Dissertations from 2023
Undocumented Young Adults Navigating Liminal Space to Carve Their Futures in The U.S., Ismat Abbas
Understanding Multilingual/Multicultural Immigrant High Schoolers’ Multilayered Identities and Imagined Futures, Mehtap Akay
Carrying the Weight : The Racialized Labor of Multicultural Center Directors of Color in Higher Education, Sherlene Iris Ayala
Faculty’s Experiences Teaching English Language Learners in Higher Education, Chedia A. Ayari
A Qualitative Study Exploring the Lived Experiences of At-risk College Students Who Become Honors Students, Billie June Bailey
Understanding the Induction Experience of Licensed Mental Health Counselors Working in New York City School Based Mental Health Clinics, Raymond Allen Blanchard III
Assessment of Phytoplankton Assemblages and Harmful Algal Blooms in New Jersey, Yaritza Acosta Caraballo
Healing That Leads to Action : Restorative Justice, School Leadership, and Institutional Change, Jose B. Celis
Conversational Dynamics Between Caregivers and Children : The Role of Elaboration and Autonomy Support on Children’s Memory Reports, Whitney L. Dartnell
The Addiction Treatment Experience of Legally Mandated Opioid Users, Kaitlin E. Deitz
Exploring LGBTQ Latino/a/x Stories of Chosen Families, Carlos A. Flores
The Influence of Community Trauma and the Behaviors of Gang Members, Leshelle Franklin
An Analysis of the Sophistication–Maturity of Justice and Non-Justice Involved Youth and Young Adults, Lauren Grove
Contextualizing the Guilty Plea Experiences of Individuals Charged with Sex Crimes, Conor Hogan
Gendered Leadership and Patriarchy : A Healing Feminist Autoethnography, Necole Jadick
The Fate of Fraxinus spp. in New Jersey : A Physioeconomic Evaluation of the Forest System and Infrastructure Implications, Erik W. Lyttek
Women Baby Boomers’ Experiences of Personal Growth Through Later-Life Divorce After a Long-Term Marriage, Lisa Silva McHale
An Examination of Faith and Faith-Based Practices on Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, Shanta K. Pamphile
An Ecofeminist Investigation of How Research Experiences for Science Teachers Influence Their Conceptualization of the Nature of Science and Their Construction of Storied Science Identities, Suzanne Poole Patzelt
A Survey of Knowledge and Beliefs on Child Maltreatment, Brooke R. Stettler
The Relationship Between Poverty and Behavior Problems : Examining the Role of Family and Parental Factors from an Ecological Systems Perspective, Alaina Marie Wodzinski
“It Was Like Double Damage” : An Exploration of Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse, Institutional Response, and Posttraumatic Growth, Krystal Lynne Woolston
Dissertations from 2022
An Exploratory Study of Conversational Discourse Produced by Persons with Aphasia Using Speech Function Analysis, Christa M. Akers
A Critical Exploration of Ideology and Agency in Intensive Motherhood Literature, Maya Autret
Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm to Investigate Whether Individuals with Trauma Exposure are at an Increased Risk of Pleading Guilty Falsely, Jennifer M. Bartlett
Community-Based Programs as Spaces for Critical Consciousness, Not Containment : Exploring the Perspectives of Black Youth, Carrie Bergeson
Mediation of Intergenerational Trauma Transmission by Family Variables in Children of Rwandan Survivors of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, Jessica L. Bonumwezi
Good Science Teaching in an Urban Middle School Context : An Examination of the Relationship Between Science Teachers and Their Students, William J. Brown
Analyzing the Reported Professional Learning of Ninth-Grade Teachers Participating in an Interdisciplinary Team, Glynnis J. Childress
Investigating the Collaboration of Teachers of Students with Disabilities and Teaching Assistants in the Classroom, Sa-Qwona S. Clark
Teacher Activism for Emergent Bilingual Learners : A Qualitative Study, Cyrene A. Crooms
The Relationship Between Racial Microaggressions, Mental Health, and Academic Self- Efficacy in Black College Students : Is a Supportive Mentor Protective?, DeVanté J. Cunningham
Multiple Risk Factors for Schizotypy in a Non-Clinical Population : Exploring the Continuum of Psychosis Two Years Later, Jill Del Pozzo
Adolescent Cognition as a Dynamic System : Examining Complex Cognition, Concepts and Context, Rachael R. Doubledee
Telecommuting Antecedents and Outcomes Within a Turbulent Global Context : The Incremental Explanatory Utility of Technostress and Role Strain, Renata Garcia Prieto Palacios Roji
The Lived Experiences of Traditionally Aged College Women in Abusive Relationships, Kelly Gentry
Investigating Elementary School Students’ Reasoning about Dynamic Angles, Erell Germia
Finding the Means : The Bilingual Disparity in Semantic Context Use for Processing, Iyad Ghanim
Preservice Teacher Action Research : Making Meaning and Generating Knowledge Through Inquiry, Rachel Ginsberg
Lift Every Voice : Black High School Students’ Lived Experiences with Racism and Discrimination Through a Critical Race Theory Lens, Lucinda Harris
Arsenic : Risk, Exposure, Policy and Management, Nadia Binte Jamil
Using Teacher Noticing and Video-Mediated Professional Learning to Develop Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching the Derivative, Alfred M. Limbere
