Electronic versions of recent theses and dissertations by College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences (LAS) students at DePaul University are archived here. See Graduation Requirements or contact the Graduate Student Services Office for more information on the LAS submission process.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The role of nonprofits as administrators in municipal sustainability planning: An exploration of four cities, Morgan Benson
Exercises in Style: 21st Century Remix, Bethany M. Brownholtz
From normalization of relations to war: United States-Libya relations 2001-2011, Kelly Gosa
Undocumented migration, the fourteenth amendment and the enduring battle over who counts, Molly Hoover
Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak, Jana McAuliffe
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The contribution of small farms and commercial large farms to the food security of Trinidad and Tobago, Alia L. Allard
Does anyone here speak tashelhait? Perspectives on environment, identity and social change in south Morocco, Lewis A. Bradford
Indigenous art in urban renewal: The emergence and development of artistic communitites in midwetern post-industrial cities, William Covert
Critical ecologies: Violence and life in the work of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno, Richard L. Elmore II
Nietzsche and classical greek philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus, Daw-Nay N.R. Evans Jr.
Of heart, mind & belonging: Reflections on anti-racist white identity development, Jessica V. Havens
A critique of political self-deception: Kant and Freud at the edge of critical theory, James A. Manos
Oil, politics, society and the state in the middle east: Enduring authoritarianism in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Benjamin E. Martorell
A comparative case study of female literacy and development in Guatemala and Bolivia, Anavelia Mauricio
Dissolute pluralism: An ethics of queer thought, Kristin P. McCartney
The balancing test: Is fairtrade cotton a sustainable policy for improving the livelihoods of Indian cotton producers?, Sheyanne Mooter
US Foreign Policy During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Rachael S. Murdock
How do American's think about the enviornment and what does it mean for public policy: A re-assessment, Todd P. Newman
The connectivity doctrine: A critique of techo-utopian discourse, liberal governmentality, and the colonization of cyberspace, Geoffrey S. Pettys
Becoming identities: The philosophical subject, intersectionality, and assemblage, Heather Rakes
Debating sustainable development in global climate change policy: The “Cancún agreements” v. the “People’s agreement of Cochabamba”, Andrew J. Riplinger
Campaign strategy in the internet age: The use and effectiveness of internet advocacy tools in American political campaigns., Andrew J. Shapero
The problem of experience in Adorno's philosophy and aesthetics, Surti Singh
Lithuanian women in the Parliament: Access and participation in post-socialist politics, Simona Stankevicius
Building brotherhood: An examination of race, violence, sexuality and black fraternity membership, Ashley Y. Stone
The idea of mimesis: Semblance, play, and critique in the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, Joseph Weiss
Resisting internalized oppression: Black women's perceptions of incarceration, Emily R. Williams
Orange revolution - post-socialist urban political movement, Kristina Zaluckyj
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Perceptions of the effectiveness of not-for-profit board development opportunities, Daniel R. Abben
What we talk about when we talk about literacy: A look into the value, measurement, and power hierarchy of literacy, Veronica Carolyn Bond
The wage gap revisited: An investigation of salary request differences among Black-White and male-female workers, Andrea L. Briggs
Teaching communication in sex education: Facilitating communication skills knowledge and ease of use, Sarah Butler
Bernece Berkman and the monograph: A feminist perspective, Audrey E. Carie
Towards the development of culturally and contextually relevant model of coping for low income, urban, African American adolescents, Kristin Joy Carothers
Male circumcision in the United States: The History, an analysis of the discourse, and a philosophical interpretation, Jonathan D. Cohen
"From backburner to forefront: Critical recollection and commitment to literary community in women beat memoirs", Katelyn Cunningham
Genetic differentiation of a sympatric lake-resident/anadromous species pair of threespine stickleback in Mud Lake, Alaska, Cory J. Drevecky
Spanish leadership in developing a 'common' European immigration policy: Intergovernmentalist supranationalization approach, Joanna Drozdz
The roles of FGF and Wnt signaling during maxillary barbel regeneration in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio)., Robert J. Duszynski
U.S. immigration law: children as a unifying means to immigration reform, Sarah J. Flagel
Chromosome malorientation precedes nondisjunction during female meiosis I, Shane Gillies
Residence hall sense of community in physical and technology-based spaces: Implications for alcohol-related attitudes and behaviors, Benjamin C. Graham
Institutional Analysis of a Natural History Museum: Formation and dissemination of scientific knowledge, Lisa Herzog
BEYOND THE PROTOTYPICAL: DEVELOPING A BEHAVIORAL SCREENING TOOL OF SAME-GENDER MALE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, Marco A. Hidalgo
