Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2022
Predators in the Petals: How crab spiders affect plants and their pollinators, Amanda D. Benoit
Implantable Medical Devices for Local Drug Delivery and Tissue Regeneration to Combat Chronic Bacterial Infection, Caroline J. Billings
The Lived Experience of Losing Employment After Diagnosis with Dementia: A Phenomenological Analysis, Susan K. Blaine
Principal in Name Only: A Mixed Methods Study of How Catholic School Governance Models Affect Leadership, Davis H. Bodie
Chiral Mesogen-Free Liquid Crystalline Polyethers with Sulfonylated Side Chains and Patchy Brush Nanoparticles, Caleb A. Bohannon
Accelerated Catalyst Diffusion in Chemically Amplified Resists, Christopher M. Bottoms
The Parasocial Relationships in Social Media Survey, Austin T. Boyd
Design and Development of the Urban Population Health Observatory to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response, Whitney Brakefield
Seeing with the Eyes of the Soul: Visionary Women, Meditative Lives of Christ, and Their Readers in Late-Medieval England, Caitlin J. BranumThrash
Expectancy Values and their Interaction with the edTPA, Stephanie L. Brennan
An Archaeological Study of Pit Cellars and Ethnic Identity in Tennessee, Daniel Whitaker Howard Brock
Essays in Experimental Economics and Applied Econometrics, Michael Jacob Brown
Modeling Basal Sprout Production in Vector-Borne Tree Disease, Kelly Buch
HIGHLIGHTING TEACHER VOICES: DISCUSSIONS ON RACE AND RACISM IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM, Carrie Lynn Buckner
The Development of Photoinduced Initiation of Olefin Polymerization and its Applications, Justin M. Burroughs
STABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN RAWLS'S POLITICAL LIBERALISM, Grace Campbell
Task-based Runtime Optimizations Towards High Performance Computing Applications, Qinglei Cao
Predictive Capabilities of Laminar-Turbulent Transition Models for Aerodynamics Applications, Jared Alexander Carnes
Self-Objectification and Alcohol Use in Young Adult College Women, Rachel Carretta
Poa annua: An Annual Species?, Devon E. Carroll
We're all friends here: Examining Transparasocial Interaction on Twitch and its Effects on Strategic Communications, Alexander Edward Carter
Role of temperature, transmission pathways, and pathogen load in Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans epidemiology, Edward Davis Carter
Investigation on the Impact of Property-Microstructure of Spark Plasma Sintered MgB2 Superconducting Bulks in Manufacturing Operations, Fabiano Carvalho de Castro Sene
The Upgraded Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Using the In-Beam Method, Jimmy P. Caylor
Crowd Control: Regulating the Spatial Organization of Biopolymers and Gene Expression by Macromolecular Crowding, Gaurav Chauhan
Healthcare Service Utilization and Life Satisfaction in South Africa, Tamara Chavez-Lindell
Improving Strength and Stability in Continuum Robots, Jake A Childs
A High Rate Pixelated Neutron Detector for Neutron Reflectometry at the Spallation Neutron Source, Su-Ann Chong
Three Essays in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Vasudha Chopra
Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations With Spectral Two-Moment Neutrino Transport, Ran Chu
Compositional Effects on the Mechanical Properties and Deformation Mechanisms of Face-Centered Cubic High-Entropy Alloys, Joshua L. Cicotte
Exploring Sleep Quality, Quality of Life, and Seizure Frequency in Patients with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures, Sandra J. Cobb
The Devil Did Not Make Me Do It: Understanding Factors That Influence College Choice of a Faith-Based Institution, Phillip Lowell Cook Jr.
Confinement and Interface Effects in Self Assembly of Functional Block Copolymers, Jonathan P. Coote
Public Health, Community, and the Making of the Modern Morgue in Bavaria, 1855-1914, Alyssa Nicole Culp
USING HEURISTIC METHODS AND MACHINE LEARNING TO ENHANCE THE POSITIONAL ACCURACY OF HISTORICAL GEOSPATIAL DATASETS, Pankaj Mani Dahal
Modeling of chromatin architecture: implications in health and disease, Priyojit Das
Enhancing the Performance of the MtCNN for the Classification of Cancer Pathology Reports: From Data Annotation to Model Deployment, Kevin De Angeli
Aroma Chemistry of Mountain Mints in the Incanum Group of Pycnanthemum Michx., Melissa M. Dein
Evaluation of Cotton Management Decisions: Cover Crops, Weed Control, and Injured Stands, Savana D. Denton
Paying Attention: The Lived Experiences of Female ADHD Graduate Students in Higher Education, Tiffany Michelle Devol
Ambivalent Sexism and Condom Use Self-Efficacy Amongst Men Who Bottom: A Serial Mediation Model, Elliott Nolan DeVore
The spatial, temporal, and ecological constraints of plant-host associated microbial communities, Jonathan Dickey
The Literary Fairy: Celtic Folklore’s Influence on Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Joshua Dobbs
Corrosion and Microstructural Characterization of Molybdenum-YSZ Cermets Following Hydrogen Exposure up to 2630 K, Taylor G. Duffin
DETERMINATION OF NEAR-SOL CARBON IMPURITY CONTENT DUE TO DIVERTOR TARGET LEAKAGE USING CARBON-13 TRACERS VIA METHANE INJECTION ON THE DIII-D TOKAMAK, Jonah David Duran
