Dissertations from 2021
The Effect of Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in Lexical Chunks on the Listening Comprehension of Adult Learners of Arabic, Bassam Al-Maqtari
Exploring Student Engagement for Diverse Student Populations: A Case Study Examining Institutional Logics of Student Affairs Middle Management Leaders, Frangelo Rominque Ayran
Employment Discrimination: An Efficacy Study of African American Inequities in the California Utility Sector, Victor Baker
Experiences of UC Santa Barbara female alumni exposed to a gender-based mass shooting, Erin G. Carpenter
The Role of Community Building in Second Language Acquisition in the Mainstream Classroom, Alejandro Clemente Fernandez
The Effectiveness of Using Multimedia for Teaching Phrasal Verbs in Community-College ESL Classes, Guohua Fu
Replanting a Wild Seed: Black Women School Leaders Subverting Ideological Lynching, Whitneé Louise Garrett-Walker
Impact of Moral Injury for Ethnic/Racial Minority Male Veterans, Kristopher Kern
Dysconscious Racism and Racial Microaggressions in the Public School System, Ryan Lee
Stigma and Social-Emotional Health in Youth with Learning Differences, Kelsey Maki
Provider Perspectives: Working with the Male Lifer Reentry Population, Laura R. Marker Dr.
The Use of Mindfulness Meditation to Increase the Efficacy of Mirror Visual Feedback for Reducing Phantom Limb Pain in Amputees, Nicolas Sebastian Mills
A Minority Within a Minority: Exploring Identity Development in Relation to Mental Health Outcomes Within the Black Deaf Community, Nekolas Milton
Community Based Participatory Research Informed Manualization and Piloting of E-Training of a Modified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intervention, Annika M. Miyamoto
Patient Reported Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease Examined Within a Conceptual Model, Swapandeep Mushiana; Marsha Treadwell PhD; Sherif M. Badawy MD, MS; Liliana Preiss PhD; Allison King MD MPH PhD; Barbara Kroner PhD; Yumie Chen BS; Jeffrey Glassberg; Victor Gordeuk MD; Nirmish Shah MD; Angie Snyder Phd MPH; and Theodore Wun MD
Engaging Feminism, Transforming Institutions: How Community Engagement Professionals Employ Critical Feminist Praxis to Re-Imagine and Re-Shape the Public Purpose of Higher Education, Patricia Star Plaxton-Moore
Effect of Prenatal Yoga on Depression, Anxiety, and Maternal-fetal Attachment Among Pregnant Black, Indigenous and People of Color, Alicia Ranucci
Investigating the Self-Efficacy Awareness of Black Female Technology Leaders, Marie Roberts De La Parra
Parental Involvement in Support of African American Families, September Rose
Exploring the lived experiences of Middle-Eastern and North African (Mena) Jews through narrative inquiry using a digital storytelling approach, Brandy B. Shufutinsky
Indigenous assessment developers on elements of the disjuncture-response dialectic: A critical comparative case study, David A. Sul
Indigenous Assessment Developers on Elements of the Disjuncture-Response Dialectic: A Critical Comparative Case Study, David A. Sul
The Ambivalence of Participation in Transitional Justice: The Promises and Failures of Peace in Colombia, Alejandro Urruzmendi
Narratives of Disability and Displacement: Oral Histories of the Lived Experiences of Disabled Refugees, Jennifer Lynn Ward
Perceived Obstacles by ESL Instructors and Required Support for the Integration of Educational Technology, Xiaotian Zhang
Dissertations from 2020
Life After the EL Label: Conversations About Identity, Language, and Race, Veronica Arizaga Aguayo
COUNTER-NARRATIVES: HAITIANS IN ECONOMIC TRANSITION, Patricia Barthaud
Choices: An Evaluation of a Program Aimed at Reducing Criminogenic Thinking Among Incarcerated Women, Alexa Carbajal
Critical Followership: Faculty and Leader Relations Impact on Leadership Turnover at a California Community College, Erik William Christianson
Uncovering Examples of Humanizing Praxis and Pathological Violence in Special Education: District, Parent, and Researcher Perspectives, Andy W. Chung
Exploring the Experiences of Teachers in a Bilingual Immersion Environment, Paloma Cordova
An Analysis of the Yearly Dynamic Change Relationship Between Working Memory Ability and Mathematics Achievement of K-5 Students Using the Grimm et al. (2012) Extensions of the Multivariate Latent Difference Score Models, Wenyan (Emma) Jiang Erzincanli
A Convergence of Conceptual Frameworks: Neurocognitive, Metacognitive and Social Cultural Techniques in Vocabulary Teaching and Learning, Malihe Eshghavi
A Reanalyses of Intercorrelational Matrices of Visual and Verbal Learners' Abilities, Cognitive Styles, and Learning Preferences, Jeanette Marie Fox
Moving from "Me" to "We" to "All of Us": A Community-Engaged Learning Case Study, Monika Lynne Hudson Bowens
Minority Stress, Social Support, and Mental Health Among LGBQP+ Religious Disaffiliates, Kate Jablonski
Self-Efficacy in the Transition to Parenthood, Nicole Marsden
Teachers' Perceptions of the Nine Defining Characteristics of Catholic Identity in Ursuline Secondary Schools of the USA, Barbara Ann Middendorf
Sowing the Seeds of Love: Dialogic and Collaborative Literacies For Social Change, Liz Murray
Experiences of Latinx's Adult Transition to the U.S. and the Clinical Implications that Arise in Acclimating into the Dominant Culture: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, Gabriela Olavarrieta
An Investigation of California Classroom Teachers' Beliefs and Ratings of Creativity in Dance, Patricia R. Reedy
"Made of Queer Magic": Understanding the experiences of pregnancy for queer women, Lindsey Rogers
Clinical Work with Adult Male Incest Survivors: Therapeutic Themes and Perspectives, Kathryn B. Rosenberg
