Masters Theses
JMU Scholarly Commons is the home for electronic theses from 2020 to the present.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Walking the line: The legacy of the lost cause in redefining femininity at the normal, 1909-1942, Jennifer D. Page
Walking the Line: The Legacy of the Lost Cause in Redefining Femininity at the Normal, 1909-1942, Jennifer D. Page
God and reason: An intellectual religious journey through the mind of Thomas Paine, Jason R. Patterson
Identifying key stream restoration variables in an agriculturally impaired Chesapeake Bay watershed, Julia Portmann
Praying for the south: Catholics and the Confederacy, Thomas Richardson
Teaching specials teachers to use behavior specific praise in elementary school, Elizabeth Rich
Expiratory flow limitation in youth endurance-trained and recreationally active females, Sarah Ridgeway
The theory of reasoned action as a basis for investment in cryptocurrency, WRR Rinaldo
Spinning plates, Anikó K.L. Sáfrán
Rapid response behavior before and during the pandemic, Katarina E. Schaefer
Developing students' rhetorical and genre awareness in first-year writing classrooms, Arta Sejdiu
Analyzing the validity of self-reports of emotional responding using an electronic device, Tiffany E. Shiflet
Does a bout of acute resistance exercise attenuate the post-prandial lipemic response to a high fat meal in 50-80 year-old adults, Summer Simulcik
Early career music teachers and trauma: A mixed methods study, Tiffany N. Sitton
Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles: An autoethnographic study of a mother-daughter relationship experienced through a wounded body, Kathleen Smith
Toward an informal informed classrooms: Professional musicians' informal music learning experiences, Rachel M. Smith
The development, evaluation, and pilot-test of a nutrition education tool kit at a mobile food pantry in Virginia., Caitlin Swanson
Urbanization drives changes in avian communities, which are reflected in the song of a vocal mimic, Jaclyn Tolchin
The effects of cannabis on sleep, circadian rhythms, and cognition in young adults, Catharine Trice
“but for those of us who live here”: Performance of work and community by women employed in rural, predominantly white, small-town schools, Telena M. Turner
Internet art: An interactive timeline resource, Laurel Vaccaro
The discourse communities of multi-level marketing, Jessie Wiggins
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Binge-watching and the spacing effect, Michael R. Austin
Investigating the self in self-report, Samantha L. Boddy
Military religions in Roman Dacia: Patterns of epigraphic dedications in urban centers, Jamie Bone
Plant-pollinator network dynamics of the Little Fork Shale Barren, Sarah N. Brown
An exploration of embodiment, narrative identity, and healing in Dungeons and Dragons, Joshua D. Crigger
Heuristically secure threshold lattice-based cryptography schemes, James D. Dalton
Relation between academic advisor and cohort support with well-being in graduate students, Morgan DeLong
Factors influencing student continuance in instrumental music classes: A quantitative analysis, Andrew Duncan
Better together? Effects of dyadic collaboration on intertemporal preference, Emily Edgington
Is immediate flexibility present in a vocal mimic, the gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), across an urban gradient?, Shannon K. Eppert
Comparing the effect of four propagation techniques on hybrid chestnut seedling quality, Taylor Evans
Stonington’s Revolution: The role of small port towns in the American Revolution, Jay Feyerabend
Social exclusion and children’s detection of Duchenne Smiles, Paige Fischer
A stable-isotope probing approach to modeling bidirectional nutrient exchange in the Microcystis phycosphere, Malia Gardner
Antidepressants, circadian rhythms, and cognition: The effects of SSRIs and SNRIs on circadian rhythms and cognitive performance, Gabriel Gilmore
Video game sound as educational space, Leonard Grasso
Effects of first- and third-person point of view on the acquisition of behaviors using video modeling, Robert Harper III
The effects of video prompting in completion of activities of daily living for individuals with traumatic brain injury, Jessica Hiter
The effect of headline manipulation on memory and reasoning, Kathryn R. Hogan
Physical activity in a university community before and after a COVID-19 shutdown, Brynn Hudgins
Immigration after the great famine: A case study of the passengers of the S.S. Canadian, Erin Kelly
Voluntary alcohol consumption and sleep deprivation in rats, Aesha Khan
Singers’ experiences of community in The Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir, Heidi B. King
Secondary music educators’ perceptions of and relationships with dominant narratives through personal philosophy, pedagogy, and practice, Kara Levchenko
Ecophysiology of toxic bloom-forming cyanobacteria and their symbionts, Dominique J. Lockwood
Multicultural music education: Preparedness, perceptions, and practice among Virginia elementary music educators, Benjamin J. Luna
