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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 2018 2018

“…But You Don’t Know Me Like the Sun; You’ve Never Seen My Horizon” (Bennett, Cole, Segal, and Warner, 2015, Track 3): Exploring the Invisibility of a Hyper-Visible Black Woman in Education, JaNae' Alfred

Clinician Bias in the Diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: How Clinician Characteristics and Training May Relate to Diagnosis, Renee Boeck

Cultural Identity Silencing of Native American Identity in Education: A Descriptive Phenomenological Investigation, Katheryne Leigh

Evaluation of a Youth Emergency Room Enhancement Program for Behavioral Health, Anne Thatcher

Examining the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Posttraumatic Growth: Pathways to Thriving in the Face of Adversity, David Strasshofer

Experiences of African American Women and their Ascension to Senior Academic Leadership Positions in Higher Education Institutions, Jennifer Simms

Exploring Internalized Classism Using the Regressive Model of Self-stigma, Johanna Collier

Eye Examination:Satisfying a Quality Care Measure in Diabetes, Meera Shekar

Factors Related to Ethnocultural Empathy Among White Counselor Education Faculty: Implications for African American Male Students., Courtney R. Boddie

Fiction and Politics: Karl May and the American West in Nineteenth Century German Sociopolitical Consciousness, Emily Scott

For That What Didn't, Sue Britt

How School Counselors Cope with Student Suicide: A Qualitative Study, Sara Carpenter

Implementing a CAPS Simulation to Increase Nursing Education Practice Students’ Self-awareness of Attitudes and Beliefs about Poverty, Melissa Ehmke

Intercultural Coworker Relationships (ICORs) in the Global Workplace: A Grounded Theory Study, Jennifer L. Morton

Nurse-led Triage Clinic in an HIV Supportive Housing Apartment Community, Sally Breen

Permanent Housing and On-Site Nursing Care: Effects on Homeless Individuals with HIV and Other Cormorbidities, Lynelle Hinden

Poetics of the [Selves]∞: An Active Aesthetic, Alena Tunprasert-Ahrens

Pursuing the Professoriate: The Academic Career Development of Black Female Doctoral Students at Predominantly White Institutions, Jennifer Culver

Re-Embodying Our Discipline, Chelsea Dryer

School Accountability and Equal Opportunity in Missouri, Bradley Ross

Second Safest City in America, Liam Cassidy

Teacher Perceptions of Ability in Implementing a Culturally Responsive Educational Practice for Culturally Linguistically Diverse Students with Dis/Abilities, Melanie Ziebatree

Teacher Talk: How Many White, Middle-class, Female Educators Perpetuate White Privilege in School, Theresa Nomensen

The Impact of the Use of Science Notebooks in Conjunction with a Learning Progression-based Science Unit in an Urban Middle School, Reagan Williams

The Meaning of a Family History of Colorectal Cancer in Black Families in the United States, Cassandra Loggins