Dissertations and Theses from 2026
Dissertation: Open Access: Cripping the Border – Acompañamiento as Access: An Ethnographic Case Study of Transborder Youth with Disabilities, Marco O. Amaral
Dissertation: Open Access: Learning Through Lowriding: Knowledge in the Garage, Bianca Elisa Arellano
Dissertation: Open Access: Elevating Voices: Exploring the Impacts and Experiences of Required Workplace DEI Training, Marika Barto
Dissertation: Open Access: Reclamando Corazón y Voz: Latinas Speak Their Truth Through Plática as Resistance in California Community College Learning Disabilities Assessments, Maricela Becerra
Dissertation: Open Access: Host Families’ Perspectives of the Impact of the Commodification of Education on the Student-Host Family Relationship in Study Abroad, Guadalupe Bustamante
Dissertation: USD Users Only: We Were Never Meant to Stay: Guardianship and the Institutional Design Behind the Attrition of Minoritized Student Affairs Professionals, Rae Chaloult
Dissertation: Open Access: “I Have a Voice”: Bridging the Communication and Sensemaking Gap Between Restorative Justice Practice and Program Implementation, Stefan Cocorelis
Dissertation: Open Access: A Praxis of Transformative Care: Centering Historically Resilient Students at a PWI, Tanaisha Coleman
Dissertation: Open Access: Cotheorizing Healing With Undergraduate Queer and Trans Latina Survivors of Power-Based Violence, Kimberly Correa
Dissertation: Open Access: Neomythism: Transfigurative Invocation and the (Re)Enchantment Engine in Human-AI Collaborative Art, Rae de Lune PhD PsyD
Dissertation: Open Access: Positioning Rights and Duties for Parent Representation at the CAC for Special Education Table: A Result of CBPAR, Summer Girgis
Dissertation: Open Access: Seducing and Suborning the U.S. Navy Profession of Arms, Robert P. Gonzales
Dissertation: Open Access: For My Oklahomies: Educators’ Perspectives on Policy, Public Discourse, and Professional Wellbeing, Cassandra Herndon
Dissertation: Open Access: A Quantitative Critical Analysis of Comprehensive Education Plan Effects as Implemented Under Title 5 in California Community Colleges, Nicole Jones
Dissertation: Open Access: Constructing Effectiveness: Culture, Legitimacy, and Strategic Planning in Zoos and Aquariums, Robin Keith
Dissertation: Open Access: Reclaiming Humanity in the Global Borderlands: Collective Homeplace Praxis among Women of Color Educators in International Schools, Nayoung Kim-Weaver
Dissertation: Open Access: Embodied Leadership and Conditional Legitimacy: Critically Conscious Male Leaders Navigating Systems of Power, Luis A. Legaspi
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Embodied Sensemaking and the Emergence of Educator Leadership: A Phenomenological Study of Awareness, Regulation, and Relational Practice, Gabriela M. Lopez Alvaro
Dissertation: Open Access: Rainbow Promises, Uneven Promises: Framing LGBTQIA+ Educational Policy and Possibility in Education, Gerardo Lorenzo-Saucedo
Dissertation: Open Access: Moving Toward Humanization in Education: Teacher Models in K-12 Settings, Juan Carlos Marques
Dissertation: Open Access: Agents of Agency: Identifying Teacher Traits and Trainings Associated with Promoting Student Agency, Clara Mateo
Dissertation: Open Access: In Search of Resilience: A Case Study of Leadership in Challenging Times in an International School Setting, Bradylee W. McGeough
Dissertation: Open Access: Spirituality and Leadership: The Role of Spirituality in Leadership Moments, Sabrina E. Nelson
Dissertation: Open Access: Investigating the Impact of Employment and Demographic Factors on Health Among Bereaved Adults: A Quantitative Approach, Dorothy L. O'Hagan
Dissertation: USD Users Only: “Neither Colorblind, Neutral, nor Meritocratic”: A Critical Examination of South Korea’s E-2 Visa Policy Through the Lens of the Excluded, Euclide Osse
Dissertation: Open Access: Decision-Making in Early-Stage Startups: How Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Evaluate Uncertainty, Andrew M. Pence
