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"And Who Killed the President?:" Shifting Hollywood Narratives of the John F. Kennedy Assassination

Description: This thesis examines how American cinema has represented—and resisted representing—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy across shifting political and cultural contexts. Drawing on theories of “deep politics” and “parapolitics,” it argues that films about the assassination do not merely reflect historical understanding but actively shape the limits of public skepticism toward state power. Through a comparative analysis of films including Executive Action (1973), The Trial of Lee Harvey… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Mangan, Charlie Paige, 1997-
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A Study of Six Selected Taiwanese Art Songs by Two Female Composers

Description: Although art song has long been central to Western vocal pedagogy and performance, Taiwanese-language art songs remain underrepresented in academic research and vocal training. This dissertation examines six Taiwanese art songs by two contemporary female composers, Wen-Tze Lu and Kuei-Ju Lin, with poetry by Han-Shiu Lu and Khin-Huann Li. The selected works include “Life Dew,” “The End,” and “With the Name in the Sky” by Wen-Tze Lu, and “Winter Jasmine,” “Lilac,” and “Dogwood” by Kuei-Ju Lin. On… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Chou, Jung An
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You Are a Pirate: Queer Theory and 'One Piece' in Conversation

Description: This thesis places the long-running shonen manga series One Piece, and especially its Paramount War Saga, in conversation with queer theory, suggesting a connection between the two thematically. I explore the ways queer theory informs a reading of One Piece, as well as the ways One Piece informs a reading of various queer theory texts, with a focus on coalitionary politics, systems of oppression and utopic queer futures. I argue that One Piece replicates theoretical scenarios from within queer … more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Kimble, Penelope
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Navigating Support: An Anthropological Analysis of Breastfeeding, Maternal Networks, and Digital Peer Networks

Description: This thesis examines how women navigate breastfeeding through various support systems they encounter in early motherhood and over time. Using both a digital survey (N = 161) and 12 in-depth interviews, the study examines the types of guidance, reassurance, and practical help mothers seek as they learn to feed their babies. Participants note that breastfeeding is not purely instinctive but something they learn through family experiences, medical visits, workplace expectations, and access to know… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Pickett, Samantha Leanne, 1992-
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The Politics of the Ordinary: The Supermarket in Theory

Description: In this dissertation, I argue that supermarkets function as a crucial infrastructure through which neoliberalism, petroculture, and the nuclear family form are lived and reproduced. Engaging with feminist philosophy, critical phenomenology, affect theory, and petroculture studies, I position the supermarket as a site of cruel optimism that normalizes fossil-fueled food systems through affective attachments and bodily habits. I argue that in the reproduction of everyday life, the supermarket’s m… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Bishop, Isabelle Carol, 1994-
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Child-Teacher Relationship Training: Investigation of Teacher Burnout and Self-Compassion Among Early Childhood Educators

Description: Teacher burnout has intensified in recent years, contributing to rising attrition and diminished classroom climate. Interventions targeting teachers’ internal regulatory capacities, including self-compassion, have gained attention due to associations with reduced burnout and improved well-being. Early childhood educators are especially vulnerable given emotional and relational demands of their roles. Child–Teacher Relationship Training (CTRT), a relationship-based professional development model… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Bowen, Cara L, 1971-
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Fascist Undercurrents of a Climate-Changing World: Micropolitics and Aesthetics

Description: I argue that a climate-changing world is a world ripe for fascisms. My analysis of fascisms is micropolitical, attending to the ways in which politics operate in tendencies, affects, perceptions, and everyday aesthetics rather than through parties or ideologies. I look to mainstream and traditional sensibilities as embodied in the artworks of Jon McNaughton, arguing that the apparent naturalness of such traditional sensibilities masks affective undercurrents drawing people toward fascist inten… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Siefert, Kevin
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The Breath Before Amen

Description: The Breath Before Amen investigates what remains in the face of change, loss, and death, as well as what could serve as adequate means to preserve or even restore whatever might be lost. The speaker of the poems mainly engages with these questions by exploring his relationships with the members of his family and the distinct ways in which they each manifest or represent possible losses. With the father now in his mid-seventies, the speaker must anticipate death’s approach and the losses inheren… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Daw, Daniel Albert, 1995-
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Perovskites for Extreme-Radiation Environments and Scalable Film Deposition Methods for Solar Cell Interfacial Layers

