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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A Postmodern History of the New Testament Canon during the First Five Centuries, Ray H. Byrd
Cognitive Enhancement, the Super Soldier and Beyond: Expanding Discourse Over Emerging Disruptive Technology, Denise M. Crimmins
The Slug of Modernity: Economic and Cultural Entanglement on Pohnpei, 1844-2019, Jonathan Gourlay
Moving Towards Jus Post Bellum: An Analysis of Three Contemparory Writers Through a Kantian Lens, Sara Kourtsounis
Digging the Dog: Anthropology and Archeology in Human-Canine Relationships and Encounters With the Sacred, Tracie Ann Laliberte
El Jefe Máximo: How Manuel Noriega Came to Power and Sustained His Regime, Peter Joseph Moons
The Aura of 660 Fifth Avenue: Alva Vanderbilt, Richard Morris Hunt, and the Emergence of American Luxury, Catherine Lee Moran
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Youth, Seminary, and the Controversy at Lourdes, Linda D. Pastryk
Quilting, Cross-Stitch, and Community: The Technological Enhancement of Artistic Focal Practices in the Work of Chawne Kimber, Nova McConnico Seals
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Singularitarianism and the New Millennium: Techno-Theology in the Transhumanist Age of Re-Enchantment, Albert R. Antosca
Technohumanity: Films as a Lens for Examining How Humans and Technology Co-shape the World, Chelsea Paige Buffington
Cyber-Jihad: Waging Virtual Terror to Create an Online Caliphate, Lauren E. Forcucci
From Pillar to Pillory U.S. Navy Crimes of Command 1945-2015, Michael Junge
Consider the Audiobook or the Hermeneutics of Close Listening: Literary Sound Studies, Critical Theory, and David Foster Wallace's Literary Journalism, Ryan Matthew Marnane
Marx's Materialist Sociology of Knowledge: Colliding Empirical Frameworks of Consciousness, Todd James Mele
Networks of Survival in Kinshasa, Mumbai, Detroit, and Comparison Cities; an Empirical Perspective, Beryl S. Powell
The Sentinel: American-Jewish Weekly Coverage in Chicago of Nazi Persecution of European Jewry and the Holocaust, 1930-1947, Norah Lynn Schneider
The Digital Incunabula: The Future of Storytelling in the Digital Age, Michael Lester Scully
The Namibian Genocide: Reframing the Conflict to Explore Intercultural Connectivity, Inclusiveness and Accurate Memorialization, Lamont Slater
The Citizen-Soldier Reconsidered: Technology, the Militia, and the Black Boys Uprising of 1765, Clark Summers
The Nation-State & Biopower: Impacts on Individuals, Empowerment and the Limitations of Liberty, Donald Thieme, II
Abiding the Postmodern World: An Ethical, Existential, and Cinematographic Examination of the Big Lebowski, Gary Vaspol
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dramaturgy, wargaming and technological innovation in the United States Navy: Four historical case studies, Thomas Charles Choinski
Ambivalence Toward Technology in the Poetry of Robert Pinsky, Garrett C. Dell
The Influence of Technology in Amphibious Warfare and its impact on U.S. Geopolitical Strategy from 1898 to 1945, David Stephen Nasca
A Monument to Perseverance: The Struggle to Build the Newport Bridge, 1945-1969, James M. Ricci
Social Transformation through Art: Slow Food Ideology and the Social Protest Novel, Sasha Ruggieri
Data mining the unconscious, Catharine Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Pestilences of New England's first wars: An investigation of colonial trauma during the Pequot and King Philip's wars, Ashley Ann Bissonnette
The Robot as Other: Sartre and Television Portrayals of Humanoid Robots in "Almost Human" and "Humans", Karen Hanson
Sensing a control problem? autonomous unmanned combat air systems and human control, Shawn Anthony Kalis
Classical-Christian Friendship Operating in Western Literature: Oral Traditions to the Apex of Print Culture, Marc G. LeVasseur
Art for the Elm City: Public art in New Haven, Connecticut, Laura A. Macaluso
Environmental ethics and the electric power grid: A case for technological momentum, Paul Anthony Povlock
Hollywood tastemaker: Jeweling the red carpet: The Neil Lane collection, 1995-2010, Emily Banis Stoehrer
Thomas Forsyth Torrance and Scientific Theology: An analysis and assessment of his project, David Stanley Vanderbilt
The connected pilgrim: The potential for transformation in the social media age, Michael George Xiarhos
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Contagion of kindness: Observability, recognition and shared experience as motivation for online prosocial behavior, Kelly M. Alverson
Beneath the surface: An examination of the characterization of African-Americans in submarine-themed American film, Stephen Leal Jackson
Romano Guardini on technology, existence and the human person: An introductory exposition and appraisal, James Arthur Lamberti
The rise and fall of the Union of Islamic Courts, Brett James Morash
A Heideggerian reading of 'Revolutionary Road:' Understanding the human-technology relationship in 1950s suburbia, Claudine Pelissier Perreault
Salvaging the Caroline: An examination of states use of force in self-defense against non-state actors, James P. Ryan
Academic success and academic culture shock: Do international students benefit from academic acculturation intervention?, Rory Elizabeth Senerchia
Society's automaton: An existential perspective on police training and stress management education, Paul E. Sylvestre
