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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions . OATD currently indexes 7,241,108 theses and dissertations.

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We’re happy to present several data visualizations to give an overall sense of the OATD.org collection by county of publication, language, and field of study.

You may also want to consult these sites to search for other theses:

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• NDLTD , the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. NDLTD provides information and a search engine for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), whether they are open access or not.
• Proquest Theses and Dissertations (PQDT), a database of dissertations and theses, whether they were published electronically or in print, and mostly available for purchase. Access to PQDT may be limited; consult your local library for access information.

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EBSCO Open Dissertations

EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. 

Increasing Discovery & Usage of ETD Research

EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to your institutional repository. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

How Does EBSCO Open Dissertations Work?

Your ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to your IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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OATD.org provides open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global   is a wealth of unique global scholarship, which is a credible and quality source to Uncover the Undiscovered research insights and intelligence in easiest and most effective ways. The equitable discoverability of more than 5.8 million dissertations and theses with coverage from year 1637, allows researchers to amplify diverse voices and place their research in a global context. The database offers nearly 3.2 million full texts for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

By leveraging the rich citation data found in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and with new citation insight tool, researchers can benefit from focused pathways of discovery to build foundational knowledge on various research topics. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year to enrich the citation data continuously.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global   Database  is also part of ProQuest One Academic .  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global resides on the ProQuest Platform. For more information about the ProQuest Platform search and display features, see the  ProQuest Platform LibGuide .

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Intended for Librarians who want to learn how to use the database's advanced search to support subject area research at their institution. Duration: 2 minutes.

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This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the database's advanced search to identify known dissertations by title and search/analyze by languages other than English. Duration: 3 minutes.

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This session reviews how Students, both Masters or Ph, can use the database's advanced search to identify dissertations of known Authors or Advisors and further refine/analyze them. Duration: 4 minutes.

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This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can use the dissertations to retrieve and explore further the Cited References. Duration: 4 minutes.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses for the Student, Supplemental Files

This session reviews how Students, both Masters or PhD, can identify dissertations with Supplemental files which may contain useful materials for their graduate work. Duration: 3.5 minutes.

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This session will show Students, both Masters or PhD, some Search techniques both Basic and Advanced to locate dissertations on a certain topic. Duration: 5.5 minutes.

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Based on a document created by Sarah Mitchell in 2010

Created: February 2013

A Guide to Finding Dissertations

Dissertations are book-length works based on a PhD candidate's original research that are written as requirements for the doctoral degree. Theses are similar but shorter texts that are written by students working towards Master's and sometimes Bachelor's degrees.  Both dissertations and theses offer researchers valuable insights and analysis of all subjects. They can also be useful in leading to other resources as part of your own research.

Click on the tabs at the top of this page for information about specific resources and useful search techniques for finding dissertations. You can also navigate using the "Guide Contents" links on the left side of the page.

If you encounter difficulties in obtaining full-texts of dissertations or theses, consult a librarian. The "Ask A Librarian" instant message widget is located on the left of every page underneath the tabs.

Getting Started

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When looking for a specific dissertation, you need some or all of the following:

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When looking for dissertations in a specific subject area, you may need a variety of search terms and limiters. For example:

Where to Search

In general, start your search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. If you are looking for an IU dissertation and cannot find it in ProQuest, search ScholarWorks. If it is not in ScholarWorks, search IUCAT.

Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.

Includes the following: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A & I ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: CIC Institutions

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Harvard University Theses, Dissertations, and Prize Papers

The Harvard University Archives ’ collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University’s history.

Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research institution as well as the development of numerous academic fields. They are also an important source of biographical information, offering insight into the academic careers of the authors.

Spanning from the ‘theses and quaestiones’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the current yearly output of student research, they include both the first Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (by William Byerly, Ph.D . 1873) and the dissertation of the first woman to earn a doctorate from Harvard ( Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson , Ed.D. 1922).

Other highlights include:

• The collection of Mathematical theses, 1782-1839
• The 1895 Ph.D. dissertation of W.E.B. Du Bois, The suppression of the African slave trade in the United States, 1638-1871
• Ph.D. dissertations of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Ph.D. 1925) and physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Ph.D. 1922)
• Undergraduate honors theses of novelist John Updike (A.B. 1954), filmmaker Terrence Malick (A.B. 1966),  and U.S. poet laureate Tracy Smith (A.B. 1994)
• Undergraduate prize papers and dissertations of philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson (A.B. 1821), George Santayana (Ph.D. 1889), and W.V. Quine (Ph.D. 1932)
• Undergraduate honors theses of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (A.B. 1940) and Chief Justice John Roberts (A.B. 1976)

What does a prize-winning thesis look like?