Description: This rise of space travel since 2022 by commercial and governmental entities is extending operational time therefore pushing the health risks of space crews and the performance expectations of semiconductor devices in the extreme environment of Earth’s orbits and beyond. Sources of environmental extremes include extreme temperature swings, ultra-high vacuum, microgravity, solar winds, atomic oxygen, and lastly, the subject of this work, ionizing radiation. Semiconductors considered for extreme … more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Gabaldon, Eli Padilla, 1987-
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Dispassion

Description: An exploration via memory of the somatic and interpersonal effects of inherited texts, Dispassion proceeds through “stations” approximating the Christian via dolorosa in the form of a reverse bildungsroman. The Bible, particularly a Southern, New Charismatic Christian interpretation of it, American television, Greek myth, and “creative writing” itself find purchase in poems that range from multi-page lyric narratives, to short lyrics engaged with landscape and the ways in which it forms and alt… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: DeVaughn, Daniel Norton, 1986-
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Controlling Measurement Error in SEM Using the Blavaan Package: A Comparison of Bayesian and Classical Approaches in Small Samples

Description: Measurement error poses a persistent challenge in structural equation modeling (SEM), especially in applied psychological and educational research, where scale reliability is usually uncertain, and sample sizes are limited. Classical SEM approaches intended to address measurement error issues but often resulted in inaccurate and unstable estimates of parameters and attenuated structural relationships. Moreover, full SEM in practice frequently encounters convergence problems under small-sample c… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Fan, Xiaolu, 1984-
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Playfulness in Place: Process-Based Design and the Upper Texas Coast

Description: In this dissertation, I argue that play is at the heart of process-based approaches in landscape architecture and design. In conversation with feminist new materialisms, multispecies approaches, theories of play, and landscape architects and designers, I position play as form of thematic knowledge that reconceptualizes risk, supporting flexibility and adaptability. I argue that in design thinking, therefore, epistemologies of play might have an important role in resisting pressures to exert eve… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Larsen, Benjamin, 1991-
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Perspective Analysis of Functional Language Assessments for Pre-K Students with Autism in their Least Restrictive Environment: Implications for Leadership and Policy

Description: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a significant law that has improved educational opportunities for students with disabilities in the United States. IDEA's Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) requirement policy ensures that students with disabilities are educated alongside their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate. The purpose of this study was to examine the participants’ viewpoints regarding the LRE policy, the meaning-making of LRE, and functional lan… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Atherkode, Sreeja, 1974-
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Statistical Inference for Oscillatory Hawkes Processes with Applications to High-Frequency Financial Data

Description: Hawkes processes are essential for modeling self-exciting phenomena, yet traditional kernels—such as the exponential and Omori-type power-law—are fundamentally limited by monotonic decay and fail to capture latent periodicities observed in various geophysical, biological, and socio-economic systems. We address this gap by proposing a novel class of oscillatory, sinusoid-modulated kernels. To overcome the challenges non-monotonicity poses to classical likelihood theory, we introduce an envelope-… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Bhatt, Tekendra Prasad, 1979-
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Thin Films of 2D/3D Perovskites and Graphene for Renewable Energy and Physical Sensors

Description: The exponential use of hydrocarbon-based fuels such as coal and oil has been a reliable way to generate electricity in the form of heat via steam turbines. With the exponential growth of the global population, the demand for energy is only increasing. At the same time, the extended use of fossil fuels has contributed negatively to environmental factors such as pollution, global warming, and an increase in extreme weather conditions. Thus, the demand for both alternative energy sources to replac… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Mather, Thomas Anthony, 1997-
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The Nuances of Women's Advancement in Policing

Description: Women are highly underrepresented in the field of policing and even less so in leadership roles. There has not been much progress over the last few decades, however, there have been movements such as the 30x30 initiative—which encourages police departments to increase the number of sworn women officers to 30% of the staff by 2030. In order to have more women in higher ranks of police agencies, there need to be more female officers overall, so it is important to have policies that improve their … more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Suresh, Manishika, 2003-
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Negotiating K-Pop Fandom Through a Black Lens: An Exploratory Study of Identity and Experience

