Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University

Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University

 

Electronic versions of most theses and dissertations awarded by DePaul University since 2009 are archived here. Note that this section may not yet contain all masters theses completed after 2009; some may only be available in the individual degree-granting departments at the current time.

Search the DePaul University Library catalog for print copies of theses and dissertations awarded before 2009.

DePaul University theses and dissertations are also indexed in the proprietary database Dissertations and Theses Full-Text.

Information and support for your thesis, non-thesis final project, or dissertation from inception to completion can be found on the relevant DePaul college, school, or program requirements page such as LAS Graduation Requirements. Contact the awarding student support office directly with questions about your thesis or dissertation.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Spirits of the king, Ali Al-Ani

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A Phenomenological Study on Preschool Educator Experience in Re-imagining Play and Play-Based Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ronabeth Keh So

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Invisible Disability: A Review of Hearing and Vision Impairment Challenges in the Workplace, Melissa Ann Aguinaldo

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Mitigating Sunk Cost Bias for Consumers: Considering Alternatives Within High and Low Construal Levels When Costs are Sunk, Jasmine N. Ahmad

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The Positive Impact of Exposure to Nature versus Urban-Environment Images on Cognitive Processing: Working Memory and Problem Solving, Caitlin Julia Ailsworth

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Predicting code refactoring via analyzing the history of quality metrics and code anti-patterns, Sarah Alanqari

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Loving without memory: on the concept of salvation from Deleuze's Spinoza to Spinoza's Deleuze, Eric Aldieri

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Social Zapping: Examining Predictors of Last-Minute Cancelations Among Community Members, Alyssa T. Altieri

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Campus Racial Climate and Mentoring: Impact on Academic and School Experience Outcomes, Safa Asad

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Music in the Liturgy: An Education-Focused Approach, Robert M. Beatty

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The Moderating Effects of Acculturative Stress and Ethnic Identity on the Relation between Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms among Latinx Youth, Mariana J. Bednarek

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Nourishing Family Connections: Exploring the Impact of Mealtime Dynamics on Child Depressive Symptoms, Kyra (Dee) Bekelja

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Somewhere between: a memoir of the Bosnian American experience, Elvina Beslagic

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Residential Vacancy and Crime in the Wake of Housing Crisis in Chicago, Shaun Bhatia

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Impact of Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha Conditional Knockout on Ovarian Follicle Development in the Mouse, Zlata Bogin

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Black, Male, Juvenile: A Multi-System Perspective on Hope, Dehumanization, and Redemption in Recidivism & Education, Alexandra M. Brandt

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Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Direction of Effects and Mechanisms of Influence, Bridget Brush

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Navigating Sense of Home: Migration experiences of Home and Community, Andrew Peter Camilleri

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Aristotle on the concept of life, Cameron F. Coates

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Conceptualizing Positive versus Negative Awe: Do Connection and Self-Significance Interact to Determine Awe’s Valence?, Christopher Evan Cole

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Trainee Perceptions of Structured On-the-Job Training (OJT): The Impact of Trainer Experience and Use of Structured OJT Guides, Jessica Nicole Cooperstein

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Lake sonnets, Michael Dean

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Critical Civic Engagement of Immigrant-Origin Latinx Youth, Wendy de Los Reyes Moore

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Interorganizational Practices that Foster Reciprocal Trust Between Central Office Administrators and Principals, Andrea M. Derdenger

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Identifying and transforming sites of power in collaborative community-based research, Jessa Dickinson

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Attention visual, Baris Dingil

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Code generation based on inference and controlled natural language input, Howard R. Dittmer

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A Spotlight on Teachers’ Culturally Sustaining Beliefs and Responsive Practices for Students of Color in Mathematics, Susan Ejma

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“Young, Gifted, and Black”: Understanding the Complex Experiences of High-Achieving Black Students in AP Classes at a Diverse Suburban High School, Jody Elliott-Schrimmer

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The Challenges of Catholic Identity in American Catholic University A Case Study of DePaul University, Andrew Ezechiugo

