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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 2021

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Recommender App Development for Essential Health Products : Covid and Beyond, Jessica Lourenco

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Sibling Relationship Quality and Its Link to Flourishing Among Emerging Adults, Shannon P. Lummer-Aikey

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Race Matters : When Middle/High School Teachers Engage in Participatory Activist Research on the Power of Stories to Disrupt Racism, Janice M. Marsili

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The Effects of Ketamine Administration on Novel Object Placement and Hippocampal AMPA Receptor Expression in the Male Long Evan Rats, Ruchael McNair

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Fostering Mathematical Creativity Among Middle School Mathematics Teachers, Ceire H. Monahan

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Effects of Differing Environmental Conditions on Bacteriophage Jenika, Gerard Nasser

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Effect of Tropical Cyclones on Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Xenia Neal

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I’m the Leader! How Shared Leadership Leads to Territoriality, Catrina MaryJane Notari

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Transitioning Secondary Mathematics Pedagogy Towards Reform-Oriented Practice Through Coteaching, Jessica Tybursky Nuzzi

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A Web Application to Disseminate Repatriation and Travel Information About African Countries, Daniel Otuo-Acheampong

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A Comparison of Metagenomic Sequencing Using Targeted 16S and Whole Genome Shotgun NGS on Microbial DNA Samples, Adam Daniel Parker

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Impact of COVID-19 on Residential Waste Streams of Montclair Township, Jeanne Huguette Perrine

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Interlace Polynomials of Certain Graphs, Cheyenne Petzold

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Reflections of a Broken Mirror : An Analysis of the Mirror Motif in The Famished Road, Mama Day, and Us, Samira Pigford

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The Island Remembers : Land Memory, Collective Memory & Trauma in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Justine Prusiensky

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Salvaging the Utopia : Posthumanism, Feminism, and Anti-Patriarchal Language in Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity, Fe Lorraine Agustin Reyes

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Exploring Trauma, Loss, and Posttraumatic Growth in Poles Who Survived the Second World War and Their Descendants, Alexandra Rush

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Bipartite, Size, and Online Ramsey Numbers of Some Cycles and Paths, Eliyahu Schudrich

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“True Darkness and True Womanness” : A Study of Sisterhood in Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women, Jessica Schwartz

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The Impact of the Translation of the Quran on Shakespeare’s Plays, Rania Shair

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“I Shall Watch Their Progress”: The Observer Effect and Information Theory in Literary Systems, Michael L. Shohet

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Sustainability of Hard Apple Cider : An Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment, Meghann N. Smith

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Characterizing Bacterial Communities Across a Nutrient Gradient Over Winter Months, Emily Jin Searles Stone

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Culturally Responsive Instructional Coaching : Accessing Student Voice during a Co-Generated Lesson Plan, Jacqueline Stone

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The Cases They Carry : A Narrative Analysis of Crisis Counselors Working in Behavioral Health Emergency Settings, Rachel E. Sugerman

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Towards Secure and Verifiable Computation of KNN Queries in Outsourced Environments, Gowri Pandian Sundarapandi

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Professional Capital Across the Careers of Four Veteran Teachers, Stephanie Brown Tarnowski

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Exploring Educators’ Decisions During the Era of New Professionalism : Teachers and Administrators Dialoguing Together in a Performance-Based Pay School District, Nicholas V. Vancheri

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The Comparison of Utilizing Functional Electrical Stimulation Device Versus Ankle Foot Orthosis Brace and the Effect on Participants’ Activities of Daily Living After a Cerebrovascular Accident, Cynthia Victoria Vlad

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Understanding Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) and Green Infrastructure Interaction in New Jersey : An Economic Analysis, Taylor J. Wieczerak

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Navigating Inquiry Group Professional Learning for In-Service Teachers With Mainstreamed English Language Learners : A Practitioner Action Research Study, Jennifer Wnuk

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Sensemaking for Equity and Agency : STEM Teacher Learning Through a Community of Practice Model, Karen Anne Woodruff

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Effect of Natural Environment Training and Discrete Trial Training on Adaptive Behaviors, Amelia Yanchik

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Servant Leadership Relationship to Emotional Demands, Stress, and Well-Being of the Leader, Laura Yang

