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 The College of Liberal Arts
    

Bachelor of Arts 2024

Bram Carter
How to Choose a Theory: Empiricism from Verificationism to Pragmatism

Tyler Cochran-Branson
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge: Exploring the Intersections Between Anthroposophy and Contemporary Alt-Right Radicalization

Chloe Gocher
Persephone's Garden : A Thesis in English Creative Writing

Sage Lidzbarski-Lahti
White Male Apologists: How Online Fandom Treats Their Pet Narcissists

Olivia Martin
Woodstock and Altamont Were Not Counterculture: Capitalism Within the Music Industry

Hayden Mattson
A Case Study of 'The Wolverine': How film represents comorbid mental disorders in the character "Wolverine" through a fantastical lens, and the impact of this representation on men

Muhammad Mir
Modeling Water Optimization in Jordanian Agricultural Economy

Chekwubechi Okunowo
Sino-Africa Investment: Examining its Role as a Political Preservation Strategy for African Political Elites

Júlia Oliveira Souza
Disconnected Identities: (re)constructions of Brazilian National Identity in the Latin American context

Kris Perez
"Beheading" The Minotaur: How Anna Ziegler's Modern Myth Reframes Classical Storytelling for a Modern Audience: A Director's Perspective

Emily Pieczyrak
Literature's Identity Crisis: Simulation and Selfhood in Contemporary Fiction : A Thesis in English Literature

Eleanor Poethke
Summer Camp and Cultural Memory: The intersection of memory and physical space at Cross Roads Camp and Retreat Center

Molly Reidmiller
Defending Dignity: An Exploration of the Menstrual Equity Movement in Prisons Through the Lens of the Missouri Case

Charlotte Reing
Parla come mangi: Food, Presentation, and the Break from Tradition in Italian Visual Culture

Casey Brookes Richardson
Professionals or Predators: Patterns of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict

Grace Rinehart
Is AI "Taking Over" Our Responses to (Mis)Information? How Artificial Intelligence and Group Membership Shape Perceptions of Political Messaging

Melinna C. Sanchez
Protecting Preimplantation Genetic Testing Patients: A Social Support Perspective

Sarah Selim
'What's Yours is Ours': BookTok, the Romance Genre, and the Authorial Reader

Jamie Smith
"A taste for killing" versus "Abusive, traumatic childhoods": People's beliefs about the influence of nature and nurture in heinous, violent crimes

Nicole Sydor
Exporting and Reconstructing Imagined Communities: Global Literature, Translation, and Kazuo Ishiguro : A Thesis in English Literature and French

Edilson Dylan Torres
CONTRA ELLA: The Impact of the Dobb's Decision on Latina Reproductive Justice

Angelae Wunderle
Mathematical Movements: Bringing Dance into the Classroom

Nia Zeikidze
Advocating for Sustainability in Fast Fashion: Efforts by Nonprofit Organizations

Katja Zengel
Gender and Nationalism: Women's Roles in Twentieth-Century Spain

Bachelor of Science 2024

Sarah Alfau
Effects of Tea Tree Oil against Persister Cells from Biofilm Structures

Ethan Bockhorn
The Effect of Human Population Density on Water Quality of Ponds and Lakes in Morris County, NJ

Mira Elizabetty Cohen
Investigating Potential Synergistic Effects of LM11A-31 and DCP-LA to Protect Neurons Under an Oxidative Stress Model of the Aging Brain : A Thesis in Neuroscience

David Hoyt
Investigating the Innate Immune Response to Single-Stranded DNA : A Thesis in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Aline Carla Krüger
Design and synthesis of novel pyridine-based conjugated ligands for 2D perovskite formation and improved solar cell efficiency

Michelle Lombardi
The Effects of Urban Agriculture on Soil Quality

Daniel Magda
Avian richness and population dynamics in the Drew Forest during the 2023 fall migration

Joel Asabi Moses
Investigating the Effects of pH and Salt Concentration on Substrate Inhibition of Yeast Aldo-Keto Reductase 163

Rachel Sirica
The influence of aquatic macroinvertebrates on the abundance of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Megan Slater
Sex Differences for Developing Anxiety or Depression Related Behaviors After Early Life Exposure to Chronic Variable Stress (CVS) in Long-Evans Rats

Shelby Swensen
The Effects of Rhizobia Bacteria on Soil Nutrient Levels and Plant Productivity in Pisum sativum (Dwarf Snap Peas) and Trifolium repens (White Clover) : A Thesis of Environmental Science

    
 The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
    

Master of Arts 2024

Kevin Bellotti
Frenemy at the Gates: Measuring the Diplomatic and Economic Impact of Recognition on the Relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1933-1941

Camden Glenn
Persistence and Decline of the Postwar British Aristocracy in the Foreign Office

Andrew Long
Forging a New World Order

Doctor of Letters 2024

Dena Arguelles
Trans...Matters: Medieval and Modern Bodies in Conversation

Cynthia A DiTaranto
Who Will Be Queen?

