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 2023

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Fbg αC 389 – 402 modulates Factor XIII crosslinking in the fibrinogen αC region., Francis Dean Orlina Ablan

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“Difference in/at the center" a transnational approach for mobilizing international multilingual graduate writers' writing assets during writing instruction., Olalekan Adepoju

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First principles study of 2D polar heterostructures., Safia Abdullah R Alharbi

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Perovskite oxide derivatives for enhanced electrochemical water splitting and pseudocapacitor applications., Md. Sofiul Alom

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Formalizing the Faustian bargain within the healthcare domain: an end-of-life approach., Rachel Appel

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Scalable solution processing of NiOx nanoparticles., Peter James Armstrong

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Understanding associations between chronic illness identity, psychological flexibility, and type 2 diabetes emotional, behavioral, and psychosocial functioning., Valery Bodziony

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Connections between polyvictimization, daily stress, emotion regulation, and mental health symptoms: An ecological momentary assessment study., Zoe L. Bridges-Curry

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To hell with 'that' religion: Malcolm X and an africana critical theory of religion., Jimmy Butts

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Breaking virulent: The coincidental evolution of virulence factors in bacteria., Rhiannon Emmanuelle Cecil

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Perception is reality! How perception shapes our world., Nicole Clay

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False memories are impacted by semantic pairing of DRM lists., Ryan Coleman

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Land tenure and the urban institutional politics of sustainability: How sustainability "lands" in the relationships between global North and South contexts., Lindsey Connors

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The forest for the trees: how a local arboretum shapes rhetoric and discourse surrounding environmentalism., Cooper Day

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The red deeps: a retelling of George Eliot's the mill on the floss., Emily Denton

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Someone, stop her! The musical (the gallery show): The thesis document., Hannah DeWitt

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The self-consistent field energy landscape and its application to describing electron correlation., Xinju (Spancer) Dong

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The evolution of empathy: through the lens of a rodent model., Caroline Driscoll-Braden

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Regeneration: restorative theatre practice in theatre education., Sarah Elston

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Public space and well-being: an empirical study of Central Park in Old Louisville., Maryam Entezam

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Mechanism and kinetics of photocatalytic partial oxidation of methane on single site MOx reaction centers., Clint Evrard

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“The urgent necessity for more original creative works by transgender and gender expansive artists" is not the title of my thesis., Alicia Fireel

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Spirits in my studio., Katelyn Gabbard

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Understanding the impacts of global change: from students to microbes., Kylea Garces

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The well-tempered android: philosophical posthumanism in science fiction cinema., Cody Gault

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Paragons of art and nature in eighteenth-century British aesthetic theory., Eduard Ghita

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From androgyny to binary and back: a qualitative analysis of nonbinary TikToks., Savannah Hatton

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A machine learning approach to constructing Ramsey graphs leads to the Trahtenbrot-Zykov problem., Emily Hawboldt

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Promotional communication for a college food pantry: findings from a cross-sectional assessment of socioecological variables related to past use of a campus-based food pantry., Bunny Marie Hayes

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Effects of a protection zone in a reaction-diffusion model with strong Allee effect., Isaac Johnson

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The conceptual compression of space and time as intimated in the depiction of the horse in China, circa 1250 BCE-CE 400., Robert Jones

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Super p-sulfur cathodes for quasi-solid-state lithium-sulfur-batteries., Milinda Bharatha Kalutara Koralalage

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Structural, magnetic, electrical, pseudocapacitive, and electrocatalytic properties of bilayered ruddlesden-popper oxides., Chandana Kananke-Gamage

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Working for yourself: A guide for performers with learning difference., Sa'id "Nxttime" Kelly

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Development of nonorthogonal wavefunction theories and application to multistate reaction processes., Emily Kempfer

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Author(iz)ing literacy: a rhetorical/historical analysis of literacy for college readiness in Kentucky from KERA to the Common Core (and beyond)., Susannah Kilbourne

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Media consumption effects on college students' perceived risk of victimization and fear of crime: Does the usage of social media police scanners alter public perceptions of safety?, David Kim

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Biotic and abiotic factors contributing to the invasion success of microstegium vimineum in eastern deciduous forests., Kimberly Koenig

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Second nature: Impressions of place., Trish Korte

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Rainforests of the mind: Conceiving transnational composition from a mobilities perspective on knowledge., Tobias Lee

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Still got the blues - no time but here, no place but now: geographies of art & activism in the work of Clyde Woods., Jake Mace

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Non-western rendition of ambient rhetoric of Khajuraho monuments., Shiva Hari Mainaly

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Agency in learning and e-learning through the lens of disability and inclusivity., Marta Martin

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Interactive computer-based simulations as exploratory learning activities., Derek McClellan

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Penalized Bayesian exponential random graph models., Vicki Modisette

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Electrodeposition studies of gold nanoparticles and alginate hydrogel films., Harikrishnan Nambiathan Nambiar

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Mach and froude numbers on Mars., Camella-Rosa Nasr

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Children's beliefs about hierarchical structures and relationships., Megan Norris

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Computational investigations of bond breaking processes using DFT and TD-DFT approaches., Saurav Parmar

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The landscape does not care it is a landscape: A utopian pessimist journey in Kentucky., Shachaf Polakow

