All dissertations completed at Western Michigan University are entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors and may be only available from on-campus computers. Print copies are available through interlibrary loan for dissertations before 2013. If you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Dissertations from 2026
Determinants of Evaluation Demand in the United States Federal Government: A Sequential Mixed Methods Study with Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Ruqayyah Abu-Obaid
Enhancing Control Charting Schemes and Exploring New Assessment Metrics to Advance Quality Control and Cyber-Attack Detection in Manufacturing, Ahmad Al Majali
Lived Experiences In Burn Scar Management: A Qualitative Exploration of Perceived Intervention Effectiveness and Factors Influencing Adherence, Stephanie Althoff
Behavior of a Mildly Skewed Network Tied-Arch Bridge During Construction and Early Service Life, Harsha Amunugama
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Second-Career Educators, Kyle Avink
Water, Mud, Ink, Blood, Latifa Ayad-Hall
Place-Based scholarship utilization and urban Black males, Nkenge Amir Bergan
Transition Experiences of Early Middle College Completers: A Grounded Theory Study, Sarah Louise Drabik Cheatham
Having Our Say: A Sociological Examination of English Instruction in Urban High Schools and Effects on Black and Latino Identities, Jena Marie Escareno
Black Faces in White Spaces: Understanding School Belonging Among Black Adolescents at NAIS Independent Schools, Letetsia Angelica Fox
A Phenomenological Study of Black College Students’ Belonging Built Through Meaningful Interactions with Black Staff at Predominantly White Institutions, Katelyn A. Hanley Semelbauer
Characterizing Volumetric Contraction Fracture Networks for Fluid Flow, Justin Alexander Honer
A Multiple Case Study of Place-Based Promise Programs, Chad Edward Inabinet
Advancing Computational Frontiers in Noisy Quantum Systems with Transformative Quantum Neural Network Classifiers, Irene Kahvazadeh
Practice Makes Perfect: Behavioral Fluency as a Paradigm for Reducing Pediatric Prehospital Dosing Errors, Juan Antonio Lopez
Evaluating the Effect of Dolomite Mineralogy on Oxygen Isotope Fractionation Using High-Temperature Dolomitization Experiments, Ariel Sunshine Martin
Making Sense of the Faith-Based School’s Mission: An Instrumental Case Study Exploring How the School’s Espoused Mission Is Enacted, Richard Mingerink
Contested Americanism: The Klan, Public Education, and Popular Resistance, 1915–1932, Jason U. Rose
The Effects of Fluency Building on Undergraduate Student Performance, Lauren B. Shibley
Recognizing and Theorizing the Older Other in Children’s Literature and Media, Morgan Shiver
Barriers to Climate Change and Sustainability Action: Nursing Education and Practice, Dawn Marie Smith
Geographic and Racial Disparities in Behavioral Health Services in Michigan Medicaid, Monica K. Trevino
“the Thorns of the most severe virtue”: Education, Religion, and Cultural Power in Michigan, 1798–1855, Kyle Christopher VanderWall
Small College Registrars As Leaders: A Multiple Case Study Of Shared Leadership, Kyle John Wigboldy
Convergence and Divergence of Opinion About Treatment of Binocular Vision Disorders Among Vision Care Professionals, Sonia Young
Dissertations from 2025
Resilient learning for Anomaly Detection in Smart living Systems, Sahar Abedzadeh
Probing Shielding Tensor Components of Amino Acids Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Shiva Agarwal
Mathematical Modeling of Climate Risk in Banking: Optimizing Balance Sheets for a Sustainable Future, Hala Alkhalid
Nonparametric Finite Mixture of Ising Graphical Models, Manal Hamadi Alloqmani
Sustainable Material Solutions for Industrial Decarbonization and Environmental Remediation Through Molecular Simulations, Noor Alomari
Application of Adhesive in Light-Frame Roof Structures and Evaluation of Their Wind-Resistance Performance, Mohammad Essam Suileman AL-Shatnawi
The Effects of Sponsorship Activation on Sponsorship Success in the NBA, Junyi Bian
Finding Utopia: An Examination of Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Utopianism in U.S. College Classrooms, Brittany Page Brake
The Experiences of Elite, Female Club Volleyball Players – An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Chelsea Brehm
DeadTime in the Vale of Soul-Making: Hermeneutics, Humanization, and Higher Education in Prison, Dale Michael Brown
Framing the Problem to Meet the Policy Solution: An Embedded Mixed Methods Case Study of the 2017 Michigan Opioid Laws, Leandra Hawkins Burke
Utilizing Drainage Induced PFAS Enrichment in Cascade Generated Foam for Efficient Removal at Wastewater Treatment Plants, Ethan Samuel Coffin
Removing the Opportunity to Respond Induces Resurgence, Lindsay Essig Croghan
The Impact of Feedback Timing on Work Performance When There Is a Long Duration Between Sessions, Priyanka B. Dave
Ready, Set, No: Why Not All Successful Dual Credit High School Graduates Matriculate to Postsecondary Education, Jessica Deckard Mann
Evaluation of Prerequisite Discrimination Skills for Obtaining Assent from Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: A Translational Study, Jessica J. Helen Detrick
