Theses/Dissertations from 2023
What Discrimination? Christian Microaggression Rhetoric Against Nontheists, Nicole Dolfi Hall
Music with a Racial Nexus: Culture Clash in Los Angeles Punk Rock Communities, 1976-1981, Lawson Hammock
Exploring Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in Central Appalachia Through the Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-Binary People, Chase Harless
The Impact of ACEs on College Students and Their Major Choice, Britten Harrison
Identifying Taphonomic Distribution Patterns at the Gray Fossil Site, Shawn Haugrud
Inhibiting Survival of Salmonella During Desiccation Through the Use of Naturally Occurring Signals, Joseph Headrick
T. Hanks for Nostalgia: The Power of Tom Hanks and Film Branding, Jacob Higgs
Strong as a Mother: The Resilience of Women Who Have Previously Experienced Infertility, Madison Hinkle
The Hysterical Woman: An Analysis of Trauma in Gothic Women’s Literature and Modern Horror Film, Molly Holdway
Profitable, Alternative Income Generation and Improved Quality of Life Among Global Beekeepers, Chris Honeycutt
The Stringent Response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Influences the Phenotypes Controlled by the Gac/Rsm System, Michael Shawn Hooker
Japanese Canadians in World War II: Neglected Historiography, Clayton Huff
Parents' Perception of Speech-Language Pathologists in Secondary Transition, Madelyn Hunt
Comparative Characteristics of Integrin αDβ2 Binding to Native Fibrinogen and Fibrinogen Modified by DHA Oxidation During Inflammation, Ajibola Ilesanmi
Polyamory - The Multiple Complexities of Multiple Partners, Vianna Isbister
Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Modern Viperid Vertebrae Facilitates Identification of Fossil Specimens, Lance D. Jessee
Educator Understanding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Dana Johnson
The Old Family Clock: Exploring High Variation of Chronotype in the Common House Spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, Caitlin Jones
Linguistic Features of Metaphor, Metonymy and Narrative Gap in “The Yellow Wallpaper:” A Literary Analysis, Sherry Kaye Ms.
Effect of Macrophage Expressed α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (α7nAChR) on Migration of Macrophages During Inflammation, Kasey Keever
Parent Choice: Learning Pods or Public Education During COVID-19 Pandemic, Shari Kinney
Unsupervised Dimension Reduction Techniques for Lung Diagnosis using Radiomics, Janet Kireta
Resident Assistants as Students and Personnel During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Amy Korstange
Enhancing STEM Education for East Tennessee in a Post-COVID World, Jennifer L. Lauer
Geophysical, Archaeological, and Geospatial Investigations at Presidio Los Adaes, 18th Century Capital of Spanish Texas, Robert Linam
“It’s Alive!” The Birth and Afterlife of the Gothic Genre, Tanner Linkous
Consuming the World: Poetic Appetite, Memory, and Identity in Li-Young Lee’s Food Poems, Claire Liszka
Foundation of Empire in the Tudor Era: Further Explorations of the Northeast and Northwest Passages, Richard H. Lloyd III
An Early Pliocene Fish Assemblage from the Southern Appalachians: Ichthyofauna of the Gray Fossil Site, Shay Maden
Exploration of Privilege and Preschool Teachers’ Demographics Associated with Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management, Katherine Madison
A Bridge between Graph Neural Networks and Transformers: Positional Encodings as Node Embeddings, Bright Kwaku Manu
Preference for Abstinence-Based Recovery and Public Stigma toward Substance Use Disorders, Diamond Meadows
Examining Teachers' Referral and Placement Decisions of Hispanic Children for Gifted and Talented Programs, Guillermo I. Mendoza
Student Success Programming, College Academic Achievement Scores, and Retention Rates, Leslie D. Merritt
Papa Was a Missing Stone: An Exploration into the Lived Experiences of Father-Absent African American Women, Jamila Jordan Moody
Crossing the Pond: The Influence of Southern Appalachian Old-Time on Contemporary Irish Music, Amanda Morgan
Speech-Language Pathologists’ Perceptions of the Severity of Speech Sound Disorder, Alexis Moser
Cyclic-di-GMP Regulates Salmonella Typhimurium Infection of Epithelial Cells and Macrophages, Abdulafiz Musa
MET Alterations in Glioblastoma: Characterization of Patient-Derived Xenografts and Therapeutic Strategies, Anna Musket
The Initial Validation of a Self-Care Belief and Behavior Questionnaire in the IECMH Workforce, Julia Najm
Student Relational Maintenance with Instructors: Scale Development and Validation, Emily N. Napier
Implementation of Hierarchical and K-Means Clustering Techniques on the Trend and Seasonality Components of Temperature Profile Data, Emmanuel Ogedegbe
Roots of Quaternionic Polynomials and Automorphisms of Roots, Olalekan Ogunmefun
College Commute Distance and Retention for First-time, Community College Freshmen, Michael O'Hagan
Powerful and Powerless: Reconfiguring the Agency and Supremacy of Women in Selected Festivals in the Yoruba Town of Isaga Orile, 1900-1958, Olusegun Olatunji
Assessing a Pandemic: Spatiotemporal Analysis of COVID-19 in Tennessee School-Age Children, Omobolaji Olawuyi
Childhood Trauma in Early Care and Education: Understanding School Administrators’ Perceptions, Olawale Olubowale
Understanding the Role of SABP2-interacting Protein (SIP) 428: an NAD+-Dependent Deacetylase Enzyme in Abiotic Stress Signaling of Nicotiana tabacum, Mariam Onabanjo