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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Female cross-dressing and fragile masculinity in Le Roman de Silence and Twelfth Night, Nicole Robilotta
The telling is political & intentional: resistance through testimonio for Latinas in higher education, Fabiola Rosiles
Las curanderas de la herida abierta: how online communities of women of color are challenging coloniality, Aracelis Sanchez
Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era, Alex Schackmuth
Pauli Murray in the 1930s: portraits and post-soul eccentricity, Sarah Scriven
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated, Bintou Sy
Affirmative action and Bolsa Família in Brazil, Beatriz C. Vigil
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Lemonade, gin, and juice: the performance and deconstruction of black masculinity from n**gers to negus, Robert A. Barry
Assessing how adult attachment and gender role attitudes impact intimate partner violence, Theresa M. Bratanch
“The abnihilization of the etym”: Finnegans Wake ii.3 as oral poetry in the age of mechanical reproduction, Joshua Brown
As above, so between: configuring Miss Lala as a mixed race subject, Elizabeth Fei
Understanding Boko Haram, Daniel Flynn
Imaginative methods: a feminist rereading of John Maynard Keynes, Cassandra Forster-Broten
Laboring for peace and development: evaluating the United States-Jordan free trade agreement’s effects, Timothy Hotze
A comparative analysis of the factors determining the immigration policies of Germany and Hungary, Dominika Kleinova
Negotiating difference: the Roma and European-ness, Alicja Kubas
Minding the gaps: deducing meaning in Sherlock Holmes fanfiction, Christina M. Miranda
Lesbian lingo: slang terminology in English and Spanish spoken by lesbian communities in the United States, Taralee Morgan
NAFTA and its effect on corn, migration and human rights in Mexico, Thomas Nisivaco
The bliss of reaching: an online magazine, Whitney Rauenhorst
Socio-political contradictions in Brown’s American Gothic: an important historical precursor to the conceptualization of ideology in modernity, Robert T. Schassler
Gender ambivalence, fragmented self, and the subversive nature of James Tiptree, Jr.'s science fiction, Mihaela Stoica
From grassroots to global: unintended consequences of a Bolivian quinoa economy, Melissa Trinley
Reconstructing whiteness in Ambrose Bierce, Jordan Weber
A consumption of gay men: navigating the shifting boundaries of m/m romantic readership, Kacey Whalen
The perversion of the absolute: religion and representation in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Thomas Floyd Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth, Norah Alsuhaibani
Midcentury modern: a memoir, Christian Browning Anderson
The battle of Kosovo, hero cults, and Serbian state formation: an analysis of Serbian political culture, Tena Korac Andric
The Janus-face of capitalist labor: gender, race, and work in early modernity, Ashley J. Bohrer
The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot, Jessica Brown
The invention of order: modern spatial concepts and the emergence of the Americas, Don T. Deere
The story of a video game: reading the Assassin's Creed universe, Karina Diaz
Artificial perspectives: how science fiction grapples with the growing power of artificial intelligence, Marcus Emanuel
A discourse of the non-discursive in Plato and pseudo-Dionysius, Benjamin Frazer-Simser
A house on the border, Libby Kalmbach
That's Ru-volting! how reality TV reimagines perceptions of American success, Megan M. Metzger
Humor and the absolute: comedy and irony in the philosophical projects of G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Schlegel, Karolin Mirzakhan
Being and method in Eckhart and Heidegger, Ian Alexander Moore
Beyond this is a nothing: Beckett's early fiction, James Neisen
“If you’re not that as an Asian woman, you’re not shit as an Asian woman.”: (re)negotiating racial and gender identities, Andi T. Remoquillo
Localizing immigration enforcement: “secure communities,” § 287(g) and Arizona law 1070, Jessica Rios
External and internal pressures on radical social movements: tracing the (de)mobilization of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Jordan W. Scott
Aristotle and the Cynics on happiness and misfortune, Christopher Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
My boy, Nicole M. Bartoloni
Revolution of the right: explaining the rise of the front national in light of the 2008 financial crisis, Alexanda Campione
Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality, Marie Draz
Unplugged: an augmented reality party of poetry, prose, and music, Joshua A. Fisher
Please, don't let me be misunderstood: intentionality, queer gestures, and feminist accountability, Katelyn Heinekamp
The historical construction of the Native American other and U.S. self: a conceptually schizophrenic perspective, Garrett Johnson
Labor market channels: perceptions of Vietnamese immigrants on accessing jobs in Chicago, B. Colleen Keefe
The breakup: the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass, and me, Kristin R. Lindsey
Arendt and Spivak: a feminist approach to political worlding and appearing, Rosalie Siemon Lochner
Divine discrimination: gender harassment and Christian justification, Abigail L. Muldoon
Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state, Imge Oranli
Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi, Sonya Nihan Ozbey
A study on the effect of fulfilling hegemonic masculine norms on men's health across regions, Deborah M. Philbrick
The Africa command: how the Department of Defense has continued America’s ad-hoc foreign policies in Africa through neo-orientalism, Katherine T. Roseman
Death in life: approaches to the contemporary denial of death in theoretical & experimental psychology and continental philosophy, Madeline R. Runstrom
Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition, Kelsey Schultz
Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: findings from learners' production data, Jose Sequeros-Valle
Demystifying the welfare state: the case of the Republic of Moldova, Claudette M. Sevcenco
The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian, Rohan Sikri
(In)articulating the specter: queer communicative resistance in the hysterical supernatural, Clare Stuber
Analysis of management models of water utilities and water coverage, Chad Stutsman
Resistance through literature in Romania (1945-1989), Olimpia I. Tudor
Interpretation as epieikeia: Aristotelian ethics as a paradigm for Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, David Volfe
dipsomania, Dylan Weir
“The least of these”: black club women and the social gospel, Joseph Thomas Williams
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