Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931), Pam Suksod-Barger
Home-School Collaboration and Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: An Examination of School Services, Laura Jean Swanlund
Curriculum Reform in Post-Soviet Armenia: Balancing Local and Global Contexts in Armenian Secondary Schools, Shelley Marie Terzian
Deconstructing Ihf-Mediated Inhibition of the Complex acs Promoter, David S. Thach
The Relationship Among Adult Attachment Styles, Shame, Dissociation, and Abuse Characteristics in Women Survivors of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Perpetrated by a Parental-Figure, Grace H. Tomas-Tolentino
The Effect of Urban Hassles on the Subjective Well-Being of Low-Income Urban Adolescents, Kimberly Vacek
An Overarching Defense of Kant's Idea of the Highest Good, Alonso Villaran
Gabab Regulation of Methamphetamine-Induced Associative Learning, Robin Michelle Voigt
The Roles and Responsibilities of the Principal as Perceived by Illinois K-8 Principals Who Belong to Generation X, Keith Westman
A Comparative Study of Year-Round and Traditional Calendar Schools in Chicago, Andrea Therese Winkelmann
Student Access to Advanced Placement (AP) Coursework: Principals' Beliefs and Practices, Steve Wood
Pushing On: A Grounded Theory Study of Maternal Perinatal Bereavement., Patricia Wright
B Lymphocyte Development in Galt, Venkata Arunachalam Yeramilli
Doubting Thomas: A Study of Thomas Hobbes's Post-Restoration Dialogues, Adam George Yoksas
Resurrecting the Past, Constructing the Future: A Historical Investigation on the Formation of a Greek National Identity in Schools, 1834-1913, Theodore G. Zervas
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Colorblind, Deaf and Dumb: Examining Race in a Contemporary American High School, Brendan Bedell
You Are in the World: Catholic Campus Life at Loyola University Chicago, Mundelein College, and De Paul University, 1924-1950, Rae Bielakowski
Enzyme-Catalyzed Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions: Energetics of Transition States and Vanadate Analogues in Aqueous Solution, James Borden
The Role of Expectations as Determinants of Satisfaction in an Outpatient Care Setting, Jan Strohmeyer Brien
Principal Evaluation and Student Achievement: A Study of Public Elementary Schools in Dupage, Will, and Lake Counties, Illinois, Edward John Condon
Regulation of Transglutaminase by 5-HT2A Receptor Signaling and Calmodulin, Ying Dai
Transforming Images: Media, Sexuality and Everyday Life, Monica Leigh Edwards
Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America, Kristen Renee Egan
A Study of the Leadership of High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools Through the Lens of Moral Leadership, Scott David Fech
Finding Balance in a Family of One: Time Use in Single Person Households, Kimberly E. Fox
Information Content in Ribonuclease A: An Investigation of Protein Structure and Identification of New Qsars, Jessica L. Greminger
Safety Changes in Blue Ribbon Schools Since the Attack on Columbine High School, Joseph Gust
Therapeutic Mentoring: Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care, Sara B. Johnson
Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues, Joseph Alava Kabari
Impact of Interest Group Testimony on Lawmaking in Congress, Nina Therese Kasniunas
Relating Color Blind Racial Attitudes, Social Dominance Orientation and Just World Beliefs, Jennifer Marie Kestner
Functional Evolution and Origin of Enzymes of the Bacterial Glycogen/Starch Biosynthetic Pathway, Misty Lee Kuhn
Social Experiences of Adolescents with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and/or Asperger Syndrome (AS) - Their Perceptions and Their Views of Their Caregivers: An Exploratory Study, Patricia Anne Kunz
The Queer Work of Fantasy: The Romance in Antebellum America, Zachary Neil Lamm
Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction, Ann M. Mattis
Degree Attainment Among Adult Learners, Maureen O'Conor
Testing Models of Voter Choice: The Case of Polish Parliamentary Elections, 1997-2005, Piotr Paradowski
Identity, Oppression, and Group Rights, Andrew Jared Pierce
Connection, Caretaking, and Conflict: The Recalled, Lived Experience of Adultdaughters of Bipolar Mothers, Louise Ribeiro Presley
Effects of Misassignment on Bias in the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity, Kelci M. Price
Moral Reasons Arbitrariness, Brad Seeman
A Rat Model Examining Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Passive Exposure to Aggression on Observers, Hideo Suzuki
Philo of Alexandria's Exposition of the Tenth Commandment, Hans Svebakken
Recognition of Emotions From Facial Expression and Situational Cues in Children with Autism, Dina Tell
Suffering and the Search for Wholeness: Beauty and the Cross in Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theologies, Elisabeth T. Vasko
The Art of Trinitarian Articulation: A Case Study on Richard of St. Victor's _de Trinitate_, Todd D. Vasquez
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The Impact of Violence Exposure on Sexually Abusive Behavior in Types of Adolescent Sex Offenders, Emily Sarah Edlynn
The Social Construction of Linguistic Reality: A Case Study Exploring the Relationships among Poverty, Race, and Remediation in an Urban Community College, Rosemary Robinson Jackson
