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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Evidence of Non-Strike Induced Chemosensory Searching by Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon Contortrix) During Cicada Predation, Henderson Cyrenius Gull
“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
Perceptions Of the Impact Of Project-Based Learning Within An Urban Alternative Education Center, William Trent Hamlin
Broken, Jeffrey Hyde Jr
Forgotten In Local Jails: A Carceral System Created To Fail Women., Hayley Jackey
First Year Perceptions: How Does Starfish Retention Solutions™ help With Student Engagement?, Flora B. Jackson
Effect Of Digital Advertising On Website Traffic At A Kentucky Comprehensive Regional University, Brandon Lee Moore
Examining CPE's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy and its Impact on HR Directors to Recruit and Hire Faculty of Color at Associate-Level Colleges in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Dr. Adarrell LaFawn Owsley
Appreciative Inquiry: Transition Strategies for Students with Disabilities, Jerry Petrey
Shadows Hold Their Breath, Sherry Robinson
A Phenomenological Examination Of The Experience For Deaf Faculty Members In A Post-Secondary Institution In America, Amy Anne Schilling
The Impact of Mindfulness on Mental and Emotional Health, Physical Fitness, and Academic Performance, Melanie B. Smith
Effective Strategies for Recruiting African American Males into Teacher Education Programs, Fredrick Wellington Snodgrass
Strengthening Student Engagement Through Positive Teacher-Student Relationships, Kimberly H. Snodgrass
Barriers To Access And Success For Rural Community College Students At Rural Community And Technical College: Understanding The Effect Of A Mandatory First-Year Experience Course On Retention And Persistence, Amanda Spencer-Barnes
Coasting '71: a memoir, Richard Stuecker
Not Angry but Angy: The Rhetorical Effects of Non-Standard Language in Memes, Cailin Rhiannon Wile
The Examination of Attendance Support Teams in Urban Middle Schools, John Christopher Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Phenomenological Study Of The Impact Of Stroke On Marriage: Life Satisfaction And Occupational Performance In Daily Life, Melissa Arwood
Widows' Breath: Grief Fractures, Artie Ann Bates
Bee Abundance Along a Tropical Montane Elevational Gradient and Implications for Crop Pollination Services, Kristin M. Conrad
Bat Boxes as Mitigation Tools: Factors Impacting Microclimate and Myotis sodalis Roost Selection, Reed Crawford
Exploring The Relationship Between Teacher Caring, Teacher Job Satisfaction, And Burnout In Alternative School Teachers, Sandra Hope Davis
The Effects Of The Estrus Cycle On Microbiota Composition And The Opportunistic Pathogen Listeria Monocytogenes Infection Process In Murine Models, Ryan William-Thomas Donkin
The Importance Of Surface Mining As A Landscape Variable In Shaping Wild Bee Communities In Central Appalachian Forests, Amanda Sheryl Dunaway
The Relationship Between Cognitive And Linguistic Abilities In Bilingual Children, Ines Elena Martin
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
The Flower Shop, Ian McKinzey Hall
Living with a Chronic Condition: Perspectives of College Students at a Public Institution of Higher Education, Kelley Lynn Harlan
Comparing Shoulder Manual Muscle Testing With Scapular Retraction And Core Activation, Kyrsten Henry
Framing Crime and Social Problems: How Students Perceive the Legality of Digital Piracy, Jordan Henson
The Relationship Between Teacher Perceptions Of Professional Learning Communities And Shared And Supportive Leadership, Alicia Hunter
Experience of Play Participation and Use of Lower Extremity Orthoses in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Case Study, Lakyn Elizabeth Jolly-Burchell
Hiding In Plain Sight: Ghosted Police Vehicles And The Perception Of Police Presence On College Campuses, MacKenzie Kibler
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
Kitty Hawk Way, Mary Elizabeth Pope
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
“He Denieth None That Come Unto Him” The Mormon-Jewish Relationship During The Holocaust And World War Ii, Erica Lauren Shaw
"Pliable and Easily Shaped": History, harms, and regulations of plastic in the United States, Krista Decima Smithers
Impacts of Driving Factors on Annual Cicada Emergence in Relation to the Seasonal Abundance of Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix), Jesse Christian Sockman
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
Hometown, Edy Thomas
Atlas: a collection of poems on moving to the Wild West, William Andrew White
Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex: A Narrative Inquiry of Women's Experiences and Perceptions, Brandi Winchester
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
