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 VUfind 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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Chasing the American Dream: Refugee students and care in U.S. high schools, Yacoub Aljaffery
Muslim Women and Centered Leadership Practices, Raheela Al Karim
Uncanny valleys: sex, power, & the artificial person, Margo Arruda
Engines of autonomy: regional organizations leading Latin America’s struggle for emancipation, Dejan Bajic
Worry the bone, Chad Baker
Consent Around the Globe: Sexual violence prevention programming that responds to the needs of international students, Michael Blackman
How do personalized learning programs’ instructional designs match gifted students’ experiences in using them?, Sarah Bright
Second-generation Turkish Americans in Chicago: the influences on the preservation of ethnic identity & Turkishness, Zerrin Bulut
Preparing a Diverse and Culturally Sustaining Teacher Workforce: The Role of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Policy in Teacher Education, Emily Caliendo
The Social Construction of the Progressive Era: A Critical-Historiographical Case Study in Vocationalism, Brian D. Carlson
BERT efficacy on scientific and medical datasets: a systematic literature review, Clayton Cohn
"#does this count as poetry?": A genre analysis of Tumblr poetry, Selena Cotte
The Purpose of Education: A Case Study on Accountability and Latina Teachers in a Midwest Charter Network, Alexandra Irma Cruz
The Impact of Racial Identity in College Planning Resources for African American Students considering Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Camille Franklin
The Role of Parental and Family Involvement in the Persistence of Freshman First-Generation College Students, Ray O. Grant
STATE-FUNDED DUAL ENROLLMENT PROGRAM: ONE STATE’S PERSONALIZATION APPROACH TO INCREASE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES AND REDUCE DROPOUT RATES, Debra H. Harris
Reclaiming Joy: Finding Resilience in Families with Children with Autism, Nancy K. Hashimoto
Toward feminist aesthetics: feminist provocations to German idealist aesthetics, Amelia Hruby
Racialization, sexualization, and resistance: a “subtle” look at Our Nig and “a subtlety”, Nicole Huff
The "Being" and "Doing" of a "Good Teacher" from a Soka Perspective, Nozomi Inukai
A gendered analysis of the ready-made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh: a paradox of empowerment and dis-empowerment, Ishma Fairooz Iqbal
Relational Trust as a Determinant of Principal Turnover: A Quantitative Analysis, Steven Michael Jeretina
Pricked, Amy Jesionowski
The independence-dependence paradox facing youth aging out of care from transitional living programs, Rebecca Johnson
Academic Engagement and Institutional Experiences of the Undergraduate Community College Student from Marginalized Communities, Fashawn D. Jones
Becoming a Feminist Educator: A Self-Study on Feminist Pedagogy in a Music History Classroom, Sarah Wells Kaufman
Pathways to the Native Storyteller: a method to enable computational story understanding, Aramide O. Kehinde
Prudence and providence in Kant, Khafiz Kerimov
Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure, Jessica King
The roommate, Caroline Macon Fleischer
Wakanda College Retention Program: Developing Black and Brown Young Men, William A. McHenry
Built bodies: Representations of monstrous transsexuality in the Frankenstein film, 1945-1975, Carmilla M. Morrell
Ensemble labeling towards scientific information extraction (ELSIE), Erin Murphy
La mise en page de l’enfant déraciné: l’identité, la mémoire et l’autofiction, Margaret O'Brien
The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin, Daniel Pepe
De-policing queer possibilities, Michael Rangel
Creating Positive School Culture on Social Media - School Culture on the Go, Antoine L. Reed
Recovering Palestinian ancestral remedies as a politics of return, Sarah Risheq
Second Language Acquisition and Standardized Assessment Practices, Hal Scott Schmeisser
Mathematical Identity Formation: Preparing Students with Learning Disorders for Post-Secondary Education and Careers, Ravi Anil Shah
Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, Jonathan Singer
Is the identity development process intersectional?: the story of 15 gay white male Chicagoans, Jacob Stone
A Phenomenological Study of Chicago's Independent School Principals, Jerry Travlos
Cyber operations range [CORE]: a lightweight and scalable platform for cybersecurity education through gamification, Michael Peter Vieth
Auditing database systems through forensic analysis, James Wagner
Raising Him: Testaments of Five Black Single Mothers and How They Perceive Their Experiences of Raising Theirs Son(s) in Contemporary Urban America, Collage C. Warner
Crime Reporting Through Social Media: Potential Opportunities in Community Policing, Kimberly Washington
Let it all be joy, Christopher Watkins
An Examination of Employee Coachability and Managerial Coaching in Organizations, Jake Alexander Weiss
