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University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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/

For assistance contact the UNO Library at (504) 280-6549 or libref@uno.edu.

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Examining the Development of Career Identity within a College Preparatory School: A Case Study, Michele R. Margavio

Formulation of Hybrid Knowledge-Based/Molecular Mechanics Potentials for Protein Structure Refinement and a Novel Graph Theoretical Protein Structure Comparison and Analysis Technique, Aaron Maus

How to Get a Job in Book Publishing, Grecia Medina

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Community-Based Youth Non-Profit Organization at Increasing Prosocial Behavior and Decreasing Antisocial Behavior among Young Boys: A Pilot Study, Molly A. Miller

Effective Statistical Energy Function Based Protein Un/Structure Prediction, Avdesh Mishra

Size Effects in Small Scale Forward Extrusion and Metal Forming, Debabrata Mondal

Dr. Tichenor’s ‘Lost Cause’: The Rise of New Orleans’s Confederate Culture during the Gilded Age, Granville R. Morris

Development of Experimental and Finite Element Models to Show Size Effects in the Forming of Thin Sheet Metals, Jeffrey D. Morris

A Phenomenological Study on the Mentoring Experiences of Teachers of Color in New Orleans, Ingrid Alvarado Nichols

“To be men, not destroyers”: Developing Dabrowskian Personalities in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Michelle A. Nicholson

Media Coverage of LGBT Issues: Legal, Religious, and Political Frames, Scott N. Nolan

‘Posed with the Greatest Care’: Photographic Representations of Black Women Employed by the Work Progress Administration in New Orleans, 1936-1941, Kathryn A. O'Dwyer

An Experimental and Numerical Study of High Temperature Gaseous Flow through an Open Cell Silicon Carbide Foam Heater, Denis Pansolin

Prediction of Hierarchical Classification of Transposable Elements Using Machine Learning Techniques, Manisha Panta

Proposed New Military Live Load for Highway Bridges in the United States, Walter P. Parker

The Role of Temperamental Fear and Parenting Quality on Emerging Internalizing and Externalizing Problems During Early Childhood, Tejal Patel

When I Wake, Summer Pierce

Amalgamations, Brennan Probst

Fair to Middlin’: How the Mediocre White Male Trope as the Exemplar of Human Experience and Universal Truth Fails to Adequately Prepare the Diverse Field of Contemporary Actors and Audiences in Film, Television and Theatre Today, Shanda Quintal

Navigating the Intersections of Identity: The Shared Experiences of Women of Color Chief Student Affairs Officers, Nicole Caridad Ralston

Acclimation, long-term repeatability, and phenotypic correlations of aerobic metabolic traits in the Gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis, Jessica E. Reemeyer

Gaussian Conditionally Markov Sequences: Theory with Application, Reza Rezaie

We Will Plant Birds of Paradise, Genevieve A. Rheams

Everything that Shines is not Gold, anna rickerson

Arnold Hirsch Collection of Ernest N. 'Dutch' Morial Oral History Interviews, 1987: A Finding Aid, Jenidza N. Rivera

Chords of Dissonance, Shelly L. Rodrigue

How We Live Today and Other Stories, Gregory W. Rohloff

Structural connectivity and immunological correlates of emotion processing in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, Ashley F. P. Sanders

Darwin or Frankenstein?, Sylvia S. Santamaria

Scalable Community Detection using Distributed Louvain Algorithm, Naw Safrin Sattar

Nest Morale, Nora Seilheimer

The Andry Family, The 1811 Slave Revolt, and The German Coast Project, Daniel I. Senentz Jr.

The Half-Lives We Were Living, Chelsey K. Shannon

Design and Analysis of Modular Axial Flux Switched Reluctance Motor, Rochak Shiwakoti

Amending the Record: Proofreading American Naval War Diaries Written in the Pontus, 1921-1922, Toria Smith

Evolution and stratigraphic architecture of tidal point bars with and without fluvial input: influence of variable flow regimes on sediment and facies distribution, and lateral accretion, Pricilla Souza

A Domain Specific Language for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Analysis, Christopher D. Stelly

Philadelphia Stories, Leigh A. Stuart

Enlarged hind wings of the Neotropical butterfly Pierella helvina (Nymphalidae) enhance gliding flight performance in ground effect., Marc Stylman

Seismic Communication, Anna Tatelman

Herman L. Midlo: Social Ally in Louisiana Religious Civil Rights, Kenneth William-Moran Taylor

Killing Silence: A Path to Increasing Homicide Solvability in Urban Communities, Dennis Thornton

Geomorphic and temporal evolution of a Mississippi delta flanking barrier island: Grand Isle, LA, Julie A. Torres

Hand-built Ceramics at 810 Royal and Intercultural Trade in French Colonial New Orleans, Travis M. Trahan

The Color of Invisibility, Bryan A. VanMeter

La Fièvre Jaune: An Exhibition Plan on St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Irish Immigrants, and the Role of the Catholic Church During the 1853 Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans, Katherine Vest

Past the Darkness, Kathleen M. Vieira

Weathering the Storm: Black Maternal Mortality, Resistance, and Power in Richard Wright’s “Down by The Riverside,” Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, renee vincent

Using Literature to Make Social Change: Talking about Race in the Classroom, Zabrina L. Vogelsang