Breaking Barriers for Student Success: Leading During Challenging Times, Lisa Marie Dewey
Examination of the Association Between Parent Beliefs About Injury and Supervision Behavior, Felicia Acelia Diaz
Immune Modulation Affects Olfactory Glomerular Recovery in Zebrafish, Bonnie E. Ebendick
Voices of Resilience: The Language Learning Experiences of Married Syrian Refugee Women in the United States, Amira Ashraf Eldemerdash
Mexican Americans’ Attitudes Toward Mexican Immigrants in the United States, Sandra Daisy Espinoza Montes
Black Sufi Women in America: Spiritual Healing, Institute Building, and Reclaiming Ancestral Rights, Tasleem Firdausee
A Summer in Turners Corners, Kevin FItton
Student Perceptions of the Impact of Faculty Race and Gender on Their Sense of Connectedness, Engagement, and Persistence, Sherrie Y. Fuller
Democracy in the Afrobarometer, Rei A. Gordon
The Heavy, Cody Harrison
Multimodal Feature Fusion and AI-Driven Framework for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease, Aya Hassouneh
Identifying Universal and Language-Specific Features in Play-Based Writing of Young Children, Shaya Helbig
Monsters, Menders, Mothers, and Managers: Agatha Christie, Adaptation, and Female Domestic Gender Roles, Carrie Yvonne Hess
Three Funny Things: A Multicultural Validation, Jon Hook
Preservice Teachers’ Experiences with Critical Self-Reflection as a Means for Identifying Resistances to Becoming Culturally Competent: A Phenomenological Study, Susan Elaine Huff
Pilot Study of the Barriers to Exercise Adherence and Motivation (BEAM) Questionnaire for Adults with Osteoarthritis, Haley Ciara Hughes
Design of Virtual Torque Sensor for Class 8 Heavy-duty Trucks using AI/ML Methods and Testing, Vivek Iddum
Socio-economic Impacts of Natural and Political Shocks, Muhammad Ishtiaq
Between the Ingenio and the Ingeniero: The Spanish Sugar Master and the Development of the Ibero-Amercian Sugar Industry, 1450–1650, Randall Janes
Between the Ingenio and the Ingeniero: The Spanish Sugar Master and the Development of the Ibero-Amercian Sugar Industry, 1450–1650, Randall Janes
Multiple Monochromatic Subgraphs in Edge-Colored Graphs, Emma Felicity Jent
Micro and Macro Analysis of Additively Manufactured Superalloys for Use in the Aerospace Gas Turbine Industry, Joseph Johnson
Techniques for Enabling Advanced Adas Features: Operation in Inclement Weather and Use of Infrastructure Information, Parth Kadav
Emission Behavior at the Single Emitter Scale from a Porous Media Ionic Liquid Ion Source, Thomas Victor Kerber
The Fault Line: Understanding Tension Between Industry and Higher Education Institutions in Sustained Partnerships, David Lawrence
Synthesis and Application of PVDF Compatible LLZO in Composite Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Kevin Zachariah Mathew
Testing for Broad Alternatives in Stratified Contingency Tables, Nan Mi
The Wangled Hiss, Naima Minhas
A Parallel Fuzzy Logic Framework for Surgical Skill Evaluation via Instance Segmentation and DeepSORT Tracking, Mohsen M. Mohaidat
Turbulence and Energetic Ion Production in the Partially Magnetized Hollow Cathode Plume, Margaret Mary Mooney
Exploring the Perceived Impact of Instructional Coaching on K-12 Staff in a Midwestern State Region, Viloshinee Murugan
Effects of Commission Errors During Prompting on Skill Acquisition and Maintenance, Molly K. Mutchler
Measuring the Accuracy of Hierarchal Linear Models and Visual Analysis for Evaluating Single-Case Designs, Justin Myers
Institutionalizing Organizational Change, Fernando Ospina
The Impact of Ethnic and Political Favoritism on Resource Allocation and Public Service Delivery, Gauhar Rehman Panezai
Development of the Hydrogeology Concept Inventory and Exploration of Its Embedded Spatial Thinking Components, Oluwarotimi Akindele Popoola
Investigating the Effects of Brief Video Interventions on White Undergraduate Students’ Racial Attitudes, Alyssa Powers
Examination of Caregiver Supervision Practices and Beliefs Among Caregivers of Children with Bleeding Disorders, Sophia Noelle Prokos
Development and Validation of a Thermal Model for an Electric Vehicle Transmission, Ghazal Rajabikhorasani
Developing and Testing an Instrument to Diagnose and Measure Change in Conceptual Understanding of ENSO Among Undergraduates, Queen Esther Roach
The Ebony Edge: A Qualitative Exploration of Math Success Among Black College Women, April Ruiz
Rational Approaches to Achieve Luminescent Gold Clusters for Optical Applications, Shivi Saxena
Diagnosis by Algorithm: The Transformative Impact of Social Media–Driven ADHD Self-Diagnosis for Women Over 30 and the Proposal of Neurotype Strain Theory, Rebecca Lynn Sevin
Computationally Efficient Autonomous Vehicle Perception: Intelligent Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Real World Applications, Sachin Sharma
Data-Driven Decision Making for Quality Control in Foundry Applications, Ronit Shetty
Measurements and First Principles Calculations on the Non-Centrosymmetric Superconductor AuPb3, Meena Shrestha
Upper-Level Undergraduate Pre-Healthcare Students’ Journeys to Graduation and Health Professional Graduate Programs, Holly L. Sisson
The Rose that Grew from Concrete: Exploring the Romantic Experiences of Black Men with Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Tatyana Nichelle Smith