Dissertations submitted in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Loyola University Chicago.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Investigating the Professional Values of Teachers: The Differential Impact of Accountability on Teachers' Career Decisions, Cortney Rowland King
Polyaminocarboxylic Acids as Potential Candidates for Trivalent Actinide/lanthanide Separations, Daniel Stephen Kissel
A Structural Model of Leadership Self-Efficacy for Asian American Students: Examining Influences of Collective Racial Esteem and Resilience, Corinne Maekawa Kodama
Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism, Jason Isaac Kolkey
Change Is Brewing: The Industrialization of the London Beer-Brewing Trade, 1400-1750, John R. Krenzke
The Limits of Rationality: Suicidality, Affectivity, and the Rational, Maria Jennifer Kulp
Augustine and Feminisms: A Dialogue About Education, Maggie Ann Labinski
Biblical Lessons for Educational Leaders: The Servant Leadership of King David, Apostle Paul, Dr. Joe Hairston, Dr. Tim Markley, Tracy D. Lett
Journey to the Neighborhood: An Analysis of Fred Rogers and His Lessons for Educational Leaders, Jeana Lietz
The Role of AF9 and AF9-Mediated Protein Interactions in Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis, Alyson Anne Lokken
Re-Thinking Anthropomorphism Through a Genetic Philosophy of Time, Carolyn Jo Love
Teacher Impact on Supporting the Parent-Teacher Partnership During the Middle School Years, Karen R. Love
Host Proteins Interact with the Hiv-1 Core to Facilitate and Restrict, Zana Lukic
he Seems Like a Good Kid Lessons in Informal Social Control from a Midwestern Peer Court Program, Patricia Lee Maddox
Investigating the Biochemical and Catalytic Properties of Nitrile Hydratases, Salette Martinez
Functional Importance of Oxidative Post-Translational Modifications of Ryanodine Receptor in Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ Handling During Oxidative Stress, Stefan R. Mazurek
Master's Students' Experiences in a Graduate Preparation Program: Multicultural Competency and Social Justice Curriculum, Kristin I. Mccann
The Impact of Insulin Management on Quality of Life in Type 2 Diabetes, Sandra Ellen Mccormick
Adenovirus Vectors as Potent Adjuvants in Vaccine Development, Kathleen Ann Mcguire
Multifunctional Coronavirus Papain-Like Proteases as Targets for Antiviral Therapeutics and Vaccines, Anna Maria Mielech
The Molecular Components of Estrogen Receptor Beta (ERβ) Signaling in Neuronal Sytems, Natasha Mott
Internalization of Race Messages Among Mixed Race Individuals, Jennifer Moulton
Moderating Variables in the Treatment Effects of Second Step, Gregory Eugene Moy
The Backgrounds and Outcomes of Allopathic Medical School Applicants: Exploring Stratification and Inequality, Sunshine Nakae
Social Media and Reflective Thinking: A Case Study of Generation Y Business Students, Stacy Neier
The Fashionable Life: Fashion Imagery and the Construction of Masculinity in America, 1960-2000, Kelly Ann O'connor
Producing a Past: Cyrus Mccormick's Reaper from Heritage to History, Daniel Peter Ott
Putting "community" in Community Schools: Organizational and Cultural Contention in a Public-Private Partnership, Kathleen D. Pacyna
Perceptions of Value and Perceived Strengths of Arts Education During an Age of Accountability: Conditions and Qualities That Shape a Citizenry - Implications for Leadership, Stephen Tyler Plank
Effects of Cultural Awareness Training in Conjunction with an Established Bullying Prevention Program, Megan Kallie Polanin
Expertise, Democratic Values, and Tolerance, Erika D. Price
Peripubertal Binge Ethanol, Age and Sex Modulate Microrna Expression in the Ventral and Dorsal Hippocampus of the Adolescent Rat, Sarah Arianne Prins
Moving Social Spaces: Public Transportation, Material Differences, and the Power of Mobile Communities in Chicago, Gwendolyn Purifoye
Identifying Novel Factors Involved in Biofilm Formation by Vibrio Fischeri, Valerie Ray
'We're Not Little Babies Anymore': A Cultural History of Small Girls in America, 1920-1945, Stella A. Ress
The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience, Angelo Sylvester Riley
I Do Activist Things Even Though I'm Nothing: A Critical Ethnography of Immigrant Youth Identity Formation in an Urban Community-School, Sophia Rodriguez
Sorority Women & Eating Pathology: Communities of Unhealthy Body Standards?, Ashley Marie Rolnik
Superintendent Leadership and Collective Bargaining Processes, Procedures, and Outcomes, Kevin David Rubenstein
Seeing the State: Women, Incarceration, and Social Marginality, Cesraea Rumpf
Life Course Narratives from U.s. Expatriates: Continuity Work, Victoria L. Russo
The Affective Consequences of Expressing Moral Convictions, Lisa Diana Sandberg
The Restorative Justice Talking Circle Process with Probation Officers: A Phenomenological Approach, Constance Marie Sheehan
New Teacher Induction Programs: A Case Study of an Exemplary School District and How It Prepares Its New Teachers for the Use of Instructional Technology in the Classroom, David Brian Sherman
