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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Consume Her, Caroline Chavatel

Essays on Cigarette Regulation, Prenatal Smoking, and Cross-Border Shopping, Maxwell Chomas

Three Essays on Skills and Individual Decision-Making, Olga Churkina

Progress and Congress: Gender and Career Progression Among Congressional Staff, Micayla Clark

Antibiotic Resistance in Campylobacter, Adrienne o. Clewis

URLiteracy: Analyzing the K-2 Georgia Standards of Excellence in Computer Science and English Language Arts, Lauren Coleman

Paleoindian and Early Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Use: A Case Study from the Brier Creek Drainage in Burke County, Georgia, Quinn Connally

Building Computer Science Teacher Capacity with Integrated Computing, Bryan Cox

Unintended Consequences of Organizational Error Culture: Does the Strive for Perfection Cause Employees to Put on a Façade and Consider Leaving?, Scott Crumpton

Application of epidemiologic methods to investigate the heterogenous impact of COVID-19, Sushma Dahal

Are All Types of Knowledge Types Created Equal? Exploring the Effects of Different Types of Knowledge on Skilled and Less-Skilled Expository Text Comprehension, Amanda C. Dahl

Emergent Collective Dynamics with Applications in Bridge Engineering and Social Networks, Kevin Daley

“We Ain’t Playing F*Cking Nice…”: Reactionary Fandom, Playful Platforms, and the White Masculine Crusader Fan Identity, Anthony Dannar

Examining the Interaction Between Mental Health Stigma, COVID-19 Traumatic Stress, and Race in Predicting Help-Seeking, Jaleh Davari-Dhariwal

Vanishing Without a Trace: Measuring Job Applicant Ghosting Attitudes Across the Stages of Job Pursuit, Christine Davis

Leader Emotional Exhaustion: The Moderating Role of Leadership Style, James Davis

Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination, Ethnic-Racial Identity, and Civic Action Among Immigrant-Origin Youth of Color in the U.S., Claudia A. Delbasso

Equal Respect, Accountability, and Democracy, James C. Delegal

Association Between Food Insecurity and Type of Food Pantry Visited Among Individuals in Atlanta, Georgia, Kendall Dennis

"Relations in the Unseen": An Asexual Reading of Long Nineteenth Century British Literature, Keith H. Derrick

Collocation Production and Language Use in English-Spanish Bilinguals, Stephanie Diaz

Does the Injustice Move You? A Comparative Study of Population Support for Black Social Movements, Lestina Dongo

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Tobacco Use, Tobacco Advertising Exposure and Its Effects on Subsequent Tobacco Use Among U.S. Youth, Vuong Van Do

Path Constitution in Family Business Succession: Evidence from A Longitudinal Case Study, Toney L. Duckworth-Chambless

The Black Pirates of the Atlantic World, 1500-1730: Renegades or Revolutionaries?, Garrentt Duffey

An Exploration of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in College Students, Barbara Duran

But Did You Not Read My Title? The Pastoral Purpose of Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons, Elijah T. Echols

Effects of Childhood Trauma on the Psychological Distress of Black Homeless Youth: The Moderating Role of Social Support, Tiffany A. Edwards Doh

Husk: Poems, Anna Sandy Elrod

Cultural Parenting: Igbo Mothers Raising their Children in the United States, Anene Emodi-Onwuk

A Space for Grace: Avenues to Ameliorate Obstacles Faced by Human Trafficking Survivors and Resource Providers, Cassandra L. Eng

An Exploration of the Status Quo Bias in Nonhuman Primates, Maisy D. Englund

Pandemics, Epidemics, and Public Health Crises– Oh My! An Examination of Tobacco Use During Public Health Emergencies, Robert T. Fairman

That’s Cap: How Racial Capitalism Feeds The Burnout of Black Millennials Living in The U.S., Oluyemi Farinu

Neural Correlates of Empathic Responding towards Mothers’ Happiness and Sadness in Middle Childhood, Katrina Farris

Evaluation of Mental Health Services Intervention for Refugees/Immigrant/Migrant (RIM) Population in Clarkston, Ga., Haram Fatima

Mechanism of Action Of PITM Reduction Of ZIKV Replication In Cell Culture, Oluwatola Femi-Olatunji

Do All Punishers Care about (Un)Fairness? Examining how Psychopathic Subtraits, Anger, and Fairness Motivate Costly Punishment, Sharlene Fernandes

Postmortem Interval Estimation Within the Context of Adipocere Formation, Emily Fields

A Comparison Study of the Differential Functioning of Tests Statistic and a New Mahalanobis Distance-Based Statistic For Pre-Screening Item Response Theory Models, David Fikis

An Analysis of the Association between Food Insecurity and Violent Crime in Georgia in 2020, Shawn Finnerty

Prevalence of Risk Factors of Metabolic Syndrome in Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals Receiving Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy, Ashley Fischer

Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response and Metastasis in Women with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Based on Tumor Microenvironments, Timothy Fisher

Recipe for a New Republic: Foodways, Fiction, and American Identity in Selected Works of Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gina Blankenship Flowers

Predictors of Clinical Mental Health Counseling Students’ Attitudes toward Working with Clients with Substance Use Disorders, Lauren Flynn

Black Genealogies Matter in U.S. Genealogy Tourism: A Content Analysis of Family Heritage Books and Plan for the HBCUHeritageHome.com, Pamela E. Foster

Exploring the Role of the Mathematics Education University Supervisor, Kristie A. Fountain

Social Kind Generics and the Dichotomizing Perspective, William Fraker

Organizational Resilience: An Exploratory Study on Eldercare and Support Responses to COVID-19, Darren G. Franklin

Does Impulsivity Moderate the Association between Alcohol-Related Expectancies for Sex and Sexual Aggression Perpetration?, MonicaMonet Franklin-Kidd

