Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Marginalization of Fezzan Region in Libya, Amad Abukhzaam
Opportunity Cost of Student Loan Debt Forgiveness: Testing the Impact of Four Policy Options on United States’ Economy, Emelia Akhlaghi
Essays on Marijuana Legalizations, Fawaz Alotaibi
Optimal Portfolio Construction for Oil-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds, Mohammed Saeed Alshowaikhat
Essays on the Labor Market, Hard Drug Use, and Traffic Fatalities, Abdullah Alswelh
The Future of Community Health Center Executive Leadership A Mixed-Method Formative Evaluation, Lizbeth Bayardo Cardenas
The Value of Mentoring in Living Out Your Calling, Megan Benzing
Undergraduates’ Preparedness for College-Level Work in STEM: The Importance of Reading and Understanding Scientific Theories, Arguments, and Data, Ewa M. Burchard
As Below So Above: Reconstructing the Neo-Babylonian Worldview, Heather Marie Burrow
Dismantling Education’s “Wicked” Problems, Amanda M. Castillo
Exploring College Knowledge: Diálogo Between College Counselors and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Latinx Public High School Students, Maritza Azucena Salazar Cha
Communal Appropriation: Considerations of Heritage and Cultural Preservation, Nikia Chaney
Territorial and Maritime Disputes in South China Sea: The United States' Strategic Plan of Response, Jung Lin Chang
Certain That I Belong in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM): Women's Authentic Belonging and Men's Inclusion Actions Through Job Crafting, Cecelia Lee (Dotzler) Corson
Signaling Dynamic Authenticity as a Leader, Laura Dannhäuser
Influenced: Performing Gender and Femininity in Mormon and Evangelical Online Spaces, Kathryn Ann Davis
Commodifying the Conifer: The Rise of the Christmas Tree Industry in the United States, Kerri Dean
Under Threat: An Empirical Test of the Social Identity Theory of Psychological Safety, Jessica Brull Barrett Diaz
Playing With Power: An Autoethnographic Study of The Last of Us as a Black Gamer, Adrienne Domasin
The Effect of Bureaucracy on the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment: A Comparative Study of Libya and the United Arab Emirates, Abdurraouf Abdussalam Elakder
Stairway to Fairness: The Impact of Explanations on Applicant Reactions to Automated Video Interviews, Benjamin E. Falls
Lattice Extensions and Zeros of Multilinear Polynomials, Maxwell Forst
A Jotería Identity and Belonging: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Queer and Trans Latinx Graduate Students in Higher Education, Sergio A. Gonzalez
The Effect of Age, Syntax Complexity, and Cognitive Ability on the Rate of Semantic Illusions, Sara Anne Goring
A Systems-Based Patient Aid Design Artifact for Active Medication Management in Type 2 Diabetes, Ibrahim A. Hamzah
Judgments of Learning and Retrospective Confidence Judgments: A Qualitative Exploration of Difference in Processes, David Hengerer
Assessment of Founders in Venture Capital Investment Decisions, Gregory Gerald Hennessy
Prospects for Professional Art and STEM Collaborations to Create STEAM Programs and Projects, Darius K. Hines
The Green Revolution in California: The Real Costs and Benefits of Changing Electricity Production, Joseph James Hoffman
Disruption, Dissent, and Dialogue: YPAR as a Pedagogical and Institutional Tool, Charlene E. Holkenbrink-Monk
Summary of Essays on the Constitutional Application of the 1996 CDA Section 230 and Separation of Powers, Gia Luisa Honnen-Weisdorn
College Aspirations, Preparation, and Enrollment of First-Generation College Students: The Role of College Counseling Support, Jamilla Helena Jamison
Optimization and Machine Learning Applied to Inverse Problems in Partial Differential Equations, Zhixuan Jia
Black Feminist Poiesis: Locating “The Uses of the Erotic” Within Black Domesticity, Kiandra S. Jimenez
Paul R. Williams at Work in Photographs: Tarrying With Cites/Sights/Sites of Trouble, Denise M. Johnson
A Digital Transformation Framework for Biopharma Manufacturing, Frederick K. Johnson
African American Female Political Behavior in the Georgia General Assembly: Policy, Position, & Power, Shawnika Johnson
A Forward-Looking Conceptualization of Information Privacy, David Kallemeyn
Empathy Unfolding: A Complexity Neuroeducation Framework for Tracing the Impact of Immersive Storytelling and Transformational Learning on Nursing Education, Maria H. Keckler
Diffusion of Environmental Protection Single-Use Plastic Bags Ban Policy in California, Sekwen Kim
Multidisciplinary Approach to Civil Conflict: Political, Economic, and Social Determinants of Violence, Zhamilia Klycheva
Moral Outrage Moderates the Relationships Between System Perception, System Justification, and Intergroup Helping Behavior: A Multigroup Approach, Michael Edward Knapp
A Culturally Responsive Evaluation Lens to Logic Model Design, Ciara Cascharelle Knight
Conversion and Apostasy: Egypt in Premodern and Modern Times, Yostena A. Labib
Is Wide-Area Persistent Surveillance by State and Local Governments Constitutional?, Joseph Lake
An Empirical Study: Evaluating the Impact of Economic, Human Resource, and Governance Factors to Foreign Direct Investment, Yuan-Yuan Lee
The Evolution of Efficiency in the Chinese Stock Market, Qiyun Li
