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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
Shaping the Landscape: Analyzing Enclosure Types, Farm Productivity, and Resource Use in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland, Chiara M. Torrini
Wilhelm Von Humboldt and the Idea of the Modern University: The Unity of Bildung and Wissenschaft, Ken Udas
The Past in Practice: The Thompson Island Collection Through a Historical and Pedagogical Perspective, Brittanie Weatherbie-Greco
Foodways and Community: Shellfish Consumption at Sitio Drago in Bocas del Toro, Panamá, Megan E. Winnick
Theses from 2024
Innocence Incarcerated: A Critical Examination of U.S. Wrongful Convictions, 19th Century to Present, Shakala Alvaranga
Consistent Seeds: Assessing Stability and Changes in Fodder at Farmsteads in Northern Iceland, Joseph Aramini
Learning from the Experiences of Multilingual Teachers of Multilingual Learners in Early Childhood, Lindsay E. Beatty
The Role of Regulatory RNAs in the Progression and Development of Prostate Fibrosis, Delaney Rose Bowen
Studies on Human Amyloids and the Effect of Divalent Cations on Insulin Amyloid Formation, Amy Brown
Gray Seal (Halichoerus Grypus) Diet and Microplastic Ingestion on Great Point, Nantucket, Shannon R. Brown
To Fear the Heat of the Sun, David Capone
Estimation of Critical Temperatures in the 2-Dimensional Grasshopper Ising Model, Money Chanalia
Anti-Blackness, Sanism, and Ableism: Establishing a Critical Context to Understand Black Americans' Experiences with the Mental Health System and Mental Health Stigma, Alyssa Christopher
'Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks': How Peanuts, Chewing Gum, Hot Dogs, and Beer Became Icons of Americana Through Baseball, Miles Houman Cipriano
Still Bleeding, Haley Rachel Cohen
Anatomy in Watercolor, Katee Irene Fletcher
Skunked, Johanna Golden
Writing For Your Profession: L2 English Students' Acquisition of Academic English, Sonja Haakonsen
You're Not Gonna Like This, Matt L. Hall
On Fixed Marginal Quantum States in the Quantum Monge-Kantorovich Problem, Tharon Joseph Holdsworth
Evergreen, Madeline Kaprich
A Qualitative Meta-Analysis Examining the Functions and Meanings of Gender in Transgender Identity Development, Kelsey Kehoe
A Quartet of Consequence: Randolph, Rustin, Baker & Levison & The Movement They Made, Jonathan Klein
Numerical Simulation of the Boltzmann Equation, Jason Lau
Sequential GBB and Pictet-Spengler Reactions for the Synthesis of Novel Polyheterocyclics, Wan Sin Lim
A Small Potato, Leanne Ma
Mapping QTL Modulating Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities of Arabidopsis Thaliana, Stuart Morey
The Language Environmental Analysis (LENA) System in Toddlers with Early Indicators of Autism: Test-Retest Reliability and Construct Validity, Nicole Nadwodny
Skew Lines, Suchita Nayar
White Noise: A Dialectical Analysis of Fascism and Supremacy Movements, Eirinn-Jingifer Odell Neel
Ashes of Enslavement: A Post-Revolution Analysis of Wood-Charcoal at the Palace of Sans-Souci, Mary Claire Norton
Frequency Distribution of Graphemic-phonemic Correspondences of Vowels in English Children's Literature, Steven Michael Paquin
Recipes for Resistance: Examining the Reproduction of Indigeneity Through Foodways at the Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA, Caitriona Mackenzie Parker
Sanctified Spaces: An Analysis of Lived Religion and Ceramic Tableware at the Martin Luther Orphans' Home in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Alexander Gartland Patterson
The Study of DMRT1 in Zebrafish and How it Impacts Sex Determination, Raymond Michael Poirier
Nano Curcumin as a Photosensitizer for Photodynamic Therapy Treatment of Oral Lesions, Sudip Pokhrel
Domestic Opposition to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Decline of Isolationism, Andrew Pruden
The Presence of Microplastic in the Lungs of Marine Megafauna, Reese Reiling
Better Light than Never: A New Radiative Mechanism for Observing Binary Black Holes, Paul Rioles
Evaluation of 3D Beach Profiles: A New Method for Monitoring Changes in Beach Morphology and Grain Size, Kalinda Ellen Roberts
That Light, Gerard Robertson
The Effects of Mitochondrial Fission Inhibition on Mitochondrial Quality and Muscle Function in D2-MDX Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystropy, Hannah Grace Rosen
The Effects of IL-4/IL-13 on Fibrotic Persistance in Primary Human Prostate Fibroblasts, Marissa Sarna-McCarthy
Seeds of Resilience: Navigating Genetically Modified Seeds & The Challenges Facing American Agriculture, Daniel Scavongelli
By the Bootstraps: Transformations in Class, Mobility, and the Shoe Industry in 19th Century Grafton, Massachusetts, Lauren Schumacher
Whale Shark, Andie Sheridan
Smooth and Coarse: Stories, Jonathan Matthew Smith