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Author:

Moore, Amy JoAnna

Title:

Latino/as with Disabilities: Do gender and race influence vocational rehabilitation?

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

hispanic
latino
latina
disability
gender
race
vocation
rehabilitation

File:

Download RC_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Brandon Hunt (Thesis: Keith Wilson), Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith B Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Freeman, Amy Louise

Title:

Money, Math and Engineering: The Relationships Between Community Economics, Math Preparation and the Graduation of Racially Underrepresented Engineers

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

prediction
recruitment
math programs
minority engineering program
STEM
poverty
race
retention
money
precollege
underrepresented
minority engineering
minority
math preparation
summer bridge
high school funding
MEP
diversity
graduation
engineering
multicultural
funding
high school
engineering shortage
Penn State

File:

Download Final_Document2.pdf

Committee Members:

William J Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Kenneth Carter Gray, Committee Member

Author:

Kundrat, Cara L.

Title:

Socio-demographic and Geographic Predictors of Health Care Receipt among Mothers and Infants in central Pennsylvania and North Carolina

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

geographic
socio-demographic
infant
mother
healthcare
health care
rural/non-metropolitan
race
SES

File:

Download Cara_Kundrat_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Clancy Blair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clancy Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark T Greenberg, Committee Member
Kathryn Bancroft Hynes, Committee Member
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Committee Member

Author:

Farrell, Chad R.

Title:

Urban Mosaics: Multiracial Diversity and Segregation in the American Metropolis

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

suburban
race
housing
segregation
neighborhoods
urban

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member
Susan Welch, Committee Member
Marylee Carmel Taylor, Committee Member
Mark Hill, Committee Member

Author:

Harris, Casey Taggart

Title:

A LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MACRO-LEVEL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RECENT IMMIGRATION AND WHITE, BLACK, AND HISPANIC VIOLENT CRIME, 1990-2000

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

immigration
violence
crime
arrests
race
ethnicity
time

File:

Download Full_Manuscript_3-30-11_-_tables_and_figures_inserted.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell J Steffensmeier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Darigg Collis

Title:

Reducing HIV and AIDS stigma among university students in South Africa

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

HIV and AIDS
stigma
race
South Africa

File:

Download Darigg_Brown_Final_FullDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rhonda Belue, Committee Member
Gary King, Committee Member
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Tamul, Daniel John

Title:

Immigration news frames: Constructions of immigration and the passage of SB 1070

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

immigration
race
framing
News
SB 1070

File:

Download Tamul_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Karl Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Karl Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Colleen Connolly Ahern, Committee Member
Matthew Mc Allister, Committee Member
Gretchen G Casper, Committee Member

Author:

Leveston, Danielle Michelle

Title:

"Wow! I Didn't Even Know Black Artists Existed!" Advocating for Black Students in the Visual Arts through Autoethnography

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

art education
qualitative research
autoethnography
art
visual art
African American students
Black students
intersectionality
gender
class
race

File:

Download FINAL_Masters_Thesis_Danielle_Leveston.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ash, Erin Michelle

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO GAME AVATAR RACE ON IN-GAME BEHAVIORS AND POST-PLAY AGGRESSION

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

video games
Proteus effect
aggression
race
avatar embodiment

File:

Download Ash_Thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pearson, Katherine E

Title:

Stereotyping Neighborhoods, not Individuals? Testing the Race-Based Neighborhood Stereotyping Hypothesis

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Neighborhood racial composition
stereotypes
residential preferences
race

File:

Download Pearson_Katherine_-_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Hardy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marylee Carmel Taylor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Auerbach, Karen J

Title:

Alcohol and Marijuana Use Across the Transition to Marriage: Group Differences and Psychosocial Factors

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

peer substance use
time spent with friends
race
gender
transition to marriage
substance use
substance use attitudes
young adulthood
multilevel modeling

File:

Download kjadiss.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Poniatowski, Kelly L.

Title:

NBC’S PORTRAYAL OF U.S. AND CANADIAN HOCKEY PLAYERS ON THE OLYMPIC STAGE: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER, RACE, AND NATIONALITY ISSUES IN THE COMMENTARY

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Olympics
race
nationality
sexual difference
hegemonic masculinity
hockey

File:

Download Microsoft_Word_-_Kelly_Poniatowski-Final_Thesis-_July_10_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Marie Hardin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Spicer Nichols, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Colleen Connolly Ahern, Committee Member
Michelle E Day, Committee Member

Author:

Shreffler, Karina M.

Title:

Race/Ethnicity, Fertility Intentions, and Well-Being: The Importance of Occupational Characteristics in American Women's Lives

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

occupational segregation
ethnicity
race
job characteristics
occupational characteristics
fertility
life satisfaction

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Shreffler.pdf

Committee Members:

David R Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Booth, Committee Member
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Committee Member
Robert Drago, Committee Member

Author:

Logue, Melissa A

Title:

Familial Paternalism in the Federal System: Do The Types of Family Arrangements Matter?

