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Author:

Phillips, Joseph Biaggio

Title:

Of Time and the Development of Affective Polarization

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Affective Polarization
Partisanship
Political Behavior
Prejudice
Perspective-Taking

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Committee Members:

Eric Plutzer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Plutzer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanna Linn, Committee Member
Michael J Nelson, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Outside Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Morel, Annamarie

Title:

Glamour, Guns, And Glitter: Selfie-Empowerment and Self-Representation Online

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

photography
self-portraits
selfies
social media
digital culture
visual culture
gender
identity
vernacular photography
glamour
fashion
popular culture
folklore
influencer
beauty
firearms

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Committee Members:

Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
Jeffrey A Tolbert, Committee Member
Russell Frank, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Voeller, Nathaniel Trent

Title:

Depression Apps, Design, and the Rhetorics of Mental Disability

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Technical Communication
Digital Rhetoric
Disability Rhetoric
Mental Disability Rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Stuart Selber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Selber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cuevas-Buendia, Gerardo Valente

Title:

Exploring the Relationship Between School District Racial/Ethnic Composition and Socio-Economic Composition and School Punishment in an Era of Changing School Disciplinary Policies

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

School Discipline
Racial/Ethnic Composition
Socio-Economic Composition

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Committee Members:

David M Ramey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David M Ramey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Member
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Outside Member
Erica Frankenberg, Outside Member
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tabur, Merve

Title:

Ends of Language in the Anthropocene: Narrating Environmental Destruction in Turkish, Arabic, and Arab-Anglophone Speculative Fiction

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Turkish literature
Arabic literature
Arab-Anglophone literature
Speculative fiction
Middle East
Anthropocene
Environmental justice
Environmental destruction
Climate Change

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Committee Members:

Nergis Erturk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nergis Erturk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shuang Shen, Committee Member
Anna Ziajka Stanton, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Sabine Doran, Outside Member
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shirazi, Talia

Title:

Endocrine organization of sex differences in psychology and behavior: Evidence from isolated GnRH deficiency

Graduate Program:

Anthropology (PHD)

Keywords:

hormones
organizational effects
behavioral endocrinology
isolated GnRH deficiency
androgens
estrogens
puberty

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Committee Members:

Asher Rosinger, Major Field Member
Sonia Cavigelli, Outside Field Member
Mark Shriver, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Puts, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Katherine Shenk, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thomas, Kierstan Bailey

Title:

Knowing While Black: Insidious Ignorance and Oppositional Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

social epistemology
white ignorance
Black feminism
Black feminist epistemology
critical philosophy of race
epistemology of ignorance
epistemology of resistance
epistemology of oppression
willful ignorance

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Committee Members:

Nancy Tuana, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hil Malatino, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Miller, Major Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Leong Mattern, Alexandra Christine

Title:

FOR WHOM DOES PERCEPTION OF THREAT PREDICT SUSEQUENT AGGRESSION PERPETRATION?

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

family violence
IPV
PCA
dominance
interpersonal threat
threat sensitivity
threat perception

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Committee Members:

Steffany Fredman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Lebreton, Major Field Member
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Niebauer, Allison Kate

Title:

“THE DIOCESE’S DARKEST CHAPTER”: CONSTRUCTING CULTURAL TRAUMA IN THE ALTOONA-JOHNSTOWN CATHOLIC DICOESE

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Cultural trauma
Rhetorical Criticism
Catholic
Child Abuse
Communal Conflict
Social Change

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Committee Members:

Sarah Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Denise Solomon, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Worley, Major Field Member

Author:

Shiverdecker, Levi Keith

Title:

Structural Equation Modeling with Ordinal Variables: Performance of Robust Estimators Under Conditions of Misspecification, Missing Data, and Nonnormality

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Structural equation modeling
SEM
Simulation
Estimators
maximum likelihood
weighted least squares
ordinal
missing data
nonormal

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Committee Members:

Rustin Meyer, Major Field Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Lebreton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jean Phillips, Major Field Member