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 2015
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
EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER VIA A TRANSDISCIPLINARY CLINIC, Peter John Thaxter
Does our fear of death stem from threatened belongingness?, Stan Treger
Resistance through literature in Romania (1945-1989), Olimpia I. Tudor
A Study of the Impact of Mental Contrasting and Implementation Intentions on Academic Performance, Suzanne Velasquez-Sheehy
Interpretation as epieikeia: Aristotelian ethics as a paradigm for Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, David Volfe
dipsomania, Dylan Weir
Morality Provides Meaning, Geoffrey Alexander Wetherell
Instructional Technology and Self-Directed Learning For Students' Academic Success, Vincent Demetrious Wiggins
“The least of these”: black club women and the social gospel, Joseph Thomas Williams
EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE SPECIES ON MOTILITY IN DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES, Amanda L. Wolske
Theatre Directing Without an MFA: A Practical and Systematic Approach for Directors in Kuala Lumpur, Kelvin Wong
Supporting Adult Learners' Metacognitive Development with a Sociotechnical System, Kathryn Wozniak
Curiosity: philosophy and the politics of difference, Perry Zurn
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Interventions for Addressing Faking on Personality Assessments for Employee Selection: A Meta-Analysis, Christopher Adair
The Influence of Verbal Assurances and Intrapersonal Empowerment Traits on Contract Signing Behaviors, Jasmine N. Ahmad
In Vivo Effects of a RAMBA and Vitamin A Deficiency on Ovary Development, Michael H. Akroush
TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE IN A MANDATORY ENVIRONMENT: A TEST OF AN INTEGRATIVE PRE-IMPLEMENTATION MODEL., Mohanned Al-arabiat
Redox-Neutral Catalytic Spirocyclization of para-Methoxy Aryl Alkynoate Esters, Mark Docto Aparece
CREATING FUTURES: Transformative Involvement Experiences For Immigrant Latino Parents., María del Carmen Aragonés Guarro
Empowerment of Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Minority College Students in the United States: Developing and Testing the College Student Empowerment Scales for Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Lindsey Therese Back
Exposure to Violence as a Moderator of the Relation between Coping Strategies and Outcomes in Low Income Urban Youth, Alexandra Lauren Barnett
Reaching for a connection: hand imagery in Emily Dickinson’s poems, J. Max Barry
Continuity, constellation, and unworking: an exploration of language in Nietzsche, Alicen L. Beheler
Urban adolescents' field trip experiences: a phenomenological perspective, Julia Elizabeth Anne Borst Brazas
The Psychological Well-Being of Divorced Fathers: A Theoretical Model and Projection, Todd Lawrence Bottom
Educators' Positive Stress Responses: Eustress and Psychological Capital, Karen Bradley
From Crime to Punishment: Moral Violations and the Social Function of Emotion, Michael Ray Brubacher
SOCIAL SUPPORT AND THE ROLE OF HOUSING FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INVOLVED IN THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM, Saidah Chambers
Synthesis and Analysis of Novel Copolymers of Methyl 2-‐Cyano-‐3-‐Phenyl-‐2-‐Propenoates with Styrene, Sonia Elena Chavez
Examining the Pathway from Maternal Criminal Involvement to Adolescent Delinquency, Dina Chavira
PORTRAITS OF FOUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WHO EARNED DOCTORAL DEGREES FROM A PREDOMINATELY WHITE INSTITUTION, Sherry M. Coleman Hunter
Black actresses in American films: a history and critical analysis of the mammy/maid character, Valerie Coleman
THE CROSS CULTURAL EXAMINATION OF A BRIEF AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW (ADI-R) IN KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES, Elizabeth Lally Daley
The Effect of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy on Strengthening the Attachment Relationship with Foster Parents and Children in Foster Care, Christina Marie Danko
Working women and the Lilly Ledbetter Act: a case study on misleading rhetoric of equal pay, Celia A. DeBoer