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 2013
Collateral Consequences: The Impact of State-Level Policies on Perceived Stigma and Stigma Coping Strategies Among Ex-Offenders, Bronwyn Anne Hunter
Growing pains: scale and mission in the fair trade textile sector, Karlee Johnson
The Moderating Effect of Hope on the Relationship Between Emotional Approach Coping and Flourishing in College Students, Katherine Kandaris
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Investigations of the Structure of the Immunoglobulin G Class of Antibody, Michael Kelliher
LIFE ON HOLD: The effect of recession and neoliberalism on millennials’ beliefs about education, economic participation, and adulthood, Stephanie E. Kirmer
SOMEONE’S IN THE KITCHEN, WHERE’S DINAH? GENDERED DIMENSIONS OF THE PROFESSIONAL CULINARY WORLD, Stephanie Konkol
That’s So Meta: Contemporary Reflexive Television and its Textual Strategies, Katherine Lander
Collaborative Requirements Engineering Notation for Planning Globally Distributed Projects, Paula Laurent
A Range-Frequency Theory Account of the Effects of Mood on Evaluations, Megan Marie Lombardi
Hegemony within Student Affairs: The Interpretive Nature of College Student Development Theory, Marissa L. Lucchesi
The Effects of Sexual Orientation and Behavioral Style on Perceptions of Men's Leadership Potential and Effectiveness, Kristin Elizabeth Mann
The Effect of Grain Size and Forming Gas Reduction on the Electrical Properties of Zinc Oxide, Rofeideh Mansourian
School-Level Predictors of Student Office Disciplinary Referrals, Andrew Martinez
Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak, Jana McAuliffe
Mentoring Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Problems: A Meta-Analytic Review, David Aron Meyerson
Ideal Dating and Sexual Partners for Low-Income Heterosexual African American Adolescents, Darnell Nathaniel Motley
ASIAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS: MAKING RACIAL MEANING IN AN ERA OF COLOR-BLIND RACISM, Vijay Pendakur
Gossip, performance, and regulation: an examination of social communities in Tom Wolfe‘s I Am Charlotte Simmons, Jeremy Rasmussen
Social movements using social media in a mined and censored world: examples in the United States and China, Michael Roeder
Improving Deaf Accessibility to Web-based Multimedia, Brent N. Shiver
Early career change among millennial US college graduates, Gina Sian
The body and the blood: Graham Greene’s incarnational imagination, Julie Simpson
Dynamics of International Nonprofit Capacity Building Partnerships, Julia Sparkman
Identity in Flux: Cinematic Destabilization in Narrative and Form, Eli Steenlage
DIAGNOSED BUT NOT DEFEATED: THE EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES WITH PAST HISTORIES OF ENROLLMENT IN SPECIAL EDUCATION WHO SUCCESSFULLY ATTEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Kennedi Strickland-Dixon
Exposure to Community Violence and the Trajectory of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in a Sample of Low-Income Urban Youth, Jeremy Jay Taylor
New media objects: the future of electronic literature and its influence on print stylistics, Brian Tillewein
New narratologies: an examination of the interplay between life, land, and story, Dana Turner
Moral Principles and Political Ideology: Exploring the Mediating Role of Abstract Value Endorsements, Anthony N. Washburn
OUTSIDE THE REALM: THE COUNTER-NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENT INVOLVEMENT, Deborah Watson-Hill
The Stoics and the practical: a Roman reply to Aristotle, Robin Weiss
Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction, Christina Yatrakis
The relationships among heritage language proficiency, ethnic identity, and self-esteem, Shu-Chun Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Advancing Social Change Goals through Partnership: Community Partner Perspectives, Liezl Alcantara
The contribution of small farms and commercial large farms to the food security of Trinidad and Tobago, Alia L. Allard
Titration Calorimetric Study of the Interaction among Calcium, Bile Salts, and the Tetracyclines, Karla Arias
