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Dissertations from 2026
Dissertations from 2025
Frailty, Home Accessibility, and Falls in Later Life, Bonnie Albright
From Development Partners to Security Threats: Securitization of Civil Society and Its Implications for the Sector in Pakistan, Muhammad Ali
A WORKER-CENTERED STUDY EXPLORING TRUST, DEPENDENCY, AND WORKER IDENTITY IN DIGITAL PLATFORM-MEDIATED LABOR, Wael Altali
Post-Discharge Healthcare Self-Management Support For Stroke Survivors And Family Caregivers: A Comprehensive Assessment, Rockson Ansong
Three Essays on the Effect of Environmental Regulation on Corporate Policy, Betul Arda
Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measurement Scale of Summer Camp Counselor Burnout, Monica Arkin
Embodying Altruistic Love: The Role of Emotions in Teaching Black Students with Disabilities within an Inclusive Elementary School, Joshua Armentrout
Schools as Geopolitical Spaces: Violence Against Education During the Bosnian War (1992-1995), Allyson Bachta
Enhancing the Value of Satellite Earth Observations for Coastal Management: Tools for Collaboration and Co-Development, Nicole DeJeet Bartlett
FOSTERING COLLABORATION BETWEEN MOBILE CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMS AND SCHOOL TEAMS, Talia Berkman
The Cohort Space as Experienced by Latina Doctoral Students, Tiana Bierwert
The Cost of Leadership: Giving Voice to the Experiences of Student Leaders of Color at Predominantly White Institutions, Gustavo F. Burkett
NOTIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY: EUROPEAN UNION INVOLVEMENT IN INDEPENDENCE-SEEKING REGIONS, Kathryn Butterworth
The White Elephant in the Classroom: Using Local History and Resource Pedagogies to Remove It, Dawn N. Colquitt-Anderson
ADAPTATION AND DISCOVERY IN THE ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS: TESTING RULES, CRYPTIC SHREWS, AND PATTERNS OF MONTANE MAMMAL DIVERSITY, Evan W. Craig
Identifying Novel Fibrotic Mechanisms Underlying Treatment-Resistant Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction, Quentin Darcy
Navigating the Unknown: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Middle-Aged Women from Post-Socialist Mongolia, Odgerel Dashzeveg
Bystanders to Nurse Incivility: Barriers and Facilitators to Bystander Responses in New England Hospitals, Eliza G. Denoeux
INTEGRATING A STAKEHOLDER-CENTRIC APPROACH INTO DYNAMIC ADAPTATION POLICY PATHWAYS FOR EQUITABLE COASTAL FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT IN EAST BOSTON, Shailee M. Desai
Interference and Interleaving Effects in Visual Memory, Jamie Donenfeld
Investigating Testosterone and Cortisol in Romantic Relationships, Rylei Donovan
DEVELOPING A SMART FISH SMOKING TECHNOLOGY FOR CATFISH AQUACULTURE IN THE NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA, Lilian O. Elekwachi and Lilian Onyinyechi Elekwachi PhD
Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes as a Light Source for Photodynamic Therapy, Hamid El Hamidi
What Students Want from Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS): Increasing Student Voice, Danielle M. Fowler
Suicidal Thoughts, Racial-gendered Discrimination, and Post-traumatic Sequelae: Ecological Momentary Assessment of the Discrimination and Trauma Suicide Risk Network within a TNGE BIPOC Community Sample, Álvaro Gamio Gamio Cuervo
GENDER, SOCIOECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION AND GRASSROOT ORGANIZING IN KENYAN FISHERIES, Margaret Wanjiru Gatonye
How Can Yoga Help? An Exploration of Black Sexual Minority Women's Experiences of Stress, Coping, and Perspectives on Yoga, Cherrelle Gipson
Organizational Health Literacy in Pediatric Cardiovascular Programs, Eva Gomez