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BioCaRGOS: Capture and release gels for optimized storage of biologics., Chinmay Shashank Potnis

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Tropical understory and canopy twig ants (pseudomyrmex): natural history, sensory homing, and neuroecology., Daniella Prince

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From "smart talk" to "living well": Commonplaces and their role in narratives of rare disease., Caitlin E. Ray

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New methodologies for sustainable organic synthesis in water., Sudripet Sharma

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Critical regionality & alternative pedagogies in Eastern Kentucky., Zachary Shelton

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Communicating in crisis: Rhetorical (de)stabilization during the COVID-19 pandemic., Brittany Nicole Smart

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Embodying an afrofuturist character on stage: A case study in the performance of Sarah B. in Afromemory., Candace S. Spencer

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Transmission and the evolution of diseases caused by chlamydia trachomatis, SARS-CoV-2, and plasmodium species., Nathan Steffens

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Fear of becoming a victim of crime on a college campus: a visual and factorial experimental design survey analysis of location and demographic factors., Nancy Steinmetz

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Intercalation and high-pressure investigations of black arsenic phosphorus: unraveling material transformations., Dinushika Vithanage

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“Long live ear x-tacy!”: an oral history study of rhetorics of nostalgia and place., Aubrie Warner

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Stability of Cauchy's equation on Δ+., Holden Wells

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Development and applications of novel and practical fluorination reagents., Yuhao Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Divided we fall: gender-based occupational segregation in Kentucky’s executive branch 2012-2020., Hillary McGoodwin Abbott

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Media portrayal of private prisons and inmates., Ladye Anna L. Adams

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Surface-functionalized chemiresistive films that exploit h-bonding, cation-pi, and metal-halide interactions., Prasadanie Karunarathna Adhihetty

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“I don' want to upset anyone - I just want to exist": nonbinary college student experiences at a public mid-southern University., Cat Renee Alexander

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2D materials based heterostructure for quantum tunneling: a lithography free technique., Ali Alzahrani

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A new SIR model with mobility., Ciana Applegate

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Self-regulation in young school-aged children with Williams syndrome., Holley Arnold

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Re-localizing writing assessment: sites of knowledge mobilization., Charlotte Asmuth

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Alkylthiocarbamate metal complexes with antiproliferation activity., Kritika Bajaj

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SRO roles and teacher behavioral intervention strategies: an analysis on behavioral approaches and student suspensions., Ivan Benitez

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"Death can't touch them now": AIDS response and memorialization in Louisville, Kentucky, 1982-1992., Olivia A. Beutel

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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

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The reading of Sir Toby Belch: a queer and black exploration of William Shakespeare's twelfth night., Jahi E Bogard

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Death of a bacterium: exploring the inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus by Burkholderia cenocepacia., Tiffany Brandt

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Investigating the shared and unique mechanisms of the development of comorbid eating disorder-anxiety symptoms during adolescence., Leigh Cara Brosof

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Investigating the income academic achievement gap: an exploration of the roles of mindfulness and self-concept clarity in low-income college students., Natalie Burke

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Coping flexibility and academic resilience among low-SES college students., Benjamin J. Calebs

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Unraveling DNA and identity: A humanistic perspective on epistemologies and ethics of genetic ancestry testing., Eve Carlisle Polley

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Cultivating the human narrative: on Nietzsche, science fiction, and the aesthetics of life., Derek Carpenter

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Taiwanese indigenous representation, rhetoric of resistance, and heteroglossia in warriors of the rainbow: SEEDIQ bale., John Yu-Choh Chang

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Western Christianity and the origins of antiblackness, eurocentrism, and white supremacist ideology., John Chenault

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Meat the future., Xin Chen

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Reaching Syrians in need: an analysis of humanitarian aid in the 21st century., James Clark

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The on-line width of various classes of posets., Israel R. Curbelo

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The a-word: destigmatizing abortion in American culture., Kathryn Lafferty Danner

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Quality of life and end-of-life plans: the inclusion of sexual health., Jacinta Dickens

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A content analysis of the female TikTok influencer: how SMIs alter their image and self-presentation based on their communities., Sydney R Dotson

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The underbelly of residential segregation, bussing to integrate and the educational ramifications: a case study of Louisville Kentucky., Camara Douglas

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Classifying the 2022 status of Tsuga Canadensis (Eastern Hemlock) along the Kentucky portion of the Pine Mountain Wildlands Corridor., Grace M. Embree

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Spectroscopic measurements of meibum compositional, structural, and functional relationships to elucidate the role of meibum in dry eye., Anthony Chigozie Ewurum

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The effects of stigma on quality of life and psychological outcomes in participants with varying reports of subjective cognitive decline., Lauren Flaherty

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Combating frailty: application of a modified skeletal frailty index in modern military and civilian populations., Emily M. Frazier

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Properties and classifications of certain LCD codes., Dalton Seth Gannon

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The effects of gang membership and transitions in a gang on within-individual changes in offending., Leon Sergio Garduno

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A decade of car-cyclist collisions in Louisville: a spatio-temporal analysis., Elizabeth Ferguson Greenwell

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Cross-validation for autoregressive models., Christina Han

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Contemporary blackface theatre: exploring split second from an authentic black lens to combat white stereotypes., Lamar Alonzo Hardy