Assisted reproductive technology, bioethics and literature: Progenitors and others' relatedness to embryos, androids, and children, Donna Jean Tocco-Greenaway
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Nice Paper as a MacIntyrean community of virtuous practice: A wunderkammer of resistance to late-capitalist modernity in Rhode Island, 1989-1995, Suzanne Baldaia
A radical, subjunctive, political theology of resistance: On religion and community, Jordan E. Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The American suburban front lawn: An eco-anthropological analysis, Amalie Flynn
Atomic cinema in America: Historical and cultural analysis of a new film genre that reflected the nuclear zeitgeist of the Cold War (1945–1989), John R. Mathis
The impact of new technology on President Abraham Lincoln's military leadership during the Civil War, Charles L. Stuppard
The Evolution of Newport's Economy From the Colonial Era to Beyond the War of 1812, Kenneth Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on technology and freedom, Jeffrey M. Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Manuscript to Microchip: The Role of Technology in the Evolution of Higher Education, Rosamaria Carlozzi
Secular modernity and Catholic tradition: Finding God in the machinery of the Industrial Revolution., Donald M. Demers
Disrupting patriarchal norms and languages: Narrative and rhetorical analyses of bi and pansexual feminist blogs., Jennifer A. Fallas
A literary analysis of the American worker: Characterizations by London, Sinclair, Steinbeck and Rand., Nelson A. Guertin
Religious broadcasting 1920 - 1980: Four religious broadcast pioneers and the process of evangelization, Thomas F. Hoar
Reflections in a robot's eye: A cultural history and epistemological critque of humanoid robotics., Rand D. LeBouvier
Sailors in the age of steam: Reexamining a counterintuitive response to advancing technology., Ivan T. Luke
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Applied ethics in the technological world: An examination of secondary traumatic stress and trauma exposure in social media., Casey Comstock
Space weapons, moral casuistry, and Rawls: Moving the debate forward., J. Scott McPherson
Prison ministry and balancing philosophies of justice: History and case studies., William J. Morrissette
The golden age of Irish music: The cultural impact of 78 RPM recordings in Ireland and Irish America 1900-1960., Roxanne M. O'Connell
What work was and what work is: The work poetry of Philip Levine., Scott E. Palmieri
Individual forms of subtle resistance to Nazi hegemony: Portrayals in modern books and film available to American consumers., Amiee J. Shelton
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
A semiotic analysis of virtual reality., Wayne D. Belanger
Imported oil: Ethical perspectives and strategies toward American energy sustainability., Charles Almeida Chaves
Evaluating the impact of precision -guided munitions on human suffering in war, 1967-1999: An ethics-based approach., James E. Hickey
Moral coherence in the modern world: An interdisciplinary view., Anthony L. Klemmer
Technology in defense of tradition: Basque nationalism in the information age., David Sanders
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Place-making: Planning, modernity and humanistic geography., Marijoan Bull
Narratives of melancholy: Sense of self in depression from asylums to neuropsychiatry., Deborah P. Flynn
What does privacy mean in an age of virtual transparency?, Ronald E. Ratcliff
Collateral damage: Technology's influence upon the American warrior's ethical obligation to the noncombatant from the Civil War to the War on Terror., Patrick C. Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Using ethics and technology in addressing police officer behavior., Marcel F. Beausoleil
Illuminated art in the court of Charles the Bald: A study of the great Carolingian Bibles of the 9th century, Gerald L. Browning
Human factors fostering sustainable safe drinking water., Catherine Sughrue Etter
A deal with the devil? The clergy-penitent privilege in the United States military., Charlotte E. Hunter
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
“The School of Athens”: How the humanities can help revive the great conversation, Raffaele Florio
Handing on the faith: Religious education past and present in the Catholic Diocese of Providence., Sandra J. Flowers
Macrocosm and microcosm: The emergent sacred in the work of Thomas Berry and C. G. Jung., Sarah M. McKnight
Interpreting business in film: Three case studies in creative leadership., Anice M. O'Connor
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Visionary technology leadership from Admiral Hyman G. Rickover to masters of the information age., William F. Bundy
The impact of Web -enhanced distance learning technology on the concerns of faculty., David S. Magill
Assessing cognitively impaired parents using a strengths -based model., Julia Montminy
An Ethical Assessment of Intercountry Adoption: Romania to the United States, 1990–2003, Terry Murphy
Through the eye of a needle: The profit motive's effect on managerial moral reasoning., Ferd Schroth
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Technology, progress, and the human condition in the life and thought of C. S. Lewis., Timothy James Demy
Justice Florence Kerins Murray: A study of technology and the contemporary woman., Marian Mathison Desrosiers