Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations & Theses from 2024
Dickens, Zachariah V (2024) Departure From Neutrality: Normative Europeanization, Strategic Alignment, and the Path-Dependent Case of Post-Cold War Swedish Integration Into NATO
Makar, Ramy Daniel (2024) Unraveling the Pseudo Statehood of Lebanon: A Critique of Consociationalism in Lebanon
Mumford, Richard (2024) The Incorporation of an Ethics Framework in the Development of Emerging Information Technology Systems
Mumford, Siobhan (2024) The Reading Wars: Ideological and Pedagogical Conflicts Ignited by the Writings of Rudolf Flesch
O'Keefe, Daniel R (2024) The Politics of Frivolity: American Neopopulism and Decadence
Dissertations & Theses from 2023
Arjona, Yaqueline (2023) More than Magic, Radiation-Induced Oral Mucositis Prevention
Beall, Thomas Reagan (2023) Military Effectiveness, Moral Injury, and the Just War Tradition in Western History
Dennis, Raymond (2023) U.S. Foreign Military Sales to Australia, Japan, and India Amidst U.S.-China Strategic Competition from the Quad’s Founding to Aukus, 2004-2021
Hamilton, Eoghain J (2023) That Cloudy Place Where Stars Are Born: How the K’Iche’ Maya Construct Meaning From Death Rituals
Kellam, Lorenzo L. (2023) Empowering the Underserved Classroom: Web Technology as a Conduit for STEAM and Inquiry-Based Learning
Kerr, Thomas C (2023) State Sponsorship of Self-Determination Movements: Does Sponsorship Really Lead to Autonomy Concessions?
Kierman, Ryan (2023) An Analysis of the Challenges of Islamic Vaccination Resistance to Disease Eradication Programs and Recommended Mitigations
Krieger, Gerald J (2023) China’s Foreign Policy in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Islamic Republic of Iran: Exploring China’s Renewed Diplomacy in the Region
McGrath, April L (2023) Evaluation of a Leadership Focused Graduate Nurse Development Program
Nicholas, Terence M (2023) China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Is it Really Influencing the Geopolitical Landscape?
Pichette, Nique (2023) Provider Review: Evaluating Individual Criteria to Support Cannabis Use Disorder
Reisner, Daniel J (2023) The Russo-Ukrainian Pre-War Crisis: A Comparative Test of Rational Choice, Expected Utility, Poliheuristic, and Prospect Theories to Explain the War's Outbreak
Stiles-Cox, Karina (2023) Apping Back to Life: Mobile Phone Mediations in Refugee-Constructed Narratives of Forced Displacement
Tatsiyenko, Oleg G (2023) Effect of Short-Term Home Follow-Up Visits on Readmissions of Veterans With Heart Failure
Thayer, Frances Anne (2023) Ernest Hemingway: The Sustainable Effect of Creative Writing as a Therapeutic Technology Infused by Cubism
Tilton, Paul A (2023) Sociological Propaganda Through an Ellulian Lens: Developments in Modern China
Weed, John L (2023) The Evolving Relationship between Malaysia and the People’s Republic of China
Dissertations & Theses from 2022
Al-Naimi, Adil Mahfoodh Salim (2022) Withstanding Pressure: The impact of Transnational Forces and Social Force on Political Structures in the Iranian Green Movement of 2009 and the Arab Spring in Egypt during 2011
Dahlke, Laura Johnson (2022) Not of Woman Born? Extra-Uterine Destining and the Individual, Social and Spiritual Implications of Ectogenesis
Darling, Amanda (2022) Machiavelli in Modernity: The Prince's Continued Relevancy as Reflected in the Fall of Imperial Russia
Hawks, Lori Michelle (2022) A Handbook for Overwhelmed Educators in a Post-trauma World: The Case for Incorporating the Expressive Arts into the High School ELA and Undergraduate College Writing Classrooms
Heffernan, Marianne Stochmal (2022) Toward a Theory of Internet Memoir: A Content Analysis of Grief-Related Storytelling in Social Media
McDonald, Kevin (2022) Designing a Curriculum for Addressing Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
Muscatelli, Angelica L (2022) The Implementation of Screening Pediatric Patients Ages 8–11 for Depression with a Screening Tool in the Outpatient Setting
