Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University
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 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 2026
“Affirming Minds, Lives, and Bodies”: Secondary English Teachers’ Perceptions of Critical and Humanizing Antiracist Pedagogy in Urban Schools, Jennifer Leigh Ankerberg
Antecedents of the Principal Investigator’s Commercial Success When Funded by Small Business Innovation Research Program, Mohammed Bekkour
Acculturative Stress and Depression in Latinx Youth: Exploring the Roles of Emotion Reactivity and Maternal Attachment, Melisa Dangles
Leadership Approaches in Music Administration: Intra and Interconnections of Adaptive, Servant, and Transformational Leadership in Music Educators Transitioning to Administrative Roles, Joel Raynald DeFayette
Social Capital in the Puerto Rican Deaf Community, Javier Figueroa Quintana
Seed Consumer Dynamics at a Continental Scale, Jesse Grooms
The Unspoken Struggles and Unseen Strength: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Single Motherhood in Higher Education, Alexis Summer Gunartt
Eagle-winged Worms: Seeing Contingent Faculty Through Currere, Nicholas Hayes
The Optical Counterparts of Compact X-ray Binaries in the Globular Cluster NGC 6266, Scott Legeza
BENCHMARKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF DATABASE SYSTEMS, COMPLIANCE, AND OPERATIONS, Ben Lenard
Studies of Rhenium(I) Complexes with Protic Ligand Backbones: Base-Enabled Substitution and CO₂ Reduction, Konkanok Mathuros
Merging for Success: A Case Study on School Mergers as a Sustainable Alternative to Closures in Urban Education, Darcy Lynn Maxim-Otterbacher
Beyond the Script: A Qualitative Study Exploring Drama Teachers’ Experiences Using Improvisation in Chicago Public Schools, Nicole Theresa Minardi
Procedural Justice and Instructional Alignment in Body-Worn Camera Policies: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Large U.S. Urban Police Departments, Michael A. O'Connor
Always On, Never Off: A Phenomenological Study of Entry-Level Residence Directors in Coextensive Environments, Brent Ploughe
Fostering Resilience Among Urban Youth: Protective Settings and Processes, Yaneira Pyszniak
Capability Expansion or Constraint: Examining Equity and Academic Outcomes in Chicago’s Option Schools, Lacherie Reed
A Qualitative Study: How Does The Underrepresentation of Black American Contributions to American Society In K-12 Curricula Affects Black Students' Self-Perception?, Deniece M. Rogers
Advances in the Creation of a DNA Barcoding Reference Library for Freshwater Fishes of Western Ecuador with Emphasis on Metabarcoding Applications, Olivia Grace Schweikart
Socio-Informed Policing: Applying Bourdieu to Mandatory Police Reform Training, Neil T. Shelton El
Crisis Leadership in the Ivory Tower: Surviving the Enrollment Cliff and the Tenure Time Trap, St. Arbin Smith
Surviving The Hood: An Autoethnography on Violence, Trauma, and Agency, Deonte Tanner
Early-Life Exposure to PFAS Affects Adolescent Neuroimmune Activity, Gia Marie Valdez
The Impact of Family Relationships and Communication on the Mental Health of Urban Immigrant Adolescents, Gayatri Vatsavai
The Impact of Leadership of International Baccalaureate Schools in Low Socio-economic Communities, Sheena Wallker-Carruthers
Redefining Retention: Analyzing the Experiences of Black Men in Higher Education Through the Lens of Race, Masculinity, and Strength-Based Approaches, Roderick Waters
Steer for the Deep Waters Only: Exploring Student Value Creation through Dialogue and Art, Amy Weatherford
Changing Course, Margo Weinstein
The Relationship Between Culturally Based Mentoring and Academic Persistence in African-American and Latino Male Community College Students, Corey M. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Understanding Age Differences in the Effects of Group Exercise Messaging, Sydni N. Adams
Developing Transferable Skills Not Just GPA: The Case of a University Lab, Mopelola F. Adelakun
Emotional Intelligence in Higher Education: The Importance of Recruiting Emotionally Intelligent Leaders, Baker H. Alfarajat
The Impact of the Co-Teaching Model on the Academic Growth of the General Education Student, Paula Matkov Andries
The impact of temperature induced vertebral anomalies on C-start swimming performance in Astyanax mexicanus (Teleostei: Characidae), Kaleigh Arnold
GI, Pain, Anxiety, and Mood Symptoms among Youth with FAPDs, Helen Bedree
ZEEMAN EFFECT OBSERVATIONS OF WATER MASERS IN THE STAR FORMING REGION NGC 7129 FIRS2, Marina Bethann Beltran
Liberated Education: Sustainable Paradigms and Pathways for Black and Latino Communities Beyond Formal Education, Stephanie C. Bennett
Exploring South Asian Parent Perceptions of Involvement in Their Child’s Schooling, Qazi Mohammed Faaizuddin Biabani
Unraveling the Decline: A Phenomenological Narrative Exploration of Chinese Students' Experiences and Decisions in Selecting U.S. Higher Education, Lorne K. Brandt
1 Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 and Apolipoprotein-E in Alzheimer’s Disease: Virus Entry and Innate Immunity, Jim Camilleri
Shared Culture in Intimate Relationships, Jackelyn Castaneda
