Global population distributions and the environment : discerning observed global and regional patterns., Jeremiah J. Nieves

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Development and applications of novel HF-based fluorination reagents : DMPU-HF., Otome Elisha Okoromoba

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Mathematical hybrid models for image segmentation., Carlos M. Paniagua Mejia

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Dietary resource utilization patterns and head morphology among three sympatric watersnake species., Micah Warren Perkins

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Stories of single mothers : narrating the sociomaterial mechanisms of community literacy., Kathryn Elizabeth Perry

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Analyzing the phenologic dynamics of kudzu (Pueraria montana) infestations using remote sensing and the normalized difference vegetation index., Faye Peters

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Approaches to arthropod conservation : landscape genetics, community assessment, and prediction of extinction risk., Victoria Annette Prescott

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Distress, circadian rhythms, immunity, and survival in presurgical breast cancer patients., Whitney Nicole Rebholz

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A culturally-sensitive cognitive model of worry in African American youth., Allyn Elizabeth Richards

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New game+, Bobby Rich

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A collection of inventions : radio, reeducation, and the postwar German public sphere., James Rooney

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Framing bottled water : an analysis of the framing contest between the anti-bottled water movement and the bottled water industry., Eileen Schuhmann

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Spreading speeds along shifting resource gradients in reaction-diffusion models and lattice differential equations., Jin Shang

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Modern megachurch organization in the United States (2005-2013) : an exploratory organizational study of the American megachurch phenomenon., Robert Lee Shelby Jr.

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Same-sex child molestation within the Boy Scouts of America initiation and termination in victim narratives., Leah Catherine Jihee Shon

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La Minga as a model of food justice? : a thesis on the motivations and practices of immigrant and native-citizen growers at La Minga cooperative farm in Prospect, Ky., Tyler Austin Short

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Identification and characterization of genes involved in metabolism of n5 monoene precursors to n5 anacardic acids in the trichomes of Pelargonium x hortorum., Richa A. Singhal

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Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and the collapse of "surrealist photography"., Elizabeth Ann Driscoll Smith

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Top Drawer : 150 years of Bittners in theory and practice., Wesley Elizabeth Spencer

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This sleep of reason., Brit Thompson

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The Casamance conflict : un-imagining a community., Sandra Tombe

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Structure, spending, and democracy : a study of municipal governments., Neal McIntyre Turpin

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The available means of imagination : personal narrative, public rhetoric, and circulation., Stephanie D. Weaver

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Detecting evidence of systemic inflammation from osteological markers in the Indian Knoll population of Ohio county, Kentucky., Krysta Wilham

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Amused teachers and public readers : empathy and derision in "student blooper" collections., Jessica Winck

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Insights into the introduction histories and population genetic dynamics of the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) and Argentine black and white Tegu (Salvator merianae) in Florida., Jared Price Wood

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The influence of high/low context culture on choice of communication media : students’ media choice to communicate with professors in China and the United States., Xiaoxu Yang

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Imagining the Nigerian nation through the West African pilot 1960-1966., David Zintak

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Sisters of the Mississippi struggle : examining the contributions by women to the fight for voting equality in Mississippi in the early 1960s., Morgan Ackerman, 1980-

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Community characteristics associated with local intergovernmental cooperation., Sarin Adhikari

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The impact of victimization on the disabled., Derek James Allen

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Do hydrocarbon and salinity disturbance affect marine meiofauna diversity and community structure?, Kyle Edward Anderson

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Effects of amplitude modulation on sound localization in reverberant environments., Paul W. Anderson

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Language difference and expansive learning : negotiating concepts, contexts, and identities in writing-related transfer studies., Megan Jeanne Bardolph

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Mapping debris-covered glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru : an object-based image analysis approach., Donald J. Biddle

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Conflicted tourism : heritage narratives, sectarian schism, and economic growth in Northern Ireland., Ashleigh Larissa Bixby

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Doing time by conceiving space : the rhetorical cartographies of imprisoned writers., Benjamin Bogart

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Awareness of executive functioning as a diagnostic tool for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease., Jeremy Stark Carmasin

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William Faulkner and alcoholism : distilling facts and fictions., Quintin Thomas Chipley 1956-

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Capital? child rape : does public opinion support the use of the death penalty on child rapists?, Charlene Kaye Chudacoff 1987-

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The evolution and ecology of individual specializations amongst a group of dietary generalists., Carl S. Cloyed

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The love that refuses to speak its name : examining queerbaiting and fan-producer interactions in fan cultures., Cassandra M. Collier,

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High-precision time-series photometry for the discovery and characterization of transiting exoplanets., Karen Alicia Collins 1962-

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Support partners of registered sex offenders : exploring their experiences, identities, and perceptions., David Patrick Connor

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Atmospheric nitrogen assimilation in Ustilago maydis., Michael Cooper

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Canterbury and the crown : how the personal relationships between Tudor monarchs and their Archbishop of Canterbury affected the Church in England., Mary Alexandra Covington

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Temporal information processing across primary visual cortical layers in normal and red light reared tree shrews., Wenhao Dang

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Adapting to Eda : embracing change and acting accordingly., Tia LeShaun Davis 1989-

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Sex offenses at Protestant Christian churches : a typology and examination using social disorganization theory., Andrew Stephen Denney

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Optical and sensing properties of various shaped gold nanoplates and highly controlled asymmetric gold nanoplate/nanosphere coupled assemblies., Aiqin Fang

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Dietary carotenoids and the complex role of redness in the behavior of the firemouth cichlid Thorichthys meeki., Sarah Anne Fauque

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Intimate partner psychological abuse and posttraumatic stress symptoms : the role of shame during recall of psychological abuse memories., Kimberly N. Fleming

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Order automorphisms on the lattice of residuated maps of some special nondistributive lattices., Erika D. Foreman

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Youth graffiti vandalism : liminal perspectives in the light of masculinity, social contract theory and transformative process., Alton C. Frabetti

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Educational excellence through dual degrees : using Symbolic Convergence Theory to make it happen here., Stephanie Ann French

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Testing the chronic care model for depression in homebound older adults., Brittney Rose Getz

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Effects of different agricultural management systems on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity, community structure, and ecosystem services., Charles Bradford Gottshall

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Food safety : analyzing the connection between government and industrial influence., Jennifer Lee Hall 1983-

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The tools of one-handed Zen : Hakuin Ekaku's technological and artistic charisma., Brandon James Harwood 1982-

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Provisions of labor : prehistoric evidence for economic behavior at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico., David Alan Hoefer 1959-

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More than "moon gold and marbles" : rationalization, reform, and the transformation of the American circus, 1900-1940., Matt Holdzkom 1981-