Dissertations from 2024
Dissertations from 2023
STUDENTS AS CO-RESEARCHERS: USING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH TO ADDRESS COLLEGE FOOD INSECURITY, Rachel Brand
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
WHITE WOMANHOOD: FINDING OPPOSITIONAL EPISTEMOLOGIES AND COMMUNITY AT THE INTERSECTION OF WHITENESS AND WOMANHOOD, Hannah Joy Fischer
Understanding Filipino Wellness: Investigating the Effects of Colonial Mentality and Enculturation, Juliene Grace P. Fresnedi
A Qualitative Study of Ableism on the Postsecondary Campus, George Stuart Fuller
Parent-Child Conversations about Body Safety and Consent, Natasha Gerber
The Mental Health of First-Generation College Students of Color, Devin Hallquist
Identity Formation and Role Expansion for Nurse Practitioner Residency Preceptors: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis, Angel Chen Kuo
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Ethnic-Racial Minority Former Foster Youth Who Identify as Queer, Cristian A. Lemus
Mental Health and Experiences of Pregnancy Among Black Women and Birthing People with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), Madeleine E. Marcus
The Association between Psychotic Symptoms and Romantic Relationship Quality among Young Adult Ethnic Minorites, Tashagaye T. McKenzie
A Case Study of a School-Supported Extracurricular Activity's Influence on STEM Identity and Interest for Females, Letta Meyer
African American Women Make Meaning of Historical Trauma, Deidre A. MILLER
THE GRINDR COMPLEX: THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IMPACT OF SEXUAL RACISM ON LATINX MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN, Luisalfredo Plascencia
Working with Other Immigrants Brings the Parts That I Lost Back To Me: The Experiences of Latin American Immigrant Therapists Working with Latin American Immigrant Populations, Elizabeth P. Rivera
DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH HE/A/R/TOGRAPHY: CORAZONAR, SENTIPENSAR Y SENTISABER, Patricia Rojas-Zambrano
The Effects of Acculturation, Marianismo, and Religiosity on Pregnancy Related Anxiety in Latina Women, Jennifer M. Zanoli
Dissertations from 2022
RECLAIMING OUR HUMANITY: REDEMPTION, REIMAGINING, AND RESTORYING OF THE FOUNDATIONS FOR SUCCESS OF FORMERLY INCARCERATED AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES, Robert Mossi Alexander III
Fifty Years of Underrepresented Student Advocacy at One Jesuit Secondary School, Sonya Cotero Arriola
Voces of Little Michoacan: A Collective Narrative of Resistance and Preservation of Home, Ana Angel Avendaño
The Use of Simulation with the School of Nursing and Health Professions (SONHP) Prelicensure Students to Support Affirming Practice with Transgender Communities, Genevieve Charbonneau
The Association between Physical Pain, Depression, Anxiety, and Nervios among Latinx Agricultural Workers, Iveth Cuellar Celallos
Incorporating Andragogy and Cognitive Theory Of Multimedia Learning Into Self-Paced Training and Development Programs, Shanshan Gao
"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
TOWARDS CHARISM IDENTITY: A CATHOLIC IDENTITY CASE STUDY THROUGH THE LENS OF LAUDATO SI’, Kristofer Ross Koller
Teaching Solidarity: Popular Education in Grassroots U.S. Social Movements, Tenaya Summers Lafore
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
Genocide in East Turkestan: Exploring the Perspectives of Uyghurs in the Diaspora and their Resistance to Chinese State Violence, Lina Semyonovna Lenberg
EFFORTS TO CREATE A TRAUMA-INFORMED CLASSROOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION: INSIGHTS FROM MEMBERS OF A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRAUMA-INFORMED TEACHING GROUP, Danyelle Marshall
Women in Senior Leadership Roles Career Mobility, Challenges, Success Stories and Need for Future Research, Giselle Flores Martin
Impact of COVID-19 on New Teacher Retention and Perceived Supports in a Northern California Public School District, Rebecka Maxkenzie
African American Female Identified Therapists' Experiences Working Culturally Similar and Dissimilar Populations, Kimiko J. May