Navigating Knowledge: An Autoethnographic Journey Through Instructional Decision-Making and Educational Technology Development, Daniel James Clark
The Reality of Reason: Fiction, Method, and Modernity in the Metaphysics of Francisco Suárez, William Martin Nee Cox
Pain Dismissal, Anxiety, Depression, and Substance-use Coping in Emerging Adults with Chronic Pain, Elizabeth Felice Fenelon
A Multilevel Analysis of Arrest for Sexual Assault in the United States: The Effect of Incident, Police Department, and Community Factors, Erin Elizabeth Hoffman
Computational thinking, informal learning, and makerspace, Redar Ismail
Drag attack, Chase Jones
Blind School Saved My Life: An Autoethnography on the Benefits of Visual Impairment Schools, Valenzuella Jordan
Psychic life: the Freud-Bergson convergence, Bryan Maddox
Chicago Detective Explorers: Examining the Effects of Applied Social Emotional Learning Practices on Project-Based Forensic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education Within Out-of-School Time Programs, Jesus Roberto Magallon
Self-Assessment in Educational Makerspaces: Exploring Self-Regulated Learning as a Formative Assessment Tool, Sarah Margalus
Melanin Pedagogy: Black K-12 Public School Educators' Intention to Stay in or Decision to Leave Teaching, Erin M. Mason
The Impact of Moral Courage on Peer-Reporting Intentions, Taterial A. McClendon
A Case Study of an Instructional Design Model for Creating Scalable Courses in Healthcare, Zoaib Mirza
Evaluating wrist placement and signal processing techniques for real-world HRV monitoring using PPG, Andrew Murphy
Accurate and scalable control-flow differential analysis on system traces, Yuta Nakamura
"That's Not Happening to My Kid:" Six Chicago Public Schools' Families Speak Out, Julie Parson Nesbitt
Sk8er skull, David Norton
The Impact and Perceptions of Return-to-Office Mandates, Brooke E. Nyberg
Classroom Teachers' Approaches to Values Education: Exploring Explicit and Implicit Strategies for Teaching and Modeling Values, Maria Ukamaka Clare Okeke
The Effect of Reading Goals on Conspiracy Believability and Memorability, Leah Patricia O'Neill
Creative Development and the Repertory Grid Method: Investigating How a Team of Theater Teaching Artists Describe and Assess the Formative Creative Skills and Dispositions of Students, Mark Andrew Onuscheck
The State of Wellness Amongst Title I Suburban High School Counselors, John Steven O'Rourke
The Effects of Race and Ethnicity on School Connectedness and Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents, Hafsa Khan Owens
Topic shift detection and triggering in natural dialogue systems: a lightweight approach, Rohith Perumandla
Addressing the Unmet Mental Health Crisis of Youth in West Englewood, Joallyn Porter
The Relationship of Organizational Democracy and Psychological Safety on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, Thomas William Rice
Beyond the Curriculum: The Influence of Teacher-Student Relationships in Special Education, Courtney Romero
A Qualitative Examination of Homelessness Risk Factors and Housing Histories of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Tenants in Chicago, Shadman Syed Saquib
In the light, Z Sarkissian
IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATE ULTRAVIOLET COUNTERPARTS TO GLOBULAR CLUSTER X-RAY BINARIES, William Schuster
Leadership Attributes to Guide the Adoption and Curricular Design Process of Environmental Sustainability Education for EC-12 Public School Districts, Katherine Marie Seguino
WHEN IT COMES TO SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND LLMS, LESS IS MORE, Sameer Shaik
A Life Raft in the Storm: An Arts-Based Self-study of Teacher Burnout and Renewal in Special Education, Rebecca Snyder
The Positivity Effect in Contracts, Megan Kathryn Stricker
Mental Healthcare for Us: Examining Awareness of, Barriers to, and Recommendations for Mental Healthcare among Immigrant-Origin Chinese American Adolescents, Mengxue (Fiona) Sun
A Mixed Methods Survey to Highlight Retrospective Drug Spending, Dillon Peter Thorpe
Hominoid, Robin van Bree
The Impact of Popularity Pressure: A Moderated Mediation Model, Molly Clare Walker
Floodfriend, Lauren Watson
Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ: Master Architect of the Company of Poets, Timothy J. Wesley
The son becomes, Katherine Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Spirits of the king, Ali Al-Ani
Exploring how uncertain labels from non-consensus panels affect machine learning, Amal Almansour
Chicago’s Migrant Serving Ecosystem: Perspectives from Providers on the Frontline, Safa S. Asad
A Qualitative Study Cultural Components Contributing to Resilience and its Importance to Trauma-Informed Care of Veterans, Tineka L. Banks
An interdisciplinary review of stress mechanisms, health effects, and the influence of a growth mindset, Nathaniel Hayes Barnes
Empowerment as a Predictor of System Justification Moderated by Race, Nicole Belcher
Spirituality and Primal Beliefs Among Oxford House Employees, Justin S. Bell
Identity Shifting Behaviors, Perceptions of Diversity, and Perceived Discrimination in South Asian Employees, Himali Bhandari