Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Age-Varying Associations Between Childhood Abuse and the Risk of Obesity Across Adulthood: Examining Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents to Adult Health, Mohammed Abudawood
Investigating IoT Adoption in the Face of Organizational Culture and Uncertainty Challenges: The Mediating Role of Information Behaviors on Communication Quality, Ahmad Ali Alasmari
Cultivating Quality of Life: Assessing Diet, Physical Activity, and Mental Health Among Arab-American Breast Cancer Survivors - Uncovering Barriers and Facilitators for Holistic Well-Being, Nouf Ali Alhomaidhi
Essays on the Effectiveness of Diversion Programs in the United States Criminal Justice System, Tairy Ayon
Essays on IMF-Supported Programs: Analyses of Selected Issues, Harvey Baldovino
Tracing the Collective Endeavors: The Cultural Discourses of Women Printmakers Throughout History, Ann Henrietta Bittl
Relational Pathways to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Identity and Belonging, Ashley Bonilla
Lived Narratives of Educators: Emotional Intelligence for DEI in Early Adolescent Classrooms, Colette Bozek
Outness Through a Cultural Lens: Self-Construal Impacts Disclosure Among Diverse Sexual Minority Individuals, Ivy Alexandra Carrete
Three Essays on Behavioral Economics : Bribery Solicitation, Pity System and Information Avoidance, Xi Chen
The Model Minority Stereotype's Impact on Korean American High School Students' Educational Outcomes, Elmer Choe
Enduring Wisdom for Leaders: Bringing a Biblical Worldview to Leadership and Management, Daniel Crute
Siguiendo El Camino/Following the Path: Exploring the Experiences of Latin* Second-Generation College Students, Libby Lee Curiel
Embodied Knowing: How Trans Critique Creates Liberatory Pedagogical Possibilities, Everette Davidove
Navigating Cultural Complexity: The Influence of Self and Organizational Support on Global Work Environment Outcomes, Sejal N. Desai
Investigating Causal Inference of Policies: Ban the Box on Employment, Wage Transparency on Wage Gap, and DNA Databases on Serious Crimes, Atousa Egualada
What Did Independent Study Do for Me? Perspectives of Latine Graduates of a California Independent Study High School Program, Monique R. Escobedo
¡Adelante Mujer!: Testimonios of Chicana and Latina High School Principals, Blanca Rocio Esquivel
DIM Theory Applied to Law: The Disintegration of American Law, Tristen Fleig
Queen Nefertiti: Power and Intrigue Amidst Gender Inequality, Riyad Girgis
From Self-Determination to Decolonization: How American Indian Activism Reshaped Museum Spaces, Daniel A. Gruber
Integrating Play Into Work: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Building Work Engagement Through Play, Jordan Hamilton
Exploring Gratitude Journaling in 12-Step Recovery: Effects on Attitudes, Affect, and Cravings: A Pilot Study, Susan Elizabeth Hann Doyle
Igbobuagu: An Exploration of Performance Practices, Aesthetics, and Symbolism in Igbo Traditional Instrumental Music, Anderson Isiagu
Waiting for the Miraculous: An Essay on Patience in American Literature, Eunice Yong Kim
The Impact of Terminology in Persuasive Messaging: An Evaluation of the EQUIP Model, Vested Interest and Terminological Variations on Young Adult ENDS Prevention Efforts, Michael Lebsack-Coleman
Empowering Reproductive Health & Access to Enhance College Student Well-Being: A Mixed Methods Community Engaged Proposal, Allison Maladore
The Mediating Role of Social Connectedness in the Association Between Volunteering and Affect in Daily Life: A Dynamic Approach, Megan E. Mansfield
Excellence and Performance Improvement: The Goals and Standards Guiding Skill Development in USA Curling, Derrick C. McLean
Enhancement of Mechanical, Structural, and Electrical Properties in Advanced Composites and Vat Photopolymerized 3D Printing Nanocomposites, Poom Narongdej
Polarization Reconfigurable Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (PR-NOMA) for Next Generation Communication Systems, Thong Doan Ngo
Marked by Valor: The “Lost” History of the 6th United States Colored Troops, Heavy Artillery, Daniel William O’Sullivan
Cleansing Our Recycling Failures: How Guilt and Outrage Lead to Different Types of Pro-Environmental Behavior, Cody D. Packard
Students or Suspects? Safety Policy: Is the Wanding Policy in an Urban School District Racializing Latinx Youth?, Klarissa Palacios
The Role of Social Media in Students’ Learning: Perceptions From the US and China, Jia Pang
A Theoretical Framework for Black Women’s Leader Development, Kayla Kai Parker
(Re)Imagining Linguistic Justice Through Pláticas: Dual Language Educators’ Perspectives on Restorative Practices, Lysandra Pérez
“Most of All, I Wanted My Life to Count for Something:” Toward Black Feminist Theorization in Histories of California Medicine and Medical Education, 1858 to 1942, Monica Ugwu Perkins
A Vascular Flora of the Sacatar Trail Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, California, Kimberly Schaefer Pivetti
World as Other, World As Self: Beyond Dualism in Environmental Narratives, Tamara Wallace Ramirez
Personal Wisdom and Coping: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Noah Ringler
VDDM: A Value-Driven Decision Model to Augment Value-Focused Thinking Methodology, Yana Saakyan
Augmented Digital Fotonovela (SMAART App) to Mitigate Health Consequences Among Adolescents Resulting from Social Media Addiction, Joseph Santhosh
Effortful Emotion Regulation Strategy Use and Cognition: An Individual Differences Approach, Christopher John Schmank
