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Theses from 2026
Female Perpetrators in Nazi Germany: The Effects of Nazi Ideology and Radicalization on three Female Concentration Camp Perpetrators, Stephanie Afonso
The Effect of State Abortion Restrictions on Female Labor Force Participation and School Enrollment, Elena T. Albano
The Cultivation of Public Perception: Cultivated Meat Narratives and Misinformation on TikTok, Anna M. Balkus
Going The Distance: How The Disney Renaissance Illustrated The Social And Cultural Changes In America During The 1990s, Deborah A. Bates
Symmetry Breaking And Restoration In The Grasshopper Ising Model, Aradh Bisarya
Comfort in Cases of Sickness: Health and Colonialism at the Eastern Pequot Reservation, 1800-1850, Katherine N. Brauckmann
Temwayaj: An Exploration of Intergenerational Trauma and Resilience Through the Wisdom of Haitian Elders, Niara J. Carrenard
Spine, M.P. Carver
Identity and Distress: The role of misracialization and membership esteem in Multiracial mental health, Jordan Cherry
Slaughter and Slavery: Animal Husbandry and Plantation Production at Sylvester Manor, Long Island, NY, Kristen M. Delatour
A Variational Algorithm for Preparing Superoptimal Thermal States for Quantum Thermometric Measurement Adaptable to NISQ Hardware, Nicholas Donatelli
A Thousand Lives in the Country, David Earl
Beyond Monolithic Narratives: The Interaction of Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Resistance in Shaping Mental Health Among Black Immigrants in the U.S., Krystel Francis
Electrolyte Development and Interfacial Reactions at Multivalent Metal Anode for Next Generation Energy Storage Systems, Leslie Gates
The Furry Community as a Case Study in Identity-Related Conflict, Patrick Hampton
Synthesizing Viscoelasticity: Living Polymers, Micro-Macro Relations, and Paths for Resolution, Adam M. Hasler
Infrared Detectability of Whale Species and Behaviors to Enhance Automatic Detection for Real-Time Vessel Strike Avoidance, Laura J. Howes
We Asked About the "What," and We Got the "How": Parent Appraisals on How Providers Empower and Engage Them in EI, Mariela A. Jimenez
OMAMA-DB: The Oregon-Massachusetts Mammography Database, Avanih Kanamarlapudi
Functionalization of Liquid Metal Nanoparticles Using Different Anchoring Groups of Cyclodextrin for Biomedical Application, Mohammad Forhad Khan
From Ecclesiastical Tradition to Judicial Authority: Divorce in Scioto County, Ohio, 1809-1851, Franchesica Lashelle Kidd
Data Curation and Integration for Cancer Cell Line Pharmacogenomics Analysis, Meric Kinali
A Bostonian in Cuba: Edwin F. Atkins and United States Imperialism in Latin America, Miles Klotz
Petals and Pride: A Botanical History of Queer Expression, Sarah O. Kowal
Spider Biodiversity and Insecticide Sensitivity Across Active and Restored Cranberry Bogs on Nantucket, Tyler J. Kulak
Anti-Mattering and Negative Core Beliefs in the Association Between Internalized Racism and Social Anxiety, Alicia K. López
Filled with Fat, Abagail Lury
Life in the Plague Palace, Arabella Lyon
As Sacred as the Laws of God: Property as the Link between Cicero, Jefferson and Adams, Adam Mattison
'In America on Twofold Mission': Elite Filipina Women on the U.S. Stage, 1898-1929, Catherine D. Mayfield
Dead Letters: Poems, Abigail McCabe
Modeling Kinetics of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Induced Protoporphyrin IX Accumulation for Optimal Photodynamic Therapy, Priscilla Melebor
Civilian Sustenance: Parcel Exchange, Household Provisioning, and Soldier Foodways in the American Civil War, Kathleen Migneault
Beyond A Little Italy: Italian Community Formation in Washington, D.C., Kathleen P C Millander
A Multi-dimensional framework for evaluating conversational realism in dialogue systems, Ayaz Ahmed Mohammed
Symmetric Informationally Complete Positive Operator Valued Measures Minimize p-norm Difference Between Quantum and Classical Probability Rules, Austin Monaghan
Simulating the Movement of a Major League Fastball, Max M. Moss
The Men of This Town & Other Stories, Faisal Murad
Toward the Study of Photon Dynamics in Non-Separable Spacetimes, Kara Nelson
The Nature of Things: An Investigation Into a Viking Age Assembly Site, Tyler L. Perkins
Urinary Collagen as an Indicator of Prostate Fibrosis in Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction, Claweens Quetant
Role of Technical Assistance in Pollution Prevention in Massachusetts Craft Breweries, Shubhechchhya Regmi
Gendered Labor and Dairying on a Northern Plantation, Claire Ross
DRIFTS Analysis of Acetone Oxidation on CeO2 and Ag/CeO2, Massimo Ruscitti
Racism, Coping, and In-race Heterosexism among Asian American Sexually Expansive People: A Moderated Moderation Analysis, Miah Theresse A. Sabas
Microrheological Characterization of Collagen-I Extracellular Matrix Remodeling During TR146 Tumor Spheroid Invasion and PpIX-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy, Himantha Dilshan Saldonge
The Sliding Aperture Transform: A Mathematical Method Applied to Radiation-Induced DLTS Capacitance Transients, Md Abu Bakkar Siddique
"She Was Not Idle:" Women's Economic Participation at a Northern Plantation, Samantha Side
The Livable Forest, Anna Steinbrecher
