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 2012
A comparative case study of female literacy and development in Guatemala and Bolivia, Anavelia Mauricio
Examining Attitudes and Exposure to Poverty among Undergraduate Students: Contextual Factors, Kathleen Elizabeth McAuliff
Dissolute pluralism: An ethics of queer thought, Kristin P. McCartney
The Impact of Year-Round Education on Fifth Grade African American Reading Achievement Scores in an Urban Illinois School, Carolyn A. Merrill
H20 Maser Observations in W3 (OH): A comparison of Two Epochs, Steven Merriman
The Balancing Test: Is Fair Trade Cotton a Sustainable Policy for Improving the Livelihoods of Indian Cotton Producers?, Sheyanne Mooter
The balancing test: Is fairtrade cotton a sustainable policy for improving the livelihoods of Indian cotton producers?, Sheyanne Mooter
US Foreign Policy During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Rachael S. Murdock
The Changing Role of the School Psychologist in Response to Intervention, Sharon Murphy-Price
How do American's think about the enviornment and what does it mean for public policy: A re-assessment, Todd P. Newman
A Comparison of LMX, Communication, and Demographic Differences in Remote and Co-located Supervisor-Subordinate Dyads, Larisa Niedle
HOSPITAL-BASED EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AND THE WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS: A SELF-STUDY, Samantha Gold Oberstein
Trauma and Identity: Action as a Response to State Violence in Colombia, Alison J. Paul
The connectivity doctrine: A critique of techo-utopian discourse, liberal governmentality, and the colonization of cyberspace, Geoffrey S. Pettys
Becoming identities: The philosophical subject, intersectionality, and assemblage, Heath Rakes
Synthesis and Analysis of Novel Copolymers of Ring-Substituted 2-Phenyl-1, 1-dicyanoethylenes and Styrene, Subha Ramnarayan
Debating sustainable development in global climate change policy: The “Cancún agreements” v. the “People’s agreement of Cochabamba”, Andrew J. Riplinger
NATURAL MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS AS A BUFFER AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF STRESSORS ON ACADEMIC OUTCOMES OF LATINO ADOLESCENTS, Claudio Rivera
Campaign strategy in the internet age: The use and effectiveness of internet advocacy tools in American political campaigns., Andrew J. Shapero
A Study of the Effectiveness of a Character Education Program to Prevent Bullying in Fourth and Seventh Grade, Deborah J. Shapiro
The problem of experience in Adorno's philosophy and aesthetics, Surti Singh
NATURE VERSUS NURTURE: CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT’S EFFECT ON STUDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, Stephanie Souvenir
Lithuanian women in the Parliament: Access and participation in post-socialist politics, Simona Stankevicius
Building brotherhood: An examination of race, violence, sexuality and black fraternity membership, Ashley Y. Stone
Learning To Live: Urban Black Male Youth, Curriculum Protest and Transformative Citizenship, Colette Thelemaque-Collier
Attracting Talent Across Cultures: The Impact of Cultural Values on Generating and Maintaining Applicants, Emily Twichell
Parenting Patterns in Urban African American Families: Raising Healthy Adolescents in the Context of Economic Hardship and Community Violence, Donald Hamilton Tyler
The idea of mimesis: Semblance, play, and critique in the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, Joseph Weiss
THE MEANING OF RUNNING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, Kristin Owen Westfall
Meaning, Morality, and Fluid Compensation in Response to Attitude Threat, Geoffrey Wetherell
Resisting internalized oppression: Black women's perceptions of incarceration, Emily R. Williams
Identification and Integration Within Campus Life Among First-Generation U.S. Citizens: An Exploration of Campus Climate Perception, Shannon Marie Williams
Roles of Resveratrol and Genistein in Invasion and Metastasis of Breast Cancer, Brittany Wolfe
Adolescents' Peer Status, Social Behaviors, and Social Information Processing for Social Behaviors, Michelle Wright
The Role of Attributions in Stereotype Threat Effects: Female Achievements in STEM Domains, Caitlyn Yantis
With distinction: Examining the relevance of Bourdieu’s cultural capital in relation to community music programs and social transformation, Caolfionn Yenney-Henderson
Applicant Behavior on Internet Job Boards: The Effects of Content and Style, Samuel Young
Orange revolution - post-socialist urban political movement, Kristina Zaluckyj
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Perceptions of the effectiveness of not-for-profit board development opportunities, Daniel R. Abben
FRAMED BY PRIVILEGE: PERPETUATING AND RESISTING WHITE SUPREMACY IN WHITE, MIDDLE-CLASS PARENTING, Kelly Brianne Baldwin
Sites of Agency, Sites of Growth: Elements of Success for Formerly Incarcerated Adult Graduates of an Alternative High School, Mary Hornschemeier Bandstra
The Image of God of Christian, non-Christian and Clinical Populations: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Perspective, Mihaela E. Bernard
What we talk about when we talk about literacy: A look into the value, measurement, and power hierarchy of literacy, Veronica Carolyn Bond
George Bush doesn’t care about black people: An ideological rhetorical criticism of whiteness and racism, Kate Braden