If you're a Harvard undergraduate writing your own thesis, it can be helpful to review recent prize-winning theses. The Harvard University Archives has made available for digital lending all of the Thomas Hoopes Prize winners from the 2019-2021 academic years.

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The Concordia Library has a copy of almost every thesis and dissertation submitted to the University as a condition for the award of a graduate degree, as well as copies of many research papers and graduate projects. Please note that non-print materials (film, slides, etc.) for theses submitted in 1967–2010 are not available online in Spectrum, Concordia University's institutional repository 1 .

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Spectrum , Concordia's open access repository, includes theses from 1967–present. You can browse by year, department, author, or document type. Spectrum will enable you to download the full text, data, videos, or other files associated with the work.

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Concordia theses held by the Library can be located using the Sofia Discovery tool .

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 1861 onward Provides citations to over two million doctoral dissertations and masters theses published in North America and Europe, covering many more doctoral dissertations than masters theses. More than 600,000 titles are available full text (mostly from 1997 onward). Please note: From 2005 onwards, Canadian theses cannot be searched by the name of a thesis advisor.
• NDLTD Global ETD Search The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)'s search service allows researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) based on keyword, date, institution, language and subject. The index is based on a growing collection of approximately 4 million ETDs from more than 200 universities on all continents. Records with links to documents from originating institutions are collected daily.
• Theses Canada 1965 onward (coverage varies) Includes references to masters theses and doctoral dissertations accepted by Canadian universities.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) OATD indexes over 1.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions around the world. Links to full text available.
• OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories Some universities require that students deposit their theses in an institutional repository, such as DSpace@MIT . Use this directory to locate the university, if available, and then search for the author or title of the thesis.
• WorldCat Use the Advanced Search feature and under SUBTYPE limits, change the drop-down menu from Any Content to Thesis/dissertation .
• EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service Digitized, Open Access (freely accessible) theses from all UK higher education institutions.
• SUDOC (Union catalogue of university libraries in France) Indexes, theses, and dissertations from universities in France. Choose "Recherche avancée," then under "type de publication," select "Thèses."
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal Portal for European Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Also browsable by institution .
• Trove Theses produced by the graduate research students at Australian universities, some of which are freely accessible.
• University library catalogues To find information on a thesis submitted at a specific university, search their library catalogue.
• Subject databases In addition to listing journal articles, some subject databases will include theses that fall within their subject coverage.

If the thesis you are looking for is not in the Sofia Discovery tool or is not freely available in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses or in Theses Canada, you can request an interlibrary loan (ILL) whereby we will attempt to obtain a copy from another library. You may also purchase a copy of a thesis online through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

To obtain more information or to place an interlibrary loan request, consult the Interlibrary Loans page.

1. A master copy of the thesis or dissertation is kept in Special Collections at the Vanier Library along with any available non-print components (film, slides, etc.). For most theses submitted prior to 2011, a circulating copy is available in either the Webster or Vanier Library, while an archival copy along with any accompanying non-print material (film, slides, etc.) is kept in Special Collections. These copies can be located using the Sofia Discovery tool. Additionally, most theses and some research papers are also available in digital format and can either be viewed online or downloaded using Spectrum .

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Off-campus Purdue users may download theses and dissertations by logging into the Libraries' proxy server with your Purdue Career Account. Links to log in to the proxy server directly below the download button of each thesis or dissertation page.

Non-Purdue users, may purchase copies of theses and dissertations from ProQuest or talk to your librarian about borrowing a copy through Interlibrary Loan. (Some titles may also be available free of charge in our Open Access Theses and Dissertations Series, so please check there first.)

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This series contains theses that students have wished to make openly available. The full content is available to all, although some theses may have embargoes. If an embargo exists the date will be listed instead of the download button. The download button will appear once a thesis is no longer embargoed. To browse a fuller listing of theses from Purdue please visit the Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest series.

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This series contains open access dissertations that students have wished to make openly available. The full-text content is available to all, although some theses may have embargoes. If an embargo exists the date will be listed instead of the download button. The download button will appear once a dissertation is no longer embargoed. To browse a fuller listing of dissertations from Purdue please visit the Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest series.

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Check Cornell’s library catalog , which lists the dissertations available in our library collection.

The print thesis collection in Uris Library is currently shelved on Level 3B before the Q to QA regular-sized volumes. Check with the library staff for the thesis shelving locations in other libraries (Mann, Catherwood, Fine Arts, etc.).

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

According to ProQuest, coverage begins with 1637. With more than 2.4 million entries,  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global  is the starting point for finding citations to doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master’s theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI also offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. The full text of more than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download. Use  Interlibrary Loan  for the titles not available as full text online.

