Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish, Robert Wilson Macleod
"I Will Write of Cornwall, Cornhell in the West": Prophecy, Itinerancy, and Anna Trapnel's Struggle with Cromwellian Authorities, Courtney MacPhee
Onward and Upward: Strategies to Boost Need Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood, Susan Mangan
Ethnographic Narrative Project: Someone Important, Kristen Marihugh
The Cumulation of Relationships, Vanessa Martinez Rios
Individual Liberty and Separation of Powers in the Constitutional Statesmanship of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Lucas J. Mather
The Effects of Mandated Stress-Testing on Bank Risk, Nikhil Mathur
Detection and Localization of Linear Features Based on Image Processing Methods, Sean Cormick Matz
The Jurisprudence of Thomas M. Cooley: Why One of the Most Important Jurists of the Nineteenth Century Still Matters, Angus Kirk McClellan
Practicing the Art of Teaching as a Critical Social Justice Educator, Kelly McCrary
The Convoluted Origin and Diversification of Strangler Figs in the Neotropics, Fabian N. Medina Amaya
My First Year of Teaching (Quarantine Teacher), Karsen Meerkreebs
Ethnographic Narrative Project- My Journey to Teaching, Linda Melendez
The Marches of Alberico De Caprio (1865-1943): Director of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company Band and Portland Rose Festival Band, Ali A. Memarian
En Comunidad: The Undergraduate Research Experiences of College Students of Mexican Descent, Rocío Mendoza
Trump’s Foreign Policy, Authoritarian Populism and Democracy, Wenlan Miao
Peircean Epistemic Democracy: Truth, Pluralism, and Religion, Robert William Mittendorf
A Journey Into Teaching: Through an Indigenous Lens, Michelle Montes
Ethnographic Narrative: Nereida Montes, Nereida Montes
Pathways for Integration and Growth: Exploring Love, Passion, and Peak Experience, Monica N. Montijo
Understanding the Personal and Academic Experiences of Graduate Students with Disabilities, Andrea Mozqueda
Toward a Smart Civic Engagement: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in E-Government Applications, Osama A. Mujallid
The Role of Female Headed Households Caring for Children and No Spouse in Gentrification in Los Angeles, Jovita Murillo
Cultural Social Capital Impact for Male Latino Students at the Community College, Lisa Christine Nashua
High Order Explicit Semi-Lagrangian Method for the Solution of Lagrangian Transport and Stochastic Differential Equations, Hareshram Natarajan
The Revealing Love of God: A Systematic, Hermeneutic, and Phenomenological Approach to Thinking Well About the Love of God, Daniel L. Nelson
Perfecting the Craft of Teaching, Stephanie Nunez
Teaching to Transform: A First Year Reflection, Nicole Ochoa
Diversity as Contingent: An Intersectional Ethnographic Interrogation of and Resistance Against Neoliberal Academia’s Exploitation of Contingent Faculty in General Education Diversity Courses, Kelly Louise Opdycke
Becoming a Critical Social Justice Special Education Teacher: A Diné Woman’s Perspective, Yoenesha Ortiz
Topic Modeling Location-Based Social Media Applications, Sarah Yousif Osailan
Ways, Proofs, and the Intelligibility of God: Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways as Leading into the Intelligibility of an Existing God, Bruce John Paolozzi
Skew Normal Bayesian Asset Allocation, Jungjun Park
Youth of Promise: Academic Success and Future STEM Aspirations at an Alternative Education Program, Anthony Peña
Crawl Space: Driving Over the Anthropocene in a Jeep, Michael Pesses
The Role of Feedback in Leader Identity Development: An Examination of the Impact of the Deficits-Based Versus Strengths-Based Feedback, Thiraput Pitichat
Wellness Information Network (WIN): A Patient Empowerment Mobile Application for Improved Health Literacy and Disease Management for Type-2 Diabetes, Akshay Pottathil
2020 Hindsight: Reflections on My First Year of Teaching, Erica Quinn
Various Financial Aspects of Cryptocurrencies, Jayant Rao
Organizational Readiness, Resistance and Race: Examining Faculty Attitudes toward Faculty Diversification in Higher Education, Krystal Denise Miguel Rawls
Organizational Readiness, Resistance and Race: Examining Faculty Attitudes toward Faculty Diversification in Higher Education, Krystal Denise Miguel Rawls
Short Term Economic Costs and Head Trauma: Examples from Major League Baseball, Robert Benton Reich
Growth Breaks: A Qualitative Study of Exceptional Growth, Paige Richmond
Making Us Look Bad vs. Making Us Uncertain: Examining the Motivations Underlying Derogation of Ingroup Deviants, Mark Jeffrey Rinella
Bonding Over Bondage: Slavery, Racial Complexities and Commonalities in New Orleans, 1803-1819, Andrew Ruben Rodriguez
Modeling and Analysis of Falling Liquid Films, Yadong Ruan
The Development Of Auricular Confession In The Coptic Tradition: A Theological And Historical Study In The Book Of Confession By Kyrillus Iii, Patriarch Of Alexandria (+ 1243 A.D.), Botros Karam Sadek
Reading Reality Television: Publicizing, Promoting, and Commodifying the Self, Tamar Salibian
Factors Influencing the Retention and Graduation of Latino Male Students: Four-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Freddie Sánchez
The Emergence of Modernity in the Early Aerospace Industry 1950-1970, Lachlan Warwick Sands
Challenges Faced by Bisexual and Gay Black Men on College Campuses, Sammie Lee Scales Jr
Ethnographic Narrative Project: At Promise, Carolyn Scott-Patterson
The Discoveries of a First Year Teacher, Nicholas Shan
Adoption, Spatial Patterns, and Behavioral Mechanisms in California Turf Removal Rebate Programs, John Shideler
Managing Demand Uncertainty for Perishable Products Through Omnichannel Grocery, Chokdee Siawsolit
Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention, Surana Kaur Singh
Mao with Smart Phones and Internet? A Comparison of Classic Guerrilla Warfare with Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare Using an Agent-Based Model for Simulation, Jerry Taylor Sink
The Perpetuation of Nineteenth Century Amateurism as a British Virtue in Modern Olympic Track & Field, Katrina Marie Smith
Examining Intergroup Relationships Between Black and Latino Males at a 4-Year Public University, Matthew Smith
What’s the Use of Research? How Teachers Use Research To Plan for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms, Christine Marie Snyder
Struggling Readers and Dyslexic Readers: A Comparative Study of Student Intervention Files, Katherine Casey Spengler
A Critique of Karl Marx on Religion: Historical Instances of the Church and Revolution, Jake Steedman
Reimagining the Polynesian Pipeline Phenomenon: An Intersectionality of Race & Athletics in the College-Going Decisions of Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander High School Student-Athletes, Samara Iusitina Suafo'a
Thailand’s Digital Economy Transformation: Rectifying the Middle-Income Trap by Leveraging Digital Capabilities in the Agriculture Industry, Watanyoo Suksa-ngiam
Inferring Undirected and Causally Directed Graph Structures from Multivariate Time Series, Siddhi Vasant Tavildar
Africa’s March Towards Prosperity Understanding the role of gender equality, human capital and fertility in securing Africa’s promising future, Norvell Thomas
My Life Long Dream: My Teaching and Educational Journey, Karla Torres Hernandez
Redefining the Crisis on Childhood – Investigation through Amending of the Juvenile Act (1949) in Japan from the 1990s into the Next Century, Yoshie Udagawa
Model Legislation as a Measure of Special Interest Influence: The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Koch Network, Jordan James Ulloa
Ethnographic Narrative Project: Surviving My First Year Teaching, Graciela Viramontes
Ethnographic Narrative Project: Becoming Ms. Vue, Kia Vue
Three Essays on Executive Incentive Pay and Causal Inference in Corporate Finance, Xiaolong Wang
The Pervasive Emptiness: Acedia, Modernity, and the Boredom of Secularity, Samuel Welbaum
Ethnographic Narrative Project: An Educator’s Journey, Rachel Whitesell
T.E.A.C.H.E.R./To Equity and Consciousness Healing Education Rapidly, Ordell Williams
Case Studies Of The Events And Decisions Of Three California Tribal Governments Leading To The Opening Of Legal Indian Gaming, Rodney Wilson
Becoming Friends of God: Practicing Philosophy of Religion and Theology in and for a Radical Spirit of Individuality and Humanity, Brandon Vermilya Yarbrough
Urban Diné (Navajo) Ethnography, Felisha Yazzie
Is Talk Cheap in High Stake Trust Games? An Experimental Analysis of Decentralized Cooperation, Giti Zahedzadeh
A Neural Network-Augmented Bayesian Approach To Uncertain Parameter Estimation In Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Roja Zakeri
“An Unquiet Soul”: Despair and Doubt of God’s Benevolence in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, Heidi Zameni
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Risk Assessment for Marine Construction Projects, Abdulrahman Mohammed Alansari
Learning Journey as an Educator Ethnography, Seleni Alcantar
Enhancing Competitive Intelligence Using Geospatial Analysis and Social-Media Corpora, Salem Alghamdi
Reduce the Penny Auction Risk: Developing A New Business Model for Penny Auctions, Yaser Alhasawi
Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Study the Evolution of Party Platforms - 1960-2016, Artour Aslanian
Essays on the Underlying Capacity of the State and its Effects on Economic Development, Alma Alicia Bezares Calderón
An Ethnographic Approach to Education: Learning Through Relationships, Sasa Bibic
Learning Through Privilege: My Teaching and Educational Journey, Grace Birkenbeuel
Integrating Coaching and Self-Determination Theory: The Development and Validation of the Managerial Coaching Questionnaire, Hunter Thomas Black
A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, Anthony Blacksher
A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, Anthony Sean Blacksher
Teaching: The Fire In My Heart, Katrina Boggus
