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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
Perceptions of Jacques Ellul's educational technique in a modern career-focused M.B.A. program., Gary Grant Gray
The effect of using the computer as a learning tool in a kindergarten curriculum., Shirley A. Meckes
Oil production and problems in Nigeria's Niger Delta: Military and civilian regimes' responses (1979–2001), Ifeoma Christie Okereke
Computer -based interventions, health behavior change, and ethics., Regina M. Traficante
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Attitudes of Rhode Island primary care physicians toward the use of genetic testing for breast cancer., Frances M. Alexakos
Does the current 20th century Navy personnel management system meet 21st century sailors' needs?, William Daniel Ferree
Jus in bello: Key issues for a contemporary assessment of just behavior in war, Louis V. Iasiello
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The ex -voto as symbol of faith and survival., Marjorie Atwood
In the shadow of technological cataclysm: The complexities of Y2K alarmism., Richard Francis Finn
Technological hubris and the science fiction of Michael Crichton., Douglas N. Hime
Consumerism, credit cards, and college students., Ware Claudette Levesque
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Women and men in the new Navy: Life since Tailhook., Robert Hynson Gooch
An investigation of television as technology and its influence on student-athletes in Division 1 men's college basketball., David McKeon Mitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Ethics in science fiction: Butler, Wells, and Stapledon., Darrell Allan Jenks
An interdisciplinary model to evaluate alternative roles of military reserve components in modern American society., John Michael Kirby
Expanding the technology debate through the investigation of humor in recent art: 1950s to 1990s., Margaret Mathias
The rise and fall of the American diner, 1920–1960, Daniel Robert Viveiros
The significance of the family meal in contemporary culture: A humanities /technological perspective., Bradley John Ware
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Dangerous medicine: The pharmaceutical industry's questionable ethical practices., John T. Fielding
The ikon and the axe: An ecological approach to Yugoslav disintegration, 1991--1998., Peter Hearns Liotta
The impact of technological culture on addiction in twentieth century America., Raymond Leonard Loranger
Aldous Huxley and the human cost of technological progress., Ronald T. Sion
Managing complexity: An integration of ethics, management, and technology viewed through the Dow Corning silicone implant case., Patricia Jane Tod
Technology as public education: Determining just wages in a teacher labor contract., Roy Royce Twaddle
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
America's technological sailor: A retrospective on a century of "progress" in the United States Navy., Michael Scott Casey
The impact of television on the making of the president (1952 to 1992)., Roland Francis Recker
The radioactive waste debate in the United States and nuclear technology for peaceful purposes., Terrence Norbert Tehan
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The impact of government sanctions on the business ethics of defense contractors during the Cold War era., Edwin Alden Coolbaugh
Haitian crisis, 1991--1994: An opportunity for a shift in United States twenty-first century foreign policy., Patricia Anne Hardy-Jackson
Understanding China through the humanities., Dorothy P. James
The effectiveness of Family Science and Technology Workshops on parental involvement, student achievement, and student curiosity., Lora Bechard Kosten
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The influence of technology on the Yamato social model., Ronald Wayne Atkins
The economic impact of multinational transfer pricing in Third World countries: The case of Iran., Mansour M. Moussavi