Predicting Repeated Sexual Behavior Problems among Youth: A Hierarchically Optimal Classification Tree Analysis, David J. Morgan
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Estrogen Influences on the Developing Rat Hippocampus Through Interactions with the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor and P160 Coactivator Proteins, Derek Tyler Solum
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Demon Possession and Exorcism in the Context of Divine Providence in Luke-Acts, Charles Badu Yeboah
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Rupture in the Ordinary, Geraldine Abbatiello
Sending an American Indian Voice: D'Arcy McNickle: Educator, Anthropologist, Historian: An Intellectual Biography, Bonnie Jean Adams
Perspectives: Public High School Principles of Illinois 1996 Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence on the Design and Supervision of Reading Programs in Their Repective Schools, Jerry Lee Anderson
924:10: A Service-Learning and the Law: An Analysis, Bernardien Austin
The Baltar Sexual Identity Inventory, Female Form: A Multidimensional Measure of Sexual Identity, Joseph F. Baltar
The Baltar Sexual Identity Inventory, Female Form: A Multidimensional Measure of Sexual Identity, Joseph F. Baltar
Mind and the Inner-Outer Dichotomy, Richard Baluck
Penitents Or Prostitutes ?: The Narratives of Fallen Women in Defoe,Richardson, and Fielding, Beth Martin Birky
VH Gene Usage in VHa2 Allotype-Producing B Cells from Mutant Alicia Rabbits, Anusorn Boonthum
Patterns and Correlates of Cavaas Performance by Students with Spina Bifida and Attention Problems, Susan Boyle-Fields
Compulsory Bicycle Helmets: A Necessity Or a Superfluous Solution?, Geraldine A. Brown
Adjustment of Hearing-Impaired Children: Risk and Resistance Factors, Karen L. Burk-Paull
Subjective Well-Being of Inner City Resilient and Non-Resilient Young Adolescents, Lynda L. Cafasso
Health Ministry in the Life of a Congregation with a Parish Nurse: Caring and Connecting Through Christ, Mary Ann Chase-Ziolek
Acculturation and Social Skill Development Among Chinese Immigrant Families, Yue-Ching Chen
Mechanistic Studies of Cation Photogeneration, Mary Frances Clifton
An Ex Post Facto Descriptive, Comparative, and Correlational Study of Two Groups of High School Special Education Students, Roberta L. Colbert
The Influence of Subject-Specific Academic Self-Concepts on Academic Achievement from a Vygotskian Developmental Perspective: A Longitudinal Investigation, Heidi Marlene Coon-Carty
The Contextual and Subjective Experience of Alcohol Use Incaucasian Adolescents' Daily Lives, Paul Crowe
Predictors of Sobriety Among Drug Abusing Offenders, Sentenced to Probation, Sigurlina Davidsdottir
Adaptation of the Freshwater Benthic Diatom Achanthidium Rostratum to Resource Limitation, Patrick Daniel Donovan
Belief-Desire Reasoning in Zimbabwean Children: A Search for Evidence of the Universality of a Child's Theory of Mind, Chipo Dyanda
Genetic Analysis of the Nuo Locus That Encodes the Proton Translocating NADH Dehydrogenase in Escherichia Coli, Holly Jennifer Falk-Krzesinski
The Electrophysiological Effects of Acute Thyroid Hormone Exposure on Atrial Myocytes, Jon Paul Fiening
The Transition from College to Employment: Relationships Among Career Preparation, Values, Career Identity, Career Decideness, Self-Esteem, and Subjective Well-Being, Bradley R. Fulton
An Intertextual Reading and Critical Analysis of the Discipline of Educational Psychology: Disrupting the Dominant Discourse, Suzanne Gallagher
Comic Elements and Their Effect on Meaning in George Meredith, Ford Madox Ford, and D. H. Lawrence, Helen Vincenza Garvey
A Comparison of Standardized Measures of Achievement and Ability with Locally Normed Curriculum Based Measures of Reading in a High Achieving District, Ann Elizabeth Gleeson
A Content Analytic Investigation of Hate Speech Codes on the Public University Campus, Sue A. Haldemann
Empire, Race and War: Black Participation in British Military Efforts During the Twentieth Century, Michael Scott Healy
The Effects of Priming on Children's Attitudes Toward the Elderly, Sony Hoe
Religious Educator as Rabbinic Disciple: A Theology of Teaching, Larry J. Huiras
Effect of Breast Size on Hiring Decisions for Different Job Types, Carol Laurent Jarzyna
Characteristics and Perceptions of Trauma Recidivists and Non-Recidivists, Vicki A. Keough
Values in Psychotherapy: A Philosophical Analysis of the Normative Assumptions in Freud's Psychoanalysis, Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry and Frankl's Logotherapy, Sally R. Kowalkowski
Social Support Intervention for Mothers of Typical and Special Needs Infants and Toddler: An Outcome Evaluation, Deborah Blake Krueger
Cloning and Characterization of a Novel Ion Channel, Jung-Ha Lee
Biophysical Studies of the Spectrin Sequence Motif, Denise M. Lusitani
A Comparative Study of Moral Judgment Development of Pregnant Teens, Dalia Ovdat May
An Analysis of the Gallup Poll Data Regarding the Public's Assessment of the Public Schools from 1986-1995, Biancalana Venette Meucci
The Caregiver's Experience of Deliberative Mutual Patterning with Pain-Ridden Substance Users, Gaile Hausaman Nellett
Giants among us : a study of first-generation college graduates, Sandria D. Rodriguez
