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Theses from 2024
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
To Fear the Heat of the Sun, David Capone
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
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
White Noise: A Dialectical Analysis of Fascism and Supremacy Movements, Eirinn-Jingifer Odell Neel
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
Better Light than Never: A New Radiative Mechanism for Observing Binary Black Holes, Paul Rioles
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
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
Characterization of the Capicua Interactome, Nathan Michael Strozewski
Garden, Benjamin N. Wright
Emotional Social Support Among Asian Americans: Associations with Psychological Symptoms, Well-Being and Buffering Against Effects of Racism, Amelia Bijen Yang
Theses from 2023
Comparative Analysis of Laser and LED Light Sources for Intraoral Photodynamic Therapy, Yinka M. Ajibola
The "Messy Middle": A Framework for Analyzing Raciolinguistic Inequity, Casey Erin Anthony
LiDAR Monitoring of Annual and Storm-Driven Episodic Erosion at Rainsford Island, Alan H. Bartels
Social Justice Activism and Conflict Resolution: How Combining Two Fields Can Inform Best Practices Across Both Areas, Hayley Bartlett
An Empirical Study of GPU Programming Patterns, Gregory Blike
From Shapes to Sounds: Exploring the Role of Visual and Auditory Features in Changes in the Bouba-Kiki Effect with Development, Elisabeth Anne Boyce-Jacino
Secure Your Own Mask First, Logan Buckley
The Arabidopsis thaliana Kinesin Centromere-Associated Protein-E (CENP-E) Is Necessary for Proper Cell Division and Differentiation, Denise Butler
Culture Wars: North Carolina, Representation, and the Vote on the Federal Constitution of 1787, Maria A. Carlson
George Boardman Weston's Grand Tour: Travel Writing and its Impact on Nineteenth-Century Americans, Joshua Tyler Clark
Numerical Investigations of SICs, Ghislaine Coulter-de Wit
Spirits and Spirituality: Temperance and Racial Uplift in Nineteenth-Century Nantucket, MA, John T. Crawmer
Taking Back the "Permission to Narrate": Examining a Grassroots Organization's Process of Supporting BIPOC Youth in Developing Counternarratives and Counterspaces as Decolonial Resistance, Michelle Gabriela Del Rio
Sisters and Stewards: Women and Community-Building at the African Meeting House on Nantucket, MA, Sean A. Fairweather
“Each Heart Alone Knoweth Its Own Bitterness”: The Jackson Family in Clarke County, Virginia, from Enslavement to Jim Crow, Melanie E. Garvey
"Here's What's Not Changing": Institutional Adaptations That Respond To A Crisis But Preserve the Core, Hozami A. Helwani
Comparisons Across Time: Natural Resource Use at Two New Mexican Colonial Sites, Ivana M. Ivanova
Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape, Gabriel Frost Johnson
Advance Care Planning for African Americans: The Relationship Between Advance Care Planning Participation, Preference for End-of-Life Treatment Intensity and Decisional Conflict, Joyce Iona Johnson
Use of Diagrammatic Monte Carlo to Study the Frohlich Polaron, Milo K. Kamiya Belmont
Deconstructing Reconstruction: The Portrayal of The Reconstruction Era in High School History Textbooks, Eleanor Katari
Design of a Low-Cost Sensor to Ensure Integrity of Seaweed Aquaculture Operations, Eli Kurtz
Sartorial Practices and Daily Life: Examining Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Erica A. Lang
FEM Simulations of Plasmon Field Enhancement in Gold Nanoparticle Dimers and Gold Nanoparticle-Nanorod Dimers, Edward J. Lipchus
Radical Routes: The Formation of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union Local 8751, Maci Mark
Part-Time Students/Full-Time Lives: Underserving Part-Time Community College Students, Cathleen McCarron
Crisper Locus Combination Affects the Ecology of Enterococcus Faecalis, Kevin Barry Mulkerrins
