Doctoral Dissertations (Off Campus access)
Dissertations & Theses from 2011
Demers, Donald M (2011) Secular modernity and Catholic tradition: Finding God in the machinery of the Industrial Revolution
Fallas, Jennifer A (2011) Disrupting patriarchal norms and languages: Narrative and rhetorical analyses of bi and pansexual feminist blogs
Guertin, Nelson A (2011) A literary analysis of the American worker: Characterizations by London, Sinclair, Steinbeck and Rand
Hoar, Thomas F. X (2011) Religious broadcasting 1920 -- 1980: Four religious broadcast pioneers and the process of evangelization
LeBouvier, Rand D (2011) Reflections in a robot's eye: A cultural history and epistemological critque of humanoid robotics
Luke, Ivan T. (2011) Sailors in the age of steam: Reexamining a counterintuitive response to advancing technology
Dissertations & Theses from 2010
Comstock, Casey (2010) Applied ethics in the technological world: An examination of secondary traumatic stress and trauma exposure in social media
McPherson, J. Scott (2010) Space weapons, moral casuistry, and Rawls: Moving the debate forward
Morrissette, William J (2010) Prison ministry and balancing philosophies of justice: History and case studies
O'Connell, Roxanne M (2010) The golden age of Irish music: The cultural impact of 78 RPM recordings in Ireland and Irish America 1900--1960
Palmieri, Scott E (2010) What work was and what work is: The work poetry of Philip Levine
Shelton, Amiee J (2010) Individual forms of subtle resistance to Nazi hegemony: Portrayals in modern books and film available to American consumers
Dissertations & Theses from 2009
Belanger, Wayne D (2009) A semiotic analysis of virtual reality
Chaves, Charles Almeida (2009) Imported oil: Ethical perspectives and strategies toward American energy sustainability
Hickey, James E (2009) Evaluating the impact of precision-guided munitions on human suffering in war, 1967-1999: An ethics-based approach
Klemmer, Anthony L (2009) Moral coherence in the modern world: An interdisciplinary view
Sanders, David (2009) Technology in defense of tradition: Basque nationalism in the information age
Dissertations & Theses from 2008
Bull, Marijoan (2008) Place-making: Planning, modernity and humanistic geography
Flynn, Deborah P (2008) Narratives of melancholy: Sense of self in depression from asylums to neuropsychiatry
Ratcliff, Ronald E (2008) What does privacy mean in an age of virtual transparency?
Sweeney, Patrick C (2008) Collateral damage: Technology's influence upon the American warrior's ethical obligation to the noncombatant from the Civil War to the War on Terror
Dissertations & Theses from 2007
Beausoleil, Marcel F. (2007) Using ethics and technology in addressing police officer behavior
Browning, Gerald L (2007) Illuminated art in the court of Charles the Bald: A study of the great Carolingian Bibles of the 9th century
Etter, Catherine Sughrue (2007) Human factors fostering sustainable safe drinking water
Hunter, Charlotte E (2007) A deal with the devil? The clergy-penitent privilege in the U.S. military
Nix, Dayne E (2007) Muhammad Iqbal and the perfect man: The restoration of Muslim dignity through the integration of philosophy, poetry, politics and conservative Islam
Dissertations & Theses from 2006
Florio, Raffaele (2006) "The School of Athens": How the humanities can help revive the great conversation
Flowers, Sandra J (2006) Handing on the faith: Religious education past and present in the Catholic Diocese of Providence
McKnight, Sarah M (2006) Macrocosm and microcosm: The emergent sacred in the work of Thomas Berry and C. G. Jung
O'Connor, Anice M (2006) Interpreting business in film: Three case studies in creative leadership
Dissertations & Theses from 2005
Bundy, William F (2005) Visionary technology leadership from Admiral Hyman G. Rickover to masters of the information age
Magill, David S (2005) The impact of Web-enhanced distance learning technology on the concerns of faculty
Montminy, Julia (2005) Assessing cognitively impaired parents using a strengths-based model
Murphy, Terry (2005) An ethical assessment of intercountry adoption: Romania to the United States, 1990--2003
Schroth, Ferd (2005) Through the eye of a needle: The profit motive's effect on managerial moral reasoning
Dissertations & Theses from 2004
Demy, Timothy James (2004) Technology, progress, and the human condition in the life and thought of C. S. Lewis
Desrosiers, Marian Mathison (2004) Justice Florence Kerins Murray: A study of technology and the contemporary woman
Gray, Gary Grant (2004) Perceptions of Jacques Ellul's educational technique in a modern career-focused M.B.A. program
Meckes, Shirley A (2004) The effect of using the computer as a learning tool in a kindergarten curriculum
Okereke, Ifeoma Christie (2004) Oil production and problems in Nigeria's Niger Delta: Military and civilian regimes' responses (1979--2001)
Traficante, Regina M (2004) Computer-based interventions, health behavior change, and ethics
Dissertations & Theses from 2003
Alexakos, Frances M (2003) Attitudes of Rhode Island primary care physicians toward the use of genetic testing for breast cancer
Ferree, William Daniel (2003) Does the current 20th century Navy personnel management system meet 21st century sailors' needs?
