Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Latino Evangelicals: How Their Multiple Identity Influences Their Political Preferences, Noemi Hernandez Alexander
A Security Operation Center Maturity Model (SOC-MM) in the Context of Newly Emerging Cyber Threats, Norah Alharbi
Saudi Stock Market reaction to Different Major Events, Ahmed Aljarba
The Impact of Gamification on Second-Language Learning, Maram Almufareh
An Assessment of Design Principles for Blended Learning Courses, Latifa Abdullah Almusfar
A Design Research Approach to Enhance the Peer-to-Peer Recognition and Appreciation Among Employees and Develop a Better Relationship to Boost Employee Motivation, Abdullah AlSaadoon
From Archives to Legacies: Chicanx and Latinx AIDS Activism and Consciousness, Pablo Alvarez
Exposome Factors: Exploratory Study Approach and the Role of Persuasive Technology to Raise Awareness About the Exposome Concept, Abdulrahman Alzahrani
Adoption of Residential Solar Energy: Exploratory Study Approach and Spatial Decision Support System, Ahmed Omar Alzahrani
Improving Outcomes for Children Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): A Study of Intervention Effectiveness Guided by Developmental Theory, Lisa Teachanarong Aragon
Modeling, Designing and Applying Machine Learning Algorithms for Driver Drowsiness Detection, Mohsen Babaeian
Who Should Lead? Effective Influence as a Product of Group Context and Group Purpose, Nicolas Barreto
My Journey: To becoming an effective teacher, Grisel Bayan
Memorializing Wartime Rape During the Second World War, Abigail Jean Beck
Ensemble Learning Methods for Educational Data Mining Applications, Joshua Ryan Beemer
Perceptions of Self-Concept for Multiracial College Students: A Mixed Methods Study, Nicole Belisle
Effects of Aquatic Therapy on Vagal Tone and Social Behaviors in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brittany Nichole Bell
Visualizing Girlhood: Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Adolescent Girls’ Identity, Darielle Blevins
Ethnographic Narrative, Craig Bond
The Use of Graphic Conceptual Models in Theory-Driven Evaluation, Susana Marianne Bonis
The Triumvirate Woman: Reconceptualizing Academic Career Messages for African American Women in Engineering, Latrice Diane Bonner
The Indistinguishability Between the Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Nature of Things in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Andrew Bridges
Symbolic Franco: Spain’s Dictator in the American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980, Sean Patrick Buchanan
Ethnographic Narrative Project, James Cameron
Machine Learning Methods for the Analysis of Metagenomes, Vito Adrian Cantu Alessio Robles
Ethnographic Narrative Project, Mario Carrillo
The Role of a Summer Arts-Based Immersion Program in Creating Access and Opportunity for Middle School Students, Kelly Casassa
Comparing and Contrasting the Core Philosophical Principles of Peter Drucker and Confucianism, Virginia Cheung
Aristotle on Practical Reasoning: Perception, Reason and Action in Aristotle’s Thought, Kyu-Been Chun
Tongue of Flesh - Tongues of Fire: Enoch’s Encounter with the Heavenly Court in 1 Enoch 14-16 in Comparison with the Encounters in the Hebrew Bible, Christopher David Clarke
A Legacy Cut Short The Impact of Pepperdine University on African Americans and South Los Angeles from 1937 – 1981, Elizabeth Craigg
Teach Me Something I Don’t Know: One First-Year Teacher’s Experience as an Educator in the US Schooling System, Valerie Daifotis
Ethnography: How Did I Get Here?, Michael Dharmawan
Optimization in Engineering Applications, Son Hong Doan
Let’s Get Strategic: An Exploration of the How-To’s, What-Not-to-Do’s, and Promising Upshots of Strategic Evaluation Initiatives, Kathleen Doll
Preliminary Study of Highway Pavement and Materials, Omer Eljairi
Mindfulness, and Workplace Outcomes for Secondary Teachers, Jonathan Erickson
Guided Wave Actuation for Enhanced Damage Identification in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Material Using Electrical Resistance Tomography, Luis Waldo Escalona Galvis
Recidivism among Previously Incarcerated People Enrolled in Riverside County Whole Person Care, Ndifreke Emmanuel Etim
Said the River: The Confluence of Ecotheology and Water, Margaret Harrington Ferris
Ethnographic Narrative Project, Ry Finerty
Genomic Justice: The Distribution of Human Flourishing, Robert Flores
Ethnographic Narrative, Svetlana Fortner-Henderson
Portrait of a Heretic: The Development of Walter Kaufmann's Philosophy of Religion, Duncan William Gale
Three Essays on International Political Economy, Zhijun Gao
The Effect Of Regulation and Policy Changes On Health and Safety Outcomes: Three Essays In Crime Economics, Maryah Garner