Shirley, Taten (2022) The Industrial Brontë Sisters: Advocates for Women in a Turbulent Age
Souza, Rebecca (2022) Teamwork: The Strongest Virtue in Hospice
Upton, Joseph R (2022) Thomas Aquinas, defensor hominis integralis: The Enduring Relevance of Thomistic Anthropology in a Technological Age
Dissertations & Theses from 2021
Bechard, Meaghan (2021) Preferred Learning Styles of Retail Health Providers: A Pilot Quality Improvement Project
Gamache-Griffiths, Donna M (2021) Fundamentally Human: Creating a Response to Technological Unemployment Based on the Papal Encyclicals
King, Laurel Luise (2021) "The Algorithm Did It": Legal Responsibility and the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Kingsley, Orson (2021) Freethought for the Masses: The Philosophy behind the Writings and Publications of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius
Krampen, Olivia E (2021) Investigating Nursing Faculty and Student Expectations and Knowledge regarding Concept-Based Learning and Health Literacy
Maxell, Olivia M (2021) Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care: A Provider-Based Intervention with Shared Decision-Making to Evaluate Guideline Adherence
Meehan, Erin Elizabeth (2021) Dervish Oral Poetry in Somalia: A Study in Semiotic Chora
Pearson, Michael (2021) Identity and Terrorism
Perez, Jose (2021) The Monster in Our Midst: Society’s Perspectives of Convicted Felons
Perrotta, Sandra (2021) Use of a Palliative Performance Scale (PPSv2) Tool in a Skilled Nursing Facility
Smith, Robin (2021) Acculturation Strategies of Cold War and Post-Soviet Immigrants in the United States
Sylvia, Julia M (2021) Self-Administered Psychotherapy for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain and Depression
Dissertations & Theses from 2020
Crowell, Danielle (2020) HCV Birth Cohort Screening Guideline Implementation: A Change of Practice
Harrington, Monique (2020) Coming Back to Ourselves: Teacher Identity in a Digital Age
Kwami, David Selasi (2020) Improving Provider Sexual Health Education for Male Post Deployment Veterans
McNally, Ruth T (2020) Improving Pre-Diabetes Knowledge and Management Among Adults in Primary Care Using Text Messaging
Molinari, Nicholas J (2020) Concerning Water as the Archai: Acheloios, Thales, and the Origin of Philosophy: A Dissertation Providing Philosophical, Mythological, and Archaeological Responses to the Neo-Marxians
Palmer, Gina (2020) Visual and Literary Representations of Memory and Meaning of the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Rich, Beverly Waldman (2020) Mindful Balance (Breathe Act Learn about ‘Now’ Care Every Day): A Pilot Project for Depressed Female Adolescents
Russell, Samara (2020) HELP: Hydration for Loss and/or Prevention
Thibault, Jake (2020) Transgender: Science, Nature, and Virtue
Wong, Patrick D (2020) Three Perspectives on Happiness, from Ancient to Modern: Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Martin E.P. Seligman
Dissertations & Theses from 2019
Anthony, Eugene R. (2019) A Christian Ethics of Care as a Spiritual Model: Its Pastoral Applications and Relevance
Baxter, Kelly E (2019) Exploration of factors that influence advance care planning for primary care patients
Burke, Kelly J (2019) Improving Adherence to the Non-Pharmacological Management of Hypertension: Reducing Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Patients
Byrd, Ray Hall (2019) A Postmodern History of the New Testament Canon during the First Five Centuries
Crimmins, Denise M (2019) Cognitive Enhancement, the Super Soldier and Beyond: Expanding Discourse Over Emerging Disruptive Technology
Gourlay, Jonathan (2019) The Slug of Modernity: Economic and Cultural Entanglement on Pohnpei, 1844-2019
Irving, Washington (2019) The Use of Literature, and in Particular, an Original Novel Entitled Ariachne's Thread, as a Vehicle for the Expression of Philosophical Ideas Concerning Authenticity at the Margins of Society
