Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Congress and the Environment: Exploring Political Strategies for Environmental Progress, William Wakeman Anderson
The Power to Change Hearts and Minds: How the Open World Swordplay Martial Arts Videogame Can Increase Chinese Soft Power in America, Chelsea Anglin
Moving from Rescue to Healing: Pit Bulls as Icons of White Salvation, Emily Louise Ausman
The Value in Vanité: The Benefits of Pleasure Reading and Viewing in Le Morte d’Arthur and Star Wars Rebels, Hannah Austin
Devolution of Control: Role of Beach Management Units in Decentralizing Natural Resource Governance in Coastal Tanzanian Fisheries, Marissa Emily Bale
The Ethos of Agency: Exploring Questions of Communication and Categorization in Greece’s Refugee Crisis, Caroline R. Barnes
Spirit Possession, Mediation, and Ambiguity in the Ancient Greek Worship of Dionysos, Isabella Barrengos
Hurricane Katrina: A Case Study of Flooding, Failure, and the Racial State, Anika Z. Becker
Honeybees and Human Culture, Kyra A. Bleicher
Reading the Landscape of Bates, Ella Bourland
The Matrilineal Specter in Kingston's Woman Warrior and Keller's Comfort Woman, Theodore V. Burns
La búsqueda de una nueva identidad española en las películas de Pedro Almodóvar de los 80, Andrew Chen
同志: Film Representations of the Modern Chinese Gay Man, Marquise Clarke
How Climate Change and Oil Development in the Yamal Peninsula is Affecting the Lives of the Siberian Nenets, Rory O. Collins
Heat and Light in the City of the Future: A Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy in Lewiston, Maine, Haley Crim
Sentimental Arcs From Grief to Mourning in An Unnecessary Woman and Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine, Carl D. Deakins Mx
Irish Identity, American Identity, and the Irish American Anti-Partition Movement, Margaret Mary Dever
National Flood Insurance Program Reform: Establishing an Affordability Pilot Program in North Carolina, Ayden Eickhoff
Development of novel tissue-type plasminogen activator-binding RNA aptamer, Nathan Paul Frederick
Stealing Borders: The Yiddish Book Center and Expansions of Postvernacular Yiddishland, Sarah Elsa Freyd
Juliana and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Can International Children’s Rights Influence Domestic Climate Change Litigation?, Nicole Brooke Friedman
Truth-Telling and Transitional Justice in Chile: Healing for Women Survivors of Trauma Through Testimonial Art Collectives, Olivia Snow Fried
Welcoming New Mainers: Local Economic Development and its Effects on the Politics of Immigration, Trevor H. Fry
Understanding Differences Between the Three Sister Polyculture and Monoculture Growing of Corn, Beans and Squash, Josephine Gillett
Electricity Rate Impacts of Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Updated Empirical Analysis, Griffin Golden
Characterization of Trap Frequencies for Cold Atom Laboratory Bose-Einstein Condensates, Maxwell Jeremy Gold
Assessing the effectiveness of a salt marsh restoration project in Georgetown, Maine, Carter Goodell
MEHP-induces hepatic steatosis in Danio rerio juveniles following embryonic exposure and Nrf2a may play a role in hepatoprotection, Moreau Hadley
Temporal Negative Priming: Visual and Auditory, Alexa C. M. Harrison
A Struggle for Dignity on the Land: Living Histories of Southern Agricultural Exploitation and Farmworker Resistance in North Carolina, Erin Rosalind Hazlett-Norman
Dynamics of Quantum Dot Lasers Subject to Optical Feedback and Current Modulation, Tianyao Huang
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Performance, Identity, and the 1887 London Residency of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West in Context, Cameron Connor Huftalen
Passively Black, Actively Unprofessional: Beyond a Fault-Based Conception of Black Women’s Identity and Hairstyling in Title VII Jurisprudence, Kayla K. Jackson
Maine Lobster: An Uncertain Future, Calvin G.K. Johnstone
The Fall of a King: The collapse of Sacramento River Chinook Salmon and its impact on community identity on California's North Coast [bibliography], Katherine Phyllis Kelley
A City and Its Land, Hugh Hogan Kenny
Resisting Abjection: The Opioid Crisis and its Incorporation into the Environmental Justice Movement, Josh Klein
Climate Change and Forced Migration: The Special Case of Disappearing States, Katharine S. Knight
The Case Study Houses of Southern California: Models for Sustainable Design, Emerson Rose Krull
Reform of Chinese Education in the 20th Century, Anastasia A. Leff
Depth of Processing of Visual Scenes Not Consciously Perceived, Wanyi Lu
Sense of Place in Kennedy Park: the Role of Urban Green Space in the Tree Streets Neighborhood, Dylan Peter Metsch-Ampel
The Hydraulic Architecture of Cycads: A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Vascular Networks, Niamh L. Micklewhite
Purposeful Work, Isa Jamira Moise
Caught Between: Achille, the Instar and Intention/Reception in Walcott’s Omeros, Peter Nadel
The Manipulation of the Unconscious Consumer Through Pastoral Images in Food Advertising, Claire Naughton
Economic Subjugation and Crime in a Capitalist Context: Using The Wire to Understand the Contemporary American City, Ellis Obrien
Modernist Temporalities: Figures of Time in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, Tyler Parke
Penobscot Nation v. Janet Mills: How Two Sides Understand One River, Samantha Carrs Pierce
Barriers to the Implementation of a Complete Streets Policy in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, James Gordon S. Platt
My Trip to the Valley, Yeymi Rivas
Dickens and Trauma: The Art of Autobiographical Fiction, Sarah M. Rothmann
A Theoretical Analysis of the Maine Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program: Lead Poisoning in the Lewiston Somali Bantu Community, Andrea Xenia Russo
Reimagining Citizenship in the Age of Climate Change, Anna Setzer
Purification, Characterization, and Activity of Ribonucleases on mRNA Degradation in Borrelia Burgdorferi, Gabriella Francis Shpilsky
Managing the Risks of Lead Paint in Housing: The Role and Responsibility of the Municipal Government in Addressing Lead Poisoning, Claire E. Sickinger
Modeling Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Climate Accord, Ezekiel Severin Smith
“Spare No Pains in Trying to Learn to Read”: The Community-Building Power of Black-Written Works and the Construction of Fellowship, Francesca Marie Steiner
Discovery of Ten-Eleven Translocation Enzymes Inhibitors for Enhancement of Long-Term Memory, Haoyu Sun
Measuring the Hypoxic and Hypercapnic Ventilatory Responses of Anolis carolinensis, Mary Buford Turnage
Effects of Videotaped Eyewitness Identifications of Eyewitnesses and Jurors, Dayna E. Vasconcelos
The Super-resolution Imaging of RNA Localization in Borrelia burgdorferi Cells, Xiaomeng Wang
“Before its Smell Became Me:” Motel Residency and the Politics of Belonging, Abigail T. Westberry Ms.