A Summer Reading Enrichment Experience: One District's Effort to Prevent Summer Reading Loss, Angela R. Sopko
Closing the "Revolving Door": Identifying Predictors of Time to Rehospitalization in a Sample of Psychiatric Inpatient Youth, Alison Merri Stoner
Impact of First Disclosure Experience and Internalized Stigma on Disclosure Patterns in the HIV+ Community, Mary Elizabeth Talbot
The Hidden Costs of Success: A Mixed Methods Approach to Examining Achievement Pressures in Affluent Youth, Lea Ventura Travers
When Subcultures Become Careers: Working in Indie Rock, Annmarie Schneider-Edman Van Altena
Neuroscience and Galen: Body, Selfhood and the Materiality of Emotions on the Early Modern Stage, Devon Wallace
Profiles of Neuropsychological Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Spina Bifda, Rachel Wasserman
Some of My Best Dolls Are Black: Colorblind Rhetoric in Online Collecting Communities, Rebecca Joan West
Fitting Things Together: A Grounded Theory Study of Clinical Judgment in Nursing, Mary Elizabeth Wilber
How Do District Level and Building Level Leaders Collaborate to Implement Mandated Change?, Gwendolyn Zimmermann
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Grounded Theory of How Jewish Experiential Education Impacts the Identity Development of Jewish Emerging Adults, Scott Turberg Aaron
International Education Exposure in Secondary Schooling: Impacting Academic Outcomes Among Urban Girls of Color, Tiffini L. Andorful
Q 10:21-22 and Formative Christology, Olegs Andrejevs
Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization, Kimya Pearl Barden
Social and Emotional Learning: An Argument for Religious Pluralism, Debra Mayconich Baron
A Study of the Therapeutic Potential of AF4 Mimetic Peptides, Nisha N. Barretto
Synthesis and Assembly of Dihydroindolizines on Gold Surfaces for Light Induced Work Function Alterations, Matthew Alan Bartucci
Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America, Gillian Nelson Bauer
The Rhetoric of Gender in the Household of God: Ephesians 5:21-33 and Its Place in Pauline Tradition, Lisa Marie Belz
Critical Functions Specified by the MLL CXXC Domain Determine Leukemogenic Capacity, Noah Warren Birch
Risk Perception in Cardiovascular Disease, Michelle Ellen Block
The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England, Julia Bninski
Effect of Advanced Age on the Innate Immune Response to Cutaneous Wound Infection, Aleah Lin Brubaker
A Phenomenological Study of Indonesian Cohort Group's Transformative Learning, Markus Budiraharjo
Fideism, Evidentialism, and the Epistemology of Religious Belief, Matthew P. Butcher
Towards a Roman Catholic Soteriology for the Sinned-Against Creature: An Intercultural Dialogue between the Soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx and Korean-American Theologies of 'Han', Kevin Patrick Considine
Ethnicity, Assimilation and Transnationalism: a Comparative Study of Eastern European Migration to the United States (1940-2012), Cezara Olga Crisan
How Do Professional Learning Communities Foster Strong Career and Technical Education Programs of Study in Illinois Public High Schools?, Wendy Custable
The Presence of Empathy in Male Completers of a Partner Intervention Program, Katherine Dahlberg
John the Baptist and the Jewish Setting of Matthew, Brian C. Dennert
Kant's Change of Heart: Radical Evil and Moral Transformation, Christina Drogalis
Characterization of Chronic Glucocorticoid Exposure on Natural Killer Cell Function: A Model for Stress Induced Alterations on the Epigenetic Landscape, Justin Lee Eddy
Visual Analysis of E-Textbooks for Senior High School in Indonesia, Ouda Ena
Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture, Domenico Rocco Ferri
The Rebel Leader: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Analysis of Rebel Superintendents in Suburban Public Schools, Christopher Leigh Finch
The World Is Not Yet Completed: Moral Imaginaries and Everyday Politics in Progressive Religious Communities, Todd Nicholas Fuist
Student Achievement in Middle Grades: Gauging the Effect of Teacher Training on Student Learning, Natalya Gnedko
Emergency Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes and Preventive Practices Regarding Firearms and Firearm Injury Prevention for Children, Dorothy Ann Gomez
¿Déjalo Descansar? The Parental Bereavement Experience of Mexican Migrant Mothers, Illeana Gomez
Down to Earth Ethics: Exploring Relation and Environmental Responsibility, Matthew Gowans
The Student's Perspective: Exploring Ethnic Group Variances in Bullying Behavior Using Mixed Methods Research, Stephanie Grunewald
Second-Class Families: The Challenges and Strategies of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families, Diana Maritza Guelespe
The Effects of Organized Activity Involvement on Latino Adolescent Well-Being, Maria D. Guzman
Mothers' Nonstandard Work Schedules and Young Children's School Readiness, Kelly Haas
