Theses/Dissertations from 2026
MYSTICAL REVELATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: RECLAIMING SPIRITUALITY IN THEOLOGY THROUGH THE MYSTICS, Elizabeth A. Merski (Summer 2026)
BECOMING A THERAPIST IN A FOREIGN LAND: NARRATIVES OF INTERNATIONAL TRAINEE CLINICIANS OF COLOR IN THE U.S., Prathma Sharma (Fall 2026)
Bridging the Gap: Documenting the Effectiveness of Counseling Education in a Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Program, Gianna Baker (Summer 2026)
The Person as Foundation of Responsibility: The Insufficiency of Rights-Based Human Development Approaches, Jaclyn Berg (Summer 2026)
DEVELOPMENT OF MINIMALIST TRIFUNCTIONAL BUILDING BLOCKS FOR CHEMICAL BIOLOGY PROBE SYNTHESIS, Luke E. Bohrer (Summer 2026)
THE DECLINE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT: EVIDENCE FROM THE GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY, 2004-2024, Lola Dragosavac (Summer 2026)
DIALOGIC COMMUNICATION ETHICS AS A HOPEFUL RESPONSE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Kristen Haldeman (Summer 2026)
IMPACT OF TAPED PROBLEMS INTERVENTION MODIFICATION ON CHILDREN WITH DEAFNESS, Clyniece Hodge (Summer 2026)
Integrating Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions In Inclusive Classrooms to Support Autistic Students, Paige J. Johnson (Summer 2026)
"Help Me Live It The Way You Do": Grounding Singaporean Responses to the Rorschach Situation, Casey Y. Lee (Summer 2026)
A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of a 10-Week Wellness Program for Resident Assistants, Emily L. Lee-Chong (Summer 2026)
Race and Trauma: An Analysis of Trauma Symptomology Across Diverse Youth Populations, Mara J. Niccoli (Summer 2026)
A Philosophy of Communication Response to Bullying in Corporate America, Chris A. Phillips Dr. (Summer 2026)
BETWEEN CARE AND DESPAIR: AN EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF ECO-ANXIETY AS LIVED EXPERIENCE, Conor H. Sukhdeo (Summer 2026)
The Narrative in the Algorithm: Storytelling, World Literature, and the Smartphone, Chad Szalkowski-Ference (Summer 2026)
An Exploration of the Psychological Impacts of Code-Switching, Cristina Culler (Summer 2026)
AN EXAMINATION OF SCHOOL SUBSTANCE USE-RELATED POLICIES IN HIGH-RISK UNITED STATES COUNTIES, Alexandra B. Leopold (Summer 2026)
PREDICTORS OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ STRENGTH-BASED TEACHING PRACTICES WITH ELs (ENGLISH LEARNERS), Stephany M. Panza (Fall 2026)
ENHANCING K-2 TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN READING INSTRUCTION: AN IMPROVEMENT INQUIRY INTO THE ROLES OF SELF-EFFICACY, GROWTH MINDSET, AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES, Kellie F. Dawson (Spring 2026)
BEYOND COUGH DROPS AND BAND-AIDS: AN INTERPRETIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF CERTIFIED SCHOOL NURSES’ PROFESSIONAL SCOPE AND ENACTED ROLES IN PK–12 SETTINGS, Brandy Gershon (Spring 2026)
YOUTH WORKER PERSPECTIVES ON THE MEASURES MOST DESCRIPTIVE OF STUDENT PROGRESS IN PHILADELPHIA-BASED OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME PROGRAMS, Jamillia Kamara Covington (Spring 2026)
"IT WAS TIME TO GO": A CASE STUDY IN OCCUPATIONAL CULTURE, Tiffany M. Kline Costa (Spring 2026)
Technology in Waldorf Education: Benefits, Challenges, and the Teacher's Role, Jennifer C. Larson (Spring 2026)
FACTORS AND ATTRIBUTES CONTRIBUTING TO THE LONGEVITY OF SPECIAL EDUCATORS: OVER 15 YEARS OF COMMITMENT, Susan Majestic-Frabell (Spring 2026)
Becoming a "Still Point of Grace": Identifying Obstacles Faced by Catholic Elementary School Teachers in Meeting the Needs of Students With Generalized Anxiety in the Classroom, Kerry Smigielski (Spring 2026)
SUBURBAN BLACK GIRL: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF BLACK GIRLS AND THE IMPACT OF SAFE SPACES WITHIN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS, Kennedi A. Stevenson (Spring 2026)
MORE THAN A ROD: RECONCEPTUALIZING MEDICAL STUDENT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF LEARNING, Dejour Young (Spring 2026)
