This collection includes EKU theses and dissertations submitted electronically beginning with the Fall 2010 semester.

All theses written prior to Fall 2010 are available at EKU Libraries in the Silent Study Zone located on the 4th floor of the University Building. Browse the list of print theses written prior to Fall 2010.

To browse these theses and dissertations by academic department or program, please go to the Colleges, Departments, or Administrative Unit page.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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How the Drug Trade is Facilitated Online: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis, Jose Aguilar

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The Genome, Genetic Genealogy Database (3g Database), Salma Obaid Alotaibi

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Social Media Use in Disaster Management: Perceptions of Emergency Management Directors at Kentucky Institutions of Higher Education, AHMED MOHAMMED ALSHAHARANI

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Placental co-culture model reveals Listeria monocytogenes utilization of monocytes for vertical transmission, Breanna Mackenzie Amelunke

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The American University: Attitudes about Safety and the Impact of Gun Regulations on Campus, April Bixler

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Optimization of Electrode Configurations for Calibration-Free, Remote Sensing of Heavy Metals in Water Using Double-Potenital Step Anodic Coulometry, Jessica Bone

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Gender, Sexuality, And LGBTQ+ Identities In General Education Literature Courses: Three Major Conceptual Frameworks, Josiah Coleman

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Perceptions of play-based curricula as an effective model of instruction for children with special needs, Angela Bernice Cooper

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A Quantification Of The Metabolic Demand Wrought By Explosive Ordinance Disposal Load Carriage, Gage Cousineau

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An Examination Of The Usage Of Grants And Municipal Bonds To Fund Capital Projects For Local Governments, Collin Patrick Davis

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Qualities Of A School Counselor And Principal Partnership That Foster Student Learning And School Culture: A Qualitative, Eef Ji Fontanez

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Exploring The Effectiveness Of Telehealth Adolescents' Interventions On Sleep: A Meta-Analysis, Youmna Hakoum

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Comparison of Annual Performance Report Results of Central Appalachian Upward Bound Programs during 2017-2022 Grant Cycle, Zachary Hudson Hess

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Assessment Of Natural Roost Availability And Artificial Roost Preference By Indiana Bats In Scott County, Kentucky, Shannon Kerry Howe

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No Safe Spaces: Institutionally Washed Out, Jordan Marie King

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Exploring The Past With Place: Incorporating Multimodal Archival Composition In Secondary English Education, Sarah King

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Using Mesocosms to Model Optimal Levels of Body Size Variation in Larval Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum), Ian Kratzer

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Occupational Therapists’ Perceptions Of Practice During The Covid-19 Pandemic And The Impact On Their Mental Health And Well-Being, Victoria Long

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Neutral And Charged Bis(Triarylamines) For Use In Grid Scale Battery Technologies, Taylor Matthews

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Changes In Fish Communties Throughout The Buck Creek Watershed In Relation To Land Use, John Clark Miller

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First-Year Writing Ungraded Study At Eastern Kentucky University, Kaitlynn Elizabeth Moody

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"Temporal Salvation": A Study of LDS Leadership Strategies From 1874-1917, Haley Elaine Pettit

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Calling All Cast Members: Elevating Material Objects and Ambient Environments to Non-Human Rhetorical Actors in Arden of Faversham, Tara Michelle Pulaski

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Urban And Rural Comparisons Of Attitudes Toward Medically Assisted Treatment For Pregnant And Postpartum Women With Oud In Appalachia, Anna Reeves

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Decoding the Flavor of Kentucky's Native Pawpaw Fruit, Mackenzie Leanne Roark

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Variation In Bat Activity Across Upland Embedded Wetlands In The Cumberland Ranger District Of The Daniel Boone National Forest, Brittany Ryan

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Menstrual Inequality in Women's Correctional Facilities, Tara Lee Sexton

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Grief Narratology In The Digital Age: Writing The Self In Academic Spaces, Sarah Weddle South

