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

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Theses from 2004

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The life-long diminution of anxiety response as a consequence of reproductive experience, Ilan M. McNamara

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The politics of theater and the theater of law: the legal and cultural implications in Langston Hughes and John Wexley's dramatizations of the Scottsboro trials, Mosby Garland Perrow IV

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Friedrich Nietzsche's reception as a marker of American intellectual culture : Crane Brinton and Walter Kaufmann's interpretations during the World War II and postwar eras, David Marshall Schilling

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The relationship between age and depression : a self-efficacy model, Brandyn M. Street

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The Status of Leptodactylus Validus as a Single Taxon and Its Relationship to Letptodactylus Pallidirostris, Kenneth Christopher Yanek

Theses from 2003

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A following sea : charting sea imagery and identity in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow, Melanie Clore

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"Paper sack brown" : effects of age, skin tone, and stereotype threat on cognitive performance and self-efficacy among African Americans, Breonte Stephan Guy

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Beachheads : a historical reconsideration of the U.S. landings at Anzio and Inchon, Travis James Hardy

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The presence of pups after birth : effects on spatial memory and the pre-synaptic protein synaptophysin, Abbe Hoffman MacBeth

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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and maternal behavior : neuronal alterations in the medial preoptic area and suppression of pup attacks, Lillian Flores Stevens

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"What was I created for, I wonder?" : occupation for women in Shirley and Cranford, Julie Anne Tignor

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Acalypha deamii : distribution east of the Appalachians and comparative studies of reproductive anatomy, Patricia A. Truman

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Restoring the light : ministry to German prisoners of war in America during the Second World War, Melissa Weldon

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"Enough glory for us all" : the "negro exhibit" at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, 1907, John Thomas Wilkes

Theses from 2002

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The impact of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic on Virginia, Stephanie Forrest Barker

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A "relatively northern southern state:" civil rights protest in Richmond and Danville, Virginia, 1959-1963, Sally Ryan Burgess

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A mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the Leptodactylus fuscus species-complex (Leptodactylidae: Anura, Arley Camargo

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Reproductive experience and aging : possible neuroprotective effects of motherhood, Jessica Dawn Gatewood

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Sufferers of the Revolution : the paper money movement in Brunswick County, Virginia, 1780-1787, David Alan Geraghty

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Parent-child attachment and communication quality as indicators of psychological adjustment : preliminary implications for psychological maltreatment research, Sarah Kobielski

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Context effects and lexical ambiguity processing: an activation-based account, Frazier Orgain

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The effects of childhood social competence on young adults interpersonal competence in dyadic and family relations: an exploratory analysis, Gwen Renae Pursell

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Working memory in schizophrenics and older adults : a mediator for episodic memory deficits?, Matthew W. Webster

Theses from 2001

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Going to nowhere : narratives of Patagonian exploration, Mark W. Bell

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The re-emergenge of a Tory-court party : peers of the Bloomsbury Gang and founders of modern British conservatism, Matthew Thomas Locy Corkern

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Group polarization and social norms on normative body weight misperception and eating disordered symptomology, Kelly Sears Cox

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The struggle of the Lippian state church during the Third Reich, 1933-1936, Stefanie Glasel Gordinier

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Storm-related suspended particulate matter in Little Westham Creek, John R. Jordan

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A quantitative histological evaluation of articular cartilage and regenerated tissue from a stress-shielded in vivo model, Jeremy Matthew Kupsco

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Existential freedom and bad faith : exploring the "infinite possibilities" in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and nothingness, Robert Aubrey Mawyer

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The first fifty years of professional baseball in Richmond, Virginia : 1883-1932, Scott P. Mayer

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Wounded women: a study of central Virginia's Civil War pension widows, Heather R. Racer

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The role of matrix metalloproteinase-2 in glioma invasion, Nicole Danielle Sauers

Theses from 2000

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Alterations in neurogenesis following the transition from virgin to maternal/lactating female, Elizabeth Amory

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Carolina chameleons : North Carolina Confederate soldiers who joined the Union army, David E. Arthur

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Nineteenth-century Virginia female institutes, 1850-1890 : an analysis of the effect of education on social life, Jennifer Harrison

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Queen in peril : the Elizabethan Parliament of 1584-85, James Vernon Madison

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White savages in hunting shirts : the rifleman's costume of national identity and rebellion in the American Revolution, Byron C. Smith

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An ulstrastructural study of Acetabularia acetabulum, Rachel VanGilder

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Reproductive experience and stress responsiveness, Jennifer Elizabeth Wartella

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Attention, memory, and self-efficacy differences between ADHD and aging individuals, Douglas Lee Welsh

Theses from 1999

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The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1861-1865, Mary Pat Buckenmeyer

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Lord Lansdowne's peace letter and the controversy it caused, Mary Virginia Burton Cash

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Expressionist playwrights from the Lost Generation : the move away from German expressionism, Robert Andrew Ellis

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Glial cell alterations in the rat medial preoptic area and hippocampus as a function of reproductive state, Gordon Wentworth Gifford

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The active architecture of mind : dynamic categorization during metaphor processing, James Hambrick

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John Donne's sacred aesthetics and protestant eschatology in La Corona, Karen R. Knudson

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Modifications of nitric oxide and sexual behavior in prenatally stressed male rats, Stephen D. Miller