Philippine Jesuit Schools of Education: Heroic Institutions of Learning and Leadership in Mission, Joaquin Jose Mari Casimiro Sumpaico
An Exploration of Social Networking Use and Mental Health in Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Gender Non-Binary, and Gender Fluid Persons, Jennifer Trimpey
Identity Development in Transgender Women of Color: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Angel Tseng
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Thompson’s (2105) Survey of Language Usage and Spanish of Heritage Learners Placement Program Exam at the High-School Level, Elizabeth Villanueva
Dissertations from 2019
Splinters from the Bamboo Ceiling: Understanding the Experiences of Asian American Men in Higher Education Leadership, Jerald Adamos
Promoting Tolerance Through Learning about Human Evolution and Creation Myths, Afsoon Alishahi
FLIPPING THE SCRIPT: PRIORITIZING THE AUTISTIC VOICE IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPING AS “KEY TO AUTISTIC IDENTITY”, Colleen D. Arnold
Critical Efforts Against White Supremacy: Reflections of White Women on Anti-Racism Work Within Four-Year Colleges, Jennifer Bosco
Borderlands of Teenage Mothering: Life Stories of Latinx Teen Mothers from a Critical Feminist Perspective, Ashley Burciaga
A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH STUDY ON UNACCOMPANIED MINORS FROM LATIN AMERICA, Lorena Caldera
EFFECTS OF THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOL ON THE MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS OF SEVENTH- AND EIGHTH- GRADE STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, Nasa Lesley Cole
Exploring Ways to Bring Culturally Relevant Pedagogy into Rehabilitative Programs, Reginold P. Daniels
NAVIGATING THE RACIALIZED NEOLIBERAL GAZE: ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION PROFESSIONALS IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION, Ariana DasGupta
Perceptions of Female Veteran Military Sexual Trauma: A Phenomenological Study, Lindsey Fairweather
Perceptions of Physics Teachers in Singapore About Curriculum Sequencing, Lay Lean Fong
Civics Curriculum In French Accredited Education In Morocco: Case of La Residence School, Khalid Hilal
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Peer Engagement and Knowledge (PEAK): A Community-Based Group Intervention for Youth in Hawai‘i, Jennifer T. T. Ho
Exploring Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Older Adult Sexuality, Lindsey Horta
The Pilgrims’ Return: The Influence of the Assisi Pilgrimage on High School Participants, Christopher Michael Iwancio
THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF SIX CLASSES OF SCHOOL-READINESS VARIABLES WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN ELEMENTARY- SCHOOL STUDENTS: A GROWTH ANALYSIS OF THE ECLS-K:2011, Kimberly Kalkbrenner
Black Women Surviving Sexual Trauma: The Cultural Components Used to Aid Recovery, Charrin Kimble
Prevention and Education: A Case Study of an Anti-Human Trafficking Nongovernmental Organization in Mumbai, India, Danielle Kraaijvanger
Examining the Experiences of Chinese Multilingual Therapists in Training, Stephanie Li-Wei Lin
The Role of Environment on Second Language Pragmatic Comprehension: A Case Study of Intensive English Program Students in Homestays, Sarah McGregor
ORGANIZATIONAL STORYTELLING: HOW LEADERS USE POWERFUL STORIES TO TRANSFORM THEIR ORGANIZATIONS, Cynthia Mitchell
TRANSFORMATIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP OUTCOMES ON THE CITY OF OAKLAND BY DEMOGRAPHICS, Jason W. Mitchell
Long-Term Effects of Teacher Training and Other Intervening Factors on Teaching Styles of Foreign-Language Instructors, Hamid Mohammed-Ahmed
An Analysis of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as an Instrument of Recognition and Distribution Justice, Maeve Mulholland
Remaking Friendship in Unlikely Places: Queer-Decolonial Educators and Connections Across Experience, Politics, and Pedagogy, Maureen Nicole Osborne
The Role of Stigma on Mental Health Service-Seeking Among Armenian-American Men, Anthony Saroyan
Efficacy of Integrated Mental Health Care with Dual Diagnosis Patients and Their Utilization of Psychiatric Emergency Services, Denton Scott
ANTI-OPPRESSIVE EDUCATION WITH A “DIFFERENT KIND OF RIGOR”: TEACHERS’ AND ADMINSTRATORS’ PERSPECTIVES OF A SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION PROGRAM AT AN AFFLUENT PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL, Andrea Frances Struve
African American Female Law Enforcement Officers' Lived Experiences and Mentoring: A Thematic Narrative, Harold Wilson
Saffronizing California’s History Curriculum: Long Distance Hindu Nationalism In The United States, Pei-hsuan Wu
Harry Potter and Queering the College Classroom, Hannah Yanow
Dissertations from 2018
Preserving Catholic Identity in Catholic Secondary Schools and the Impact on Catholic Identity by Non-Catholic and International Students, Stephen Frederick Baccari
Policymaking and Paid Family Leave: Revitalizing the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, Jasmeer Basi
School Leaders' and Educators' Perceptions of Ignatian Identity at Jesuit Cristo Rey Schools, William Bludgus
Impact of a School-Based Mindfulness Intervention on Children’s Self Regulation, Elizabeth Chaney
Exploring Factors Influencing the Willingness to Communicate among English-as-a-Second Language University Students, Chi-Fang (Michelle) Chang
What Do We Really Know About Grit? A Multivariate Statistical Investigation on the Construct Validity of Grit, Christine M. Collaco
The Impact of Ancestral Language Maintenance on Cultural Identity Among White Immigrant Descendants: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, Micaella Elizabeth Colla
