Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
Oscillatory Flow Driven by Cavity, Jeremy Ralph Bonifacio
Overcoming Obstacles: Development of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy through an Ethnographic Lens, Francisca Cabrera
A New Approach to Measuring Financial Inclusion, Arzu Kastal Can
The Call to Teach, Malinda Castruita
Gait and Postural Analysis in Healthy Young Adults and People with Parkinson's Disease, Aisha Joy Chen
Free Market on the Free Way, Yuan Cheng
Broken Windows and Shattered Trust: Analyzing the Geospatial Disparities in Law Enforcement Interactions, Roger J. Chin
Memories of the Teacher: A Reflection of Enduring Ideals, Katherine Cooke
Lifelong Learner: Inside and Outside the Classroom, Nancy Cortez
The Seemingly Downward Spiral of a First Year Teacher That Actually Turns Out Alright in the End: A Case Study, Aria Crawford
Solving The Prandtl Boundary Layer Equation in Fluid Dynamics Via Non-Linear Numerical Optimization, Tuan Minh Dao
First Year Teaching, and it Began in Los Santos, Davon A. Davaloz
An Investigation of Peer Accountability in Healthcare, Angela DeMichele
The Depths of Knowledge, Kristin DeNardo
Evaluating Employee Positive Functioning and Performance: A Positive Work and Organizations Approach, Scott I. Donaldson
Sustained Social Movement Participation: Integration of Social Identity and Attribution Theories, Deryn Maia Dudley
A Tacticians Guide to Conflict, Vol. 1: Advancing Explanations & Predictions of Intrastate Conflict, Khaled Eid
A Critical Comparative Scriptural Analysis of Genesis 1:1-5 based on Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic Manuscripts, Edens Elveus
“Stepsons and Stepdaughters”: Chosen Communities, Religion, Faith, and LGBT Liberation, John Michael Erickson
From Self-Doubt To Inner Peace: An Ethnographic Narrative, Dakota Fabro
A Phenomenology of Flesh: Heidegger, the Body, and the Work of Art, Trisha Famisaran
Ethnography: Journey to Teaching, Lauren Farias
Safe at Home: My Journey from Student to Teacher, Elena Fregoso
Louis de la Forge on Mind-Body Interaction and the Case Against Occasionalism, Melissa Kalaee Gholamnejad
Bridging The Gap Between Then and Now, Katheryne Gomez
Teachers Make the Difference: Accessing a Black Woman's Specific Funds of Knowledge to make a Difference in the Classroom, Morgan Goodman
Ethnographic Narrative Project, Kimberly Goodwin
Growing from Doing Good in Later Life: Growth Themes in Narratives of Prosocial Behavior, Laura Elizabeth Graham
A full asymptotic series of European call option prices in the SABR model with beta=1, Zhengji Guo
From Reading Rooms to Cafes, Michael Michael Hunter
The Continuous Journey, Bailey Jackson
Three Essays on Africa, Lisa Jené
Organizational Trust, Intrinsic Motivation and Discretionary Effort: Three Studies, Rebecca Johannsen
Depersonalization and Projection in Groups: Two Paths to Uncertainty Reduction, Jiin Jung
Radical Evil and Responsibility in Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology, Trevor Kimball
Thoughts of a first year teacher: Know Your Students, Caitlin King
Ecological Influences on Dietary Behavior: The Interaction Between Person and Neighborhood Environment in a Low-SES, Hispanic Community, Emily Kiresich
Essays on the Economics of the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.): Testing for Inefficiencies in the N.B.A. Labor Market, Samuel S. Lee
Liberal Education and the Best Regime: Aristotle’s Freedom of the Soul, Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo
Intimate Stranger, Strange Intimacy: Towards the (Sinthôm)Ethics of Transference Love in Lacan’s Analyst’s Discourse, Jung-Hsien Lin