Graduate Program:

Crime, Law and Justice

Keywords:

sentencing
race
gender
familial paternalism

File:

Download Loguedissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Silver, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member
John Henry Kramer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Paul Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Stout, Michael Damian

Title:

Social Capital and Political Participation

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

voluntary association
social networks
social trust
political participation
social capital
race
socioeconomic status

File:

Download Final_Draft2.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Sal Oropesa, Committee Member
Constance A Flanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Torregano, Michelle Early

Title:

Clean Slate: Making Sense of Public Education in the "NEW" New Orleans

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

social equity
school reform
public education
race
Rebuilding and Transforming
privatization
politics
Bring New Orleans Back Education committee
charter schools
critical policy analysis
discourse
educational equity
greenfield
history of public education in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
interviewing
National Coalition for Quality Education in New Or
natural disaster
neoliberalism
teacher unions
United Teachers of New Orleans

File:

Download METDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Emilie Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Schwaller, Robert Clemens

Title:

Defining Difference in Early New Spain

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

race
colonial mexico
casta
early modern iberia
africans
mestizos
mulatos

File:

Download Schwaller_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Bennett Restall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Bennett Restall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kent Russell Lohse, Committee Member
Anthony Edward Kaye, Committee Member
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Member

Author:

Conn, Robert Edward

Title:

The Relationship Between Non-employment and Respondent Personal Charasterics, College Major, GPA and Work Experience Among 1992-1993 College Graduates

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

work experience
college major
GPA
non-employment
baccalaureate degree employment outcomes
race
gender
financial aid
age

File:

Download RobertEConnThesis1.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Gray, Committee Member
Elwood Lewis Shafer, Committee Member
William J Rothwell, Committee Member

Author:

Guldin, Rachel Elizabeth

Title:

LI’L FATTIES: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS IDENTITY PORTRAYALS OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE CHILDREN IN POPULAR CHILDREN’S FILMS

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

children
film
movie
overweight
obese
fat
child
race
gender
class

File:

Download Guldin.Rachel.MAThesis2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Jeanne Lynn Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanne Lynn Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Leland, Sara J

Title:

Nietzschean Transformation Against the Grain of Race-Related Problems

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Nietzsche
race
self-overcoming
whiteness
transformation
social philosophy

File:

Download Leland--PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member

Author:

Quaye, Stephen John

Title:

Pedagogy and Racialized Ways of Knowing: Students and Faculty Engage Racial Realities in Postsecondary Classrooms

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

classrooms
engagement
faculty
racism
race
pedagogy
higher education

File:

Download quaye_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Shaun R Harper, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa R Lattuca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert D Reason, Committee Member
Edward Paul Durrenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Docker, Robert Kenneth

Title:

Job satisfaction of experienced and novice music teachers in high-poverty urban public schools

Graduate Program:

Music Education

Keywords:

urban
music education
attrition
high-poverty
job satisfaction
social justice
race

File:

Download Docker_Dissertation_Music_Education_2012_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Carol Porter Thornton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Carol Porter Thornton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Dale Gardner, Committee Member
Kim Diane Cook, Committee Member
Marylee Carmel Taylor, Committee Member

Author:

James, Spencer Lyle

Title:

Happily Ever After? Variation in Trajectories of American Marital Quality

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

marital quality
divorce
race
cohabitation
happiness
communication
conflict
latent class growth analysis
latent growth curve

File:

Download ETD-Spencer_James.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Richard Amato, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie Elizabeth King, Committee Member
Alan Booth, Committee Member
David R Johnson, Committee Member
David Eggebeen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Costigan, Adele Marie

Title:

The Effects of Offender Characteristics on Injury During Robbery

Graduate Program:

Crime, Law and Justice

Keywords:

robbery
injury
offender characteristics
height
race
weapons
rational choice

File:

Download ACostigan_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julie Horney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Blackman, Horatio Walton

Title:

From Iq to the Sat and its Impact on African Americans: Promise for the Sat-optional movement

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

IQ
SAT
race
African-American
higher education
access
optional

File:

Download Masters_Thesis-HB.pdf

Committee Members:

Mindy L Kornhaber, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katerina Bodovski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Campbell, Angela Gale

Title:

Race/ethnicity, Timing Of Pregnancy Recognition And Women’s Risk Of Delivering A Low Birth Weight Infant

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

low birth weight
race
ethnicity
pregnancy
timing

File:

Download ACampbell_MA_thesis_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Lynn Frisco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bailey, Teresina Alexandra

Title:

The Smithsonian Institution's Heritage as Gristmill of Hegemonic Power on the National Landscape

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Historical and Cultural Geography
Museum Culture
Museums
Hegemony
Indigenous
identity
heritage
race
census
science
art

File:

Download Teresina_Bailey_-_Final_Masters_Thesis_in_Geography.pdf

Committee Members:

Deryck William Holdsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Walker Friedman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lakshman S Yapa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dicicco, Elaine Claire

Title:

The Boundary Conditions of Backlash for Black Women: When Black Women Escape Backlash for Agentic and Dominant Behavior in the Workplace

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

stereotypes
gender
race
workplace
intersectionality
backlash
agency
dominance
leadership

File:

Download Dicicco_Format_Review_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie A Shields, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Russell, Camisha Ann

Title:

The Assisted Reproduction of Race: Thinking Through Race as a Reproductive Technology

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

race
critical philosophy of race
assisted reproductive technologies
technology
bioethics

File:

Download THE_ASSISTED_REPRODUCTION_OF_RACE_-_May_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Cuya Gavilano, Lorena

Title:

Reading A Migrant Nation:the Aesthetics Of Internal Migration In 20th And 21st-century Peruvian Narratives

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Migration
Peru
aesthetics
race
narrative
film
20th-21st century

File:

Download Cuya_Thesis_submitd.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Andres Ochoa, Committee Member
Nicolas L Fernandez Medina, Committee Member
Sophia A Mcclennen, Special Member
Melissa Wright, Special Member
Amara Leah Solari, Special Member

Author:

Prather, Chris Thomas

Title:

race and place: investigating racial differences in the spatial patterning of mortality through social capital theory

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

social capital
race
spatial autocorrelation
spatial autoregression
inequality
mortality

File:

Download Prather_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Glenn A Firebaugh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Matthews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barrett Alan Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Iceland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Peterson, Lyn Rainelle

Title:

INCENTIVIZING POST-PICS INTEGRATION IN OVERWHELMING UNCERTAINTY

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

inducement
Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans
grant
integration
diversity
race
implementation
law

File:

Download FINAL_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mindy L Kornhaber, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bhargava, Sakshi

Title:

Longitudinal Changes in Parental Involvement in Adolescents’ Education and the Effects of Neighborhood Context on Parental Involvement

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

home involvement
school involvement
academic socialization
race
socioeconomic status
gender
neighborhood context

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Submission_SB041714.pdf

Committee Members:

Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kirker, Jessica Lynne

Title:

Drawing from Discourse: Autoethnographic Reflections of Race, Gender, and the Practice of Teaching Art

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

art education
race
gender
discourse
teacher discourse
autoethnography

File:

Download Kirker_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Booker Stephen Carpenter Ii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Jeanine M Staples, Special Member

Author:

Trainor, Sean

Title:

Groomed for Power: A Cultural Economy of the Male Body in Nineteenth-Century America

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Beard
Hair
Grooming
Manhood
Labor
Body
Gender
United States
early American republic
nineteenth century
race
nation

File:

Download Trainor_Groomed_for_Power_6_August_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy S Greenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony Edward Kaye, Committee Member
Joan Landes, Committee Member
Patricia Cline Cohen, Special Member

Author:

Baumgartner, Erin Marie

Title:

Does early childhood education climate matter? The relationship between state policy, school readiness, and enrollment in organized care

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

school readiness
early childhood
sociology
stratification
race
education policy
education

File:

Download Baumgartner_dissertation_school_readiness_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Lynn Frisco, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie Elizabeth King, Committee Member
Emily Kate Greenman, Committee Member
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member

Author:

Shorter, Jameliah Inga

Title:

Kantian Cosmopolitanism and the Racial Hierarchy

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

race
Kant
Cosmopolitanism
Anlagen
slavery

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Teresa Gines, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Special Member

Author:

Cain, Curtis

Title:

Swimming Upstream: The Case of Black Males in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Black males
career choice
diversity
digital inequality
ethnicity
race
IT workforce
theory development

File:

Download Cain.Thesis.Final.03.29.2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Suzanne Adair, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Kshiti (K D ) Joshi, Special Member

Author:

Massaro, Vanessa Anne

Title:

Drug Dealing as Livelihood Practice: Space, Social Relations, and Everyday Life in Urban Illegal Economies

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

geography
urban studies
feminist geography
illicit economies
race
war on drugs
Philadelphia
social reproduction

File:

Download UPLOADEDFINALVERSION_3-29-16.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Ariane R Cruz, Committee Member
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Member
Dr Sallie Marston, Special Member

Author:

Clemson, Christen E

Title:

A Comparison Study Of The Policies And Procedures between A Juvenile Justice Facility And A Public High School

