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Author:

Bidding, Britney

Title:

Listen To That Baby Purr!: The Aesthetic Pleasure of Car Engine Sounds

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

music
music theory
film music
cars
engine sounds

File:

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Committee Members:

R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair
Erik McKee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Taylor Aitken Greer, Committee Member

Author:

Grossi, Jeffrey

Title:

Identifying the Impact of COVID-19 on Archaeology - A Comparison in Academic and Commercial Field Work

Graduate Program:

Anthropology (MA)

Keywords:

Archaeology
COVID-19
coronavirus
pandemic

File:

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Committee Members:

Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
Kirk Dow French, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Katherine Shenk, Committee Member

Author:

Dooley, Anne

Title:

For Better or Worse?: The Effects of Interactivity and Perspective on Identification, Social Comparison, and Self-Esteem in Video Games

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

video games
text-based games
interactivity
identification
social comparison
self-esteem
media effects

File:

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Frank Dardis, Committee Member

Author:

Webber, Hudson

Title:

Benjamin Britten's Evolving Style as Seen Through His Fugues for Solo Cello

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Britten
Britten Cello Suites
Fugue
Fugues
Benjamin Britten
Suite for Cello
Second Suite for Cello
Third Suite for Cello

File:

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Committee Members:

Rachel Copeland, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Anqi

Title:

Oppositions and Reconciliations in Representative Piano Works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Griffes
American composer
The White Peacock
The Fountain of the Acqua Paola
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
Sonata for Piano

File:

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Committee Members:

Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Perez Benitez, Jr., Committee Member
Rachel Copeland, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yanich, Daniel

Title:

POLICE BODY-WORN CAMERAS IN SMALL AND RURAL PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENTS

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

Police Body-Worn Cameras (BWC)

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Gibbs, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jennifer Catherine Gibbs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lindmar Schally, Committee Member
Daniel Andrew Howard, Committee Member

Author:

Drivas, Magdalayna

Title:

Make me pretty: The role of customization in the effects of attractive avatar use on self-image

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

video games
avatars
Proteus effect
social comparison theory
customization
body image

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kemp, Kayla

Title:

The Origins of Segregation Academies in Mississippi: 1954 to 1976

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

segregation academies
social movements
civil rights movement
private schools

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Committee Members:

David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David P Baker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maryellen Schaub, Committee Member
Charles Seguin, Committee Member

Author:

Mooney, Micah

Title:

Musical Topic as an Embodiment of Community in Two Musical-Dramatic Works of the 1940s

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Topic theory
Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma!
Tempesta
Pastoral
Church Musical
Opera
Musical Theatre
Theory
Analysis

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Caniglia, Michael

Title:

Work, Public Assistance, and the Transition to Adulthood Among Children Maltreated During Early Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

foster care
transition to adulthood
adolescence
public assistance
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

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Committee Members:

Sarah Anne Font, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Fenelon, Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Molly Martin, Committee Member