Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Child Abuse Reporting: When Given the Option, Do Youth Choose to Report?, Michelle L. Vos
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
Who Are You Going to Call? Primary Care Patients’ Disclosure Decisions Regarding Direct–to–Consumer Genetic Testing, Katherine Wasson, Sara Cherny, Tonya Nashay Sanders, Nancy S. Hogan, and Kathy J. Helzlsouer
Review of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church, Elfriede Wedam
To Create True Sanctuary Cities, We Must End Racist Policing, Reyna Wences and Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
Some of My Best Dolls Are Black: Colorblind Rhetoric in Online Collecting Communities, Rebecca Joan West
Chasing the Writer, Joyce Wexler
Fitting Things Together: A Grounded Theory Study of Clinical Judgment in Nursing, Mary Elizabeth Wilber
Chicago Housing: Understanding How Local Organizations Mobilize to Preserve Public and Affordable Housing, Cameron Williams
Public Islam in the Contemporary World: A View on the American Case, Rhys H. Williams
What is "American" in American Religion?, Rhys H. Williams, Sylvester Johnson, and Kathryn Gin Lum
The Perceived Threat of Secularism and Militancy Among Religious Fundamentalists, Chase Wilson
Teacher Attrition: The Job Choices of Ex-Teachers, Becky Wock
Business Ethics and Ideals, Gregory Wolcott
Public Attitudes and Support for the EU in the Wake of the Financial Crisis, Jennifer R. Wozniak and Chris Hasselmann
Unveiling the Impact of Human Influence on Species Distributions in Vietnam: A Case Study Using Babblers (Aves: Timaliidae), Laurel R. Yohe, Johnathan Flanders, Hoang Minh Duc, Long Vu, and Sushma Reddy
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
The New Normal: Black Psychic Subjectivity in Antwone Fisher, Badia Sahar Ahad
Conspiratorial Thinking: How Worldview and Mortality Salience Affect Belief, Eric James Anderson
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
Evidence for Renewal and Reconstitution of Marginal Zone Macrophages in Young and Aged Mice, Erika Bahamon
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
Spectroscopic Evidence of Work Function Alterations Due to Photoswitchable Monolayers on Gold Surfaces, Matthew Alan Bartucci, Jan Florian, and Jacob W. Ciszek
Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America, Gillian Nelson Bauer
Factors in Destination Decisions for Cuban Study Abroad, Kari Beall
Apparent Alkyl Transfer and Phenazine Formation via an Aryne Intermediate, Daniel Becker, Andria M. Panagopoulos, Doug Steinman, Alexandra Goncharenko, Kyle Geary, Carlene Schleisman, Elizabeth Spaargaren, and Matthias Zeller
The Rhetoric of Gender in the Household of God: Ephesians 5:21-33 and Its Place in Pauline Tradition, Lisa Marie Belz
Developing a White Anti-racism Identity: A Psycho-educational Group Model, Kathryn Kristin Berg and Shirley Simon
Statistical Analysis of Aerosol Species, Trace Gases, and Meteorology in Chicago, Katrina Binaku, Timothy O'Brien, Martina Schmeling, and Tinamarie Fosco
Critical Functions Specified by the MLL CXXC Domain Determine Leukemogenic Capacity, Noah Warren Birch
Thomas F. Mayer, ed. Reforming Reformation, Robert Bireley S.J.
Linking Distributive and Procedural Justice to Employee Engagement Through Social Exchange: A Field Study in India, Soumendu Biswas, Arup Varma, and Aarti Ramaswami
The Constraint Interpretation of Physical Emergence, James Blachowicz
Risk Perception in Cardiovascular Disease, Michelle Ellen Block
The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England, Julia Bninski
Regrouping: Organized Activity Involvement and Social Adjustment Across the Transition to High School, Amy M. Bohnert, Julie Wargo Aikins, and Nicole T. Arola
Testimony, Remhi and Senselessness in Guatemalan Memory, Melissa Jean Boroughs
Opening Session and Welcome, Mark Bosco, SJ; Michael Garanzini SJ; Renato Turano; Adriano Monti; and Joanne Spata
Titanic: Consuming the Myths and Meanings of an Ambiguous Brand, Stephen Brown, Pierre McDonagh, and Clifford J. Shultz
Effect of Advanced Age on the Innate Immune Response to Cutaneous Wound Infection, Aleah Lin Brubaker
Spanish Women Remembered in Elena Quiroga's Tristura, Escribo Tu Nombre and a Enferma, Ellen Patricia Brugliera
How to Create an ASCII Input Data File for UniODA and CTA Software, Fred B. Bryant and Patrick R. Harrison
Analysis Involving Categorical Attributes Having Many Response Categories, Fred B. Bryant and Paul R. Yarnold
A Phenomenological Study of Indonesian Cohort Group's Transformative Learning, Markus Budiraharjo
The Promise of an Accumulation of Care: Disadvantaged African-American Youths’ Perspectives About What Makes an After School Program Meaningful, Jeffrey J. Bulanda and Katherine Tyson McCrea
"Keeping it Real": An Evaluation Audit of Five Years of Youth-led Program Evaluation, Jeffrey J. Bulanda, Katie Szarzynski, Daria Silar, and Katherine Tyson McCrea