Dissertation: Open Access: Living Pedagogies of Voice: Co-Creating a Decolonial Project to Reimagine Special Education, Alejandra Rubalcaba
Dissertation: Open Access: Burning Out: A Narrative Exploration of the Adaptive Challenge and Scaffolds Built Toward Sustenance Among Immigrant Rights Activists in San Diego County, Anna C. Runion
Dissertation: Open Access: The Voices of Educators and Elders: Examining a Supplemental Educational Program Through a Culturally Responsive Lens in Gullah Geechee and African American Communities, Kelly D. Shelton
Dissertation: Open Access: Generative AI and Student Engagement, Motivation, and Learning: Exploring The Use Of Generative AI in Higher Education Online Courses, Jeffrey L. Simmons
Dissertation: Open Access: Compassion at the Core: Reimagining Schools as Centers of Human Flourishing Through Youth-Led Action Research, Tara S. Waudby
Dissertations and Theses from 2025
Dissertation: Open Access: Leading Through Crisis: San Diego County Schools' Response to the Social Emotional Needs of All Students, Johana Bielma
Dissertation: Open Access: Black Parents’ Use of Educational Advocates: Disrupting Structural and Systemic Racism in Education, Fredericka R. Butler PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Latinas in Higher Education: Paving & Weaving Wholeheartedly, Ariela M. Canizal
Dissertation: Open Access: Human Resource Management and Black Teachers’ Employee Experience in K-12 Urban Public Schools, Danielle Renee Cooper-Williams
Dissertation: Open Access: Racial Identity and Belonging Among Asian American Undergraduate Students in the Midwest, Seema M. Dahlheimer
Dissertation: Open Access: Culturally Affirming Independent School Board Governance: Centering the Experiences of Independent School Board Members of Color, Christopher S. Dennis PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Experience of Embodiment of Diverse Leaders, Susan Lynn Flaming Yeats
Dissertation: Open Access: Virtual Reality and Nursing Education: A Randomized Control Trial of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality as a Simulation Modality, David R. Haigh
Dissertation: Open Access: Archival Articulations of Belonging: Resistance, Reimagination, and Resilience in School and in Incarceration, Caroline Hastings
Dissertation: Open Access: Walking the Tightropes: Tensions in High School Religious Education, Nicholas Hurt
Dissertation: Open Access: Restricted Access: Structural Gatekeeping and the Black Student Experience in Accounting Education, Richard W. Hurt III
Dissertation: Open Access: Striking the Balance: The Relationship Between Government Funding and Nonprofit Financial Health, Mehrnoush Jamshidi
Dissertation: Open Access: 2+2 Doesn't Always Equal 4: A Mixed Methods Approach to U.S.-Born Children of Immigrants' Cultural Identities and Belonging, Teriin Lee
Dissertation: Open Access: Ethnic Studies for Secondary Schooling: Collaborative Curricular Insights from a Working Collective, Kelly León
Dissertation: Open Access: Challenging Dominant Mindset Ideologies: Transforming Teaching and Learning That Impact Latinx Students, Francisco Lopez
Dissertation: Open Access: Liberatory Love: Exploring Educators’ Perspectives in Alternative Education, Kamala J. Mallipudi
Dissertation: Open Access: Constructing Portraits of Elementary Teachers of Ethnic Studies: Examining the Narratives of Anti-Racist Educators in an Era of Common Core Curriculum and Instruction, Jennifer S. Manglicmot
Dissertation: Open Access: Famílias Indigenas Entre Mundos: Standing in Pachakuti, Living in Chi’xi Within the Constellation of Their Comunidad de Saberes, Ymasumac Marañón Davis
Dissertation: Open Access: Belonging Is Resistance: Illuminating the Power of Women of Color Mid-Level Administrators in Higher Education, Rachelle Ann Martinez
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experiences of Disabled Students in Inclusive Classrooms, Tanner Mizel