The Women’s Legal Rights Index: A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Autonomy, Mona Shadia
Postsecondary Enrollment Demand-Gap Estimation Model: Projecting the Postsecondary Demand-Gap for California by 2035, Manish Ranjan Shrivastav
Assessing the Relationship Between Empathy Climate, Motivation to Empathize, Network Ties, and Leader Engagement in Pursuit of Validating an Empathy Climate Scale, Sarah Gray Shults
The Transformative Power of STEM: Oral History Narratives of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Pursuing STEM Degrees, Elisa Joan Slee
The Mixed Effects of Procedural Justice in Novel Organizational Policy Decisions, Daniel J. Smith
An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration, Mark S. Smith
Resource Allocation and Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Esports, Stephanie Keiko Takemoto
God’s Chosen Candidate Pulpit Freedom Sunday and the Reshaping of Evangelical Political Mobilization, Pulpit Politicking, and Church-State Relations, Joey Adrian Torres
QUEEN: The Remaking of Character in the Modernist Novel, Ann L. Wilson Green
Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination, Jiusi Xiao
Quantifying the Effects of Sentiment and Expectations on the United States Credit Growth, Luoyi Xiao
Three Essays on Consumption and Information, Jin Xu
Existence and Uniqueness of the Solution of a Traffic Flow Partial Differential Equation on Multi-Lane Freeways, Sina Zareian
Testing Uncovered Interest Rate Parity in Asian Countries, Dan Zhang
The US Unconventional Monetary Policy and International Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies, Tianyuan Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Improving Maternal Health Care Accessibility and Utilization in Remote and Island Communities: An Explorative Study in Ghana, Douglas Adu-Fokuo
A Methodological Framework for transnational Global Health workforce development as an intervention for health disparities utilizing the CDU GHL Zambia Program, Josephine Akingbulu
Technology Affordances and Curriculum Flexibility in Higher Education Blended Learning, Clement Chimezie Aladi
The Impact of Adopting OER Videos as Supplementary Resources on Student Scores and Engagement, Awad Albalawi
Improveing F-beta Score in Classifying Shark Data into Shark Behaviors, Ibrahim M. Ali
Exploring Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy, and Consumption: Insights From Middle East and North Africa Nations and Oil-Exporting Countries, Afra Ali Alnuaimi
The Impact of U.S. Public Opinion on U.S. Engagement With the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim Alsuhaibani
An Investigation Into the Factors Determining Digital Transformation’s Success in Government Sectors, Nemer Alsulami
Assessment of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors for Diabetes Mellitus Prevention in San Bernardino County, California: Using Secondary Data and Geospatial Analysis, Godswill Melford Arugu
Essays on Crime and Law, Anuar Assamidanov
Empirical Linkage Between Economic Growth and Political Instability and the Effects of Inequalities in Africa, Francis Joseph Assenga
Organizational Justice: A Theoretical Expansion and Nomological Analysis, Austin Attaway
Evaluation of Imputation Methods Focusing on Categorical Outcomes, Nadia Bernardo Mendoza
Compassionate Containment: The Cold War Origins of American Evangelical Humanitarianism, James Berry
Examining the Impacts of a Relational Savoring Intervention on Parental Reflective Functioning and Children’s Emotion Regulation Across Time, Megan Blackard
Identity complexity, uncertainty, and belongingness: Understanding the appeal of extremist groups, Michelle Blaya Burgo
From Analog to Digital: The Geopolitical and Socioeconomic Calculus of Central Bank Digital Currencies, Paul Christopher Bogaardt
The Identity Harmony Model of Inclusion: Development and Test of a New Theory, Anne Brafford
Sacred A Cappella Composition in France from Pius X to Vatican II, John Curtis Browning
Saving the world one scrap at a time: Identity labeling as as tool to reduce household food waste, Jamiela Bryant
PERMA+4 Building Blocks of Well-being: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Mechanisms & Conditions that Enable the Subjective Well-being of Workers, Victoria Cabrera
Mathematical Modeling of Microscale Biology in Polyelectrolyte Brushes, William J. Ceely
The Effect of Institutional Design and Voter Reasons on the Prevalence of Local Recall Elections, Jennifer Cervantez
Rape Violence in India, Chisanga Chanda
Exploring the Influence of Startup Companies’ Social Networks on Funding with Machine Learning, Cindy Cheng
Economic Uncertainty as a Source of Self-Uncertainty and a Threat to Confidence in Elections, Kaiyuan Chen
Developing a Conceptual Framework for Decolonizing Evaluation, Minji Cho
Good Deeds Gone Wrong: How Leader Self-Sacrifice Morally Licenses Followers Counterproductive Work Behaviors, Christopher Matthew Chow
A Genomics Approach to Conservation, Systematics, and Phylogeography to Understand Two Lineages of Lamiales, Robert Comito
The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast, Kenneth M. Cotich
Black LGBTQ+ Students’ Perceptions of Belonging: Resource Centers, Relationships, and Intersectionality on College Campuses, Wesley M. Cox
Originalism & Judicially-Enacted Religious Exemptions: Revisiting Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith, Eric Russell Coykendall
The Intersection of Threat, Disposition, and the Political, Carlin Crisanti