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Understanding Federal Funding of Appalachian Nonprofit Organizations Through Characteristic Analysis, Jordan C. Stewart

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Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site, James Benjamin Stratton

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Investigation Of Emotional Numbing And Other Potential Risk Factors Of Chronic Ptsd In Veterans, Daniela M. Taylor

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Posttraumatic Growth In Inmates: An Exploration Of Cumulative Adverse Life Experiences And Its Relationship To Growth, Rachel Taylor

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Tradition And Satisfaction: The Mob And Lynching In The Georgian Cotton Belt, 1890-1899, Marcus Anthony Thornton

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Emotions as social objects in the justice system: how feelings develop in justice processes and what they do., Peyton Alexander Warman

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From the governor's desk to a bullet in your chest: The fatal implications of anti-trans legislation, Iyan Wickel

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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The Effects Of External Load And Body Composition On The Sebt In Marching Band Performers, Alexander Alvarez

House of Lambs, Taylor Janell Anderson

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Community Development Through Career And Technical Education In The U.S. Education System For A Higher American Standard Of Living, Marty Stuart Asbridge

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Small Mammal Species Richness And Relative Abundance Across The Elevational Gradient And Microhabitats Of Pine Mountain, Eastern Kentucky, Sarah Elizabeth Baker

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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective, Haley Elizabeth Bates

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Identification and Security Implications of Biometrics, Kathryn Boggs

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Types of Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health, Ashley Bragg

Scatterbrain, Abigail C. Byrd-Stapleton

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Samuel Beckett's Theory of Repetition, Kennedy Carpenter

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Scope of Homelessness in Kentucky, Shannon Elyse Catron

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Scale Validation Of American Exceptionalism Index, Evan Hunter Charles

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Tholins: A Gas Phase Computational Study of Methanimine and Related Species, Bradley T. Chem

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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches, Jonathon Collins

A Tender Head, Whitney N. Cooper

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Phenotypic Plasticity of Geographically Central and Peripheral Populations of Jefferson Salamanders (Ambystoma jeffersonianum) in Response to Simulated Climate Change, Aaron Devine

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Magnaporthe Oryzae Telomeric Retrotransposon (moter) Relics Further Highlight Telomere Dynamics In A Rapidly Evolving Fungal Pathogen, Jane Ellen Dostart

Broken Rules and Ugly Rumors, Sam Floyd

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How And Why Design Education Instructors Use Place-Based Education In Their Courses, Michael Flynn

Unitl the Well Runs Dry, Wesley Adam Gift

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Academic Coaching As A Transition Model For Graduating College Students With Disabilities, Lee Ann Griesheimer

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Asking Appalachia: Appalachian English in the Writing Classroom, Rachel Nicole Hampton

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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture, Max Hargett

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Professional Learning Communities: Perception of Impact on Learning, Esther Denise Hayden

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Wattpad as an Online Medium for Contemporary Folklore, Alisha Tess Helton

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The Price Of “Normal”: Masking In The Autistic Community, Phyllis Elizabeth Holloway

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Factors Contributing To Feelings Of Inclusion And Exclusion Among Swahili-Speaking Refugees In Lexington, Kentucky, Aaron Lankster

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Instructional Coaching And Student Achievement, Lee Ann Lewellen

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How Administrators Perceive Reductions In State Funding Higher Education, Bruce Manley

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The Touching Rooms, Kimberly Mattheussens

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"I Could Not Understand Anything They Said!": Non-Native English Speaking Instructors, Online Learning, and Student Anxiety, Katelyn Lee McClure

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Fear of the Future: A Speculative Exploration of Cinematic Dystopias, Katarina Megan McGuire

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All the Broken Pieces, Ellen Harrison Mitchell

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Comparison Of Spawning Habitat And Nest Density Between Buck Darter (etheostoma Nebra) And Striped Darter (etheostoma Virgatum) Populations In The Cumberland River Drainage, Kentucky, Jacob Charles Murphy

