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 Library Vufind 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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Curiosity: philosophy and the politics of difference, Perry Zurn
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Reaching for a connection: hand imagery in Emily Dickinson’s poems, J. Max Barry
Continuity, constellation, and unworking: an exploration of language in Nietzsche, Alicen L. Beheler
Black actresses in American films: a history and critical analysis of the mammy/maid character, Valerie Coleman
Working women and the Lilly Ledbetter Act: a case study on misleading rhetoric of equal pay, Celia A. DeBoer
Avenging women: an analysis of postfeminist female representation in the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers series, Mary Louise DeMarchi
Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes, James E. C. Griffith
Transcending pathology, transforming the thinkable transperson: young transpeople, the law and gender self-determination, E. L. Hunter
African American muslim fathers and the factors that influence their notion of fatherhood, Usama M. Hussein
Tectonic shift: a scientific account of my young adulthood, Rosalyn Lederman
Get yourself connected: time, space, and character networks in David Mitchell's fiction, Josh Lesser
Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts, Melanie Anne Pauls
Literature for girls and the preadolescent novel: a historical analysis and recommendations for challenging the status quo, Molly K. Pim
No vacancy: explaining the undulation of office building construction projects in Chicago's central business district during the 1970s, Michael R. Rast
Expectations of peace: documentation, memorialization, and construction of the archive in northern Uganda, Matthew Sebastian
Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature, Virginia Slana
The politics of indigenous social struggle in Colombia, Gilberto Villasenor III
Challenging identity hierarchies in Julie Taymor’s Tempest, Aaron W. Vinson
Re(born) this way, Lee Westrick
Participatory theater in community health, Nikki Zaleski
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Introducing flexibility in the admission requirements for the membership of eurozone countries, Caheri Aguilar-Arriagada
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
Legitimate concern: the assault on the concept of rape, Matthew David Burgess
Recycled rhetoric: brand Israel "pinkwashing" in historical context, Joy Ellison
From normalization of relations to war: United States-Libya relations 2001-2011, Kelly Gosa
“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900, Amanda Helms
“White ink”: the body and écriture féminine in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Kati Emilee Hoctor
Undocumented migration, the fourteenth amendment and the enduring battle over who counts, Molly Hoover
Scottish and Ukrainian nationalism: a comparative study, Rostyslav Hrynkiv
Growing pains: scale and mission in the fair trade textile sector, Karlee Johnson
Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak, Jana McAuliffe
Gossip, performance, and regulation: an examination of social communities in Tom Wolfe‘s I Am Charlotte Simmons, Jeremy Rasmussen
Social movements using social media in a mined and censored world: examples in the United States and China, Michael Roeder
Early career change among millennial US college graduates, Gina Sian
The body and the blood: Graham Greene’s incarnational imagination, Julie Simpson
New media objects: the future of electronic literature and its influence on print stylistics, Brian Tillewein
New narratologies: an examination of the interplay between life, land, and story, Dana Turner
The Stoics and the practical: a Roman reply to Aristotle, Robin Weiss
Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction, Christina Yatrakis
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 communities in midwestern 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 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