This collection includes 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 Research Unit, Center or Department page.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Career and Mentorship Experiences of Women Educational Administrators in Rural Community Colleges, Diane Ashley Gibson
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Bat Boxes as Mitigation Tools: Factors Impacting Microclimate and Myotis sodalis Roost Selection, Reed Crawford
The Importance Of Surface Mining As A Landscape Variable In Shaping Wild Bee Communities In Central Appalachian Forests, Amanda Sheryl Dunaway
Does Experiential Learning Add Value in Financial Literacy Education: A Qualitative Investigation, Abra Akers Endsley
False Starts: A Collection of Stories, Amaleq Eleazar Esmurria
Correlation Between Teacher Efficacy And Effective Professional Learning Communities, David Glen Gilliam
Comparing Shoulder Manual Muscle Testing With Scapular Retraction And Core Activation, Kyrsten Henry
The Relationship Between Teacher Perceptions Of Professional Learning Communities And Shared And Supportive Leadership, Alicia Hunter
Creating a Place for Monstrosity: The Forced Liminality and Limited Mobility of Codified Monstrosity in Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars, Kaylee Brooke Lambert
Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women, Albina Laskovtsov
Structural Investigation On The Thermal Degradation Of Aqueous Amines In Post-Combustion Co2 Capture, Jeffrey Alexander Laub
Outcome-Informed Supervision: A Mixed Methods Investigation Of Counseling Supervisors’ Utilization Of Feedback-Informed Treatment Data, Michael Patrick Lewis
Types Of Social Support In Distance Education And Academic Performance At A Southwestern Historically Black College And University, Jennifer Paige Miles
Capital Punishment And Race Disparities In The Modern Era: An Empirical Analysis, Trevor Myers
Efficacy of pain scales in athletic populations and paired with aglometric measurements, Elisabeth Anne Ohrnberger
Possible Role Of Breeding Phenology, Brood Size, And Male Parental Care On The Number Of Nesting Attempts By Female Eastern Bluebirds, A Facultatively Multibrooded Species, Michael Daniel Patton
Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing, Douglas Hyatt Peach
Body Composition Assessment Results And Predicting Injury Patterns In Collegiate Musicians, Ellen Reinhold
Assessment of Indiana bat reproductive condition, recapture trends, and temperatures of artificial roosts in Kentucky, Michaela L. Rogers
Guerilla Government and Policy: Lessons From The Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy, Omar Salinas Chacon
"Pliable and Easily Shaped": History, harms, and regulations of plastic in the United States, Krista Decima Smithers
Understanding the Occupational Therapy Perspective of Working with the Homeless Population: Self-Care Interventions, Marisa Leigh Sparbanie
Effects Of Nutrient Overload And Environmental Conditions On Algal Bloom Formation: A Case Study Of Water Sources In Eastern Kentucky, Lauren Sutton
Abundance Of Songbirds In Eastern Hemlock Stands Following Chemical Treatment For Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Natalie Sweeting
Syncretic Immersion: Tolkien’s Languages As History, Artifacts, And Meta-Narratives, Stewart Raymond Zdrojowy
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Efficacy of Residential Learning Communities on First Generation, First-Year College Students' Success at a Rural Regional University, April Dannielle Barnes
Testing The Marshall Hypothesis: A Survey Among Justice And Safety College Students, Kimberly Alice Barrett
Pacifying the Visual: Police Reform and the Promise of Body Worn Cameras, Ivan Benitez
Ecosystem Functional Consequences of Top Predator Mortality Due to the Invasive Shrub, Lonicera maackii, Josey Lee-Anne Berta
Mouse, Joseph Breen
In The Blood, Joey Elizabeth Burke
Associations Between School Safety And Behavioral Health Issues: A Multivariable Study Of A Large School Sample In Kentucky, Patricia M. Clark
The ability for investigators to visible identify and interpret damage to electrical conductors, Jacob Alan Graham Critchley
The Federal State And Hegemony: Politics In Floyd County, Kentucky And The Latter Years Of The War On Poverty, Riccardo Paolo D'Amato
Athletic Identity, Need Satisfaction, and Burnout in Collegiate Athletes, Rachel Brooke Daniels
Efficient Local Comparison Of Images Using Krawtchouk Descriptors, Julian DeVille
23: The Appalachian Foothills People, Place, And, The Opioid Epidemic, Sarah E. Diamond Burroway
'Savages','Animals' and 'Criminals':Capitalism, Racial Threat and the U.S Long war on Immigration, Rossana Alejandra Diaz
Employing Trauma-Informed Andragogy: A Phenomenological Study Of Graduate Student Lived Experiences After Taking A New Haven’s Cross-Cutting Trauma Course, Lauren Elizabeth Downey
The Effects Of A 40-Minute Bout Of Aerobic Exercise On State Anxiety In College Age Individuals, Rachael Dozier
Out With the Old, In With Revitalized Grammar Through Style-based Composition Pedagogy, Courtney Forester
Defending the Bodice Ripper, Dora Abigail Gardner