Propagating Labor: How The Craft Brewery Movement Attracted and Grew a Workforce to Fuel its Rise, Timothy J. Vlieger
Reliable Offline Evaluation under Exposure Bias: A Cross-Scale Study of Counterfactual Estimators in Recommender Systems, Lakshmi Pranathi Vutla
Theses from 2025
Child Abuse in Colonial America, Brian Allen
Breathing, Its Own Feast, Stewart David Arend
The Finest Orientalism: "The Orient" and Empire in 19th Century Romantic Poetry, Nathan D. Banfield
human conditions, Elliot G. Boodhan
Alloy Anodes for Rechargeable Calcium Ion Batteries, Vincent Briselli
Harboring Change: Legacy Contamination, Plant-Metal Dynamics, and the Fate of a Boston Marsh, Emma Brooks
FROM EPIDEMICS TO EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS: AMPHIBIAN MASS MORTALITY EVENTS AND A POTENTIAL TREATMENT FOR CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS, Daniel Callahan
Counter-Mapping a Sugar Mill in Mascarilla, Afro-Ecuadorian Ancestral Territory of the Chota Valley, Andrea E. Chavez Chuquimarca
Shifting Views, Shaping Outcomes: Exploring Relations Between Educators’ Neurodiversity-Affirming Perceptions and Their Autistic Students’ School Experiences, Josh Yen-Ho Chou
Promising Beginnings, Rohan N. Dias
The Role of Wnt5 in Drosophila Lymph Gland Hematopoiesis, Rafael S. Faria
“These They Cut in Pieces, Bones and All…”: An Examination of Pequot Subsistence Practices during the Early 17th Century at the Calluna Hill Site, Groton, Connecticut, Megan V. Goldstein
SUGAR: A Sequence Unfolding Based Transformer Model for Group Activity Recognition, Yash U. Gondkar
Making Tabby, Making Place: Examining a Gullah Geechee Wattle and Tabby Daub Dwelling Through Thin Section Analysis, Jacob E. Hamill
Cannibalizing the Starving: Poverty and Disability in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century America, Cole M. Hayes
US Citizenship: The Gap Between Policy and Lived Reality, Erika Husby
Disability: A Dirty Word? How Language Historically Perpetuates Exclusion and Systemic Oppression, Kelly E. Imm
Exploring Potential Impacts of Polyethylene Mesh and Polypropylene Rope Leachate on Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians) Survival and Growth, Katherine R. Johnson
Autistic Adults In-Session Experiences In Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis Of Helpful And Harmful Factors From First-Person Perspectives, Elizabeth Kilgallon
Molding Leominster's Plastics Industry: The Impact of Italian Immigrant Labor, Kimberly M. King
MICROPLASTIC PRODUCTION AND TOXICITY OF MARINE ROPES ON NANTUCKET ISLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, Amelia Lawson
Empowering Youth in a Changing Climate: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Salt Marsh Summer Science Program, Dan Levesque
The strange made beautiful, the beautiful made strange: Dime museums, freak shows, and the Circassian Beauty in 19th-century American popular culture, Emma P. Lovejoy
The Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty in Prenatal Anxiety: Exploring Meta-cognitive and Psychosocial Moderators, Jenna A. Macri
Getting into Cars with Strangers, Barbara M. Matteau
Choked: How Decades of Failures to Address Air Pollution and Housing Shortages Exacerbated Mortality in Pittsburgh During the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, Virginia Montanez
Everyone Talks About the Sky, Rebecca R. Pacheco
Redefining Community: An Analysis of Black Presence on Nantucket in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Laura A. Paisley
Yankee Gothic, Walker E. Perreault
A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of the Experiences of Clients in Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Empirically Based Process-Oriented Staged Model, Nicholas A. Pierorazio
Physical Activity and Body Image in Early Onset Cancer Patients, Madeleine Z. Pollard
Of Blood and Bone, Ashley Puffer
IRAQ-GCC RELATIONS: BALANCING DIPLOMACY AMID SECTARIAN DIVIDES POST-2003, Firmesk O. Rahim
Low-cost Cutaneous Protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) Detection (CPD) device for follow-up monitoring of patients after photodynamic therapy, Md Asaduzzaman Rasel
OF CORDIAL LADIES AND INDEPENDENT WOMEN: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CERAMIC ASSEMBLAGE OF THE 19TH CENTURY COOPER-FROST-AUSTIN HOUSE, Mikayla Roderick
At Least It's Not Hospital Food: Faunal Analysis of a Virginia Plantation Occupied by the Union Army, Kyett U. Salamone
Something to Say: Nativism, Prohibition, and the Loss of Political Alignment in Davenport, Iowa’s German-American Community 1848-1922, Clayton R. Schuler
Ever Under Steam: The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service in the Spanish-American War, Michael L. Strauss
Improving High Frequency Absorptive Filters For Quantum Computing, Christopher B. Sutton
Silk & Tendons, Sara Sutton
Information Processing In Quantum Thermodynamic Systems, Shou-I Tang
The Homemaker's Guide to Happiness: A Comparison of Methods Used by Dissatisfied Mid-Twentieth Century American Housewives in Their Pursuit of Fulfillment, Kristen Thompson
Charles Coughlin: Conspiratorial Radicalization and the Making of a Fascist, Rachel D. Thompson
Dumbass, Brody Torres