• Gorgeous Healing: Liminality in Memoir and Ocean Vuong's "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" (thesis) 

  Ricks, James Minh (2021)

  Vuong's book is both a textbook and a roadmap to this project. In the text, Vuong's protagonist, Little Dog, similarly strives to understand how to live and love in a world that has been historically violent toward him and ...

• Analytical and Computational Study of Multi-temperature Kinetic Ising Models on Various Graphs (thesis) 

  Gibbs, Sho Michael (2021)

  We analyze a class of multi-temperature kinetic Ising models with Glauber dynamics on both one-dimensional lattices and Cayley Trees, focusing on the overall and sublattice magnetizations. Expectation values for one-dimensional ...

• A Historical, Contextual, and Theoretical Analysis of Masterworks in the Clarinet Repertoire, 1791-1994 (thesis) 

  Petzold, Carissa Mae (2021)

  This paper presents a multifaceted analysis of seven clarinet solo works performed on my May 1, 2021 senior recital. For each piece, I provide historical background on the composer, place the piece in context of the ...

• Does Exposure to Media Shape Perceptions of Corruption? Evidence from Post-Socialist Countries (thesis) 

  Petzold, Carissa Mae (2021)

  This paper empirically assesses the effect of exposure to media on individuals' perceptions of corruption, taking into account the heterogeneous effects of the extent of state control of media. Perceptions of corruption ...

• Russian State Policy in the Arctic: Ambitions and Challenges 

  Culp, Wesley James (2021)

  As a whole, Russian Arctic policy represents the intensification of the Russian government's interest in the Arctic after decades of being unable to dedicate the attention and resources to the region that it might have ...

• Building an Ethos of Killing: Comparing and Contrasting the World War II Combat Motivations of German soldiers on the Eastern Front and American Soldiers in the Pacific (thesis) 

  Flood, Lucas Ryan (2021)

  On the American side, it is traditional to view World War II as a righteous war fought by soldiers inspired by freedom and democracy, as Adams succinctly defines this view in The Best War Ever. However, this conception of ...

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Evaluated as Epigenetically Maintained Historical Trauma (thesis) 

  Shatadal, Alankrit (2021)

  The mystery and devastation of losing a child like this has led to SIDS being widely studied, through lenses of both human biology and human behavior. This thesis will contribute to this work through two goals: First, I ...

• Estimating soil carbon content of grazing lands in Rockbridge County, Virginia using statistical and machine learning techniques (thesis) 

  Brown, Michael William (2021)

  In recent years, organizations have explored various methods of quantifying soil carbon to document carbon flux or provide economic incentive to farmers utilizing management practices that sequester carbon in their soil. ...

• The Signaling Effect of Rankings: Evidence from Top 14 Law Schools (thesis) 

  Whalen, Daniel Roy (2021)

  This thesis examines the effect on career outcomes caused by placing within the top 14 spots on US News & World Reports' law school rankings. We use data from the American Bar Association on class profiles, Bar passage ...

• "THE LAST PLACE THEY THOUGHT OF": Spatial Reconfigurations in 19th Century African American Literature (thesis) 

  Luttrell, Anna Grace (2021)

  A holistic understanding of the United States' cultural and political identities -- before, after, but especially during the 19th century -- is largely a function of how the nation relates to its spatial landscape. Not ...

• Quelling Whirlwinds: A Collection of Approaches to the Book of Job (thesis) 

  Woodward, Alexandria Helen (2021)

  In this piece I wrestle with the historical context and literary trends of the ANE in analyzing The Book of Job. Using three different approaches to areas of the book, I attempt to address the piecemeal writing with a ...

• Finding the Female Detective: How Interwar Female Authors Created & Sustained the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (thesis) 

  Irwin, Rebekah Rose (2021)

  The novel, apart from telling a story, has many responsibilities. One of these responsibilities, and the one most relevant to this project, is that of conveying a particular worldview. Regardless of whether the worldview ...

• Revolt on the Clyde: Birth and Significance of Red Clydeside, 1914-1922 (thesis) 

  Cleghorn, Jackson Reed (2021)

  Early attempts at characterizing the labor movement in Scotland and the rise of Red Clydeside were often too accepting of the received wisdom of the period and as such require some amount of revision. However, revisionist ...

• Presentation and Perception: The Effect of Disclosure Readability on Lending Decisions 

  Shook, David Merrick (2021)

  This paper examines the effect readability has on the perceived creditworthiness of borrowers. I find that reduced readability increases the likelihood that borrowers objectively deserving of an unfavorable credit rating ...

• Living with the Mess: The Tyranny of Philosophy and Democratic Chaos (thesis) 

  Thiessen, Taylor Alexander (2021)

  The human experience and democratic politics are characterized by an inevitable and inherent mess that is impossible to completely or finally resolve. Yet we think such a thing is possible and attempt to achieve this through ...

• The Weakest Power: A Theory of Strategic Unilateral Executive Authority (thesis) 

  Katterhagen, Spencer Jacob (2021)

  Aside from executive orders, this paper was exploring executive power as a whole using executive orders only as a proxy. Even by just looking at executive orders, the picture of American politics we see today is so much ...

• Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Thin Films (thesis) 

  Baker, Kathryn Elise (2021)

  In this thesis, we explore the optical properties of silicon-dioxide (silica) thin-films generated through the use of a process known as ionic self-assembly of monolayers (ISAM). This process may be repeated for multiple ...

• Power, Perception, and Performance: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (thesis) 

  Lewis, Mary Pace (2021)

  The courtships of Elizabeth I reveal the personal and political sides of the Queen. However, the separation between Elizabeth the monarch and Elizabeth the woman is often difficult to discern; Elizabeth would agree, as she ...

• Determining the Effects of Aggregate and Disaggregate ESG Ratings on Abnormal Stock Returns (thesis) 

  Woodings, Christopher William (2021)

  This paper examines the effects of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings and their component parts on excess stock returns for 719 firms in the S&P 1500. Although no relationship was found between aggregate ...

• Examining the Mechanisms by which Women's Agency Affects Environmental Health: A Structural Equations Modeling Approach (thesis) 

  Luzzio, Olivia Allison (2021)

  Though previous authors have consistently reported a positive relationship between women's agency and environmental health, a causal relationship between the two variables has yet to be identified due to the confounding ...

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