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Body Size And Habitat Shading Influence The Consumptive And Non-Consumptive Effects Of Wood Frog (lithobates Sylvaticus) Tadpoles On Aquatic Invertebrate Communities, Brady Patrick Parlato

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Genetic And Morphological Assessment Of Pigtoe Mussels (unionidae: Pleurobemini: Fusconaia/pleurobema Spp.) in Ozark Drainages, Logan Tyler Phelps

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Barriers To Seeking And Obtaining Academic Accommodations In College Classrooms, Clint Pinion

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Investigating A State-Funded Disciplinary Literacy Program In Kentucky For Educators Of Adolescent Students, Kevin Presnell

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The Road To Justice: Incarcerated Students’ View On Education Behind Bars, Margaret Baker Price

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Chromatographic Studies Of Some Hormone And Metabolic Modulators Used For Doping In Sports, Ruth Marie Speidel

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The Impact That The Power Scholars’ Academy Program Has On The Achievement Of Students In Reading And Math, Sharonda Steele

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Communities In Conflict: A Critical Look Into Police And Deaf Interactions In Central Kentucky, Savannah Sublette

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An Examination Of Print Awareness When Using Electronic And Printed Books With Preschool-Aged Children, Marissa Taylor

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Impact of Living Learning Communities on Underserved Minority Students at a Regional Comprehensive University, Brandon Leonard Thompson

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Community College Retention Initiative: A Qualitative Study On The Lived Experiences Of Black Males Entrenched In A Mentoring Program At One Associate-Level College In The Southeastern Region, Brandon Turnley

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BECAUSE: A Son’s Odyssey to Expose a CIA Coverup and Find the Father He Never Knew, James B. Wells

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Correlation Between Student Success and On-Campus Jobs, William Thomas Willis

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Academic Stress Examination And Its Sources Among Saudi Students In The United States, Nawaf Alshammari

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Litter Breakdown And Benthic Invertebrate Detritivores From A Hydrologically Restored Stream, Jacob Becraft

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Effects of a Virtual Reality Dementia Experience on Graduate Communication Disorders Students’ Future Clinical Practice, Morgan Stephens Blaydes

Dirt Road Magic, Carrie Callahan

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Absorbent Household Materials For The Collection Of Ignitable Liquid Residues From Surfaces Of Varying Porosity, Jessica Carlotti

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The Barriers Students Of Color Experience During The Online College Application, Tichaedza Stephen Chikuni

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Understanding the Impact of an ACT Intervention Course Through the Perspectives of Previous Students, April Clement

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Relationship Between Secondary Industry Certifications and Employment in the Particular Credentialed Area, Kevin R. Cook

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A Qualitative Study Exploring Online Teaching At A Rural Community College: How Do Faculty Prepare To Teach Online?, Gwendolyn Davidson

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Introductory Mathematics and STEM Persistence: Examining the Differences between Online and In-Person Performance at a HBCU, Wendy Dixie

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Effect Of CBD On D2 Dopamine Receptor And CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Function And Localization, Elizabeth Dull

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Examining Formative Critique In The High School Visual Arts Classroom, Peter C. Edwards

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Perspectives of Individuals with Acquired Neurogenic Communication Disorders and Co-Survivors on Person-Centered Care within Speech-Language Therapy, Logan MacRae Ellis

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Perceptions of Education Attainment in Rural and Appalachian Schools, Michael Estep

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Comparing Success Rates Of Online Courses To Traditional Courses In A Small Rural Community College, David Lee Frazier

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Career and Mentorship Experiences of Women Educational Administrators in Rural Community Colleges, Diane Ashley Gibson

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Individualism and Collectivism: Well Being Within the African American Community, Tajana Graves

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Evidence of Non-Strike Induced Chemosensory Searching by Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon Contortrix) During Cicada Predation, Henderson Cyrenius Gull

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“Basic Stuff I Should Know About My Kids, I Don’t Know”: Incarcerated Mothers’ Perception Of Incarceration’s Effects On Mother-Child Relationships, Narissa Haakmat