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Dissertations from 2020
Her Seat at the Table: A Youth Participatory Examination of Food Insecurity Among Latina High School Students, Jessica Frances Arrendol-Kiely
How Do Black Mothers Navigate the Structures and Spaces of Special Education Programs to Advocate for Their Sons?, Phanenca Babio-James
From Minamata to Mines in Ghana: A Cross-Scale Study on Global Governance of Mercury Use in Artisanal And Small-Scale Gold Mining, Timothy Adivilah Balag'kutu
Supporting Teachers to Use Restorative Practice Circles to Improve Student Outcomes in Elementary School Classrooms, Marlana Mueller Barrasso
Defining and Conceptualizing Disability: An Examination of How Culture Shapes the Understanding of Disability for Parents Who Immigrate to the United States, Lisa Langone Berard
Doctor-Patient Communication by Email: Trends, Determinants, and Effects of Digital Disparities on Email Use and the Association between Email Use and Quality of Communication in Health Care, Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic
Characterizing the Impacts of the Invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on the Forest Structure of New England, Peter Brehm Boucher
The Rise and Rise of the Criminal Record: Power, Order and Safety in the United States, 1848-1960, Charles W. Brackett
The Entanglement of Gender, Science, and Interdisciplinarity: Standpoints of Women PhD Students in Interdisciplinary Traineeships, Kate Bresonis McKee
Exploring a Shared Perception of Family Engagement within Schoolwide PBIS Through an Environmental Walk, Lauren M. Brodsky
Examining Cultural Equity: Boston’s Arts & Culture Sector, Marian Taylor Brown
Where Do We Come From? A Quantitative Study of the Backgrounds and Professional Qualities of Special Education Transition Specialists in Massachusetts, Jennifer Carr Callison
An Integrative Model of Mental Illness Identity Development: Volunteerism as a Supplement to Treatment for Depression, Self-Esteem, and Psychological Well-Being, Candace C. Cantrell
How do Emerging Bilinguals Learn Math?: The Role of Translanguaging in an English-Only Middle School Mathematics Classroom Setting, Mustapha K. Coker
The Influence of Medicare Insurance Type – Traditional Fee-For-Service v. Medicare Advantage – on Rehospitalizations for Patients with Heart Failure in Skilled Nursing Facilities, Andrea Elizabeth Lane Daddato
Using Passive Acoustic Data to Track Changes in Baleen Whale Distribution Throughout the Western North Atlantic Ocean, Genevieve E. Davis
Balancing the Environment and Development: Environmental Reform and Mainstreaming at the World Bank Ethiopia Country Office, John Michael Denney
Culturally Sustaining Learning Environments in Public, Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges: Bridging Cultural Wealth, Epistemic Values, and Pedagogical Stances, Liya N. Escalera-Kelley
Identifying Drivers of and Quantifying North Atlantic Right Whale Local Abundance, Laura C. Ganley
Firm Networks, Priya Garg
The Effect of Job Demands, Control, and Support on Job Satisfaction and Intent to Leave among Massachusetts Home Health and Supportive Home Care Aides, Hayley P. Gleason
Public-Private Partnerships in Education: A Vertical Case Study of the Right to Education Act (2009), India, Sheetal Gowda
The Political Economy of Migration Governance: How Political Actors, Networks, Institutions and Policies Impact the Migration-Development Nexus in the Global South, Christopher C. Graham
Paleoclimate Reconstruction of the Gulf of Maine During the Recent Holocene (Past 5000 Years) Using Archaeological Mollusk Shells, Amy Elizabeth Johnston
How Universal are Democratic Values? A Study of the Urban Middle Class’s Valuation of Core Democratic Ideals in a Hybrid Regime, Priyanka Kabir
High School Teachers' Perceptions of Social Studies in the Context of Accountability, Kristina M. Kelleher-Bianchi
Sense of Control and Frailty Among Older Adults, Bon Kim
Family Ties and Subjective Aging in Later Life, Yijung K. Kim