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Youth Relational History Affecting Mentoring Relationship Quality, Brittanie Nicole Gage

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Balanced Negotiations: An Online Negotiation Training for Women, Kaitlyn Rose Gallagher

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Retail Workers’ Job Preferences: Uncovering the Drivers of Attraction, Retention, and Attrition, Alyssa Green

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Relationship Between Objective Measures of Stress and Child Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Margaret Harrigan Clark

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Peer Victimization and Post-Traumatic Stress Problems among Latinx Youth: The Role of Emotional Reactivity and Gender, Ashley N. Harris

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The Dangerous Effect of Entitlement on White Nationalist Ideology, Kara Elizabeth Harris

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Leave in Yiddish, Eliana Herman

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Strengthening higher education for displaced students from Burma in Thailand: identifying collective interest and expanding value across diverse stakeholders, Claire Holba

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Service Learning in the Digital Age: Understanding Nontraditional Students and Their Experiential Journey Through Electronic-Service Learning, Qianhui Hub

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Latinas in Leadership Positions in the United States: Theories, Characteristics, and Recommendations, Fernanda Ibanez

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Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults, Mustafa Kemal Isik

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Overcoming foreign language anxiety in an emotionally intelligent tutoring system, Daneih Ismail

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Nietzsche's Ariadne: a new perspective on the eternal recurrence, Jessica Jessen

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Northeastern Illinois University: Identifying Characteristics Associated with Low African American Student Retention and Persistence, Laural E. Johnson

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The crossroads of oil: perpetuation of settler colonialism based in Native American treaties and sustained through the construction and protection of oil pipelines in the American Great Lakes region, Samuel Johnson

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Quiet Quitting: Navigating an Old Phenomenon in the New Normal, Eilish Keane

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Hacker, influencer, counter-culture spy: cyberspace actors’ models of misinformation and counter-operations, Benjamin Kessell

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The Process of Designing and Revising a High-Quality Digital Math Curriculum For a Large Diverse Urban School District: Recommendations From a Math Designer, Suzan Kheireddin

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Thinking Style as Input: Information Seeking and Processing, Youlim Kim

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Skilling up for CRM: qualifications for CRM professionals in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Seth J. Kinnett

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The Cellie Coping Kit for Kids with Craniofacial Conditions: Developing a Culturally Sensitive Psychosocial Support Tool and Coping Resource for Families with School Age Children with Craniofacial Conditions from Diverse Backgrounds, Marissa Lee Koven

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INVESTIGATING THE SALINITY TOLERANCE OF THE SWORDTAIL (Xiphophorus hellerii), Alexandra Megan Krak

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Exclusion, Extroversion, and Relationship-Related Thought Accessibility, Stacey L. Kruse

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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony, Paula Landerreche Cardillo

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孟母三迁 (Meng Mu San Qian): New Chinese Immigrant Parents' Narratives About Involvement in U.S. Public High School Education, Haixia Li

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Characterization of the Immune Deficiency Pathway during female meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster, Sarah Mashburn

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The Power of Spiritual Leadership in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Stefanie Mingari

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Do Moral Foundations Predict Views on Morally Contested Issues?, Mackenzie Maria Moreno

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Understanding Athletics Academic Advisors’ Experience with Job Burnout and Antecedents that Shape Job Burnout, Felicia O'Rourke

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Cultural Values and Internalizing Symptoms among Latinx Youth: The Role of Gender, Paulina Paredes Cienega

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Foucault's brain: discourse, matter, and the possibility of a plastic genealogy, Daniel Perlman

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How We Feel About Numbers: The Impact of Framing and Number Format on Emotion and Decision Making, Kwame Poku-Acheampong

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Implementation and Assessment of a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in General Chemistry, Alissa Potts

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Can the Ummah speak? reexamining genealogies of Black Muslim Women within the Black freedom movement through the examples of Betty Shabazz and Clara Muhammad, Shameem Razack

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An Exploration of Affective, Physiological, and Environmental Stress Among Adolescents with Chronic Medical Conditions, Brittany Lynn Ricart