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding and Engaging in Equity Work: A Phenomenological Action Research Study of Community College ESOL Instructors, Emily E. Packer
Dissertation: Open Access: Including Conscientiously: How Charter School Educators Experience Inclusion Education Implementation, Joe A. Petty
Dissertation: Open Access: Developing An Instrument to Measure Teacher Attitudes Toward Multilingual Pedagogies, Lauren H. Ramers
Dissertation: Open Access: Anchored Networks: Navigating Formal and Informal Pathways to Access Educational Resources in Transient and Military Families, Lara Ray
Dissertation: Open Access: Reimagining Pedagogies of the Prison Yard: Using Ethnotheatre to Embody Transcarceral Conocimiento, Mabelle Reynoso
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring a Holistic Conceptualization of Destructive Leadership: Perspectives from the Lived Experiences of Latino Law Enforcement Command Staff Officers, Carmelin Rivera
Dissertation: Open Access: Stories of California Mini-Corps Tutors: Exploring the Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Early Preservice Teachers, Norma Rueda Santillanez
Dissertation: Open Access: How We Show Up Matters: Transformative Adult Social Emotional Learning to Build Equity-Centered Schools, Samantha L. Rummage-Massey
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Predicting Veteran Entrepreneurial Success with Effectuation, Gilbert A. Saguid Jr
Dissertation: Open Access: Collaborative Action in Education: Empirical Explorations of the Role of Partnerships in College Readiness Programs, Jose A. Sanchez
Dissertation: Open Access: Latinas Leading with Latinidad: Incorporating the Latina Identity into Leadership, Donna San Miguel
Dissertation: Open Access: Becoming a Leader “On the Job”: An Exploratory Study Examining How Internal Interim Leaders Build their Leadership Capacity While Nonprofit Executive Directors are on Sabbatical, Michelle Schneider
Dissertation: Open Access: The Integration Struggles of Myanmar/Burmese-Catholic Youth Refugees in the United States, Nant Thazin Shwe
Dissertation: Open Access: Coming Back to Life: Inner Work, Intentional Containers and Feminine Leadership for Social Change — A Phenomenological Case Study of a Social Change-Oriented Organization and the Self, Maria Trias Arraut
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring Undergraduate Understanding and Learning of Catholic Social Teaching in Catholic Higher Education, Kenny Van Tilburg
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining the Creative Process of Visual Artists: A Phenomenological Study, Filiberto Vargas
Dissertation: Open Access: Becoming a Beloved Community: A Restorative Reckoning for a Radical Conversion to Transform Discourse in Higher Education, LaTasha Tomay Varlack-Butler
Dissertation: Open Access: Hire Outcomes: The African American Educator Experience of Equity and Diversity in Education, Myeshia Whigham
Dissertation: Open Access: Advancing Equity in Financial Aid for Black Students: A Document Analysis Study of Student Equity Plans in California Community Colleges, Edwina Williams
Dissertation: Open Access: Post Racial Reckoning: Montessori Instructors' Perspectives on Teaching Through An Antibias Antiracist Lens, Jasmine E. Williams
Dissertation: Open Access: Precarious Privilege: Exploring the Intersection of White Teacher Habitus and Social Justice in International Schools, Kevin L. Workman
Dissertations and Theses from 2024
Dissertation: Open Access: Measuring Inclusive Leadership in Nonprofit Performing Arts Organizations, Thomas Abruzzo
Dissertation: Open Access: Islamophobia in Public Schools: A Mixed Methods Look at the Effectiveness of Parental Ethnic-Racial Strategies in Promoting Resilience Among Muslim Children, Lallia Allali
Dissertation: Open Access: Aren't Only Girls Secretaries…?”: Leadership Lessons From Women U.S. Secretaries of State, Lindsay Allen
