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 2019
Land and land grabbing: the case study of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe in Uganda, Carolyn Vertin
Exclusion of African-American High School Students from Selective Enrollment Schools: Their Views on Academic and Social Success in the School Environment and After High School Graduation, Deidre R. Walker-Berry
EXPLORING THE BELONGING EXPERIENCES OF A SUCCESSFUL AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE WHO ATTENDED A FOUR-YEAR HIGHER EDUCATION PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION., Dorthea Washington
Team Characteristics as Predictors of Collaboration on Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs), Anna Wegrzyn
Sex Differences in Behavioral Responses to Repeat Subconcussive Events, Rebecca J. Wilson
EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGICAL INVISIBILITY IN FORMERLY INCARCERATED BLACK MEN, Dallas Wright
Small-World Network Analysis of Cortical Connectivity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome using EEG, Mark Alan Zinn
Dance Education for the Lifetime Learner: From Margaret H’Doubler to the 21st Century, Krista Zozulia
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The political logic of destituent power: time, subjectivity, and revolutionary violence, Kieran Aarons
A critical analysis of mystery in videogames, Ali Alkhafaji
SYRIAN REFUGEE STUDENTS' ACADMIC AND SOCIAL EXPERINCES IN AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Donia S. Almadani
Efficacy and Usefulness of an Educational Video on Safe Medication Handling, Suzanne Butz Anderson
Counter-narratives and Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s play Invasion!: storytelling that fractures the orientalist narrative, Anna Christina Bahow
Optical and X-Ray Studies of Compact X-ray binaries in NGC 5904, Vanshree Bhalotia
The Lived Experience of Transgender Individuals with Eating Disorders, Mary Katharine Bowman
Friends in the Orchid Room: An Inquiry into Value-Creative Dialogue, Melissa R. Bradford
Biological Stress Response and Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression in Adolescence, Bridget M. Brush
Contextual Perspectives on Heroin Addiction and Recovery: Classic and Contemporary Theories, Sarah L. Callahan
Diversity and dissonance: a narrative exploration of adolescent transcultural identity construction within the International School, Rachel Conrad Carlson
Economic Pressure and Depressive Symptoms among Latino Youth: The Role of Control Beliefs and Family Obligation, Ashley Castro
THE LONGITUDINAL RELATION BETWEEN HOUSING INSECURITY AND NEGATIVE PARENTING PRACTICES, Saidah Chambers
A Malignant Hyperthermia Competency Training for Nurse Anesthesia Trainees: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, Andrew M. Christ
Supply market analysis: The moderating effect of social networking on cost reduction, Adam Cockrell
University internationalization as a method of human capital development, Kari Costello
The Effects of Psychological Home and Place Attachment on Life Satisfaction in Women of Color, Kendall Patricia Crum
An Exploration of the Psychometric Properties of the Self-Sufficiency Matrix Among Individuals and Families Currently or At Risk of Experiencing Homelessness, Camilla Cummings
The Ecology of Educational Attainment: Resilience Among Black High School Students, Jacqueline O. Davis
Executive Functioning in Pediatric Youth: A Meta-Analysis, Draycen D. Decator
Latent Classes of Exposure to Potentially Traumatic and Stressful Life Events in a Sample of Young Predominantly Ethnic Minority Women, Alyssa Donovan
Facebook as a contemporary public sphere: political consciousness and agency, Catherine Drake
Variation in Emotion Eliciting Events and Display Rules as a Function of Individualism and Collectivism: A Cross Cultural Comparison of Pakistanis and Americans, Serah Saleem Fatani
Gender Role Congruity in Negotiation: The Impact of Task Framing and Communication Mode, Kaitlyn R. Gallagher
Examining the refolding of the herpesvirus fusion protein, glycoprotein B, Shannon Linn Gallaher
A Parallax View of Teacher Ontology: Reconceptualizing the Reflexive Method in the Abyss of Žižekian Negativity, Brian R. Gilbert
Motivation to Lead: College Students' Perceptions of their Roles as Leaders on Campus, Jacob M. Gross
Motivation to Lead: College Students' Perceptions of their Roles as Leaders on Campus, Jacob M. Gross
Defensive Pessimism and Goal Setting, Elizabeth Anna Guth
The Image Betrays More than It Reveals: Inter(ior) Views from Women of Color on Identity and Social and Academic Experiences in Higher Education, Amy Hauenstein
The influence of cognitive moral development and leader regulatory focus on employee ethical decision making and behavior, Brandon Hendrix
The discovery of Merlin’s spirit within the trinity of Robert de Boron’s Le Roman de L’estorie dou Graal, Diane Higgins
"Current Anesthesia Education Practices Regarding Music as an Adjunct for Analgesia and Anxiolysis ", Taylor Hull
Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility, Ege Selin Islekel
REDESIGNING CURRICULUM, REIMAGINING EDUCATION: PREPARING PRESERVICE TEACHERS FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR IN URBAN EDUCATION, Sabrina D. Jones
Empowering Culturally Specific Needs and Barriers in Diabetes Education as Identified by Polish Speaking Patients, Bernadeta Agnieszka Kapustka
Toward Pay Equity: A Motivational Intervention to Reduce Gender Differences in Salary Negotiations, Mary Margaret Keegin
