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Author:

Milligan, Amy K.

Title:

Kallah's Choice: Hair Covering Practices of Orthodox Women in an American Small Town

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

hair
Jewish
Judaism
folklore
bodylore
Lancaster
synagogue
women

File:

Download Milligan_Dissertation_03-22-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Kamini Grahame, Committee Member
Andrea Lieber, Special Member

Author:

Hayduk, Dina

Title:

USING TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS A FRAMEWORK TO EXPLORE WOMEN AND RUNNING

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

transformative learning
women
running
narrative inquiry

File:

Download Final_Formatted_Aug_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Samuel William Monismith, Committee Member
Carol A Smith, Committee Member
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member

Author:

Tarconish, Emily Jo

Title:

YOUNG WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF SEXUALITY AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

brain injury
rehabiltation
women
sexuality

File:

Download Emily_Tarconish_Masters_Thesis_april_25_PDF.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Conyers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margaret Lorrah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa M Conyers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nash, Heather M

Title:

Understanding the Performance: Learning Identity and Domestic Violence

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

domestic violence
women
learning
identity

File:

Download nash.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Marnina K Gonick, Committee Member

Author:

Chan, Hsing-I Michelle

Title:

AT HOME OR AN "OTHER" IN THE U.S.: TAIWANESE IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S AMBIVALENCE, RESISTANCE, AND BORDER CROSSING

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

poststructuralism
feminism
identity
women
Taiwanese immigrant
ESL
Narrative
English learning and teaching

File:

Download Hsing-I_Michelle_Chan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Miryam Espinosa Dulanto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, India Latina

Title:

Media Representation of Young Women in the Dominican Republic: An Ethnographic Study of Dominican Women's Perceptions of Beauty and Blackness

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

women
dominican republic
beauty
enthnography
blackness
media representation

File:

Download IndiaBrown_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Younger, Karen Fisher

Title:

Africa Stretches Forth Her Hands Unto You: Female Colonizationists in the Antebellum United States

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

antebellum
liberia
american colonization society
women

File:

Download Final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Carver Rose, Committee Member
Anthony Edward Kaye, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Schanbacher, Kathleen Ann

Title:

An Intergenerational Study of the Mathematics Attitudes of Preservice Women Teachers and Their Mothers.

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

mathematics
attitudes
women
stereotyping
teacher preparation

File:

Download Schanbacher_2009-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Brandon B Hunt, Committee Member

Author:

Best, Latrica Evette

Title:

Mental Health Disparities among Women in Midlife: A Longitudinal Study of Depressive Symptoms, Status, and Disease in the United States

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

women
depressive symptoms

File:

Download DissMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Hardy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francis Dodoo, Committee Member
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Committee Member
Linda Ann Wray, Committee Member

Author:

Parrish, Marilyn McKinley

Title:

Seeking Authenticity: Women and Learning in the Catholic Worker Movement

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

learning
women
history
adult education
social movements
spirituality
social justice

File:

Download MarilynMcKinleyParrishdissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Committee Member
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member

Author:

Plageman, Paula M.

Title:

Adult Women in Higher Education: The Perceived Influence of Families

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

influence
family
postsecondary education
women
adult
persistence

File:

Download Plageman_Dissertation_Finalpdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Edward Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Chiara Sabina, Committee Member
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member

Author:

Pham, Phuong Thi Thu

Title:

Women's Status in the Course of Reform in Vietnam

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

economic transition
reform
status
women
Vietnam

File:

Download Thesis_Phuong_Pham.pdf

Committee Members:

Rukmalie Thalani Jayakody, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rukmalie Thalani Jayakody, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ridout, Samuel James

Title:

AGE AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN CARDIOVASCULAR LIMITS TO EXERCISING MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

cardiac output
aging
women
plasma volume expansion
exercise

File:

Download Ridout-Dissertation-07-31-11-FINAL-EDITION.pdf

Committee Members:

David Nathan Proctor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Nathan Proctor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Anthony Pawelczyk, Committee Member
Mosuk Chow, Committee Member
Urs Andreas Leuenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Shrestha, Srijana

Title:

Quality of life among elderly nepali women

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

quality of life
aging
women
culture

File:

Download Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Gayle Newman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Howard Zarit, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Member
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Jeanne Marecek, Committee Member

Author:

Harvey, Tristana Renee

Title:

African American Women's Career Development: The Role of Self-efficacy as a Mediator of Leadership Aspirations

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

African American
women
career development
self-efficacy
leadership

File:

Download HarveyDissertation2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Spencer G Niles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar I Farmer Sr., Committee Member
Jolynn Carney, Committee Member
Jerry G Trusty, Committee Member

Author:

Hess, Trina R

Title:

LIVING BETWEEN THE EXTREMES: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF HOW MID-LIFE WOMEN RECREATE THEIR IDENTITY AFTER A WORK TRANSITION

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

phenomenology
learning identity
work transition
women
mid-life
adult development

File:

Download HESSDISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eunice May Askov, Committee Member
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Member
Sharon Louise Falkenstern, Committee Member

Author:

Christian, Jenna Marie

Title:

Postwar Transformations: Women and the Work of Peace in Liberia

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

women
peace
violence
feminist geopolitics
gender
Liberia

File:

Download FULL_Final_Thesis_Jenna_Christian.pdf

Committee Members:

Lorraine Dowler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sofolahan, Yewande A

Title:

Understanding Childbearing Decision Making within the Context of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Needs of Women Living With HIV/AIDS in Southwest Nigeria

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

HIV/AIDS
Nigeria
women
pregnancy
childbearing
healthcare
support
men
partners

File:

Download FinalDissertatnSOFOLAHAN-2.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Adams, Samantha Pearl

Title:

Developing and Promoting Engineering Entrepreneurship in Morocco: A Three-part Investigation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

engineering entrepreneurship
Morocco
motivation
self-efficacy
gender
women

File:

Download S._Adams_Final_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tuttle, Michael Christopher

Title:

Subalterns at Sea: Women and Blacks in a Revolutionary Atlantic

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

history
colonial
maritime
women
blacks

File:

Download Tuttle_Dissertation_May_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

William Pencak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Bennett Restall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Giguette Atwill, Committee Member
Tim White, Committee Member

Author:

Carlson, Gwen J

Title:

Associations between Women's Autonomy and Women's Experience of Domestic Violence with Children's Nutritional Status

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

women
children
autonomy
domestic violence
breastfeeding
complementary feeding
anemia
child malnutrition

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Final_Submission--_Carlson_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Katarzyna Kordas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura E Murray Kolb, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Macarthur, Heather Jean

Title:

When Women are Called "girls": The Effect of Infantilizing Labels on Women's Self-perceptions

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

gender
women
language
infantilization
leadership
workplace
labels

File:

Download MacArthur-_Masters_Thesis_for_Graduate_School.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie A Shields, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adriana Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McCormick-Huhn, Kaitlin

Title:

Examining the Boundary Conditions of Acknowledging Contextualized Emotion With Women in STEM Interviews

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

emotion
women
intervention
competence
contextualize
beliefs
labeling
emotion regulation
STEM

File:

Download FINAL_4.5_Kaitlin_McCormick_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie A Shields, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Jin-Kwang

Title:

ACUTE EFFECTS OF DIETARY NITRATE SUPPLEMENTATION IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

cardivascular
Aging
dietary nitrate supplementation
beetroot juice
women

File:

Download KimJ_acute_effects_of_dietary_nitrate_supplementation_in_postmenopausal_women_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Nathan Proctor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Anthony Pawelczyk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Member
Connie Jo Rogers, Committee Member
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Outside Member

Author:

Eikey, Elizabeth Victoria

Title:

The Health Journey of College Women with Eating Disorder Behaviors: A Qualitative Study on the Use and Unintended Consequences of Mobile Weight Loss Applications

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

eating disorders
mobile applications
health apps
weight loss
MyFitnessPal
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
unintended consequences
self-diagnosed
users
design
Information Science
Information Technology
recovery
sociocultural perspective
mutual shaping
health journey
EDNOS
OSFED
UFED
anorexia nervosa
bulimia nervosa
college
university
women
qualitative
think-aloud
interviews
EAT-26
EDE-Q
quantified self
food journaling
mHealth
persuasive technology
food log
activity trackers
physical activity
exercise
diet
nutrition
mental health
psychology
smartphone
personal informatics
health informatics
self-tracking
calorie counting
students
CIA
logging
weight loss apps
mutual influence
eating disorder behaviors
disordered eating

File:

Download Eikey_Dissertation_FINAL_REVISED.pdf

Committee Members:

Lynette (Kvasny) Yarger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lynette (Kvasny) Yarger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea H. Tapia, Committee Member
Eun Kyoung Choe, Committee Member
Kathleen L. Keller, Outside Member
Madhu C. Reddy, Special Member

Author:

Hayashida-Knight, Christopher Howard

Title:

"Sacrifices and sufferings of True Americans": Black Women's Nationalism and Activism in Philadelphia, 1863-1901

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

black
women
African-American
Philadelphia
Gilded Age
Reconstruction
feminism
activism
nationalism
patriotism
neighborhood nationalism
African American
politics
racism
sexism

File:

Download Diss_CHKnight.pdf

Committee Members:

William Alan Blair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Alan Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Member
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Outside Member

Author:

Orme, Stephanie Lyn

Title:

GROWING UP GAMERS: FEMALE LEISURE IN DIGITAL GAMES CULTURE

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

video games
digital games
gaming
gender
women
girls
motivations
genre
leisure

File:

Download ORME_DISSERTATION_FINAL_VERSION_MARCH_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Matthew McAllister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Matthew McAllister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Committee Member
Dr. Patrick Parsons, Committee Member
Dr. Camilla Hodge, Outside Member

Author:

Golder, Lauren Jenna

Title:

Anarchy at Home: Anarchism and the Politics of Intimacy in the Gilded-Age United States

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

anarchism
women
gender
free love
sex radicalism
domesticity
radical education
US history
19th century
anarchists
Gilded Age
Emma Goldman
Lillian Harman
Benjamin R. Tucker
Voltairine de Cleyre
Modern School

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Committee Members:

Lori D Ginzberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tobias Heinrich Albert Brinkmann, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Outside Member

Author:

Field, Meredith

Title:

Power and Injustice: Exploring the Factors that Limit Women's Access to Maternal Health Care in Rural Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

healthcare
access
rural
childbirth
maternal
women
power
Gramsci
SisterSong
Foucault
feminist
health care
hegemony

File:

Download MField_Dissertation_Draft_Full_Revised_Format.pdf

Committee Members:

Carolyn Sachs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carolyn Sachs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Brasier, Committee Member
Leland Glenna, Committee Member
Jill Wood, Outside Member
Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Committee Member

Author:

Ferguson, Michquelena

Title:

Oral Histories of Women Instrumentalists in College Marching Bands Post-Title IX

Graduate Program:

Music Education

Keywords:

music education
marching band
Title IX
women

File:

Download MPFerguson-Dissertation-Spring2021-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda Carol Porter Thornton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Carol Porter Thornton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrin Thornton, Committee Member
Charles Dowell Youmans, Committee Member
Jaime Schultz, Outside Member
Linda Carol Porter Thornton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Coburn, Kelly

Title:

Spoken Narratives by Autistic Adults of Under-represented Genders

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

autism
gender
transgender
nonbinary
gender variance
women
narrative

File:

Download Coburn_Spoken_Narratives_by_Autistic_Adults_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Krista Wilkinson, Major Field Member
Diane Williams, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carol Miller, Major Field Member
Susan Strauss, Outside Unit & Field Member
Diane Williams, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Godfrey, Katherine

Title:

Matrilineality and Empire: Indigenous Kinship Networks and Gendered Mobility in Early Modern Colombia

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

matrilineal
colombia
indigenous people
colonialism
women
gender
children
new kingdom of granada
mobility

File:

Download Godfrey_Diss_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Amara Solari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Restall, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martha Few, Co-Chair of Committee
Amy Greenberg, Major Field Member
Ronnie Hsia, Major Field Member
Tatiana Seijas, Special Member
Michael Kulikowski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Troiani, Krista

Title:

A Qualitative Case Study Within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education: Exploring Working Mother Professors’ Challenges, Coping Strategies, and Support

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

employment
equality
women
career
working mothers
flexible work
work life balance

File:

Download krista_troiani_format_review__4_.pdf

Committee Members:

Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
William Rothwell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Threeton, Major Field Member
Rama Radhakrishna, Outside Unit & Field Member
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Boyer, Jordan

Title:

PRETTY MEAN SISTERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF BLACK WOMEN IN WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT

Graduate Program:

Communications (MA)

Keywords:

wwe
women
black
wrestlemania
representation

File:

Download JBoyer_11-25-21.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Beck, Program Head/Chair
Stephanie Leigh Morrow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer F Hamer, Committee Member
Mary Zaborskis, Committee Member

Author:

Skogseth, Emma

Title:

Women and Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Contributors to Treatment Success from the Perspectives of Women in Recovery, Women with Past Attempts in Drug Treatment, and Health and Criminal Justice Professionals

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

women
criminal justice
substance use
medications for opioid use disorder
treatment retention
facilitators
women
criminal justice
substance use
medications for opioid use disorder
treatment retention
facilitators

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Committee Members:

Abenaa Jones, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Max Crowley, Committee Member
Heidemarie Laurent, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Barraco, Gabrielle

Title:

Strength Training Engagement Among College-Aged Women: Participation, Mental Health, And Predictors of Behavior

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

strength training
women
mental health
college students
health belief model

File:

Download Gabrielle_Barraco_-_STRENGTH_TRAINING_ENGAGEMENT_AMONG_COLLEGE_WOMEN_PARTICIPATION__MENTAL_HEALTH__AND_PREDICTORS_OF_BEHAVIOR.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Jean Bopp, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David E Conroy, Committee Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jaime Schultz, Committee Member