These are theses that have been submitted to the University of Richmond in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a master’s degree. The nature of each thesis depends upon the norms of the particular academic discipline and/or department. Most are open access; some have been embargoed or are restricted indefinitely per the request of the author. If you are an author and would like to change the availability of your thesis, please contact
Theses from 2012
Stirring up the fires : John Spencer Bassett, "the negro question" ansd southern history, Robert Spencer Dicks
Theses from 2011
Sponges of the Caribbean: linking sponge morphology and associated bacterial communities, Ericka Ann Poppell
Theses from 2010
Shared features and similarity : implications for category specificity and normal recognition, Daniel Kinka
Do We Know What We Know? Self- Assessment Across the Lifespan, Courtney Clare Lee
Why does this always happen to us? an examination of co-rumination in the same sex friendships of emerging adults, Teresa Michelle Preddy
The other race effect : the role of experience and social attiudes on face recognition, Emily Wheat
The treaty of Helgoland-Zanzibar : the beginning of the end for the Anglo-German friendship?, Marshall A. Yokell IV
Sold to the highest bidder? : An investigation of the diplomacy regarding Bulgaria's entry into World War I, Matthew A. Yokell
Theses from 2009
A suggested model for emergency medical system response during an outbreak of human pandemic influenza, Ellen A. Black
The 9/11 victim compensation fund : a case study, Mary Kathleen Gorman
Local law enforcement's initial role in response to a radiological dispersion device attack, Andrew Robert Hoehl
Robert Munford & Mercy Otis Warren : how gender, geography, and goals affected their playwrighting, Kylie A. Horney
Neural replay : a possible mechanism for differing rehersal strategies across parity, Cassie Brooke Jones
Ergonomics : a focus on the Prince George County, Va Emergency Operations Center workstations, John Leach
Are we all together? : a study of evacuation and sheltering of public safety special needs populations in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Anna M. McRay
Looking into the mind of the mother : pup exposure and reactivation of maternal circuits, Tricia Lauren Norkunas
"A change has swept over our land": American Moravians and the Civil War, Adrienne E. Robertson
Theses from 2008
The effects of stress in the workplace : an investigation of the impact stress has on the personal and work lives of police officers of the Fairfax County Police Department, Britta A. Connolly
Participation in the police promotional process for the rank of sergeant within the Fairfax County Police Department Fairfax, Virginia, Purvis L. Dawson Jr
The representation of women in neorealistic photography, Katerina Pilar Gerace
The Effects of Target Age and Perceived Death Responsibility on Posthumous Impression Formations, Jenny Rebekah Heilborn
The burning and reconstruction of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 1864-1870, Gordon Boyer Lawrence
The role of phonological similarity in constructing a developing lexicon, Lin Li
The reconsideration of Jean-Michel Basquiat's work from the hybrid cultural perspective, Alaina Young Mosny
Using internet simulation games to train prehospital providers for mass casualty response, Meredith L. Moss
"Carry me back to old Virginny" : Virginia and the Bonus March of 1932, Steven Patrick Schultz
Attentive mothers versus minimally invested/neglectful mothers : the development of new neurons in the hippocampus specifically activated by foster pup exposure, Danielle Christina Worthington Stoneman
Reconsidering African-American identity: aesthetic experiments by post-soul artists, Letitia Guran Tudorica
A defense of the 63rd New York State Volunteer Regiment of the Irish Brigade, Patricia Vaticano
The reluctant colonization of the Falkland Islands, 1833-1851 : a study of British Imperialism in the Southwest Atlantic, Shannon Warnick
Grace through love : an examination of Milton's monism, mortalism, and the Puritan ideals of desire as reflected in Sonnet 23, Leslie Naomi Wyatt
The endangered representation of sexual violence in Sarah Kane's Blasted, Dina Zhurba
Theses from 2007
The evolution of law enforcement : the generational differences of the new police officer and how to attract them to your agency, Mark Anthony Banks
Assessing what are the optimum years of experience for highly effective recruit mentors in the Chesapeake Fire Department, George Michael Best
Reworking "seeming trust" into "excellent falsehood" : the lying heroes of William Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets and Antony and Cleopatra, Dorrie Turner Bishop
An exploration of effective recruitment sources for Norfolk Fire-Rescue, Beth Bruner
Do leadership development programs work for strategic law enforcement executives?, Brent Burnette
Creating a motivational attendance policy for the Henrico Division of Fire, Cheryl A. Burns
A study of on-site employee health care clinics and their possible return on investment, Dale William Carter Jr.
Intricacies of development : the impact of maternal experience and isolation on the social development of juvenile male rats, Lillian Maria Christon
Generational competence and retention : a study of different generations in law enforcement and how these differences impact retention in the Chesterfield County Police Department, Gary Scott Edwards
The next generation of emergency management : proposal for a new model of emergency operations center for a growing regional emergency management system, John D. Eggleston
An unlikely alliance : the generals who won the American Revolution, Patrick Michael Elgin
Universal Disaster Impact Scale, Brian James Evans
Motherhood, memory and aging : object recognition performance, Julia Margaret Friedenberg
Establishing exit interview best practices, Russell Granderson
Competencies of the law enforcement special operator : implications for law enforcement organizations and police special operations, Geoffrey C. Greene
An anecdotal examination of wellness programs, Sean M. Greenway
Automatic spatial processing of threatening and positive information in participants with high and low levels of trait anxiety, Ryan W. Hansen
A case study of the marital and familial relationships of fire-rescue personnel as they relate to marriage survivability, Carolyn Morgan Henderson
Leadership model for Fire Battalion Chief in the 21st century, Douglas Alan Jessup
Recruitment and retention challenges for law enforcement agencies : identifying the reasons for high turnover rates of new recruits, Scott A. Kearns
Putting on the armor of the Lord : the role of Virginia Methodists during the Civil War, Margaret Diane Turman Kidd
Early vocabulary development in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese : a cross-linguistic study based on Childes, Shuxia Liu
Stressors on the detectives of the Prince William County Police Department, William P. MacKay
Norfolk Fire Rescue officers' attitudes and perceptions towards cell phones and email, Ronald A. Mann Jr.
