All Montclair State University theses starting with 2010 can be found below. Print theses from before that date are being digitized based on the availability of funding, and may be listed below. All print and electronic theses and dissertations that have been cataloged can be found by searching the Library catalog.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Undocumented Young Adults Navigating Liminal Space to Carve Their Futures in The U.S., Ismat Abbas

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Understanding Multilingual/Multicultural Immigrant High Schoolers’ Multilayered Identities and Imagined Futures, Mehtap Akay

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Carrying the Weight : The Racialized Labor of Multicultural Center Directors of Color in Higher Education, Sherlene Iris Ayala

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Faculty’s Experiences Teaching English Language Learners in Higher Education, Chedia A. Ayari

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Investigating the Roles of Active Site Residues K59, K119 and E168 in M. tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase, Maryum M. Bhatti

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Assessment of Phytoplankton Assemblages and Harmful Algal Blooms in New Jersey, Yaritza Acosta Caraballo

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A Bioinformatics Approach for Evaluating Evolutionary Convergence of Gene Family Size in Hematophagous Insects, Mbemba Ceesay

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Healing That Leads to Action : Restorative Justice, School Leadership, and Institutional Change, Jose B. Celis

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Object Detection and Image Categorization by Transferring Commonsense Knowledge with Premises and Quantifiers, Irina Chernyavsky

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Conversational Dynamics Between Caregivers and Children : The Role of Elaboration and Autonomy Support on Children’s Memory Reports, Whitney L. Dartnell

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The Addiction Treatment Experience of Legally Mandated Opioid Users, Kaitlin E. Deitz

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Design of Block Copolymer with Tunable Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic/Fluorophilic Interactions, Tatiane de Fatima Dutra

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Exploring LGBTQ Latino/a/x Stories of Chosen Families, Carlos A. Flores

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The Influence of Community Trauma and the Behaviors of Gang Members, Leshelle Franklin

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An Analysis of the Sophistication–Maturity of Justice and Non-Justice Involved Youth and Young Adults, Lauren Grove

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Optimizing CRISPR/Cas9 Transfection Protocol to Generate a Tet-on Inducible Sk-Mel 24 Cell Lines to Better Study ICER, Abdulkader Hallak

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Daughters of Depression : A Critical-Hermeneutic Phenomenological Examination of Adult Black Women’s Experiences with Strong Black Woman’s Role When Mothered by Women with Perceived Depression, Christin D. Haynes

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On the Way to Maturity, Mikhail Ilyin

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Gendered Leadership and Patriarchy : A Healing Feminist Autoethnography, Necole Jadick

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A Functioning Code May Not Be a Secure Code : A Preliminary Study on the Students' Complacency with Secure Coding, Jeremiah Niiquaye Kotey

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Using Path Modeling to Investigate the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Post-Traumatic Growth through Meaning-Making, Resilience, and PTSD Symptoms, Sowmya Kshtriya

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The Fate of Fraxinus spp. in New Jersey : A Physioeconomic Evaluation of the Forest System and Infrastructure Implications, Erik W. Lyttek

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The Commercialization and Imposed Voices of Femininity in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Danielle McClelland

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Seasonal Variations in Nutrient and Total Suspended Solids Sources and Fluxes in Rivers of Northern New Jersey and Newark Bay, USA, Jing Nie

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A Computational Study of the Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Boronic Acids, Kevin Nyhuis

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Parental Influences on Korean Youth Academic-and Career-Related Motivation During the Transition to Tertiary Educational Settings : A Situated Expectancy-Value Theory Approach, Jeanie Park

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Privacy-Enhanced and Outsourced Power Usage Control in Smart Grids, Hemadri Patel

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Social Influence on Risky Decision Making, Kesha Patel

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An Ecofeminist Investigation of How Research Experiences for Science Teachers Influence Their Conceptualization of the Nature of Science and Their Construction of Storied Science Identities, Suzanne Poole Patzelt

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Secondary Analysis of ChIP-SEQ Dataset and Genomic Interactions of ICER, Karem Rivera

