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Dissertations from 2024

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WOMEN STRENGTH: USING PHOTOVOICE TO EXPLORE FEMALE CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES, Yue Cai

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Exploring the Development of Intercultural Competence within EFL Teachers in Thailand, Chelsea Cullen-Tran

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Trauma-Informed Teaching With Adult English Language Learners: A Study In A Community-Based Organization, Elizabeth Eastman

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FOR THE LOVE OF BLACK CHILDREN: TOWARDS BLACK LIBERATORY EDUCATIONAL SUBVERSION, Tamra Gertrude Jenkins

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PARENT STRATEGIES FOR ANTIRACIST PARENTING IN FAMILIES OF MULTIRACIAL AND ASIAN DESCENT, Matlida Tavares

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EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCES OF CHINESE HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY, Min Chuan Jasmine Wang

Dissertations from 2023

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STUDENTS AS CO-RESEARCHERS: USING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH TO ADDRESS COLLEGE FOOD INSECURITY, Rachel Brand

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MOVING BETWEEN ENTITLEMENT AND CO-CONSPIRACY: A STUDY OF HOW SUPPORT, SKILLS, AND COMMUNITY CAN ADVANCE ANTI-RACISM EFFORTS OF WHITE PARENTS, Karin Marianne Cotterman

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DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH HE/A/R/TOGRAPHY: CORAZONAR, SENTIPENSAR Y SENTISABER, Patricia Rojas-Zambrano

Dissertations from 2022

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RECLAIMING OUR HUMANITY: REDEMPTION, REIMAGINING, AND RESTORYING OF THE FOUNDATIONS FOR SUCCESS OF FORMERLY INCARCERATED AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES, Robert Mossi Alexander III

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Voces of Little Michoacan: A Collective Narrative of Resistance and Preservation of Home, Ana Angel Avendaño

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Understanding the perspectives, practices, and expectations of Korean American parents toward the heritage language education of their children, Yunhee Choi

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"What’s Race Got To Do With It?”: A Virtual Participatory Action Research Study of Community College Students Exploring Intersectionality In Queer Studies, Breana Hansen

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"MY BODY GOES NUMB A LOT OF THE TIME": EXAMINING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT-ATHLETE EXPERIENCES USING YOUTH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH AND EMBODIED CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY, Gabriela Elizabeth Holmes

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Teaching Solidarity: Popular Education in Grassroots U.S. Social Movements, Tenaya Summers Lafore

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Genocide in East Turkestan: Exploring the Perspectives of Uyghurs in the Diaspora and their Resistance to Chinese State Violence, Lina Semyonovna Lenberg

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EFFORTS TO CREATE A TRAUMA-INFORMED CLASSROOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION: INSIGHTS FROM MEMBERS OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRAUMA-INFORMED TEACHING GROUP, Danyelle Marshall

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BLACK MOTHERING IN THE BAY AREA WHILE UNSEEN AND UNHEARD: NAVIGATING BLACK MOTHERING IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC & SOCIAL UNREST, Kassie Michelle Phillips

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¿TÚ QUÉ SABES?: LATINA DOCTORAL WOMEN DISRUPTING AND RESISTING DOMINANT KNOWLEDGE, Sendy Ramos Madsen

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Cuentos Criollos: Colombian Internally Displaced Families as Knowledge Producers, Liliana Salazar de Deck

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An Exploration of Higher Educational Experiences For Mixed Blood American Indian Males in the Santa Clara Valley, Edward Salcedo

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The Collegiate Black Space: Black College Students’ Use of New Counter-Spaces for Support, Knowledge Production, and Organizing for Activism, Heather Streets

Dissertations from 2021

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The Effect of Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in Lexical Chunks on the Listening Comprehension of Adult Learners of Arabic, Bassam Al-Maqtari

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The Role of Community Building in Second Language Acquisition in the Mainstream Classroom, Alejandro Clemente Fernandez

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Replanting a Wild Seed: Black Women School Leaders Subverting Ideological Lynching, Whitneé Louise Garrett-Walker

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Pilipinx Radical Imagination: Healing and Visioning in our Process of Becoming, Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana

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Exploring the lived experiences of Middle-Eastern and North African (Mena) Jews through narrative inquiry using a digital storytelling approach, Brandy B. Shufutinsky

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The Ambivalence of Participation in Transitional Justice: The Promises and Failures of Peace in Colombia, Alejandro Urruzmendi