Foreign Dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries

To search for titles and verify holdings of dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), use the CRL catalog . CRL seeks to provide comprehensive access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the U. S. and Canada (currently more than 750,000 titles). One hundred European universities maintain exchange or deposit agreements with CRL. Russian dissertation abstracts in the social sciences are obtained on microfiche from INION.  More detailed information about CRL’s dissertation holdings .

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Theses and dissertations are formal research papers that exhaustively address a topic, which PhD and many Master's candidates are required to complete as a final step in working towards their degrees. A paper in support of a PhD is referred to as a "dissertation"; a paper in support of a Master's degree is a "thesis". 

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Theses and dissertations at NC State

• All theses and dissertations in the Libraries' collection – both print and electronic – can be found in the  NC State University Libraries Catalog .
• All theses and dissertations completed since 2002 (with some coverage back to 1997) are available electronically through the Libraries'  Digital Repository

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Deadlines for Completion of Library Requirements

The library submission process has multiple steps. In order to meet all deadlines for conferral of graduate degrees, the entire process (including submission to Chapman University Digital Commons and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, as applicable) must be completed by 5:00 p.m. Pacific time on the following dates as per the deadlines set by the Office of the Associate Vice President for Graduate Education :

• Spring 2024 : May 10, 2024

It is recommended to make the initial submission to the library at least one week in advance of these dates to allow time for any necessary revisions. Do not count on being able to start and complete the library submission process on the due date.

Initial Steps for Library Submission

• Complete the appropriate Checklist (below) and obtain the necessary signature(s) from the committee chair or advisor. (Please check the "Last updated" dates to ensure you are using the current version.)  

Email the following to the Dissertations and Theses Librarian at [email protected] as two separate files:

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Submissions without signatures or using an older version of a checklist will not be accepted .

• The Dissertations and Theses Librarian will evaluate the dissertation/thesis for compliance.  Please allow at least 2 business days for a response. If changes are needed, the Dissertations and Theses Librarian will contact the student. The library will review each dissertation/thesis up to  two times  (including the initial review). If the dissertation/thesis does not meet the formatting requirements after two reviews, the student may be asked to work with a professional editor and/or have their chair review and submit a new checklist.

Solutions to many common formatting issues are available under the Formatting Questions tab of the  Frequently Asked Questions  page. You may also wish to consult the Common Formatting Issues page to learn about common issues to avoid.

• If no changes are needed, the Dissertations and Theses Librarian sends an approval email to the student with instructions to move on to the appropriate next steps for online submission.

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The Dissertation/Thesis Checklist is mandatory for all library submissions . The Checklist allows the Committee Chair and the Leatherby Libraries' Dissertations and Theses Librarian to verify that all format requirements have been completed properly. Please use the appropriate checklist for your program.

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All doctoral dissertations authored by Washington University doctoral degree candidates are directly submitted to the UMI Dissertation Services , a division of the ProQuest Company. (For more information on submitting your dissertation through ProQuest, please see the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences' web pages on the Submission of the Dissertation .)

Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form. Print submissions are no longer accepted. Dissertations are submitted directly in electronic form to UMI / Proquest Dissertation Services. Master’s theses are locally submitted in electronic form directly into the Washington University Open Scholarship Repository. Please contact your academic department document for information on the preparation and formatting requirements of the thesis itself. D.Sc. and Masters Thesis Format Guidelines . See the Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) for more information on submission and access options and links to details for PhD Candidates and Master’s Candidates.

Theses/Dissertations from 1991 1991

The Early Career of Thomas Moran, 1853-1870 , Anne Roberts Morand

Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990

The Paleodemography of the Read Shell Midden, 15BT10 , Nicholas Paul Herrmann

Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989

The Effect of Parental Symptoms, Parental Relationships, and Parenting Practices of the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcoholism and Depression , Sandra Johnson Holmes

Theses/Dissertations from 1988 1988

Caregiver Strain: A Structural Equation Model , Christopher Philip Rice

Theses/Dissertations from 1987 1987

Tyrosine Sulfation in A431 Cells , Naili Liu

A Quantifiable Model for Local Bond Stress-Slip Relationship under Generalized Excitations , Sakul Pochanart

The Rite of Spring: A Rhythmic Perspective , Kathy Maria White

Theses/Dissertations from 1986 1986

A Descriptive Analysis of Selected Choral Works of Lena Johnson McLin , Donna Marie McNeil Cox

Burmese Philosophy as Reflected in Caturangabala's Lokaniti , Khin Win Kyi

Kinship, Dominance, and Social Organization in a Semi-Free Ranging Group of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) , Linda Linda Taylor

