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  Priestly plantations: an archaeology of capitalism and community in British North America 

  Masur, Laura Elizabeth (2019)

  This dissertation uses historical and archaeological evidence to examine changes in the landscape of two Middle Atlantic Jesuit plantations in order to understand the role that these places played in the development of ...
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  Multiple testing & optimization-based approaches with applications to genome-wide association studies 

  Posner, Daniel Charles (2019)

  Many phenotypic traits are heritable, but the exact genetic causes are difficult to determine. A common approach for disentangling the different genetic factors is to conduct a "genome-wide association study" (GWAS), where ...
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  The hormonal and immunological correlates of social dominance in wild male chimpanzees 

  Negrey, Jacob Douglas (2019)

  In social primates, the acquisition and maintenance of social dominance may augment reproductive success while incurring immunological costs. This trade-off is hypothetically facilitated by hormones that modulate both ...
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  Distribution of plasma in the Io plasma torus from radio occultations during the Juno epoch 

  Phipps, Phillip Harvey (2019)

  The innermost Galilean satellite, Io, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. The volcanic activity leads to material being released into Jupiter's magnetosphere near Io's orbit. This material becomes ...
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  The articulatory dimension: poetry, the aesthetics of speech-sound, and the oral imaginary 

  Eusuf, Nausheen (2019)

  The materiality of poetic language, its sensuous dimension, has generally been understood as aural or visual—patterns of sound unfolding in time, or words arranged on the page in a certain way. But a poem also has a sensuous ...
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  Valuable paper and counterfeit presentments: Alfred Jones, the American Art-Union, and antebellum bank note engraving 

  Lett, Telesia Amanda (2019)

  The antebellum era was a time of paper—there were newspapers and magazines to read, advertising bills to recognize, and money in the pocket to evaluate. Both the bank note companies and art unions emphasized the quality ...
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  Justifying and unraveling apartheid: mission thought and the public theologies of David Bosch, Nico Smith, and Carel Boshoff, 1948-1994 

  Lloyd, Stephen James (2019)

  This dissertation analyzes the careers of three Afrikaner missionaries, David Bosch, Carel Boshoff, and Nico Smith, who gained international reputations for pioneering alternatives to the South African Nation Party’s (NP) ...
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  Hesiod and the critique of Homer in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica 

  Pang, Colin Cromwell (2019)

  While scholars have noticed important allusions to Hesiod in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica, there is still a need to explain Hesiod’s relevance in a poem that is so overtly Homeric. I argue that an understanding of ...
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  “It’s delightful to be married” depictions of marriage in the films of Myrna Loy and William Powell 

  Crane, Sarah Constable (2016)

  Myrna Loy and William Powell appeared in fourteen films together, made from 1934 to 1947, resulting in an unprecedented number of cinematic pairing within the classical Hollywood studio system. This might prompt one to ...
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  Civic and religious education in Manado, Indonesia: ethical deliberaion about plural coexistence 

  Larson, Erica Michelle (2019)

  This dissertation project is an ethnographic analysis of multi-leveled interactions taking place in the process of deliberation about plural coexistence in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The focus of the dissertation ...

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