Explore a sample list of theses written by past Department of Educational Policy Studies graduate students.
| MA | Title | Professor | Year |
| Andrew Wells | Politics and Partnerships: Black Radicalism and Education in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1865-1877 | Walter Stern | 2019 |
| Choua Xiong | The Moment I knew I was Woke”: Civic Engagement and Political Education for Southeast Asian American Youth in a Social Justice-oriented Community-Based Organization | Stacey Lee | 2017 |
| Demond Hill | Moving Towards Freedom: Locating Liberation in Black Youth Workers and Community-based Educational Spaces | Bianca Baldrige | 2020 |
| James Meadows | Reverse Racism: Courts, Colleges and the History of an Idea | Walter Stern | 2018 |
| Katie Suchor | Say What You Really Believe’: Freedom Schools, Youth Empowerment, and Black Power in 1960s Milwaukee | Adam Nelson-Erica Turner | 2018 |
| Liz Hauck | The Hands that Rocked the Cradle of Liberty: The ‘conservative not feminist’ activism of white mothers of R.O.A.R. in Boston during the 1970s | Adam Nelson | 2017 |
| Mai Neng Vang | …giving them that safe space to be Hmoob”: One community’s response to hegemonic forces | Stacey Lee | 2017 |
| Mary Johnson | Black D/deaf Youth: Illuminating Forgotten Voices | Bianca Baldrige | 2018 |
| Merry Farrier | We Got Love for Each Other’: Building Relationships in a Strength-Based Peer Mentoring Program | Erica Turner | |
| Rachel Johnson | Hoping to Rise: The Complexity of Black Parent Engagement in an African American Immersion School | Linn Posey-Maddox | 2017 |
| Rose Miesner | Disruption, Dilemmas, and Discretion: Understanding the Daily Work of Special Educators | Erica Turner | |
| Anthony Hernadez | Material Hardship in Community and Technical Colleges. | Lesley Bartlett | 2017 |
| Ned Frame | Black Power, Black Studies: Creating the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, 1966-1970 | Adam Nelson | 2019 |
| Marlo A. Reeves | Youth In(Action)? A Case Study of Youth Organizing in the Midwest | 2017 |
| PhD | Title | Professors | Year |
| 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 | 2018 |
| Ashley Smith | Everyday Anti-Black Girl Violence: Surviving and Learning Amidst Persistent School Violence Against Middle School Black Girls | 2020 | |
| Eujin Park | Community-Based Education Spaces, Educational Opportunity, and Racial Positioning in a Korean Immigrant Community | Linn Possey-Maddox | 2018 |
| Eleni Schirmer | Changing Structures, Structuring Change: The Political Economy of Education and the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, 1964-201 | Erica Turner | |
| 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. | 2020 | |
| Julissa Ventura | Spaces of Nourishment for Latinx Youth: Bridging School and Community Contexts | Linn Possey-Maddox | 2018 |
| Kirk Anderson | |||
| 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 |
| Miriam Thangaraj | |||
| 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. | ||
| Sidra Rind | |||
| Stefanie Wong | White Dominance in Diverse Schools: The Possibilities and Limits of Multicultural and Social Justice Education | Stacey Lee | 2018 |
| Thatcher Spero | The Myth and Reality of Developing Global Citizens: A Qualitative Case Study of Higher Education Internationalization in Japan | ||
| Upenyu Majee | |||
| Jake Malloy | An Actor-Network Approach to Evaluation in Wisconsin Schools | Erica Turner |