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Narratives of Disability and Displacement: Oral Histories of the Lived Experiences of Disabled Refugees, Jennifer Lynn Ward

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Equity in language programs: Revitalizing indigenous languages in secondary school in Anchorage, Alaska, Betsy Watson (Paskvan)

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Voices of Chinese International Students: A critical understanding of their experiences in the United States, Shudao Zhang

Dissertations from 2020

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Life After the EL Label: Conversations About Identity, Language, and Race, Veronica Arizaga Aguayo

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COUNTER-NARRATIVES: HAITIANS IN ECONOMIC TRANSITION, Patricia Barthaud

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Uncovering Examples of Humanizing Praxis and Pathological Violence in Special Education: District, Parent, and Researcher Perspectives, Andy W. Chung

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Exploring the Experiences of Teachers in a Bilingual Immersion Environment, Paloma Cordova

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A Convergence of Conceptual Frameworks: Neurocognitive, Metacognitive and Social Cultural Techniques in Vocabulary Teaching and Learning, Malihe Eshghavi

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Moving from "Me" to "We" to "All of Us": A Community-Engaged Learning Case Study, Monika Lynne Hudson Bowens

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Sowing the Seeds of Love: Dialogic and Collaborative Literacies For Social Change, Liz Murray

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Decolonizing Education: Using Mother Tongue and English Side by Side in Nigeria, Omobola Wusu

Dissertations from 2019

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Promoting Tolerance Through Learning about Human Evolution and Creation Myths, Afsoon Alishahi

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Reconciling Hyphenated Identities: Muslim American Youth Reflect on College Life in the Midst of Islamophobia, Diba Ataie

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Critical Efforts Against White Supremacy: Reflections of White Women on Anti-Racism Work Within Four-Year Colleges, Jennifer Bosco

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Borderlands of Teenage Mothering: Life Stories of Latinx Teen Mothers from a Critical Feminist Perspective, Ashley Burciaga

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A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH STUDY ON UNACCOMPANIED MINORS FROM LATIN AMERICA, Lorena Caldera

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NAVIGATING THE RACIALIZED NEOLIBERAL GAZE: ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION PROFESSIONALS IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION, Ariana DasGupta

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The Role of Environment on Second Language Pragmatic Comprehension: A Case Study of Intensive English Program Students in Homestays, Sarah McGregor

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Remaking Friendship in Unlikely Places: Queer-Decolonial Educators and Connections Across Experience, Politics, and Pedagogy, Maureen Nicole Osborne

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Community Leader-Scholars With Refugee Experiences: Collective Hope, Healing, and Multi-Generational Resistance, Jane Pak

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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

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African American Female Law Enforcement Officers' Lived Experiences and Mentoring: A Thematic Narrative, Harold Wilson

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Saffronizing California’s History Curriculum: Long Distance Hindu Nationalism In The United States, Pei-hsuan Wu

Dissertations from 2018

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Exploring Factors Influencing the Willingness to Communicate among English-as-a-Second Language University Students, Chi-Fang (Michelle) Chang

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The Impact of Ancestral Language Maintenance on Cultural Identity Among White Immigrant Descendants: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, Micaella Elizabeth Colla

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Developing Intercultural Competence Through Online English Language Teaching, Didem Ekici

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And At Once My Chains Were Loosed: How the Black Panther Party Freed Me from My Colonized Mind, Linda Garrett

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Investigating the Causes and Cures for Unclear Scholarly Writing, Marlene Ingrid Mahony

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Critical Peace Pedagogies at the American Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights: A Comparative Case Study, Ion Vlad

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Peace Education in Kenya: Tracing Discourse and Action from the National to the Local Level, Kathleen louise Zanoni

Dissertations from 2017

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Exploring the Experiences of Black Men as Respondents in University Student Conduct Processes, Brian Arao

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Queens Speak - A Youth Participatory Action Research Project: Exploring Critical Post-Traumatic Growth among Black Girls within the School to Prison Pipeline, Stacey Michelle Ault

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Testimonios of Latino/A Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions: Lessons for Community Colleges, Luz Briceno Moreno

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Exploring the Racial and Gender Identity Formation of Men of Color in Student Leader Roles who have white Women Supervisors and Advisors in Higher Education, Alejandro Frank Covarrubias

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There is a Monster in my House, Cultura Cura Uncovering 11 Milliones de Sueños: Understanding the Emotional and Psychological Experiences of Undocumented and Mixed-Status Youth and Finding Healing Spaces, Belinda Marie Hernandez-Arriaga

