Masters Theses
JMU Scholarly Commons is the home for electronic theses from 2020 to the present.
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Theses from 2026
Employee engagement and its motivational drivers: Lived experiences of Generation Y employees in the workplace, Ololade Dorcas Afolabi
The effect of vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) dung piles on vegetation and microbial communities in the Andes, Carly Anderson and Kelsey Reider
IBIT: Inline Binary Instrumentation Toolkit, Siavash Ashkiani
The Coffee Crisis: What Starbucks Coffee Company Teaches Us About Exploitation, Chloe Baker
Social media as a predictor of orthorexia nervosa in NCAA female student-athletes, Sarah L. Beers
Interprofessional Collaboration: A Survey Study Focusing on Pre-Service Professionals, Megan L. Bell
How does age affect our memory? Semantic relatedness in proper name recall, Art Beqiraj
Identity and Ideology: Dolores Ibarruri's Reconciliation of Motherhood and Communism, Marvin Black
The effects of behavior skills training to teach a clinician to implement a structured work system, Megan E. Bowling
Examining the GLAT as a Measure of AI Literacy, Hunter R. Castleton
¿Ay Latinos?: Latino Entrepreneurship in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Anthony Cordova Ramirez
The drive diaries: How motivation shapes work and performance, Christian D. Diaz
Discussing barriers and solutions to address student accommodation and support services, Anna K. Garst
Queer Ballroom in 1980s-90s New York City: Connections to Joy and Education, Maya A. Gary
(The) Invisible Threads: Portraiture, Memory, and Relational Endurance, Behnaz Ghasempour
African American Gold Star Mothers: Race, Black Motherhood, Loyalism and European Superiority in the First World War, Giovanni Nickolette Gibbs
The motivation tapes: Employee narratives of leadership that matters, Jessica Gray and Jessica Gray
The Culinary History of Korean Immigrants 1903-2025, Eun Soo Han
The Impact of Partner Quality on Female Perception of Ovulation Cues During Pregnancy, Zoe MIchelle Hannabass
Examining the experiences and career of a highly effective orchestra teacher: A narrative history, Charlotte A. Hebert
The Chinese Red Record: Western Lynch Law and the Nationalization of Racial Terror, 1853–1915, Kevin Hegg
Belonging, Ver Ikeseh
Multilingual meaning making in Zambian social media discourse: Rhetorical framing, identity construction, persuasion and digital writing practices on facebook, Mwesah M. Kapesa and Mwesah Mpundu Kapesa
Weaving Eigengrau, Olivia Claire Luke
Effects of Varied Sodium Bicarbonate Ingestion Methods on Mountain Bike Performance and Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Youth Athletes, Allison G. McCauley, Michael J. Saunders, Nicholas D. Luden, and Andrew C. D'Lugos
School-Based Professionals’ Roles in School Reintegration for Adolescent Populations Post Traumatic Brain Injury, Madison K. McGuire
The 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh: A historical analysis of Operation Sea Angel, Md. Mamun Miah
“Like taking your armor off:” Examining the communication challenges faced by LGBTQ+ liaison officers, Emily P. Nicholson
Teaching "wh" questions to children with autism using a differential observing response procedure, Margaret Piatt
The effects of an autism community member feedback-based training on increasing positive interaction skills, Francis Gary Powers III
"An hospital for these people": Community cooperation in the construction of America's first psychiatric hospital, Kira Quintin
Robust federated learning for intrusion detection, Abraham J. Reines
Evolution of leafflower plants (Phyllanthaceae: Phyllantheae) with animal mutualists, Chelsea J. Rodriguez
Aggression and Mobility: The Power of a Cavalry Pursuit During the Civil War, Leland G. Smith
Impacts of radio telemetry tags on monarch butterfly movement, behavior, and survival, Helen St. John
Evaluating the Effects of Bilingual, Video-Modified Social Story Interventions for Spanish-Speaking Children with Autism and Limited Language Abilities, Benjamin Troyer
Sanctuary and disappointment: Jewish German refugees in the United States Army in World War II, Zachary P. Watts
Relationships between a neurotypical and neurodivergent sibling dyad: Teaching reciprocal skills, Emily Weinberg
Remembering Carlo Ferarai: Life, Community, and Death in Industrial London, William W. Wilder
Listening for Meaning: A Proof-of-Concept Evaluation of an ASR–LLM Pipeline for Thematic Audio Analysis, Jada G. Willse
Theses from 2025
A clustering approach to the study of actinobacteriophage synteny and mosaicism, Madison Bendele
The influence of artists and artworks on identity development: The student perspective, Celeste M. Boseman
Varied versus non-varied behavior-specific praise on student on-task behavior, Jessica Boss
From essential to expendable – Montagnards, Kurds, and U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam and northern Iraq, Jake Brooks
The physiological impact of thoracic load carriage on cardiorespiratory responses in females at normal and simulated altitude, Beverley K. Buchanan
Power impacts target goals and responses to racism, Urmi Chatterjee
