Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University

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.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Spirits of the king, Ali Al-Ani

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Chicago’s Migrant Serving Ecosystem: Perspectives from Providers on the Frontline, Safa S. Asad

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Empowerment as a Predictor of System Justification Moderated by Race, Nicole Belcher

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Spirituality and Primal Beliefs Among Oxford House Employees, Justin S. Bell

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Identity Shifting Behaviors, Perceptions of Diversity, and Perceived Discrimination in South Asian Employees, Himali Bhandari

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The Role of Team Sports, Coping, and Friendship in Reducing Depressive Symptoms in Youth, Abigail K. Bushnell

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Talking to Strangers: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Study of an Intercultural Intervention, Andrew Peter Camilleri

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Optimizing Remote Work Engagement and Performance, Jessica Chackoria

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Ozone Gardens: Impacts of Air Quality on Native Plants in Chicago, Elene Drosos

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Modeling exciton delocalization and transport in PDBD-T-2F with the line-dipole improvement for coupling calculation, Brian Dvorak

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Clutter and Control: A Regional Analysis of the Effect of Decluttering on Women During the Pandemic, Zachary Henry Ellis

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Counting on the Family: Family Cohesion and its Relationship to PTG, Edgar Ivan Gandara

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First-Generation College Students’ Sense of Belonging During COVID-19, Yesenia Garcia

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Length of Stay, Social Support, and Sex Differences in Recovery, Elizabeth K. Garrity

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Anticipated Intergroup Anxiety & Misattribution of Arousal, Nazia Khan

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Modular approach to soft mobile robots, Dimuthu Kodippili Arachchige

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The Joint Impact Of Parent Health Efficacy And Child Temperament On Child Health Outcomes, Emma F. Kruis

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Effects of Receiving Peer-Status Feedback on Chinese Adolescents, Mingqi Li

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A Longitudinal Study Assessing the Influence of Salivary Cortisol, Alpha Amylase, and Interleukin-1β Levels on Sleep and Physical Activity Among Emerging Adults, Bernardo Loiacono

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Can We Help You with Your Bootstraps? How First-Generation Graduate Students Can Use Relationships to Transform Universities, Brianna N. Mabie

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Family Obligation, School Climate, and the Academic Achievement of Latinx Youth Living in One- and Two-Parent Households, Elizabeth Martinez Charleston

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The Effects of Chronic Stress on Predictors of Academic Learning, Gabriel McNair

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Stress & Self-regulation in Law Enforcement, Cecilia R. Mercado

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Adult Age Differences in Response to Sociomoral Violations, Alyssa R. Minton

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Mental Health and Well-being of Survivors of Torture as they Seek Asylum, Samantha L. Nau

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Grieving Workers, Leadership Support, and Organizational Commitment, Zachary N. Ngo

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Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress and Alcohol Consumption, Paige Patano

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Address the Mess: the Role of Fear of COVID-19, Indecision, and Reactance in Decluttering Projects, Devki Patel

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Don't Let It Get to You: The Role of Internalization Racism in the Organization, Carolyn T. Pham

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Finding the Silver Lining: The Role of Supportive Social Environments, Keturah Platt

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Athalea: fear and hate, Santiago Posada-Jaramillo

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The robot on the hill, James Ryan

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Exploring Advocates’ Perceptions of Rural and Urban Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences Seeking Civil Protective Orders, Hannah C. Samuels

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Machines of the absurd: leveraging generative AI for creativity, humor, and playfulness, Tyler Sanders

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Databases and privacy compliance, Nick Scope

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Attachment and Resilience: The Mediating Effect of Coping, Michelle Soans

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Parent-Child Cultural Values (Mis)Matches and Youth Mental Health among Latinx Families, Jesus Eduardo Solano-Martinez

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A Phenomenological Study on Preschool Educator Experience in Re-imagining Play and Play-Based Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ronabeth Keh So

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Overcoming the War Within: Exploring the Relationship Between Exposure to Complex Trauma and Post Traumatic Growth, Diego T. Thompson

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Historical Trauma in Context: Perceived Effects Among Second Generation Cambodian Americans on a Personal, Family, and Community Level, Linda Toch

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Explaining the Paradox of High Self-Esteem in Black Youth Exposed to Stress: The Protective Role of Kinship and Spirituality, Takayla Christine Towns

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Friendship, FNE, and Confronting a Racist Remark, Kaelan J. Vazquez

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A Qualitative Analysis of White Nationalist Patriotic Discourse, Miguel Angel Vazquez

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Invisible Disability: A Review of Hearing and Vision Impairment Challenges in the Workplace, Melissa Ann Aguinaldo

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Mitigating Sunk Cost Bias for Consumers: Considering Alternatives Within High and Low Construal Levels When Costs are Sunk, Jasmine N. Ahmad

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The Positive Impact of Exposure to Nature versus Urban-Environment Images on Cognitive Processing: Working Memory and Problem Solving, Caitlin Julia Ailsworth

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Predicting code refactoring via analyzing the history of quality metrics and code anti-patterns, Sarah Alanqari

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Loving without memory: on the concept of salvation from Deleuze's Spinoza to Spinoza's Deleuze, Eric Aldieri

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Social Zapping: Examining Predictors of Last-Minute Cancelations Among Community Members, Alyssa T. Altieri

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Campus Racial Climate and Mentoring: Impact on Academic and School Experience Outcomes, Safa Asad

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Music in the Liturgy: An Education-Focused Approach, Robert M. Beatty

