Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Disordered Eating Treatment Programs for Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Meta-Analytic Review of Treatment Effectiveness and Moderators of Treatment Success, Alexandra Kirsch
Practice and Practitioner Correlates of Psychotherapists’ Self-Perceived Clinical Wisdom, Shveta Kumaria
The Challenge of Leading Change: How Sources of Authority and Change Management Models Intersect to Promote School Improvement, Samantha Joyce Lam
Elevated Hydrostatic Pressure Selectively Enhances Matricellular Gene Expression in Human Trabecular Meshwork Cells, Jonathan Lautz
Heterocycles Via the PD-Catalyzed Heterofunctionalization of Alkylidenecyclopropanes, Phillip Roman Lazzara
Character Luck and Moral Responsibility: The Character of the Ordinary Person in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Politics, Marcella Linn
Characterization of the Effect of Aeration on a Commercially Available Fibrin Sealant for Use in Wound Therapy, Adam Robert Marek
Technology Integration in Context, Joanna Marshall
Maintaining College Access in a Post Recession Era: A Multi-Level Competing Risks Model, Brendan Martin
Characterization of Quorum-Quenching Lactonases and Plp-Dependent Aminotransferases: Structure, Mechanism and Alternative Turnover, Romila Nina Mascarenhas
Research Practices of Music Educators: A Review of the Journal of Research in Music Education, Clifton Brent Mcreynolds
Sleep-Wake Disturbances in Adolescents with Spina Bifida: Prevalence and Associations with Bio-Neuropsychosocial Functioning, Caitlin Beth Murray
Behavioral Symptoms, Functional and Cognitive Recovery Post-Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Seema Nasser
Human Rights and Global Justice: A Normative Critique of Some Rawlsian Approaches., Ndidi Victoria Nwaneri
Love and Loyal Actions': Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760, Amy Oberlin
Husserl and Community, Sean Stephen Petranovich
Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500-1800, Noah Paul Phelps
Implementing Social Emotional Learning (SEL): An Evaluation of Illinois Teachers' Capacity to Provide Sel Instruction and Use the Illinois SEL Standards, Daniel Louis Philippe
Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans, O. Eliot Pope, Jr.
Cruzando Fronteras: The Immigration Experiences of Central American Women, Cecelia Quinn
Maintaining and Improving Academic Achievement in the Midst of Significant Demographic Change: A Case Study Analysis, Aaron Raatjes
Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987, Chris Ramsey
Investigating Novel Methods of Interaction with Pharmaceutically Relevant Enzymes, Cory T. Reidl
Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983, Marisol Violanda Rivera
Friendship Selection Patterns Among Low Income Minority Girls/Adolescents: Links to Obesity Risk, Kimberly Anne Rosania
Pancho's Racket and the Long Road to Professional Tennis, Gregory I. Ruth
Investigating the Effects of Student Engagement on Latina/o Community College Students, Manuel Salgado
The Master and the Midwife: Levinas and Plato on Teaching, Rebecca Glenn Scott
"Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT": Women, Size and Community in Modern America, Amelia Earhart Serafine
Role of Jagged1 in the Enrichment of Cancer Stem Cells in HER2+ Breast Cancer, Deep Shah
Correlation of the Boost Risk Stratification Tool as a Predictor of Unplanned 30-Day Readmission in Elderly Patients, Carol K. Sieck
Being Wise Before Wisdom: The Historical Development of Phronēsis from Homer to Aristotle, and Its Consequences for Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutic Ethics, Giancarlo Tarantino
Wilson Fundations Program Evaluation for an Urban Kindergarten Setting, Tonika Rene' Terrell
The Female Urogynecological Microbiome: Determining Niche Specificity, Krystal Thomas-White
It Is Always the Monkey on My Back: The Diagnosis of Cirrhosis, Mary Tiberg
The Effects of Alcohol and Traumatic Brain Injury on Neural Stem Cell Responses, Son Trung Ton
Examining the Effects of Adolescent Binge Alcohol Exposure on the Negative Feedback of the Hpa Axis and Adult Responses to Psychological Stress, Audrey Rose Torcaso
Centering the Margins: Elevating the Voices of Women of Color to Critically Examine College Student Leadership, Natasha T. Turman
Seekers and Observers: Life Histories of Three Female Antebellum Historians, Annmarie Valdes
Childhood Obesity Programming in Schools: A Mixed Method Program Evaluation of the Cope Healthy Lifestyles Teen Intervention, Lindsay Viellieu
Mild Hydrofunctionalizations of Olefins Using More Cost-Effective Metal Catalysts, Alexander James Villani-Gale
Elementary Principals' Perceptions of School Psychological Services, Tiffany Marie Voight
The Sustainability of Evaluation Capacity Building Interventions: An Exploratory Study, James Wade
Corrective Reading and Middle School Students with Specific Learning Disability, Diane Wallendjack
Detection of Unknown Emerging Contaminants in Natural Water Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Qian Wang
Romantic Ends: Death and Dying, 1776-1835, Andrew J. Welch
What Is the Relationship between Vitamin D Status, Pregnancy Symptoms and Quality of Life?, Jennifer Woo
"Playing the Game Or "Buying in": Charter School Teachers and Professionalism in an Era of Choice and Accountability, Beth Louise Wright
FRNK Regulatory Complex Formation with FAK Is Regulated by ERK Mediated Serine 217 Phosphorylation, Taylor J. Zak