Bethany L. Duane
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Unintentional Feminist

Michelle Marie Flanagan
The Edge of Equinox

Andrew Forrest
Meanwhile the World Goes On: Provincetown's Place in an Age of Trauma

Fredrica Bearg Glucksman
Place as a Participant in Mid-Twentieth Century American Literary Nonfiction

Tijana Hitchon
'Rough Draft' Preservation of the American Landscape: Reflections on Seasons in the Works of Charles Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth, and Robert Frost

Janene Howard-Rodriguez
NCLB and New Jersey: A Case Study on How New Jersey Implemented NCLB Mandates to Close the Achievement Gap Black and White Students

David Hunscher
Mythic Mentoring: The Structure and Dynamics of Mentoring in the Odyssey

Leah Jerome
The Civilian Conservation Corps from the Meadowlands to Bear Mountain: An Evaluation of Race, Gender, and Labor in the New Deal’s Effort to Employ America and Plant Trees

Rodger Thomas Kraft
You Are Where You Sit Lessons In Compromise

Joan Foster McCarty
Daughter of a Different Sun: Finding Panther—Finding Home

Bonnie J. McCorkindale
Recovering with a Mindful Spirit: Integrating Mindfulness and the Twelve Steps

Donna Thompson Ray
Talkin' to Books: Photographing Black Education During Reconstruction and Its Aftermath

Frank Sedita III
Hope and Healing in the Gutter: The Graphic Narrative as a Source of Agency, Identity, Voice, and Social Justice for the LGBTQIA+ Community in Fascist and Contemporary Italy

Stefanie Rose Shapiro
Finding Home: A Personal Quest for Self, Belonging, and Body Acceptance

Gina Marie Suriano
Reclaiming Medusa from Male Hegemony: Feminist Revisionist Myth of Christine de Pizan and Feminists in the Fourth Wave

Suzanne Venezia Vrancken
Company Town Girl: An Ethnological Examination and Creative Exploration of Coal Town Culture in Southern West Virginia, 1937-1952

Richard A Wasserman
New Jersey in "The War to End All Wars": New Jersey’s Role in World War I and its Memorialization at the Local Level

Kay D. Wright
Bunyan: A Full-Length Play with a Critical Reflection

Kate Zemetis Zimmerbaum
In Extremis: An Aesthetics of Excess in Fiction of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

Doctor of Medical Humanities 2024

Lori Birchler
Silenced Voices: Performative Writing Inquiry of Elderly Women Within Congregated Care

Jutta S Braun
Thriving in Nursing School: Does Creative Thinking Moderate Stress? Study of Associate Degree Nursing Students in a Northern New Jersey Community College

Cailyn Breski
The Effects of Ultrasound on Quality of Life: An Exploration of Ultrasound as a Diagnostic and Treatment Modality for Neurodegenerative Diseases

James Ronald Chambers
Secondary Traumatization in the Helping Profession: A Crisis in a Pandemic Through a Phenomenological Lens

Kadeem Zandre Gayle
Pain Crisis: Narrative Inquiry on the Lives and Experience of Adults Living with Sickle Cell Disease Pain and Pain Management

Kevin J Poirier
What Can We Learn From Pain Narratives? An Investigation of the Ethical Gaps in the Treatment of Patients Who Suffer From Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Through the Perspective of Patient Narratives

Briana Jill Tierno
Enhancing Understanding Through Self-Awareness: A Medical Humanities Approach to Increasing Practitioner Self-Awareness and Strengthening Patient Connection

Doctor of Philosophy 2024

Mary Cannaday
Almack's: Membership, Gender, and Societal Power in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Sarah Marie Churchill
Slums in the Sky: How Photography Killed the Desire for Mid-Century, Mass Social Housing in Britain

Mary McConnell DiBrigida
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, American Sociability, and the Power of History

Anne Garner
"I Got Mine" : Black Vernacular Music and Intoxication at the American Medicine Show

David Sockol
A Unity of Opposites: The Ironic Emergence of an Activist Aesthetic from the "Vulgar" Marxism of Georgi Plekhanov

    
 The Theological School
    

Doctor of Ministry 2024

Elrica Adams-Finney
Go Tell It On The Mountain: Justice Begins When The Vulnerable Are Heard. A Chaplain's Research in S. Africa and the US