Prison Siting in Appalachia: Carceral Expansion, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Harm, Macey Logan Hall
From Perceiving To Achieving: Experiences Of An Adolescent With Autism Spectrum Disorder In A Summer Day Program, Spencer Thomas Hammond
Population Demographics And Active Foraging Behavior Of Copperheads (Agkistrodon Contortrix) At A Recreational Site In Eastern Kentucky, Jocelyn Hendricks
The Role of Continuous Flowering Phenology for in Neotropical Plant-Pollinator Interactions for Use in Conservation, Chelsea Renee Hinton
Knockout of the trans-acting riboswitches in Listeria monocytogenes to disrupt downstream virulence factors, Robert Jackson
Occupational Therapists' Perceptions and Clinical Reasoning of Splints Used in Adults with Neurological Conditions, Yichen Jiang
The Impact of the Cold War and the Second Red Scare on the 1952 American Presidential Election, Dana C. Johns
Understanding the Impact of Hobby Participation on Quality of Life During Cancer Treatment, Bethany Lynn Keuter
Preparing For The Teaching Of English Language Learners: A Comparative Study Of Cultural Intelligence From One Rural Kentucky University, Elisha Lawrence
Perceived Predation Risk And The Responses Of Adult And Nestling Tree Swallows (tachycineta Bicolor), Natalia May Maass
"Where Is A Story Before It Becomes Words?": Understanding Queer Composition's Place in Writing Studies Through Lynda Barry's What It Is, James Franklin McClure
The Impact Of Blended Learning On Measures Of Academic Progress (MAP) Based On Student Growth, Molly Elizabeth McComas
Impact of the Big 5 and Sensation Seeking Personality Traits on Everyday Deception, Bailey McGuffin
High Altitude Fish, Micah McGurk
Habitat Use And Nightly Activity Patterns Of Bats On A Military Landscape In Western Kentucky, Carson E. Mcnamara
Eating Disorders, Suicidality, and Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, Emily Mink
Examining Partisan Advantage In Congressional Maps Using Simulations Based On Election Data, Zachary James Morgan
The Impact of Positive Human Interest Stories on Raising Hope Through Social Media in Kentucky's Promise Zone Counties, Melissa Newman
Referendum on the Revolution: The Pennsylvania Constitutional Debate, 1776-1784, Tristan James New
Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment, April Nicole Pace
Mountain Roosters, Matthew Parsons
Dirt Work, Rachel Anne Parsons
The Chivalrous and Feminist King: How the Arthurian Legends Chronicled the Formation of Two Gender Identities, Gary Andrew Pickle
The Small-Town NFL Player, BoDene Blare Pinz
Folk Dance: An Occupation For Building Community, Wendy Price
Influence Of Applied Potential And Metal Ion Concentraion On Metal Electrodeposition At Micron Gap Gold Electrodes, Krista Michel Riggins
Autobiography, Kristen Marie Ruggles
Self and Communication in Long-Term Romantic Relationships, Farshad Michael Sadr
Hidden Weather and Other Stories, Lydia K. Sanders
Volition and the Readiness Potential, Paul David Sanford
Personal Jesus and Other True Stories, Leslie Scheuler
Holler If You Need Me, Lori Singleton
Ecosystem Functional Consequences Of Body Size Variation In An Apex Predator (Ambystoma jeffersonianum), David Samuel Smith
Desolation Road, Eric James Smith
Post Surgical Outcomes Following Limited-Open Carpal Tunnel Release or Endoscopic Carpal Tunnel Release, Keeley Shaye Smith
The use of environmental DNA for the detection of Palaemonias ganteri (Hay, 1901), a federally endangered cave species, Andrew Joseph Stump
The Danger Of ‘no’: Rejection Violence, Toxic Masculinity And Violence Against Women, Lily Katherine Thacker
The Impact of Prior Settings in Early Childhood on Kindergarten Readiness, April Trent
Women's Postpartum Experiences, Courtney Watkins
Teacher Perspectives on Environmental Education Programs Provided By Eastern Kentucky University Division of Natural Areas, Mahala Amber Watts
The King's Apothecary, Sherri Ann Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Results on the Gold Grabbing Game, Stephen Acampa
Determination of Atrazine Concentration in Freshwaters Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Boniface Osei Amankona
Behavioral Style Indicators of Communication and Professionalism in a Family Medicine Residency, Jillian Marie Atherton
Resisting gendered sport roles: A criminological sports analysis of women's rugby in the U.S., Kelsey Basham
Inspired Positive Organizational Development (ipod): The Beneficial Effects Of Mindfulness For Nonprofit Organizational Leadership, Kristen Ophelia Bennett
Predicting First-Year Academic Success of African American and White Students at Predominately White Institutions, Jerel Benton
The Comparative Study On The Effects Of Virtual Reality In The Application Of Case-Based Learning Approach While Studying The Human Heart, Banu Rukiye Bilen
Everything Broken is Waiting to Be Fixed, Jake Russell Bingham
Can You Hear Me Now: Being Deaf and Healthcare Experiences., Jordan Blackaby
Population Size And Habitat Association Of Etheostoma Nebra, The Buck Darter, Using Abundance Modeling In The Buck Creek System, Cumberland River Drainage, Kentucky, Harold Davidson Black