Studying Electron Dynamics for Quantum Materials with Real Space Resolution: A Wannier Orbital Approach to Spectroscopy using High-Performance Supercomputers, Casey J. Eichstaedt
WE HAVE REMAINED PATIENT: FORENSIC HUMAN RIGHTS ANTHROPOLOGY IN POST-SIAD BARRE SOMALILAND, Lucia My Maja Karolina Elgerud Norstrom
Universal Basic Income Favorability: An Examination of Discursive Frames of and Support for UBI Proposals, John Stacy Elliott
Diffusion of Policy Innovations: State Adoption of Value-Added Models in K-12 Education, Kirsten England
Constrained Collective Movement in Human-Robot Teams, Joshua Fagan
An Autoethnographic Study Uncovering Disruptive Events that Impacted a Gay Woman's Transformation into Adulthood, Erin J. Ferris
LATINIDAD IN SUMMER READING: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO MULTICULTURAL LITERACY FOR LATINO/A ENGLISH LEARNERS’ SELF-EFFICACY IN TRANSITIONING TO MIDDLE SCHOOL, Elizabeth Fincher
Water availability as a cross-scale driver of microbial functions and free viral abundance in soil, Aubrey K. Fine
Elucidating the Importance of Structure, Surfaces, and Interfaces in Polymer Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites, Jacob E. Fischer
Analytical Techniques for the Analysis of Uranium Bearing Materials, Nathaniel D. Fletcher
Characterization and Management of Auxin-Resistant Palmer amaranth in Tennessee, Delaney C. Foster
Reducing Homonegative Prejudice towards Gay and Bisexual Men by Targeting Diverse Sexual Orientation Beliefs: A Replication and Extension Study, Kevin Matthew Fry
Election Day Registration and Same Day Registration in State Legislative Districts, Rachel Fuentes
Fabrication, Thermophysical, and Mechanical Properties of Cermet and Cercer Fuel Composites for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion, Neal D. Gaffin
“PUTTING COYOLXAUHQUI TOGETHER”: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF IDENTIFYING AND HEALING FRAGMENTATION THROUGH DECOLONIAL FEMINIST CREATIVE WRITING PRACTICES, Elizabeth Parker Garcia
Demonstrating the use of Multiple Experimental Techniques to Investigate Helium-Hydrogen Synergies in Tungsten, Wendy A. Garcia
The Hiring Practices of an Olympic-Level Sport Organization: A Case Study, Ashley Gardner
BLACK MEN HURDLING HALLOWED HALLS: GENDERED RACISM AND ASSIMILATION IN RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH, Edward Marcellus Garnes
How Dynamic Bond results in the unique viscoelastic behavior of the associating polymers, Sirui Ge
Constraining the 30P(p,γ)31S reaction using 30P(d,pγ)31P with GODDESS, Rajesh Ghimire
A Study on Early Age Properties of Concrete for Precast and 3D Printing, Debalina Ghosh
Design of Binders for Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing, Dustin B. Gilmer
Efficient Network Domination for Life Science Applications, Stephen K. Grady
Natural, Experimental, and Educational Explorations of the Interiors of Terrestrial Planetary Bodies, Nadine L. Grambling
CHRONOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL FRAMEWORK FOR OVERLAPPING MAGMATISM, DUCTILE DEFORMATION, AND HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION IN THE CORDILLERA BLANCA, PERU, Tyler A. Grambling
Elucidating molecular structure and interactions of disease-related noncovalent assemblies through ion mobility spectrometry - mass spectrometry, Amber LeAnn Hope Gray
The Roles of Alcohol Use and Sleep Quality on the Relationship between Fear of Missing out and Intimate Partner Violence, Hannah Grigorian
Identification of the Type Eleven Secretion System (T11SS) and Characterization of T11SS-dependent Effector Proteins, Alex S. Grossman
Improving Sensitivities in 0𝒗ββ Decay Searches by Utilizing PEN as a Structural Scintillating Material, Brennan Theresa Hackett
THE JOURNEYS OF SIX MOM PEDAGOGUES: ENACTING PERSONAL CONVICTIONS AND DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO, Macy Halladay
Cat COVID, CMV and Chemokines, Oh My!, Trevor Hancock
CMOS Compatible Carbonization of Polymer for Elctrochemical Sensors, Mohammad Aminul Haque
Driving piezochromism and metallicity in van der Waals materials under compression, Nathan Harms
Liquid-Liquid Transition in Ionic Liquids, Matthew Albert Harris
Light Matter Interactions: A Study of Soft Materials Using Linear and Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Muhammad Redwan Hassan
Addressing Interprofessional Competence in Interpretation of Electronic Fetal Monitor Tracings, Susan H. Hébert
Public Wife: The Life of Jessie Benton Fremont, Lorraine D. Herbon
ADVANCED THOMSON SCATTERING DIAGNOSTICS FOR VARIOUS APPLICATIONS, Zichen He
Exploration of the Stability of Multicomponent Metal Halide Perovskites utilizing Automated, High-throughput Methods and Machine Learning, Katherine N. Higgins
Re-Visioning the Modern/ist Body: Literature, Women, and Modern Dance, Marisa Higgins
Autocracies as Mediators in Conflicts, Jonathan A. S. Honig
Towards the production of a self-consistent phase space distribution, Austin Hoover
Sequential Deformations of Hadamard Matrices and Commuting Squares, Shuler G. Hopkins
Articular Morphology in Human Limb Synovial Joints: Variation, Covariation, and Application, Haley Elizabeth Horbaly
Essays on Demand and Supply Integration of Disadvantaged Populations for Social Impact, Feigao Huang