Examining the Effectiveness Functional Communication Training Implemented in A Person-Centered Compassionate Care Framework, Duaa Alzahrani (Spring 2026)
Speak It Into Existence: Mind Body and Soul in the African American Prophetic Tradition, William Burgess (Spring 2026)
THE ILLOCUTIONARY CONSTITUTION OF SECOND NATURE: AN INTERPRETIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, Roland William Carspecken (Spring 2026)
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PULPIT AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NARRATIVE GROUND IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY, Nathaniel Cox (Spring 2026)
“The Right of Black Folk to Love and Enjoy”: Black Romanticism, Pleasure, and Poetics, 1900-1920, John D. Hadlock (Spring 2026)
NAVIGATING BARRIERS: THE CAREER CHALLENGES OF CHINESE NON-STEM GRADUATES IN THE U.S. JOB MARKET, Dilin Li (Spring 2026)
ST. JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN’S MARIOLOGY: A DISTINCTIVELY PATRISTIC AND ENGLISH UNDERSTANDING OF MARIAN DOCTRINE AND DEVOTION, Erin Meikle (Spring 2026)
Values-Based Clinical Ethics: A New Model of Health and Ethics Consultation for Patients Suffering in Extremis, Adam Trainer (Spring 2026)
Developing an Effective Integrated Marketing Communication Game Plan for Today’s Consumers: Examining Marketing Methods That Work and How to Make the Proper Strategy Adjustments to Remain Relevant in the Future, Michele M. Wisnesck (Spring 2026)
THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE OF PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTIONS TO PROTECT THE REPRODUCTIVE AUTONOMY OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, Kennethea Wilson (Spring 2026)
Phenomenological Philosophy of Psychedelics: Psychedelic Experience in the Modes of Saturation and Flesh, Michael V. Kramer (Spring 2026)
RETREAT, RENEW, REFLECT: EXPLORING DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR FAITH-BASED RETREAT CENTERS, Rebecca A. Mickler (Spring 2026)
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS: DOES PERCEIVED COUNSELOR CULTURAL HUMILITY IMPROVE CLIENT SATISFACTION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES WITHIN THERAPEUTIC DYADS OF DISSIMILAR IDENTITIES?, Noah Schoch (Fall 2025)
EFFECTIVENESS OF PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ON FUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATION FOR SAUDI CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD), Mohammed Albahrani (Fall 2025)
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO MODELING TO ENHANCE CULTURALLY SPECIFIC SOCIAL GREETING SKILLS IN PRESCHOOLERS WITH ASD IN SAUDI ARABIA, Sarah Alzahrani (Fall 2025)
Limiting a Liberal Education: Exploring Technology Access and Equity through Universal Design and Critical Disability Studies, Marisa R. Carlson (Fall 2025)
THE MARATHON: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF BLACK MALE EDUCATORS, Lloyd M. Cheatom Sr (Fall 2025)
Mind The Gap: Intergenerational Perspectives on Mental Illness within Ghanaian American Communities, Ama Danso-Ayesu (Winter 2025)
THE MAKING OF JEWISH-AMERICAN PROGRESS IN GERTRUDE STEIN’S, THE MAKING OF AMERICANS: BEING A HISTORY OF A FAMILY’S PROGRESS, ROCHEL L. GASSON (Winter 2025)
An Examination of the Types of Support Beginning Teachers in Public K-12 Schools Identify as Most Effective for Overcoming the Challenges They Encounter, Matthew S. Heckmann (Winter 2025)
Likes for Love: Examining The Relationship of Sociocultural Factors on Social Media Influences of Instagram Use for Young Black Women, Cheria S. Jackson (Fall 2025)
COUNSELOR PERSPECTIVES ON SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA AS MEDICAL CANNABIS LAWS EVOLVE, Renee L. Ludwig (Fall 2025)
(UN)INTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF RACE IN MEDICINE: THE ETHICS OF RACE-BASED MEDICAL PRACTICE AND THE PERPETUATION OF STRUCTURAL RACISM, Allegra Merriweather (Winter 2025)
AN ANCIENT AND FUTURE MODEL OF ECCLESIAL MINISTRY: EXPLORING INSIGHTS FROM AFRICAN ECCLESIOLOGY FOR A REVITALIZED UNDERSTANDING OF THE CATECHIST IN THE AMECEA REGION, Fortunatus Mugisha (Fall 2025)
