Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2021
(Re)imagining Community-Engaged Curriculum and Pedagogy: Shifting Subjectivities and Power/Knowledge among Faculty/Doctoral Students, Anne Catherine Kelly
The Development of the Country Satisfaction Scale, Daewon Kim
Molecular Determinants of Fetal Tolerance and the Transition to Adult Immunity, Yi Wei Lim
Chinese International Students’ Dating and Marriage Issues, Huabing Liu
IL-27 Signaling in the Maintenance of Intestinal Barrier Following Ethanol Intoxication and Burn Injury, Marisa Luck
Synthesis and Characterization of Redox Non-Innocent Ligand Supported Transition Metal Complexes, Adriana Marie Lugosan
The Role of the Co-Chaperone Protein Bcl-2-Associated Athanogene 3 (BAG3) at the Cardiomyocyte Sarcomere, Thomas Gwynn Martin
F Plasmids in Escherichia coli Decrease Permissivity to Coliphage, Cesar Eber Montelongo Hernandez
God and Rescuer, Clinton Neptune
Hemingway, Sartre, and Secularization: Finding Religion Without God, Marcos Antonio Norris
Ethical Health Care in an African Context: Linking Conventional Medicine and Traditional Healing Practices in Igboland, Nigeria., Michael Osondu Okoro
Private Military and Security Corporations in Civil Conflicts, Paul Robert Olander
An Eco-Theology for Korean American Presbyterian Churches, Yale Park
The Impact of Affiliative Motivation and Trust on Confrontations of Racism, Jamie Patrianakos
Cardioprotective Extracellular Vesicles Derived-Micrornas: Sorting Mechanisms and Functions, Anh P. Phan
Relationships Among Nursing Presence, Openness, and Fatigue in Acute Care Nurses, Barbara Therese Pudelek
A Time and Place: Structures of Knowledge at an Archeological Field-Site, Joseph Renow
Moving Beyond Recruitment and Hiring: Including and Actualizing the Voices of Teachers of Color in a Suburban School District, Jennifer Ann Rowe
Finding the Child: Exploration into Pedagogical Foundations in the Roman Catholic Church, Erica L. Saccucci
We Heard Sometimes Their Earnest Desire to be Free in a Free Country: Enslaved People, Jesuit Masters, and Negotiations for Freedom on American Borderlands, 1823-1930, Kelly Lynn Schmidt
Dying to Fight: The Individual and Social Processes of the Foreign Fighter Phenomenon, Michael James Schumacher
Clarifying Coaching: A Mixed Methods Analysis of a Math Content-Focused Model and Its Impact on Teachers' Practice, Content Knowledge, and Dispositions, Lauren A. Solarski
Equity in Secondary Schools: Building a Strong Sense of Belonging for Students of Color as a Foundation for Academic Success, Joaquin Stephenson
Identification and Characterization of Calcium as a Biofilm Promoting Signal by Vibrio Fischeri, Alice Hannah Tischler
Environmental Reforestation and Social Justice in Cameroon: A Test Case for Pope Francis' Concept of 'integral Ecology' in Laudato Sí, Augustin Vondou
Analysis of Regulatory Mechanisms for T Cell Activation, Aleksandra Vuchkovska
Promoting Information Exchange: Open-Minded Group Cognition and a Function of Motivation and Task Type, Jeremy Ryan Winget
Reams, Radicals and Revolutionaries: The 'Illinois Staats-Zeitung' and the German-American Milieu in Chicago, 1847-1877, Sebastian Peter Wuepper
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Selectivity for Allosteric Effectors of Bacterial ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase: Structural and Functional Studies, Mashael Alghamdi
Metal Ions Impact on Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 Adhesion to Ito Electrode and the Enhancement of Current Output, Aisha Awad Alshahrani
Electron Transfer of Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 at Clay-Modified ITO Electrode, Reem Faez Alshehri
Health Promotion and Cancer Screening of Arab Americans, Lamyaa Alyaba
Parenting Capacity and Meaning Making Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Johanna Engler Barry
Women and Strategies of Violence: Gender Roles, Foreign Support and Maintaining the Rebellion, Caglayan Baser
Sabbath and Ecological Crisis: Inoperativity in Political Theology, Andrew John Blosser
Making Moral Judgment More Responsive Via Constraints on Moral Beliefs, Principles, and Convictions, David Bukenhofer
Community Violence Exposure among Ethnic Minority Youth: Understanding the Predictive Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Risky Behavior in a Community Sample, Amanda Nicole Burnside
Laissez Fairy Tales: Consensus, Cohesion, and Corporate Culture During the Collapse of Lehman Brothers, William Howard Burr
Exploring the Educational Journeys of African American Honors Alumni(nae), Sammie Marie Burton
Engendering Empathy for Immigrants in Middle Grade Readers Through Culturally Relevant Young Adult Literature, Amy J. Cattapan
Shaping Beauty, Claiming Authenticity: Gender, Work, and Immigration Experiences of Low-Wage South Asian Immigrant Women Workers, Soulit Chacko
Identity Positivity in Decolonial Worlds: Making Room for Gender and Sexual Possibility, Erica Chu
Teacher and Principal Perceptions of Principal Leadership Practices Having the Strongest Relationship to Student Achievement, Michael C. Conran
The Effect of Individual Differences on the Experience of Meaningful Work: The Influence of Social Status and Work Motivation, Plamena Daskalova
Pediatric Providers' Perceptions of their Role in Early Detection of Postpartum Depression, Laura Aime De La Pena