Re-positioning a School District to Embrace Equity and Change: A Qualitative Examination of Central Office Leaders’ Experiences with Implementing a Desegregation Plan, Tamara L. Warner

LX: A Life in Light, Glennis Waterman

Seamless Lidar Surveys Reveal Rates and Patterns of Subsidence in the Mississippi River Delta, Celeste E. Woock

Exact Feedback Linearization of Systems with State-Space Modulation and Demodulation, Nikolaos I. Xiros DEng

Vertical Acoustic Propagation in the Non-Homogeneous Layered Atmosphere for a Time-Harmonic, Compact Source, Edward J. Yoerger Jr

Reliability Sensitivity Analysis of Dropped Objects Hitting on the Pipeline at Seabed, Hanqi Yu

Associations Between Community Violence Exposure, Emotional Desensitization, and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: The Influence of Route of Exposure and Interpersonal Proximity to the Victims of Violence, Megan M. Zeringue

All Trails Lead to Sterling: How Sterling Brown Fathered the Field of Black Literary and Cultural Studies, 1936-1969, Amber E. Zu-Bolton

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Living in Two Worlds: The Phenomena of the Language Immersion Experience, Laura E. Adelman-Cannon

Three dimensional passive localization for single path arrival with unknown starting conditions, Britt Aguda

The Use of Campus Based Restorative Justice Practices to Address Incidents of Bias: Facilitators’ Experiences, Desiree Anderson

How to Maximize Your Small Business's Impact on Social Media, Brianna J. Arnaud

Defending Eulalie, Mimi AYERS

Coupled Barrier Island Shoreline and Shoreface Dynamics, Benjamin S. Beasley

Leveraging Relocations in ELF-binaries for Linux Kernel Version Identification, Manish Bhatt

Entwined Threads of Red and Black: The Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement in Louisiana, 1699-1824, Leila K. Blackbird

MAnanA: A Generalized Heuristic Scoring Approach for Concept Map Analysis as Applied to Cybersecurity Education, Sharon Elizabeth Blake Gatto

Innovation, Ownership and IPO Underpricing, Roman Bohdan

Not Japanese, Elizabeth Brina

Regulatory Repercussions in Finance, Jennifer L. Brodmann

Between the Phases of the Moon, Jacob Budenz

Abraham Shushan: In the Shadow of Huey Long, Brad J. Burke

A Town Slowly Burned: Life and Death in a Small Louisiana Town, Victoria C. Bush

An Exploration into Teachers' Perceptions of School Leaders' Emotional Intelligence, Lindsey E. Caillouet

You Are Here, Emma L. Carlton

To Forgive or Not to Forgive? A Reappraisal of Vietnam War Evaders and Deserters in President Gerald Ford's Clemency Program, Courtney Carver

Stray Cats, Christian P. Chesnut

Remote Monitoring of Cherry Wetness Using a Leaf Wetness Sensor and a Wireless Sensor Network, Shyla Clark

The Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in a Virtual Public Charter School, Sarah E. Clifford

The Combat in France of the U.S. 360th Infantry Regiment and the Death of First Lieutenant George P. Cole on November 2, 1918, in the Battle of Meuse-Argonne, Ralston P. Cole

Geomorphology of shell ridges and their effect on the stabilization of the Biloxi Marsh, East Louisiana, Frances R. Crawford

A Change in Grain? Diet Induced Plasticity in the Generalist Grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis, Austin M. Culotta

Assessing Apache Spark Streaming with Scientific Data, Janak Dahal

The Home Front: The Experience of Soldiers and Civilians in the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940 and 1941, John G. D'Antoni

The Gloaming, Alyssa D. Davison

Platinum@Hexaniobate Nanopeapods: Sensitized Composite Architectures for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Under Visible Light Irradiation, Clare Davis-Wheeler Chin

Story & Style: Pursuing Excellence on the Academic Stage, Ryan M. Decker

Credit Supply, Price and Financial Stability in Markets and Institutions, Austin J. Dejan

Both Sides of the Barbed Wire: Lives of German Prisoners of War and African Americans in Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, 1944-1946, Claire DeLucca

Legacy Habitat Suitability of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in Louisiana: a prelude to Mississippi River Delta freshwater diversions, Tasia MV Denapolis

Attentional Sub-Processes Involved with Emotional Eating, Gregory Denke

Assessment Of Two Pedagogical Tools For Cybersecurity Education, Pranita Deshpande

Hydrodynamics of an Anguilliform Swimming Motion using Morison’s Equation, Naga Sasi Devarakonda

The Ones Abandoned, Thomas Dollbaum

Moving On: A Phenomenological Study on the Experiences of Migrating Teachers in Disadvantaged School Districts, Gini E. Dufrene

The Making of Camp Shakespeare For Young Performing Artists, Lauren E. Erwin

Shadow Box and Other Stories, Carolina I. Fautsch

A Sociopolitical View of Mental Health: An Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Policymakers Regarding their Perspectives Surrounding Mental Health Policy Construction, KATIE C. FETZER

“More Human Than Human”: Lacan’s Mirror Stage Theory and Posthumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Richelle V. Finn

'Geaux Guard' and the Shift to the All-Volunteer Force: The Economics of the Louisiana Army National Guard, 1973-1991, Titus L. Firmin

The Role of Basin Configuration and Allogenic Controls on the Stratigraphic Evolution of River Mouth Bars, Joshua Flathers