EXPLORING LATINX PARENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION: DEVELOPING A COMMUNITY-BASED WORKSHOP TO EMPOWER LATINX PARENTS OF CHILDREN IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, Gabriela Alejandra Perez
BLACK MOTHERING IN THE BAY AREA WHILE UNSEEN AND UNHEARD: NAVIGATING BLACK MOTHERING IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC & SOCIAL UNREST, Kassie Michelle Phillips
Feminist Catholic Organizational Identity: A Phenomenological Study of Charism in the Lay Educator of a Notre Dame de Namur Learning Community, Kathleen Barrera Quiazon
Effects of Teaching Argument to First-Year Community-College Students Using a Structural and Dialectical Approach, Sharon Radcliff
¿TÚ QUÉ SABES?: LATINA DOCTORAL WOMEN DISRUPTING AND RESISTING DOMINANT KNOWLEDGE, Sendy Ramos Madsen
Cuentos Criollos: Colombian Internally Displaced Families as Knowledge Producers, Liliana Salazar de Deck
An Exploration of Higher Educational Experiences For Mixed Blood American Indian Males in the Santa Clara Valley, Edward Salcedo
The Collegiate Black Space: Black College Students’ Use of New Counter-Spaces for Support, Knowledge Production, and Organizing for Activism, Heather Marian Streets
The Impact of #MeToo on Reasons for Sexual Assault Disclosure, Cheryl H. Tien
Developing Queer Faith: Exploring Experiences of Cognitive Dissonance and Identity Integration For LGBQ Catholics Individuals, Kendal M. Vaarwerk
Using Peer Review to Improve English as a Second Language College Students' Writing Scores, Mengjie Wei
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
Effects of the Concept-Mapping Method on International Students' Academic Performance and Perceptions, Yinghung Natalie Chiang
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
The Significance of Jesuit Educational Institution in the Reconstruction of Postcolonial and Post-Conflict East Timor, Plinio do Rosario Gusmao dosReis Martins
Effects of Static and Dynamic Visuals on the Learning of Science Concepts in the Secondary-School Classroom, Theodore Johnson
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.
Women Who Lead: A Feminist Phenomenology of Crisis Leadership in Higher Education, Ingrid Helene McVanner
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
The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm as a Critical Theoretical Framework to Enhance Teachers' Professional Identity in Diverse Context, Lourdu Sunder Reddy Mummadi
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
Incorporating Critical Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Education Programs: How Critical Scholars of Color Navigate Pressures in Higher Education, Khanh H. Nguyen
A Critical Feminist Case Study of the Northern California Cherry Blossom Queen Program, Alison Kepola Nishiyama-Young
Sex or Sexual Assault? Critical Media Literacy as a Tool for Consent Education, Riana S. Pella
Higher Education Discourses of India’s National Education Policy 2020: Analysis and Teacher Counterspaces in Jesuit Institutions, Vincent Pereppadan Poulose
Effect of Transcendental Meditation on the Social Emotional Well-being of Bilingual Teacher Leaders, Margaret Peterson
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
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
Pilipinx Radical Imagination: Healing and Visioning in our Process of Becoming, Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana
Interests Served and Interests Converged: A Mixed-Methods Critical Policy Analysis of the California Math Placement Act, Chalesea Schuler
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
Equity in language programs: Revitalizing indigenous languages in secondary school in Anchorage, Alaska, Betsy Watson (Paskvan)
The Ignatian Leadership Model for Catholic Schools: Critical Spirituality Theory on Leadership Practices, Leonardus Evert Bambang Winandoko
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in a Chinese Immersion School, Pui Hung Helen Wong
Voices of Chinese International Students: A critical understanding of their experiences in the United States, Shudao Zhang
Perceived Obstacles by ESL Instructors and Required Support for the Integration of Educational Technology, Xiaotian Zhang