An Examination of How the Ethno-Racial Socialization Process Influences Women of Color’s Engagement With Mental Health Treatment, Kairys M. Grasty
BEYOND THE INTERRUPTION: UNDERSTANDING THE LIVED REALITIES OF STUDENTS WITH LIMITED OR INTERRUPTED FORMAL EDUCATION (SLIFE), Rachel Hapennny-Rogers
Narratives and Negotiations: Insights from the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Process for Plastic Using the Narrative Policy Framework, Margaret Hassey
From Surviving to Thriving: Black Women College Athletes Excelling Beyond Academic Benchmarks at Historically White Institutions, Tracey L. Hathaway
Disruptive (Re)memberings: Anti-Blackness & The Mental Health of Black Millennial Womxn, Perpetual A. Hayfron
Accompanying Afghans: A Human Rights-Based Approach To Immigrant Mental Health, Farahdeba Herrawi
On Being The Only: Using Black Feminist Thought and Hermeneutic Phenomenology to Deeply Understand Onliness as Experienced by Black Women in STEM, Karen M. Jarvis-Thorne and Karen M. Jarvis-Thorne
Ableist and Neurodiversity Affirming Messages in School-Aged Autistic Students’ Individual Education Programs: Influences and Impact on Student Outcomes, Kohrissa Joseph
Design and Development of a Standalone Digital Holographic Microscope Employing Phase-Driven Reconstruction and Classification for Biomedical Imaging and Optical Diagnostics, Charlotte Kyeremah
"We Walk the Same Path but Have on Different Shoes: Wounded Healers and a Halfway House in Boston, MA", Julie LaBagnara
Analyzing the Role of a Novel Transmembrane Protein in Rhodopsin-Deficient Drosophila Photoreceptors, Khanh B. Lam-Kamath
Give Them Their Roses: Honoring Student Affairs Professionals of Color Combatting Secondary Racial Battle Fatigue at a Historically White Institution, Julián X. Latshang and Julián X. Latshang
#Inmyhealingera: Black Women Creating New Narratives and Representations of Their Identities and Womanhood on Instagram, Ashley Lazarre
ADVANCING MARINE ANIMAL MOVEMENT STUDIES USING AN OPEN INNOVATION FRAMEWORK, Jacob Levenson
From Local Roots and Institutional Heights: Organizational Empowerment in Community Contexts, Yaeli Lif
The Gendered Role of Friendships for Advanced Care Planning and Health in Later Life, Zee Kee Emily Lim
Effects of Emotion Regulation on Reactions to Racism in Process of Antiracism among White Individuals, Stephanie Marando-Blanck
A Community-Engaged, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Experiences with Mental Health Services, Elliot Marrow
Change in Community Composition and Structure on Subtidal Rock Walls in the Gulf of Maine over Four Decades of Warming, BRECK A. MCCOLLUM
From Erasure to (Re)Vision: Blackgirls in Education, Nicole E. McLaren
Intercontinental Variation In Population Genetics And Life-History Traits In Native And Invasive Populations Of The Aquatic Plants Myriophyllum Spicatum And Myriophyllum Sibiricum, Anastasia V. Mozharova
Experiencing Race, Racism And Racialization In Transnational Contexts: Racial Literacies Of First-Year International Asian Students., Nasiba Norova
Amplifying the Voices of Immigrants: Nonprofits’ Advocacy and Mobilization of African Immigrants for Political Participation in the United States, Olanike Ojelabi
TAN OVA DEH SUH: QUEERIBEAN FEMINISM, HUMAN SECURITY, AND THE DYNAMICS OF EXCLUSION IN JAMAICA AND TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, Krystal-Gayle O'Neill
Putting the "Social" Back in Social Anxiety: Presentation and Preliminary Testing of a Structurally Informed Ecological Model, Ryan Parigoris
Social Networks and Cognitive Function in Late Adulthood, Changmin Peng
Exploring Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth's Experiences with Vicarious Minority Stress, Erin T. Pereida
