College of Arts and Sciences Theses
This collection includes Cleveland State University College of Arts and Sciences theses dating from December 2007 to the present which are also included in the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertation Center.
Theses published before 2014 can be found in the Cleveland State University Archives or the Northeast Regional Library Depository through OhioLINK.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Using Personality Traits To Predict Boundary Management Strategies, Corey A. Adams
A Multi-Spatial Analysis Of Land Use Effects On Freshwater Mussels In The Upper Cuyahoga River And Tinkers Creek, Tamar Atwell
Role Of Fasting In Caloric Restriction Improved Glucose Tolerance, Makayla M. Dillon
Investigating Roles Of 2 Novel Eklf Targets Involved In Erythropoiesis, Rose M. Gott
The Role Of Adverse Childhood Experiences And Associated Features On Criminality In Emerging Adults, Jessica L. Harangozo
Revolutionary Road And Gone Girl: Undermining The Veneer Of Domestic Bliss, John T. Hoty
Emotion Regulation And Coping Motives: An Ema Study Of The Path Between Negative Affect And Craving, Joseph H. Lancaster
Six-Bullets Faith, Justin R. Lazor
The Abstract Language: Symbolic Cogniton And Its Relationship To Embodiment, Steven A. Lenarduzzi
The Effects Of Childhood Trauma And Stressors On Problem Behaviors: Coping As A Moderator, Halle C. Letizio
The Detection Of Malingered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder With The Cap-Q And Traumatic Events Inventory, Samuel D. Rodman
The Morgue the Merrier? COVID19-Related Threat, Existential Isolation, & Well Being, Lauren P. Sedivy
"I Need to Write About What I Believe": Journaling and Afrofuturism in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Shlana E. Sims
Graphic Diaspora: Reframing Narratives Of American Identity In Black Comic Books, Ashley Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Intergenerational Transmission of Violence, Rejection Sensitivity, And the Impact of Self-regulation: A Mechanism Study of Adolescent Dating Abuse, Evan J. Basting
The Effects of Musical Instrument Gender on Spoken Word Recognition, Bethany G. Cox
A Test of Specificity Between Emotion Regulation Repertoires And Affect: A Prospective Investigation, Zachary Demoss
An Examination Of Perceptions Of Intimate Partner Violence Severity Within Same-Sex Compared To Opposite-Sex Couples, Eric K. Frazier
Mechanical Transformations: the Active Roles of Machines In British Industrial-era Writings, Julia R. Halamek
School-based Yoga Intervention Programs Promoting Self-regulation And Adaptive Functioning Outcomes.pdf, Jennifer K. Ishaq
Formal Affective Strategies In Contemporary African Diasporic Feminist Texts, Zuzanna E. Koziatek
Understanding the Illness Experience of Veterans With Dementia, Amanda M. Macneil
Two Paths To Commitment: A Moderated Mediation Model, Ashley Moroney
Age Differences In Emotional Reactivity To Subtypes of Sadness And Anger, Ryan M. Muskin
The Role of the Parental-adolescent Relationship And Communication on Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors And Mental Health Outcomes, Michaela C. Steiner
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Positive And Negative Symptoms Questionnaire-revised, Emena Belt
Sound And Storytelling—an Auditory Angle on Internalized Racism In Invisible Man And the Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Patricia A. Budd
Determinants of Holliday Junction Formation And Resolution During Budding Yeast Meiosis, Marina Bykova
Examining the Electrophysiology of Long-term Priming: Repetition And Talker Specificity Effects on Spoken Word Recognition, Megan Farrell
Exsistential Motivation And the Expression And Regulation of Religious Faith Among Believers And Atheists, Madhwa S. Galalii
The Helper And Gatekeeper: Graduate Mental Health Educators And Trainees In Psychological Distress, Stephanie Elaine Garcia
Life Cycle And Morphological Characterization of Colpodella Sp. (atcc 50594) In Hay Medium, Troy A. Getty
The Effect of Autonomy on Prosocial Worldview Defense, Alexis N. Goad
Differences In Mental Health Outcomes Between Heterosexual And Sexual Minority Victims of Emotional And Physical Intimate Partner Violence, Edward J. Gorski
An Alternative Woman: Breaking From the Binary Options of Sir Walter Scott’s Heroines And their Successors In Historical Fiction, Rachel Hernan
Validation of the tri-choice naming and response bias measure, Chloe A. Huston
Personage And Post-adolescence In F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, Marissa C. Hyde
Examining the Bilingual Advantage In Visuospatial Executive Function Tasks For Regular Use Bilinguals, Jessica A. Jensen
Characterization of the Immune Response To Anti-mullerian Hormone, Justin M. Johnson
We rode alone, of course a collection of short stories, Ryan T. Merriman
Understanding the unmet needs and need-driven behaviors of individuals with mild to moderate dementia, Morgan J. Minyo
Does Inflexible Attention Undermine the Benefits of Cognitive Reappraisal? A Multi-method Study of Adolescents With Anxiety, Anna R. Olczyk
Functional Ecology And Ecosystem Services of Urban Trees, Milos Simovic
Although of Course they End Up Constructing their Selves Performative Gender Identity In the Pale King, Kevin Tasker