Discovery of the Multi-Ion Bridge Intermediate: A Computational Exploration of the Mechanism for Azomethine Ylide Formation from N-Oxides, Martin J. Neal (Fall 2025)
Charter School Counselor's Perceived Barriers to Implementing a Recognized ASCA Model Program, Nadene P. Pomerico (Fall 2025)
FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND ADOLESCENT OUTCOMES IN WILDERNESS THERAPY: A QUANITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHANGE AND PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS, Elizabeth Santone (Fall 2025)
NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS THROUGH THE LENS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SELF-EFFICACY, Robert M. Spisak Jr (Winter 2025)
CHILD CARE FOR STUDENT PARENTS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF POLICY AND POLITICS IN NYS, Elizabeth M. Starks (Fall 2025)
The Experience of African American Male Counselor Educators Navigating Racial Battle Fatigue, Quincy J. Stephenson (Fall 2025)
Hoarding and the Hoarded Home: A Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Study, Brianna Stich (Winter 2025)
EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF READ NATURALLY LIVE TO SUPPORT READING FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT IN DIVERSE LEARNERS, JoVonne Tabb (Fall 2025)
Not Always Welcomed, LaVaughn Wesley (Fall 2025)
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL: A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF PATERNAL INCARCERATION ON AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN, Chance M. Wideman (Fall 2025)
AN INVESTIGATION OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE SAFE PASSAGE INITIATIVE (AN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROGRAM), Danielle King (Summer 2025)
Chew On It: A Pilot Study of A Multimodal Assessment of Mastication Protocol, Michelle Catão (Summer 2025)
EXPLORING THE SELF-EFFICACY AND EXPERIENCES OF CAREGIVERS USING THICKENED LIQUIDS TO MANAGE PEDIATRIC DYSPHAGIA, Jaimee E. Conmy (Summer 2025)
Collecting the Strands: a psychoanalytic study of hair-pulling in women, Jacklyn Corsitto (Summer 2025)
Illness Terminable and Interminable: A Lacanian Exploration of Medical Assistance in Dying, Matthew Devine (Summer 2025)
The Protective Role of Resilience in Indirect Aggression Perpetration and Victimization, Amelia Klass (Summer 2025)
CENTERING THE MEDICAL STUDENT PERSPECTIVE IN A MIXED-METHODS EVALUATION OF THE HOLISTIC ADMISSIONS PROCESS AT A MISSION-DRIVEN INSTITUTION, Brenda L. Liszka (Summer 2025)
IDENTIFYING THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS ON RACIAL DISPARITIES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERIDENTIFYING THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS ON RACIAL DISPARITIES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Anna Marie Paolicelli (Summer 2025)
Healthy and Successful Aging Outside the Closet: How Outness and Social Support Relate to Health and Aging Concerns, Jessica Segal (Summer 2025)
An Implementation Study of Phonological Awareness Assessment Tasks for Literacy Development in d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, Sara Tuddenham (Summer 2025)
The Influence of Visualization Type and Gender on Multimedia Learning Performance: An Experimental Study, Ziji Wang (Summer 2025)
EFFECTS OF A SPEECH-TO-TEXT ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY WRITING ACCOMMODATION FOR STUDENTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, Kirstin Franklin (Summer 2025)
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH THE SISTERS LIFTING AS WE CLIMB NETWORK: EXAMINING THE ORGANIZATION’S IMPACT ON BLACK WOMEN, Sharnay Hearn Davis (Summer 2025)
Rhetoric of Soft Power and Public Diplomacy A Case Study of Saudi Arabia, Sihmy Algamedi (Spring 2025)
A COUNSELOR’S EXPERIENCE: TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE WHEN WORKING WITH CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Abbigail Rinard (Spring 2025)