Beyond the prototypical: Developing a behavioral screening tool of same-gender male intimate partner violence., Marco Armando Hidalgo
The effects of culture on attorney preservation of the confidentiality of client information, Rosemary Hollinger
The disclosure process of an invisible stigmatized identity, Jessica Hudson
Politics, history, critique: An interpretation of Kant's political philosophy in light of his critical-regulative method., Dilek Huseyinzadegan
Josephine, Josie, Jo, Julie Koslowsky
Constitutive exclusion and the work of political unintelligibility, Sina J. Kramer
Fair trade and development goals in the coffee sector, Brooke Amy Lautz
Effects of teacher factors on expectations of students with ADHD, Lauren J. Legato
Security misread: A critical analysis of Ukraine's debate on NATO, Andriy Levytskyy
The central american free trade agreement: Effects on labor in the maguila sector, Cristina M. Lucero
Effect of iron and sodium chloride on biofilm development of stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Rudy F. Martinez
Eve Disordered: The Relationship of Feminine Happiness and Hierarchy in Paradise Lost, Jennifer McCafferty
Writing a feminist ethnography: A comparative analysis of Iranian women's stories of resistance and agency in Iran and America, Tanja B. Messing
Opium production and distribution: Poppies, profits and power in Afghanistan, Michael Nicoletti
The Roma of Romania, Oana Oprean
The dependence of suspension viscosity on particle size, shear rate, and solvent viscosity, Marc Pavlik
EVLA imaging of methanimine and hydrogen cyanide in Arp 220, Matthew R. Rickert
Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom, Cavin Robinson
Posttraumatic distress as experienced by adolescents: traumatic stress through adolescent eyes, Andrea Saul
“Perennial Growth” in a Shrinking City: A Case Study of Urban Agriculture Policy and Planning in Cleveland, Ohio, Elizabeth S. Schuering
Precursor-directed biosynthesis of non-natural berberine and galanthamine analogues, Tom E. Speltz
In their own words: A qualitative analysis of relational resilience in the lives of gay, bisexual, and questioning male youth, Rodrigo Torres
Investigating the process of fibril formation of the Iowa mutant of the Alzheimer's peptide, Xavier S. Udad
Analysis of protein secondary structure via the discrete wavelet transform, Timothy E. Vanderleest
The veil as exception and difference in French discourse and policy, Mallory Anne Warner
Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism, Kathleen A. Wesolek
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
A framework of language use in reference to people with disabilities: People-first, disability-implicit, and disability-first language in a school setting, Lindsey Therese Back
Keeping "body and soul together": Rosa Coldfield's gothic voice in absalom, absalom!, Valerie Baehl
The sexual marketing of eastern european women through internet pornography, Karina Beecher
The impact of religiosity on parenting behaviors in latter-day saint families, Steven Behling
Intended, proper, and actual utilization of the Emergency Department: A survey of emergency nurses' perceptions, Kyle Thomas Bergan
The perfect image of a young man: The influence of greek culture and aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, Matthew Blackall
A psychological sense of community as experienced among immigrant survivors of torture, Nancy Bothne
Errors on the vertical: Santification, infra-humanization, and religious prejudice, Mark John Brandt
Hemisphere differences in idiom comprehension: The influence of ambiguity, transparancy, and familiarity, Stephen Briner
Miles to meters an examination of public attitudes towards metric conversion: The 1977 FHWA Highway Metrication Proposal, Thomas Richard Cook
“They got a spot for us in this school”: Sense of community among students of color with disabilities in urban schools, Ronald D. Crouch
Psychological assessment in vocational rehabilitation: A qualitative exploration of acculturation assessment and clinician testing practices, Oscar A. Donoso
Latino immigrants in the United States. Why the suburbs? Why the Round Lake area? A case study., Carolina Duque
Direct visualization of cold denaturation of cytochrome-C Using Small Angle X-Ray Scattering, Margaret Elmer
"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen, Meredith S. Faust
Trust and cooperation as antecedents of team cognition: A temporal examination of the life cycle of team mental models, David Fisher
Girls coming of age: possibilites and potentials within young adult literature, Abbey J. Fox
Higher education and development in the golbal south: The case of Kenya, Erin Ashely Mink Garvey
Playing from memory: Essays on music in life, Tamara Ghattas
Increasing latino engagement in sustainability and philanthropic efforts of mainstream youth development organizations in the United States, Lynda Gonzales
Whom do we study: An analysis of diversity in the community psychology literature from 1973 to 2007, Robert E. Gutierrez
Regulatory focus and decisional delay: Chronic indecision caused by a prevention focus, Corey Hammer
Transnational feminism and gender-based violence: Exploring the relationship between feminist theory and V-Day, Molly Laura Boeder Harris
The U.S. - Colombia free trade agreement - A historical placement of the FTA, Declan Healey
The oxford house model: A pathway to empowerment of women, Bronwyn Anne Hunter
I am the melting pot: Multiple identity integration among gay/bisexual/questioning male ethnic minority adolescents, Omar B. Jamil
Understanding addiction stigma: Examining desired social distance toward addicted individuals, Patrick F. Janulis