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Dissertations from 2024

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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN UNCERTAINTY, REPRODUCTIVE DISTRESS, AND AVOIDANCE IN ASSIGNED FEMALE AT BIRTH ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT (AYA-F) CANCER SURVIVORS, Devon Ann Pons

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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Parent-Child Conversations about Body Safety and Consent, Natasha Gerber

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Mental Health and Experiences of Pregnancy Among Black Women and Birthing People with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), Madeleine E. Marcus

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The Association between Psychotic Symptoms and Romantic Relationship Quality among Young Adult Ethnic Minorites, Tashagaye T. McKenzie

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African American Women Make Meaning of Historical Trauma, Deidre A. MILLER

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The Effects of Acculturation, Marianismo, and Religiosity on Pregnancy Related Anxiety in Latina Women, Jennifer M. Zanoli

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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Fifty Years of Underrepresented Student Advocacy at One Jesuit Secondary School, Sonya Cotero Arriola

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

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CLINICIANS' PERSPECTIVES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAUMA - FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN: A QUALITATIVE STUDY, Jada Carter

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The Use of Simulation with the School of Nursing and Health Professions (SONHP) Prelicensure Students to Support Affirming Practice with Transgender Communities, Genevieve Charbonneau

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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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The Association between Physical Pain, Depression, Anxiety, and Nervios among Latinx Agricultural Workers, Iveth Cuellar Celallos

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Incorporating Andragogy and Cognitive Theory Of Multimedia Learning Into Self-Paced Training and Development Programs, Shanshan Gao

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An Exploration of Learning-At-Home Experiences Among Families and Children of Color Labeled with Disabilities During COVID-19: A Narrative Inquiry, Nam Ju Han

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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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The Effects of Curriculum-Integrated Explicit Learning Strategy Instruction on Reading Comprehension for English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners at the Community College, Sylvia Chaiyeon Lee

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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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Mediating Language Fluency Development: An Action Research Study In A High-School AP Chinese Second-or-Foreign-Language Task-Based Language Teaching Classroom, Jing Liang

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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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Impact of COVID-19 on New Teacher Retention and Perceived Supports in a Northern California Public School District, Rebecka Maxkenzie

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African American Female Identified Therapists' Experiences Working Culturally Similar and Dissimilar Populations, Kimiko J. May

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EXPLORING LATINX PARENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION: DEVELOPING A COMMUNITY-BASED WORKSHOP TO EMPOWER LATINX PARENTS OF CHILDREN IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, Gabriela Alejandra Perez

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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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Feminist Catholic Organizational Identity: A Phenomenological Study of Charism in the Lay Educator of a Notre Dame de Namur Learning Community, Kathleen Barrera Quiazon

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Effects of Teaching Argument to First-Year Community-College Students Using a Structural and Dialectical Approach, Sharon Radcliff

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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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The Relationship Between Metacognitive Strategies and Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Intensive-Korean-Foreign-Language Setting, Gumok Seo

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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 Marian Streets

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The Impact of #MeToo on Reasons for Sexual Assault Disclosure, Cheryl H. Tien

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Developing Queer Faith: Exploring Experiences of Cognitive Dissonance and Identity Integration For LGBQ Catholics Individuals, Kendal M. Vaarwerk

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Using Peer Review to Improve English as a Second Language College Students' Writing Scores, Mengjie Wei

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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Exploring Student Engagement for Diverse Student Populations: A Case Study Examining Institutional Logics of Student Affairs Middle Management Leaders, Frangelo Rominque Ayran

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Employment Discrimination: An Efficacy Study of African American Inequities in the California Utility Sector, Victor Baker

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Mental Health Outcomes of Various Types of Fear Among University Students who have an Undocumented Legal Status During the Donald Trump Presidency, Liliana Campos

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Experiences of UC Santa Barbara female alumni exposed to a gender-based mass shooting, Erin G. Carpenter

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Effects of the Concept-Mapping Method on International Students' Academic Performance and Perceptions, Yinghung Natalie Chiang

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Majority to Minority Shift: Experiences for American Born Chinese College Students from Predominant Chinese American Communities to Predominantly White Institutions, Joseph C. Chung

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

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The Effectiveness of Using Multimedia for Teaching Phrasal Verbs in Community-College ESL Classes, Guohua Fu

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

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The Significance of Jesuit Educational Institution in the Reconstruction of Postcolonial and Post-Conflict East Timor, Plinio do Rosario Gusmao dosReis Martins

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Effects of Static and Dynamic Visuals on the Learning of Science Concepts in the Secondary-School Classroom, Theodore Johnson

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Impact of Moral Injury for Ethnic/Racial Minority Male Veterans, Kristopher Kern

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Dysconscious Racism and Racial Microaggressions in the Public School System, Ryan Lee

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Stigma and Social-Emotional Health in Youth with Learning Differences, Kelsey Maki

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Provider Perspectives: Working with the Male Lifer Reentry Population, Laura R. Marker Dr.