The wage gap revisited: An investigation of salary request differences among Black-White and male-female workers, Andrea L. Briggs
Teaching communication in sex education: Facilitating communication skills knowledge and ease of use, Sarah Butler
Bernece Berkman and the monograph: A feminist perspective, Audrey E. Carie
Towards the development of culturally and contextually relevant model of coping for low income, urban, African American adolescents, Kristin Joy Carothers
Male circumcision in the United States: The History, an analysis of the discourse, and a philosophical interpretation, Jonathan D. Cohen
Personalismo, Small Schools, and Latino Students' Academic Success, Isabel Mesa Collins
"From backburner to forefront: Critical recollection and commitment to literary community in women beat memoirs", Katelyn Cunningham
Applications of the Theories of Mikhail Bakhtin in Science Education, Jason Delgatto
The Predictive Validity of High School Grades to College Remedial Mathematics Performance, John Dozier
Genetic differentiation of a sympatric lake-resident/anadromous species pair of threespine stickleback in Mud Lake, Alaska, Cory J. Drevecky
Spanish leadership in developing a 'common' European immigration policy: Intergovernmentalist supranationalization approach, Joanna Drozdz
The roles of FGF and Wnt signaling during maxillary barbel regeneration in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio)., Robert J. Duszynski
The Social Context of Urban School Reform: Collective Efficacy and Student Achievement, Carla E. Ellis
U.S. immigration law: children as a unifying means to immigration reform, Sarah J. Flagel
Deceptive Affection in Romantic Relationships, Hailey Gillen
Chromosome malorientation precedes nondisjunction during female meiosis I, Shane Gillies
Residence hall sense of community in physical and technology-based spaces: Implications for alcohol-related attitudes and behaviors, Benjamin C. Graham
"WHAT ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT? IT'S NOT YOUR REAL JOB!” EMOTIONAL LABOR AND COMMUNICATIVE SENSEMAKING IN RETAIL CUSTOMER SERVICE POSITIONS, Danielle M. Harkins
Institutional Analysis of a Natural History Museum: Formation and dissemination of scientific knowledge, Lisa Herzog
Beyond the prototypical: Developing a behavioral screening tool of same-gender male intimate partner violence., Marco Armando Hidalgo
Stories and Cultural Humility: Exploring Power and Privilege through Physical Therapists' Life Stories, Marjorie Hilliard
Help-Seeking Behaviors of African American Men, Leslie D. Holley
The effects of culture on attorney preservation of the confidentiality of client information, Rosemary Hollinger
The disclosure process of an invisible stigmatized identity, Jessica Hudson
Politics, history, critique: An interpretation of Kant's political philosophy in light of his critical-regulative method., Dilek Huseyinzadegan
A Guest in Someone's House: Exploring the Role of African-American Student-Faculty/Staff Interactions in a Community College Setting, Yolanda Isaacs
Context and Process in International Teacher Recruitment: The Experiences of Global Educators Outreach (GEO) Teachers from Africa in the U.S.A., Omar A. Kamara
Josephine, Josie, Jo, Julie Koslowsky
Constitutive exclusion and the work of political unintelligibility, Sina J. Kramer
Fair trade and development goals in the coffee sector, Brooke Amy Lautz
Effects of teacher factors on expectations of students with ADHD, Lauren J. Legato
Security misread: A critical analysis of Ukraine's debate on NATO, Andriy Levytskyy
The central american free trade agreement: Effects on labor in the maguila sector, Cristina M. Lucero
Effect of iron and sodium chloride on biofilm development of stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Rudy F. Martinez
Eve Disordered: The Relationship of Feminine Happiness and Hierarchy in Paradise Lost, Jennifer McCafferty
Writing a feminist ethnography: A comparative analysis of Iranian women's stories of resistance and agency in Iran and America, Tanja B. Messing
Opium production and distribution: Poppies, profits and power in Afghanistan, Michael Nicoletti
The Roma of Romania, Oana Oprean
The dependence of suspension viscosity on particle size, shear rate, and solvent viscosity, Marc Pavlik
AN ANALYSIS OF TWO EDUCATION REFORM POLICIES: OBAMA'S RACE TO THE TOP AND PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS PROGRAMS, Alecia S. Person
EVLA imaging of methanimine and hydrogen cyanide in Arp 220, Matthew R. Rickert
Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom, Cavin Robinson
Posttraumatic distress as experienced by adolescents: traumatic stress through adolescent eyes, Andrea Saul
A Representation of Selected Nonmanual Signals in American Sign Language, Jerry C. Schnepp
“Perennial Growth” in a Shrinking City: A Case Study of Urban Agriculture Policy and Planning in Cleveland, Ohio, Elizabeth S. Schuering
Precursor-directed biosynthesis of non-natural berberine and galanthamine analogues, Tom E. Speltz
The Effects of an Advisory Program on Middle-Level Student Learning, Jeffrey Stawick
In their own words: A qualitative analysis of relational resilience in the lives of gay, bisexual, and questioning male youth, Rodrigo Torres
Investigating the process of fibril formation of the Iowa mutant of the Alzheimer's peptide, Xavier S. Udad
Analysis of protein secondary structure via the discrete wavelet transform, Timothy E. Vanderleest