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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 2025

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No detected signal of the 2022 epizootic from multiannual Diadema antillarum settlement data in the Florida Keys, Jason Albrecht

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Quantitative Preventive Approaches to Diabetes: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, Rushi P. Bhatt

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Predicting Lung Cancer Severity Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Enhanced by Statistical Analysis, Esin Bilgin

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Neuroimmune Toll-like receptor signaling modulates C. elegans feeding behavior in a hunger state-dependent manner, Retwika Ganguly

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Reciprocal Learning in the Mentor-Novice Teacher Relationship in Middle School, Catherine R. Gaynor

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Predictors of Disordered Eating Among College Students: A Multimodal Approach, Michelle Grazioli

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Culturally Concordant DBT STEPS-A Intervention in Orthodox Jewish Schools, Arielle Hershkovich-Elgavi

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Transformative Urban Governance: Integrating Sustainability, Predictive Analytics, and Interagency Collaboration, Lisa Johnson

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Resisting Invisibility: Teacher Perspectives on New Jersey's Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Curriculum Mandate, Yue Sum Sharon Lai

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Ferrate(VI)-Enabled Water Reuse for Agricultural Irrigation, Qiufeng Lin

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The Scale and Sustainability of an Early Childhood Dual Language Program, Michelle Belfiore Loconte

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The Effects of Ketamine on the Expression of Hippocampal α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) and Novel Object Placement Performance in a Wistar-Kyoto Model Depression, Calypso Lune

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Subjectivity: Exploring Transformation Within Historical Form, Danae McWatt

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"You Can't Buck Against the Railroad" and the Anarchist Radicals who ceased to be: The Honest, Bleak Portrayal of Social Darwinism in Frank Norris's The Octopus, Michelle Nicole Miani

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The Lasting Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Parenting: A Qualitative Study, Leslie K. Moorman

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Informal Mentoring in a Community of Practice: Viewing Beginning Teacher Needs Through the Eyes of Experienced Educators, Caroline Corell Murray

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Cultural and Counter-Cultural Contexts in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban, Melinda M. Ninewise

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Exploring Coupled Land Use -- Climate Change Impacts in the Northeast United States from 2020-2025 with Implications for Bombus Habitat Suitability, Archana Prasad

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New Jersey's Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: An Economic Analysis of the State's Societal Benefits Charge and Community Solar Energy Program, Nicole S. Provost

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Assessment of Symptoms and Daily Impacts in Peroxisomal Disorders, Pamela Saikali

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Discretion in Prosecutorial Decision-Making and its Effect on Sentencing Recommendations, Ryan A. Schneider

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Quantifying the vulnerability of smooth dogfish and winter skate to electromagnetic fields from offshore wind transmission cables in the mid-Atlantic shelf, Rachel A. Sechrist

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"His injustice stirred in me ambitious wishes": Women's Education in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Kathleen Sickinger

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Examining Strategies for the Recruitment and Retention of Students of Color in Health Service Psychology Doctoral Programs, Melissa Sital

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Learning to Teach for Inclusion: A Professional Learning Community of Elementary and Middle School Educators Collaborate for Inclusion, Laurie Summer

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Teacher Integrators: Exploring How and Why K-12 Teachers Integrate Boundaries and the Effects of Boundary Integration on Feelings of Self-determination, Stephen Tarsitano

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How Raciolinguistic Ideologies Shape Afro-Anglophone Caribbean Students' Negotiations of Their Linguistic Identities, Merlyn Andrea Vanderstarre

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Seeking Refuge in the U.S.: Liberian Women's Testimonio of War, Trauma, and Acculturation, Sailume Walo-Roberts

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Understanding the Work Lives and Career Intentions of Black Women Prekindergarten Teacher Assistants, Jameelah R. Wright

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Identifying and Addressing Challenges of Small Community Water Systems (CWS) in Puerto Rico, Lisitai Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Bathsheba and Sue: Hardy's independent heroines, Alexandra Acosta

