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Diversity Themes in Graduate Works

UMSL Graduate scholars are given the opportunity to highlight if their thesis or dissertation deals with cultural diversity issues or is culturally diverse. This is a collection of those self selected works.

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Does Truth Promote Peace? Toward a Greater Understanding of Truth Commissions as Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Post-Conflict Countries, Eric Royer

Experiences of Former Participants in Teen Advocates for Sexual Health (TASH), Celeste Nicholas

Exploring Whites' Recognition of Racial Microaggressions through an Existential Lens, Ashley Gold Parker

Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida

Gender Identity Work: Oppression and Agency as Described in Lifespan Narratives of Transgender and Other Gender Non-Conforming Identified People in the U. S., Kathryn O'Brien

Healthcare Use Self-Efficacy in Adults Who Are Homeless, Jared Ian Israel

How African American Parents Prepare to Homeschool Their Children, Riquita Henry

I’m Afraid to Tell You What I Really Think: An Investigation into the Feedback Withholding Bias Mechanism and Outcomes within STEM Settings, Deborah Lee

In the Vatican Necropolis, Sarah Pitt

Literary Pedagogies at UMSL: Combining Case Study with Personal Narrative, Elizabeth Miller

Meeting Yourself Without Rose Colored Glasses: An Urban Charter, Apryll L. Mendez Gaskew and Shenelle M. Dubose

Meeting Yourself Without Rose Colored Glasses: An Urban Public School, Shenelle DuBose and Apryll Mendez

Predictors of Cognitive Function Among Cognitively Impaired Older African Americans Living in Congregate Residential Settings, Zyra Daffodil Apugan

Providing Equitable Access to Education for African American Students: The Journey of One Administrative Team, John P. Raimondo

Realist Nonideal Theory: The Intuition Critique, Reflective Equilibrium and the Role of Morality in Politics, Danny R. Underwood II

Repercussive Discrimination: Racial Discrimination as an Explanation of Prevalent Homophobia Among Racial Minorities, Timothy E. Lewis

Re-reading, Re-writing, and Re-imagining Texts: Critical Literacy in a Kindergarten Classroom, Meredith Labadie

(Re)Storying Ferguson: Youth Voices and Literate Lives, Katherine O'Daniels

School Connectedness as a Moderator between Racial Microaggressions and Academic Performance for African American High School Students, Courtney Wilson

Sistahs for Success: An Adult Education Intervention Program to Increase Career Decsion Self-Efficacy for African American Women, Traci L. Hodges

Teachers’ Perceptions of Educational Games that Keep Score of Cooperative Performances, Theodore Alden Wohlfarth

The Importance of National Identity in Social Studies Classes in Puerto Rico: An Examination of Teacher and Student Perceptions of “Lo Nacional”, Jesus Daniel Diaz

The Missouri Student Transfer Program, Howard E. Fields III

To Name Each Longing, Abigail Green

ULEAD: The Effects of a Civics-Based Educational Program on Urban Youth, Rodney W. Smith, Aaron H. Willis, and Mario Pascal Charles