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A profile of Virginia businesswomen during the Civil War era, Robyn Mundy

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Transplanting broodstock oysters, Crassostrea Virginica, onto reconstructed oyster reefs to increase spat recruitment in the Piankatank River, Dawn Chentil Sherwood

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Faith and Understanding: the Reforms of Nikolaus Cusanus, Joseph Eric Sych

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Uncertain identities : aristocratic women of English Renaissance drama, Kimberly Ann Turner

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Chondrocranial and oral morphology of Leptodactylid larvae, William Hagood Turner

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The Elkhart County Guards : Company G, 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Eugene D. Watkins

Theses from 1998

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"Fellow-craftsmen" : a study of the personal and professional relationship between Mary Johnston and Ellen Glasgow, Catherine G. Costantino

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Self-enhancement motivational bias in attributions of causality and responsibility to a target other : situational and dispositional determinants, Jennifer Leigh Dent

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Neuropsychological outcome and player characteristics in amateur soccer players, Kyle W. Evans

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"A tolerable straight line" : non-linear narrative in Tristram Shandy, Daniel L. Hocutt

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Area-species curve applies to gaps in a Canada hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) carr.) forest in the Shenandoah National Park, Joseph John LaCroix

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United States - Indonesian relations, 1945-1949: negative consequences of early American Cold War policy, Robert Earl Patterson

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The effect of the mail in voter registration form on voter turnout in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Leroy O. Pfeiffer

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Continuity of emotions across pre-sleep state and the content of dreams, Teresa M. Picciocchi

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Past Tense Marking in English by Chinese learners, Hsuehmei Liu Price

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Chondrocranial and oral morphology of pipoid frogs, Charles Christopher Swart

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"Over the hills and far away..." : a study of the 95th Rifles : their background, discipline, doctrine, and combat employment during the defense of Portugal, 1810-1811, Ryan Jason Talley

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Self-efficacy and performance of younger and older adults in verbal, reasoning, and spatial domains, Judy L. Thompson

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Laval 1931 : a diplomatic study, Sebastian Volcker

Theses from 1997

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Group therapy for sexually abused adolescents : assessment of coping skills, negative beliefs, and self-esteem, Kimberly R. Akin

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A profile of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the James River, Keith Allen Boisvert

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President Gerald Ford's impact on United States foreign policy from 1974 to 1991, Robert David Clifton

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Semipermeable membrane devices are effective surrogates of fish in concentrating polychlorinated biphenyls, Christopher Gardner Collins

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An arm and a leg for the Confederacy : Virginia's disabled veteran legislation, 1865 to 1888, W. Jackson Dickens Jr.

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Morphology of neurons in the medial preoptic area (mPOA) of the rat : sexual dimorphisms and prenatal stress effects, Kimberly M. Gerecke

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The Civil War and social change : white women in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Edward John Harcourt

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Implementing public policy : the Virginia Comprehensive Community Corrections Act for local-responsible offenders, Tracey L. Jenkins

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Gentlemen of the family : General George Washington's aides-de-camp and military secretaries, Gerald Edward Kahler

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"An ill-timed conservatism": tactical instruction at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1874-1914, Joseph David Prestia

Making the Net work : the influence of networking on black women executives' leadership in the telecommunications industry, Kayren J. Shoffner

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A tale of two houses, transported : Virginia House and Agecroft Hall, Heather Lynn Skilton

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The 1990 Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act : a case study in public interest lobbying, Louise Ryland Thornton

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Britain and the French Resistance 1940-1942 : a false start, Laurie West Van Hook

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Serbo-American relations, 1903-1913, Jason C. Vuic

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The United States and the fascist threat in Latin America during World War II, Larry Brent Ward

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In search of a female self : the masculinization of May in Chaucer's Merchant's tale, Kimberly Diane Whitley

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Anna Letitia Barabauld's Poetic Vision: Community, Imagination, and the Quotidian, Carrie Ann Woods

Theses from 1996

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The integration of Emory & Henry College, Scott David Arnold

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Osteology, morphology, and female choice in species of the genus Cynolebias (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), Marcelo Loureiro Barrella

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The effects of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid on the diazotrophic soil microbial community, Denise M. Brown

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A glorious feast for the eyes : the roles of iconography and sight in Chaucer's The prioress's tale and The second nun's tale, Kelly Marie Bruce

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The effect of thyroid hormone on the expression of A7 myosin heavy chain mRNA in xenopus laevis, Bradley Thomas Butkovich

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Characterization of a newly cloned DNA damage- inducible gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain D43, June-Home Chen

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Myth and myth-making in James Branch Cabell's Jurgen : a comedy of justice, Christopher Carson Crenshaw

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The population of Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War era, John G. Deal

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For appearance's sake : gender attitudes and risky health behavior, Jennifer L. Douglas

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Prohibition in Richmond, Joseph George Era

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A political and economic history of Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1840-1860, Christopher Robert Finley

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"Something for the girls" : Demeter, Persephone, and Hecate in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding and The Optimist's daughter, Amy Davidson Grubb

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"Old Flu's" artillerymen in war and peacetime, Matthew Glenn Hall

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"Nothingness/ in words enclose" : supplementarity and the "veil" of language in Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt, Justin P. Jakovac

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A study of fraud in African-American Civil War pensions : Augustus Parlett Lloyd, pension attorney, 1882-1909, Carrie Kiewitt