Dre An
Practice of Christian Social Welfare through Spirituality

Sukhyun Bae
Research on Untact Spiritual Training for Faith Reform Movement: A Case Study of Daily Prayer School

Sherry Blackman
The Transformative Power of Creativity

Soniyyah Denice Blue-Key
Moving Beyond Diversity Theater: Approaching Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as a Form of Spiritual Formation

Eric Marcus Brewer
Healing Hidden Wounds: The Resilience of Black Men And The Impact of Their Spirituality Upon Their Grief Recovery

Hui Soo Choi
Healthy Church thriving with Local Community: A Case Study of Pyeongchon Church

Roberto Che Espinoza
Becoming Trans Trans Becoming: Towards a TransChristology

Mona Fitch-Elliott
Striving Toward Racial Equity in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

James M Gehrke
Walking the Sacred Journey: (Re) Discovering the Spiritual Significance of Pilgrimage in a Secular World

Woong Heo
DISC School for Congregational Relationship

Kevin R Hunter, Sr
Providence Manor is A Place To Age In Place, Or Is It?

Heekyung Kim
Global Citizen Education through Expanding Church's Publicity: A Case Study of Healing Church

Hyesook Kim
Family Community Ministry through the Meal Table

Seung Hyeon Kim
Crossovering Diasporic Korean Church: Recovering Church Identity through Tongdok

Heemoon Lee
Recovery of Biblical Koinonia: A Case Study of Central Methodist Church

Minho Lee
The Effect of Tong Preaching on Faith Development in the Generation MZ: A Case Study on the Youth Group of Jumunjin Methodist Church

Sunghun Lee
Tong Bible and Relationship with Neighboring Churches: A Case Study of Relationship with Yangju Area Pastors

Bonnie McCubbin
I Love to Tell the Story: A Pilgrimage Towards Racial Justice in The United Methodist Church

Douchan Na
An Impact of Tong Sermon on Young Adult Ministry: A Case Study on Haneulbit Young Adult Church

Byungho Park
Tong Bible and Evangelism for Non Churched Area: A Case Study of Hansi Mission

Jennifer Pick
Birthing Place: Placemaking as Wo/men's Work

Aemina Razzano
Trauma-Informed Care, Recovery, and the Authentic Self: A Practical Book for Spiritually Informed Communities

John Gottlieb Ruehl, IV
The Road to Emmaus: Bringing a Local Congregation into Conversation with the Asset Based Community Development Model

Jongoh Seo
A Study of EPIC for Faith Education of Next Generation: A Case Study of Seokgok Church

Seongsoo Sim
EPIC Ministry for Young Adults: A Case Study of Yeneung Young Adult Church

Mia Hash Sloan
Religious Trauma: How Religious Trauma has unjustly silenced Black women living with HIV in the Southeast Region of the US South and how religious trauma affects relationships with their faith communities

David G Soto Valenzuela
Women in the Gospel of Mark: Ancient Representations and Contemporary Implications

Adalí Efraín Vélez
Spiritual Practices Lead to Sustainable Social Justice: An Immigrant Expression

Patti V Weikart
From the Congregational Health Network to the Healing Tree: A New Model for Providing Collaborative and Equitable Care for Patients and Families Managing Sickle Cell Disease

Wendy Angela Williams
Why Does the African American Church Remain Silent on the Issue of Domestic Abuse? An Investigation and Implimentation of the Feminine Divine to Address the Problem

Claire Wu
Introduction to Cooperative Parish: Five Principles for Developing Homogeneous Parishes into Multicultural Cooperative Parishes

Doctor of Philosophy 2024

Anna K. Blaedel
Sacred Enfleshments: A Queer Theopoetics of Collective Liberation

Julian Armand Cook
We Shall Be Changed: Black Gospel Sonic Ethics, Chicago's Black Spiritual Churches, and Black Futures, 1929-1950

Jennifer Maidrand
Excavating Promised Land: The Geopolitics of Scripturalization in Palestine-Israel

Hilary McKane
Theo-Economics in Matthew's Parables: Laboring and Lending for God

Abigail Mohaupt
Where Your Treasure Is: Orchestrating a Theological Social Movement on Climate Change, The Presbyterian Church (USA), and Divestment From Fossil Fuels

Dawrell G. Rich
Bridging A Gap: The Role of African American Churches in Urban Environmental Justice

Kelsey E. Wallace
Remembering the Future: Exodus, Science Fiction, and the Strategies of Memory

Robert Kyle Warren
Assembling Nearness, Constructing Proximities: Toward a Theopoetics of Spatial Justice and Architecture