Kourtsounis, Sara (2019) Moving Towards Jus Post Bellum: An Analysis of Three Contemparory Writers Through a Kantian Lens
Laliberte, Tracie A (2019) Digging the Dog: Anthropology and Archeology in Human-Canine Relationships and Encounters With the Sacred
Moons, Peter Joseph (2019) El Jefe Máximo: How Manuel Noriega Came to Power and Sustained His Regime
Moran, Catherine (2019) The Aura of 660 Fifth Avenue: Alva Vanderbilt, Richard Morris Hunt, and the Emergence of American Luxury
Pastryk, Linda D (2019) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Youth, Seminary, and the Controversy at Lourdes
Seals, Nova McConnico (2019) Quilting, Cross-Stitch, and Community: The Technological Enhancement of Artistic Focal Practices in the Work of Chawne Kimber
Dissertations & Theses from 2018
Antosca, Albert R (2018) Singularitarianism and the New Millennium: Techno-Theology in the Transhumanist Age of Re-Enchantment
Bailey, Cheryl A (2018) Through the Lens of Accelerationist Utopia: The Critical Role of Science Fiction in the Transition to a Post-Capitalist World in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
Buffington, Chelsea (2018) Technohumanity: Films as a Lens for Examining How Humans and Technology Co-shape the World
Cykert, Cynthia Christine Hopkins (2018) The Intersection of the Zeitgeist and Common Personal Factors that Allowed the Rise of Three Women: Maria Montessori, Beatrix Potter, and Marie Curie
Forcucci, Lauren E (2018) Cyber-Jihad: Waging Virtual Terror to Create an Online Caliphate
Junge, Michael (2018) From Pillar to Pillory U.S. Navy Crimes of Command 1945-2015
Marnane, Ryan Matthew (2018) Consider the Audiobook or the Hermeneutics of Close Listening: Literary Sound Studies, Critical Theory, and David Foster Wallace's Literary Journalism
Mele, Todd J (2018) Marx's Materialist Sociology of Knowledge: Colliding Empirical Frameworks of Consciousness
Powell, Beryl S (2018) Networks of Survival in Kinshasa, Mumbai, Detroit, and Comparison Cities; an Empirical Perspective
Schneider, Norah L (2018) The Sentinel: American-Jewish Weekly Coverage in Chicago of Nazi Persecution of European Jewry and the Holocaust, 1930-1947
Scully, Michael (2018) The Digital Incunabula: The Future of Storytelling in the Digital Age
Slater, Lamont A (2018) The Namibian Genocide: Reframing the Conflict to Explore Intercultural Connectivity, Inclusiveness and Accurate Memorialization
Summers, Clark H (2018) The Citizen-Soldier Reconsidered: Technology, the Militia, and the Black Boys Uprising of 1765
Thieme, Donald J. (2018) The Nation-State & Biopower: Impacts on Individuals, Empowerment and the Limitations of Liberty
Vaspol, Gary (2018) Abiding the Postmodern World: An Ethical, Existential, and Cinematographic Examination of the Big Lebowski
Dissertations & Theses from 2017
Al Abri, Ali Rashid Khamis (2017) Security Challenges to Oman's Religious Tolerance and Balanced Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)
Choinski, Thomas (2017) Dramaturgy, wargaming and technological innovation in the United States Navy: Four historical case studies
Dell, Garrett (2017) Ambivalence Toward Technology in the Poetry of Robert Pinsky
Nasca, David S (2017) The Influence of Technology in Amphibious Warfare and its impact on U.S. Geopolitical Strategy from 1898 to 1945
Ricci, James M (2017) A Monument to Perseverance: The Struggle to Build the Newport Bridge, 1945-1969
Ruggieri, Sasha Lombardi (2017) Social Transformation through Art: Slow Food Ideology and the Social Protest Novel
Weiss, Catharine (2017) Data mining the unconscious
Dissertations & Theses from 2016
Bissonnette, Ashley A (2016) Pestilences of New England's first wars: An investigation of colonial trauma during the Pequot and King Philip's wars
Hanson, Karen S (2016) The Robot as Other: Sartre and Television Portrayals of Humanoid Robots in "Almost Human" and "Humans"
Kalis, Shawn A (2016) Sensing a control problem? autonomous unmanned combat air systems and human control