Iasiello, Louis V (2003) Jus in bello: Key issues for a contemporary assessment of just behavior in war
Dissertations & Theses from 2002
Atwood, Marjorie (2002) The ex-voto as symbol of faith and survival
Finn, Richard Francis (2002) In the shadow of technological cataclysm: The complexities of Y2K alarmism
Hime, Douglas N (2002) Technological hubris and the science fiction of Michael Crichton
Levesque Ware, Claudette (2002) Consumerism, credit cards, and college students
Dissertations & Theses from 2001
Gooch, Robert Hynson (2001) Women and men in the new Navy: Life since Tailhook
Mitchell, David McKeon (2001) An investigation of television as technology and its influence on student-athletes in Division 1 men's college basketball
Dissertations & Theses from 2000
Jenks, Darrell Allan (2000) Ethics in science fiction: Butler, Wells, and Stapledon
Kirby, John Michael (2000) An interdisciplinary model to evaluate alternative roles of military reserve components in modern American society
Mathias, Margaret (2000) Expanding the technology debate through the investigation of humor in recent art: 1950s to 1990s
Shaw, Eric J (2000) Controls on developing technology: The U.S. commercial air transportation system during the interwar period, 1919--1939
Viveiros, Daniel Robert (2000) The rise and fall of the American diner, 1920--1960
Ware, Bradley John (2000) The significance of the family meal in contemporary culture: A humanities/technological perspective
Dissertations & Theses from 1999
Fielding, John T (1999) Dangerous medicine: The pharmaceutical industry's questionable ethical practices
Liotta, Peter Hearns (1999) The ikon and the axe: An ecological approach to Yugoslav disintegration, 1991--1998
Loranger, Raymond Leonard (1999) The impact of technological culture on addiction in twentieth century America
Sion, Ronald T (1999) Aldous Huxley and the human cost of technological progress
Tod, Patricia Jane (1999) Managing complexity: An integration of ethics, management, and technology viewed through the Dow Corning silicone implant case
Twaddle, Roy Royce (1999) Technology as public education: Determining just wages in a teacher labor contract
Dissertations & Theses from 1998
Casey, Michael Scott (1998) America's technological sailor: A retrospective on a century of ``progress'' in the United States Navy
Recker, Roland Francis (1998) The impact of television on the making of the president (1952 to 1992)
Tehan, Terrence Norbert (1998) The radioactive waste debate in the United States and nuclear technology for peaceful purposes
Dissertations & Theses from 1997
Coolbaugh, Edwin Alden (1997) The impact of government sanctions on the business ethics of defense contractors during the Cold War era
Hardy-Jackson, Patricia Anne (1997) Haitian crisis, 1991--1994: An opportunity for a shift in U.S. twenty-first century foreign policy
James, Dorothy P (1997) Understanding China through the humanities
Kosten, Lora Bechard (1997) The effectiveness of Family Science and Technology Workshops on parental involvement, student achievement, and student curiosity
Dissertations & Theses from 1996
Atkins, Ronald Wayne (1996) The influence of technology on the Yamato social model
Moussavi, Mansour M (1996) The economic impact of multinational transfer pricing in Third World countries: The case of Iran
Scoll, Eulalie Elizabeth (1996) Dostoevsky's Sonya and Martha: Fiction and reality
Dissertations & Theses from 1995
Colegrove, De Forest William (1995) Economic literacy among students in Russia and the United States: A comparative study
Healy, Kevin Michael (1995) President Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Accords: An analysis of moral and pragmatic policy
Dissertations & Theses from 1994
O'Reilly, Bernard M (1994) A theology of collaborative ministry focusing on Catholic families negatively affected by TV technology
Smith, Esmond Douglas (1994) China, technology and the Spratly Islands: The geopolitical impact of new technologies