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of ticks and tick-borne disease at NEON sites across a sub-continental scale, Ana Sofia Rivera

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Unsettling graduate social work education at DePaul university, Jovan Rivera-Lovato

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The Prairie State: Using Ecological Niche Modeling to Predict Distributions of Early Land Plants, Zoe Ryan

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OPTICAL VARIABILITY OF GREEN PEA GALAXIES, Julissa Marie Sarmiento

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All Bi Myself: The Relationship Between Bisexuality and Self-Essentialism, Madeline Lucille Sharmat

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The Sanctity of Human Life: An Examination of the Effects of Education and Training of Less-lethal Force Option Devices in the Royal Thai Police, Trak Silapaduriyang

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Hegel's critique of skepticism: concept, judgment, and syllogism, Jacob Singer

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The Age of Connection: Interdependent Self-Construal Links Age and Prosociality, Jason Snyder

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An “other” experience of videogames: analyzing the connections between videogames and the lived experience of chronic pain, Gracie Straznickas

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The Reproduction of an “American Dream” or “American Nightmare”: The School Perceptions of Low-Income African American and Latino Young Men of Promise, Roberto Suarez

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Ageism by a Community Sample of Young Adults: Expanding the Contact Hypothesis to Explore Ageism, Helena Lucia Swanson

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The Protective Effects of Physical Activity Coping and Environmental Supports on Academic Stress among Adolescents, Taylor Swenski

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The role of anhedonia in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and alcohol use and food addiction in a sample of emerging adults, Mary Takgbajouah

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Interposition based container optimization for data intensive applications, Rohan Tikmany

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The Influence of Metaphorical and Literal Language on Conspiracy Theory Belief: The Role of Language and Individual Differences, Gabrielle Toups

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Profiles of Violence Victimization and Mental Health Outcomes among LGBTQ Survivors in Illinois: A Cluster Analysis, Mary Margaret Tull

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The Interplay between Parental Psychological Control and Parental Emotional Overinvolvement on Depressive Symptoms among Early Adolescents, Taylor Breanna Ullrich

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Passport stamps: traveling through memory and place, Alexandria Wachal

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OBSERVATIONS OF 25 GHz METHANOL MASERS IN W51A, Peter Wagstaff

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Reverential language in American education: why we started calling teachers heroes and how language is at the root of broken school systems, Anne Walchak

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Towards generalizable machine learning models for computer-aided diagnosis in medicine, Yiyang Wang

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Examining Predictors of Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth among Sexual Assault Service Providers in Rape Crisis Centers, Anna Wegrzyn

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Accessibility of Civil Legal Service Provision for Survivors of Sexual Assault in Illinois, Kayleigh Zinter

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Conditioned by History: Experience and Critique in Foucault's Thought, Vilde Lid Aavitsland

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Does a New Product Development Project’s Name Influence Internal Stakeholder Commitment?, Dianna Akin

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Syrian Refugee, Donia Almadani

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Empirical assessment of big data technology adoption factors for organizations with data storage systems, Ahmad B. Alnafoosi

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The Pillars that Support School Principals in Cultivating Inclusive, Equitable Practices for Diverse Learners, Karime Asaf

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Black Adolescent Self-Perceptions: The Roles of Ethnic Identity and Stress Exposure, Kailyn Bare

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Cultural Change and Threat Perception: Casual Implications on White Nationalist Beliefs and Outgroup Restricting Policies, Andrea Bellovary

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Cultural Change and Threat Perception: Causal Implications on White Nationalist Beliefs and Outgroup Restricting Policies, Andrea Bellovary

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Complex Contexts within Oxford, Ted J. Bobak

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Analyzing Domain of Convergence for Broyden’s Method, Michael Bonthron

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Impact of Hospital Inventory Management of PPE on State-Level Healthcare Worker Infections during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nidhal Bouazizi

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An Empirical Study on Email Use, Stress, and Employee Job Satisfaction in a COVID-19 Environment, David J. Bouvier