The Prohibition of Successive Prosecutions and Multiple Punishments for the Same Offense : in Search of Standards. Volume 1. , George Conner Thomas III

The Prohibition of Successive Prosecutions and Multiple Punishments for the Same Offense : in Search of Standards. Volume 2. , George Conner Thomas III

Theses/Dissertations from 1984 1984

The Auchinleck Manuscript: Contexts, Texts and Audience , Jean Harpham Burrows

Geology, Petrology, and Tectonic Setting of the Mafic Rocks of the 1480 MA Old Granite-Rhyolite Terrane of Missouri, USA , Paul Joseph Sylvester

Theses/Dissertations from 1982 1982

Hardy and Lipschitz Spaces on Unit Spheres , Leonardo Colzani

Theses/Dissertations from 1981 1981

Implications of Life History Changes for Genetic Polymorphisms , Scott Matthew Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 1980 1980

Pruitt-Igoe Site: Development Plan , Somesh R. Debnath and Satish M. Dohe

The Pomerium of Marchettus of Padua: A Translation and Critical Commentary , Ralph Clifford Renner

Theses/Dissertations from 1978 1978

Artistic Uses of Supernaturalism in the Fiction of Brown, Irving, and Hawthorne , Agnes Mavis Bonney

Theses/Dissertations from 1977 1977

Society, Consciousness, and Planning , Thomas Allen Dutton

Theses/Dissertations from 1976 1976

The Marian Paintings of Jan Van Eyck , Carol Jean Purtle

Alienation in the Novels of Ana Maria Matute , James Townsend Shelby

Theses/Dissertations from 1973 1973

Francis Poulenc's Songs for Voice and Piano , Vivian Lee Poates Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 1972 1972

A Stylistic Analysis of the Piano Sonatas of Johann Gottfried Eckard , Susanne Elisabeth Bell

Theses/Dissertations from 1970 1970

The Historical Progression from the Picaresque Novel to the Bildungsroman as Shown in El Busco´n, Gil Blas, Tom Jones and Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre , Evelyn Neufeld

Theses/Dissertations from 1969 1969

Prognostic Validation of Several Measures for Indices of Cognitive Functioning in Educable Mentally Retarded Pupils , Richard Harris Freer

An Experimental Study of Achievement Motivation Training as a Function of the Moral Maturity of Trainees , Kelvin Richard Ryals

Theses/Dissertations from 1967 1967

An Analysis of Cognitive and Psychological Differentiation in Perceptual and Impression Formation Tasks , Paul F. Kleine

Theses/Dissertations from 1966 1966

Cattle Ranching as a Cultural Ecology Problem in San Miguel County, New Mexico , Thomas J. Maloney

Theses/Dissertations from 1965 1965

The Community Development Corporation as a Response to Poverty , Harry Edward Berndt

Theses/Dissertations from 1963 1963

An Analysis of Contemporary Efforts to Explicate Community Organization Practice and a Proposal to Utilize Intervention in Process as a Conceptual Framework for Such Practice , Charles William Laughton

Theses/Dissertations from 1962 1962

A Study of Indices of Competence Used by Supervisors to Evaluate Case-Worker Performance , Geraldine Louise Conner

Social Casework and Pastoral Counseling: A Study of Perceived Similarities and Differences of the Goals and Methods of Two Helping Professions , Charles Yecheskel Hartman

Teachers' Judgments of Children's Functioning, By Sex and Social Class of Child, in Classrooms of Different Social Class and Racial Composition , Virginia Holmes Turner

Theses/Dissertations from 1958 1958

Origin and Early History of the United Hebrew Congregation of St. Louis, 1841-1859, The First Jewish Congregation in St. Louis , Donald Irving Makovsky

History of Alton, Illinois, 1840-1848 , Dora Brown Tickner

Theses/Dissertations from 1952 1952

Geographic Factors in the Education of Negroes in Six Selected Areas of Missouri , Alice McGee Smart

Theses/Dissertations from 1951 1951

Un Analisis del Guzman de Alfarache de Mateo Aleman , Michael Roberts Ramon

Theses/Dissertations from 1950 1950

A History of the Missouri Training School for Boys, Boonville, 1917 to 1944 , Jack Reichenstein

Theses/Dissertations from 1949 1949

Strike of Coal Miners at Pana, Illinois 1898-1899 , Eleanor Anna Burhorn

Theses/Dissertations from 1947 1947

The Sequent Occupance of Mill Creek Valley , Virginia Anne Henry

Theses/Dissertations from 1946 1946

Missouri State Industrial Home for Negro Girls, Tipton, Missouri, 1909-1944 , Nancy Ellen Cole

