Graduate Dissertations - Educational Policy Studies

Explore a sample list of dissertations written by past Department of Educational Policy Studies graduate students.

EPS Alumni Dissertations

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Year	Alumni	Title	Faculty Advisor(s)
2018	Alexandra Alleiss	Chuj Youth Organizing, Indigenous Education, and Decolonization Across Borders	Kathryn Moller
2018	Andrew Knudsen	American Teachers, American Workers: AFT, NEA, and the Politics of Performance, 1945-2015	Adam Nelson
2020	Ashley Smith-Purviance	Everyday Anti-Black Girl Violence: Surviving and Learning Amidst Persistent School Violence Against Middle School Black Girls	Bianca Baldridge
2018	Eujin Park	Community-Based Education Spaces, Educational Opportunity, and Racial Positioning in a Korean Immigrant Community	Linn Possey-Maddox
2021	Eleni Schirmer	Changing Structures, Structuring Change: The Political Economy of Education and the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, 1964-201	Erica Turner
2020	Jesus Renteria	Latinx College Students in STEM: An Ethnographic Study that Explores Institutional and Student Related Factors of Academic Success and Struggle	Stacey Lee
2020	Juan Medina	The Politics of Language and Race: Latinx Youth’s Racial Identity Development in Community-Based Educational Spaces.	Bianca Baldridge
2018	Julissa Ventura	Spaces of Nourishment for Latinx Youth: Bridging School and Community Contexts	Linn Possey-Maddox
2019	Lee Rensimer	Going Global: Representation and Sense-Making in the British International Branch Campuses of the United Arab Emirates (2019 Dissertation)	Lesley Bartlett
2019	Mercy Ageypong	Blackness and Africanness: Black West African immigrant students’ experiences in two New York City high schools	Linn Possey-Maddox
2019	Nick Strohl	The Truman Commission and the Unfulfilled Promise of American Higher Education	Adam Nelson
2019	Rachel Silver	Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi.	Nancy Kendall
2018	Stefanie Wong	White Dominance in Diverse Schools: The Possibilities and Limits of Multicultural and Social Justice Education	Stacey Lee
2022	Regina Fuller	Politicizing Sexuality: Making Sex Education Policy in Ghana	Lesley Bartlett
2022	Minhtuyen Mai	Not Your Asian Nerd: Listening to Southeast Asian American Youth in Computer Science	Nancy Kendall
2022	Caitlin Brecklin	District at the Edge: Policy, Community, Place and Belonging in a School Closure Debate	Erica Turner
2022	Joan Jaejin Hong	Relative (Dis)Privilege: Complicating Ideas Regarding East and South Asian American Youth	Stacey Lee
2022	Rachel Johnson	Black Homeschooling: A Site of Freedom and Constraints for Black Families	Linn Posey-Maddox
2022	Lena Marie Batt	How Do School Leaders Conceptualize, Garner, and Allocate Resources: Using Multiple Methods to Examine School-Level Resource Decision Making	Erica Turner
2022	Jennifer Otting	Imaginations of a Democratic Future: The Changing Landscape of Higher Education in Burma	Erica Turner
2022	Rosie Miesner	Compliance Amid Complexity?: How People, Policies, and a Pandemic Shape Special Education in Practice	Erica Turner
2022	Jonathan Berhanu	Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: The Gendered Experiences of Black Men at a Predominantly White University	Stacey Lee
2022	Anthony Hernandez	Pockets of Opportunity: An Analysis of Success at Two-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions	Lesley Bartlett
2022	Keith McNamara	Testing Bias in Psychology, Law, and Public Policy, 1920–1980	Bill Reese
2022	Larry D. Brown Jr.	Edu-Carcerality: Beyond the Metaphor of School to Prison	Bianca Baldridge
2022	Olayinka Olagbegi-Adegbite	Language Policy Awareness and Implementation in Nigeria: Implications for Early Grade Reading Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms	Lesley Bartlett
2021	Choua Xiong	HMoob-Making Lessons: Stateless Belonging and Home-Making in a Neoliberal Nationalist Thai School	Stacey Lee
2021	Huimin Wang	Creating the Well-Adjusted Citizen: The Human Sciences and Public Schools in the United States, World War I–1950	Bill Reese
2021	Erin H Cantos	Revolutionary Teachers: Colonial Schooling and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Philippines	Bill Reese
2021	Sohyun Kang	Elite High Schools and Reproduction of Elites in the U.S.	Eric Grodsky
2021	Brett Bertucio	From Courtroom to Classroom: Church, State, and American Civic Education, 1940–1980	Bill Reese & Simone Schweber
2021	Marlo Reeves	Understanding Race, Grassroots Organizing, and Funding within a Community-Based Youth Organization: A Three-Paper Case Study	Bianca Baldridge
2021	Shanshan Jiang	Between the Pearl River Delta and teh US Midwest: Class and Racial Transformation through Transnational Higher Education	Kathryn Moeller
2021	Teresa Speciale	Different Languages, Different Futures? Education, Language, and (Im)mobility in Dakar, Senegal	Lesley Bartlett
2021	Glen Water	Radical Urban Citizenship: Critical Education on the Margins of a Global Megacity	Michael Apple
2021	Tarsha Herelle	Women of the Black Diaspora: Policies of Inclusion, Politics of Exclusion, and Spaces of Resistance	Kathryn Moeller
2021	Amato Nocera	Constructing a Black Curriculum: Race, Representation, and the Politics of Knowledge, 1890-1945	Adam Nelson
2020	Diana Famakinwa	Language Policy Awareness and Implementation in Nigeria: Implications for Early Grade Reading Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms	Lesley Bartlett
2020	Jake Malloy	An Actor-Network Approach to Evaluation in Wisconsin Schools	Erica Turner
2020	Thatcher Spero	The Myth and Reality of Developing Global Citizens: A Qualitative Case Study of Higher Education Internationalization in Japan	Adam Nelson
2023	Abby Beneke	The Politics and Practice of School Discipline Reform	Erica Turner
2023	Dan Berman	Defending Democracy: Social Studies and Citizenship Education during World War II	Bill Reese
2023	Brianna LaFoon	Island Chains: The American Imperial Education Web in the Early Twentieth Century.	Bill Reese
2023	Qing Liu	Unexpected Immigrants: Chinese Scholars in American Universities, 1940s-1980s	Adam Nelson
2023	Eric Luckey	Developing Morals: The Education of Lawrence Kohlberg	Adam Nelson
2023	Linda Pheng	Disrupting Displacement: Taking Root in a Southeast Asian Community-based Educational Space for Southeast Asian Refugee Youth	Stacey Lee
2023	Maria Velazquez	Tenant Families in the Housing-School Nexus: Raising Children, Advocating, & Organizing in the California Bay Area.	Linn Posey-Maddox
Year	Alumni	Title	Faculty Advisor(s)