This collection is comprised of theses and dissertations completed at the University of New Orleans from 2002 to the present.
Some documents from this time period that have not been digitized as well as older dissertations and theses can be located in the UNO Library online catalog: http://library.uno.edu/
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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Casa Samba: Identity, Authenticity, and Tourism in New Orleans, Lauren Lastrapes
Dantalion, David R. LeBlanc
Theoretical Approaches to the Characterization of Water, Aqueous Interfaces, and Improved Sampling of Protein Conformational Changes, Alexis J. Lee
Characterization of Magnetic Nanostructured Materials by First Order Reversal Curve Method, Denny R. Lenormand
Invisible Cities: Photographic Fictions of Architecture, Maria Levitsky
An Investigation of the Combined Assessments Used as Entrance Criteria for a Gifted English Middle School Program, Colleen D. Lindsey Ph.D.
Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital of GED completers in entry-level college courses, Donalyn L. Lott
A Software Framework for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Adam Loup
Computational Scheme Guided Design of a Hybrid Mild Gasifier, You Lu
When Bird and Fish Fall in Love, Matthew C. Mackey
“Man’s Country. Out Where the West Begins”: Women, the American Dream, and the West in Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Coleen Maidlow
Two Essays in Financial Economics, Jatin Ravikant Malhotra
Codemakers, Dawn Manning
Efficacy of Self-Care and Traditional Mental Health Counseling in Treating Vicarious Traumatization Among Counselors of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, Mary Alice Many
The Weight of Water and Other Stories, Lindsay Maples
Employment Decentralization and Bus Rapid Transit in an Edge City Corridor: Veterans Boulevard in Greater New Orleans, Taylor A. Marcantel
Gaining Relevance in the Face of Obsolescence: The USS Texas – a Battleship in the Second World War, Kali Martin
Pigments of Imagination: An Actor's Journey of Creating the Character of Jack Lawson from David Mamet's Race, Paxton H. McCaghren
Rooftop Cities, Tammi L. McCune
Anger Management: Creating the role of Coleman Shedman in Romulus Linney's 'Holy Ghosts', Patrick J. McKinnie
Two Essays in Islamic Finance and Investment, Hesham J. Merdad
“Respectably Dull”: Striptease, Tourism and Reform in Postwar New Orleans, Lauren E. Milner
To Ride On, Coleen R. Muir
They Took My Bedroom: A Case Study of Eminent Domain in New Orleans, Jared E. Munster
Artifacts, Lacar E. Musgrove
Through Other I's: Las Otras, Brenda Nettles Riojas
Momentum, Nonlinear Price Discovery and Asymmetric Spillover: Sovereign Credit Risk and Equity Markets of Emerging Countries and, Geoffrey M. Ngene
Electronic Transport in Thermoelectric Bismuth Telluride, Westly Nolting
Comparative Phylogeography of Central African Duikers Using Non-invasive Sampling Methods, Stephan Ntie
Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition, Jade J. O'Dell
When is it Our Time?: An Event History Model of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights Policy Adoption, Megan E. Osterbur
Corporate Governance, Performance and Risk-Taking in the U.S. Banking Industry, Jennifer OSullivan
The Closure of New Orleans' Charity Hospital After Hurricane Katrina: A Case of Disaster Capitalism, Kenneth Brad Ott
A Case study to Examine Student Retention at a Less Selective University with a High Rate of Retention, Victoria M. Palmisano
Factors Associated with Play Therapists' Use of Family-Systems Play Therapy Interventions, Jaime K. Parker
The Use of Re-authoring to Reconcile Fundamentalist Religious Beliefs with Sexual Orientation: A Narrative Study, Karen Parker
Autonomic and Behavioral Reactivity to an Acute Laboratory Stressor, Jeremy C. Peres
What Was and When It Passes, Mark Petrie
Geochemical Evidence for Vertical Migration of Deep Formation Fluids through the Baton Rouge -Denham Springs Fault System, Lesley C. Prochaska
The Interacting Multiple Models Algorithm with State-Dependent Value Assignment, Rastin Rastgoufard
"Loving the Bigger Fat" and Other Essays, Catherine Root
Comparing Biology Grades Based on Instructional Delivery and Instructor at a Community College: Face-to-Face Course Versus Online Course., Amanda Rosenzweig
Application of Digital Forensic Science to Electronic Discovery in Civil Litigation, Brian Roux
Factors that Influence the Participation of Immigrant Latino Parents in the Special Education Process of their Children with Disabilities, Maria Isolina Ruiz
