• Unmasking History: Superhero Tropes and Historical Reimagination in the Watchmen Franchise 

  Bressler, Sarah (Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)
• The Suppression of Liberation Theology: A History of a Changing Peru, 1968-1988 

  Unknown author (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)

  This thesis creates and captures a twenty year history of the suppression liberation theology in Latin America. This suppression was aimed at Gustavo Gutierrez, one of the founders of liberation theology, and was lead by ...
• Students, Clergy, and Nonviolent Direct-Action: The Forces Behind the 1960 Nashville Sit-Ins 

  Sicorsky, Mila (2021-05-03)

  From February to May 1960, a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of students and clergy members staged nonviolent sit-ins in downtown Nashville with the goal of desegregating public spaces in the city. In these ...
• Landscapes of Modern India 

  Subramaniam, Musa (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-05)
• Interpersonal Stress and Coping in First Year Undergraduate Students: Insights from Behavioral, Self-Report, and Neural Data 

  Pramberger, Alexis (Vanderbilt University, 2021-04)

  The transition to college exacerbates stress, and coping strategies like cognitive reappraisal can moderate how interpersonal stress affects psychological well-being, with individual differences in reappraisal being ...
• (Re)Encountering Africa: Repatriation and the African Imaginary in Black Travel Literature 

  Norford, Jasmin (Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-12)
• Gendering the Techno-Orient: The Asian Woman in Speculative Fiction 

  Lu, Melanie (Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)

  This thesis explores the complicated relations between the ontology of race and its gendered aesthetic representations within the phenomenon of techno-Orientalism, the prevailing tendency in textual and visual culture to ...
• Familial Socioeconomic Status and the Language Environment: Measurement Consistency and Specificity 

  Baker, Emma (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)
• A Precarious Freedom: the Foundation and Justifications of Acts of Attainder for Enslaved and Free Persons of Color in the 18th Century British Caribbean 

  Lazerwitz, Claire (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)

  In October of 1736, in the small colony of Antigua, a group of enslaved persons plotted to overthrow the white planter class, abolish slavery, and declare independence from British rule. Four free Black men were accused ...
• Axionlike Dark Energy and Particle Decay in theFuture of the Accelerating Universe 

  Norton, Cameron (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-04-30)

  The 1998 discovery that the universe was accelerating in its expansion has yet to be explained theoretically, meriting the continual theoretical and observational study of this phenomena. In this thesis, we undergo a ...
• The Effects of Control Processes and Continual Distraction on Recall Organization in Categorized Free Recall 

  Cai, Junhao (Vanderbilt University, 2021-04)
• The Effects of an Enhanced eBook on Parent Dialogic Reading Behaviors 

  Lurie, Jane (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)
• Peer Observation and Error Monitoring in First-Year Students: An Examination of Associations with Internalizing Symptoms 

  Okland, Sydney (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)

  Because of the unique factors impacting the first year of college, specifically the potential for increased comparison to and evaluation by peers and risk of anxiety and depression, making a mistake can be very distressing. ...
• Associations of Parental Emotions and Behaviors with Changes in Child Emotions During Face-to-Face Interactions 

  Redic, Margaret (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)

  Objectives. Parenting is a significant factor in the development of depression during adolescence. However, little research has specifically studied the association of expressed parental emotion during parent-child ...
• Executive Function and Communication in Children Who Have Experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences 

  Nichols, Haley (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)

  As research surrounding adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has moved past evaluating long term effects and is now progressing towards developing interventions, viable targets for intervention must be found. This research ...
• A Pilot Study: Virtual Reality-Delivered Support Groups for Substance Use Disorders 

  Mahapatra, Anjali (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03)

  Substance abuse often occurs as a way to cope with negative affect and life stressors in an unsupportive social context. As a result, affective regulation and social support play a key role in relapse prevention and recovery. ...
• Being-With: An analysis of parental responses to young children’s emotional expressions 

  Lempres, Sarah (Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-07)

  There is limited research on how parents respond to their children’s emotions, both positive and negative, and how the type of emotion and internal processes of the parent are linked to their responses. The current study ...
• The Influence of Speaker Gender on Memory Recall of the Speaker’s Monologue 

  Aggarwal, Jasmine (Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-30)
• Constructing God’s Community: Umayyad Religious Monumentation in Bilad al-Sham, 640-743 CE 

  Lebovits, Nissim (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)

  In the early 7th Century CE, the Umayyad dynasty formed the first Islamic empire, marking a crucial moment in the emergence of Islam. As in many empires of Late Antiquity, religious monumentation played a central role in ...
• "The Hatay belongs to us": Defining Community in the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1915-1940 

  Tezak, Mary E (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)

  In 1936, the Republic of Turkey and French-mandate Syria were at odds over the future of a province on the Turkish-Syrian border called the Sanjak of Alexandretta. This thesis explores the Turkish annexation of Alexandretta, ...

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