Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
2022
Iris Cardena: Dissertation Title: Formal Help-Seeking among Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: Identifying Survivors’ Characteristics and Variations between Latinas and Non-Latinas Dissertation Chair: N. Andrew Peterson
2021
Laurent Reyes: Dissertation Title: A phenomenological study exploring experiences of civic participation among older African Americans and Latinx immigrants using an intersectional life-course perspective Dissertation Chair: Emily Greenfield
2020
Evalyne Kerubo Orwenyo: Dissertation Title: Participation, Social Isolation, Biculturalism, and Empowerment: A Virtual Ethnography of Kenyan Diaspora Women Living in North America
Dissertation Chair: N. Andrew Peterson
2019
2018
2017
James Fedor: Dissertation Title: "A Victim is a Victim": Barriers to Culturally Competent Service Delivery to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender Crime Victims
Dissertation Chair: Michael LaSala
Denalee O’Malley: Dissertation Title: Examining the Impact of Diabetic Status on Multiple Outcomes Among Cancer Survivors
Dissertation Chair: Patricia A. Findley
Samantha Winter: Dissertation Title: Identifying Factors Associated With Women’s Sanitation Practices in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Mathare Valley in Nairobi, Kenya
Dissertation Chair: N. Andrew Peterson
2016
Fiona Conway: Dissertation Title: Aggressive Behavior and Alcohol Use: Classification of College Athletes
Dissertation Chair: Darcy Clay Siebert
Gretchen L. Hoge: Dissertation Title: Understanding and Measuring Economic Self-Sufficiency in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence and Immigration: A Mixed-Method Study
Dissertation Chair: Judy L. Postmus
Alexis Jemal: Dissertation Title: Transformative Consciousness of African American Racial Oppression and White Racial Privilege: Conceptualization, Scale Development and Testing
Dissertation Chair: N. Andrew Peterson
Shuang Lu: Dissertation Title: Well-Being of Migrant and Left-Behind Children in China
Dissertation Chair: Chien-Chung Huang
Sheila McMahon: Dissertation Title: Examining Relationships Among Student Empowerment, Sense of Community, and the Implicit Curriculum: A Multigroup Analysis of Race and Ethnicity
Dissertation Chair: N. Andrew Peterson
Alexandra Redcay: Dissertation Title: The Impact of Attraction and Identity Fluidity on Depressive Symptoms in Young Adults: Exploring Gender as a Moderator
Dissertation Chair: N. Andrew Peterson
Amanda Mathisen Stylianou: Dissertation Title: The Impact of Economic Abuse on Depressive Symptoms Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Dissertation Chair: Judy L. Postmus