"An Environmental Sleight of Hand:" Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990, Chelsea Denault
Self-Management in Youth with Spina Bifida: Associations with Parent Factors in the Context of a Summer Camp Intervention, Colleen F. Bechtel Driscoll
Elucidating the Impact and Mechanism of Hepatitis C Virus Cell-To-Cell Spread, Karina Durso-Cain
Cellular and Molecular Mechanism Underlying Alcohol Inhibition of Bone Fracture Healing, Jonathan Michael Eby
Dietary Intake and Executive Function in Youth and Emerging Adulthood: Environmental Correlates and Developmental Considerations, Amy Michelle Egbert
Vigilance of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Timothy Finn
Teacher Perceptions and Experiences with Self-Regulation Strategies in General Education Classrooms, Sofia Flores-Perez
Elucidating the Targets and Function of the MLR Compass-Like Complex During Development, David Joseph Ford
"Lifting as We Climb": Black Feminist Action Research with Women of Color Student Affairs Administrators, Paige J. Gardner
Identifying Transfer of Care Gaps: Electronic Health Record Capture of Perioperative Handoff Communications, Sharon Giarrizzo-Wilson
A Poetics of Violence: Representations of Violence as Storytelling and World-Building Tools of the Theater, Richard Gilbert
Optimization of Microbial Fuel Cells, Norberto M. Gonzalez
Think Like a Teacher: How Reflective Educators Use Multiple Data Sources to Inform Their Practice, Jana Grabarek
Humanity in the Classroom: An Exploration of Race in Teacher Behavior and Interaction with Students, Briellen Elizabeth Griffin
Reducing Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, Jorge Humberto Guzman Gonzalez
Investigating the Mechanism of the Coronavirus Endoribonuclease in Antagonizing Innate Immune Signaling, Matthew Hackbart
Lewis Acid-Carbonyl Solution Interactions and Their Implications in Catalytic Systems, Carly Soren Hanson
Teacher Leadership: A Case Study in the Preparation of Future Teacher Leaders, Abigail Hasebroock
Seed Conflicts in Colombia: Ethnorace, Territory, and Violence, Nathalia Hernandez Vidal
Black Women College Students, Impostor Phenomenon, Stereotypes, and Mental Health: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Lincoln Hill
Regulation of the ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase: Probing Different Allosteric Activation Signals with Sited Directed Mutations, Rania Ali Z Hussien
Factors Associated with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and Quality of Life Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Saudi Arabia, Awatef Ibraheem
You Can't Go Home Again: Art as Therapy, Photovoice, and Housing Instability, Willie Walter Jackson
Utopian Discourse in Contemporary Speculative Fiction, Casey Alan Jergenson
Perceptions of Illinois Superintendents Regarding Implementation of Principal Evaluation Instruments after Senate Bill 7 Authorizations, Brian Anthony Kaye
Economy of Condescension: John Henry Newman's Trinitarian Theology, Matthew Kemp
Estrogen Regulation of miR-9-5p and miR-9-3p Stability and Localization in the Aging Female Brain, Chun Kim
The Influence of Dialecticism on Savoring Across Cultures, Soyeon Kim
The Shadow-Beast: The Influence of Critical Consciousness on Resilience Narratives of Latinx/a/o College Students, Norma Lopez
Testing an Ecological Model of Obesity Among School-Age Children: Identifying Targets for Tailored Intervention, Dorothy Mcleod Loren
Reforming Sensory Disability in Early Modern England, Mary Lutze
Mortality Salience, Group Membership, & Reciprocity, Fatima A. Martin
The Impact of Positive School Culture on School Success: A Principal's Self-Study of Transformational Leadership, Sean Mcnichols
The Extent Professional and Moral Authorities Are Evident in Federal Inclusive Education Policies, Lucille Marie Melchert
Black Males Accessing and Usage of Sex Education in Mississippi, Devin D. Moss
Evaluating the Impact of Marriage Renewal Workshop on Marital Satisfaction, Communication, Conflict Management, and Forgiveness: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Hien T. Kim Nguyen
Determining the Genetic and Phenotypic Profile of Cord Blood Derived T Regulatory Cells and the Effect of Calcitriol on Immune Suppression, Anya Nikolai-Yogerst
The Phenomenology of Accompaniment: A Journey of Transformation, Siobhan O'donoghue
Useful for Life: Women, Girls, and Vocational School Reform in Chicago, 1880-1930, Ruby Oram
A Self-Study of the Relationships between My Leadership and the Promotion of a Supportive School Environment, Cory Overstreet
Cultural Responsiveness among Teachers and School Discipline, Sharon K. Perry
Suffocated CD8 T Cells in the Hypoxic Tumor Microenvironment, Lourdes Beatriz Plaza Rojas
Neuropsychological Correlates of Chronic Pain: The Influence of Anxious Arousal on Cognitive Control, Kelly L. Polnaszek
Interpreting Minorness and Minor Characters in the Victorian Novel, Grace Pregent
Distinct Roles for Carbohydrate and Protein Receptors in Coronavirus Infection, Enya Qing
Institutions-Based Influence: The Vatican's Mediations of International Conflicts, Mamy Wilson Daniel Randriamanantena
Job Satisfaction, Burnout, Occupational Intentions, and Stress Coping Styles among Illinois School Psychologists, Courtney Ratliff