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

high school
juvenile facility
race
policies
procedures
organizations
practice
and discipline

File:

Download Clemson_Dissertation_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria M Lewis, Committee Member
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
John Henry Kramer, Committee Member
Dr Anthony Normore, Special Member

Author:

Worthington, Stephen Staley

Title:

Gaps in the Armor: Predictors of Civil Rights Complaints in Pennsylvania's Elementary & Secondary Schools

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

civil rights
education
discrimination
Pennsylvania
Office for Civil Rights
public schools
Title VI
Title IX
Section 504
race
disability
charter schools
educational equity
binary logistic regression
special education funding
special education disputes
dispute resolution

File:

Download Worthington_Thesis_-_Gaps_in_the_Armor.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria M Lewis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wheeler, Sika Adzo

Title:

Black Girls Rock! and the Politics of Empowerment

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

black girls
empowerment
youth
girlhood
black feminism
black entertainment television
television
race
gender
celebrity
misogynoir
black girls rock

File:

Download Wheeler_2016_Black_Girls_Rock_and_the_Politics_of_Empowerment__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Paul Mcallister, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Lyn Rodino, Committee Member
Denise Sevick Bortree, Committee Member

Author:

Flores, Juan Carlos

Title:

A STRATEGY OF POWER RELATIONS FOR RACIALLY DIVERSE PUBLIC RELATIONS PRACTITIONERS

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

diverse
diversity
business
public relations
organization
organizational power dynamics
power dynamics
power
power relations
mentors
race
minority groups
dominant groups

File:

Download Flores__Juan_-_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Denise Bortree, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michel Haigh, Committee Member
Matt McAlister, Committee Member

Author:

Lim, Linda

Title:

Impact of Adult Support and Friends' Beliefs on Student Self-Perceptions across Race/Ethnic Groups

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

self-perceptions
race
achievement
parent support
teacher support
peer support

File:

Download Lim_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Schaefer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Schaefer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cristin Marie Hall, Committee Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Committee Member
Jose Angel Soto, Outside Member

Author:

Laskorounskaia, Julia A

Title:

The Color of Risk: Unpacking the Implications of Actuarial Risk Prediction at Sentencing

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

sentencing
judges
recidivism
pennsylvania
race
risk assessment

File:

Download laskorunsky_dissertation_7_28_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Zajac, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Outside Member

Author:

Daou, Carla

Title:

Race Differences In Associations Between Micronutrient Intake And Habitual Sleep Variability In Adolescents

Graduate Program:

Public Health Sciences

Keywords:

Sleep variability
sleep duration
insomnia complaint
micronutrient
race

File:

Download approved.pdf

Committee Members:

Duanping Liao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen H Kjerulff, Committee Member

Author:

Holman, Steven Lee

Title:

"Driver's License, Military ID, and Proof of Registration and Insurance, Please." An Exploratory Study of Officer Discretion Surrounding Traffic Stops on an Air Force Installation

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice

Keywords:

discretion
U.S. Air Force
race
gender
age
infraction
seriousness of offense
qualitative
discretion
Air Force
race
gender
age
infraction
citation
seriousness of offense
qualitative

File:

Download License__Military_ID__and_Proof_Of_Insurance__Please.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Charles Hummer II, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Mayo, Chelsea

Title:

Social Identity Complexity, Ethnic/Racial Identity, and Prosocial Attitudes in Pre-Adolescents

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

race
ethnicity
ethnic socialization
social identity
social identity complexity
pre-adolescents
intergroup attitudes

File:

Download Mayo_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member
Yo Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Boynton, Charles

Title:

Racial-Ethnic Variation in the Residential Environments of Rich Americans

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

race
ethnicity
income
housing
neighborhoods
satisfaction
social capital
race
ethnicity
income
housing
neighborhoods
stratification
social capital

File:

Download 2019.10.17_Boynton_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Barrett Alan Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Iceland, Committee Member
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Layland, Eric Keith

Title:

Leveraging Latent Class Modeling at the Intersection of Racism and Homonegativism: Identifying Subgroups of Black and Latino Sexual Minority Young Men and Links with Substance Use

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

intersectionality
sexual minority
Black
Latino
racism
homophobia
latent class analysis
substance use
transition to adulthood
race
ethnicity
homonegativism
subgroups
gay
bisexual
men who have sex with men
person-centered methods
alcohol
drinking
marijuana
poppers
substance use disorder
cannabis
binge drinking
substance abuse
substance use dependence
social support
family support
friend support

File:

Download Layland_Disseration_for_Committee_REVISED.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bethany Cara Bray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samantha Lauren Tornello, Committee Member
Jessica Lynn Matsick, Outside Member
Bethany Cara Bray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lesley Anne Ross, Program Head/Chair