Keator, Mary (2016) Re-appropriating the ancient monastic practice of lectio divina: A contemplative pedagogocal method of inquiry to experience wisdom embedded in the humanities
LeVasseur, Marc G (2016) Classical-Christian Friendship Operating in Western Literature: Oral Traditions to the Apex of Print Culture
Macaluso, Laura A (2016) Art for the Elm City: Public art in New Haven, Connecticut
Povlock, Paul A (2016) Environmental ethics and the electric power grid: A case for technological momentum
Stoehrer, Emily Banis (2016) Hollywood tastemaker: Jeweling the red carpet: The Neil Lane collection, 1995-2010
Svendsen, Kirsti (2016) Centralization and its discontents: Exploring the relationship between measures of moral development, happiness and technology driven, centralized ways of being
Vanderbilt, David S (2016) Thomas Forsyth Torrance and Scientific Theology: An analysis and assessment of his project
Xiarhos, Michael G (2016) The connected pilgrim: The potential for transformation in the social media age
Dissertations & Theses from 2015
Abong, Fred (2015) Bringing back the magic: Reimagining the role of temperament in philosophical theory, a new model of the self as entwined, embodied and enchanted
Alverson, Kelly M (2015) Contagion of kindness: Observability, recognition and shared experience as motivation for online prosocial behavior
Jackson, Stephen Leal (2015) Beneath the surface: An examination of the characterization of African-Americans in submarine-themed American film
Lamberti, James A (2015) Romano Guardini on technology, existence and the human person: An introductory exposition and appraisal
Morash, Brett (2015) The rise and fall of the Union of Islamic Courts
Perreault, Claudine Pelissier (2015) A Heideggerian reading of 'Revolutionary Road:' Understanding the human-technology relationship in 1950s suburbia
Ryan, James P (2015) Salvaging the Caroline: An examination of states use of force in self-defense against non-state actors
Senerchia, Rory Elizabeth (2015) Academic success and academic culture shock: Do international students benefit from academic acculturation intervention?
Sylvestre, Paul E (2015) Society's automaton: An existential perspective on police training and stress management education
Tocco-Greenaway, Donna J (2015) Assisted reproductive technology, bioethics and literature: Progenitors and others' relatedness to embryos, androids, and children
Dissertations & Theses from 2014
Baldaia, Suzanne (2014) The Nice Paper as a MacIntyrean community of virtuous practice: A wunderkammer of resistance to late-capitalist modernity in Rhode Island, 1989-1995
Miller, Jordan E (2014) A radical, subjunctive, political theology of resistance: On religion and community
Dissertations & Theses from 2013
Flynn, Amalie (2013) The American suburban front lawn: An eco-anthropological analysis
Mathis, John R (2013) Atomic cinema in America: Historical and cultural analysis of a new film genre that reflected the nuclear zeitgeist of the Cold War (1945–1989)
Menzies, James (2013) Belief in an age of technology: C. S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on myth and its application to the Christian faith in a technological society
Stuppard, Charles L (2013) The impact of new technology on President Abraham Lincoln's military leadership during the Civil War
Walsh, Kenneth M (2013) The Evolution of Newport's Economy From the Colonial Era to Beyond the War of 1812
Dissertations & Theses from 2012
Shaw, Jeffrey M (2012) Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on technology and freedom
Dissertations & Theses from 2011
Carlozzi, Rosamaria (2011) Manuscript to Microchip: The Role of Technology in the Evolution of Higher Education
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 United States 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 United States 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 United States 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