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 1996
A case study the effects of a powerful committee chair on the passage of the wilderness bill, Kenneth S. Livingston
Voicing manhood : masculinity and dialogue in Ernest J. Gaines's "The sky is gray," "Three men," and A Gathering of old men, William T. Mallon
Practicing what he preached : how Martin Luther lived out his "universal priesthood of all believers", David C. Mayes
Temporal, social, and meaningful aspects of information sharing behavior, Lisa Mirabelli
Impression management and cross-cultural adaptation measures, Amy J. Montagliani
The silver bullet hypothesis : case studies of post-Webster Virginia gubernatorial elections, Anne M. Morgan
"Increasing the pensions of these worthy heroes" : Virginia's Confederate pensions, 1888 to 1927, Jeffery R. Morrison
Feasibility of stocking grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella; Cyprinidae) to control hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata; Hydrocharitaceae) in Lake Anna, Virginia, Paul Matthew Overton
Grieving and reconciliation in Baltimore after the American Civil War, Jennifer Prior
The social basis of emotion: affective consequences of social comparisons with competitive and cooperative others, Celinda M. Reese
Twixt ocean and pines : the seaside resort at Virginia Beach, 1880-1930, Jonathan Mark Souther
Morphine disruption of maternal behavior and modifications of underlying neural activity, Graciela Stafisso-Sandoz
Virginia celebrates the Yorktown centennial of 1881, Julie Anne Sweet-McGinty
Central opioid regulation of parental behavior in juvenile rats, Jacquelyn C. Wellman
Theses from 1995
Southern Baptist missionaries and the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945, Sharon J. Burnham
"Nothing but gold shall charm my heart" : sexual economics and the courtesans of Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, Anthony L. Ellis
The "unstinted effort" of social comparison : biases in the retrieval of behavior among depressives and nondepressives, Michele Christine Fejfar
"You all must do the best you can" : the Civil War widows of Brunswick County, Virginia, 1860-1920, Jennifer Lynn Gross
A taxonomic revision of neotropical Discocarpus (Euphorbiaceae), Sheila Mae Hayden
Iran and Turkmenistan : significant bilateral construction and cooperation in Central Asia?, Craig William Hershberg
Congressional battles with Franklin D. Roosevelt over vetoes of veterans' compensation, 1933-36, Valiant J. Heyer
The hormones of pregnancy alter somal size in the medial preoptic area of the rat brain, Lori A. Keyser
The influence of emotion on temporal perspectives, Skye Mims Ochsner
Alienation and altruism among street level bureaucrats: a study of the Virginia victim/witness and crime assistance program, Susan Margaret O'Donnell
Humanitarian Intervention: great expectations and shattered hopes, Charles W. Peraino
Partisanship within the American Civil Libterties Union: the Board of Directors, the struggle with anti-communism, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Douglas Colin Post
The racial gap in public opinion concerning the Persian Gulf War: a study of opinion leaders in Richmond, Virginia, Ryan Turner Riggs
Eisenhower and liberation : the case study of Poland, 1953-1956, Mary Catherine Stagg
A look at black youth unemployment (sixteen to nineteen years of age) focusing on black youth in Virginia, Mary Martin Tucker
A look at black youth unemployment (sixteen to nineteen years of age) focusing on black youth in Virginia, Mary Martin Tucker
Theses from 1994
The history of the South Side Railroad, 1846-1870, James M. Bisbee
The question of free will in James Joyce's Exiles and William Faulkner's Requiem for a nun, Robin Hume Brownhill
Immigrants in Richmond after the Civil War : 1865-1880, Rudolph H. Bunzl
Henry Taylor Wickham and the Virginia Senate, 1888-1907, Steven A. Colvin
The effects of positive and negative retrieval cues on release from retroactive interference, Michael P. Etgen
The effects of positive and negative retrieval cues on release from retroactive interference, Michael P. Etgen
The Canton Commune, Royce Patrick Grubic
The Tidewater confronts the storm : antisubmarine warfare off the capes of Virginia during the first six months of 1942, Brett Leo Holland
The anterior commissure : the effects of sex and prenatal stress, Hendree Evelyn Jones
Demyansk 1941-1943 : a microscopic view of the German-Soviet conflict, Andrew K. Koch
The North American Free Trade Agreement and its potential impact on the Commonwealth of Virginia, Brian Charles Kroll
Jesse B. Semple and the black press : the voice of black people, Mary A. Massey
The toxicity of cadmium to the aquatic amphibian, Xenopus laevis, Sharon S. Millirons
Suvla Bay : the golden opportunity let slip, Michael John Mortlock
Investigation of different patterns of induction of amylases in different cultivars of rice, Oryza sativa L., Angela M. Mosley
The representation of tabooed love in Lillian Smith's fiction, Jane Elizabeth Payne
Finding the words : negotiating linguistic communities in Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose, Nanci M. Roberts
The effects of prenatal stress on the size of the corpus callosum, Richard K. Rowe II
Lame duck theory called into question, Lawrence Leonard Schack
