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Theses from 2010
SPO71 is Required for Proper Prospore Membrane Size in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Crystal Baker
Relative Socioeconomic Status and the Probability of Migration: A Study of the Effects of Relative Socioeconomic Status on the Decision to Migrate to the United States, Alexandra Souza Vieira Barker
The Role of Sulfur in Biomineralization: Argopecten Irradians and the Impact of Ocean Acidification, Bryanna Joy Broadaway
Denison House: Women's Use of Space in the Boston Settlement, Heather Marie Capitanio
Halfway-in-Between: A Collection of Interrelated Short Stories, Kevin Collins
Latino Immigrant Mothers' Experiences and Adapations to Promote Personal and Family Wellness in Response to Increased Anti-Immigrant Climate, Hercilia B. Corona-Ordoñez
"A Good Sized Pot": Early 19th Century Planting Pots from Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, Rita A. DeForest
What We Want to Remember, Jennifer De Leon
Environmental and Natural Disasters in Haiti: The Impacts of Failed Policies From 2004 to 2010, James Douby Ralph Eliscar
Electrochemical Investigation of Nafion-clay Nanocomposite Membranes for Use in Fuel Cells, Christine E. Felice
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Native American Maize Agriculture at the Smith's Point Site, Kelly A. Ferguson
Reproductive Status and Body Condition of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus, in the Gulf of Maine, Jennifer Lane Goldstein
The Relationship between Racist Experiences and Anxiety in a Black Sample: Moderating Effects of Church-Based Social Support, Jessica Rose Graham
Caregiver, Family System, and Environmental Predictors of Child Maltreatment: An Ecological Transactional Approach, Kelly Brooke Graling
Trajectories of Early Externalizing Behaviors: Their Relation to Second Grade Reading, Sarah Gray
Gentility and Gender Roles Within the 18th-Century Merchant Class of Newport, Rhode Island, Nicki Hise
"The Most Horrific Tale": Violent Modernity and the Changing South in Faulkner's Sanctuary, Chad Martin Jewett
'King Prime of Fredonia Lane': An Archaeology of Leadership in Hyde Park, New York's Early Nineteenth-Century African American Community, Trevor Arthur Johnson
Italian Prisoners of War and Italian Service Units: From Enemies to Co-belligerents, Paul J. Jordan
Entertaining, Dining, and Novel Drinking: Rural Gentility and the Reverend John Hancock's Household, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1700-1750, Katie Lynn Kosack
What Do You See in this Picture?: Bias and Reflexivity in Physician Narratives of Disparities, Michelle Levine
Save The Old South! The Preservation Movement that Saved the Old South Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts, Jeffrey Paul Robinson
Class, Class Mobility, and the Consumption of Household Technology in Salem, Massachusetts, 1890-1914, Candace Stephens
Modest Ministers or Posh Preachers?: A Study of the Personal Adornment Collection of the Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington, Massachusetts, Sarah Ann Stephens
Analysis of Putative ĸB Sites in Arabidopsis Thaliana, Daniel John Trask
Beef, Mutton, Pork, and a Taste of Turtle: Zooarchaeology and Nineteenth-Century African American Foodways at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Michael Andrew Way
Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States, Christopher Wright
Theses from 2009
Democracy in Russia: An Analysis of the Process of Democratization in Post-Soviet Russia, Douglas F. Gray
"That Charm of Remoteness": A Study of Landscape Stability in Little Compton, Rhode Island, Katharine M. Johnson
Rainsford Island Shoreline Evolution Study (RISES), Christopher V. Maio
Theses from 2008
"Respecting Our Oppresst Community": People of Color in a Massachusetts Town, Before and After Freedom, Rita Hutchinson
Theses from 2006
US-Mexico Relations and NAFTA: Lessons Learned for South America and the FTAA, Marion E. Gordon
Theses from 2005
Negotiating Boundaries of Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Lifeways on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut, Craig N. Cipolla
Albania: A Case Study of Socio-Economic and Political Effects of Transition to Democracy, Ira Lazic
A New Interpretation of the Drug Levodopa in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease, Joanne T. Vannah
Theses from 2004
Calvin Coolidge: Puritan Progressive, Joel J. Andreasen
Theses from 2003
Reexamining the Impact of September 11th on Relations Between Saudi Arabia and the United States, Faisal bin Khaled Al Saud
Contemporary US/Korean Relations: A South Korean Perspective, Kelly Tobin
Theses from 2001
The Creation of a New England Gentry: The Winslows of Plymouth Colony, Karin J. Goldstein
Theses from 2000
A Changing Bridge for Changing Times: The History of the West Boston Bridge, 1793-1907, Dale H. Freeman
Theses from 1995
The Road to Monomoy: Chatham, Massachusetts, and the Cape Cod National Seashore, Douglas W. Doe
Theses from 1994
From Italy to Boston's North End: Italian Immigration and Settlement, 1890-1910, Stephen Puleo
Theses from 1993
Genocide and the Indians of California, 1769-1873, Margaret A. Field
The Tyng Mansion: An Interdisciplinary Study of Legend and Archaeology in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, Marcos A. Paiva
Theses from 1991
A History and Functional Analysis of the Museum of Science, Boston, Carolyn H. Kirdahy
Theses from 1990
Shoemakers and Stone Markers: Gravestones as Material Culture of the Quakers from Lynn, Massachusetts, Eileen A. O'Connor
Theses from 1986
The Massachusetts Higher Education in Prisons Program: History and Evaluation, Kathleen Bryant
Theses from 1983
Odisseia Portuguesa via Hudson, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Adalino Cabral