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Black Genius: An Achievement Distortion, Brenda Burgo
Dissertation: Open Access: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogical Practices in Early Literacy Classrooms: A Qualitative Case Study of Two Kindergarten Classrooms, Elizabeth Carlton PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Nonprofit Leader Experiences in Sector-bending After Lean Six Sigma Training: Tension, Concepts, and Changed Behaviors, Beverly Codallos
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Cultivating Genius: A Narrative Journey of At-Promise Youth at a P-TECH Early College High School, Michelle Latrese Coleman
Dissertation: Open Access: “A Real Man . . .”: Deconstructing Machismo Heteronormative Standards with K–12 Latino Male Educators through Dialogic Spaces, Mario Echeverria
Dissertation: Open Access: Why Not the School-to-Scholar Pipeline? Changing the Narrative Through School Leadership, Marne Renee Foster
Dissertation: Open Access: Acquisition of English by Additional Language Learners in Inquiry-Based Classrooms Within International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program Schools, Valerian Goguadze
Dissertation: Open Access: Towards a Servingness Advising Approach: From the Advisors’ Perspective at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, Salvador Gomez-Pantoja
Dissertation: Open Access: Vital Voices from the Digital Divide: Testimonies of African American Women Leadership Across Tech, VinSche' Gray
Dissertation: Open Access: Who We Are Is How We Lead: Storytelling as an Intervention in a Manager Development Program, Brittany Grieb
Dissertation: Open Access: How Do LGBT Employees Assess Their Firm’s Organizational Culture Regarding LGBT Leadership?, Philippe Honore
Dissertation: Open Access: The Rhythms and Rituals of a Sacred Epistolary: Expressing my Experiences in Holistic and Embodied Ways, Khalia Ii
Dissertation: Open Access: Ennobling Each Other Through Collaborative Inquiry: Exploring Music as a Provocation for Leadership Development, Ihan Ip
Dissertation: Open Access: Embracing Messiness: Life and Leadership After Prison, Llewelyn T. Labio
Dissertation: Open Access: Building Agency Through Sensemaking: The Transformational Journey and Identity Development Process of Working Mother Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lynn Levis
Dissertation: Open Access: "There is Power in Being Out": A Three Article Approach Celebrating the Experiences of Queer University Leaders, Andrew R. E. Lorenzana
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining systemic and dispositional factors impacting historically disenfranchised schools across North Carolina, Raketa Ouedraogo-Thomas
Dissertation: Open Access: An Autoethnography of a Social Justice-Minded Teacher in Corrections, Graciela Rubalcaba-Munoz
Dissertation: Open Access: From Injustice to Social Justice Education: The Journey of Formerly Incarcerated Women of Color in Community College, Hossna Sadat Ahadi
Dissertation: Open Access: Navigating the Bow Wave of Change: The Felt Experience of Belonging to the United States Naval Academy's First Gender-Integrated Class, Peter Shaner
Dissertation: Open Access: Representation of Alaskan Native People in Nonprofit Leadership, Vanessa Smith
Dissertation: Open Access: The Cultural Dimension of Structural School Reforms: The Case of Schedule Changes, Maylen Sullivan
Dissertation: Open Access: California School Psychologists’ Assessment Practices with CLD Students: A Phenomenological Study, Hector Manuel Teran Jr.
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Impact of a Leadership Development Program on Participants’ Practice: A Case Study of the Development Dynamics Course Organized by Caritas India, Lenin Raj Thankaraj
Dissertation: Open Access: Convergence and Divergence: Comparative Analysis of Procedural Rule Changes of the Hong Kong and Singapore International Arbitration Centers within the Framework of Neo-Institutional Theory, Phillip Hoang Tran