Fideism, Evidentialism, and the Epistemology of Religious Belief, Matthew P. Butcher
Youth as Community Science Experts in Green Energy Technologies, Angela Calabrese Barton, Daniel Birmingham, Takumi Sato, Edna Tan, and Scott Calabrese Barton
Patron Saints and Religious Traditions, Dominic Candeloro
Italians and Catholicism in the Late 19th Century, Anthony Cardoza PhD
Free Exchange for Mutual Benefit: Sweatshops and Maitland’s ‘Classical Liberal Standard’, Thomas Carson
Software Engineering Need Not Be Difficult, Jeffrey C. Carver and George K. Thiruvathukal
Dogs and Servants, Pamela L. Caughie
The Temporality of Modernist Life Writing in the Era of Transsexualism, Pamela L. Caughie
The Temporality of Modernist Life Writing in the Era of Transsexualism: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Einar Wegener’s Man Into Woman, Pamela L. Caughie
Woolf Online, Pamela L. Caughie, Nicholas J. Hayward, Mark Hussey, Peter Shillingsburg, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Italian-American Writers, Susana Cavallo PhD, Wiley Feinstein PhD, Fred Gardaphé PhD, Cristina Lombardi-Diop PhD, and Samuele Pardini PhD
Alpha-Synuclein Aggregates Activate the Nlrp3 Inflammasome Following Vesicle Rupture, Rudy Orlando Cedillos
Treading Identities: Second-Generation Christian Indian Americans Negotiating Race, Ethnicity and Religion in America, Soulit Chacko
The Effect of Vitamin D on Human T Regulatory Cell Differentiation, Stephanie Anne Chapman
Decision making: Fishing production and fishers in the Black Sea, Mine Cinar, Joseph Johnson, and Andrew Palmer
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
Response to David Quigley, John D. Cunningham
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
Building Capable, Energy-Efficient, Flexible Visualization and Sensing Clusters from Commodity Tablets, Thomas Delgado Dias, Xian Yan, Konstantin Läufer, and George K. Thiruvathukal
John the Baptist and the Jewish Setting of Matthew, Brian C. Dennert
“O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!" First World War Beethoven Reception as Precedent for the Nazi "Cult of Art", David B. Dennis
Wagner in the "Cult of Art in Nazi Germany", David B. Dennis
Minority Stress Theory: An Examination of Factors Surrounding Sexual Risk Behavior Among Gay and Bisexual Men Who Use Club Drugs, Michael P. Dentato, Perry N. Halkitis, and John Orwat
Mandibular Remains Support Taxonomic Validity of Australopithecus sediba, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Thomas J. Dewitt, Keely B. Carlson, Juliet K. Brophy, Lauren Schroeder, Rebecca R. Ackermann, Steven E. Churchill, and Lee R. Berger
God & Being: An Enquiry, by George Pattison, Colby Dickinson
The "Violence" of the Canon: Revisiting Contemporary Notions of Canonical Forms, Colby Dickinson
The “Violence” of the Canon: Revisiting Contemporary Notions of the Canonical, Colby Dickinson
A Multi-Restart Iterated Local Search Algorithm for the Permutation Flow Shop Problem Minimizing Total Flow Time, Xingye Dong, Ping Chen, Houkuan Huang, and Maciek Nowak
Kant's Change of Heart: Radical Evil and Moral Transformation, Christina Drogalis
Patterns in Group Involvement Experiences During College: Identifying a Taxonomy, John P. Dugan
Lateralization of Simulated Sources and Echoes on the Basis of Interaural Differences of Level, Raymond H. Dye Jr, Jacquelyn P. Hill, Leslie M. Ryan, Alexander E. Cupler, and Kevin M. Bannon
Characterization of Chronic Glucocorticoid Exposure on Natural Killer Cell Function: A Model for Stress Induced Alterations on the Epigenetic Landscape, Justin Lee Eddy
Critical Literacy, Common Core, and “Close Reading”, Aimee Ellis
Visual Analysis of E-Textbooks for Senior High School in Indonesia, Ouda Ena
College Student Pathways to the STEM Disciplines, Mark Engberg and Gregory C. Wolniak
Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture, Domenico Rocco Ferri
Unraveling the Activation Mechanism of the Potato Tuber ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase, Carlos M. Figueroa, Misty L. Kuhn, Christine A. Falaschetti, Ligin Solamen, Kenneth W. Olsen, Miguel Ballicora, and Alberto A. Iglesias
Large-scale Structural Rearrangement of a Serine Hydrolase from Francisella Tularensis Facilitates Catalysis, Ekaterina V. Filippova, Leigh A. Watson, Misty L. Kuhn, Brett Geissler, and Daniel Becker
The Rebel Leader: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Analysis of Rebel Superintendents in Suburban Public Schools, Christopher Leigh Finch
Implementing Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support in High School Settings: Analysis of Eight High Schools, K. Brigid Flannery, Jennifer L. Frank, Mimi McGrath Cato, Bonnie Doren, and Pamela Fenning
The World Is Not Yet Completed: Moral Imaginaries and Everyday Politics in Progressive Religious Communities, Todd Nicholas Fuist
