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 2022
Does a New Product Development Project’s Name Influence Internal Stakeholder Commitment?, Dianna Akin
Exploring Entrepreneurial Orientation in First- and Continuing-Generation College Graduates, Ryan D. Butt
The cost of success for Black, racialized minority, and Indigenous academic leaders, Helen Ezenwa
Lucid, Gabriela Garcia
The Effect of Management’s Focus on SASB Measures on Financial Performance: A Study of the Health Care Supply Chain Sector, James C. Morell
Veteran Entrepreneurs – Founder Social Identities, Edward Papabathini
Stakeholder Capitalism: An Investigation of the Linkage between Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance, Cynthia Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Facilitating heuristic evaluation for novice evaluators, Anas Abulfaraj
Naming and Re(claiming) Feminism in Orthodoxy: Voicing the Gender and Religious Identities of Greek Orthodox Women, Anne Marie Adams
Organizations’ response strategies to online firestorms, Basmah Alshuaibi
Designing an interactive theatre game with dynamic asynchronous play, Ardian Amiti
A Life Course Person-Centered Approach to Adult Trauma Histories and Examination of Intergenerational Trauma in Preschoolers, Jessica Annabel Arizaga
Playfair Axiom, Alexander Bakos
SPECKLE CORRELATION USING A DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM ON NEWTONIAN FLUIDS, Sanskar Basnet
Atlas Planted, Annelise Belmonte
The Role of Functional Disability and Social Support in Psychological Outcomes for Individuals with Pediatric Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Keely Huntley Bieniak
Enacting Poiesis: Centering Teaching Artists' Stories Across Educational Contexts, Shanita Bigelow
Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze, Sarah E. Blattner
Quantitative intersectional data (QUINTA): a #metoo case study, Alicia E. Boyd
Role Shifting in Organizational Teams: Grounded Theory and Scale Development, Tatem H. Burns
Multilevel Stakeholder Perspectives on the Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions in a Large, Urban School District, Ashley Sahel Castro
Backward glances: The cultural and industrial uses of nostalgia in 2010s Hollywood cinema, Matthew Cooper
To Engage or Disengage: The Impact of Coping Strategies, Sex, and Stress History on Cortisol Reactivity Among Urban Adolescents, Madeline Curzon
Liberal Arts Micro-Credential: Teaching a Police Officer Reflection, Empathy, and Self-Awareness; Going Beyond Training a Police Officer to Act and React, Hermogenes Del Toro
Service utilization among Latina survivors of intimate partner violence, Alyssa Donovan
Reciprocity: An Antecedent to Fraud Compliance and Unethical Behavior, Charles E. Drehmer
A brand new day: How commitment impacts trust and perceived motivation of a firm’s corporate social responsibility and brand activism efforts, Tara-Ann Dugan
True Self in Threat Resilience: Using Essentialist Self-Views to Neutralize Personal Morality Threats, Ellen S. Dulaney
Meowster thesis, Xiaojing (Monica) Fan
What I Wish I Had Known: College Graduates’ Experience of Student Debt, Lamyeia Fields
Examining dimensions of patient satisfaction with telemedicine, Robert Garcia
Influence of Ethnic-Racial Similarities and Ethnic-Racial Support on Student Well-being: The Role of Natural Mentors, Yesenia Garcia
Prenatal Stress & Socioemotional Outcomes in School-Aged Children: A Meta-Analytic Review, Michelle Anne Gilchrist
Identifying the Strategic Core of Interactive Teams, Morgan Elizabeth Gleason
Federated learning in gaze recognition (FLIGR), Arun Gopal Govindaswamy
ANALYZING NANOSCALE THERMAL TRANSPORT USING TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY DIFFRACTION, James Grammich
Locked Out to be Locked Up, Only to Be Locked Out, Again: A Critical Analysis of Exclusionary Disciplinary Practices, and an Illinois Policy's Attempt to Eradicate the School-to-Prison Pipeline Phenomenon, Algeanna Louise Griffin
Does Relevant Information Exchange Create Relationships Between Buyers and Sellers That Affect Sales?, Christopher Hansen
It’s Really About Relationships: Perceptions of Teacher Autonomy and It’s Influence on Instruction, Nancy Harmening
Untapped Potential: Social Emotional Learning and Intervention Programs for Students Experiencing Underperformance, Kathleen Bridget Healy King
A Case Study of a Comprehensive Model of Global Education Strategy Based on Cosmopolitanism, Esther Quintero Heiser
The Association Between Community-Level Factors and Police Decisions to Found Sexual Assault Cases, Erin Elizabeth Hoffman
Stress and Coping in an Inner-City Environment: The Cities Mentor Project Coping Intervention with Youth Living in Urban Poverty, Jordan Horwath
A Qualitative Study of Lifetime Residential Transitions and Housing Preferences among Individuals with Extensive Shelter Utilization Histories, Mackenzie Hudson
Catastrophic failure: How COVID-19 was relayed from the media to the public, Samuel D. Johnson, Jr.
