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 2017
The perversion of the absolute: religion and representation in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Thomas Floyd Wright
Gender and Education: A Qualitative Study of Women's Experiences at Selective Women's Colleges, Staci H. Zake
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
BEYOND RACE: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE DISCIPLINE GAP AMONG PREDOMINANTLY BLACK HIGH SCHOOLS IN CHICAGO, Felipe Ignacio Agudelo Acevedo
Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth, Norah Alsuhaibani
Midcentury modern: a memoir, Christian Browning Anderson
The battle of Kosovo, hero cults, and Serbian state formation: an analysis of Serbian political culture, Tena Korac Andric
Effects of Multinational Team and Team Member Characteristics on Subgroup Formation, Group Identification, and Trust in Team, Gamze Arman-Incioglu
DNP Project: Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Current Technology to Prevent Drug Diversion, Grant T. Balbarin
How I Screwed Up My Thesis Production and Forgot Everything I Knew About Directing, Brian Balcom
Development of an Educational Seminar on Coping with Stress for Nurse Anesthesia Trainees, Becky Belk
Mutagenic Analysis of SH3 Binding Site in the Avian ChB6 Alloantigen, Rohini Bhattacharya
DNP Project: Effectiveness of Video Simulation Training to Increase Knowledge and Confidence in the Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Mishawna K. Bohner
The Janus-face of capitalist labor: gender, race, and work in early modernity, Ashley J. Bohrer
DNP Project: Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Current Technology to Prevent Drug Diversion, Cheryl Botsford
The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot, Jessica Brown
Naturalistic Allocation: Working Memory and Cued-Attention Effects on Resource Allocation, Shanique G. Brown
Neighborhood and School Influences On Academic Achievement and Educational Attainment, Crystal Monique Coker
Anesthesia Providers' Knowledge and Attitudes on Fire Risk Assessment During Time-out in the Operating Room, Kathryn D. Coletto
Examining the Intersection of Gender and Age on Backlash Effects in Negotiations, Amber Cotton
An Examination of the Effectiveness of a Bibliotherapy Version of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Julie Christine D'Amico
The invention of order: modern spatial concepts and the emergence of the Americas, Don T. Deere
The story of a video game: reading the Assassin's Creed universe, Karina Diaz
Affective and Deliberative Processes in Decision Making: Option Framed Scenarios, Charles E. Drehmer
Artificial perspectives: how science fiction grapples with the growing power of artificial intelligence, Marcus Emanuel
Enzyme-Mediated and Mechanistic Investigations of Tetrahydroisoquinoline Synthesis through the Pictet-Spengler Reaction, Jordan Elise Fauser
EFFECTS IF CLARITY AND LOCUS OF CONTROL ON OUTCOMES OF RJPS, Gregory F. Fernandes
Understanding Perceived Overqualification: Expanding the Criterion Space, Establishing Drivers, and Developing a Model, Gregory Francis Fernandes
Effects of Religious Participation on Negative Mental Health Symptoms among Low-Income, Urban African American Adolescents, Alfonso L. Floyd
A discourse of the non-discursive in Plato and pseudo-Dionysius, Benjamin Frazer-Simser
Exploring the Self-Referent Meaning Mechanisms of Terror Management Theory and Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, Joseph A. Galluzzo
Bridging the Digital Divide Were any Divides Bridged, Andrew Gibbs
A Needs Assessment for the Development of the TIME Anesthesia Handoff Tool, Courtney K. Gibney
Chemical Reaction Kinetics of the Pictet-Spengler Reaction, Jo Ann K. Girel
The Rise of Neoliberalism - A Transrational Analysis: Towards a New Vision for Urban Education, Dennis Kevin Gregory
The Muted Expert: A Qualitative Study on the Principals’ Perceptions and Experiences of the Current Teacher Evaluation System, Denitra Griffin
Thinking About Race: The Development and Implication of Racial Ideology, Robert E. Gutierrez
Competency Modeling as an Organizational Development Intervention, Sarah Michelle Haynes
The Response of Religious Leaders to Intimate Partner Violence: Overcoming the "Holy Hush", Jaclyn Danielle Houston-Kolnik
In the Service of What? A Phenomenological Exploration of African American High School Students' Self-Efficacy in Service Learning, Charemi A. Jones
Using a Dynamic Domain-Specific Modeling Language for the Model-Driven Development of Cross-Platform Mobile Applications, Christopher A. Jones
An Application of Wavelet Methods to the Search for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Kevin Michael Kadowaki
A house on the border, Libby Kalmbach
Learning Needs Assessment of CRNA Clinical Instructors, Karen Kapanke
DNP Project: Effectiveness of Video Simulation Training to Increase Knowledge and Confidence in the Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Erica Anna Kubis
EXAMINATION OF THE b COEFFICIENT IN GaP CRYSTAL UTILIZING SINGLE AND DOUBLE PHOTON ABSORPTION, Ines Kusmic
YOUNG SURVIVORS OF DISASTER: A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW OF MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, Theressa L. LaBarrie