Transforming Sustainability thru Adaptive Co-Management: A Critique of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan, Melanie G. Sand
Evaluating the Role of Environmental Stressors and Sensitive Parenting on the Emergence of Behavior Problems during Early Childhood, Brenna Sapotichne
Blow-up of Solutions to the Generalized Inviscid Proudman-Johnson Equation, Alejandro Sarria
Counselor Educators’ Perceptions of Working with Students Who are Unwilling to Set Aside Their Religious Beliefs When Counseling Clients: A Qualitative Study, Michael G. Saussaye
Firing Point: Patrol Torpedo Boats during World War II, Joshua J. Schick
Trouble Every Day, Nina E. Schwanse
The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York, Dominic M. Sevieri
The Feasibility of Closing Vehicle Crossings along St. Charles Avenue: A Study of Transit Safety and Performance, Vivek B. Shah
Deep play, urban space, adolescent place: a multi-sited study of the effects of settings on adolescent risk/reward behavior, Benjamin A. Shirtcliff
Evoking Luck, Kianna R. Simmons
Synthesis and Development of Potential CB1 Receptor Neutral Antagonists, Kimari Slaughter
A Mandala of Hands, John Warner Smith
Fish Assemblage Dynamics and Red Drum Habitat Selection in Bayou St. John and Associated Urban Waterways located within the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, Patrick W. Smith Mr.
Satchmo, Callie M. Solano
Analysis and Characterization of Residual Stresses in Pipe and Vessel Welds, Shaopin Song
Factors Impacting Principals' Career Decision Making, Wylene M. Sorapuru
Evolution of Nuclear Integrations of the Mitochondrial Genome in Great Apes and their Potential as Molecular Markers, Ivan D. Soto-Calderon
From Amber to Darkness, Courtney J. Spencer and Courtney Spencer
High Frequency Study of Magnetic Nanostructures, Abhishek Srivastava
Synthesis and Characterization of Sugar Derivatives as Functional Gelators, Michael J. St Martin
Gasland: The Rhetoric of Images in the New Media Landscape, Christopher T. Thaxton
The Practical Side of Culinary Arts Education: The Role of Social Ability and Durable Knowledge in Culinary Arts Externships, William R. Thibodeaux
“Bury Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon”: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s No-No Boy, Patricia A. Thomas
Adolescents with Callous Unemotional Traits and their Roles in Group Crime, Laura C. Thornton
Perceptions of the Ordinary, Natalie J. Tobacyk
Pattern Recognition of Power System Voltage Stability using Statistical and Algorithmic Methods, Varun Togiti
Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, and Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Brent Tranchina
Exploring the Relationship between English Composition Teachers' Beliefs about Written Feedback and Their Written Feedback Practices, Sandra Vandercook
Play Therapist's Perspectives on Culturally Sensitive Play Therapy, Krystal M. Vaughn
Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Cannabinoid Antagonist, Abha Verma
Gender Perceptions of Administrative Team Members Regarding Secondary Principals' Leadership Actions and Behaviors in Managing Change, Shannon L. Verrett
Leftover Thought & Other Poems, Michael A. Volpi Jr.
II-VI Core-Shell Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterizations and Photovoltaic Applications, Kai Wang
Design and Testing of the Measuring System for the Characterization of Magnetoelectric Composites, Thomas S. Ward IV
“'They was Things Past the Tellin’: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project", Lynn Cowles Wartberg
Cease Fire: One Woman's Search for Self in a Culture of War, Christine R. Wettlaufer Ph.D.
A Panzer Commander "Working Toward the Fuhrer": The World War II Career of General oberst Hermann Hoth, dustin c. Whittington
Understanding Land Use Grain: An Evaluation of Meaning and Measurement, Benjamin N. Williams
Examining the Relationship Between Louisiana Principals' Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Student Achievement, Jonathan C. Williams
Measuring the Sustainability of U.S. Public Bicycle Systems, Max W. Williamson
Not Just a Symbol But a Status Symbol, Summer D. Winston
RNA CoMPASS: RNA Comprehensive Multi-Processor Analysis System for Sequencing, Guorong Xu
Synthesis and characterization of sugar based low molecular weight gelators, Hao Yang
A Framework to Annotate the Uncertainty for Geospatial Data, Zhao Yang
Controlled Attachment of Nanoparticles to Layered Oxides, Yuan Yao
Synthesis and Characterization of Ferroic and Multiferroic Nanostructures by Liquid Phase Deposition, Amin Yourdkhani