OPIOID USE DISORDER WITHIN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT: NOT ALL SKIN INFECTIONS ARE EQUAL, Jennifer E. Pletcher
A Parent's Resolve: The Dire Necessity of Driving Care and Advocacy for Chronically Suicidal Youth, Amanda Priest
Towards Computational Methods in Medical Data Analysis: From Speech and Text to Imaging, Kristin Qi
Multilingual English Teaching: Challenges and Possibilities in the Secondary Mainstream Classroom, Vannessa Quintana Sarria
The Role of Androgen Receptor and B2/ALU SINE RNA Interaction in Hippocampal Dendritic Development, Troy A. Richter
Weathering Inequality: The Belief-Action Gap and Barriers to Everyday Climate Adaptation, Katsyris Rivera-Kientz
NEW MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES TO ULTRA-COLD ATOMS, Joanna Ruhl
Parameter Estimation for Classical Dynamical Systems, Mohamed Sahbani
Towards a New Health Politics in Kenya: Labor Organizing and Strikes by Health Workers in the Public Health Sector, Michael Scanlon
BRCA2 Deficiency and Replication Stress Drive APOBEC3-Mediated Genomic Instability, Kathy Situ
“TAG, YOU’RE IT!”: Catalyzing Latino Success Through a Latino-Centered College Access Program in Boston, Ilyitch Nahiely Tábora
Enhancing Food Operations Through Digital Technologies: A Two-Paper Study On Social Media Analytics And Blockchain Supply Chain Management, Suthasinee Tilokruangchai
“We All Have Our Boulders To Pass, And This Was One Of Mine”: Ethnoculturally Diverse High-School-Aged Youth And Their Reclamation Of Nature, Andrew T. Turchon
We Don't Have A Word For “Chief”: An Examination Of Leader and Follower Fluidity In The Distribution Of Leadership, Jordan R. Weymer
U.S. Policy Thresholds: Translating the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands into Action, James Whitacre
Living in Action: A Critical Phenomenological Study of School-Based Mental Health Counselors’ Engagement in Social Justice Practices, Kerry Whiterell
Global Commons, Local Crises: The Ecological Embeddedness of Global Production Networks, Christopher R. Whynacht
BlackLoving: The Culturally Responsive Engagement Practices of Black Middle School Principals, Deandra L. Williams
Simulation of Ion Dynamics and Kinetics in Electrochemical Systems: A Continuum Model Approach, Zicheng Yang
From Trust to Overreliance: Understanding the Evolution of Human-AI Interactions and the Role of AI Explainability, YoungHo Yoon
Dissertations from 2024
Quantifying and Modeling Contexts for Sequential Recommendation, Benjamin Amankwata
Autistic Adults' Ableist and Neurodiversity Affirming Experiences in Therapy, Lana Andoni
Pathways to Lethal Violence: Personality, Psychological, and Clinical Risk Features of Male Homicide Offenders, Olivia Aveson
Hit-to-Lead Optimization of Small Molecule Adjuvants for Vaccine Formulation, John Mark Awad
Unraveling Collective Anomalies in Data-Driven Systems: Manifestation, Detection, and Enhancement Implications, Mohammad Bakhsh
The Professional Roles and Functions of School Psychologists in Alternative vs Traditional Education, Staci C. Ballard
Up From Slavery: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Perilous Passage of Black Students in Doctoral Programs, Karl Vaughn Bell
Promoting Equitable Climate Resilience in Gentrifying Communities: A Needs-Based Approach in East Boston, Patricio Gabriel Belloy Kauak
Introducing A Practitioner's Framework for Mobilizing Collective Action, Matthew Paul Bond
From Fear to Freedom: The Journey of LGBTQ Latine/x Asylum Seekers and Their Access to Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Services in the U.S., Jonathan Briseno
Functions of the Minibrain Signaling Network in Brain Development, Melissa Brown