Patterns and Predictors of Parent-Child Endorsement Discrepancies among Youth at Chronic-Risk for Depression, Bridget A. Makol
The Effects of Sexual Orientation and Behavioral Style on Perceptions of Leadership Potential and Effectiveness, Kristin Elizabeth Mann
Wellness Interventions in an Asian American-Specific Mental Health Setting, Pui Kwan Ma
State-Level Anti-Bullying Policy: Toward A System-Level Implementation Framework, Andrew Martinez
DNP Project: Reversal of Neuromuscular Blockade with Neostigmine: Development of an Evidence-based Practice Protocol, Kyle L. Mayer
DNP Project: Anesthesia Cost Awareness Project: Price List of Common Anesthetic Drugs, Betty L. Mestousis
That's Ru-volting! how reality TV reimagines perceptions of American success, Megan M. Metzger
Capstone: Child Temperament and Parenting Styles as Predictors of BMI, Sophia A. Mir
Humor and the absolute: comedy and irony in the philosophical projects of G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Schlegel, Karolin Mirzakhan
The Influence of Team Prosocial Motivation on Emergent States and Shared Leadership, Tyree David Mitchell
Being and method in Eckhart and Heidegger, Ian Alexander Moore
Living and Loving: A Qualitative Exploration of the Dating and Sexual Relationships of HIV-Positive Young Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men, Darnell N. Motley
Effects of Convenience on Participation in Recycling by Anesthesia in the Operating Room: A Pilot Study, Alaina S. Murley
Evaluating Situation Awareness in the Nurse Anesthesia Trainee During High Fidelity Simulation, Jamie Natale
Beyond this is a nothing: Beckett's early fiction, James Neisen
What's hope got to do with it? A narrative inquiry into the hope levels of high school students diagnosed with soft disabilities, Cynthia Norbeck
Entrepreneurship as Empowerment: How Women Are Redefining Work, Charlynn Odahl
Cooperation and Facets of Psychological Collectivism as Antecedents of Team Mental Model Similarity, Neal Benoit Outland
Parasite-related modification of multiple traits in an isopod host, Tracey J. Park
Breaking Surface: Unearthing Meaning in Jenny Schwartz's "God's Ear", Andrew Peters
Evaluating Situation Awareness in the Nurse Anesthesia Trainee During High Fidelity Simulation, Caitilin C. Pierchala
An Investigation of Foreign Language Use as a Protectant against Loss Aversion, Lauren M. Pytel
Capstone: Women, Addiction, and Gender-Sensitive Treatment: A Review of the Literature, Rae L. Rabideau
“If you’re not that as an Asian woman, you’re not shit as an Asian woman.”: (re)negotiating racial and gender identities, Andi T. Remoquillo
Living Out Faith: Reflections on Motivation for Academic Achievement and Career Choice, Felicia D. Richardson-McGee
Localizing immigration enforcement: “secure communities,” § 287(g) and Arizona law 1070, Jessica Rios
Academic Risk and Protective Factors of Latinos of Undocumented Status: A Narrative Approach, Claudio Rivera
Housing Choices Among Homeless Families in Child Welfare: A Mixed Methods Study, Anne Rufa
The Role of School Climate in Mitigating the Effects of Neighborhood Socio-Economic Status and Violence on Academic Achievement, Linda D. Ruiz
DNP Project: Effect of Convenience on Participation in Recycling by Anesthesia Providers in the Operating Room: A Pilot Study, Brittany A. Schuler
External and internal pressures on radical social movements: tracing the (de)mobilization of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Jordan W. Scott
"I'm Sure He Didn't Mean It That Way": The Influence of Leader Characteristics on Perceptions of Everyday Sexism, Samantha M. Smith
A Reexamination of the Cognitive Behavioral Model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Investigating the Cogency of the Model’s Behavioral Pathway, Madison Sunnquist
"Clinical Chatter" Every Nurse Informed, Carolyn Talbott
Aristotle and the Cynics on happiness and misfortune, Christopher Turner
The Influence of Parish Factors in Catholic Deacon Ministry Assignments: An Ecological Model Perspective, Danielle S. Vaclavik
Intimate Partner Violence and Victim Blaming, Christine A. Weingarten
Offspring Size-Number Tradeoffs and Food Quality Feedbacks Impact Population Dynamics in a Daphnia-Algae System, Ryan Wenkus
Housing and Abstinence Self-Efficacy in Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, Christopher R. Whipple
Anesthesia Cost Awareness Project: Price List of Common Anesthetic Drugs, Minnie C. Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Web-Based Recruitment: Strategies for Attracting LGBT Employees, Daniel R. Abben
A Person-Centered Examination of Latino Youth Depressive Symptom Trajectories: The Role of Youth, Parent, and Dyadic Familism, Jessica Annabel Arizaga
My boy, Nicole M. Bartoloni
THE ROLE OF GENDER IDENTITYAND STEREOTYPE AWARENESS ON SEXUAL NEGOTIATIONS STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN, Or'Shaundra Tre'Nay Benson
Race discourse online: How do we discuss Blackness in popular digital media?, Kovie Biakolo
Fossil Marine Vertebrates from the Codell Sandstone Member of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in Jewell County, Kansas, Kelly N. Bice