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 2023
Invisible Disability: A Review of Hearing and Vision Impairment Challenges in the Workplace, Melissa Ann Aguinaldo
The Positive Impact of Exposure to Nature versus Urban-Environment Images on Cognitive Processing: Working Memory and Problem Solving, Caitlin Julia Ailsworth
Predicting code refactoring via analyzing the history of quality metrics and code anti-patterns, Sarah Alanqari
Loving without memory: on the concept of salvation from Deleuze's Spinoza to Spinoza's Deleuze, Eric Aldieri
Social Zapping: Examining Predictors of Last-Minute Cancelations Among Community Members, Alyssa T. Altieri
Campus Racial Climate and Mentoring: Impact on Academic and School Experience Outcomes, Safa Asad
Music in the Liturgy: An Education-Focused Approach, Robert M. Beatty
The Moderating Effects of Acculturative Stress and Ethnic Identity on the Relation between Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms among Latinx Youth, Mariana J. Bednarek
Nourishing Family Connections: Exploring the Impact of Mealtime Dynamics on Child Depressive Symptoms, Kyra (Dee) Bekelja
Residential Vacancy and Crime in the Wake of Housing Crisis in Chicago, Shaun Bhatia
Impact of Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha Conditional Knockout on Ovarian Follicle Development in the Mouse, Zlata Bogin
Black, Male, Juvenile: A Multi-System Perspective on Hope, Dehumanization, and Redemption in Recidivism & Education, Alexandra M. Brandt
Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Direction of Effects and Mechanisms of Influence, Bridget Brush
Aristotle on the concept of life, Cameron F. Coates
Conceptualizing Positive versus Negative Awe: Do Connection and Self-Significance Interact to Determine Awe’s Valence?, Christopher Evan Cole
Trainee Perceptions of Structured On-the-Job Training (OJT): The Impact of Trainer Experience and Use of Structured OJT Guides, Jessica Nicole Cooperstein
Lake sonnets, Michael Dean
Critical Civic Engagement of Immigrant-Origin Latinx Youth, Wendy de Los Reyes Moore
Interorganizational Practices that Foster Reciprocal Trust Between Central Office Administrators and Principals, Andrea M. Derdenger
Identifying and transforming sites of power in collaborative community-based research, Jessa Dickinson
Attention visual, Baris Dingil
Code generation based on inference and controlled natural language input, Howard R. Dittmer
“Young, Gifted, and Black”: Understanding the Complex Experiences of High-Achieving Black Students in AP Classes at a Diverse Suburban High School, Jody Elliott-Schrimmer
Youth Relational History Affecting Mentoring Relationship Quality, Brittanie Nicole Gage
Balanced Negotiations: An Online Negotiation Training for Women, Kaitlyn Rose Gallagher
Retail Workers’ Job Preferences: Uncovering the Drivers of Attraction, Retention, and Attrition, Alyssa Green
Relationship Between Objective Measures of Stress and Child Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Margaret Harrigan Clark
Peer Victimization and Post-Traumatic Stress Problems among Latinx Youth: The Role of Emotional Reactivity and Gender, Ashley N. Harris
Leave in Yiddish, Eliana Herman
Latinas in Leadership Positions in the United States: Theories, Characteristics, and Recommendations, Fernanda Ibanez
Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults, Mustafa Kemal Isik
Northeastern Illinois University: Identifying Characteristics Associated with Low African American Student Retention and Persistence, Laural E. Johnson
Quiet Quitting: Navigating an Old Phenomenon in the New Normal, Eilish Keane
Hacker, influencer, counter-culture spy: cyberspace actors’ models of misinformation and counter-operations, Benjamin Kessell
The Process of Designing and Revising a High-Quality Digital Math Curriculum For a Large Diverse Urban School District: Recommendations From a Math Designer, Suzan Kheireddin
Thinking Style as Input: Information Seeking and Processing, Youlim Kim
Skilling up for CRM: qualifications for CRM professionals in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Seth J. Kinnett
INVESTIGATING THE SALINITY TOLERANCE OF THE SWORDTAIL (Xiphophorus hellerii), Alexandra Megan Krak
Exclusion, Extroversion, and Relationship-Related Thought Accessibility, Stacey L. Kruse
Characterization of the Immune Deficiency Pathway during female meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster, Sarah Mashburn
Do Moral Foundations Predict Views on Morally Contested Issues?, Mackenzie Maria Moreno
Understanding Athletics Academic Advisors’ Experience with Job Burnout and Antecedents that Shape Job Burnout, Felicia O'Rourke
Foucault's brain: discourse, matter, and the possibility of a plastic genealogy, Daniel Perlman
How We Feel About Numbers: The Impact of Framing and Number Format on Emotion and Decision Making, Kwame Poku-Acheampong
Implementation and Assessment of a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in General Chemistry, Alissa Potts