How Does China View the Modern Asian Regional System?, Thi Mai Anh Nguyen
Brutality Behind Bars: A Look at Prison Violence in Ecuador, Zulema Alejandra Palacios Jaramillo
Shellfish Utilization by the Pequots during the Early Seventeenth Century: An Analysis of Seven Shell Middens at the Calluna Hill Site (59-73) in Mystic, Connecticut, Matthew Picarelli-Kombert
Planting the "Yankee" Identity: An Analysis of the Macrobotanical Assemblage at the ca. 1638 Waterman House Site in Marshfield, Massachusetts, Katharine Rieder Reinhart
Meta-Method Analysis on Therapists’ Experiences: An Inquiry into Qualitative Psychotherapy Research Methodology, Javier L. Rizo
We Resist, We Heal, We Transform: Exploring Youth of Color Journeys Towards Healing Justice in a Grassroots Organization in Urban Boston, Rhyann Leslie Robinson
Limitations & Liberation: Republican Motherhood and Female Advancement in Nineteenth Century America, Hannah Russell
Synthesis and Characterization of Earth Abundant Metal Catalysts for Photothermochemical Dry Reforming of Methane, Catherine Marie Schrader
“Provisioned, Produced, Procured,” and Purchased?: A Macrobotanical Study of Enslaved Individuals’ Economic Engagement in the Shenandoah Valley, Linda A. Seminario
Material Consumption of an 18th-Century Middling Urban Craftsman in Boston, Massachusetts, Lauryn E. Sharp
Working Class Vampires and Other Stories, Matthew Shiels
Two-Dimensional Smooth Function Restoration From Its Noisy Integrals, Juan Pablo Varela
The Armenian Genocide as Presented by the American Press, Grace A. Wargovich
The Plastic Cycle: Atmospheric Deposition on Nantucket Island and an Analysis of Children’s Art in Plastic Education, Nicholas Vency Warner
A Re-Examination of the Role of Cognitive Reappraisal in Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder, Jenny Liang Wu
No Injustice So Peace: The Interaction Between Race-Related Stress, Colorblind Racial Attitudes, and Resistance and Empowerment Against Racism, Kaela A. Yamini
Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Conflict: Understanding the Relationships Between Experiences and Conflict Escalation as it Relates to the Abortion Debate, Hadley Anne Zibel
Theses from 2022
The Role of Emotion Regulation in Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance: A Cross-Sectional Study, Karyn M. Aiello
Exploring the Association Between Mentoring Focus and Change in Mentee Depression Symptoms in Youth, Selen Amado
Changing to Stay the Same: Spatial Analyses of Tobacco Pipes from 18th- and 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Households, Stephen P. Anderson
Exploring the Role of Predation on Color and Splotch Patterning of Sphingid Caterpillars Using Artificial Prey, Julia M. Barrone
Eat The Poor, Cardinal Belgrave Jr.
A Brief Approximation, Scott Borbas
Rebounding Seal and Shark Populations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Management Preferences of Three Stakeholder Groups, Rachel M. Bratton
Big Death: Stories, Dylan Calmes
The Function of a Nail: An Archaeological Examination of Three 18th- and 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Reservation Homes in Southeastern Connecticut, Salvatore A. Ciccone
Northeastern Pennsylvania's Forgotten Labor Massacre: Analysis pf the English Language Record of the Lattimer Massacre, Jamie C. Costello
Shadow of the Vietnam War on the Senate Persian Gulf Debate of 1991, Austin DiBari
The Role of Cultural Values in Coastal Community Priorities, Lily M. Green
“The Circle Of Your Acquaintance”: Early 19th Century Ceramic Symbolism and Constructions of Black Womanhood at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA, Lissa J. Herzing
Exploring Urban Effects on Red-Winged Blackbirds (Agelaius Phoeniceus), Mickayla M. Johnston
Disintegration, Alexa Koch
Go West: Stories, Andréa Kossyrev
Opening Barrel 13: Reconstructing Provenience of a 19th-Century Excavation on Pimu Catalina Island, California, Through a Shell and Glass Bead Analysis, Melanie S. Lerman