Dissertations defended 2010-2023
 

• Haylee Hebenstreit - They Don’t Talk About it: A Mixed-Methods Exploratory Investigation of the Food Security Assessment Experiences in Drug Courts: A Nationwide Survey & Interview Project: 5/1/23
  
  Arlene L. Mbonu - Understanding Medicaid Expansion Policy Impact Through a Case Study Examination of Diabetes Diagnosis Rates: 5/22
   
• Jeffrey A. Barnett - Validating Experiences, Sense of Belonging and College Persistence and Completion Among Public University Low-Income Students: 12/21
   
• Jennifer Hyk - Impoverished and Financially Insecure Aging in Place. Defense date: 5/10/21
   
• Kristen Colson - Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Juvenile Justice Population and Mental Health Outcomes Within the Suffolk County New York Probation Department. Defense date: 4/30/21
   
• Elissa Friedman - A Quantitative Study of Caregiving for Community Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia and Frailty in New York State. Defense date: 5/11/20
   
• Alexander Hlavaty Glazebrook - Technology Acceptance and the Interplay of Social Interdependence Among a sample of Urban older Adults – An Exploratory Organizational  Case Study. Defense date: 5/1/20
   
• Amie Vedral Cohen - Service Learning Participation and Service-Oriented Campus Culture as Promoters of the Academic Success of Latinx/a/o Students at Four-Year Institutions of Higher Education. Defense date: 4/30/20
   
• Barbara Brennan - Siblings: The Hidden Casualties of the Opioid Epidemic: A Quantitative Study Investigating: What are the Relationships between Stigma & Support Systems and the Emotional Well-being of Siblings of Opioid Addicted Individuals? . Defense date: 4/2/20
   
• Alison F. Herrschaft - Trends in Drug Exposed Infants with a Hospital Referral to Child Protective Services: A Quantitative Study. Defense date: 3/23/20
   
• Theresa A. Fucigna -  Perceived Organizational Support, Resilience and Police Stress: A Quantitative Analysis. Defense date: 12/6/19
   
• David Hornung -  Thinking Beyond “Boot Straps”: Conservative Intellectuals and The Attack on The Welfare State. Defense date: 11/22/19
   
• Jennie R. Sucilsky - Understanding Unregulated Sober Housing in Suffolk County. Defense date: 5/9/19 
   
• Gina M. Vanacore - Relationship Between Student Adaptation to College and Persistence for Students From Low Socioeconomic Status, At Public Institutions of Higher Education in the United States of America. Defense date: 5/2/19
   
• Inna Mogilevskaya - First-generation College Students: Academic Persistence after Academic Warning. Defense date: 4/25/19
   
• Jalana S. Harris -Adherence to the Strong Black Woman Archetype and Sexual Agency: An Intersectional Exploration of Sexual Assertiveness, Towards Deconstructing Black Women’s Sexual Health. Defense date: 5/4/18
   
• Kristina M. Veselak - Teachers' Beliefs About the Purpose of Education in a High-Stakes Testing Environment. Defense date: 4/26/18
   
• Theresa J. Amendola - Differences in the Analysis of Privatization of Resources in Three Different Disciplines. Defense date: 4/25/18
   
• Matthew J. Zisel - An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Low-Income, First Generation Students' Transition to and Perceptions of Community College. Defense date: 4/9/18
   
• Cheryl Reeves - Mindfulness-Based Interventions in U.S. Schools: A Systematic Review. Defense date: 12/12/17
   
• Katherine Mitchell - Becoming Whole Again: A Qualitative Study of Veterans Return to Civilian Life. Defense date: 4/26/17
   
• Charmaine Clarke - Reentry Experiences of Elderly Ex-offenders: Wasted Lives. Defense Date: 4/18/2017
   
• Robin DeLuca-Acconi - The Power of Advocacy in Bridging the Ideological Divide: The Campaign for Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility in the Cocoa Industry, 2001-2014. Defense Date: 12/7/15
   
• Donna Barbara Riley - Lost and Found: Transgender Elders' Journey Toward Authenticity: A Constructionist Grounded Theory Study. Defense Date: 12/7/2015
   
• Laura Honegger - Predictors of Recidivism Among a Sample of Suburban Mental Health Court Participants. Defense Date: 5/18/2015
   
• Amy Phillips - The Resurrection of Self: How Deconversion from Religious Belief to Atheism Healed Rejection, Trauma, and Shame. Defense Date: 5/5/2015
   
• Jennette Allen-McCombs - Ready, Set, Change: An Explanatory Case Study of Readiness for Change within Five New York State Voluntary Child
  Welfare Agencies. Defense Date: 12/11/2014
   
• Elana Needle - You Are Not What You Eat: The Myth of School Food and Child Obesity. Defense Date: 5/20/2014
   
• Jennifer Wood - Acculturation Experiences of Latin Immigrants in Suffolk County, New York: A Grounded Theory Study. Defense Date: 4/30/2014
   
• Jerome Madumelu - Widowhood Practice in Two Igbo Communities of Nigeria: A Contextual Manipulation of Patriarchy. Defense Date: 3/25/2014
   
• Rana S. Gautam - Banking Crises & Human Rights: The Choices Leaders Make. Defense Date: 2/5/2013
   
• Eun-sil Lee - Condoms, HIV/AIDS, and Adolescent Men in Malawi: A Perspective. Defense Date: 12/14/2012
   
• Catherine Carballeira - Indigenous Identity on the Poospatuck Reservation: Implications for Culturally Grounded Social Work Practice and Policy. Defense Date: 5/10/2011
   
• Sylvia Diaz - Temporary Assistance to Needy Families in the Advent of Welfare Reform:  How Household Composition Impacts Participation in Public Assistance Programs. Defense Date  4/12/2011
   
• Carolyn Steinman - Alternatives for Youth:  A Mental Health Perspective. Defense Date  3/15/2011
   
• Amy Platt - Dissertation Title:  From Sin to Sickness:  A Qualitative Content Analysis of Four Major American Newspapers’ Representation of Alcoholism. Defense Date  11/23/2010