College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

 

Electronic versions of theses and dissertations awarded by the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences (LAS) at DePaul University since 2009 are archived here. Search the DePaul University Library Catalog for print copies of theses and dissertations awarded prior. Most DePaul theses and dissertations are also indexed in the proprietary database ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Information regarding requirements for LAS theses, non-thesis final projects, and dissertations can be found on the Graduation Requirements page. Contact the Graduate Student Services Office with questions.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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

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Aristotle on the concept of life, Cameron F. Coates

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Lake sonnets, Michael Dean

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Passport stamps: traveling through memory and place, Alexandria Wachal

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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

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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Black & Boring, Daryhl Gregory Covington

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Autotrophy of the Other: On Food and Hospitality, Evan Edwards

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Daytona sands, Avery Ferin

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Ruination, Christopher Flynn

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Modality and Method in Hegel's Logic, Ryan Froese

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Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault, Owen Glyn-Williams

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The Threat of Nihilism and the Prospect of Non-Nihilistic Metaphysics in Jacobi and Hegel, Tom Krell

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On the Flow and Structure of Process: An Inquiry into Changes of Things, or Shifts of Systems, Zhen Liang

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Nowhere station, Connor Lindsey

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Relief Is the Thing with Teeth, Jess Macy

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A Feminist Analysis of Pelvic Exam Violence, Maya Parekh

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Half-Lives of Responsibility: Gramsci, Derrida, and Inheritance in Environmental Ethics, Michael Peterson

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Pretty Weeds, Sarah Pobuda

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Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball, Kendall Nichelle Rallins

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How Will I Tell You?, Elisa Revello

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Nonlinearity as Care: Black, Feminist, and Queer Temporalities of History, Rachel Silverbloom

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The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and Zhuangzi 莊子, Paul M. Turner

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze, Sarah E. Blattner

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Envisioning maternal health practice through antiracist feminisms, Haley Moles

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Reclaiming stability: the dialectic of stability and instability in capitalist society, Jeta Mulaj

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Navigating the fat queer body: the impact of cultural discourses on identity construction and belonging, Gabriella Ann Mulder

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Gender and identity reflected in the works of Nawāl Al-Sa‘adāwī and Samīḥah Khrais, Zachary Oesterreicher

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The problem of sexuality: philosophy’s weak spot and the inconsistent nature of nature, Bradley Ramos

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Reading foreign policy archives: how regime-made disasters, pointillism, and citizen-perpetrators underpin U.S. Empire-building, Abigail A. Raney

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Black girl magic: the (re)imagining of Hermione Granger: an analysis and autoethnography, Kandice Rose

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Crazy tubby girl/mad fat transman: troubling and reclaiming schizophrenia through women of color feminism and madness studies, Tyler Allen Selsor

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Rememoration, ‘sticky associations,’ and social media performativity in the pegida movement, Haedyn Smith

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The marginalization project, Malea Thomas

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The feast of Lucy, Abby Vakulskas

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Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography, Nina Rose Smith Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Uncanny valleys: sex, power, & the artificial person, Margo Arruda

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Engines of autonomy: regional organizations leading Latin America’s struggle for emancipation, Dejan Bajic

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Worry the bone, Chad Baker

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Second-generation Turkish Americans in Chicago: the influences on the preservation of ethnic identity & Turkishness, Zerrin Bulut

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Toward feminist aesthetics: feminist provocations to German idealist aesthetics, Amelia Hruby

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Racialization, sexualization, and resistance: a “subtle” look at Our Nig and “a subtlety”, Nicole Huff

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A gendered analysis of the ready-made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh: a paradox of empowerment and dis-empowerment, Ishma Fairooz Iqbal

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Pricked, Amy Jesionowski

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The independence-dependence paradox facing youth aging out of care from transitional living programs, Rebecca Johnson

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Prudence and providence in Kant, Khafiz Kerimov

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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure, Jessica King

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The roommate, Caroline Macon Fleischer

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La mise en page de l’enfant déraciné: l’identité, la mémoire et l’autofiction, Margaret O'Brien

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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin, Daniel Pepe

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De-policing queer possibilities, Michael Rangel

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Recovering Palestinian ancestral remedies as a politics of return, Sarah Risheq

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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, Jonathan Singer

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Is the identity development process intersectional?: the story of 15 gay white male Chicagoans, Jacob Stone

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“What i see when my eyes fall out”: anticipations, intensifications, immediacies, and transitions of identity construction, affect design, and movement building in digital spaces, Joshie Tikka

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Let it all be joy, Christopher Watkins

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Searching for Sustainable, Intergenerational, and Multiracial Coalitions on the Neoliberal Campus: A Case Study, Victoria Agunod

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Critical race theory in education: analyzing African American students’ experience with epistemological racism and eurocentric curriculum, Sana Bell

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Formative, Eli Brown

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Strangers at home: Guido Deiro and his accordion in the American vaudeville theater, Yu Hao Chen

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Developing resilience through local food, Erika Coble

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White wilderness: race, capitalism, and alternative knowledges of natural space, Jamie Corliss

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Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Édouard Glissant's Early Thought, Miguel Gualdron Ramirez

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Envisioning utopia: the aesthetics of black futurity, Sydney Haliburton

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Religious identities and allegiances in the transformation of Ukrainian national consciousness 2013-2018, Julian Hayda

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China’s investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impact of the 2007 Sino-Congolese agreement in a postwar period, John Bintu Bantu Kafarhire

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Revolutionary bodies: William Blake and the struggle for transcendence, Anthony Madia

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Obscurity and involvement on the unconscious of thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, Gilbert Morejon

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Migration, multilingualism and adaptation: language as social capital in a present-day Mexican ethnic enclave in the U.S., Citlali Ochoa

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Emotional Labor and Care Delivery: Interviews with Obstetrical Nurses, Kelly O'Meara

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From typology to aesthetics in American literature, Lisa Parzefall

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Climate change, environmentally displaced persons and post-sovereignty: an assessment of normative gaps and potential solutions in international law, Thais Pinheiro Birriel

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Towards a classification of continuity and on the emergence of generality, Daniel Rosiak

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The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools, Lauren Rouse

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Intertextual abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, and the print, politics, and language of slavery, Jake Spangler

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Land and land grabbing: the case study of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe in Uganda, Carolyn Vertin

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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The political logic of destituent power: time, subjectivity, and revolutionary violence, Kieran Aarons

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Counter-narratives and Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s play Invasion!: storytelling that fractures the orientalist narrative, Anna Christina Bahow

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Diversity and dissonance: a narrative exploration of adolescent transcultural identity construction within the International School, Rachel Conrad Carlson

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Facebook as a contemporary public sphere: political consciousness and agency, Catherine Drake

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The discovery of Merlin’s spirit within the trinity of Robert de Boron’s Le Roman de L’estorie dou Graal, Diane Higgins

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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility, Ege Selin Islekel

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Occupation and resistance in southern Iraq: a study of Great Britain’s civil administration in the Middle Euphrates and the Great Rebellion, 1917-1920, Scott Jones

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Networks in nature: applying cultural ecology for stewardship, Shelby Lasaine

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In the presence of suffering: toward a new understanding of evil, Kristina Lebedeva

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Bob Manning & son: soul, inheritance, and forgotten stories, Matthew R. Manning

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Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault, Neal Miller

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The logic of imagination: a Spinozan critique of imaginative freedom, Amanda Parris

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Ethics as praxis: the convergence of Michel Henry’s phenomenology of life with christianity, Hoang Pham