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Road Salt-Induced Salinization of the Upper Paulins Kill River in Newton, New Jersey, Kristine Emily Rogers

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Future Time Orientation and Criminal Thinking Style, Danielle Squillaro

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A Survey of Knowledge and Beliefs on Child Maltreatment, Brooke R. Stettler

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Ecocriticism and the Young Adult Audience in Dry and The Islands at the End of the World, Nicole Marie Sysyn

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Sylvia Plath as a Confessionalist Writer : The Queen Bee, Alexandra Tangarife

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The Association of Mindfulness, Passive Social Media Use, Social Comparisons, FoMO and Depression in College Students, Cody Weeks

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“It Was Like Double Damage” : An Exploration of Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse, Institutional Response, and Posttraumatic Growth, Krystal Lynne Woolston

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Metaphor Detection in Poems in Misurata Arabic Sub-Dialect : An LSTM Model, Azza Abugharsa

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An Exploratory Study of Conversational Discourse Produced by Persons with Aphasia Using Speech Function Analysis, Christa M. Akers

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The Effects and Costs of Changes in River Flooding in New Jersey, Yousef Alagrabawi

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Modeling the Dynamics of Excitable Cells, Asja Alić

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Examination of Changes in Gene Family Size in Carnivorous Plants Through Genomic Analysis, Moonia Ammari

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A Critical Exploration of Ideology and Agency in Intensive Motherhood Literature, Maya Autret

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Strict Prime-Intersective Polynomials for a Fixed Prime Number, Rob Rexler Baello

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Embedded Memories & Community Imprints : The Scars that Live Within Us, Marisa F. Ballaro

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Determining the Feasibility of a Sponge City Design on Montclair State University Campus, Megan Elizabeth Barron

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Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm to Investigate Whether Individuals with Trauma Exposure are at an Increased Risk of Pleading Guilty Falsely, Jennifer M. Bartlett

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Effect of Soil Conditions on Invasive Purple Loosestrife Compared to Native Species, Madeline Ruth Baum

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The Framing of Black and White Masculinities in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Felesha Beckford

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Community-Based Programs as Spaces for Critical Consciousness, Not Containment : Exploring the Perspectives of Black Youth, Carrie Bergeson

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The Impact of Social Controls and Vaccination on the Spread of COVID-19 in New Jersey, Ariel J. Bonneau

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Mediation of Intergenerational Trauma Transmission by Family Variables in Children of Rwandan Survivors of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, Jessica L. Bonumwezi

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Assessment of the Asexual Reproductive Strategies of the Invasive Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus vertens, Valin Jarred Booker

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Role of E168D in M. tuberculosis IGPS Catalysis, Hedda Booter

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Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Diet, Alexander Dean Bracken

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Testing the Effectiveness of Data- and Narrative-Based Messages in Mitigating Racial Bias in Size and Threat Judgments, Alexandra Brosseau

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Good Science Teaching in an Urban Middle School Context : An Examination of the Relationship Between Science Teachers and Their Students, William J. Brown

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Layered : A Film that Investigates Dance, Installation and Location, Andrea Burr

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Development and Validation of the Muslim Identity Socialization Scale (MISS), Mamona Butt

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The Privacy Leakage of IP Camera Systems, Lee R. Castro

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Targeting Prosthetic Joint Infections Using Modified EGCG Derivatives with Antibiotics, Kavneet Chahil

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Assessing Potential of Dual Use Solar Development in New Jersey Preserved Farmlands, Gary Ryan Chapman

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Analyzing the Reported Professional Learning of Ninth-Grade Teachers Participating in an Interdisciplinary Team, Glynnis J. Childress

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Investigating the Collaboration of Teachers of Students with Disabilities and Teaching Assistants in the Classroom, Sa-Qwona S. Clark

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Gaging Downstream Transport of Cyanobacteria in the Raritan River Basin, Kyle R. Clonan

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Development and On-Road Applications of a 1/10-Scale Autonomous Vehicle, Laura Cornejo Paulino

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Teacher Activism for Emergent Bilingual Learners : A Qualitative Study, Cyrene A. Crooms

