Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Unlocking Desistance: The Role of Executive Functioning in the Rehabilitation of Correctional Populations, Danielle Nesi
The Roles of a Probiotic Exopolysaccharide in Breast Cancer, Mai Rachel Nguyen
A Longitudinal Study of Pain in Youth and Young Adults with Spina Bifida: Three Studies Based on the Bio-Neuropsychosocial Model, Diana Margaret Ohanian
Pupils of the Pipeline: Exploring the Role of School Discipline and Disciplinary Actors on Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning, Ogechi Onyeka
Assessing Nursing Student Engagement in Clinical and Simulation Experiences, Karrie Osborne
Constructing Engineering Knowledge Through Tinkering, Reflection, and Digital Storytelling, Lauren C. Pagano
White Enigma: Opacity, Perspective, and the Theological Formation of White Subjectivity, Nathan David Pederson
Teaching Presence in Online Discussions: Relationship-Based Learning by Design, Mary Quest
Measuring What They Value: Exploring the Meaning of Student Success for Community College Students of Mexican Origin, Destiny M. Quintero
Leveraging Moral Foundations to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination, Cara Elizabeth Ray
Effectiveness of a Virtual Learning Environment on Pediatric Students’ Knowledge, Self-Confidence and Satisfaction with Learning Growth and Development Concepts, Laura Marie Robbins-Frank
Things of Beauty: Aesthetics for Environmental Education, Annie Schultz
Things of Beauty: Aesthetics for Environmental Education, Annie Schultz
School Leaders’ Assessment of Teachers’ Preparedness for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Victoria Maria Siliunas
Changes in Teacher Pedagogy and Student Engagement in Elementary 1:1 Classrooms, Adam Douglas Smeets
The Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 Β (GSK-3β) at the Cardiac Myofilament, Marisa Jean Stachowski
Healing Earth in a Time of Crisis: Curriculum for Integral Ecology, Caleb Steindam
The Political Economy of Capitalism in the Digital Age, Economic Democracy, and the Case for the Digital Commons, Alec Stubbs
Predicting Asian American College Women’s Leadership Intention Using Social Cognitive Career Theory, Jeong-Eun Suh
Turn Not Thine Eyes: Holy Faces, Saving Gazes, and the Theology of Attention, Jacob W. Torbeck
Differences in Health Literacy and Healthcare Utilization for Uninsured Patients With Type II Diabetes, Whitney Key Towey
“The Saloon Is Their Palace”: Race, Immigration, and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933, Ella Wagner
A Feminist Political Theological Ethics of Formation: Being and Becoming Christian in the Face of American Christian Nationalism, Sara Wilhelm Garbers
Does Co-Speech Gesture Support Children’s Analogical Reasoning? An Investigation Into the Differential Effects of Gesture on Learning, Amy Michelle Wilkinson
It Doesn’t Get Better with Time: The Effect of Housing Insecurity on Rearrest in Polk and Palm Beach County, Quintin Williams
Elucidating the Mechanisms Underlying How VMP1 Regulates Inflammatory Responses, Stephanie Zack
Elucidating the Mechanisms of Immune Regulation by Bacillus Subtilis, Jesus Zamora-Pineda
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Genre of a Meal: The Prototypical Instantiation of the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians 11: 17-34, Paul Olatubosun Adaja
Dismantling Tools of the Incompetent: Exploring Cultural Competence Training in Undergraduate Education Policy and Education Studies Programs, Ashley P. Allen
William of Auxerre and Thomas Aquinas on Simultaneous Faith and Knowledge, Jacob Joseph Andrews
Refuting the Single Story of Political Action in Hannah Arendt: Navigating Arendt's Eurocentrism and Anti-Black Racism, Katherine Brichacek
Emancipatory and Controlling: Examining the Negotiation of Masculinity-Centered Practices by Women's and Gender Equity Center Practitioners, Ashley M. Brown
Characterizing Galectin and Lysosomal Rupture's Role in Spreading Parkinson Disease Pathology, Kevin Burbidge
Exploring School Psychologists' Perceived Preparedness, Self-Efficacy, and Motivations for Practice in Urban Schools, Kiley Callahan
Political Justificationism: A More Realistic Epistemology of Political Disagreement, Randolph Jay Carlson
Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations and the Return to School: School-Based Provider Perspectives on Commmunication, Collaboration, and Systematic Practices, Lauren Elizabeth Carr
Uncovering a Face: Filipino American Christian Ethics, Gabriel Jay Catanus
Domestic Violence and South Asian American Women, Natasha Chander
Investigating the Roles of Lipids in Staphylococcus Aureus Infection, Xi Chen
Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle Against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War, 1979-1992, Janette Clay
The Upstart Peril in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, Lydia Craig
Investigating the Effects of TGF-β on T Cell Activation-Induced Cell Death, Christina Rose Cunha
Disrupting the School-To-Prison Pipeline: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Alternative Discipline Practices to Reduce Exclusion and Promote Equity, Cara Diclemente
Examining the Interplay of Mental Health, Family Conflict, and Body Mass Index among Mexican Origin Families: A Cross-Lagged Model, Laura Margaret Lehman Distel
Impact of Violence Exposure on Children's Mental Health and Family Functioning: An Ecological-Transactional Approach, Rice Mary Dusing
Reading Ethics: Modernism, Narrative, Violence, Katie Dyson
"Stop Giving Up on Us": The Experiences of First-Generation Latinx Students in their College Choice Process, Lillianna Shantey Franco Carrera
Promoting Early-Adolescent Dual Language Learners' Language Use & Reading Skills, Holly Griskell
Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Therapeutic Target Enzymes: Paths to Discover Novel Antimicrobials, Thahani Shifna Habeeb Mohammad
Understanding the Role of Lipids Derived from the Gut Microbes in a Mouse Model of Obesity-Induced Peripheral Pain, Raiza Rafael-Bonomo Hardy
Slavery, the Enslaved, and the Gospel of Matthew: A Narrative, Social-Scientific Study, Jonathan Hatter
Elementary Principals' and Teachers' Educational Beliefs and Practices in Inclusive Schools, Dawn Hill
Ecological Systems in the Contexts of Foster Care and Parental Incarceration, Lauren A. Hindt
Adherence to a Mindfulness App for College Students with Depression: Patterns, Predictors, and Outcomes, Brynn Marie Huguenel
From the Outside Looking in: Black Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men Experiences in Men of Color and Black Male Initiative Mentorship Programs in Higher Education, Quortne Reginald Hutchings
Perceptions of Funder-Mandated Performance Metrics on Nonprofit Service Provision, Melissa Iverson
The Role of Neighborhood Factors in School Choice Decisions, Sarah Jefferson
(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