Police perceptions : external influences affecting work satisfaction, Ryan Wayne Morgan
Competencies of high-performing correctional officers of jails and prisons : developing tomorrow's officers, Douglas Woodfin Murphey II
Perceptions of performance and behavior of college educated police officers, Paul Edmund Nagosky
Is alternative transport a viable option for Norfolk Fire-Rescue?, Nicholas Edward Nelson
Perceived impact of paramilitary training on police recruit performance, Lauren Carol Nobles
A study of the best spanish training practices for police officers, Nicole Marie Otero
Shrines and prayers: two missing elements of comprehensive mass fatality, Rhonda Keyes Pleasants
Incarceration : a rising population dilemma, Lessie Smith Jr.
The Impact of Positive Reinforcement and Noncash Rewards: A Study of How its Implementation Can Affect an Employee's Level of Motivation and Performance, Michael Benjamin Young
Theses from 2006
The marketing of Mussolini : American magazines and Mussolini, 1922-1935, Anthony F. Ambrogi
Balancing the power of the patriarchy : the evolution of self-determined identity for women in Josephine Humphreys' Dreams of sleep and Rich in love, Mary Ramsey Evans
The old college goes to war : the Civil War experiences of William and Mary students, faculty, and alumni, Sean Michael Heuvel
Conditional love : a study of situational differences in rooting for an underdog, Sheila Margaret Hindle
When religion and philosophy meet : a comparison of the theology of the Unity School of Christianity with the classical Aristotelian worldview, Jeffrey Michael Jackson
A role for vasopressin and oxytocin in parental behavior of the male Sprague-Dawley rat, Ekaterina V. Karelina
The Lawrencian becoming of Deleuze, Saffana Manoun
From the pixels up : processes and procedures in the construction of a neural-site geographic information system, Christopher John Mason
Predictors of breast and cervical cancer screening among vietnamese immigrant women, Anh B. Nguyen
Learned fear and reaction to novel stimuli: behavioral and hormonal stress responses in the maternal rat, Brandi Nicole Rima
"Whoso sheddeth" : execution sermons and narratives in 18th century New England, Adrienne H. Thornblom
The Virginia War Department during the American Revolution, Thomas Gregory Tune
"King Harvest (has surely come)" : rural populist imagery in roots rock music, 1967-1973, Christopher Lee Witte
Theses from 2005
Self-esteem and the underdog : why stability of self-esteem matters in social situations, Kelly Dyjak
Affective benefits of capitalizing on personal positive events, Daniel B. Goldman
An investigation of the changes of species richness and distribution of the unionidae (Bivalvia: Molusca) within the Pamunkey Watershed, William Robert Lees
The Battle of the Crater, William Mahone, and Civil War memory, 1864-1937, Kevin Michael Levin
Blindsided by Catholicism : R. W. Seton-Watson and the surprising strength behind interwar Slovak nationalism, Marty Elizabeth Manor
A cognitive intervention to increase the salience of intrinsic thoughts associated with exercise, Katie S. Moran
Richmond, Virginia's Every Monday Club, 1889-1919, Maureen Elizabeth Salmon
Sentence recognition in native and foreign languages : comprehension of form and meaning, Sara Elizabeth Sepanski
The vascular flora of Powhatan County, Virginia, Michael Austin Terry
The troubled intersection of the interests of Christ and commerce : appellate-court review of Virginia Sunday closing laws in historical overview through 1942, William Robert Vanderkloot
Cytokine Expression by T. Helper Cells Responding to Stress, Dina Zanetti
Theses from 2004
Beyond gender : the pursuit of power in the Henriad and Coriolanus, James Aaron Beavers
The history of the one hundred and thirtieth regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Terrence W. Beltz
Exploring memory as a narrative strategy for enabling black consciousness in Ezekial Mphahlele's Down Second Avenue and Mongane Serote's To every birth its blood, Christina Leigh Buckland
From fancy women to demimondames : working class women in Peter Taylor's short fiction, Frank Sung Cha
Learning to lead and to serve on their own terms as a means of transforming the reservation : female American Indians at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923, Elaine Tzu-hsing Chou
Didactic anti-didacticism : aesthetics and contradictions in Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray, Dominic Laron Finney
The battle for women's suffrage in the Old Dominion, Amanda Garrett
Forging the anvil of victory : the British combined operations command at the start of the second world war (1940-42), Timothy Michael Gilhool
Katherine Anne Porter's notorious virgins : female sexuality and catholicism in "Virgin Violeta", "Flowering Judas", and "Old mortality", Christine L. Grogan