Nicotine and Amphetamine Decrease Sucrose Self-Administration, Cameron Fulco

Examining the Effect of a School-based Creativity Program on Divergent Thinking and Academic Achievement in Middle School Students, Lauren E. Garber Rowe

Inauthentic Accuracy: Digital History In Videogames And The GamerGate Scandal, O'Grady P. Gareis

Interference : Interwoven, Sally C. Garner

Three Tries, GETSAY

Catalytic Production of Carbon Monoxide from Phenyl Pyruvic Acid: Possible Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications, Rujuta Ghorpade

Destroyed by Madness: Fighting Stigma and Building Empathy through the Narrative Experience, Kelley N. Gladden Walker

Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: An Examination of Benefits and Barriers., Olivia K. Golan

Becoming somebody: Black women’s escrevivências and politics of resistance, Irimara Gomes Peixoto

Collective Identity and Feminist Rhetorics: 19th-Century Relief Society Leaders' Use of Ethos-Based Identities as a Pathetic Appeal to the Women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tiffany Gray

An Exploration Into Wastewater Surveillance Of Dengue Virus To Detect Outbreaks In A Community, Caroline Grosch

Habitat Suitability Assessment for Urban Beavers in Metro Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC, Alisha Guglielmi

Preclinical Applications of Targeted Protein-Based Contrast Agents for Molecular MRI Imaging, Zongxiang Gui

Proximity and Mutual Fund Management Outsourcing: Evidence from Air Travel Data, Suiheng Guo

The Automaticity of Partisanship: Archetypal Expression and Expressiveness in an Age of Polarization, Adrien Halliez

You Know He Was Almost Your Daddy, Right?”: An Analysis of Black Women’s Digital Fan Practice on Morris Chestnut, Makalah B. Hampton

Addressing Rural America’s Suicide Disparity Among Men: How Mental Health Stigma Is Communicated Through Storytelling Networks, Lindsey Hand

Understanding Racial Inequities In Coproduction: The Case Of Public Education, Esther Han

Researches on the coloring of multigraphs, Yanli Hao

Long-Term Immune Consequences of Perinatal Opioid Exposure, Hannah Harder

Ohh He Likes the Girls: A Genealogy of the “Tranny Chaser”, Dennis Hardy

The reciprocal relationship of political communication: How governors use social media to influence election outcomes, Chanel Harley

Gendered Division of Labor among the Late Woodland Iroquois: Lithic Scrapers and Hide Production at the Simmons Site, New York, Brittany G. Hart

Identifying with Conspiracy Theorists: Uncovering Rhetorical Questions in the QAnon Movement, Jenna Harte

Examining Active Learning in an Online Synchronous Train-the-Trainer Mathematics Professional Development Initiative, Shannon Hart

For the Sake of Curiosity: Do Monkeys Choose to View Counterfactual Information?, Elizabeth Haseltine

Points of Entry and Existence: A Case Study Examination of East African Migrants in Clarkston, Georgia, Lyric Hathaway

Integration of Misaligned Spatial Data for Evidence-Based Planning and Disaster Risk Assessment, Faris Hawamdeh

The Role of the Salon Experience as a Form of Meaningful Engagement in the Lives of Persons Living with Dementia in Assisted Living, Virginia Heidbreder

Two Essays on Econometric Modelling of Consumer Demand for Health Insurance and Financial Impact of Rural Hospital Closures, James Henson

Addressing the Aristotelian Pedagogical Bias: Reassessing Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its Place in 21st Century Composition Studies, Matthew Higgins

Development of the Racial Allyship Characteristics Scale: Measuring White Allyship from the Perspective of People of Color, Cassandra Hinger

Providing Evidence-Based Interventions in Early Childhood Settings: Examination of Consultation Frameworks and Implementation of a Remote Intervention for Infant Siblings of Children with Autism, Chloe B. Holbrook

Ascension, Alyssa Ann Hood

Bioinformatics Tools for RNA-seq Data Analysis, Akram Sadat Hosseini

An Exploration of Teachers’ and Instructional Coaches’ Perceptions of Self-Efficacy in the Areas of Instructional Strategies, Student Engagement, and Classroom Management, John M. Hruby

Diversified Institutional Ownership and Firm Innovation, Yen-Lin Huang

Spectral Characterization of a Complete Equatorial Sample of 615 K Dwarfs, Hodari-Sadiki Hubbard-James

Teaching Truth: Grassroots Reactions to Classroom Censorship Legislation in Georgia, Emma Hugonnet

School Leaders’ Transformational Strategies for Successfully Preparing for Algebra I in Eighth Grade, Brooke Humphrey

Plasmons in Topological Systems, Dalton C. Hunley

Credal Encroachment in a Two-stage Model, Pengbo Hu

Comparing the Mortality Trends of COVID - 19 Comorbidities and Recommendations for the Population at Risk, Ogechukwu Igbokwe

Inoculation and Recovery of Test Organism Cocktail for Hospital Surface Disinfection by Sani-24 Wipes, Kimberly Inegbe

UAS Path Planning for Dynamical Wildfire Monitoring with Uneven Importance, S M Towhidul Islam

Investigating Exposure Learning of Family-Resemblance Categories, Brooke Jackson

From Morphogens to Monogamy: the Wnt Pathway’s Role in Monogamy, Demira Jakupovic

SUMOylation as a modulator of ion channel function and expression, Leslie-Anne R. Jansen

Perceptions of Public Health College Students on the Effectiveness of Infant Mortality Disparity Reduction Programs in Georgia, USA: Challenges and Strategies to Close the Gap., Henricles Jeudy

Development of Point-Of-Care Assays to Detect Biologically Relevant Analytes, Tianwei Jia