Theses/Dissertations from 2025
A Theoretical Framework for Black Women’s Leader Development, Kayla Kai Parker
Pathways to Positive Youth Development in African Contexts: The Role of Contribution, Prina Patel
Employment Preparedness Through the Collegiate Experience, Barnaby F. Peake
(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
Community Impact of School Closure: Implications for Access to Socially Valued Resources and Services in an Urban Community, Gary Pierson
A Vascular Flora of the Sacatar Trail Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, California, Kimberly Schaefer Pivetti
Empirical Analyses on Public Safety, Ryan Quandt
Paths to Mathematics Success: A Path Analysis of Educational Expenditures to Math Outcomes of Latine Students, Aldo Ramirez
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
The Teacher I Am, The Classroom I Build: Exploring the Intersections of Identity, Equity, and Pedagogy in the Secondary Classroom, Cynthia Ann Yukiko Rivera
A Conspiratorial Republic: The Societal and Political Impact of Conspiratorial Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States, Kylee Nikole Robinson
Unseen Journeying: Latinx Mothers’ Experiences and Navigation of Pre-Referral Home-School Collaboration, Yoné Rodríguez
VDDM: A Value-Driven Decision Model to Augment Value-Focused Thinking Methodology, Yana Saakyan
Educational Experiences of Latinas in Space Exploration: Achievement Motivation and Science Identity Development, Roslyn Soto Sanchez
Augmented Digital Fotonovela (SMAART App) to Mitigate Health Consequences Among Adolescents Resulting from Social Media Addiction, Joseph Santhosh
Exploring Classroom Collaborative Problem Solving: An Examination of the Pedagogical Role and Professional Learning of Mathematics Teachers, Al Russell Schleicher
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
Humility in Practice: Examining the Ethical Alignment of Evaluator Values and Reporting, Darrel Skousen
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
Pre-Apprenticeship as a Lever for Workforce Equity: A Quantitative Study of Non-Traditional Adult Learners in California, Joseph Stark
Resource Allocation and Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Esports, Stephanie Keiko Takemoto
Optimization of a Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Airfoils Using Machine Learning, Numerical and Experimental Methodologies, Leovigildo Torres Angel
God’s Chosen Candidate Pulpit Freedom Sunday and the Reshaping of Evangelical Political Mobilization, Pulpit Politicking, and Church-State Relations, Joey Adrian Torres
Writing as Survival: Uncovering How Students Understand Antiracist Writing Assessment Practices in the Community College Composition Classroom, Jason Torres-Rangel
Identifying Structural Impediments to Equity for Women’s Leadership: Development and Validation of an Organizational Equity Diagnostic, Leslie L. Trainor
The Role of Organizational Structure in Women’s Leadership, Leslie L. Trainor
The Relationship Between Historical Trauma, Ethnic Identity, and Well-Being in Sikh Emerging Adults, Hartrisha Kaur Uchida
Helping Students Help Themselves: An Intervention to Facilitate Campus Food Pantry Use at a Public University, Kianna D.G. Valoa
Market Implied Risk-Free Rates: An Analysis of the Put-Call Parity Implied Rate, Silviu Velovici
Evaluation of LYTE’s Pilot Health and Wellness Coach Training Program, Lauren Allyson von Lawn
Understanding Risk Associated With Artificial Intelligence for Generalized Assessment and Decision Making: A Design Science Approach, William Wagner
The Role of Multiracial Identity Integration in Developing Leader Adaptability, Ashley M. Watterson
What We Talk About When We Talk About Race: Racial Discourses, Nationalism and Identity in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Timothy Werlinger
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
The Apocalypticism of Hesiod, Plato, & Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries for Christian Apocalyptic Intertexts, James Yuile
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
Examining Factors Related to Access to Rigorous High School Physics for Black Males: Evidence From the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, Jennifer DaCosta
Building a Cybersecurity Compliance Index of Capabilities to Explore Strategies and Trends That Enhance Decision Making in Organizations, Juanita Dawson
The Influence of Religion in Frantz Fanon’s Decolonial Theory and Ethics on Violence, Dorival Pimenta do Nascimento
From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles, Wilfred Joseph Doucet III
Conceptualizations of Data Visualization Use Beyond Efficiency in Evaluation, Sarah Douville
Increasing Help-Seeking Among People with Depression: An Empirical Assessment of a Static and Trending Norms Approach, Christopher Falco
Essays in Local Governance: Studies of Policy Choices, Resource Management, and Community Impacts, Ben Feingold
Culture and Community: The Importance of Black Spaces in Community Colleges, La Quirshia Fennell
From Classroom to Community: Cultivating Critical Consciousness in K-12 Ethnic Studies for Civic and Community Engagement, Edward Flores
Municipal Governance and Financial Health: An Analysis of the Institutional Structures of California Cities, Christopher J. Freeland
A Checklist to Design and Evaluate Systems-Informed Wellbeing Initiatives: A Mixed Methods Validation Study, Jaclyn Gaffaney