A history of the corporate wife, 1900-1990, Julie Marie Still
The African-American community of Richmond, Virginia : 1950-1956, Michael Eric Taylor
My verie good lorde : the influence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Jonathan Perry Weston
Theses from 1993
Reagan and cutting the federal budget : how consistent was the pursuit?, E David Adams
The relation of anchoring and choice to memory self-efficacy and performance in older adults, Renee Annette Baldi
A study of United States Ambassador George Crews McGhee and his mission to the Federal Republic of Germany, Suzanne Brown
Academic background and prerequisite skills for success in college freshman physics, Jean Friend Condrey
The Richmond slave market, 1840-1860, Robert H. Gudmestad
Richmond's taverns in the years 1775 - 1810 : their role in the city's development from frontier town to capital city, Anne Rachel Hedges
Open the doors : an analysis of the Prince Edward County, Virginia, Free School Association, Lisa A. Hohl
Jesse B. Semple and the black press : the voice of black people, Mary Ann Massey
World community building through international banking : the creation of an international committee on world banking and world community, Peter W. McCabe
Relationships of epidermal morphology and breeding behaviors in pebble nest-building minnows (Pisces: Cyprinidae), William R. McGuire
The empathetic savior : narcissism and the role of the son in "Paradise lost", Anna Nabb Meade
F. A. Hayek on the role of reason in human affairs, Linda Catherine Raeder
An evaluation of hands-on instruction as a method to improve observation skills in second grade students, Lydia Rogers
Mutuality and intimacy in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and normal boys' friendship relations, Anna Loring Tyler
They also served : the women of Southwestern Virginia during the American Revolution, Rebecca A. Vaught
Whither went the upstairs gentry? : the Colonial Council of Virginia from 1763 to 1776, Charles Stephen Weidman
Theses from 1992
Tristram Shandy and the discursive self, Susan Denman Breeden
Walking Percy's tightrope : from alienation to affirmation, Karen Y. Carter
Localization of a collagenous protein in the organic matrix of spicules from the octocoral Leptogorgia virgulata (Cnidaria: Gorgonacea), Jeffrey L. Dupree
Relationships among gender, gender role individualized trust, and self-disclosure, John D. Foubert
Time as a shared resource : the effects of depression and behavior verifiability on perceptions of temporal investment, Jody Lynn Jones
Eating disorders, the imposter phenomenon, and achievement in a nonclinical population, Anne Marie Ross Jordan
Virginia annexations as metropolitan reform movements : are they obsolete?, Demetra Yeapanis Kontos
Churches, church development agencies and American foreign policy in Nicaragua : a case study, Michael Thomas Kuchinsky
Relations among perspective taking, egocentrism, and self-esteem in late adolescents, Kimberly D. Leister
I've been working on the railroad : the saga of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, C. Coleman McGehee
Leaders of the future : differentiating leaders among high school seniors, Richard S. Mohn Jr.
Spawning clasps and gamete deposition in pebble nest-building minnows (pisces : cyprinidae), Mark Henry Sabaj
The parallel lives of two displaced royalists : Moore Fauntleroy and Warham Horsmanden, Cyane Dandridge Williams
A Search for Identity: Frances Calderon de la Barca and Life in Mexico, Molly Marie Wood
Chinese Foreign Policy in Changing Perspective--A Case Study of the Three World Doctrine, Guojun XU
Theses from 1991
Minority and Majority Student Group Perceptions of Preferred Change within a University Setting, John G. Bradberry
"This enterprise non shall partake with me." : Milton's conquering of his precursors through orphean allusions, Kathryn Nyreen Cooke
Defining codependency : a factor analytic approach, Kimberly A. Elliott
Investigating the viability of yeast expressing histone from extrachromosomal DNA : progress in construction of a plasmid bearing one copy of each yeast histone gene, Ralph Donaldson Hellams Jr.
Antebellum Southampton County, Virginia, 1840-1860, Richard Tyler Kanak
James Branch Cabell's Jurgen : fulfillment and paradox, Elizabeth Witham Loving
The effects of self-esteem, performance feedback, and behavioral verifiability on self-serving biases, Diana C. Slatopolsky
The voice unbound : Mary Shelley's vision of romanticism, Courtenay Noelle Smith
Atrial natriuretic factor in Meriones unguiculatus, the Mongolian gerbil, Kyriakos Tarasidis
The origin of integration in Virginia's public schools : a narrative history from 1951-1959, James Morrman Weigand
Cumberland County, Virginia, in the late antebellum period, 1840-1860, William Maphis Whitworth Jr.
Virginia, the United States and the world : the effects of political, cultural and economic factors on export activity, Kimberly Sue Williams
Vietnam in turmoil : the Japanese coup, the OSS, and the August revolution in 1945, Edward Tayloe Wise
Theses from 1990
The German immigrant community of Richmond, Virginia : 1848-1852, Michael Everette Bell
Medication administration by non-registered nursing personnel : a safe and cost effective way to reduce the shortage of registered nurses, Royce A. Burruss