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 2024

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Using the State-Reinforced Self-Governance framework to evaluate neighborhood revitalization in the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative., Gifty Amma Adusei

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You don’t look sick: Epistemic injustice, ethos, and embodied expertise in narratives of chronic illness., Caitlin Burns Allen

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Social undermining among police officers in the United States., Weston B. Anderson

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Faculty and "Teams": Academic literacies in the post-lockdown, digital university., Morgan Suzanne Blair

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Utilizing metal ligand cooperativity to activate small molecules., Christine Burgan

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A study of post-quantum cryptographic schemes., Max Cartor

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Ligand-stabilized SnO2 as a high-performance and scalable electron transport material for inverted perovskite solar cells., Sashil Chapagain

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That limbless sign the thesis document., Donna R. Charging

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Predicting the effects of precipitation on groundwater contamination near capped and uncapped coal ash storage facilities in Louisville, Kentucky., Daryl Jialiang Chen

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Alabaster glory., Chloe Cheng

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Preserving archaeology in the digital age: Evaluating strategies for effective curation and database management., Cenetria Leshun Crockett

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The superhero gothic: The montrous hero to the heroic monster in the twentieth century., John Darowski

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An investigation into the structural features that control factor xiii stability and substrate specificity., Rameesa Darul Amne Syed Mohammed

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Origin stories., Danielle Deeley

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Examination of solutrean lithic technology at the Vale Boi site, Southwestern Portugal., Jordan Durham

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The utilization of grassroots organizing by Black women pioneers to achieve reproductive justice., Madison Ruth Ellsworth

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Examining associations between parental meta-emotion, child ADHD symptoms, and socioemotional impairments., Meaghan Flynn

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Applying exploratory learning methods to sociopolitical beliefs and cognition., Sarah French

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Inside the dojo of digital media: What marginalized student perspectives reveal about multiliteracy center practices., Lauren Fusilier

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Children's beliefs about search engines., Lauren N. Girouard-Hallam

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Transforming into a politically engaged actor through Gem of the Ocean., Tajleed Steven Hardy

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Coproduction revisited: From theory to practice., Brenton Clarke Hereford

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Exploring resilience with neuroimaging: Moderators of the impacts of childhood traumatic stress on fear processing., Karisa June Hunt

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Investigations of physical properties of novel magnetic and non- magnetic two-dimensional (2D) alloys., Mohammed Ameen Irziqat

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Class of 1884: Black education in Louisville and the inaugural graduating class of Central colored high school., Jordan Tierre Jackson-Collins

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Art justice: The Nazi aesthetic, cultural theft, and restitution in the 21st century., Kathryn Elaina Jacob

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Engaging for a cause: How nonprofits can leverage theory to maximize video engagement on Instagram., Aiko A. A. A. Jones

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The affable Raphael: Milton's surrogate instructor in paradise lost., Beau Kilpatrick

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The role of forest disturbance and habitat characteristics in shaping arthropod ecology., Kane Alec Lawhorn

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Adding texture through historical research: using dramaturgy to aid in the creation of Elizabeth (Bess) Borney., Nyazia Brittany Martin

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Winter's threads., Andrew Wesley Messer

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From surface to subtext: portrayals of success in superfund remediation., Haley Metcalf-Wade

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Preventing the violent (re)victimization of sexual minority populations: the role of social support networks., Bryan Charles Moore

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Sustainable methodologies for synthesis of small organic molecules using micellar catalysis., Deborah Sam Ogulu

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Are the good times really over for good? American political nostalgia's relationship with rurality, authoritarianism, and victimhood., Chancellor R. Peterson

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Understanding land uses and their manifestations across the rural-urban continua of Rangpu, Bangladesh and Louisville, Kentucky., Md Jakirul Islam Jony Prothan

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Development of a high-resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy apparatus for the study of methane and other astrochemical molecules., S M Shah Riyadh

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Do American bison practice democracy? Group consensus decision making drives bison herd movements and cohesion., Matthew Sapien

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The impersonation artist: A novel with critical afterword: Displacement and dissent in fiction and art., Flora K. Schildknecht

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Electrochemical modulation of surface plasmon wave to investigate DNA-based sensing platforms and detection of SARS-CoV2., Anil Sharma

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A qualitative inquiry into the intersectionality of race, gender, and social networks in STEM education., La'Ree Alexandria Shontee

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Authentic fake: Authenticity and authentication., Suyun Son

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Strategy-proof social choice functions on Condorcet domains., Flannery Marie Musk Wells

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Synthesis, electrical conductivity, electrocatalytic activity for water splitting, and pseudocapacitive properties of perovskite oxide derivatives., Kinithi Meththa Kumari Wickramaratne

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As the night is lit: The nocturnal urban landscapes of Childe Hassam., Diana M. Wilder

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Suspension of the scoundrel: Applying mental health strategies to the acting process., Nicholas Wills

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W.E. B. Du Bois and Audre Lorde's pan-african development: Remedies for the problem of othering., J.E. Young

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Pre-Columbian soil management, settlement, and land use in Amazonia: Insights using micro-regional predictive modelling in Gurupá, Brazil., Lauren Zacks

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