Theses/Dissertations from 1944 1944

Medical Care Among Mexican Families in the Guadalupe Neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri , Carmen Rivera de Alverado

Torsional Deflection of Miter-Type Lock Gates and Design of the Diagonals , Edwin Gustav Hoffman

Theses/Dissertations from 1942 1942

Piero di Cosimo and His Place in Florentine Painting of the Late Fifteenth Century , Margaret Felice Stampfle

Theses/Dissertations from 1935 1935

Lead Mining in Missouri 1700-1811 , Welton Lyle Willms

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The Legacy ETD collection includes all theses or dissertations submitted to ProQuest electronically between 2008 and 2022.

These ETDs are still available and searchable within PQDT Global , and UAlbany authors still retain copyright of their ETD, allowing them to publish their own work at any time with any publisher.

By making this work openly available in Scholars Archive and sharing this scholarship with the global community free of charge, UAlbany’s valuable scholarship enjoys a broader reach and deeper impact and better embodies the spirit of the Graduate School and UAlbany’s mission to provide “the leaders, the knowledge, and the innovations to create a better world.”

Note: Retrospective ETDs are provided for research and educational purposes only and are under copyright by the author or the author’s heirs.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Association between antiretroviral therapy and severe COVID-19 outcomes among hospitalized HIV positive people with SARS-Cov-2 in NYS , Aizhan Kyzayeva

Institutionalized normative heterosexuality : the case of sexual fluidity , Nicole Lamarre

Executive functioning in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes : associations with HbA1c, glycemic variability, and household income , Victoria Louise Ledsham

Economic policy and equality : neoliberalism and gender equity in Latin America since the 1970s , Donnett Annmarie Lee

Three essays in health economics , Jun Soo Lee

Visions and seeds of change : pathways to defining and seeking liberation , Ramon Kentrell Lee

Dynamics in public finance and disaster management : financial impacts of natural disasters, intergovernmental aid, and community-level social effects , Sungyoon Lee

A synoptic-dynamic analysis of the structure and evolution of persistent north Pacific wintertime ridge regimes , Tyler Christopher Leicht

Stubbornly merging discrete vector fields , Douglas W. Lenseth

A role perspective of workplace procrastination , Boran Li

Multiple imputation in high-dimensional data with variable selection , Qiushuang Li

Spatial diffusion of immigrants and children's academic performance in the United States , Yuanfei Li

Development and applications of touch chemistry biometrics analysis of latent fingermarks by Maldi-Ms , Cameron M. Longo

Educational materials and image induction increase treatment credibility , Zi Ling Fiona Low

Government, citizen, and social media : understanding police-citizen interaction on Weibo in China , Yumeng Luo

The influence of loneliness : mental health's impact on workaholism among graduate students , Bhindai Mahabir

Three essays in health economics , Mir Nahid Mahmud

First homoleptic rare rarth metal complexes with doubly-reduced dibenzocyclooctatetraene , James C. Mahoney

Genres, communities, and practices , Evan Malone

Trace elements in nails and anemia in children living along the Interoceanic Highway, Madre De Dios, Peru / narrative competence and cognitive mapping as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in the education of emergent bilinguals , Tia Marks

Translation control tunes drosophila oogenesis , Elliot T. Martin

Evaluating the relationship between orthorexia nervosa, eating disorder symptomatology, and related psychological constructs in an undergraduate mixed-gender sample , Kimberly Marie Martinez

Probability distributions of the scalar potential , Candace Mathews

Describing participation in veteran peer support : a secondary analysis of women veterans' experiences , Amanda L. Matteson

Space weather and criminal violence : a longitudinal analysis of major US urban areas , Richard Mcmillan

Maker programs in preK-12 school libraries : identifying the drivers and consequences , Shannon Mersand

Savoring as a protective behavioral strategy for cannabis use , Maha Noor Mian

Parenting profiles in families of children with autism spectrum disorder : a cluster analytic approach , Anna Milgramm

Essays on technology and the labor market with search models , Soonhong Min

Large-scale flow patterns conducive to Central American extreme precipitation events during autumn , Alexander Kyle Mitchell

Interpersonal forgiveness is the recognition that justice is attained , Raphael Faith Moser

Salivary gland stromal heterogeneity and epithelial controls , Nicholas L. Moskwa

Megacity : a reservoir of toxic environmental contaminants and health disease burden , Omosehin Daniel Moyebi

Turning density functional theory calculations into molecular mechanics simulations : establishing the fluctuating density model for RNA nucleobases , Christopher A. Myers

