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.

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Dissertations from 2025

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Truth, Resilience, and Healing: Deepen Understanding of Native American Federal Boarding School Histories, Toya D. Holiday

Available Works & Program from 2024

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Afterlight: Game Design and the Power of Narrative, Elio Hollenbeck

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A Latent Profile Analysis of High-Risk Children's Problematic Sexual Behavior, Claudia Campbell

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American Absurd, Kelly Stolle

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A Multi-Site Qualitative Analysis of the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems: Implications for Dual System Youth, Lauren Morgan

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An Examination of the Impediments to Implementing Student-Centered Teaching Methods in Public Schools, Nicole R H Adewale, Robert L. Bloch, and Garry D. Gibbs

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Autoethnographies Exploring the Cultural Spirit Murdering and Nurturing of Three Minority Educators in K-12, Sara Z. Beg, Maritza Caldera, and Denise Ross

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Cognition and Inflammation in Youth with Perinatal HIV, Megan Niehaus, Julie Mannarino, Jacob Bolzenius, Tori Frerichs, and Robert Paul

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Community Engagement: Hungarian Cultural Center, Theresa Colombini, Emily Jesse, Michael Raffelson, Colin Ring, John Granicke, and Rae Cohen

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Confronting Whiteness: When Critical Whites Studies and Racial Trauma Collide: An Autoethnography, Tracy Barron

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Convening the Counter-Conversation: Critical Participatory Action Research Against Real-Time Repression, Connor Maguire, Leo Jalipa, and Anne Grass

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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, “If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?1”: A Case Study in English Language Arts Achievement, Anna E. Russell Ziegler

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Depression Screening and Education for Immigrants to Increase Access to Care, Viktoriya Ivantsova

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Developing Expertise and Multiculturally Informed Supervision Practices, Mary Martha Abernathy

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Disruptive Clinician Behavior: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Non-native English-speaking Nurses, Seyoung Baik

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Diverse Gamers: Resistance Through Video Gameplay, Breon Rose

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Dream-Seekers (Ladson-Billings, 2009): An Analysis of Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Development Through the Perspective of Black Novice Teachers, Christina Grove, Nana Becoat, Michelle Cooley, and Pablo Ramos Jr

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Effects of Foster Children’s Epigenetics in Abusive Environments, Shamika Ellis and Theresa Moore

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Enhancing the First-year Experience Program for Community College Students: Creating a Cohort Model to Encourage Success, Engagement, and Sense of Belonging, Vicky Herbel, Christina Cox, Amy M. Koehler, Kim Mercurio, and Barbara Stratman

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Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training to Improve Data Collection Procedures in Paraprofessionals, Megan Weber

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Evaluation of a Smoking Cessation Program in Primary Care, Yolanda Duncan-Watt

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Fear, Distress, and Dissociation: Correlates of Physiological Hyporeactivity After Interpersonal Victimization, Natalia Kecala

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For Black Women - When the Rainbow Was Not Enough (Shange, 1976, New York City): An Autoethnographic Collection About Spirit Assassination, Teresa Quarles, Tamika Galvin, and Sherrie McClellan

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Gangsterism, the Urban Ruling Elite, and the Guomindang: Power Sharing During the Early Years of the Chinese Republic, 1927-1937, Evan Boyle

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How Leadership Styles Impact LGBTQ+ Civil Rights, Milo Thompson