Theses/Dissertations from 2023
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
Going Above and Beyond: Motivation in The Reading Lab, Steve A. Pell
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
Interpersonal Skills: Exploring the Future of Evaluator Training, Jessica Renger
Political Echo Chambers: The Internet Facilitates Identity Confirmation, Amelia Lee Rodriguez
Partisan Politics and Green Foreign Direct Investment (Electrical Vehicle Industry in the United States), Inseon Roh
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
California Community College Presidents’ Leadership: Serving Latinx Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions, Christina Joy Ryan Rodríguez
Overdue Credit: Credit Management, Crime, and Immigrants in Early Twentieth Century United States, Enrique Salas-Limon
“Should I Sacrifice to Live Half-American?”: An Examination of the Double V Campaign, Zoё Scott-Goss
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
Misinformation Alters Personality Assessment Scores, Tyler Shapland
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
#JuccoStruggle: A Critical Examination into the Lived Experiences of Black Male Community College Athletes, Terry James Sivers
Parenting: An Economic Analysis, Benjamin J. Smith
"Real Queens Fix Each Other's Crown": Addressing the Misseducation of the Blackgirl, Tiffani J. Smith
The Impact of Education on Reducing Poverty in South Asia, Rooppreet Kaur Sohal-Bagri
Interfaith Communities: Relationships in Thirdspace, Jessica Spence Moss
Graph-Based Acoustic Clustering and Classification, Justin Youngho Sunu
Camouflage Romance: Same-Gender Romantic Relationship Quality and Effects on Military Commitment, Karen Tannenbaum
The Relationship between Surges in Capital Flows and Booms in Credits, Kittiyaratch Thanakornmonkkonchai
An Examination of Weight-Related Bias in the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Community, Jennifer Thayer
Humanizing English Language Arts Content Using a Social-Emotional Learning Approach, Marisol Thayre
On Symmetric Operator Ideals and s-Numbers, Daniel Akech Thiong
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
Targeting Negative Urgency and Expectancies in Persuasive Messaging, Emily Ann Warren
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
The Impact of Human Capital and Social Capital on Economic Growth in China, Jie Yu
A New Credit Scoring Model to Reduce Potential Predatory Lending: A Design Science Approach, Anna Zakowska
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
Physician’s Resistance to EHR Post Successful Organizational Adoption: Dual Factors Investigative Study, Sawsan Abdullah Altammar
The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum, Seth Ifor Alt
Towards a Philosophy of Least Violence, Daniel Whitcomb Ambord
What Causes Power Transition Conflicts?: Evidence from Interactions between International and Domestic Politics, Jingjing An
Physiological Synchrony Predicts Cooperative Behavior with High Stakes, Lena Arai
A Path to Visibility and Leadership: How Mentoring Relationships Impact Career Advancement in Student Affairs for Asian American Women, Erica Alcantara Aros
An Exponential Formula for Random Variables Generated by Multiple Brownian Motions, Maximilian Lawrence Baroi
Picture This: Black Girl Multilingual Magic, Reka C. Barton
Truth and Enlargement in the Political Thought of John Stuart Mill, Aaron Berg
How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles, Melissa Stacey Bishop-Magallanes
Carnivalizing the Nation: Reassessing the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival as an Inclusive Platform for Local and Diaspora Cultural Identity, Shari Bissoondatt
Do You Want to Be an Organ Donor? Why Question Order and Straightlining Matter, Danielle R. Blazek
Duty, Honor, Country: Generalship and Institutional Magnanimity, Erin E. Brooks
Still Reforming: The Need for a New Confession in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Matthew W. Bussell
Mapping the Socio-Spatial Educational Trajectories of Justice-Impacted Latina/o/x Students, Rachel Camacho
Building Zion: Sacred Space, the United Order, and Mormon Successor Groups, Stephen Cameron
First Year College Experiences of California’s Central Valley Latina/o/x Students, Alonzo Campos
Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War, Kimberly Teaman Carroll
The Noble and the Base: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Character of Regimes, Rebeca Castaneda
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT USE AMONG PROBATIONERS ENROLLED IN THE RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, WHOLE-PERSON CARE PILOT PROGRAM, Nirshila Chand
Malcontents in the Middle: Uncertainty-Identity, Extreme Religious Groups and Leader Rhetoric, Jared K. Chapman
A Theology of Divine Calling in Light of Karl Barth, A.N. Whitehead, and Meister Eckhart’s Theological Forms, Kin Ting Caleb Cheung
Recognize and Accept Me: Consequences of the Drive for Social Identity Validation, Eunice U. Choi
Indigenous Climatic Perspectives: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Environmental Discourse Analysis, Linda G. Claros
Evaluation from Both Sides Now: Towards an Epistemology of Evaluation Practice, Heather D. Codd
Teacher Knowledge and Beliefs Regarding Sight Word Development, Svetlana Cvetkovic
Fostering Verbal and Play Interactions in Heritage Language: A Naturalistic Intervention Mediated by Siblings for Autistic Children, Alanna Dantona
Attitudes Toward Immigrants as a Function of National Identity Distinctiveness Threat and Imagined Contact, Alicia S. Davis
Black Preschool Minds Matter: A Critical Examination of Preschool Teacher Beliefs About Discipline, Michelle DeJohnette
Public Perception of Socio-Scientific Issues Do You Decide Based on Your Education, Your Experience or Reading the News?, Burcu Demiralp
Examining How Individual Approaches to Learning Support Mentorship Relationships and Greater Well-Being for At-Risk College Students, Rebecca Renae Donaldson
Learning from History: Real and Perceived Threats to National Security, David Dupont
Physicians’ Perceptions of the Utility of Clinical Guidelines in the Management of People with Type 2 Diabetes in Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Eskandarani
Mindfulness: A Personal Resource in Organizational Change, Mona Farid-Nejad
School Counselors in Large Public High Schools: Roles and Responsibilities and Their Effects on Latinos/as A-G College Course Completion Rates, Patricia Perez Filimaua
Data-Driven Methods for Low-Energy Nuclear Theory, Jordan M.R. Fox