Microbial community contribution to oxidative stress defense in high-biomass forming cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (cHABs), Chelsea Donovan
Adapting a contingency contract across environments for interfering behaviors and coping skills, Samantha N. Eckstein
Exploring isolation forest for measuring aberrant responding in a low-stakes assessment, Jack Gilmore
Assessing examinee effort: The role of test length in low-stakes testing, Jonathan M. Henriques
Examining validity and reliability evidence for the Multicultural Neuropsychological Scale (MUNS) Party Subtest scores, Madyson Hernandez
Microbial biodiversity of the James River rock pool ecosystem., Jordan C. Heydt
The dynamics of US-Bangladesh relations: Before, during and after the 1971 War of Liberation, 1947-1975., Mdaminul Islam
Unheard voices: A poetic inquiry into the menace of child abuse in Nigeria, Folajimi Kalejaye
Diplomacy Derailed: Discrimination’s Detour on Route 40, Gage A. Kivlen
Prefrontal cortex oxygenation and cognition in response to thoracic load carriage in normoxic and hypoxic conditions; Influence of biological sex, Sydney L. Koppinger and Beverley K. Buchanan
Role of the pediatric RDN in conducting the pediatric nutrition focused physical exam: Training, clinical practice and barriers, Sarah M. Kowalewski
The influence of intrinsic foot muscles in modulating foot shape relative to substrate and the efficacy of different strengthening approaches, Luke R. Lotsis
Confronting the postcolonial condition: A study on the blesser-blessee phenomenon in South Africa, Thandwa Maphalala
The Association of walking cadence with sleep quality in adults 18-65, Almothana M. Matarneh
Item response predictors of disengagement on the PISA, Juste M. Mehou
Characterizing the Mcoln1-/- mouse as a model of early Age-related Macular Degeneration, Jonathan G. Miller
Making their voices heard: Virginia women's organizations as agents of community change from 1945 to 1955, Preston C. Morgan
“I was just doing my job”: An oral history of Vietnam veterans and the impact of their voices in collective war memory, Alyssa Morris
The effects of goal Setting with performance feedback on a teacher’s use of praise and reprimand statements, Elisabeth Morris
Movement-evoked responses contribute to co-contraction in the rat tail during the nociceptive withdrawal response, Emily G. Myers
Experimentally testing a mechanism of urban adaptation: Are wild catbirds able to immediately adjust their song in response to urban noise?, Eriberto Osorio
The voices of Black motherscholars: Navigating academia, motherhood, and beyond, DaNae Peterson
Empowering paraprofessionals through behavioral skills training: ABC data recording, Addison Raso
Investigating Aromantic Stigma, Neleah Richardson
Log Cabins, Hard Ciders, and the Misunderstood Campaign of 1840: Looking at How the Whigs Really Created the First Modern Presidential Campaign through Effective Storytelling, Eric V. Schesventer
College Golf Recruiting: A Qualitative Research Proposal of Strategies, Challenges, Future Avenues and Best Practices, Nicolas Christian Schlickenrieder
Effect of β-alanine supplementation on inflammation response and subsequent muscle function following an acute bout of resistance training., David F. Smith
Collisions: The enlivened entanglements of the object-self, Grace P. Smith
Ritual and revolution: Rethinking Roman women’s influence on religion, Katlin Smith
Grief as Slip: (how little I show) an exploration in clay, when words are not enough, Michelle A. Smith
Characteristics of parent-adolescent relationships as predictors of adolescents’ future emotion regulation abilities, Jaclyn H. Snyder
Sundown in Indiana: A midwest story of racism, exclusion, and memory, Kelsey A. Snyder
The acute effects of Tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) on appetite, Caroline M. Sokol
Sacral glitch, Kareena Naresh Solanki
Evaluating the use of positive self-talk as an antecedent intervention for on-task behavior in adolescents with ADHD, Sydney Setchel West
Day-to-day variation in operating lung volumes and the role of menstrual cycle phases, Emma Winstead
Theses from 2024
Iron in the new world’s veins: Government, ironworks, and community in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Abigail Adam
Look: An examination of the clothing and clothing assemblages of the Washington D.C. punk scene, Cedric Ansah
The impact of minimally processed high fat meals on postprandial glucose, lipids and metabolic index in pre-diabetics, Oluwafemi Ayoola
Examining how the prevalence of english affects the maintenance of spanish as a heritage language among second-generation Latinx students: A phenomenological study, Daniella Buenaventura
Living in a Barbie world: Barbie's origins and her impact on the American mother, 1959-1965, Colleen Caldwell
The world after: Central Virginia in the wake of the Civil War, Harry Caldwell
Practical static binary instrumentation attacks against binary stylometry, Justin Lee Carpenter
Characterizing the expression of the Sphingosine 1-phosphate pathway in injury and post-traumatic fibrosis, Nicole Cubbage
An examination of the fitsparation principles of influence, Anita Faerchuk