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Women Who Lead: A Feminist Phenomenology of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education, Ingrid Helene McVanner

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The Use of Mindfulness Meditation to Increase the Efficacy of Mirror Visual Feedback for Reducing Phantom Limb Pain in Amputees, Nicolas Sebastian Mills

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A Minority Within a Minority: Exploring Identity Development in Relation to Mental Health Outcomes Within the Black Deaf Community, Nekolas Milton

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Community Based Participatory Research Informed Manualization and Piloting of E-Training of a Modified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intervention, Annika M. Miyamoto

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Early Childhood Special Education Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Inclusion: A Qualitative Study on a School’s Transition From Segregated Classrooms to More Inclusion Classrooms, Shally Moua

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The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm as a Critical Theoretical Framework to Enhance Teachers' Professional Identity in Diverse Context, Lourdu Sunder Reddy Mummadi

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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

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Incorporating Critical Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Education Programs: How Critical Scholars of Color Navigate Pressures in Higher Education, Khanh H. Nguyen

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Understanding the African American Male Student Experience of Being Diagnosed with Emotional Disturbance Through the Use of Counter-Storytelling, Sara Ordaz

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Sex or Sexual Assault? Critical Media Literacy as a Tool for Consent Education, Riana S. Pella

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Higher Education Discourses of India’s National Education Policy 2020: Analysis and Teacher Counterspaces in Jesuit Institutions, Vincent Pereppadan Poulose

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Effect of Transcendental Meditation on the Social Emotional Well-being of Bilingual Teacher Leaders, Margaret Peterson

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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

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The Effectiveness Of A Transaffirmative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Group-Based Intervention To Help Transgender Individuals Suffering From Depression, Joy Riach

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Investigating the Self-Efficacy Awareness of Black Female Technology Leaders, Marie Roberts De La Parra

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Parental Involvement in Support of African American Families, September Rose

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

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Interests Served and Interests Converged: A Mixed-Methods Critical Policy Analysis of the California Math Placement Act, Chalesea Schuler

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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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Understanding the Healthcare Experiences of LGBTQ+ People: An Adaptation of the Daily Heterosexist Experiences Questionnaire, Conor Smith

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Indigenous Assessment Developers on Elements of the Disjuncture-Response Dialectic: A Critical Comparative Case Study, David A. Sul

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Indigenous assessment developers on elements of the disjuncture-response dialectic: A critical comparative case study, David A. Sul

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A Study of Students’ and Teachers’ Beliefs about Learning English as a Second Language in Hindi Medium Schools in India, Samir Toppo

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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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The Ignatian Leadership Model for Catholic Schools: Critical Spirituality Theory on Leadership Practices, Leonardus Evert Bambang Winandoko

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Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in a Chinese Immersion School, Pui Hung Helen Wong

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

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Perceived Obstacles by ESL Instructors and Required Support for the Integration of Educational Technology, Xiaotian 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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Choices: An Evaluation of a Program Aimed at Reducing Criminogenic Thinking Among Incarcerated Women, Alexa Carbajal

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Critical Followership: Faculty and Leader Relations Impact on Leadership Turnover at a California Community College, Erik William Christianson

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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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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

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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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A Reanalyses of Intercorrelational Matrices of Visual and Verbal Learners' Abilities, Cognitive Styles, and Learning Preferences, Jeanette Marie Fox

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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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Minority Stress, Social Support, and Mental Health Among LGBQP+ Religious Disaffiliates, Kate Jablonski

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Self-Efficacy in the Transition to Parenthood, Nicole Marsden

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Teachers' Perceptions of the Nine Defining Characteristics of Catholic Identity in Ursuline Secondary Schools of the USA, Barbara Ann Middendorf

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A Qualitative Evaluation of the Phoenix Project: A Strengths-based, Trauma-Informed Care Intervention for African American, Transitional Age, Young Adults Living in San Francisco’s Public Housing Community, Lena Miller

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

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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

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An Investigation of California Classroom Teachers' Beliefs and Ratings of Creativity in Dance, Patricia R. Reedy

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"Made of Queer Magic": Understanding the experiences of pregnancy for queer women, Lindsey Rogers