Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
Inhibition of B Lymphopoiesis by Adipocytes and Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells, Domenick Kennedy
Moral Distress and the Health Care Organization, Andy Kondrat
The Best Poor Man's Country?: William Penn, Quakers, and Unfree Labor in Atlantic Pennsylvania, Peter B. Kotowski
Cognitive and Neural Correlates of Coping and Resilience in Depression, Catherine Lee
Monocyte-Induced Regulatory T Cell Differentiation, Jessica Genevieve Lee
Heart and Sole: The Functional Role of Fast-Skeletal Myosin Binding Protein-C in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle, Brian Leei Lin
Emature: Intergenerational Networks in Digital Media Spaces, Andras Lukacs
The Role of Microrna in Cardioprotection: Ischemic Preconditioning and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Paracrine Effects, Kristin Luther
The Amino Terminal Region of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C Is Necessary for Cardiac Function, Thomas Lawrence Lynch
How Can Parent-Child Interactions in a Museum Support Children’s Learning and Transfer of Knowledge, Maria Marcus
Using TOPS for Identification of Gifted Hispanic Students, Barbara Martin
Collaborative Community Prevention: An Ecological Approach to Mental Health Support for Children in Rural America, Adria Casey Mcpherson
Individual Criminal Accountability After Civil Wars: Enforced Disappearances in Algeria and Turkey, Jessica Mecellem
Coping with Trauma: Reflections from Angolan Refugee Returnees, Michael Robert Milco
Simulation Learning and Transfer to the Clinical Environment in Undergraduate Nursing Students, David A. Miles
Men As Caregivers: Latino Fathering of Children with Cancer, Noe Mojica
Philo’s Εὐσέβεια and Paul’s Πνεῦμα: The Appropriation and Alteration of Hellenistic and Greek Philosophical Traditions in Their Ethical Discourses, Nelida Naveros Cordova
The Spatial Dynamics of Shakespearean Drama, Mark B. Owen
Scribal Harmonization in Greek Manuscripts of the Synoptic Gospels from the Second to the Fifth Century, Cambry Pardee
The Chilean Student Movement: A Family Matter. The Intimate and Conflicting Construction of Revolution in a Post Dictatorial Country, Leslie Parraguez Sanchez
Mechanism by Which Commensal Bacteria Limit Inflammation, Mallory Paynich
Community Violence Exposure Among Urban African American Males: Understanding the “Buffering Effect” of Adaptive Social Support Coping on Psychosocial Outcomes, Cynthia L. Pierre
Consequences of Estrogen Receptor Beta Phosphorylation in the Aged Female Brain and Heart, Elena Pinceti
A Concurrent and Longitudinal Examination of a Bio-Neuropsychosocial Model for Predicting Medical Adherence and Responsibility in Youth with Spina Bifida, Alexandra Psihogios
Exploring Conditions for the Enhancement of Acene Semiconductors Through the Use of the Diels-Alder Reaction, Brittni Qualizza Qualizza
Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education, Omar Qureshi
Trauma in the Classroom: Teachers' Perspectives on Supporting Students Experiencing Child Traumatic Stress, Kassandra Reker
Changing Medical Education: Early Efforts to Integrate Women's Health Into Education and Training, Mary Katherine Rojek
The Role of FoxO Transcription Factors in Alcohol-Induced Deficient Fracture Repair, Philip M. Roper
Exploring the Relationships between Spiritual Well-Being, Team Regard and Turnover Intention of Hospice Social Workers: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction, Kimberly Lynn Sangster
Comparing Predominant Spiritual Approaches in a Chicago Archdiocese Vicariate Using the Spirituality Opionnaire and Assessing Its Reliability, John Peter Segvich
Examining the Effects of Anti-Nogo a Immunotherapy on Post-Stroke Neurogenesis in the Adult Rat, Daniel Shepherd
“I Am Because We Are”: A Portrait of Trans* Postsecondary Educators’ Experiences in Higher Education, Symone L. Simmons
The Impact of Altered T Cell Receptor—Peptide-Major Histocompatibility Complex Interactions on Antigen Recognition and T Cell Function, Timothy T. Spear
Social Learning of Employee Engagement, Swati Sharma Srivastava
Managing Workers Who Are Deaf: A Phenomenological Investigation of Hearing Supervisors, Hayley Sneiderman Stokar
The Responsibility to Protect and United States Intervention in the Libyan Civil War (2011), Paul Tang Abomo
Ecological Factors Promoting Academic Resilience of Latina Students, Rebecca Testa-Ryan
Remember the Word That I Told You: Direct Internal Quotation in the Gospel of John, Jeffrey Michael Tripp
Development of "Inside-Out" Pegylated Crosslinked Hemoglobin Polymers: Novel Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers (HBOC), Kyle Douglas Webster
Defining Quality in Undergraduate Social Work Education, Mary Ruth Weeden
Neural Correlates of Political Attitudes: Emotion and Ideology in the Brain, Dane Gorman Wendell
Olympic Bids, Professional Sports, and Urban Politics: Four Decades of Stadium Planning in Detroit, 1936-1975, Jeffrey R. Wing
Improving Causal Claims in Observational Research: An Investigation of Propensity Score Methods in Applied Educational Research, Julie Diane Wren
Missing Data in the Context of Student Growth, Katherine Wright
Critical Role of c-Jun N-terminal Kinase Signaling in Binge Alcohol-Driven Atrial Arrhythmic Remodeling, Jiajie Yan Yan
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Equilibrium in Biblical Exegesis: Why Evangelicals Need the Catholic Church, Robert Andrews
Reform Through a Student Lens: The Experience of Latino a Students in an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Chicago, Sandra Arreguin
Daddy Is Involved: How Do African American Fathers Participate in the Education Experiences of Their High School Children?, Gregory Pierre Baker
Instructional Leadership and Deliberate Practice: A Framework for Improving Student Achievement, Matthew Henry Banach