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The Q is Chaos: Freedom 4 Artists is Ostranenie, Cristian J. Alba-Dominguez

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The Link Between Gender, Sexual Orientation, and the Perception of Cheating Behaviors, Rachel Sivan Anca

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Examining the Theory of Planned Behavior as an Explanation for Why Some Creatives Learn to use Generative AI Tools, Navrose Bajwa

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The Effects of Cognitive Integrated Virtual Reality Motor Training on Traumatic Brain Injury, Sumin Bang

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Rebels and Dubliners: motherhood in three 20th-century Irish texts, Sara S. Barenfeld

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Intersectionality and the Experience of Stuttering for Latinos in the U.S., Carolina Beita-Ell

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Bridging NLP with Environmental Management by Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling on Offshore Wind Energy, Isabele Mansur Costa Bittencourt

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Using Modern Motivational Theories as a Design Framework for VR Gamification, Christopher Thomas Boardman

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Water Justice and Equity: the disproportionate effects of pollution on Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color, Rae Cade

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Beyond Coming Out and Queer Tragedy : How Julie Ann Peters, Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, and Aiden Thomas Navigate Through the Spectrum of Queer Representation, Jacqueline Carey

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Instructional Rounds and Teacher Social/Emotional Wellbeing : Investigating the Regenerative Potential of Peer Observation, Lisa Castelluber

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Assessing the invasive Clinging Jellyfish: Where are all the Polyps?, Angela Chemidlin

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Collaboratively Constructing Quality Teaching: Involving School Stakeholders in Defining the Possibilities of Schooling, Susan Chenelle

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A Global Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks in Natural and Anthropogenic Soils, Shih-Chieh Chien

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Circadian Rhythmicity of Mood : An Exploratory Study, Mara Ashley Cohen

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An experimental and computational study on the dynamics of vertical axis wind turbines, Stephen Conte

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How Does a Supervisor's Training and Experience Relate to a School Counselor's Development of Knowledge and Skills, Timothy M. Conway

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Exploring the Effects of Climate Conditions on Mangrove Island Systems Across the Caribbean, Isamar M. Cortés

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Consequences of a dream: interactivity and agency of the reader/player in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Undertale, Nicholas Dávila

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Exploring the Needs of College Students Experiencing Housing Instability, Sandy D. Dawoud

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Who gets it right? A critical policy analysis of United States' and Finland's maternity leave policies, Carlee Denholtz

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Towards a Pedagogy of Human Connection : Understanding Teachers’ Experiences of Connection During a Pandemic, Michael Diamond

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Everything and Nothing: Exploring the Connection Between Gender Microaggressions in the Family of Origin and Intimate Adult Relationships, Stephanie DiZenzo-Priestley

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Feature Matching Methods Comparison with Limited Computing Power, Xu Du

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The development of children's causal language, Karima Elgamal

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Investigating the Role of Residue E57 and Temperature Effects in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase Catalysis, Uchenna Emmanuel Ezichi

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Influence of Parsimony and Work-related Psychological Constructs in Predicting Turnover Intention when Using Machine Learning VS Regression, Diego Figueiras

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Trace and rare earth elements analysis of Oligocene and Miocene diamictites in the Cape Roberts Project, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Celina Flores Garza

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Playing With Every Sense of the Word : Lolita Through the Lens of Jacques Derrida, Noelle Marie Florio

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Threads: a dance dialogue of love and longing, Lisa Carina Fourmyle

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Nurturing Black Girls: A Phenomenological Exploration of Black Girls' Mental Health and Their Lived Experiences with Racial Discrimination in Schools, Marline Francois

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"Into the womb of solipsism": the spectrum of loneliness in Wallace's Infinite Jest, Michael Gieger

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Exploring Instability in Dream-Based Narratives : A Comparative Analysis of “Vanilla Sky” and "Inception", Sara Glemaud

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Multicultural Competency in Police and Public Safety Evaluations, Kenny Gonzalez

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Lesbophobia Through Pornography, Samantha Renee Graves

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Disavowed: the downfall of England's men, marriages, and sense of self in the stories of D. H. Lawrence, Emily Guido

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The Importance of Framing the Context of Black/African Americans' Livelihood to Enhance Health Outcomes and Mitigate Health Inequalities, Elvis Gyan

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Exploration of resources women use to seek food and nutrition information during pregnancy, Sydni Hebert

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Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamics of Marine Food Webs, Julian A. Hernandez S.