“If There Be One Only, She Shall Inherit Half”: Explaining the Preservation of Islamic Inheritance Law in Tunisia’s 1956 Personal Status Code, Gwendolyn R. Whidden
How Are Individuals Turning to Faith in the Face of Climate Change?, Newell Woodworth
Dueling Lyres: Competing Consolatory Practices in the Roman Empire, Katherine Josephine Ziegler
Theses from 2018
Revolutionizing Girl: Oppressive Social Structures as Stymieing Adolescent Change In Revolutionary Girl Utena, Garrett T. Anderson
Futures of Northeastern Minnesota in light of Proposed Sulfide Ore Mines, Adair Morgan Andre
Bee Culture and Medicine in Ancient Egypt and Modern New England: Reciprocity and Connection, Alexandra Damon Armstrong
mRNA decay in Borrelia burgdorferi under conditions of osmotic stress, Emily E. Bacon
An Investigation of a Buried Sand/Stump Horizon in Scarborough Marsh, Nicholas F. Barker
‘Zonal’ molecular organization of the olfactory bulb mitral cell layer, Lindsey L. Beauregard
MRSA and MRSI Transmission between Humans and Companion Dogs: Potential Risk Factors and Public Health Implications, Camille Belletete
Environmental Writing in the Public Sphere, Benjamin J. Berger
Using Shortridge as a Community-Building, Educational Tool: A Proposal for a Shortridge Summer Camp, Allison Berman
The Alderbrook and Riverton Stages of Glacial Lake Israel and their Significance to the Indigenous Peoples of the Israel River Complex, Hazel Cashman
Opposition to a Neoclassical Scenario: Hip hop in Contemporary Jazz, Ian Thomas Clarkson
Colorful Gardens and Empowerment: Black Resistance and Self-Determination through Urban Farming, Joakim Ethan Cohen
Laying Foundations for the Future: The Tiny House Movement in Context, Katherine Anne Cook
The Construction of a New Religion: L. Ron Hubbard's Use of Religious Discourse in the Transformation of Dianetics into Scientology, Robert John Daniels
Communities of Power: Rawls's Liberal Society and the Legitimate Use of Force, Matthew R. Davis
Analysis of High Velocity Outflows in 14 Compact Starburst Galaxies with Absorption-Line Spectroscopy at High Spectral Resolution, Kwamae Malakye Delva
Divided We Fall: Eurosceptics in the European Parliament, Dylan Desjardins
Eelgrass Bed Carbon Storage in Casco Bay, John Doyle, Beverly Johnson, and Philip Dostie
Refugees, Racialization, and Resistance: Examining Lewiston, Maine’s Farmers’ Market, Zsofia Duarte
Hacia un Pueblo Visible: An Examination of Liberatory and Decolonial Educative Practices for the Mapuche People in Chile, Emma R. Egan
You Are Not Alone: HIV/AIDS Activism in Maine, Ian W. Erickson
Native Youth Contributions to Indigenous Sovereignty and Climate Justice in the #noDAPL Movement, Mary Rebecca Ferguson
Apocalypse Rhetoric and Political Standstill: Towards a More Productive Discourse of the Climate Crisis, Courtney C. Foster
Drug Use on the Coast: Examining the Opioid Epidemic in Maine Lobster Fishing Communities, Anna Rose Franceschetti
The Chorus of Cinema: Experiments in Community Filmmaking Practices and Collective Storytelling in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Dylan A. Franks
Portraying Harper Amaty Pitt: A Process, Hope French
Targeting Tet2 to Enhance Cognition: Manipulating the Methylome as a Potential Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease, Caroline Paige Gettens
Alternative Transfer Methods in Colorado: Innovations in Market-Based Water Sharing Agreements, Connor W. Gray
The relationship between substrate characteristics and Japanese knotweed invasion along the Saco River, Maine and New Hampshire, Dacota F. Griffin
Growling Skies over the San Juan Islands, Maya T. Haber
Lead Poisoning in Lewiston, Maine, Emily Halford