"I just wanted to feel heard": An autoethnography of feminist complaint and institutional response, Rachel L. Mangan
Rationale for participation in JMU worksite wellness programs, Rebecca Mathien
The rhetorical significance of women deminers and female participation in post-conflict operations, Brenna N. Matlock
“Without obscuring deeper truths:” Interpreting slavery and Jefferson at Monticello, Andrew Miles
Postprandial exhaled nitric oxide responses in older and younger adults with and without acute exercise, Molly Miller
Icarus Rooted, Lacey Minor
Sleeping with Storyville: The influence of media, race, and morality in New Orleans’ red light district, Tiffany R. Nelson
RedAI: A machine learning approach to cyber threat intelligence, Luke Noel
Worse than Birmingham: How segregationists in Danville obstructed the civil rights movement, Lauren E. Oakes
The impact of insufficient sleep and early class start times on U.S. Air Force Academy cadet health and performance, Stephanie Osborn
Identifying the molecular pathways that drive retinal degeneration in the childhood neurodegenerative disease: Mucolipidosis Type IV, Michael Pamonag
The effects of reinforcer magnitude and distribution of preference for work schedules when working on skill acquisition tasks, Valencia Pankey
The effect of temporal discounting and loss aversion on mock plea bargain decision-making, Anisha Patel
Online art education: Teaching through a pandemic, Jordan Pepper
And all the things that grew on the ground, Sarah E. Phillips
Youth as coalitional possibility in the Youth Climate Movement: An analysis of the climate justice rhetoric of Hilda Nakabuye, Autumn Peltier, & Greta Thunberg, Kristopher Samuel
Identifying rater effects for writing and critical thinking: Applying the Many-Facets Rasch Model to the VALUE Institute, Yelisey A. Shapovalov
The Law and the Household: Criminal Courts in Early Twentieth Century Rockingham County, Jennifer Taylor
Initial validity evidence for a measure of transactional sex in a U.S. college student sample, Jasmine Temple
Development of a string orchestra method book and online resources with a hip-hop focus, Emily T. Waters
Formally trained musicians’ perceptions of music performance anxiety in informal contexts: A phenomenology, Smith R.K. Waylett
Fucoxanthin: A review of potential benefits relative to human health, Michael R. White
Fucoxanthin: A review of potential benefits relative to human health, Michael R. White
Finding reinforcers: Using behavior skills training over telehealth to instruct educators to perform preference assessments with students., Anastasia Yuschak
'Why do they make her wear that?': A rhetorical analysis of Ramy Youssef: Feelings, Rania Zaied
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Research and development of a computational simulation of a rat tail, Abed Adawi
The impact of acute exercise on factor VIII in young e-cigarette smokers, Andrew R. Allen
Because I, as a Black Woman, Can: Using autoethnography to investigate and evaluate hegemonic systems of oppression facing queer black women, Mayah-Peacelynn Bell
Population status, threats, and conservation of Preuss's red colobus (Piliocolobus preussi) and other diurnal primates in the Ndokbou forest, Littoral Region, Cameroon, Ruth Bowers-Sword
Microglia and fractalkine involvement in shaping multimodal midbrain circuitry, Cooper A. Brett
Under cover of lightness: How mixed-race Americans navigated the racial codes of Antebellum America, Alexander Brooks
Using differential reinforcement and stimulus control to decrease child elopement and increase engagement in play, Emory C. Bruno
Unearthing strata and changing waters: A landscape for today, Mallory P. Burrell
Compensatory behaviors during a 12-week vigorous interval intervention in post-bariatric men and women, Kristen Byrne
Serialized soldiers and the new archetype: America’s portrayal of soldiers in the Post-Vietnam Era, Rachel Childers
Lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2 in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea, Kendall G. Clark
Mice meet world: How Disney and Nintendo allowed consumers to escape from, re-enter, and later re-envision a war torn world, Samantha Constantine
The bohemian Bolsheviks, Dale Cook
Propensity score matching and generalized boosted modeling in the context of model misspecification: A simulation study, Briana G. Craig
The effect of varying fatty acid composition in a High-Fat Meal and its impact on postprandial airway inflammation, Breanna L. Davidson
Impacts of an international professional development program: A qualitative study, Marijn W. T. de Waal
The effects of generalized stress and anxiety on clinical athletic training students: A qualitative study, Morgan E. Dumont
Free speech or sedition: Clement L. Valladigham and the Copperheads, 1860-1864, John Forsyth
Finding my feet: An autoethnographic study of a Kosovar student, Erjona Gashi
Perceptions and identity: Poverty in 19th century Rockingham County, Kayla Heslin