Dancing in the Liminal Tension: A Phenomenological Study of how Queer Black Boys Manifest Happiness in an Urban Midwest High School, Kendrick D. Johnson
K-8 eLearning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: "Spreading" Best Practices, Michelle A. Johnson
Reading Your Face: Do I Know Enough to Interpret How You Feel?, Youlim Kim
The fan/producer duality in microfandoms: Examinations of collaboration, creativity, and capital, Abby Kirby
for|rest, Jes Klass
A Policy Examination of Digital Multimedia Evidence in Police Department Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Timothy P. Larmon
Identifying a Typology of Homelessness Based on Self-Sufficiency: Implications for Rapid Re-Housing Interventions, Quinmill Lei
SOCIAL STATUS INSECURITY AND BODY IMAGE RELATED HEALTH OUTCOMES: TESTING A MODERATED MEDIATION MODEL, Mingqi Li
Delay Discounting and Food Reinforcement in Youth of Color: A Cluster Analysis, Bernardo Loiacono
A COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF SOCIAL STATUS INSECURITY IN ADOLESCENTS, Yunyi Long
Communication after a romantic breakup, Kayleigh Jordan Mahoney
Measuring allostatic load in an urban adolescent sample: The profile and role of biomarker dysregulation in depression outcomes, Heather Marshall
Applying the Social Model of Disability: A Phenomenology of Initiating Change in Higher Education, Olena M. Marshall
Threshold concepts in web development: the impact of education and experience on the perceptions of practitioners, Michael Lee Mick
Trauma-Informed Care Within the Homeless Service Milieu: Practical and Conceptual Considerations, Martina Mihelicova
Envisioning maternal health practice through antiracist feminisms, Haley Moles
Reclaiming stability: the dialectic of stability and instability in capitalist society, Jeta Mulaj
Navigating the fat queer body: the impact of cultural discourses on identity construction and belonging, Gabriella Ann Mulder
Gender and identity reflected in the works of Nawāl Al-Sa‘adāwī and Samīḥah Khrais, Zachary Oesterreicher
WAVELET PACKET POWER SPECTRUM OF THE SDSS LYMAN-ALPHA FOREST: A TOOL FOR LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE DETECTION, Jason Pero
Exploring the Effects of Smoking Cessation Interventions for Asians and Asian Americans: A Meta-Analytic Review, Amber T. Pham
Life After the Storm: An Examination of Bereavement and Posttraumatic Growth among Urban Adolescents, Keturah Jedidah Platt
The Plan Starts Now: A Study of Juvenile Delinquency and a Re-entry Program Back into the Community, Lynell Porch
A Case Study of a Comprehensive Model of Global Education Strategy Based on Cosmopolitanism, Esther Quintero Heiser
The problem of sexuality: philosophy’s weak spot and the inconsistent nature of nature, Bradley Ramos
Reading foreign policy archives: how regime-made disasters, pointillism, and citizen-perpetrators underpin U.S. Empire-building, Abigail A. Raney
Black girl magic: the (re)imagining of Hermione Granger: an analysis and autoethnography, Kandice Rose
“If You Didn’t Mean It, Why Did I Feel It?”: Comparing the Effects of Deliberate vs. Unintentional Ostracism, Andrea L. Sanders
Crazy tubby girl/mad fat transman: troubling and reclaiming schizophrenia through women of color feminism and madness studies, Tyler Allen Selsor
Rememoration, ‘sticky associations,’ and social media performativity in the pegida movement, Haedyn Smith
Your Mind Online: The Influence of Contingent Self-Esteem on Confirmation Bias, Jason Snyder
Parent and Child Language Profiles and their Family and Clinical Predictors, Jesus Eduardo Solano-Martinez
Lived Experiences of Oxford House Residents Prescribed Medication-Assisted Treatment, Arturo Soto-Nevarez
A Study of Modern College Student Activism: The Relationship to the School and How Groups Form, James Garry Stewart
Community Factors Contributing to COVID-19 Positivity Rate: Using Illinois as a Case Study, Helena Lucia Swanson
Collective Awe: The Effects of Shared Experience, Martha Szekely
Abandoned spaces, Anthony Tate
The marginalization project, Malea Thomas
Developing a Culture of Care and Support: A Review of Institutional Practices and Growth Opportunities Affecting Black Male Student-Athletes at Southtown Community College, Roberto D. Torres
The feast of Lucy, Abby Vakulskas
Measuring the Impact of Residency Requirements and the Relationship with the Citizens in the Community, Daniel Villa
Resilience & Wellness Teams: A Comprehensive Maintenance Plan for Law Enforcement Officers, Landon Jay Wade
Tracking and Experiences of Black Students Following the Inception of No Child Left Behind, Gwenda Walters
SYNTHESIS AND STYRENE COPOLYMERIZATION OF OCTYL 2-CYANO-3-(R-PHENYL)-2-PROPENOATES, Martin S. Wasilewski
LONG TERM VARIATION OF CLASS I METHANOL MASERS, Nycole Wenner
Anthraquinone Extraction and Quantification, Modification of the Pictet-Spengler Reaction for the Creation of Useful Isotopes and Use in Protein Ligation, Jermell Williams
Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography, Nina Rose Smith Wilson
The Effects of Repeat Concussive Injury on Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Rats, Duane Yu