The Journey That Led Me to Becoming a Critical Social Justice Educator, Stephanie Gatica
Teaching Texting on a Smart Phone to Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Jenna Gilder
Ethnographic Narrative Project (Resilience, Love and Equity: First Year Teaching Vol.1 ), ELENA GIRON
A Technology Solution to Over the Counter Drug Issues, Allan Mugambi Gitobu
"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation, Teah Goldberg
Collective Bargaining and Public Education Expenditures: Do Teachers’ Unions Propose and Voters Dispose?, Padmapriya Rao Gollapudi
A Rollercoaster First Year of Teaching, Elizabeth Gonzalez
Beyond Language: Critical and Sustainable Sociocultural Competence in a Dual Language Program, Verónica González
Unorthodox Support: How Mentors of Undocumented Immigrant Students Leverage Community Cultural Wealth to Pave the Way for College Success, Keisha Chin Goosby
From Early Childhood to Adulthood: Leader Development in Indonesia, Charlina Gozali
Transcending Compromise: Principal Practices Predicting Teacher Effectiveness and Teacher Morale, David George Grant
Hwalbay Ginya Misi', Elise-Alexandria Green
Transcending Education, Erica Green
Needs Assessment of Parent Training Programs for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Phenomenological Approach, Caitlyn Bailey Gumaer
The Power of Coptic Women Saints: Historical and Analytical Study of Coptic Women Saints as Spiritual Models for Coptic Women in the USA and Egypt, Trevena Adeeb Eskandar Hanna
Creole Resistance in Louisiana from Colonization to Black Lives Matter: Activism’s Deep-Rooted Role in Creole Identity, Danae Marie Hart
Investigating Metacognitive Fluency as a Judgment Cue in Choice Overload, Michael R. Ho
An Ethnography, Terra Hyke
Novel Random Forest Methods and Algorithms for Autism Spectrum Disorders Research, Afrooz Jahedi
Numerical Simulations of Multi-Confined Jets in Crossflow at Supercritical Pressure, Saeid Janani
Spectral Analysis of Complex Dynamical Systems, Casey Lynn Johnson
Reel or Unreal History: Hearst Newsreels and the Production of the News, Julianne Johnson
Secondary English as a Foreign Language Teachers and Teaching: Cultural Practices, Products, and Perspectives, Tammy Johnson
What Enemy Hath Done This? The Death of the Fusion Movement and the Rise of Illiberal Conservatism, Savannah Eccles Johnston
Transforming Vulnerabilities into Context-Aware, Visible Risks, Bill Jung
Reflections on my Journey to Becoming an Educator: An Ethnographic Narrative, Nathan Kamkoff
The Consequences of Annexation on Financial Markets, Kristina Khederlarian
Making Memory, Making Meaning: Memorial Museums and the Participatory Audience, Hillary Kirkham
(Un)Social Media: A Content Analysis of the Centralized Self on Twitter, Julianna Jeanine Kirschner
A Web of Connections: How Early Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Photographers Situated a New Way of Seeing, Kristina Krause
Modern Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Context and Future Consequences, Mark Kumleben
Southeast Asian American Students’ Perspectives on Influences that Lead to High School Dropout, Elizabeth D. Kuo
Ethnographic Narrative Project: My Teaching and Educational Journey, Megan L. Kuster
Toward an Explanation of the Privacy Paradox in Social Network Sites: A Normalized Measurement Approach, Husam Lahza
¡¿Y Que?!: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture, Alexander Lalama
A Failure of Policy: How U.S. Leaders Neglected to Shape, Lead, and Leverage Intelligence Concerning Japan During the Interwar Period, 1918-1941, Sean-Patrick Lane
What’s in It for Me(n)? The Impact of Self-Interest on Men’s Support for Gender Inclusion Initiatives, Wing yan Lau
Real Estate: How House Museums in Los Angeles Strive-And Sometimes Struggle-To Achieve Authenticity, Bridget Denery Lawlor
Shifting Education From Theoretical to Practical, Juan Ledesma Mendoza
A Multinational Study of the Etiology and Clinical Teleology of Moral Evaluations of Patient Behaviors, Anna Yu Lee
Adapting the IPA Systems of Korean Diction to Classical Vocal Method: A Critical Study, Clara N. Lee
Shakespeare’s Cosmology on the Supernatural: All Is Illusion, Yiju Liao
Social Media, Personality, and Leadership as Predictors of Job Performance, Timothy Charles Lisk
My Journey to Becoming a Critical Social Justice Educator, Aly Lopez
My Journey on Becoming a Critical Social Justice Educator as a Woman of Color, America Lopez
A Humanizing Pedagogy and Curriculum: Lessons from Chicanx/Latinx Student Testimonios in A High School Ethnic Studies Classroom, Jorge Alberto López
My Journey of Becoming a Critical Social Justice Educator, Lu Lu
Learning the Why to Teaching: My Journey in Becoming an Educator, Alex F. Luna-Mitts