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 2021
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
Acute Asthma Exacerbation Treatment and Impact in a Pediatric Emergency Department, Sarah Jindoyan and Paige Barber
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 Qualitative Examination of Opioid Sparing Anesthesia Practices Among CRNAs, Stephanie Knell
The Barriers to the Timely Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD by Advanced Practice Nurses in the Pediatric Primary Care Setting, Annette Kowalczyk
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
Simulation Education for Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion, Ryan Lewandowski
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
Electrochemical Studies of Organic and Organometallic Compounds in the Pursuit of Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction, Joshua J. Ludtke
Simulation Education for Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion, Ronald Mack
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
Data-driven damage initiation criteria for carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites, Alexander Richard Post
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
Perioperative Non-opioid Modalities (PNOM) Questionnaire Implementation and Validation of its Psychometric Properties, Liliya Sprisovskiy
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
Examining Provider-Related Factors Associated with Role Competence in Shared Decision Making in Oncology Nurses, Alexandria Tarvainis
Abandoned spaces, Anthony Tate
Phylogenomics and Population History of Cichlid and Live-bearing Fish Species in Lowland Neotropical Rivers, Konrad Taube
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
Prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome Among High-Risk Neonates: Program Implementation and Evaluation, Rebecca Tortolano
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
Patterns of torso morphology in extant quadrupedal amniotes and their paleontological applications, Myles M.A. Walsh
Tracking and Experiences of Black Students Following the Inception of No Child Left Behind, Gwenda Walters
Implications of an Education Tool as a Noise Reduction Strategy in the Operating Room, Sona Wardius and Amanda Parker
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
Contextualizing Teacher-Directed Violence in Special Education, Kayleigh E. Zinter
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF (CUXZN1-X)0:456IN1:084GE0:46O3 (CUZIGO) USING NEUTRON AND X-RAY DIFFRACTION, Boluwatife A. Adekoya
Chasing the American Dream: Refugee students and care in U.S. high schools, Yacoub Aljaffery
Muslim Women and Centered Leadership Practices, Raheela Al Karim
Uncanny valleys: sex, power, & the artificial person, Margo Arruda
Engines of autonomy: regional organizations leading Latin America’s struggle for emancipation, Dejan Bajic
Worry the bone, Chad Baker
Pilot Study: Educational Tool Reduces Parental Stress at Home Post Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Rachel Barsella
Consent Around the Globe: Sexual violence prevention programming that responds to the needs of international students, Michael Blackman
How do personalized learning programs’ instructional designs match gifted students’ experiences in using them?, Sarah Bright
Second-generation Turkish Americans in Chicago: the influences on the preservation of ethnic identity & Turkishness, Zerrin Bulut
Preparing a Diverse and Culturally Sustaining Teacher Workforce: The Role of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Policy in Teacher Education, Emily Caliendo
The Social Construction of the Progressive Era: A Critical-Historiographical Case Study in Vocationalism, Brian D. Carlson
Synthesis and Styrene Copolymerization of Chloro and Fluoro Ring-substituted Isopropyl 2-cyano-3-phenyl-2-propenoates, Alessandra Cimino
BERT efficacy on scientific and medical datasets: a systematic literature review, Clayton Cohn
"#does this count as poetry?": A genre analysis of Tumblr poetry, Selena Cotte
The Purpose of Education: A Case Study on Accountability and Latina Teachers in a Midwest Charter Network, Alexandra Irma Cruz
The Impact of Racial Identity in College Planning Resources for African American Students considering Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Camille Franklin
PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SUSTAINED SWIMMING ON SALINITY ACCLIMATION IN CHINOOK SALMON (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), Fritzman Geena
The Role of Parental and Family Involvement in the Persistence of Freshman First-Generation College Students, Ray O. Grant
STATE-FUNDED DUAL ENROLLMENT PROGRAM: ONE STATE’S PERSONALIZATION APPROACH TO INCREASE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES AND REDUCE DROPOUT RATES, Debra H. Harris
Reclaiming Joy: Finding Resilience in Families with Children with Autism, Nancy K. Hashimoto