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The Relationship Between Racial Microaggressions, Mental Health, and Academic Self- Efficacy in Black College Students : Is a Supportive Mentor Protective?, DeVanté J. Cunningham

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Identifying Functional and Non-functional Software Requirements from User App Reviews and Requirements Artifacts, Dev Jayant Dave

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Viewpoints on Motherhood, Margot de La Barre

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Multiple Risk Factors for Schizotypy in a Non-Clinical Population : Exploring the Continuum of Psychosis Two Years Later, Jill Del Pozzo

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New Black Carbon Isotopes from the Eastern Tethys and Earth System Modeling During the PETM, Maurizia De Palma

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Adolescent Cognition as a Dynamic System : Examining Complex Cognition, Concepts and Context, Rachael R. Doubledee

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Calcium Intake Among Parents and Caregivers of Children with a Milk Allergy or Intolerance : A Comparative Analysis, Ilana Dubrovsky-Razam

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Studying Alive : An Application for the Wellness of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Natasia Fernandez

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“I’m not like that!” : Reframing Contemporary Ecopoetic Criticism and De-Metaphorizing the Nonhuman Animal, Alexandra Franke

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What Do You See When You Look At Me? : An Exploration of Identity, Personal Stories, Perceptions of Others and Looking Beyond the Surface, Lara Friedman-Kats

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The Women of Brewster Place : A Dream Deferred and Unactualized, Lauren Fuentes

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Telecommuting Antecedents and Outcomes Within a Turbulent Global Context : The Incremental Explanatory Utility of Technostress and Role Strain, Renata Garcia Prieto Palacios Roji

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The Lived Experiences of Traditionally Aged College Women in Abusive Relationships, Kelly Gentry

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Investigating Elementary School Students’ Reasoning about Dynamic Angles, Erell Germia

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Finding the Means : The Bilingual Disparity in Semantic Context Use for Processing, Iyad Ghanim

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Preservice Teacher Action Research : Making Meaning and Generating Knowledge Through Inquiry, Rachel Ginsberg

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“Don’t Call Me a Crouton” : A Case Study on the Use of Humor in Organizational Relationships on Twitter and Facebook, Hannah Grinberg

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Secure Retrieval of Encrypted Similar Documents using Bloom Filters, German Guzman

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Muslim Young Adult Graphic Novels : Destabilizing Perceptions, Sidra Habal

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Into the Roach’s Mouth: Beyond the Postmodern Discourse on Silence in Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H., Eman Halimeh

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Feeding Preference of the Sea Urchin Arbacia punctulata for Algal Turf Over Kelp in a Degraded Kelp Forest Ecosystem, Kenneth J. Hamel

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Lift Every Voice : Black High School Students’ Lived Experiences with Racism and Discrimination Through a Critical Race Theory Lens, Lucinda Harris

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Ascending from Dust : The Ring Shout, Morgan Hawkins

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Breath and Intention : An Exploration of Movement Clarity Within the Ballet Form, Rebecca Herrin

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Resisting Dominican Motherhood across Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Ana Hilario

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“To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth” : Hauntology and Memory in the Films of Alejandro Gonzalez lnarritu, Elizabeth Denny Hook

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Caliban the Savage : Shakespeare’s Critique of Colonialist Misappropriation of Indigenous Identities, Leonard Aquil Hughes

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Arsenic : Risk, Exposure, Policy and Management, Nadia Binte Jamil

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Cas9 gRNA and Homologous Recombinant Plasmid Integrate Inducible HA-N-ICER in the AAVS1 Locus of SK-MEL-24 Cells, Douglas Job

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間 Between Heaven and Earth - An Immersive Installation, Jennifer Leung Johnson

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Distributed Energy Resources : An Assessment of New Jersey’s Clean Energy Future, Mary Elizabeth Kenny

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SecREP : A Framework for Automating the Extraction and Prioritization of Security Requirements Using Machine Learning and NLP Techniques, Shada Khanneh

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Parasite Variability in the Invasive Crayfish, Faxonius rusticus, in Northern New Jersey, Nathan Martin Klunk