College of Arts and Sciences (UMKC)
UMKC's College of Arts and Sciences strives to be a model urban liberal arts and sciences college reputed for both traditional and cutting-edge undergraduate and graduate academic programs; a highly diverse and dynamic faculty, staff, and student body; an active engagement with its city and region; and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research. The College is organized into 18 departments that offer instruction in specific academic disciplines across the arts, sciences, and humanities.
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The Nonstory and Other Stories
(2022)The following is a selection of my writing from 2018 to present. I consider the work I have completed during my years at UMKC to be a series of experiments in the short fiction form, and I believe that this thesis is a ... -
"Nobody Can Say It Wasn’t": Language of Power and the Bosnian Genocide, 1992–1995
(2023)Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Serb nationalists, with aid from the Republic of Serbia, committed genocide against Bosnian Muslims in an effort to secure territory for a larger Serbian state. General debates over the ... -
Three essays on Platform Capitalism and its alternative
(2023)This dissertation delves into the intricate landscape of platform capitalism and its multifaceted relationship with labor dynamics, bringing forth a nuanced understanding of the evolving economic terrain. The first ... -
“It has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks": Intertextual regulation of women from the early British novel to the twenty-first century screen
(2023)This interdisciplinary dissertation examines twenty-first century film adaptations of Jane Austen’s work as intertextual, intermedial products with roots in the early-British novel. Rather than being direct offspring of ... -
Investigation and development of wideband antenna gain enhancement techniques
(2023)The far-field gain of an antenna relies on its physical dimensions, often posing a challenge for achieving higher gain without increasing size. We address this issue by exploring innovative design strategies to enhance the ... -
Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
(2023)The mainstream feminist movement in the United States has struggled to include women of color and marginalized women. However, two constants emerge from the work of both white feminists and feminists of color: first, writing ... -
How Spirituality and Fatigue Interact to Affect Quality of Life in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
(2023)The cognitive theory of stress and coping by Lazarus and Folkman can explain how individuals cope with a stressful chronic illness, specifically metastatic breast cancer (MBC). If an individual appraises their MBC as ... -
Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned: The Dramatic Potency of Confession on the Early Modern English Shakespearean Stage
(2023)Though forcefully absent in its traditional practice by political and religious reformation, evidence of confession in early modern English drama remained and became representative of an exchange of power between dramatic ... -
Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
(2023)The current study investigated how spiritual intimacy and emotional intimacy potentially mediated the impact of marital sanctification on positive and negative marital quality. Moreover, the present study examined if gender ... -
Coping Methods of College Women of Color Facing Discrimination
(2023)Scholars have documented that experiencing microaggressions can have a negative impact on the psychological and physical health of women of color. Female college students of color specifically have shown to experience ... -
A Synthesis and Optimization of Patented Direct Air Capture Technology
(2023)An engineering method termed direct air capture is used to take CO₂, the predominant global warming greenhouse gas, out of the atmosphere directly. Given that CO₂ levels in the air are only 0.04%, it presents a technical ... -
Examination of postoperative outcomes following elective colorectal surgery
(2023)While a considerable amount of progress has been made on reducing poor postoperative outcomes following elective colon resection, including the design of a colectomy-specific Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program, ... -
Social Anxiety Among Black Women
(2023)Social anxiety disorder is one of the most prevalent and chronic types of anxiety disorders. Yet, social anxiety often goes undetected and untreated, particularly among racial-ethnic minority groups. Existing research ... -
The Education of a Staff Officer: The Life and Career of Samuel Cooper, 1798-1852
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 1989)Samuel Cooper was an officer in the United States Army from 1815-1861, and a Confederate States Army officer from 1861-1865. Cooper's long career as a staff officer in the U.S. Army culminated in his appointment to the ... -
Acceptability and Feasibility of Using Virtual Reality to Address Mental Health Stigma with African American Young Adults
(2024)African Americans are disproportionately affected by mental illness compared to White Americans. Studies have reported that African Americans experience higher levels of mental health-related stigma (MHS) than White ... -
Initial Development of the Adolescent Mental Health Literacy Scale
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2023)Although African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population, they also represent nearly 20% of persons with a mental illness diagnosis. Additionally, 58% of African Americans have average to below average health literacy. ... -
Efficient Automated Generation of Local Descriptors for Use in ab initio Electronic Structure Simulations
(2023)First-principles electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are well-known to have a high computational cost that scales algorithmically as O(N³), where N is the number of electrons. Reducing ... -
Community Perspectives of Police Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(2023)The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in March 2020, forced police to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, including new police, tasks, and different work tactics. Based on surveys of community members, this study explores ... -
Development of Closomer And MIBG based Nanoformulation: Application to HIV Prevention and Neuroblastoma Therapy
(2023)This dissertation is divided into two parts. Part #1 focuses on the development and characterization of closomer based nanoformulation for the prevention of HIV/AIDS sexual transmission. Part #2 focuses on the development ... -
Function Implementation in a Multi-Gate Junctionless FET Structure
(2023)This dissertation explores designing and implementing a multi-gate junctionless field-effect transistor (JLFET) structure and its potential applications beyond conventional devices. The JLFET is a promising alternative to ...