Jennifer Rae Adams
Greensboro, NC
Counseling and Counselor Education
An Examination of Reasons for Teacher-Initiated Contact
with the School Counselor by Family Structure, Gender, and Race
B.S.S.Ed., M.A., West Virginia University
Committee Chair - James M. Benshoff
Stephen J. Aragon
Statesville, NC
Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation
The Underlying Structure of Emergency Room Satisfaction:
A Structural Equation Modeling Investigation
B.S., University of Tampa
M.A., The George Washington University
Committee Chair - Lloyd Bond
Karen A. Barnhardt
Bozeman, MT
Curriculum and Teaching
Negotiating Apocalypse: Toward a Genealogical
Environmental Practice for Activists and Educators
B.A., Carroll College
M.Ed., Eastern Montana College
Committee Chair - David E. Purpel
Irvin J. Besecker
Clemmons, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Teaching, Learning, and Transformation:
The Life Experiences of One Teacher
A.B., Earlham College
M.A., Ball State University
Committee Chair - Ulrich Reitzug
Barbara Rose Blackburn
Clemmons, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Barriers and Facilitators to Effective Staff Development:
Perceptions from Award-Winning Practitioners
B.S., M.A., Gardner-Webb College
Committee Chair - Gerald Ponder
Linda Ann Cope Bost
Statesville, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
The Secrets of Sisters: Understanding Women Administrators'
Existing Feminist Theories Through Personal Narrative
B.A., UNC at Greensboro
M.Ed., UNC at Charlotte
Ed.S., Appalachian State University
Committee Chair - Dale Brubaker
Laura Suzanne Wenig Boyles
Mooresville, NC
Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation
Exploration of a Retention Model
for Community College Students
B.A., Bluffton College
M.A., The Ohio State University
Committee Chair - Richard M. Jaeger
Kathleen Marie Connolly
Greensboro, NC
Counseling and Counselor Education
The Relationship Among Wellness,
Mattering, and Job Satisfaction
B.S., Loyola University of Chicago
M.A., DePaul University
Committee Chair - Jane Myers
Margaret Edwards Dailey
Clemmons, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
The Art of Healing in the Practice of Medicine
B.A., University of Missouri
M.P.H., University of South Florida
Committee Chair - David E. Purpel
Brian Jackson Dew
Greensboro, NC
Counseling and Counselor Education
The Relationship Among Internalized Homophobia,
Self-Disclosure, Self-Disclosure to Parents,
and Wellness in Adult Gay Males
B.A., Furman University
M.A., Appalachian State University
Committee Chair - Jane E. Myers
Teresa Behrend Fletcher
Greensboro, NC
Counseling and Counselor Education
The Effects of a Low-Element Challenge Program
on the Cohesion of a Women 's Collegiate Volleyball Team:
Implications for Adventure Based Counseling
B.B.A., Loyola University of Chicago
M.A., Northeastern Illinois University
Committee Chair - J. Scott Hinkle
James Mario Frabutt
Greensboro, NC
Human Development and Family Studies
Parenting Practices, Mother-child Relationship Style,
and Early Adolescents' Psychosocial Competence
in African American Families
B.A., University of Notre Dame
M.S., UNC at Greensboro
Committee Chair - Carol MacKinnon-Lewis
Robin R. Ganzert
Winston Salem, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
The Effects of Financial Stress in Higher Education
B.S., M.B.A., Wake Forest University
Committee Chair - Gerald Ponder
Donna Mackey Gibson
Jamestown, NC
Counseling and Counselor Education
The Effect of Social Coping Resources and
Growth-Fostering Relationships on Infertility Stress in Women
B.A., M.S., S.S.P., Winthrop University
Committee Chair - Jane E. Myers
Paula Renee Grubbs
Winston Salem, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
The Effect of Multi-Age Grouping
on the Social Interaction of Young Children
with Disabilities in Integrated Classes
B.S., M.Ed., UNC at Greensboro
Committee Chair - Judith A. Niemeyer
Brenda Mann Hammack
Salem, VA
English
Marks of the Beast:
Degeneration Theory and Occult Literature
of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
B.A., M.A., Hollins College
Committee Chair - Mary Ellis Gibson
Susan Weathington Hines
Greensboro, NC
Music Education
The Effects of Motoric and Non-motoric Music Instruction
on Reading and Mathematics Achievements of Learning
Disabled Students in Kindergarten through Ninth Grade
B.M., Meredith College
M.M., C.A.S., UNC at Greensboro
Committee Chair - Patricia Sink
Sandra Reynolds Hodnette
Greenville, MS
Curriculum and Teaching
A New Landscape for the Academy:
Tracing the Development and Impact
of Feminist Philosophy in Higher Education Since 1960
B.S., The Florida State University
M.A., Ed.S., Appalachian State University
Committee Chair - Bert Goldman
Justen Marie Infinito-Allocco
Greensboro, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Ethical Self-Formation and the Other:
A Philosophic Inquiry for Education
B.A., New York University
M.Ed., Montclair State University
Committee Chair - David E. Purpel
Marian Ann Lambros
Winston Salem, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Healing to Learn:
Mutuality in Relationships and Education
B.S., UNC at Chapel Hill
M.Ed., UNC at Greensboro
Committee Chair - David E. Purpel
Michael Graham McElrath
Jamestown, NY
Curriculum and Teaching
Cause and Affect: Identifying the Dynamics of High-Functioning
Middle School Teams and the Perceived Impact
(of these teams) on the Well-Being of Students
B.A., Gannon University
Ed.M., Temple University
Committee Chair - John VanHoose
Martha Gimpel Miller
Greensboro, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Tevye's Daughters: Jewish Experience
and Women's Identity in the United States
B.S., University of Illinois
M.A., UNC at Greensboro
Committee Chair - Svi Shapiro
Katherine Bray Murphy
Ocean Ridge, FL
Curriculum and Teaching
Transforming Teachers through Care, Empowerment,
and Community: A Critique of Staff Development
B.S., University of Maryland, College Park
M.S., The Johns Hopkins University
Committee Chair - David E. Purpel
Justine J. Reel
Greensboro, NC
Exercise and Sport Science
Body Image and Physical Self-Perceptions
among African-American and Caucasian Women
across the Adult Life Span
B.A., North Carolina State University
M.S., M.S., UNC at Greensboro
Committee Chair - Diane Gill
Dean Edwin Sprinkle
Statesville, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Decision-Making and the Community College President:
Exploring Indices from the Rorschach
B.A., North Carolina State University
M.A., Western Carolina University
Committee Chair - Bert Goldman
Mary Mills Stanford
Lexington, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Our Elusive Homes: Foster Children
and the Crisis of Belonging in a Postmodern World
B.A., Berea College
M.S.W., UNC at Chapel Hill
Committee Chair - Svi Shapiro
Jane Thompson Stephens
Winston Salem, NC
English
The Rhetoric of Women's Leadership
B.A., Vanderbilt University
M.A., UNC at Chapel Hill
Committee Chair - Hephzibah Roskelly
Gayle Marie Turner
Boone, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Care of Self and Care of Others:
Justice and Identity in Care Theory
A.B., Stanford University
M.I.T., Seattle University
Committee Chair - David Purpel
Erskine S. Walther
Greensboro, NC
Curriculum and Teaching
Relationships Between Student Satisfaction
and Student Retention in Higher Education
B.S., M.A., M.B.A., UNC at Greensboro
Committee Chair - Bert A. Goldman