Chronic Absenteeism: The Problem, The Participants, The Panacea, Markenya L. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Effects of Personality Retesting on Validity Coefficients as Moderated by Situational Strength, Daniel R. Abben
Searching for Sustainable, Intergenerational, and Multiracial Coalitions on the Neoliberal Campus: A Case Study, Victoria Agunod
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF VIDEO GAMING ON CHILDREN’S MAGICAL THINKING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD, Rafi Antar
How similar are braille letters? Towards the understanding of reading through the sense of touch., Ana Baciero de Lama
Defining the American System, Andrea Bellovary
FLOURISHING IN THE FIRST YEARS OF TEACHING: DESIGNING A FRAMEWORK FOR NEW TEACHER INDUCTION, Sister Thomas Aquinas Betlewski
Formative, Eli Brown
EDUCATION, ORDER, AND THE SPECTER OF EMANCIPATION, Alex B. Cameron
Strangers at home: Guido Deiro and his accordion in the American vaudeville theater, Yu Hao Chen
What Professional Development Practices Do Mid-Career Teachers Need?, Amy Christie
Developing resilience through local food, Erika Coble
White wilderness: race, capitalism, and alternative knowledges of natural space, Jamie Corliss
Phylogeography of the Neotropical Fish Genus Rhoadsia (Teleostei: Characidae) in Ecuador, Roberto Valentino Cucalón Tamayo
When objective price information is not available: Impact of unpublished or missing prices on the purchase journey for high costs, high involvement products, Thomas J. Dammrich
Office Clutter and Its Influence: Assessing Engagement, Satisfaction, Tension, Stress, and Emotional Exhaustion, Trina N. Dao
Key Expressions of Posttraumatic Distress in Cambodian Children: A Step Toward Culturally-Sensitive Trauma Assessment and Intervention, Caleb J. Figge
UNARTHODOX: AN INVESTIGATION OF HOW CHILDREN ARTICULATE THEIR SENSE OF SELF THROUGH ART, Brandon Gilbert
Clutter and Self-Extension Tendencies: Predictors of Life Satisfaction among Emerging Adults, Juline A. Girts
Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Édouard Glissant's Early Thought, Miguel Gualdron Ramirez
Social Networks as Mediators of Proximal Recovery Outcomes for Veterans Living in Recovery Homes, Mayra Guerrero
Envisioning utopia: the aesthetics of black futurity, Sydney Haliburton
Religious identities and allegiances in the transformation of Ukrainian national consciousness 2013-2018, Julian Hayda
THE COST OF BEING A “STRONG BLACK WOMAN”, Alescia Maraboushontrell Hollowell
THE NEOLIBERAL PARIAH, Jeremiah Howe
Automatic inference of causal reasoning chains from student essays, Simon Mark Hughes
Muslim-American Democratic Citizens: Dismantling Rituals with Tarbiyah, Nida Iftekaruddin
Long-Term Outcomes in Juvenile Fibromyalgia (JFM) Patients with Early Reports of Potentially Traumatic Events (PTEs), Anjana Jagpal
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
Framing Teaching in Retrospect: A Qualitative Study of Educational Philosophies and Teacher Socialization through the Teach for America Experience, Angela Marie Kraemer-Holland
BUILDING THE NEST: HOW NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING TEACHERS (NESTs) IN THE TEFL FIELD DEVELOP INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE, Emily S. Kraus
WAVELET ANALYSIS OF SHORT GLOBULAR HOMOLOGOUS PROTEINS IN MESOPHILE AND THERMOPHILE PROKARYOTES, John B. Linehan
Human Resource Initiatives Addressing Factors Impacting Organizational Gender Stratification and Performance: A Computational Study, Ashlyn Paige Lowe
Revolutionary bodies: William Blake and the struggle for transcendence, Anthony Madia
Must-stream TV: The reemergence of NBC's must-see TV in the streaming era, Bri Mattia
The Invisible Struggle: Understanding the Plights and Success Strategies of Low-Income Single Mothers in Undergraduate Programs, Christina Matuschka
The Invisible Struggle: Understanding the Plights and Success Strategies of Low-Income Single Mothers in Undergraduate Programs, Christina R. Matuschka
Hope and Focus on Future as Protective Health Factors? A Moderation Analysis with Race and Income, Rebecca McGarity-Palmer
Natural Mentoring Relationships Among Latinx Youth: The Role of Trust and Stressors, Lidia Yanelli Monjaras-Gaytan
Obscurity and involvement on the unconscious of thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, Gilbert Morejon
Trans Sports Illustrated: Identities and Experiences of Transgender Athletes Assigned Female at Birth, Sophia Neely
Migration, multilingualism and adaptation: language as social capital in a present-day Mexican ethnic enclave in the U.S., Citlali Ochoa
Stereotype Threat and STEM Self-Perceptions of Saudi College Women, Ali Hadi Omair
Emotional Labor and Care Delivery: Interviews with Obstetrical Nurses, Kelly O'Meara
A Computational Cognitive Architecture for Exploring Team Mental Models, Neil Benoit Outland
From typology to aesthetics in American literature, Lisa Parzefall
Climate change, environmentally displaced persons and post-sovereignty: an assessment of normative gaps and potential solutions in international law, Thais Pinheiro Birriel
Chasing the white whale: Capturing the relation between parent educational involvement and student socioemotional difficulties over time, Samantha Irene Reaves