Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Digital Archives as Relationship-Building: Reflections on Worldmaking in Community-Based Latin American and Caribbean Diasporic Memory Work in Southern California, Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz
Self-Distancing as a Persuasive Amplifier for Increasing Help-Seeking among People with Depression, Sara M. Hollar
A Vascular Flora of the Manter and Salmon Creek Watersheds, Tulare County, California, Nina Marie House
Conjecture and Evidence: Discovering the Costs of Contemporary American Political Ideals, Joseph C. Immormino
California Bookstores: Passion and Profit, Scout Jaech
Separate, but Not Equal: A Content Analysis of Sexuality Education Curricula, Heather Jaffe
Teacher Perceptions of Relationship Building with Students: A Case Study of K-5 Schools in a Southern California School District, Anais Janoyan
Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators, Brian Jewett
The Influence of Payment Method: Do Consumers Pay More with Mobile Payment?, Yizhao Jiang
Cracking the Bamboo Ceiling: Examining the Academic and Professional Identity Development of Asian American Women Faculty, Christine Whang Kang
Measuring Purposeful Engagement in Leader Self-Development: A Scale Validation and Pathway to Leader Adaptability, Amber Kea-Edwards
On Coherence and the Geometry of Certain Families of Lattices, David Booth Kogan
Evaluating Los Angeles Homelessness Policy Using System Dynamics Modeling, Dandan Kowarsch
Characterization of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Essential Workforce Members of a Large Urban Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, Deborah Kupferwasser
The Role of Identity for the Practitioner and the Student: Culturally Inclusive Career Services for Pacific Islander Students in Higher Education, Roshni Devi Lal
Harry E. "Indian" Miller: Spectacles of Identity in the Early Twentieth Century American Southwest, Courtney Lamb
Excessive Stakeholder Evaluation Anxiety (XSEA): Helping Your Stakeholder Find Their Sea Legs with Program Evaluation, Samantha B. Langan
Transnational Film Practices: Hollywood Remakes of South Korean Films and Preference on Genre Films, Jung Lim Lee
The Economics of Public Safety, Uyen Le
An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care, Melanie Marie Lindsay
The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contamination and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison, Timothy Malone
Critical- Diversity, Belongingness, Inclusion, and Equity SEL, Jeanny Eliana Marroquin
Latina/o College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities: Experiences Encountered on the Postsecondary Educational Trajectory, Adaly Reyes Martinez
Political Cultures in Times of Crisis: Measuring the Effects of Liberal Values on Interstate Crisis Onset, Timothy Milosch
Investigating How Reading Enhances Empathy: A Longitudinal, Diary Study of Everyday Reading Habits, Caleb H. Mitchell
Systematics and Conservation of the Genus Malacothamnus (Malvaceae), Keir Morse
Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Insights, Islamic Feminist Aspirations, and Ecological Concerns, Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad
An Iterative Method for Canonical Polyadic Decomposition of Tensors, Ionela Silviana Munayco
Decision Making and Reform Within the United States Criminal Justice System, Rainita Narender
Global Citizenship Education and Teacher Learning and Change: Lessons Learned from within a Nascent Movement, Janette Neumann
The French Conundrum: The Unsettled Relationship between the Colonial Past, Identity Construction, and Immigration in the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Sierra Ruby Newby-Smith
In Their Own Words: An Exploration of the Educational Experiences of Black, Indigenous Girls and Gender Expansive Youth of Color in Foster Care, Franchesca Ocasio
Green, Clean, and Mean? China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa Economy, Makuochukwu Okoma
The Future of Plastics Trade: Identifying Determinants and Impacts of the Shifting Global Plastic Scraps Network, Ana Ortiz Salazar
Reactions to Others with Depression: An Investigation of Responsibility and Deservingness Judgments, Tara Parnitvithikul
Investigating the Future of Student Affairs Professionals, Quincey Penn
A Fearless Set of Men, Spencer Gregory Pirnik
Perceiving the Good: An Agent Relative Account of Desire, Paul R. Pistone
Implications for Educational Equity Due to Master Scheduling Decisions Made by Site Administrators, Rachel Pittman
Memorial Museums: Politics, Spectacle and Interpretation, Deepthi Ponnaluru
The State of Teacher Evaluations in California K-12 Public Schools during COVID-19, Irene Preciado
Jemimas, Jockeys, and Jolly Banks: The Racial Discourse of Black Collectibles, Conrad Pruitt
Queering Submission: (Re)Framing Evangelical Wifely Submission through BDSM, Amanda Pumphrey
A Flora of Coyote Ridge and Flat, Inyo County, California, Martin Purdy
Exploring Social Identity Complexity and the Possible Impact on Stereotype Threat, Lindsay Quarles
A Framework for and Design of a Smart Academic Building Using Sensors, Citizen Participation, and Volunteered Geographic Information, Neelam Raigangar
Identity Centrality Influences Group Members’ Self-uncertainty, Self-esteem, and Evaluations of Moral Deviants, Jeff Varun Ramdass
Racial Microaggression Experiences of Latinx Community College Students, Maria Reyes
The Making of the Classic Period of the Long Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California, Sherwin Keith Rice
The Intended Heroic Behavior Scale: Creation and Validity of a Scale Predicting Heroism to Advance Developmental Research on Heroes, Brian R. Riches
The Evolution of Flute Articulation from the Baroque to the Present: Changes in Flute Construction and Design and Design and Articulation Techniques for the Playing of the Instrument, Syrina Elace Robinson
"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age, Philemon J. Roh
Teacher Leaders and Self-efficacy, Joanna Schaefer
Investigation of Neutrophil-Like HL-60 Cell Migration in a 3D Collagen Matrix, Pouye Sedighian
The Roots of Fascist Aesthetics in Antiquity, Madeleine Seo
Economic development of Latin America. A series of analysis through the lens of health, inequality, and economic growth, Miriam Xochitl Sierra Aguilar
Papanicolaou (Pap) Test and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test Adherence: Sexual Violence Victims and Fear of Retraumatization, Murielle Sighe Ngoumkam
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes-Related Healthcare Service Use in the United States, 2016–2020, Gaole Song
The Anatomy of a Controlling Message and the Impact of Reactance on Attitude Certainty, Thomas Vincent Staunton Jr.