Educators Bailan with Policy et le Pouvoir in the Educação of Multicultural and Multilingual Learners (WIDA ELD Standards and the Education of English Learners), Fernanda Marinho Kray
Painting the World Crimson: The Global Spread of Graduate Management Education as Facilitated by Harvard Business School, Keshav Krishnamurty
How Does Grading Schools Impact Florida’s Teachers and Students? The Need for a New Approach to School Accountability, Luke Aubry Kupscznk
Adapting Social Emotional Learning to Impact Internalizing Problems in an Urban School, Kathryn D. Kurtz
Participate for Peace: The Impacts of Participatory Deliberative Democracy on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Central America, Marcia D. Mundt
The Experiences of Women on Their Career Pathways to the College Presidency: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Audrey M. Nahabedian
Women’s Pathways to Political Leadership in Kenya: Institutional and Cultural Factors Impacting Women’s Political Leadership in County Level Government, Rose A. Nyaondo
The A/Effects of Implicit Bias on the Academic Success of Black Students Attending Urban Public Schools in the Northeastern Region of the United States, Nadine R. O'Garro
Feasibility of a Multi-Domain Online Health Intervention for Latinas with Chronic Pain, Marta E. Pagan-Ortiz
Managing Methadone Mile: Dynamics of Neighborhood Change and Social Control in Boston's South End, Adam W. Pittman
Nanoparticle-Biological Interfaces: Study and Applications in Therapy and Biosensing, Cristina Rodriguez-Quijada
More Seats at the Table: An Examination of the Role of Natural Supports in Promoting Postsecondary Transition for Students with Disabilities in Rural Maine, Elizabeth Stone-Sterling
Lost in Translation: Understanding Education Policy Implementation in Nepal, Sushmita Subedi
Socio-Economic Well-Being of International F-1 Students Living and Working in the United States, Elena K. Taborda
Gonadal Steroid-Independent Sexual Behavior in Female and Male B6D2F1 Gonadectomized Mice, Jay Scott Templin
Aging with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Analysis of Physical Activity Engagement, Danielle A. Waldron
Intergenerational Relationships and Sleep in Aging Families, Haowei Wang
Role of Health Information Technology in the Engagement Process of Older Adults' Cancer Treatment Decision Making, Maryum Zaidi
Dissertations from 2019
Identifying Relevant Genes in Arabidopsis Thaliana the Modulate the Rhizosphere Microbiome, Daniel Acuña Hurtado
Therapists' Experiences Discussing Sexuality in College Counseling Centers: Implications for Professional Development, Bonnie K. Andrews
Black Family Engagement Through Communication Technology: A Phenomenological Study from the Perspective Of Urban Public High Schools Parents In The Greater Boston Area, Mariette Bien-Aime Ayala
Welfare Reform and the Health of Low-Income Single Mothers: The Impact of Policies Under the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunities and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), Allyson L. Baughman
Dreams of College: In Pursuit of Higher Education While Undocumented, Alessandra Maria Bazo Vienrich
To Adopt or Not to Adopt: Factors Impacting States’ Pursuit and Implementation of ACA’s Home and Community-Based Programs, Lisa Kalimon Beauregard
Place, Preferences, and Policy: An Analysis of Funding Education Along the Urban-Rural Divide, Kattalina Berriochoa
The Effects of a Hand Gesture Instruction Game on Social Skills of Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Samantha R. Broadhead
The Impact of Stigmatization on College Students Returning from Mental Health Leave, Don A. Camelio
Making Sense of HIV in the Shadow of the AIDS Crisis: Understanding the Lived Experience of Recently Diagnosed Gay and Bisexual Men 50 and Over, Timothy Carreiro
How Faculty Beliefs Shape Teaching Practice: A Critical Race Collaborative Action Research Approach Toward Achieving Equity Outcomes in Community College Remedial English, Lori A. Catallozzi