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Infusing Commonsense via Knowledge Bases in Multipurpose Robotic Task Organization, Rafael Omar Hidalgo

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Onset of Antarctic Glaciation at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in the Weddell Sea and its Impact on Ocean Circulation, Victoria Hojnacki

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The combined effects of NaCl and beet juice on germination and early seedling growth among Raphanus sativus L., Justin Howell

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Discovery of DNA Aptamers as Probes for Detecting Ranavirus MCP, Corbin Hudson

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Cultural Humility as a Mechanism for Building Working Alliance with International Counseling Supervisees, Alexandra Ioakeimidou

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Dynamic Genomic Evolution via Active LTR Transposable Elements in Maize, Taylor Isles

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The Accuracy of Videos Related to Breastfeeding on TikTok: A Content Snalysis, Brianna Jack

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Development of a Thwarted Belonging Measure in Older Adults: An Application to Neighborhood Context and the Moderating Role of Neuroticism, Jaclyn Elisa Keenoy

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Answering the Call Through an Inquiry Circle : English Educators Embark on a Journey to Become Antiracist, Lisa V. Kenny

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Lawrence as an orientalist figure of empire in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, Leen Khashashina

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Trends and Barriers in Service Utilization in Underrepresented Ethnoracial Groupswith Autism Spectrum Disorder in the United States: A Mixed-Method Analysis, Sadaf Khawar

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Engagement and Retention of College Students with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in a Digital Mental Health Intervention Using a Brief Peer Support Model, Emily A. Kline

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Investigating the evolved tolerance of zooplankton to salt pollution: a microcosm study, Megan Klutts

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Predictive modeling of PM₂.₅ pollution in New Jersey, Katerina Knyazeva

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Vulnerability of Semantic Networks in Multiple Sclerosis: An Analysis of Verbal Fluency Data, Sophia Lall

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Ideal Expectations and Realities at HBCUs: Examining Counselors' LGBT Competence, Dae'Quawn Landrum

Examining Academic Success: A Focus on Latine College Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Maritza Lazo

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Double tap: the curation of self, Kristen Lee

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Chita Rivera: an examination of her influence on jazz and contemporary dance through past, present, and future perspectives, Kijaunta Lucas

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The relationship of social anxiety and bullying with positive social interactions amongst autistic and non-autistic youth, Nicole Macapagal

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Assessment of predation by common spider crab Libinia emarginata on an intermittent food resource Mytilus edulis, Noah T. S. Macchirole

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Undergraduate College Students, Rebecca C. Madson

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The Influence of Edaphic Factors on the Growth and Competitiveness of Loosestrife (Lythrum spp.), Martha Mahady

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Exploring the Relationship between Cognitive Inflexibility and Anxiety in Youth on the Autism Spectrum, Farah Mahmud

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Liminal spaces: moving meditation with bodies and clay, Marissa Marquardson

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Exploring the Ethnic and Racial Identity Development of Afro-Latinx Recent College Graduates Living in the United States, Triana Martinez

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The rite of movement: the creation of John, Sarah Allison McCann

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A Qualitative and Quantitative Review of the Terms "Job" and "Organization" from the Employee's Perspective, Nirvana Mejia

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On the Number of Strong Dominating Sets in a Graph, Frankie Mennicucci

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Transcultural Experiences of Becoming a Teacher Educator : Using Self-Study to Understand the Identity Development of a Sojourner Doctoral Student in the U.S., Kate Meza Fernandez