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Cyclic Sulfones from Double Conjugate Addition of Rongalite, Hao Zong

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Tension Within Immigrant Identity in South Asian and Asian Characters in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Everything I Never Told You, and Disgraced, Dania Abdelsalam

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Synthesis of Amide and Sulfonamides as PDE11 Inhibitors, Noor Abouchakra

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Joint Use of Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) and Advanced Reduction Process (ARP) for Alleviation of Leachate Organic Matter (LOM), Ali Albalgane

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Euripides : Suppliant to the Divine Feminine, Liz Amato

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Antisemitism Today and Its Relationship to Jewish Identity and Religious Denomination, Michaela Ambrosius

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Discovery of Single-Stranded DNA Aptamers for the Detection of Ranavirus, Allyssa Angel

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Bounds for the Number of Independent and Dominating Sets in Trees, Daniel K. Arabia

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DFL-Opt : A Daily Fantasy Lineup Optimizer, Francis Aurori

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Re-envisioning Sections of Anything Goes to Address Gender Identity, Laurena Barros

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Question-Asking in Conversational Tasks : A Gender Comparison, Courtney Bell

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Design of Strips with Geometry Shapes and Mathematical Analysis, Somia Benali

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Manuel Puig y los espacios queer : Una tercera lectura de la realidad, Matthew Berg

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Size Does Matter : Exposure and Effects of Microplastics on the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica), Erika Bernal

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The Spatial Economics of Clean Energy in New Jersey, Anthony J. Bevacqua

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The Influence of Heteronormativity on Sexual Health Disparities in Queer and Heterosexual Women, Jacqueline Bible

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Transcriptomic Identification of Venom Candidates in the Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus vertens, Alorah D. Bliese

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Testing Multiple Climate Stressors at the Cold Range Limit of a Marine Calcifier, Christian R. Bojorquez

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Video Case Materials and the Development of Collective Professional Knowledge, Victoria D. Bonaccorso

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"People Think It's Easy Because I Smile, But It's Not Easy" : A Phenomenological Study of Single Parents/Guardians Raising an Adolescent Who is Enrolled in Special Education and Engaging in Risk Behaviors, Shaniqua J. Bradley

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Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder : Child Symptom Behaviors, Stigma, and Parental Stress among Minorities and Non-Minorities, Kayla Renee Breeden

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Beliefs and Perceptions of Millennials Pertaining to Climate Change and Sustainability, Rae Cade

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Impacts of Forest Fire on Stream Sediment : A Chemical Analysis of the 16 Mile Fire in Delaware State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA, Bernadette Rosario Calderon

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Paleoenvironment Reconstruction of the Eocene Southeastern Tethys Using Geochemistry of Sedimentary Rocks, Liliana Calderón Convers

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Determining the Relative Activities of Wild-Type Mycobacterium tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase and Mutants E57A and E219A With an Investigation Into the Relationship Between Wild-Type Mycobacterium tuberculosis IGPS Activity and pH, Thomas Emmanuel Candela

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"A" is for Ambivalence : Hester Prynne's Conflicted Response to Motherhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Stephanie Morecraft Carlson

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“Mutually Exclusive” : Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Caitlin Moran Casey

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Response to Phototaxic Stimulation in Relation to Sex and Reproductive State in the Urban Adapted Mosquito, Culex pipiens f. molestus, Karen M. Catalina

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The Evolution of Latin Jazz Music and Dance : Under the Skin, Teresa Perez Ceccon

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From Social Exclusion to Social Inclusion : A Feminist Action Research Intervention for Low Income Latina Mothers, Diana Cedeño

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Preparation and Crystal Structures of Racemic and Quasiracemic Imidazole or N-Methyl Imidazole Copper Complexes Containing Substituted N-Benzoylalanines, Emily Catherine Chong

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Troubling Paradise : Exploring the Sexual Identity Development Experiences of Same-Gender Loving West Indians, Nicole A. J. Christian

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The Impact of Social Support, School Connectedness, and Community Organization on Academic Achievement Among Black & Hispanic Adolescents in an Urban Low-Income School District, Stephanie M. Compasso

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Clinical Supervisor Self-Perceived Addiction Competencies in Response to the Opioid Epidemic, Elizabeth A. Conte

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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy : The Views of Latinx Students Inform Teacher Professional Development on Critical Consciousness, Florita Cotto