Developmental Roles of Beta-Arrestin Kurtz Revealed by Structure-Function Analysis, Fei Chai
The Early Development of Visual Working Memory, Chen Cheng
Factors the Motivate Community College Faculty to Teach Online with Implications for Access and Equity, Jenene M. Cook
Teaching for Transformation: Enabling the Exploration of Disorienting Dilemma in the Classroom, Lisa DeAngelis
Parallel Computation of Bivariate Point Data Depths and Display of Intrinsic Depth Segments, Jane Holly DeBlois
Sexually Dimorphic Serotonin System Development Mediates Sex-Specific Neuronal Excitability, Kimbra A. Edwards
Using Currere as a Form of Self-Writing among Urban Teens, Kimberly J. Frazier-Booth
Addressing Diversity with Abnorms: Implications For Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease, Samuel C. Gable
The Role of the Environmental Context in Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults, Brittany E. Gaines
Associations of Measures of Body Composition and Physical Activity with Markers of Bone Health, Meghan E. Garvey
Responsibility Development in Young Men in Postsecondary Settings: Construct Structure and Contextual Influences, Gabriel M. Garza Sada
Fingerprint-Based Localization with Limited Training Data, Siyuan Gong
Evaluating the Impact of a Combined Word Problem-Solving Intervention on Elementary Students’ Mathematics and Social Emotional Skills, Kaitlin M. Gould
Enhancing User-Oriented Security and Privacy in Emerging Data Sharing and Sensing Services, Mohammad Hadian
Health Consequences of Retirement Among Married Couples, Sae Hwang Han
A Process for Change: A Grounded Theory Investigation of Participatory Action Research as a Means for Countering Mental Illness Stigma Experienced by Transition-Aged Black Youth, Jacqueline G. Hargrove
Dismantling an Intervention Aimed at Increasing White People's Knowledge and Understanding of Racial Justice Issues, Alissa L. Hochman
Ocean Acidification Impacts on Teleostean Otolith Development, Robert J. Holmberg
Influence of Global Change Drivers on a Tropical Lake and Watershed, Étang Saumâtre, Haiti, Helenmary M. Hotz
Do Race and Ethnicity Influence Turnover Intention in Newly Licensed Registered Nurses?, Mary Susan L. Howlett
Clusterability, Model Selection and Evaluation, Kaixun Hua
Real-Time Eye Movement Analysis for Biometrics and Driving Safety, Shaohua Jia
High Performance Computing Techniques to Better Understand Protein Conformational Space, Arpita Joshi
The Governance of Transnational Security Threats in Fragile States: The Case of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) 2007 – 2017, Abigail Kabandula
Towards a Critical Theory of Rehabilitation Counseling: A Labor History of Vocational Rehabilitation in the United States, Andjela H. Kaur
“I Can’t Separate Me Being Gay and Me Being an Athlete”: A Phenomenological Study of LGBQ+ Women Student-Athletes, Erin A. Kelley
The Study of Visual Attention: From Raw Data to an Interdisciplinary Environment, Do Hyong Koh
Pediatric Critical Care Nurses' Use of an Evidence-based Pressure Injury Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline, Lindyce Ann Kulik
Environmental Disruption of the Developmental System During Early Life, Hannah E. Lapp
Finding Personal Meaning and Self-Efficacy as Moderators of Behavioral Action in Social Anxiety, Carol S. Lee
Three Essays on Corporate Information Environment, Corporate Social Performance, and Corporate Financial Outcomes, Rongbing Liu
Five Year Follow-Up of a Cohort of Women with Precancerous Lesions of the Cervix in Cameroon, Simon M. Manga
Investigating the Role of CXCL12 and CXCR4 in Addiction: Age, Sex, and Environment Matters, Briana Marie Mason
Effects of Visual Impairment on the Preparation, Response, and Recovery from the 2017 Hurricane Season in Puerto Rico, Kevin D. McCormack
Global Governance and the Post-Colonial State: Women, Gender, and Public Opinion in Public Policymaking in Trinidad & Tobago 1956-2005, Deborah N. McFee