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Teaching the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and its Legacy through Critical Pedagogy in a Taiwanese High School, Ming-Kuo Hung

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Culture Teaching and Learning in an Advanced Placement Chinese Course, Yu-Han Lin

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Exploring Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Listening Strategy Instruction in A Chinese L2 Classroom, Yue Li

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More Than a Silhouette: African American Women’s Graduate Student Experience, Bridget Holly Love

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Community Members' Perspectives on the Thurgood Marshall Academic High School Riot: A Case Study of the Effects of Embedded Law Enforcement in High School, Kim-Shree Maufas

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Papelitos: The Visual Testimonios of Undocumented College Students, Olivia Munoz

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Folklórico Testimonios: Identity, Community, and Agency as Social Justice Cultural Performance for Dancers of Mexican Folklórico, Manuel Alejandro Perez

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Understanding Translanguaging and Identity among Korean Bilingual Adults, Nancy Ryoo

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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities, Rowena Magdalena Tomaneng

Dissertations from 2016

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A Moving Imagination in Spaces of Distress: Teacher and Student Agency in a Science Classroom, Annie Sunshine Adamian

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Arabic Teachers' Perception of an Integrated Approach for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language in Colleges and Universities in the United States, Abeer Al-Mohsen

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Nuancing Human Rights Discourse and Practice: Perspectives from Myanmar, Amy Marie Argenal

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The Adjustment of First Year African American Women to Predominately White Institutions: Implications for Best Practices, Maisha Beasley

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Effects of the Green Life Nature Education Program for 4th Grade Students Who Attend Bay Area Title One Schools: a Mixed-methods Study, Jessica Blundell

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“Leadership Means Moving A Community Forward”: Asian American Community College Students And Critical Leadership Praxis, Melissa Ann Loredo Canlas

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Counter-Narratives of Palestinian-American Youth: Resistance, Resilience and Transnational Identity, Kelly Delaney

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Exploring the Emergence of Global Citizen Identity in Youth, Deborah Ann Farrington Padilla

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Building Communicative Competence: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Intensive Japanese-Language Program, Yukiko Konishi

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The Life Experiences of Ten Female Refugees from Iraq and Iran: An Oral History Research Study, Nicole Ludwig

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Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action in the Era of Colorblind Racism, Garrett Naiman

Dissertations from 2015

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Complexity of Women's Liberation in the Era of Westernization: Egyptian Islamic and Secular Feminists in Their Own Context, Assim Alkhawaja

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Documenting the Experiences of Gay Latinos in Higher Education through the use of Testimonio, Lorenzo Fabian Garcia

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Comprehensive Self-Selected Reading and Student Engagement With the Novel: A Program Evaluation, Jennesis Kathleen Jensen

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Latina Immigrant Mothers' Counterstories of Education: Challenging Deficit Myths, Nancy Aileen McNee

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Investigating English Teachers' Perceptions of Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Hazem Ahmed Osman

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Critical Reflections: Interviews with Parents Regarding Truancy, Kimberly Evon Smith

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Exploring Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies of Non-Native English-Speaking Translation Students, Shayesteh Zarrabi

Dissertations from 2014

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Exploring the Educational Paths of Mexicanas: Testimonios of Academic Success, Luz Navarrette Garcia

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The Effects of Explicit Listening Strategy Instruction on the Listening Comprehension of English as Second Language (ESL) Community College Students, Yi Guan

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Participatory Perspectives: A Photovoice Narrative Study of Zambian Vulnerable Youth, Lori K. Imasiku

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Artist as Citizen: Transnational Cultural Work in the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines, Ryan Anthony Leano

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Growing up with HIV in Kisumu, Kenya: Participatory Action Research with Young People Living with HIV, Zoe Alexis Hobbs Marinkovich

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"My Gut Has To Feel It": A Participatory Action Research Study of Community College Educators Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Human Rights Education, Lindsay Padilla

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Exploring the Experiences of Latina/os in Graduate Health Science Programs: A Qualitative Study, Mijiza Malane Sanchez

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The Approach, Methods and Impact of a Non-Governmental Organization in Education of Child Workers in India: A Case Study, Rajul Shah

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Impact of College Counseling within Private high schools on First-generation College-bound Students' Enrollment in Four-year Colleges: A Case Study, Ana Maria Soler

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Bay Area Student Involvement in the Environmental and Food Justice Movements: A Narrative of Motivations, Experiences, and Community Impact, Laura E. Solof