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“Life Swarms with Innocent Monsters” : the Monstrosity of Gender Inversion in Bram stoker’s Dracula, Natalie Diane Cottrill

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Black Supervisors Matter : The Experiences of Black Supervisors Working Cross-Racially with White Supervisees, Candice R. Crawford

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Bullying, Resilience, and Victimization : An Investigation Among Special Needs High School Students, Sandy Dawoud

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Simulation Based Inference in Epidemic Models, Tejitha Dharmagadda

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The Effect of Metabotropic Glutamate 5 Receptors Stimulation on Delayed Non-Match to Odor Performance in Long-Evans Male Rats, Stacy Jesus Duarte

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Beloved : An Immersive Theater Experience, Caitlin Dutton-Reaver

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The Antiviral Effects of Embelin on HSV-1 in Cultured Vero Cells, Tony Elias

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The Expression of Circadian Rhythms in the Non-Diapausing Mosquito Culex pipiens f. molestus, Natalie Rachel Epstein

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Lineage and Legacy : Horton Through the Ailey Lens, Then and Now, Lakey Evans-Peña

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Outsiders in the Circle : Examining the Lived Experiences of Gay Afro-Caribbean Male Immigrants Living in the United States, Alfonso L. Ferguson

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Control of Secondary Extinctions in Stochastic Food Webs, Dunia M. Fernandez

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Identification and Quantification of Black Carbon Particulates in Urban River Sediments Involving a Multi-tiered Analytical Approach, Anastasia Figueroa

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The Spaces Between : Reimagining and Rebuilding Sokolow’s Slaughter of the Innocents, Samantha Géracht

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Stellar Transfigurations of Disabled Bodies : Wangechi Mutu and Afrofuturism, Addys Lorenzo Gonzalez

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A Comparison of Antioxidant Potential, Total Phenolic Content, and Cannabidiol (CBD) Content of Cannabis Infused Hemp, MCT, and Olive Oils, Alexa Gruschow

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"Gazing on Vacancy" : Charlotte Bronte's Critical Portrayal of Church Life in Shirley, Emily Pataki Hamburger

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You Don’t Know My Story : Engaging Black Parents with Culturally Responsive School Practices, LaChan V. Hannon

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Sanctuary : Shaping Frames and Shifting Perspectives, Lindsey Anne Hanson

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A Choreographic Exploration of Bullying Through Contemporary Dance, Mark A. Harootian

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Characterizing Functions of Two Regulatory Proteins in the Parasitic Nematode Brugia malayi and Their Potential as Drug Targets in Treating Lymphatic Filariasis, Brittany Amber Hart

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Estimating Parasitoid Wasp Assemblages on Fragmented Land : Do Habitat and Trap Type Matter?, Matthew Charles Christopher Havers

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Trace Element Accumulation and Distribution in Two Turtle Species, Malaclemys terrapin and Chelydra serpentine in New Jersey, USA, Molly Hillenbrand

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Analysis of the Spatial Distribution, and Recruitment of Native and Non-Native Tunicate Species on Zostera marina in New Jersey, Sarah Hoffman

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Identity Stories : Cultural Imprints on the Body, Alexis Kamitses

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A Preliminary Investigation of World Trade Center (WTC) Dust Effects on MRC-5 Lung Fibroblasts and the Cellular Inflammatory Response, Katelyn Anna Kerod

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The Effect of (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine (HNK) on 𝛼-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) Expression and Novel Object Placement Performance in Long Evans Rats, Anosha Khawaja

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A School-Based Group Intervention for Immigrant Adolescents : Addressing Acculturative Stress and Facilitating Ethnic Identity Development, School Connectedness, and Related Psychosocial Outcomes, Mark W. Kiang

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Home Range Size and Habitat Use : Analysis on the State Endangered Bobcat (Lynx rufus) in Northwestern New Jersey, Rita Isabel Matos

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Using Video to Reframe the Teacher Evaluation Process as a Professional Learning Experience : An Action Research Study, Andrew C. Matteo

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Grassroots Professional Learning : The Homegrown and Human Dimensions of Teacher Learning, Heather A. Frank Matteo

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The Effects of Handedness on Personal Preferences, Ryan McAllen