CHANGING THE FACE OF POWER: UNDERSTANDING BLACK FEMALE CLINICAL SUPERVISORS THROUGH THE SUPERWOMAN SCHEMA, Shanelle V. Clay (Spring 2025)
DOCTORAL SUPERVISORS PERCEIVED COUNSELING SELF-EFFICACY AFTER BEING TRAINED ON USING SUPERVISION FOR VICARIOUS GRIEF THROUGH THE DISCRIMINATION MODEL, Sara Keegan (Spring 2025)
FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTION SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, PA, Gianna L. Kolencik (Spring 2025)
AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF MY EXPERIENCE NAVIGATING THE UNITED STATES EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AS AN IMMIGRANT: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES AND CULTURAL ASYNCHRONIZATION, Anuti Ngangana (Spring 2025)
English Language Teachers’ use of Technology in Libya: A Qualitative Study Using the SAMR Model, Tasnem Alarbi (Spring 2025)
Impact of Unconventional Gas Extraction on Tributaries of Tenmile Creek, Greene County, Pennsylvania: A 12-Year Perspective, Christian L. Beall (Spring 2025)
A Raced Theology of the Human Person: An Expanded Theological Anthropology, Cary W. Dabney (Spring 2025)
Entropy and Incarnation in the Duchamp Room: An Inquiry Into Aesthetic Time, Jesse Goodman (Spring 2025)
Communicative Harmonics: A Synchronization of Minds, Manners, and Emotions as a Phenomenological Approach to Resonant Leadership, Victor J. Grigsby (Spring 2025)
The Contribution of Catholic Compromise Principles in Global Health, Scott N. Helstad (Spring 2025)
God Who Crafts: An Appalachian Theology of Making and Community, Gwendolen Jackson (Spring 2025)
HOSPITAL ORGANIZATIONS’ OBLIGATION TO PROMOTE SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING AMONG NURSES: DEVELOPMENT OF A NORMATIVE ETHICAL ARGUMENT, Michael Jordan (Spring 2025)
Kenneth Burke's Epideictic Rhetoric of Science, Andri Kosasih (Spring 2025)
ANALYZING DECOLONIAL SUBJECTIVITIES IN REGGAETON AND LATIN-TRAP MUSIC IN PUERTO RICO: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYISIS, Andres I. Rivera Amador (Summer 2025)
Alterations And Improvements Of The Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry Method, Nicholas J. Taylor (Spring 2025)
The Ethical Imperative of the Renewal of Virtue within the Moral Community of Catholic Healthcare, Amanda Altobell (Spring 2025)
USE OF MINDFULNESS TO PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS COMPETENCIES OF MASTER’S LEVEL COUNSELING STUDENTS., LUISA NAYHOUSE (Spring 2025)
A STUDY OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING PROVISION TO KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS IN A RURAL SCHOOL THROUGH THE LENS OF WHOLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Shirley Spiegel (Spring 2025)
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
“BUT THE TRAUMA DID NOT FADE AWAY” CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE, ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY, AND RURALITY, cynthia H. mcniss (Winter 2024)
APPLICATION OF PEER-MEDIATED INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTION (PMII) TO ENHANCE SOCIAL INTERACTION SKILLS IN EARLY ELEMENTARY-LEVEL SAUDI STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) IN AN INCLUSION SETTING, Inam Alghamdi (Fall 2024)
EFFECTS OF A REPEATED READING INTERVENTION ON IMPROVING ARABIC READING COMPREHENSION AND FLUENCY IN FEMALE FIFTH GRADERS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SAUDI ARABIA, Jawaher Aljuwayhir (Fall 2024)
SAUDI AND AMERICAN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND ANXIETY IN ONLINE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN THE UNITED STATES, Nawal Alqarni (Fall 2024)
FACTORS AFFECTING INVOLVEMENT OF PARENTS OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SAUDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, Mohammed Alyahya (Fall 2024)
TEACHING VIDEO GAME AS A LEISURE SKILL TO ARAB AMERICAN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER USING VIDEO MODELING IN A SCHOOL SETTING, lubna alzayyat (Fall 2024)