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Author:

Ballard, Joshua

Title:

Guns and Governance: A Study of the Influence of State Polity on Firearm Utilization in Domestic Terrorism

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

domestic terrorism
social disorganization
gun violence
political violence

File:

Download Josh_Ballard_Thesis_2023-11-8_with_corrections.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Gibbs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Siyu Liu, Committee Member
Jennifer Gibbs, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jonathan Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Liao, Meng Qi

Title:

How should AI talk to users when collecting their personal information? Effects of role framing and self-referencing on Human-AI interaction

Graduate Program:

Communications

Keywords:

Human-AI Interaction
Human Machine Communication
Privacy concerns

File:

Download MA_Thesis_Mengqi_Liao_final.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Shyam Sundar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Amulya Yadav, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kucenski, Andrew

Title:

Miyazaki's Peace: The Role of Pacifism and the Soundscape in the Films of Studio Ghibli

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

musicology
music theory
film music
film studies
music
pacifism
soundscape
Hayao Miyazaki
Studio Ghibli
Anime
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle

File:

Download Andy_Thesis_Corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair
Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Dowell Youmans, Committee Member
Sarah Marian Schouten, Committee Member

Author:

Risi, Joseph

Title:

Is Institutional Representation Enough? Evidence from Chicago Concerning the Relationship Between Racial Congruence, Diversification, and Police Stopping Behavior

Graduate Program:

Criminology (MA)

Keywords:

Policing
Diversity
Criminology

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Committee Members:

Corina Antohi Graif, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Committee Member
Eric Baumer, Program Head/Chair
David M Ramey, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Qing

Title:

Game streaming as pandemic relief: how might gratifications of viewing gameplay combat mental stress

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

Game streaming
COVID-19
Stress
Twitch
YouTube gaming
Uses and gratification
Recovery

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Christofer J Skurka, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Jisu

Title:

Can We Trust the Changes? Institutional and Cultural Factors in the Occupational Desegregation of Gay and Lesbian Workers in the United States

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

Occupational Segregation
Sexuality
Public Attitude
Institutional Change
Sex Typing
Task Independence
Stigma

File:

Download Jisu_Park_-_M.A._Thesis__2022_.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah A Damaske, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Joseph Della Posta, Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen A. Matthews, Committee Member

Author:

Pojman, Elena

Title:

Do couples outsource their domestic labor upon receiving an income shock? Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

gender
domestic labor outsourcing
couples
inequality

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Committee Members:

Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
Léa Pessin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah A Damaske, Committee Member
Hilary Wething, Committee Member

Author:

Shetler, Anna

Title:

Allostatic Load and Internal Migration: Health Impacts of Residential and Social Transitions in Early Adulthood

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

allostatic load
internal migration
neighborhood effects
mobility
health
segregation

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Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Yabiku, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Member
Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Committee Member

Author:

Ryan, Cayley

Title:

Home Away From Home: Education, Health, and Nursing Home Care

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

education
healthcare
health
nursing homes
demography

File:

Download CayleyRyan_MastersThesis_OTDFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Liying Luo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jessica Williams, Committee Member

Author:

Shaulis, Kelsey

Title:

Educational Expectations and Serious Mental Illness among Midlife Women

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

Mental Health
Education
Educational Expectations

File:

Download SHAULIS_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Lynn Frisco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah A Damaske, Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Seul Ki

Title:

Reform and Renewal in Paul Dukas’s Variations, Interlude, et Finale sur un Thème de Rameau

Graduate Program:

Music Theory (MA)

Keywords:

Paul Dukas
fin-de-siècle
French keyboard work
Variation
Théodore Dubois
Variations Interlude et Finale sur un Thème de Rameau

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Committee Members:

Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member
R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Yiwen

Title:

The Impact of Prison Opening on Employment in Rural America

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

mass incarceration
prison expansion
rural economy
employment

File:

Download Master_Thesis_-_Yiwen_Zhang_092520__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Allen Kreager, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Carrier, Josie

Title:

Killing What Kind of Pain? Loneliness as a Form of Emotional Strain

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

Loneliness
social isolation
adolescence
substance use

File:

Download Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Ashton Michael Verdery, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sarah Brothers, Committee Member

Author:

Reed, Olivia

Title:

Fitness Transformation Videos on Instagram and their Effects on Body Image

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

Instagram
Body image
Body appreciation
Idealized body
Fitspiration
Self-compassion
Social media
Positive body image
body malleability

File:

Download O.Reed_Thesis_Submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Oliver, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Gall Myrick, Committee Member
Heather Shoenberger, Committee Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Novack, Janet

Title:

Movin' On Up: Mental Health, Gender, and Effects of Upward Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Intergenerational Social Mobility
Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Gender
Mental Health
Dissociative Hypothesis

File:

Download Novack_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Liying Luo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane Helen Felmlee, Committee Member
Molly Ann Martin, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Harnett, Grace

Title:

Adderall Use In Penn State Undergraduate Students

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (MA)

Keywords:

Adderall Use
Adderall and college students
study drugs
Penn State drug use
college students use of Adderall
Adderall
Studying
Illegal drugs
demographics of college students
undergraduate students drug use
study and patying
greek life
ohio state adderall
studying and Adderall
Adderall and grades
affects of Adderall
Penn State

File:

Download HARNETTGRACETHESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mimi Schaub, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dana Mitra, Committee Member
Kevin Kinser, Committee Member
David P Baker, Committee Member

Author:

Perez-Reyes, Eduardo

Title:

Scared Senseless: The Rise of Sensory Horror

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

film
horror
sense
blindness
deafness

File:

Download thesis_defense_draft_7-19.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Kevin J Hagopian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matt Mc Allister, Committee Member
Lisa Sternlieb, Committee Member

Author:

Wolff, Elise

Title:

The Relationship between Professional and Lay Expertise within an Advocacy Field: Historical Changes in the 'Intellectual and Developmental Disability' Construct

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

classification
categorization
identity
social movements
disability studies
disability rights
intellectual disability
developmental disability
expertise

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Committee Members:

Gary J Adler, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Seguin, Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Sarah Brothers, Committee Member

Author:

Waite, Emerson

Title:

Adding a Spatial Component to Contextual Sentencing Research

Graduate Program:

Criminology (MA)

Keywords:

sentencing
spatial lags
county contexts

File:

Download Waite__2022__-_Adding_a_Spatial_Component_to_Contextual_Sentencing_Research_ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Megan C Kurlychek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
Thomas Loughran, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Bishop, Rachael

Title:

Mental Health Stigma and Supportive Communication: An Extension of the Paradox of Support Seeking in Close Relationships

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

supportive communication
stigma
decision-making
identity

File:

Download Bishop_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew High, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair
Denise Haunani Solomon, Committee Member
Rachel A. Smith, Committee Member