Negative Representation And the Germination of English Identity In Medieval And Early Modern Travel Narratives, Kelly R. Unterborn
Borne the Battle; Creative Writing For Military Trauma And Personal Trauma, Damien L. Ware
Tom L. Johnson’s Tax School: the Fight For Democracy And Control of Cleveland’s Tax Machinery, Andrew L. Whitehair
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Insights Into the Ribosomal, Extra-ribosomal And Developmental Role of Rp L13a In Mammalian Model, Ravinder Kour
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“The Deepest Blush”: Bodily States of Emotions in Jane Austen’s Novels, Nadya Abdelfattah
The Usefulness of the Poreh Nonverbal Memory Test for the Assessment of Response Bias, Marina Barboza
Investigating the Electrophysiology of Long-Term Priming in Spoken Word Recognition, Erin K. Bell
The Impact of Traumatic Symptomology and Social Support on the Effective Management of Death Anxiety, Emily Pauline Courtney
Murder at the Palace Theater, Robert Mclane knight Daniels
The Sellout by Paul Beatty: “Unmitigated Blackness” in Obama's America, John E. Davies
The Gathering Storm: The Role of White Nationalism in U.S. Politics, Genie A. Donley
The Effect of Taboo Words and Reprimands in an Audio-Visual Modified Stroop Task, Rachel B. Fernandes
The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation in the Relationship Between Stress and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Severity Among Diagnosed Individuals, Sarah M. Ghose
Notes on Survival, Despite, Jason Harris
First Person Plural: Short Stories, Justin R. Lazor
Quantitative Analysis of Bleomycin in Rat Plasma by LC-MS/MS, Huawen Li
An Examination of the Relationships Between Attributional Style, Reappraisal, and Depression Risk in Arab Americans, Khadeja Najjar
Rumination in Borderline Personality Disorder: An examination of interpersonal contexts in experimental and daily life settings, Skye C. Napolitano
Truth and the Language of War, Kelly O'melia
Normative Data for the Poreh Naming Test, Grace Ozinga
Generational Differences in the Workplace: The Influence of Debt on Work Values and Job Satisfaction, Anna Skrybka
The Sting in the Green City, Nicole Tsakoumagos
Computational Investigation of Protein Assemblies, Sm bargeen Alam Turzo
Atheism and the Effects of Mortality Salience and Limited Analytic Processing Ability on Religious Faith and Teleological Thinkin, Brett Jordan Waggoner
Contradictionary Lies: A Play Not About Kurt Cobain, Katie R. Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Sympathy, Skepticism and Conversation in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Henry Mackenzie's the Man of Feeling, Ahoud Turki Al ghmiz
A Cultural Approach: Judaism and Its Effects on Moses Soyer’s Paintings and Drawings, Rachel Arzuaga
The Creation of Space for Engaged Reading and Creative Interpretation in the Collected Works of Wallace Stevens, Lauren Cannavino
Eldritch Horrors: the Modernist Liminality of H.P. Lovecraft's Weird Fiction, Dale Allen Crowley
“Only a Sufficient Cause:" Bram Stoker's Dracula as a Tale of Mad Science and Faustian Redemption, Leah Christiana Davydov
The Other Side of Fun, Dan Forkapa
Gender Role Prescriptions and Apologies, Molly Fuller
Speed Accuracy in Motor Performance and Risk-Taking Characteristics, Morgan Lee Gabbert
The Utilization of Eyetracking to Understand Attention Switching in Socially Anxious and Depressed Individuals, Allison E. Griesmer
Shriekers, Jessica Leigh Johnson
Testing the Impact of Post-Traumatic Stress on Existential Motivation for Ideological Close- and Open-Mindedness, Lauren M. Kahle
The Effect of Site Characteristics on the Reproductive Output of Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), Justin P. Kermack
Title Examination of Somatic Symptomatology Using the Cleveland Adaptive Personality Inventory and the Dimensional Somatic Questionnaire, Elizabeth Kisela
Decline of Nonverbal Executive Functions Across the Lifespan – Distinguishing Between Outcome and Process, Anna Krivenko
Feminist Pedagogies in the Creative Writing Classroom: Possibilities and Reflections, Angela Lagrotteria
Developmental Disabilities and Family Dynamics, Meghan Murray
Towards a Synthesis: Tracing the Evolution of Masculinity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Anthony Necastro Necastro
Male Laguna Cultural Infulence in the Restoration of Tayo, Peter Lee Parry
Wharton's Library: For Born Readers Only, Christine Primisch
Testing Emotion Regulation and Parasympathetic Nervous System Deficits as a Mechanism for the Transmission of Borderline Personality Disorder, Julia R. Richmond
Construct Validity for the Poreh Nonverbal Memory Test on Participants with Right, Left, and Bilateral Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Sarah E. Tolfo
How the Illness Experience Predicts Key Psychosocial Outcomes in Veterans with Brain Injury, Carmen M. Tyler
The Effect of Contact Type on Perceptions of Sex Offender Recidivism Risk, Donald Walker Jr.
He Repercussions of Childhood Trauma on Posttraumatic Stress: the Mediating Effects of Dissociation and Emotion Dysregulation, Jessica A. Ward
"Tale as Old as Time": the "Beauty and the Beast" Narrative as Vehicle for Social Resistance, Monica Williams
I Hate It, But I Can't Stop: The Romanticization of Intimate Partner Abuse in Young Adult Retellings of Wuthering Heights, Brianna R. Zgodinski