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 2016
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
Masked Victims: Examining the Violence of Femme Fatales in Contemporary Film Noir Cinema, Alexx Bonovich
REDUCING ECONOMIC DISPARITIES FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS: THE OXFORD HOUSE MODEL, Sarah L. Callahan
Revolution of the right: explaining the rise of the front national in light of the 2008 financial crisis, Alexanda Campione
Ideology, the Counterculture, and the Avant Garde: Positioning the Filmmaker and the Spectator in Four Films of Late-1960s America, Mary Bronstein Cantoral
The Importance of Family Meals and Sedentary Behavior in Understanding Childhood Depression and Obesity, Draycen D. DeCator
Prospective Predictors of Adolescent BMI: Parenting Style, Gender, and Weight Perception, Trey V. Dellucci
Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality, Marie Draz
Meaning as a Buffer Against Adolescent Psychopathology, Ellen Shaina Dulaney
Onset Patterns of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Mixed Method Approach, Meredyth Evans
The Use of Human Factors Training to Improve the Quality of Decision-‐Making in Nurse Anesthesia Trainees, Julia T. Feczko
Child appraisals of interparental conflict: The effects of intimate partner violence and the quality of parent-child relationships, Caleb J. Figge
Unplugged: an augmented reality party of poetry, prose, and music, Joshua A. Fisher
少壯不努力, 老大徒傷悲 (A Young Idler, An Old Beggar): Chinese Nationals in U.S. Classrooms and the Pedagogical Significance of Globalization, Ann Marie Frkovich
An Evaluation of the Perfectionistic Social Disconnect Model among Ethnic Minority Youth, Ana Belen Goya Arce
An Online Survey of the Healthcare Needs of Undergraduate Students at an Urban University, Linda Graf
Migration and Parent Involvement: Ethiopian Immigrants in Chicago, Daniel Hasso Shashe
Please, don't let me be misunderstood: intentionality, queer gestures, and feminist accountability, Katelyn Heinekamp
The Impact of Ethnicity on Executive Functioning in Youth, Silvia M. Henriquez Gerken
Feminine Voice, Masculine Space: Understanding How Passion for Sport Emerges in Female College Student-Athletes, Jill Hollembeak
CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND THE SOCIAL DETRMINANTS OF HEALTH: A SOCIOECOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN, Alescia M. Hollowell
“Cold Coach = Victory” and other Guidelines to the Director’s Playbook, Lavina Jadhwani
The historical construction of the Native American other and U.S. self: a conceptually schizophrenic perspective, Garrett Johnson
Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: A Longitudinal Assessment of Metabolic Control and Psychosocial Mediators, Sabrina Anne Karczewski
Labor market channels: perceptions of Vietnamese immigrants on accessing jobs in Chicago, B. Colleen Keefe
The Effects of Turkish Vowel Harmony In Word Recognition, Ece Kilic
Disparity of Assets in Addiction Recovery: Moderators of Perceived Control in Treatment and Recovery Settings in Kenya, Elias Kinoti Kithuri
Early Patterns of Change in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Lauren J. Legato
The breakup: the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass, and me, Kristin R. Lindsey
Arendt and Spivak: a feminist approach to political worlding and appearing, Rosalie Siemon Lochner
The Effect of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Parental Involvement on African American Adolescent’s Externalizing Behavior and Academic Outcome, Roberto G. Lopez Tamayo
EXPLORING THE USE OF TEACHING STRATEGIES TO IMPACT THE ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES FACED BY FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS, Susan Smierciak Lueders
Decolonial Futures and the Law: Reflections on Mitigating Projects of Coloniality, Lauren Lystrup
Genetic and Morphological Diversity Along Altitudinal Gradients in the Genus Rhoadsia (Teleostei: Characidae: Rhoadsiinae), Grace Malato
Securing the Blessings – Cultivating Active Citizens: Public School Principals’ Perceptions of How They Nurture a Democratic Way of Life, Judith Marie McCann Floeter
The Role of Guilt, Shame, and Self-Compassion in Promoting Racial Justice Engagement for White Students, Elizabeth A. McConnell
Pre-Service Secondary Science Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Modeling, Bryan J. Meeker
Perceived Choices: Perceptions of Mothers’ Devotion to “Family or Work” or "Family and Work", Stefanie Mockler
Divine discrimination: gender harassment and Christian justification, Abigail L. Muldoon
Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state, Imge Oranli
Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi, Sonya Nihan Ozbey
Retinoic Acid Regulation of Aromatase Expression in the Ovary, Sarah Persaud
A study on the effect of fulfilling hegemonic masculine norms on men's health across regions, Deborah M. Philbrick
Synthesis and Exploration of Dopamine and 4‐ HPAA Analogs for Norcoclaurine Synthase, Arthur A. Ralko
THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS TO FOSTER CONNECTIONS, COLLABORATION, AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING AMONG GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED TEAMS, Carmen Ramson-Herzing
Love Conquers All: The Power of the Indian Film to Free the Audience from Orientalism, Margaret Redlich
Effects of Temperature and Water Flow on Morphology of Astyanax mexicanus (Teleostei: Characidae), Winer Daniel Reyes
TOWARD IMPROVING METALLOENZYME INHIBITOR DESIGN: A THERMODYNAMIC STUDY OF SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTIONS WITH ZINC(II) AND CALCIUM(II), Sophia Robinson
Deathscapes in Neoliberal Times: Prisonfare, Workfare and Resistance as Potential Outcomes for Black Youth, Ebony Rose
The Africa command: how the Department of Defense has continued America’s ad-hoc foreign policies in Africa through neo-orientalism, Katherine T. Roseman
Chicago’s 2013 School Actions: An investigation of post-2008 racial neoliberal policy, Sonya Mohini Roy-Singh
Death in life: approaches to the contemporary denial of death in theoretical & experimental psychology and continental philosophy, Madeline R. Runstrom
Multiwavelength X-Ray Diffraction, Maziar Saleh Ziabari
Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition, Kelsey Schultz
Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: findings from learners' production data, Jose Sequeros-Valle
Demystifying the welfare state: the case of the Republic of Moldova, Claudette M. Sevcenco
PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF AQUATIC HYPERCARBIA ON SEAWATER ACCLIMATION IN THE WHITE STURGEON (ACIPENSER TRANSMONTANUS), Ciaran A.S. Shaughnessy
Incidental Affect, Facial Expressions, and Risk, Michael M. Shuster
THE INFLUENCE OF ATTENTIONAL CONTROL ON HEMISPHERIC PROCESSING OF PREDICTIVE INFERENCES, Michael Christopher Shutzenhofer
The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian, Rohan Sikri
Dynamics of Saturable Absorption in the Semiconductor-Doped Glass RG850, Pinyaphat Srikrishna
Trait Contempt and the Five Moral Foundations, Russell Steiger
(In)articulating the specter: queer communicative resistance in the hysterical supernatural, Clare Stuber
Analysis of management models of water utilities and water coverage, Chad Stutsman