A patchwork community : exploring belonging, gender roles, and God's gifts among progressive American Mennonites , Christa D. Mylin

Food environment, food acquisition behavior, and fruit and vegetable consumption among Burmese immigrants and refugees : a socio-ecological study , Hnin Wai Lwin Myo

Prairie ashes : a novel , Benjamin Nadler

Inhibition of lysine acetyltransferases KAT 3A/3B and its effect on poliovirus proliferation , Eduards Norkvests

Essays on career progression among the underrepresented in academic biomedicine , Allison Nunez

Essentialism predicts attitudes toward gender non-binary people , Tianny Stephanie Ocasio

Neural correlates and neuroanatomy of juvenile and adult contextual fear memory retention , Natalie Odynocki

Soil from footwear is a newly rediscovered type of forensic evidence due to the application of modern analytical techniques : a review , Rhilynn Haley Ogilvie

The role of White guilt and White shame in awareness of privilege and anti-racism , Lynsay Paiko

Maternal antifungal use during pregnancy : a study of prevalence of use and the risk of birth defects , Eleni A. Papadopoulos

Decision-making accuracy at the classwide level , Alexandra Payne

Video chatting and eating disorder psychopathology , Taylor Rae Perry

Regulation of a shared focus in open-ended collaborative inquiry , Simona Pesaresi

An entropic approach to dynamics , Pedro Henrique Moreira Pessoa

Does mattering matter? : an analysis of mattering and persistence rates of EOP and non-EOP students , Glenn David Pichardo

Comparison of 2018-2021 tropical cyclone track forecasts before and after NOAA G-IV missions , Melissa Piper

The communicative capacities of the medical discourse in authoritarian societies : the case of AIDS in Iran , Elham Pourtaher

A GIS approach to landscape scale archaeoacoustics , Kristy Elizabeth Primeau

Phase and dark field radiography and CT with mesh-based structured illumination and polycapillary optics , Uttam Pyakurel

An exploration of the relationship between social-emotional well-being and health behaviors of urban youth , Nelia Mayreilys Quezada

Amyloid fibril formation and polymorphism : a critical role of sulfur-containing amino acid residues , Tatiana Quiñones-Ruiz

ACT5 EIT system : a multiple-source electrical impedance tomography system , Omid Rajabi Shishvan

PRESTO : fast and effective group closeness maximization , Baibhav L. Rajbhandari

Three essays in health economics , Savita Ramaprasad

Two case studies examining how international graduate teaching assistants built mathematical literacy knowledge within the affordances and constraints of a calculus instructional system , Patricia A. Rand

Poetry and thought's revealing , Evan Reardon

Examining the potential of epigenetic age to mediate the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and locus of control using the ALSPAC cohort , Christopher Reddy

Signal yields and detector modeling in xenon time projection chambers, and results of an effective field theory dark matter search using LUX data , Gregory Ransford Carl Rischbieter

Black-white interracial contact and anti-racist activism : what promotes action in white Americans? , Katheryn Lucille Roberson

Fluorescent biosensors : engineering and applications , Monica Rodriguez

Cis-acting super-enhancer lncRNAs as biomarkers to early-stage breast cancer , Ali Salman Ropri

The spirit of Cancun : basic needs and development during the Cold War , Christian Ruth

Environmental factors and human health interactions : ultrafine particles, temperature variability, and proximity to power stations , Ian Ryan

The Albany Answers Plant Incinerator : environmental justice and slow violence at the New York State Capital , Matthew D. Saddlemire

U.S. health professionals' perspectives on orthorexia nervosa : clinical utility, measurement and diagnosis, and perceived influence of sociocultural factors , Christina Sanzari

Exploring the response to arsenic using tRNA modification detection, writer mediated protection and codon usage analytics , Anwesha Sarkar

Effects of metal and polychlorinated biphenyls exposures and fish consumption on cognitive function in adults , Nozomi Sasaki

Intolerance of uncertainty specific to compulsive exercise : development and preliminary validation of the exercise-specific intolerance of uncertainty scale , Christina Scharmer

Therapist facilitative interpersonal skills in simulated text-based telepsychotherapy with cultural minority clients , Carly Max Schwartzman

Literacy and COVID-19 : elementary students' reading performance through a global pandemic , Emmett Mcgregor Schweiger

The differential influence of maltreatment subtype and age of exposure on empathy , Kate L. Senich

Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on birth outcomes in Onondaga County, New York / narrative competence and cognitive mapping as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in the education of emergent bilinguals , Simone A. Seward

Three essays on creative industries , Yue Sheng

UiO-type metal-organic framework derivatives as sorbents for the detection of gas-phase explosives , Matthew Ryan Sherrill