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Impact of Social Class Connectedness, School Belongingness, and Family Cohesion on Lower Class-Identified College Students, Kristen Eileen Adams
Expectations and Quality of Life During the Antepartum and Postpartum Period, Mary Kathryn Adams
Noble Freedom: The Importance of Freedom in the Theology of Beatrice of Nazareth and Hadewijch, Seth Alexander
The Parent Advisory Council for Spanish-Speaking Parents: A Program Evaluation, Alison Alves
The Relationship between Light Exposure and Fatigue and Mood in the Patient Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplant, Kimberly S. Anderson-Drevs
Organized Activity Involvement Among Urban Youth: Understanding Predictors and Mechanisms, Nicole Arola Anderson
Habermas and Public Reason in the Digital Age: Technology and Deliberative Democracy, Asaf Bar-Tura
Performance of Individuals and Teams on Cryptographic Tasks: Factors That Affect the Consideration of Alternative Strategies, Joseph Bihary
Cardiac Calcium Atpase Dimerization Measured by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer and Chemical Cross-Linking, Daniel Blackwell
Sex Differences in Stroke Recovery: Synaptic Proteins and the Growth Inhibitory Protein Nogo a, Vincent Joseph Borkowski
“But Who, We?”: Derrida on Non-Human Others, Thomas Helmut Bretz
The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Giving Among Latin@ Young Alumni from a Predominantly White Institution, Michael Bumbry
Adenovirus Evasion of Cell-Intrinsic Immunity, Andrew Michael Burrage
Restoring Trust: A Grounded Theory Study of Cyberbullying Among Young Women, Nancy H. Camp
Quality of Math Instruction Matters: Examining Validity and Reliability of High Impact Strategies in Early Mathematics (his-Em), Bilge Cerezci
Status Quo Vs. Change in the Face of Death and Uncertainty, Justin S. Cheng
Understanding the Role of Leadership Motivation in College Student Leadership Development, Benjamin Paul Correia-Harker
Earthly Destruction: Catholic Social Teaching, War, and the Environment, Daniel Cosacchi
Kant, the Natural Law, and the Question of Normativity in Catholic Ethics, John Robert Crowley-Buck
A Fire That Could Not Be Extinguished: Sovereignty and Identity in the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 1634-1994, Melisa Cushing-Davis
What Is the Process of Relational Work of the Nurse?, Daniela Terrizzi Defrino
Atomic Oxygen Adsorption and Absorption on RH(111) and AG(111), Jonathan Derouin
A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800, Anthony Di Lorenzo
Cooking, Cooking Pots, and Cultural Transformation in Imperial and Late Antique Italy, Andrew Donnelly
Dating Violence Prevention Through a Change in Gender Norms, Katie Doud
Keeping Schools Catholic: Discipleship as Paradigm for Administrators, Teachers, Staff and Students, James (deporres) Charles Durham
The Psychological Impact of Smartphones: The Effect of Access to One's Smartphone on Psychological Power, Risk Taking, Cheating, and Moral Orientation., Amanda Christine Egan
Evaluating the Impact of Integrative Mental Health Treatment in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Bella Etingen
Remains to Be Seen: Execution and Embodiment in the Early English Atlantic World, Erin M. Feichtinger
Ain't Misbehavin': Phenomenological Inquiry Into Black Male Experiences of School, Kelly N. Ferguson
Special Education Disproportionality through a Social Lens: A Mixed Methods Approach, Marianne J. Fidishin
The Seat of Justice in the House of Love: Toward an Ecclesial Theory of Justice, James Grant Gholson
Dreamers and the College Dream: A Case Study Analysis Examining the Influences of High Schools and High School Agents, Aliza Joy Gilbert
Subjectification in the Southern Baptist Conservative Resurgence, Adam Hankins
“Englishing” Horace: The Influence of the Horatian Tradition on Old and Middle English Poetry, Justin A. Hastings
Defect Or Defend? Explaining Military Responses During the Arab Uprisings, Timothy Hazen
No Taxation Without Discrimination: The Racial Politics of American Property Taxes, Kasey Henricks
Regulation of the Subunits of Hypoxia Inducible Factors by Sprouty2 and Its Impact on Different Biological Processes, Kristin Caroline Hicks
Studies Into the Allosteric Regulation of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylases, Benjamin Luke Hill
Social Skills in Youth with Spina Bifida: A Longitudinal Multimethod Investigation of Bio-Neuropsychosocial Predictors, Christina Ehrman Holbein
You're Kind of Just Conditioned: Women and Female College Students' Defiance of Dominant Social Messages in the Development of Leader Self-Efficacy, Shannon Darracott Howes
Saving Marriage One Relationship at a Time: Culture, Family, and Social Change in Christian Premarital Counseling, Courtney Ann Irby
To Be Black, Caribbean, and American: Social Connectedness As a Mediator to Racial and Ethnic Socialization and Well-Being Among Afro-Caribbean American Emerging Adults, Gihane Emeline Jeremie-Brink
Development of Folate Directed, Protein Based Photodynamic Therapy Agents, Rojenia Jones
“My Masculinity Is a Little Love Poem to Myself”: Trans*masculine College Students’ Conceptualizations of Masculinities, T.j. Jourian
United States Foreign Policy Toward HIV/AIDS in Africa: The Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in the Formulation and Implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) 2003-2008, Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula
