Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
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