The Feel of the Road: Anxiety, Passivity, and Empathy in Postwar Women’s Road Narratives, Diana Luu
Dynamics and Equilibria of N Point Charges on a 2D Ellipse or a 3D Ellipsoid, Barah Makhdum
Public Health and the Politics of Haussmannization in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1830-1870, Mikaela Malsy
African American Women in the Academy: Meaningful Pathways to Productive Careers, Kenya Marshall Harper
Remodeling the Closet: The Individual and Organizational Correlates of Workplace Sexual Identity Management, David M. Mendelsohn
Implementation of Local Control Accountability Plans in a Geographically Diverse Sample of K-12 California Public School Districts: The Impact on the Classroom and Parent Input in the Process, Rita Mongoven Miller
Longitudinal Effects of Prenatal Teratogen Exposure on Executive Function and Academic Outcomes, Dawn Michele Moore
A Mixed Methods Inquiry into the Decision-Making of California’s Principals During Local Control, Adrienne Ortega-Magallanes
Evil No More: The Image of the Witch and Women in the United States From Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries, Morgan Taylor Peacha
Experiencing Uncertainty as a Challenge or a Threat: Impact on Attraction to Entitative Groups, Mary Peterson
Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster, Phung Khanh Pham
The Development of Adolescent Students’ Self-Directed Learning Skills Within a Montessori Program During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study, Elyse Laurelle Postlewaite
Teacher Education Program Recruitment and Admissions: A Multiple Case Study of Three Minority-Serving Institutions in California, Mayeen Quader
More Moments with Others Matter for Emotion Regulation and Well-Being: A Study of First-Year College Students’ Daily Life During COVID-19, Jaymes Paolo Delas Armas Rombaoa
Examining the Effectiveness of Mental Health and Law Enforcement Partnerships in California, Domonique Hualani Rood
The Structure of Working Memory: A Review and New View of Psychometric Models, Kevin Pablo Rosales
Further Examining the Bias Habit-Breaking Intervention in a Non-Academic Organizational Sample, Veronica Scott
The ‘Failed’ Detectives: Failure as a Structure of Feeling in American Detective Fiction, 1914-1953, Ayoung Seok
Divine Democracy: Examining the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Civil Religion, José Andrés Serrano
The Impact of Development Aid on Human Development, Lauren Candia Shaffer
Essays in Economic Development and Political Empowerment, Lama Shaiek
Burning Bright or Burning Out: A Qualitative Investigation of Leader Vitality and Accompanying Practitioner Article, Jamie Shapiro
Forms of Amusement: Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert and Julie, Trevor Mark Shunk
Lessons From Leading During a Pandemic: An Exploratory Study of Public Health Leadership Insights on Training, Preparation, and Experiences From the Field During COVID-19, Amay Vikrama Singh
"Real Queens Fix Each Other's Crown": Addressing the Misseducation of the Blackgirl, Tiffani J. Smith
Interfaith Communities: Relationships in Thirdspace, Jessica Spence Moss
Humanizing English Language Arts Content Using a Social-Emotional Learning Approach, Marisol Thayre
From Information Overload to Knowledge Graphs: An Automatic Information Process Model, Eve Huang Thullen
Social Emotional Learning for Latinx High School Students With Specific Learning Disabilities, Jennifer Lynn Tucker Mottes
Voices of Endo: Cultural Factors Influencing Delayed Diagnosis of Endometriosis, Arline Karen Votruba
Culturally Responsive Evaluation Methods in Philanthropy: Striving for Community Inclusion Amidst Power Hoarding Practices, Cristina Elena-Tangonan Whyte
Piano Instruction: Reframing the Master-Apprentice Model Through the Integration of Dialogic Processes, Rebecca Holman Williams
The Scope for Monetary Autonomy in Hong Kong and Singapore, Shan Xue
Study of Figura in Gradual, MS Perkins 4 at Denison Library, Scripps College, Bai Yibing
When Leaders Use Self-Uncertainty Strategically: Consequences for Intergroup Leadership and Identity Confirmation Dynamics, Alison Young
Three Essays in Health Insurance, Chengcheng Zhang
Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception, Shanshan Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The African Christian History of American Songs of Slavery, Elizabeth Adekale
News Sentiment and Stock Return in the Chinese Stock Market, Yan Ai
Examining the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Exams, Scholastic Aptitude Test, and High School Grade Point Average as Predictors of College Readiness, Carol Ann Alexander
On Multiplication Groups of Quasigroups, Ahmed Al Fares
A Tailored Sleep Behavior Change Support System to Promote the Use of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Machines: Theorizing the Solution, Sarah Alismail
Government Expenditure and Relative Efficiencies: A Case Study of the United Arab Emirates with Application of the Relative Political Allocation Model, Ahmed A. Almulla
Essays in Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics, Rana Sulaiman Alogaily
Determinants of Bond Market Development in Emerging and Developing Economies, Mohanad Alsadoun
The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum, Seth Ifor Alt