Measuring Political Corruption from Population Outcomes: An alternative to perception measures, Glenn-Iain Steinbeck
Essays on Crime and Law, Morgan Elaine Stockham
The Autodidactic Process of Hugo Wolf and the Fourfold Learning Equation, Frank L. Strnad
EXAMINING STRUCTURAL RACISM AS A CAUSE OF HEALTH INEQUITIES AMONG PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLES IN THE UNITED STATES AND AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: AN EXPLORATORY COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY, Jake Ryann Cambia Sumibcay
“All Men Are Created Equal?”: Insights and Implications of Intersectional Precarious Manhood, Cleopatre M. Thelus
Constitutionally Confederated: Developing an Interstate Policy Diffusion Framework for K-12 STEM Education, Vinh Q. Tran
Retaining Foster Parents in San Bernardino County: Identifying and Accessing Resources and Support Services Since California’s Continuum of Care Reform, Charles A. Varadin
Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives of College Completion in Oregon, Anthony Villarreal
Grassroots Organizations Using Social Media as a Lobbying Technique, Samantha Vo
Promoting Positive Development Among Rural, Left-Behind Youth in China: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Yaqiong Wang
Expanding the Educational Enclave: A New Teacher Starting with Inclusion, Catherine Wilder
Stock Market Interdependence and Contagion between Asian Emerging Markets and the World Market, Mengjia Xu
Three Essays in Law and Economics: Consequences and Formation of Legal Rules in Other Markets, Minjae Yun
Economic and Financial Factors Affecting Currency Stability of Floating Exchange Rate Regimes: A Survival Analysis, Istvan Zambori
Foreign direct investment, democracy, and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1991 to 2017, Fengyuan Zhang
Impact of a Pandemic on Attitudes towards Immigrants, Jinghui Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Association Between Social Capital And Depression, Abdulrahman Abudawood
Essays in Health and Policy in Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim Abdou Alamir
Gamification in Knowledge Management: Increasing Motivation to Share Knowledge Using Cooperation and Inter-Team Competition, Sarah Alkurdi
Author and Believer: Exploring the Mystery of Faith in the Works of Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott, Rachel Austring
Information Exchange (IE) Among Multi-Stakeholders for Improving Decision Making, Ali Mohammed Salem Bazarah
Making Emotions Meaningful: The Power of Mindfulness During Leader Developmental Trigger Events, Jason Beck
Financial Decision Making Under Stress, Narek Vartan Bejanyan
Preparing Teachers & Teacher Education Professionals for Dimensions of Diversity: A Study of Pedagogical Responses to Diversity in Distance Learning and Traditional Instruction, Rocky Blessey-Bragg
The Development of Self-Perceptions of Aging: The Interplay Between Society and the Self Across the Lifespan, Jordan Desman Boeder
Analyzing Volatility and Policy Changes in the Financial Market: Three Essays in Applied Finance, Rebecca Anne Bommarito
A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment among Small Farmers: A Case Study in Western Honduras, Claudia Caceres
Latino/a First Generation Students in College: A Mixed Methods Review of Four-Decades of Literature, Ted Campos
Authoring Self and Redefining Luck: Pathways to Arts Degrees and Professions for College Students of Color, Shirlie Mae Mamaril Choe
Three essays on the economics of health insurance change, COVID and trust, and suicide with application to South Korea, Jennifer Lee Choi
On Volatility, Outliers, and Uncertainty, Chandler Lewis Clemons
An Exploratory Case Study Utilizing a Health in All Policies Approach to Improve Health in the City of Montclair, Alyssa Colunga
Developing Global Leader Self-Complexity through International Experience, Katherine Claire Cotter
Measuring Machine Learning Model Uncertainty with Applications to Aerial Segmentation, Kevin James Cotton
The Maintenance of Holiness and the Contours of Leadership: Form and Characterization in the Book of Numbers, Nathan B. Daily
