DOCTORAL GRADUATES

APRIL 21 – OCTOBER 31, 2022

School Of Leadership Studies

Leadership For Change

Raymond S. Harrod, Sr., EdD

An Auto-ethnography: Conversations from the Hood-When Gun Violence Hits HomeInterventions and Solutions.

Rolanda Billy, EdD

Enhancing Navajo Culturally Relevant Education for Head Start Children.

Emily Elaine Millians, EdD

Engaging the Organization as a Complex Adaptive System: A Case Study of a School Leadership Team Seeking Instructional Change.

Michelle Tsosie, EdD

The Transformative Influence of Stories in the Lives of Navajo Women: A Narrative Inquiry.

Human Development

Roxane Maiko Byrne, PhD

“Oh Cool, I Don't Fit”: Multiracial College Student Experiences in Race Specific Cultural Spaces on Campus.

Romaine D. Castro, PhD "Talk-Story": A Narrative Approach to Healing.

Kathryn Jennings Coates, PhD The Adoption of Performance Support Solutions in Organizations.

Lori J. Davidson, PhD

Recovery and Strength Training: The Missing Piece in the Prevention of Relapse in Substance Use Disorder.

Bram Duffee, PhD High-Stress, High-Consequence Emergency Medical Decision-Making: Paramedics Seeking a Differential Diagnosis.

Christine Schwyn Harrison, PhD We Need to Talk: A Critical Ethnographic Analysis of White Women Educators Discussing Their Experience of Racial Dynamics in Multi-Racial Elementary Classrooms.

Michele Aree Richardson, PhD Tell Them Who You Are: Major Media Discourse and the Shaping of Kamala Harris' Leadership.

Julia Penn Shaw, PhD Cognitive Dimensions: Lifespan Path to Cognitive Complexity.

Carrie L. Spell-Hansson, PhD Unbossed and Unbroken: Personal Resilience in Women Leaders Who Experience a Lack of Respect in the Workplace.

HUMAN & ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS

Tami Lei Dobishinsky, PhD Caregiving for an Adopted Senior Dog: The Influence on Kinship and Transcendence.

Zabrina Wright Epps, PhD Leading the Future: Superintendents' Perceptions of Leadership and Future Public Education Systems.

Jennifer Lynn Hurley, PhD How Planners Design Public Participation.

William Stephen Kane, PhD What Mentees Want: The Most Important External Mentor Attributes and Mentoring Activities for High-Potential, Future-Leading Women As Mentees in Corporate Environments.

Karen A. Williams, PhD Higher Education Chief Diversity Officers in Times of Emerging Crises: A Study of Integration, Experience, and Impact.

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE

John Randolph Ruffin, PhD From Charismatic Founding to Organizational Intransigence: Challenges of Founder's Syndrome in Succession Planning for a Nonprofit Organization.

Mark Merritt Spradley, PhD Business Model Innovation: Sensemaking in Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

School Of Psychology

INFANT & EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT WITH AN EMPHASIS IN MENTAL HEALTH & DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Christine Ann Gliniak, PhD Cultivating Trauma-Informed Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): A Qualitative Look at Perceived Determinants to Implementation.

Christine Harkness, PhD

The Influence of Personality Traits on Narrative Writing Skills in Third and Fourth-Grade Students.

Amanda Jean Holliday-Bembridge, PhD Mamas and Music: A Qualitative Study of Music's Impact on a Mother's Mental Health and the Developing Parent-Child Relationship.

Deborah Sollami Losada, PhD

The Journey of Perinatal Women's Lived Experience of Traumatic Birth, Breastfeeding, Caregiving, and Bonding Using Photovoice and the Diary-Interview Method.

Temitope Moyosore Olaniran, PhD Using the Developmental, IndividualDifferences, Relationship-Based Model (DIR Floortime®) for Spirituality and Emotional Perinatology: An Autoethnography.

Jennifer Bell Smith, PhD

The Assessment of Social-Emotional Growth Across Cultures: A Pilot Study for Using the Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart With an Arabic-Speaking Population.

PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Jesika Nikole Asaro, PhD Identity Development of Transnational Transracial Adoptees.

Brooke Moore Buchman, PhD

Moral Injury in Combat Veterans: The Role of Moral Foundations and Predisposing Factors.

Albert Andrew Chan, PhD Heterogeneity of mTBI in Motor Vehicle Collisions: Examining Persistent Deficits in Cognitive Functioning by Collision Type.

Simon Chung, PhD Eveningness Predicts Long-Term Psychological Distress Through Daytime Sleepiness in Young Adults.

Craig Donnell Crawford, PhD The Neuropsychological Consequences of Medical Cannabis Use.

Tijuana McLeod Crosby, PhD The Effects of Age and Gender on Types of Abuse of Human Trafficking Victims.

Alana D.C. Fenton, PhD Maternal Resources, Social Functioning, and Internalizing Outcome of Black Young Adults within LONGSCAN.

Patricia C. Friedmann-Folman, PhD Childhood Emotional Abuse and the Mediating Role of Self-Stigma on SelfEfficacy Expectancy.

Ruth Ann Gatt, PhD Is the Effect of Prenatal Distress on Infant Emotional Endurance Mediated by Infant Temperamental Negativity?

Daniel Andre Ignacio, PhD Using Neuropsychology to Address Rehabilitation Disparities in the Successful Reintegration of Community-Dwelling Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury.

Samantha Anne Isakson Lyerly, PhD Adult Play and Wellbeing: A Moderated Mediation Model.

Emily Jones, PhD

Equine Therapy, Social Functioning, and the Mediating Effect of Joint Attention in Children with Autism Spectrum.

Heather Theresa Leffew, PhD

Instrumental and Affective Mass Murder: Establishing a Predictive Typology with Computer-Mediated Linguistic Analysis.

Jennifer Nosker, PhD

Examining Cognitive Fatigue and Medical Error in Aeromedicine and the Effect of Team Cohesion on the FatiguePerformance Relationship.

Psychology With An Emphasis In Media Pscyhology

Mary Ann Couvillion, PhD Social Anxiety and the Experience of Belongingness on Facebook: The Importance of Active Facebook Use.

Sara Rae Cureton, PhD News Media Trust, Media Consumption, and Participation in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.

M. Scott Garner, PhD The Legacy of The Oprah Winfrey Show: 'Being Moved' to Personal Transformation.

Judith Manassen Ramon, PhD Social Representation of Transformational Leadership Created by the Public in Networked Social Movements: The Case of the Israeli Tent Protest Summer 2011.

Mary Poffenroth, PhD

Peer-to-Peer Asynchronous Video as an Intervention Strategy to Mitigate Stereotype Threat in Online Asynchronous STEM Gateway Courses.

Maria Viola Sanchez, PhD Using the Bystander Intervention Model to Improve Efforts to Reduce Female Genital Mutilation.

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