An Exploration of Affective, Physiological, and Environmental Stress Among Adolescents with Chronic Medical Conditions, Brittany Lynn Ricart
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ticks and tick-borne disease at NEON sites across a sub-continental scale, Ana Sofia Rivera
Unsettling graduate social work education at DePaul university, Jovan Rivera-Lovato
The Prairie State: Using Ecological Niche Modeling to Predict Distributions of Early Land Plants, Zoe Ryan
OPTICAL VARIABILITY OF GREEN PEA GALAXIES, Julissa Marie Sarmiento
All Bi Myself: The Relationship Between Bisexuality and Self-Essentialism, Madeline Lucille Sharmat
The Sanctity of Human Life: An Examination of the Effects of Education and Training of Less-lethal Force Option Devices in the Royal Thai Police, Trak Silapaduriyang
Hegel's critique of skepticism: concept, judgment, and syllogism, Jacob Singer
The Age of Connection: Interdependent Self-Construal Links Age and Prosociality, Jason Snyder
An “other” experience of videogames: analyzing the connections between videogames and the lived experience of chronic pain, Gracie Straznickas
The Protective Effects of Physical Activity Coping and Environmental Supports on Academic Stress among Adolescents, Taylor Swenski
The role of anhedonia in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and alcohol use and food addiction in a sample of emerging adults, Mary Takgbajouah
Interposition based container optimization for data intensive applications, Rohan Tikmany
The Influence of Metaphorical and Literal Language on Conspiracy Theory Belief: The Role of Language and Individual Differences, Gabrielle Toups
Profiles of Violence Victimization and Mental Health Outcomes among LGBTQ Survivors in Illinois: A Cluster Analysis, Mary Margaret Tull
The Interplay between Parental Psychological Control and Parental Emotional Overinvolvement on Depressive Symptoms among Early Adolescents, Taylor Breanna Ullrich
Passport stamps: traveling through memory and place, Alexandria Wachal
OBSERVATIONS OF 25 GHz METHANOL MASERS IN W51A, Peter Wagstaff
Towards generalizable machine learning models for computer-aided diagnosis in medicine, Yiyang Wang
Examining Predictors of Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth among Sexual Assault Service Providers in Rape Crisis Centers, Anna Wegrzyn
Accessibility of Civil Legal Service Provision for Survivors of Sexual Assault in Illinois, Kayleigh Zinter
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Conditioned by History: Experience and Critique in Foucault's Thought, Vilde Lid Aavitsland
Does a New Product Development Project’s Name Influence Internal Stakeholder Commitment?, Dianna Akin
Empirical assessment of big data technology adoption factors for organizations with data storage systems, Ahmad B. Alnafoosi
The Pillars that Support School Principals in Cultivating Inclusive, Equitable Practices for Diverse Learners, Karime Asaf
Black Adolescent Self-Perceptions: The Roles of Ethnic Identity and Stress Exposure, Kailyn Bare
Cultural Change and Threat Perception: Casual Implications on White Nationalist Beliefs and Outgroup Restricting Policies, Andrea Bellovary
Cultural Change and Threat Perception: Causal Implications on White Nationalist Beliefs and Outgroup Restricting Policies, Andrea Bellovary
Complex Contexts within Oxford, Ted J. Bobak
Analyzing Domain of Convergence for Broyden’s Method, Michael Bonthron
Impact of Hospital Inventory Management of PPE on State-Level Healthcare Worker Infections during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nidhal Bouazizi
An Empirical Study on Email Use, Stress, and Employee Job Satisfaction in a COVID-19 Environment, David J. Bouvier
Dual Credit Programs: Does the State of Illinois Provide Programs that are Efficacious for All Stakeholders?, Andrew Buckler
Exploring Entrepreneurial Orientation in First- and Continuing-Generation College Graduates, Ryan D. Butt
The Illusion of Progress: The Disconnect Between the Anti-Racist Values Professed in Teacher Education Programs and the White Curriculum That Negatively Impact Students of Color, Adrienne Kay Carmona
Adjustment to Remote Work During COVID-19, Nicholas Carruth
Mentoring Urban African American Male Students in Secondary School, David Jacoby Collins
Black & Boring, Daryhl Gregory Covington
Engaging n Service Learning: Using Mixed Methods to Examine Community Partner Perceptions, Kendall P. Crum
An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Displacement from Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Housing, Camilla Cummings
Exploring the Dimensional Structure of a Measure of Supervision Competence and its Prediction of Trainee Development, Jacqueline Davis
How the Readability Level of Prior Text Impacts Comprehension of Subsequent Text, Benjamin Jerry Dumont
Autotrophy of the Other: On Food and Hospitality, Evan Edwards
The cost of success for Black, racialized minority, and Indigenous academic leaders, Helen Ezenwa
The Influence of Sleep Quantity on Externalizing Behaviors in Adolescents: The Mediating Effect of Inhibition, Emily Feldman