Doctoral Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Intentional communities as learning labs for faith formation: how adult children of Holden Village understand emerging faith commitments
(2/7/2024)How do adult children of intentional faith communities understand emerging faith commitments, and how might their stories inform how churches and other faith institutions understand faith formation, particularly in areas ... -
Food for thought: exploring multigenerational effects of a comprehensive Mediterranean diet on cognition and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease
(2023-12-18)Recent evidence suggests that approximately 40% of all dementia cases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), could potentially be prevented by targeting modifiable risk factors, like mid-life obesity (Livingston et al., ... -
Roaming the Roman Empire: female migration in early Christianity
(2023-12-18)Many scholars have assumed that people living in the early Roman empire were largely immobile, outside of colonization or commercial activities, with only the highest classes of elites traveling occasionally. This research ... -
A latent profile analysis of substance use and post-traumatic stress on substance use treatment outcomes among people involved with the justice system
(2023-12-18)The present study used a person-centered analysis to classify legally-involved persons in substance use treatment into mutually exclusive groups based on their clinical presentation of substance use and post-traumatic ... -
Multifunctional graphene quantum dots theragnostic agents for cancer therapy
(2023-07-28)Despite the advancements of traditional methods for cancer therapy in treating some forms of disease, the heterogeneity of cancer and side-effects associated from the treatments have led to the emergence of novel therapeutic ... -
“A series of doors pretending to be walls”: boundaries of race, identity, and geography in the Western Missouri borderlands, 1803–1833
(2023-11-30)In “‘A Series of Doors Pretending to be Walls’: Boundaries of Race, Identity, and Geography in the Western Missouri Borderlands, 1803–1833,” Sherilyn Farnes analyzes ways in which individuals and groups in the western ... -
Connecting fields to connect models: A derivation of a viral master equation and the construction of transition rates
(2023-07-28)Viral infections have dynamics that are difficult to understand, but the choice of model can lend a helping hand to understanding an infection. The work here is a continuing effort to understand viral infections for the ... -
Modeling dwarf galaxies of the local volume with the semi-analytic model Galacticus
(2023-07-25)Dwarf galaxies are ubiquitous and extremely sensitive to various internal and external feedback forms. Thus, studying dwarfs in various environments is critical for understanding galaxy evolution. The best-studied dwarfs ... -
Survival or ‘splendid opportunities’?: A socio-economic and dialogical reading of Qohelet's Wisdom
(2023-03-31)Within this dissertation I intend to study how Qohelet’s discourse on wisdom is a product of larger socio-economic realities and webs of intertextuality. This project will attempt to work out these central questions: How ... -
"Survival is not an academic skill": A womanist reading of esther
(2022-11-09)Often, Esther is viewed as a story about the Jewish people surviving a foiled genocide, but I posit Esther contains other stories of survival. This project broadly examines non-Jewish people’s survival in Esther and ... -
Beyond innocence: fostering care for black children in the nineteenth-century and now
(2023-05-30)“Beyond Innocence” examines how white nineteenth-century literary representations of racialized innocence, seen in texts, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom Cabin (1852) and Jacob Abbott’s The Stories of Rainbow and ... -
Sport leadership to empower black women: a phenomenological exploration of inclusive leadership
(2023-05-18)The purpose of this study was to examine the organizational cultures of collegiate and professional athletics and the influence they have on Black women’s leadership opportunities. It also explored inclusive leadership and ... -
African American dementia caregivers’ information needs and information seeking behaviors
(2023-05-08)To help bridge the gap in health outcomes for African American dementia caregivers and their patients, this qualitative study explored the support and information needs and information seeking behaviors of African American ... -
Finding our balance: the effect of multiple recess on elementary children motor competence and executive functioning abilities
(2023-05-08)Unintentional Falls is the second leading cause of nonfatal injuries in the United States. (U.S.). Sedentary behaviors are at an all-time high in schools leading to children not engaging in enough physical activity throughout ... -
The (virtual) mentoring experience: undergraduate students support of K-12 students’ inquiry practices
(2023-05-04)This mixed methods research study investigates the experience of undergraduate students and K-12 students while participating in a semester-long virtual mentoring experience of a scientific research project to support the ... -
In their own words: foreign language teacher trainers’ narratives
(2023-05-04)The purpose of this study is to capture the stories of foreign language teacher educators and examine their professional paths, which will provide a more complete perspective and understanding of the field of foreign ... -
Tracing discourses of decolonial masculinities in African diasporic male writing of the long nineteenth century
(2023-05-04)The first concern of this study is to trace the evolution of the discourse that framed Black male identity in quite static, monolithic, racialized terms during the long nineteenth century. The second aims to identify the ... -
Florence Price, underrepresented composer no longer: an analysis of her Symphony in D Minor
(2023-05-04)The 2009 discovery of a substantial collection of manuscripts and other documents belonging to the composer Florence Price led to a renewal of interest in her music. One of the discovered manuscripts was of her Symphony ... -
Evaluating different trial and training designs in computerized foreign-language vocabulary instruction
(2023-05-04)The present study sought to evaluate trial designs and training designs that are commonly used in popular commercially available computer-assisted language-learning (CALL) programs. The first two experiments (Experiment ... -
Exploring chronic sleep loss and typical American-style diet as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease
(2023-05-04)Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, currently afflicting over 44 million people worldwide. This number is projected to increase significantly in the coming years, yet much about the disease’s etiology ...