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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Available Works & Program from 2024

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

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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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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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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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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 the West Was Stolen: A Closer Look at the St.Louis Treaty of 1804, Lisa Kozieja

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Human Zoo Healthcare at the 1904 World’s Fair, Angel Blake

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In What Ways Do Perceptions by Faculty, Students, and Advisors in an Urban University Contribute to Undergraduate Student Success?, Carla Jordan

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"Killin' Nazis": How Jews are Portrayed in Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, Skylar Baxter

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NBA Conspiracies: A League That Values Money Over Honesty, Rebecca Littrel

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Recognition Promotes Sodomy: Gay Lib Vs. The University of Missouri, Micah Hillier

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Relations Between Prior Racial Microaggressions, Expat Motivation, and Life Satisfaction Among African American Expat Women in Mexico, Patricia Keller

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Some Wounds Don’t Heal: Spirit Assassination Attempts: Tools of White Supremacy, Karen Louise Douglas

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Steminism: Analyzing Factors That Improve Retention of Women in STEM, Kira Carter, Jane Kelley, Jason Vasser-Elong, and RC Patterson

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The Fentanyl Crisis in the African American Community: Exploring Geographic Differences in Overdose in the St. Louis Region, Tanys Giles, Devin Banks, Rashmi Ghonasgi, Maria Paschke, and Rachel Winograd

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The Impact of Social-Emotional Competence on Academic Achievement and Career Success within Urban School Systems, LaShanda R. Boone, Keesha Byrd, Susan Grimes, Jamesha Purdiman, and Cierra Wourman

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The Life and Music of Hazel Felman, Shane Devine

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The Postsecondary Success of Historically Marginalized Black and Latino Male Students: Examining Factors that Impact College Readiness Preparation and Persistence, Molly Croghan, Ebonie Davis, Janci Finkley, Zehra Khan, Yvette Levy, Evans Mudanya, and Lizbeth Roman

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The Revolutionary St. Louis Insane Asylum, Julia Talbert

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The Spirit-Murdering of Black Students from White Educators, Brian C. Guilfoyle, Casetta D. Brown, Sarah J. Guilfoyle, and Courtney D. Jude

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Tritons United: Against Gender-Based Violence, Kayla Bowling, Jessica Emert, Kimberly Werner, and Maggie Gross