Role of H3K4 methylation in myogenesis, regeneration, and muscle disease / narrative competence and cognitive mapping as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in the education of emergent bilinguals , Hannah Emily Shippas

Explaining the NRAs radical transformation : the role of identity and strategy in discursive boundary work and the emergence of sub-group dominance , William A. Sisk

Development of nucleic acid diagnostics for targeted and non-targeted biosensing , Christopher William Smith

Preference for harmony : a link between aesthetic responses to combinations of colors and musical tones , Sijia Song

Cheating detection in a privacy preserving driving style recognition protocol , Ethan Sprissler

Constructing and constraining mobility at the new university , Rachel Sullivan

Essays on firm productivity and innovation , Won Sung

Does coworker support buffer the impact of work interruptions on well-being? , Ruyue Sun

The urban heat island of Bengaluru, India : characteristics, trends, and mechanisms , Heather Samantha Sussman

Photopolymers : environmentally benign technology for a variety of industries , Tatyana Tarasevich

An evaluation of demographic and clinical characteristics of youths enrolled in two residential treatment programs , Monelle Shemique Thomas

The racial and partisan underpinnings of attitudes toward police in a time of protest , Andrew Thompson

Applying the strategic self-regulation model to tone acquisition in Mandarin : a case study , Adele Laurie Touhey

Child protection policy dimensions across Catholic archdioceses and civil statutes : a comparative content analysis , Jeffrey Trant

System measurements for x-ray phase and diffraction imaging , Erik Wolfgang Tripi

Genomic epidemiology of clinical salmonella enterica in New Hampshire, 2017-2020 , Madison R. Turcotte

A mixed methods exploration of fairness issues in algorithmic policing systems , Emmanuel Sebastian Udoh

X ray phase and coherent scatter imaging measurements , Mahboob Ur Rehman

Hal : a romance , Janna Urschel

Calculational methods in conformal field theory , Thomas Andrew Vandermeulen

Female superheroes, rhetorical reading, and feminist imagination : a study of college-aged readers and comic book reading practices using eye tracking and cued retrospective interviews , Aimee Vincent

Generation Z : who are they and what do they expect from student affairs on campus? , Mary Elizabeth Wake

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Using the motivated information management theory and the social support theory to understand caregiver perspectives of currently available health communication regarding dementia: a qualitative study.

Sara J. Alig , Liberty University Follow

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Doctor of Philosophy in Communication (PhD)

Marie Mallory

dementia, caregiving, health communication, theory of motivated information management, social support theory, phenomenology, Global Deterioration Scale (GDS)

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Alig, Sara J., "Using the Motivated Information Management Theory and the Social Support Theory to Understand Caregiver Perspectives of Currently Available Health Communication Regarding Dementia: A Qualitative Study" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects . 5509. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5509

Dementia brings a cascade of changes into the life of not only the person facing it, but also the lives of the supporting family and caregivers. Dementia manifests with a gradual decline, or in some cases, a variably progressive decline in cognitive abilities. This decline requires the individual to rely more and more on caregivers. Caregiving necessitates the giving of oneself for another’s sake and oftentimes results in negative physical and social-emotional side effects. To navigate through the changes that are happening to their loved ones, as well as to themselves, caregivers need educational and social support. The purpose of this communication research was to seek the perspectives of adults in the Ohio Valley who are caring for their parents with dementia, regarding their experiences with searches for dementia health communication. The theory of motivated information management and the social support theory were the guiding frameworks in understanding these perspectives. Qualitative methods included a social constructivist, phenomenological approach as the ontological lens through which the researcher looked for themes in data taken from semi-structured interviews. Findings of this study specifically pointed out that current health communication regarding dementia may not contain enough relatable information about dementia staging. Six themes emerged from this study including: 1. Brain changes motivate searches for more dementia health communication. 2. Perceived breakdowns happen in certain trajectories of health communication regarding dementia. 3. Avenues of in-person dementia support/resources are better one-on-one. 4. Avenues of online dementia support/resources are variable. 5. Caregiver perspectives of what they know about dementia align with the literature. 6. Communication changes with parents after dementia.

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Harvard Radcliffe Institute Awards 2024 Fay Prizes for Outstanding Theses

Topics include an in-depth exploration of the human complexities of getting bailed out of jail, a unified treatment of an essential mathematical theorem, and a close study of how one school in Martinique contributed to the island’s anticolonial, literary, and cultural heritage.

CAMBRIDGE, MA (May 16, 2024)—Harvard Radcliffe Institute today honored Charlotte Skye Baker, Dhruv Goel, and Justin Hu with the prestigious Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, the annual award for the top theses of Harvard College’s graduating class.