Effects of Goal Orientation Profile Types on Organizational Outcoms in Veterinarians, Kathleen Arnold
The Impact of Race Race-Related Stress, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity on Latinas/os Quality of Life, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction, Nichole Bedore
The First Year College Experience: Predictors of Natural Mentoring Relationships & Students' Academic Outcomes, Luciano Berardi
The Role of the Black Church in Addressing IPV at the Community Level, Monika Black
Internalizing Symptoms in Youth: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model of Maternal Symptoms and Parent-Child Interactions, Sarah Bostick
Gender, Country and Community: Exploring Safety, Trust and Empowerment Among Immigrant Survivors of Torture., Nancy Bothne
Does anyone here speak tashelhait? Perspectives on environment, identity and social change in south Morocco, Lewis A. Bradford
The Effects of Motivations to Resist Social Change and Accept Inequality on Perceptions of System Legitimacy, Mark Brandt
Understanding the Meaning African-American Men Give to Their Student Leadership Involvement and Engagement Activities in College, Karl A. Brooks
Indigenous art in urban renewal: The emergence and development of artistic communities in midwestern post-industrial cities, William Covert
Social Status Differences In Hostile Attribution Biases and Reactive Aggression, James Davis
Critical ecologies: Violence and life in the work of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno, Richard L. Elmore II
Nietzsche and classical greek philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus, Daw-Nay N.R. Evans Jr.
Effects of Timeframe on the Recall Reliability of ME/CFS Symptoms, Meredyth Evans
An Exploration of Engagement: A Customer Perspective, Laura M. Flynn
Other and Self-Representation: A Pentadic Criticism of Kosovar Muslim and Roma Identity as Represented in Photographs by James Nachtwey and Djordje Jovanovic, Melody S. Follweiler
Closing the Gap: Use of the Instructional At-Home Plan (IAHP)® by African American Parents and the Impact on Literacy Achievement among their Kindergarten Children, Tanya Foster DeMers
BECOMING: ONE TEACHER’S JOURNEY INTO SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION, Elizabeth C. Fyffe
Through a Feminist Lens: Language, Power and Identity in Catalan Nationalism, Christine Gallagher Kearney
Pupil Size as a Physiological Correlate for Facilitatory and Inhibitory Effects in Masked Priming, Jason Geller
The Impact of Service-Learning on College Students' Civic Development and Sense of Self-Efficacy, Rachel Gershenson-Gates
Effects of the Manipulation of Aboveground Plant Diversity in Restoration Management on the Diversity of Belowground Arthropod Assemblage, Claire E. Gilmore
A Qualitative Examination of Workplace Bullying Experiences Among Temporary-Laborers, April A. Gonzalez
Of heart, mind & belonging: Reflections on anti-racist white identity development, Jessica V. Havens
The Post-Black Aesthetic and Meanings of Blackness through the Collage Narratives of Kara Walker and Fred Wilson, William Hill
The Relationship between Employability and Hope, Christa Hinton
How Gender Impacts Observers' Perceptions of Abusive Supervision, Lisa Hofmann
Na+/K+-ATPase isoform regulation in three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) during salinity acclimation, Shelby Judd
Moderators Of The Efficacy Of Child Obesity Prevention: Exploration Of A, Sabrina Karczewski
The Effects of Diagrams and Relational Complexity on User Performance in Conditional Probability Problems in a Non-Learning Context, Vincent J. Kellen
Barriers and Supports to Curricular Innovation, James P. Klock
Assembly of the Didymium Iridis Mitochondrial Genome by Genome Walking, Dale Kopp
It Takes Leadership to Build a Village: A Portrait of a Public School Community That Is Closing the Achievement Gap, Julie MacCarthy
A critique of political self-deception: Kant and Freud at the edge of critical theory, James A. Manos
Oil, politics, society and the state in the middle east: Enduring authoritarianism in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Benjamin E. Martorell
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