“How Am I a Maker Making a Makerspace?” : A Focus on Teachers in Practice Self-Authoring as Makers in Constrained K-8 Spaces, Bridget Looney
Impact of Family Expectations on the Marital Practices of Haitian-American Couples, Kencia Mele
The Effect of Climate Change, Human Activity, and Water Management Interventions on Environmental and Socio-Economic Outcomes in the Mekong Delta Region, Huynh Truong Gia Nguyen
How Exposure to Poverty Related Issues in the Classroom Affects Students’ Attitudes and Interactions with Their Social Environment, Rocco Placenti
Learning in a Community : An Investigation of Mentor Inquiry into Formative Assessment Practices, Erin Riley-Lepo
The Stressors Black Pastors Experience : A Counseling Perspective, Robert C. Rogers
A Grounded Theory of White Counselors’ Antiracist Counseling Identity Development, Renee M. Shand-Lubbers
Factors Related to Formal and Online Help-seeking Behaviors Among Latinx College Students, Tanya Singh
Exploring Vowel Space Metrics and Quality of Life Measures in Adolescents with Typical Speech, Residual Speech Sound Disorder, and Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Michelle Turner Swartz
Languaging School into Being : A Discourse Analysis of Online ELA Classes Within the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jason Christopher Toncic
Impact of Adding Natural and Simulated Root Exudates on the Functioning of Contaminated Soil, Bhagyashree P. Vaidya
Rape Myth Acceptance and Acknowledgment: Predictors of Disclosing Sexual Assault and Service-Seeking Among College Students, Zerbrina Valdespino-Hayden
Black First-Generation Professionals : Leaders that You Never Heard of Before, An Exploratory Study of Lived Experiences, Duane A. Williams
Dissertations from 2021
Latino/a Adults with Down Syndrome Make Sense of Family While Growing Up in a Bilingual Home, Linda M. Baron Cortes
The Influence of Student Disciplinary Participation in Post-Secondary Education on Career Decision Self-Efficacy, Jerry S. Collins
New Teacher Induction : Locating New Teacher Needs to Co-Construct Induction Programs, Thomas M. D’Elia
Mining Social Media and Structured Data in Urban Environmental Management to Develop Smart Cities, Xu Du
College Transition : Voices of First-Generation Minority STEM Students, Grazia Gangitano
Leaders of the New School: Exploring the Origins of Leadership Qualities in First Generation Black Male College Students, Rahjaun J. Gordon
Effect of Abiotic Factors on Enzyme Activity in Brownfield Soils, Diane Hagmann
A Geo-Economic Framework for Dune Construction and Long-Term Coastal Resiliency in New Jersey, Jesse Charles Kolodin
Teaching the New Majority : Addressing Race and Racism through Culturally Responsive Teaching, Graziela Lobato-Creekmur
Queering Feminist Facilitation : A Culture Circle Discusses Gender & Sexuality, Kelly E. Lormand
Sibling Relationship Quality and Its Link to Flourishing Among Emerging Adults, Shannon P. Lummer-Aikey
Race Matters : When Middle/High School Teachers Engage in Participatory Activist Research on the Power of Stories to Disrupt Racism, Janice M. Marsili
Fostering Mathematical Creativity Among Middle School Mathematics Teachers, Ceire H. Monahan
Transitioning Secondary Mathematics Pedagogy Towards Reform-Oriented Practice Through Coteaching, Jessica Tybursky Nuzzi
Exploring Trauma, Loss, and Posttraumatic Growth in Poles Who Survived the Second World War and Their Descendants, Alexandra Rush
Sustainability of Hard Apple Cider : An Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment, Meghann N. Smith
Culturally Responsive Instructional Coaching : Accessing Student Voice during a Co-Generated Lesson Plan, Jacqueline Stone
The Cases They Carry : A Narrative Analysis of Crisis Counselors Working in Behavioral Health Emergency Settings, Rachel E. Sugerman
Professional Capital Across the Careers of Four Veteran Teachers, Stephanie Brown Tarnowski
Exploring Educators’ Decisions During the Era of New Professionalism : Teachers and Administrators Dialoguing Together in a Performance-Based Pay School District, Nicholas V. Vancheri
Understanding Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) and Green Infrastructure Interaction in New Jersey : An Economic Analysis, Taylor J. Wieczerak
Sensemaking for Equity and Agency : STEM Teacher Learning Through a Community of Practice Model, Karen Anne Woodruff
Dissertations from 2020
Antisemitism Today and Its Relationship to Jewish Identity and Religious Denomination, Michaela Ambrosius
The Spatial Economics of Clean Energy in New Jersey, Anthony J. Bevacqua
The Influence of Heteronormativity on Sexual Health Disparities in Queer and Heterosexual Women, Jacqueline Bible
Video Case Materials and the Development of Collective Professional Knowledge, Victoria D. Bonaccorso
From Social Exclusion to Social Inclusion : A Feminist Action Research Intervention for Low Income Latina Mothers, Diana Cedeño
Troubling Paradise : Exploring the Sexual Identity Development Experiences of Same-Gender Loving West Indians, Nicole A. J. Christian
The Impact of Social Support, School Connectedness, and Community Organization on Academic Achievement Among Black & Hispanic Adolescents in an Urban Low-Income School District, Stephanie M. Compasso
Clinical Supervisor Self-Perceived Addiction Competencies in Response to the Opioid Epidemic, Elizabeth A. Conte