This year’s Fay Prize recipients are recognized for their exceptional undergraduate work in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities, respectively. Their work was selected from among that of 73 Harvard College seniors, each of whom received the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize in recognition of outstanding scholarly research from undergraduate students. The Hoopes Prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, for the purpose of “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education.”

The Fay Prize was established in 1907 by Joseph Storey Fay in memory of his great-grandfather, Captain Jonathan Fay (1724–1800), to be awarded to a graduating Radcliffe College student most deserving due to academic and personal merit.

First bestowed in 1909 to Evelyn Spring, the prize was administered by Radcliffe College for 90 years. Harvard Radcliffe Institute has continued the tradition since 2001, expanding the candidate pool to all Harvard graduating seniors and honoring “the most outstanding imaginative work or piece of original research in any field.”

The honor reflects the mission of the Institute to foster advanced work across a wide range of disciplines.

“We carry this history with us, and we’re proud of it,” said Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute. “The legacy of Radcliffe College, as we often say, isn’t merely coeducation at Harvard. It’s the recognition that universities will always be greater when they draw wisdom and talent from the widest possible pool of individuals.”

Charlotte Skye Baker, “Judges, Loved Ones, and Bondsmen: An Ethnography of Cash Bail in a Southern US City”

While most existing academic work on the judiciary’s cash bail system focuses on judicial decision-making alone, Baker’s thesis examines the human side of the process, which she spent two months researching through deep fieldwork.

One of her findings is that defendants are “subject to a complex system of enhanced social control wielded not only by judges but also by loved ones and bondsmen.”

Baker writes: “Indigent defendants…ability to get out of jail is dictated not by legally prescribed bail factors (their likelihood of returning to court, or the risk they pose to public safety) but by their courtroom behavior, their mother’s opinion of them, or their accent.”

“Throughout, you enhance our understanding of the cash bail process through the actors (not only judges, but family members and bondsmen) and processes (not only bond amounts, but a complex set of decisions by these actors),” one of her readers wrote in his comments to Baker. “At times, this felt much like I was reading an excerpt of an academic book on cash bail in an outlet like the New Yorker . I hope you are considering a career post-graduation that will have you write in some capacity.”

Another reader wrote: “Baker’s rich anecdotal account also shows what happens to communities plagued by the twin crises of mass incarceration and a hollowed-out social safety net, in which defendants have had … to rely on their mothers, grandmothers, and lovers to bail them, all of whom themselves have very limited resources.”

Baker is planning to turn her thesis into a full-length book project via a postgraduate fellowship, according to her faculty advisor.

Dhruv Goel, “The Joys of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem”

Goel’s thesis nominator called his thesis “a beautiful piece of work—one of the top five or six senior honors theses I’ve seen in 35 years at Harvard.”

He wrote that the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem “occupies a central position in the mathematics of the 20th century; it has roots in the subjects of algebraic geometry, differential geometry, topology, analysis and partial differential equations, knitting together key ideas and constructions from each of these fields. But its very centrality has made it a difficult subject to learn and to teach…. To give a single, unified treatment of the theorem and all its appearances is truly a daunting task. What Goel has undertaken to do in his thesis is just that: he presents a comprehensive treatment of the theorem, developing a coherent logical framework in which the various manifestations and applications of the theorem can all be described.”

“It is virtually unique in the literature; it's what I would give to a graduate student who was setting out to understand the theorem,” he wrote.

Justin Hu, “Studying with Césaire: Caribbean Counter-Pedagogies of the Lycée Victor Schoelcher during the Third Republic, 1870–1945”

Called “an extraordinarily ambitious work of cultural history and literary analysis,” by one of his two nominators, Hu’s thesis focuses on Aimé Césaire, a foundational figure of Caribbean anticolonialism, and traces his revolutionary thought and literary work—which went on to influence Frantz Fanon, Léon-Gontran Damas and Édouard Glissant—back to the Lycée Victor Schoelcher, a school created by French colonizers to shape students into good French citizens that instead became a primary site for anti-Republican, dissident action and thought.

Hu carried out a huge amount of research for his study, including stints of archival work in Martinique and mainland France.

“Although his work is complex and nuanced, hard to convey in a couple of sentences, in my view its most important aspect is the attempt to reinterpret the thrust of these authors’ theories of decolonization as pertaining to specific characteristics of their intellectual milieu in the Caribbean,” wrote one of his nominators. “I think Justin Hu’s thesis is an important contribution to a variety of subjects associated with the Black experience in the Atlantic world.”

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