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Author:

Li, Ruobing

Title:

Effects of video and print narratives on communicating health risks: An experiment

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

narrative
exemplar
health communication
modality

File:

Download Li_MA_Thesis__to_be_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuyuan Shen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Porter, Nathaniel Douglas

Title:

Family, Peers, and Religious Communities in the Formation of Adolescent Religious Identity

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
Identity
Social Networks
Adolescence
Social Psychology
Adolescent Development

File:

Download NDP_MA_Soc_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane Helen Felmlee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Allen Kreager, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ramesar, Jason

Title:

Media Framing of The Double-murder Suicide of World Wrestling Entertainment Star Chris Benoit

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

WWE
Media
Journalists
Benoit
Framing
Domestic Violence
Concussions
steroids
PEDs
Professional Wrestling

File:

Download JRamesarThesis-FINAL-4-7-2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Marie Hardin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gurrentz, Benjamin Thomas

Title:

The Effect of Religious Salience on Attempting Online Dating

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religious Identity
Online Dating
Mate Selection
Sociology of Religion

File:

Download formatting_BTG_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane Helen Felmlee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alwine, Lauren R

Title:

Comparing Female Athletes and Models in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues from 1997-2013

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

female athletes
models
sexual objectification
sports illustrated
swimsuit issue

File:

Download Lauren_Alwines_MA_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michel M Haigh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Herr, Martha Joyce

Title:

Common Practices in South Asian Orphanages

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Orphan
South Asia
orphanage

File:

Download Final_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dana Lynn Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Choi, Hoan Suk

Title:

The influence of hard line policies on victimless crime: by analyzing influence of The Anti Prostitution Law of South Korea

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice

Keywords:

Deterrence Theory
Feminism
Functionalism
Hard line Policy
Prostitution
The Anti Prostitution Law
The Balloon Effect.

File:

Download 0411-1_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James M Ruiz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Harrison, Virginia Susan

Title:

Applying Stewardship Theory to Higher Education Donors

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

stewardship
fundraising
higher education
relationship management theory
involvement
fundraising

File:

Download FinalReport.March2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Denise Sevick Bortree, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Camacci, Lauren Rose

Title:

Presidential Imaginaries: Narrative, Phantasia, and the Historical U.s. President in Fictional Film

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

U.S. presidents
film
popular culture
narrative
phantasia
rhetoric

File:

Download Camacci_MA_Thesis__CAS_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brown, Brittany Nicole

Title:

More Than Just Hair Talk: The Kinks, Curls AND Dueling Feminisms in YouTube’s Natural Hair Community

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

natural hair
YouTube
Black hair
Black feminism
postfeminism
natural hair community
YouTube community

File:

Download Brittany_Brown_Thesis_FINAL_April_8.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino Colocino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Geesey, Alison Marie

Title:

Enriching the Aural Skills Classroom with the Inclusion of Popular Music Traditions

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

music theory
aural skills
sight singing
popular music traditions
music theory pedagogy
aural skills pedagogy
pop

File:

Download Geesey_MA_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wallace, Ian Thomas

Title:

Socialist Music in Britain: The Influence of William Morris on Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

William Morris
Vaughan Williams
Gustav Holst
Socialism

File:

Download Wallace-thesis1.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wojtenko, Elizabeth Victoria

Title:

Violence and Overcrowding in Jails in 2011

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice

Keywords:

jail violence
overcrowding
Annual Survey of Jails 2011
violence

File:

Download 1-evwojtenko_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Howard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Sumner Douds, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen Michelle Ahlin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brown, Laura Jean

Title:

The Early Compositional Education of Sergey Prokofiev: A Survey of Pedagogy, Aesthetics, and Influence

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

Prokofiev
Gliere
Taneyev
Arensky
pedagogy
Russian music

File:

Download Brown_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brown, Amy Maria

Title:

The Family System and Determinants of Parent-Child Relationship Quality

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

fathering
parent-child relationship quality

File:

Download Brown_Thesis_072114.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Alan Booth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barrett Alan Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David R Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nichols, Cherie Noelle

Title:

Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and the Global Village: A Content Analysis of Language and Formatting in Social Media

Graduate Program:

Humanities

Keywords:

social media
content analysis
global village

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Cherie_N_Nichols.pdf

Committee Members:

Carl Patrick Burrowes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mueller, Dorian Alexis

Title:

Dracula Immortalized in Sound: Discourse of Silence and Sound in the Original 1931 Film; Traversing Diegetic, Non-diegetic, and Temporal Soundscape in Philip Glass's Score (1999)

Graduate Program:

Music Theory

Keywords:

Philip Glass
film music
music theory
diegetic
non-diegetic
temporality
topic theory
Dracula
minimalism

File:

Download Dorian_Mueller_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric John Mckee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Masson, Kyle Graham

Title:

Recovering Queen Penelope: A Cultural and Musical Reinterpretation of Monteverdi's "il ritorno d'ulisse in patria"

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

Monteverdi
Il ritorno d'Ulisse
public opera

File:

Download Kyle_Masson_M.A._Musicology_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Marica Susan Tacconi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Zixi

Title:

College aspirations among rural left-behind children in China: Do parental involvement and households financial contributions matter?

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Left-behind children in China
College aspiration
Parental involvement
Household financial contribution

File:

Download MA_Thesis_Zixi_Chen_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Suet Ling Pong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Greenberg, Marisa Samantha

Title:

The Influence of Familial Obligation and Social Support Motives in Decisions to Disclose Genetic Test Results

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

disclosure
decision-making
familial obligation
genetics
motives

File:

Download Final_THESIS_Greenberg_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rachel Annette Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor