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 ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
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 2018
The political logic of destituent power: time, subjectivity, and revolutionary violence, Kieran Aarons
A critical analysis of mystery in videogames, Ali Alkhafaji
SYRIAN REFUGEE STUDENTS' ACADMIC AND SOCIAL EXPERINCES IN AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Donia S. Almadani
Counter-narratives and Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s play Invasion!: storytelling that fractures the orientalist narrative, Anna Christina Bahow
The Lived Experience of Transgender Individuals with Eating Disorders, Mary Katharine Bowman
Friends in the Orchid Room: An Inquiry into Value-Creative Dialogue, Melissa R. Bradford
Contextual Perspectives on Heroin Addiction and Recovery: Classic and Contemporary Theories, Sarah L. Callahan
Diversity and dissonance: a narrative exploration of adolescent transcultural identity construction within the International School, Rachel Conrad Carlson
Economic Pressure and Depressive Symptoms among Latino Youth: The Role of Control Beliefs and Family Obligation, Ashley Castro
THE LONGITUDINAL RELATION BETWEEN HOUSING INSECURITY AND NEGATIVE PARENTING PRACTICES, Saidah Chambers
University internationalization as a method of human capital development, Kari Costello
The Effects of Psychological Home and Place Attachment on Life Satisfaction in Women of Color, Kendall Patricia Crum
Facebook as a contemporary public sphere: political consciousness and agency, Catherine Drake
Variation in Emotion Eliciting Events and Display Rules as a Function of Individualism and Collectivism: A Cross Cultural Comparison of Pakistanis and Americans, Serah Saleem Fatani
Gender Role Congruity in Negotiation: The Impact of Task Framing and Communication Mode, Kaitlyn R. Gallagher
Motivation to Lead: College Students' Perceptions of their Roles as Leaders on Campus, Jacob M. Gross
Defensive Pessimism and Goal Setting, Elizabeth Anna Guth
The Image Betrays More than It Reveals: Inter(ior) Views from Women of Color on Identity and Social and Academic Experiences in Higher Education, Amy Hauenstein
The discovery of Merlin’s spirit within the trinity of Robert de Boron’s Le Roman de L’estorie dou Graal, Diane Higgins
Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility, Ege Selin Islekel
REDESIGNING CURRICULUM, REIMAGINING EDUCATION: PREPARING PRESERVICE TEACHERS FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR IN URBAN EDUCATION, Sabrina D. Jones
Empowering Culturally Specific Needs and Barriers in Diabetes Education as Identified by Polish Speaking Patients, Bernadeta Agnieszka Kapustka
Toward Pay Equity: A Motivational Intervention to Reduce Gender Differences in Salary Negotiations, Mary Margaret Keegin
INTERSECTING IDENTITIES: THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF GAY, MALE CATHOLIC COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, Todd D. Kleine
Assessing the Experience of Awe: Validating the Situational Awe Scale, William L. Krenzer
Networks in nature: applying cultural ecology for stewardship, Shelby Lasaine
AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS’ DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE OF EARLY LITERACY INSTRUCTION, Samantha Lazich
In the presence of suffering: toward a new understanding of evil, Kristina Lebedeva
COMPARATIVE MEIOTIC CYTOLOGY AMONG DROSOPHILA SPECIES, Ahmed Folademi Majekodunmi
Bob Manning & son: soul, inheritance, and forgotten stories, Matthew R. Manning
Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault, Neal Miller
“YOU WILL DO BETTER THEN I DID” THE POSITIVE ACTIONS BLACK PARENTS EMPLOY TO INFLUENCE THEIR CHILD’S CHOICE TO ATTEND COLLEGE, Meagan Mitchell
Nurse Practitioner’s Perspectives on Treating Depression in the Nursing Home Setting, Bryan Mullaney
The logic of imagination: a Spinozan critique of imaginative freedom, Amanda Parris
Teacher-Directed Violence: The Role of Disempowerment in Turnover, Eric A. Peist
Ethics as praxis: the convergence of Michel Henry’s phenomenology of life with christianity, Hoang Pham
Sold a dream: An experimental test of the predictions of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion in a predatory student lending scenario, Lauren M. Pytel
Teachers’ Sense of Self-Efficacy and its Impact on English Learner Students’ Reading Proficiency-Level Scores on a Large-Scale Language Proficiency Test: A Mixed-Method Design, Mirtha Quintana-Toomey
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
Pride’s Influence on Perception of Control and Risky Decision-Making, Andrea Sanders
Confirmation and Characterization of a Functional APP/GAP-43 Protein Interaction, Ellen Savaglio
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
Impact of Maternal Depression on Offspring, Fatima Sozzer
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated, Bintou Sy
Who are the Elis of Today? Examining the Adults Present During the Religious Identity Development of Catholic-Raised Youth, Danielle S. Vaclavik
Affirmative action and Bolsa Família in Brazil, Beatriz C. Vigil
The relationship between a firm’s ownership structure, governance, and innovation, Erica J. Wagner
JUSTICE, TRUST, AND TEAM PERFORMANCE A Comparison of Leader Selection Methods on the Development of Team Trust, Jake Alexander Weiss
Online Palliative Care Education in the Skilled Nursing Facility, Caroline Kreisl Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
TOWARD IMPROVING METALLOENZYME INHIBITOR DESIGN: A THERMODYNAMIC STUDY OF SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTIONS WITH COPPER(II), COBALT(II) AND MANGANESE(II), Fatimah Aldakheel
"It Just Weighs in the Back of Your Mind”: Microaggressions in Science, Amy Anderson
Universal Teacher-Child Interaction Training: A Pilot Study Examining Coaching with Random Assignment, Alexandra Lauren Barnett
Lemonade, gin, and juice: the performance and deconstruction of black masculinity from n**gers to negus, Robert A. Barry
URBAN RENEWAL AND THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF HYDE PARK AND KENWOOD, David Belden
EFFECTIVENESS OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS/PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANTS IN TRIAGE, Kyle T. Bergan
The Effects of Perceived Danger, Fear of Heterosexism, and Internalized Homonegativity on Public Displays of Affection Among Gender and Sexual Minorities, John Patrick Brady
Assessing how adult attachment and gender role attitudes impact intimate partner violence, Theresa M. Bratanch
Investigating Post-Exertional Malaise as a Core Symptom of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Meta-Analytic Approach, Abigail A. Brown
“The abnihilization of the etym”: Finnegans Wake ii.3 as oral poetry in the age of mechanical reproduction, Joshua Brown
Relational Cultural Theory and Mentoring in a Science Support Program, Kathleen Buehler
Childhood Gender-Role Nonconformity and Adult Psychopathology, Andres Carrion
The Lived Experience of Recovery Home Residents: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Dina Chavira
SUPPORTING THERAPY-CENTERED GAME DESIGN FOR BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION, Jinghui Cheng
Proactive Workplace Bullying in Teams: Test of a Rational and Moral Model of Aggression, Anthony S. Colaneri
The Impact of Social Norms on Bystander Behaviors to Prevent Campus Sexual Violence, Kelly Collins
The Reciprocal Effects of Language Proficiency and Depression among Low Income Latino Youth, Nicole Colon Quintana
The Longitudinal Effects of Violence Exposure on Delinquency and Academic Outcomes for African-American Youth, Adina Cooper
Initial Development of a Team Viability Measure, Jessica Nicole Cooperstein
An Examination of Depression and Social Support among African American Women in Substance Use Recovery, Jocelyn Rose Droege
As above, so between: configuring Miss Lala as a mixed race subject, Elizabeth Fei
A Needs Assessment for Development of an Interpreter Services Educational Tool for CRNAs, Rachel Ferral and Angela Meyer
Understanding Boko Haram, Daniel Flynn
Imaginative methods: a feminist rereading of John Maynard Keynes, Cassandra Forster-Broten
Evaluation of a Video-Based Left Ventricular Assist Device Education Program for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Andrew Gause and Zain Rehman
Maternal Trauma Experience on Infant Cortisol Reactivity at 12 months, Michelle Anne Gilchrist
CRNA’s Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Acupressure as an Adjunct to Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Prevention, Kimberly A. Homa and Jacqueline Kuhn
Laboring for peace and development: evaluating the United States-Jordan free trade agreement’s effects, Timothy Hotze
The Impact of Values as Heuristics on Social Cognition, Lauren James
Intraoperative Blood Pressure and Effect of Volatile Anesthetic in Brain Dead Organ Donors, Alison Lynn Karmanian
EDUCATION POLICY AND NEWSPAPERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, Jumana Khalifeh
A comparative analysis of the factors determining the immigration policies of Germany and Hungary, Dominika Kleinova
Video Simulation as an Educational Strategy to Increase Knowledge and Perceived Knowledge in Novice Nurse Anesthesia Trainees, Rachel A. Kozlowski and Jennifer A. Kurdika
The Right Way to Direct a Play, Erin Kraft
Negotiating difference: the Roma and European-ness, Alicja Kubas
Intra-operative Awareness with Recall under General Anesthesia, Kelly Lannert and Dulcie J. Schippa
Impact of HPV Education on Knowledge, Perception, and Cultural influence among African American Parents, Christina Lattner
The Role of Adults in Facilitating Youth Critical Consciousness in Community-Based Service-Learning, Lynn Liao
A Standardized Electronic Handover Report for Anesthesia Providers, Amber Kristine Lindsay and Elisa Rue
EXAMINATION OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL ACCULTURATION THEORY AND ACCULTURATION PROCESS ON LATINAS/OS IN COMMUNAL RECOVERY HOMES, Roberto Lopez Tamayo
Task-management Training for Recognition, Prioritization and Decision-Making for the SRNA, Laura Majewski and Pauline Kenneth Borja Tselonis
PREDICTORS OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG YOUTH WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY, Kathleen E. McAuliff
Geometric Morphometric Analysis of the Pedal Claw of the Early Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis sanctus (Confuciusornithidae) and Its Functional and Behavioral Implications, Annie P. McIntosh
The Impact of Conformity and Qualifications on Perceptions of Power, Competency, and First Offers in Negotiations, Scott McLuckie
Coping Among Advocates with and without Lived Experience of Sexual Assault, Martina Mihelicova