PROBING THE NON-LINEARITY IN GALAXY CLUSTERS THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF FRACTAL DIMENSION VIA WAVELET TRANSFORM, Loay Ali Khalifa
Globalizing Pakistani Identity Across The Border: The Politics of Crossover Stardom in the Hindi Film Industry, Dina Khdair
INTERSECTING IDENTITIES: THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF GAY, MALE CATHOLIC COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, Todd D. Kleine
Assessing the Experience of Awe: Validating the Situational Awe Scale, William L. Krenzer
Networks in nature: applying cultural ecology for stewardship, Shelby Lasaine
AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS’ DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE OF EARLY LITERACY INSTRUCTION, Samantha Lazich
In the presence of suffering: toward a new understanding of evil, Kristina Lebedeva
Understanding STEM Identity Construction: An ethnography of an all-girls STEM club, Pasiewicz Marie Loyola
COMPARATIVE MEIOTIC CYTOLOGY AMONG DROSOPHILA SPECIES, Ahmed Folademi Majekodunmi
Bob Manning & son: soul, inheritance, and forgotten stories, Matthew R. Manning
Chronic life stress and change in stress response functioning in urban youth: The role of social support and gender, Heather M. Marshall
Smart or shirking? The effect of aggressive tax avoidance on corporate repuation, Jennifer McGarry
"Use of Non-Technical Skills Training & Video Simulation to Improve Knowledge Among Nurse Anesthesia Trainees", Laurie L. McLaughlin
Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault, Neal Miller
“YOU WILL DO BETTER THEN I DID” THE POSITIVE ACTIONS BLACK PARENTS EMPLOY TO INFLUENCE THEIR CHILD’S CHOICE TO ATTEND COLLEGE, Meagan Mitchell
lcp1 mutant zebrafish: A look at neutrophils, cancer, and gene compensation, Taylor Mitchell
Isolation of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia virus Bfi1: a biofilm inhibiting phage, Thomas Edward Moran
Children’s Selective Trust Based on Previous Lying Behaviors, Natalie A. Mordini
Nurse Practitioner’s Perspectives on Treating Depression in the Nursing Home Setting, Bryan Mullaney
A Comprehensive Reentry Policy for Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists with Substance Use Disorder, Thomas M. Nigro
The logic of imagination: a Spinozan critique of imaginative freedom, Amanda Parris
Implementation and Compliance with a Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy (GDFT) Protocol for Hip Arthroplasties: A Two-Year Review, Michelle N. Pavlik
Teacher-Directed Violence: The Role of Disempowerment in Turnover, Eric A. Peist
Dialectical Thinking and Smoking Outcomes in Asian Americans, Amber Pham
Ethics as praxis: the convergence of Michel Henry’s phenomenology of life with christianity, Hoang Pham
UNDERSTANDING GROUP DYNAMICS WITHIN A CLASSROOM USING SMALL GROUP NETWORKS AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAMING, Katarzyna E. Pomian
Sold a dream: An experimental test of the predictions of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion in a predatory student lending scenario, Lauren M. Pytel
Teachers’ Sense of Self-Efficacy and its Impact on English Learner Students’ Reading Proficiency-Level Scores on a Large-Scale Language Proficiency Test: A Mixed-Method Design, Mirtha Quintana-Toomey
Female cross-dressing and fragile masculinity in Le Roman de Silence and Twelfth Night, Nicole Robilotta
The telling is political & intentional: resistance through testimonio for Latinas in higher education, Fabiola Rosiles
Las curanderas de la herida abierta: how online communities of women of color are challenging coloniality, Aracelis Sanchez
Pride’s Influence on Perception of Control and Risky Decision-Making, Andrea Sanders
Confirmation and Characterization of a Functional APP/GAP-43 Protein Interaction, Ellen Savaglio
Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era, Alex Schackmuth
Pauli Murray in the 1930s: portraits and post-soul eccentricity, Sarah Scriven
Teaching Links between Epigenetics and Anesthesia to Anesthesia Providers, Bilanicz Slawomir
"EFFECT OF ZINC AND STRONTIUM DOPANTS ON THE STRUCTURE AND STABILITY OF HYDROXYAPATITE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES", Dylan Correll Smith
Housing, Relationships, and Substance Use among Female Ex-Offenders, Arturo Soto-Nevarez
Impact of Maternal Depression on Offspring, Fatima Sozzer
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated, Bintou Sy
Who are the Elis of Today? Examining the Adults Present During the Religious Identity Development of Catholic-Raised Youth, Danielle S. Vaclavik
Affirmative action and Bolsa Família in Brazil, Beatriz C. Vigil
The relationship between a firm’s ownership structure, governance, and innovation, Erica J. Wagner
Use of Non-Technical Skills Training & Video Simulation to Improve Knowledge Among Nurse Anesthesia Trainees, Kathryn Walus
JUSTICE, TRUST, AND TEAM PERFORMANCE A Comparison of Leader Selection Methods on the Development of Team Trust, Jake Alexander Weiss
Efficacy and Usefulness of an Educational Video on Safe Medication Handling, Molly Wenzel
An Examination of the Reciprocal Association of Collective Efficacy and Community Violence Exposure in Low-Resourced, Urban African American Adolescents, Christopher R. Whipple
Online Palliative Care Education in the Skilled Nursing Facility, Caroline Kreisl Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
TOWARD IMPROVING METALLOENZYME INHIBITOR DESIGN: A THERMODYNAMIC STUDY OF SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTIONS WITH COPPER(II), COBALT(II) AND MANGANESE(II), Fatimah Aldakheel
"It Just Weighs in the Back of Your Mind”: Microaggressions in Science, Amy Anderson