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The Moderating Effects of Acculturative Stress and Ethnic Identity on the Relation between Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms among Latinx Youth, Mariana J. Bednarek

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Nourishing Family Connections: Exploring the Impact of Mealtime Dynamics on Child Depressive Symptoms, Kyra (Dee) Bekelja

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Somewhere between: a memoir of the Bosnian American experience, Elvina Beslagic

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Residential Vacancy and Crime in the Wake of Housing Crisis in Chicago, Shaun Bhatia

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Impact of Retinoic Acid Receptor Alpha Conditional Knockout on Ovarian Follicle Development in the Mouse, Zlata Bogin

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Black, Male, Juvenile: A Multi-System Perspective on Hope, Dehumanization, and Redemption in Recidivism & Education, Alexandra M. Brandt

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Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Direction of Effects and Mechanisms of Influence, Bridget Brush

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Navigating Sense of Home: Migration experiences of Home and Community, Andrew Peter Camilleri

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Aristotle on the concept of life, Cameron F. Coates

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Conceptualizing Positive versus Negative Awe: Do Connection and Self-Significance Interact to Determine Awe’s Valence?, Christopher Evan Cole

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Trainee Perceptions of Structured On-the-Job Training (OJT): The Impact of Trainer Experience and Use of Structured OJT Guides, Jessica Nicole Cooperstein

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Lake sonnets, Michael Dean

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Critical Civic Engagement of Immigrant-Origin Latinx Youth, Wendy de Los Reyes Moore

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Interorganizational Practices that Foster Reciprocal Trust Between Central Office Administrators and Principals, Andrea M. Derdenger

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Identifying and transforming sites of power in collaborative community-based research, Jessa Dickinson

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Attention visual, Baris Dingil

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Code generation based on inference and controlled natural language input, Howard R. Dittmer

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A Spotlight on Teachers’ Culturally Sustaining Beliefs and Responsive Practices for Students of Color in Mathematics, Susan Ejma

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“Young, Gifted, and Black”: Understanding the Complex Experiences of High-Achieving Black Students in AP Classes at a Diverse Suburban High School, Jody Elliott-Schrimmer

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The Challenges of Catholic Identity in American Catholic University A Case Study of DePaul University, Andrew Ezechiugo

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Youth Relational History Affecting Mentoring Relationship Quality, Brittanie Nicole Gage

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Balanced Negotiations: An Online Negotiation Training for Women, Kaitlyn Rose Gallagher

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Understanding attitudes towards change, organizational diversity & inclusion strategies and anti-racist, multicultural engagement, Lynda D. Gonzales

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Retail Workers’ Job Preferences: Uncovering the Drivers of Attraction, Retention, and Attrition, Alyssa Green

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Relationship Between Objective Measures of Stress and Child Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Margaret Harrigan Clark

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Peer Victimization and Post-Traumatic Stress Problems among Latinx Youth: The Role of Emotional Reactivity and Gender, Ashley N. Harris

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The Dangerous Effect of Entitlement on White Nationalist Ideology, Kara Elizabeth Harris

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Leave in Yiddish, Eliana Herman

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Strengthening higher education for displaced students from Burma in Thailand: identifying collective interest and expanding value across diverse stakeholders, Claire Holba

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Service Learning in the Digital Age: Understanding Nontraditional Students and Their Experiential Journey Through Electronic-Service Learning, Qianhui Hub

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Latinas in Leadership Positions in the United States: Theories, Characteristics, and Recommendations, Fernanda Ibanez

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Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults, Mustafa Kemal Isik

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Overcoming foreign language anxiety in an emotionally intelligent tutoring system, Daneih Ismail

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Nietzsche's Ariadne: a new perspective on the eternal recurrence, Jessica Jessen

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Northeastern Illinois University: Identifying Characteristics Associated with Low African American Student Retention and Persistence, Laural E. Johnson

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The crossroads of oil: perpetuation of settler colonialism based in Native American treaties and sustained through the construction and protection of oil pipelines in the American Great Lakes region, Samuel Johnson

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Quiet Quitting: Navigating an Old Phenomenon in the New Normal, Eilish Keane

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Hacker, influencer, counter-culture spy: cyberspace actors’ models of misinformation and counter-operations, Benjamin Kessell

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The Process of Designing and Revising a High-Quality Digital Math Curriculum For a Large Diverse Urban School District: Recommendations From a Math Designer, Suzan Kheireddin

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Thinking Style as Input: Information Seeking and Processing, Youlim Kim

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Skilling up for CRM: qualifications for CRM professionals in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Seth J. Kinnett

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The Cellie Coping Kit for Kids with Craniofacial Conditions: Developing a Culturally Sensitive Psychosocial Support Tool and Coping Resource for Families with School Age Children with Craniofacial Conditions from Diverse Backgrounds, Marissa Lee Koven

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INVESTIGATING THE SALINITY TOLERANCE OF THE SWORDTAIL (Xiphophorus hellerii), Alexandra Megan Krak

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Exclusion, Extroversion, and Relationship-Related Thought Accessibility, Stacey L. Kruse

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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony, Paula Landerreche Cardillo

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孟母三迁 (Meng Mu San Qian): New Chinese Immigrant Parents' Narratives About Involvement in U.S. Public High School Education, Haixia Li

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Characterization of the Immune Deficiency Pathway during female meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster, Sarah Mashburn

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The Power of Spiritual Leadership in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Stefanie Mingari

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Do Moral Foundations Predict Views on Morally Contested Issues?, Mackenzie Maria Moreno