Description: This thesis examines how Black fans experience identity, belonging, and exclusion within digital fandom spaces, with a focus on K-pop fandom. While fandom is often framed as a site of connection and escapism, this study argues that anti-Blackness operates as a normalized structure that shapes Black K-pop fan participation. Using a mixed-methods approach, including survey data and semi-structured interviews, this research centers on the lived experiences of Black fans and their navigations of ra… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Wilson, Chanel, 1999-
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Application of Schenkerian Analysis and Karen Tuttle's Coordination Concepts to the Rediscovered Suite for Viola Solo (1940) by Reinhard Oppel (1878-1941)

Description: This dissertation provides a Schenkerian analysis and conceptual application of Karen Tuttle’s coordination concepts to the performance of a rediscovered piece, Suite for Viola Solo (1940), by Reinhard Oppel (1878–1941). In this study, a Schenkerian analysis, including the background, middleground, and foreground, provides the basis for the interpretation in performance of the work’s compositional ideas, form, structure, linear progressions, and musical directions. Facilitated by such an unders… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Tong, Wing Ka Penny
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How Resurgence is Related to the Behavior Change Technique

Description: Resurgence of previously reinforced behavior is a prevalent topic of applied and experimental studies in behavior analysis. This phenomenon is typically investigated by reducing occurrence of a target behavior and increasing an alternative, then extinguishing both. One popular procedure involves selecting a new response to occur with the same antecedents and consequences. Other procedures might manipulate antecedents to reduce behavior. This study fills a literature gap by comparing patterns of… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Trenary, Elijah, 2000-
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The Stylistic Fingerprints of Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) through the Lens of Analyzing Her Rhapsody for Cello and Piano (1923)

Description: Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) is an important interwar British composer. Clarke composed three chamber pieces for the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music in Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919), Piano Trio (1921), and Rhapsody for Cello and Piano (1923). These so-called Coolidge Works are the major compositions among her output. However, Rhapsody was published posthumously in 2020 and has received far less scholarly attention than the first two Coolidge Works. This disserta… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Hung, Chiao Ju
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Non-Metropolitan Sustainability Across the Continental United States: Sustainable Development Goal Based Assessment of Regional and Socio-Economic Patterns

Description: Non-metropolitan sustainability assessment in the United States faces a critical methodological gap: existing frameworks either overlook rural distinctiveness or require internationally oriented data unavailable for United States (U.S.) counties. Utilizing the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SGD) framework, this study: (1) develops SDG-aligned index focused solely on non-metropolitan counties, (2) analyze sustainability patterns within rural continental U.S. By analyzing 1,92… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Conant, Benjamin Gian, 2002-
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Interdisciplinary Arts Integration: An Accessible Guide

Description: When an artist seeks to incorporate additional layers of interdisciplinarity into a performance, they will confront heavy financial hurdles. Top-tier visual media, audio, and staging resources are currently cost-prohibitive. Further, even an artist equipped with additional funding may lack the expertise and breadth of knowledge necessary to integrate several layers of multimedia. Therefore, this research proposes an open-access guidebook that outlines affordable, sequential implementation metho… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Hill, McKenna Desiree
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Examining The Role of Citizen Participation in Governance and its Impact on Park Equity and Accessibility: A Case Study of Texas Cities

Description: This dissertation investigates how citizen participation and professional best practices influence the quality, equity, and accessibility of local park services in rapidly growing Texas cities. While previous research highlights disparities in park provision, often shaped by socioeconomic, environmental, and historical factors, less is known about how governance structures, citizen engagement mechanisms, and administrative professionalism interact to produce equitable park outcomes across diver… more
Date: May 2026
Creator: Emmanuel, Ojonugwa Catherine, 1983-
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Unsettling The Geographies of Texas School Spaces: Social Studies Teachers from the Cracks

Description: The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the experiences and practices of secondary social studies teachers in Texas who commit to a community-centered praxis. A Black and Latinx geographic framework was used to center and honor the experiences and resistances of the teachers, while analyzing the ways settler colonial white supremacy and geographies of domination haunt the landscapes of their contexts and seek to undermine their work. Additionally, the construct of ‘community’ was … more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Haynes, Cortney Jensine, 1992-
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