Doctoral Dissertation Defense Schedule
Note: All students listed below are eligible for graduation within the current Academic year 2021-2022.
| Name | Program | Dissertation Title | Date & Time | Location | Dissertation Chair | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Brown | Family Science and Human Development | Good Science Teaching in an Urban Middle School Context: An Examination of the Relationship Between Science Teachers and Their Students | April 5, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Doug Larkin | |
| Bridget T. Looney | Teacher Education and Teacher Development | “How Am I a Maker Making a Makerspace?:” A Focus on Teachers in Practice Self-Authoring as Makers in Constrained K-8 Spaces | April 8, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Reva Jaffe-Walter | |
| Michelle Turner Swartz | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Exploration of Childhood Apraxia of Speech Features | April 8, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Elaine Hitchcock | |
| Jessica L. Bonumwezi | Clinical Psychology | Mediation of Intergenerational Trauma Transmission by Family Variables in Children of Rwandan Survivors of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi | April 13, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Sally Grapin | |
| Cyrene Crooms | Teacher Education and Teacher Development | Teacher Activism for Emergent Bilingual Learners: A Qualitative Study | April 20, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Emily J. Klein | |
| Sa-Qwona S. Clark | Teacher Education and Teacher Development | Investigating the Collaboration of Teachers of Students with Disabilities and Teaching Assistants in the Classroom | April 20, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Monica Taylor | |
| Kelly Gentry | Counselor Education | The Lived Experiences of Traditionally Aged College Women in Abusive Relationships | April 20, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Matthew Shurts | |
| Renata Garcia Prieto Palacios Roji | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Telecommuting Antecedents and Outcomes Within a Turbulent Global Context: The Incremental Explanatory Utility of Technostress and Role Strain | April 21st, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. John Kulas | |
| Duane Williams | Family Science and Human Development | Black First-Generation Professionals: Leaders That You Never Heard of Before – An Exploratory Study of Lived Experiences | April 22, 2022 at 11 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Pearl Stewart | |
| Fatimah Turner | Family Science and Human Development | Using Ethnographic Interviews to Describe the Attempts and Strategies Used by Black, First-Generation, Female, College Students to Combine Family, Community, and College Life | April 22, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Pearl Stewart | |
| Nadia Binte Jamil | Environmental Science and Management | Arsenic: Risk, Exposure, Policy and Management | April 27, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Huan Feng | |
| Robert Rogers | Counseling | The Stressors Black Pastors Experience: A Counseling Perspective | April 27, 2022 at 11a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Dana Levitt | |
| Douglas Walker | Teacher Education and Teacher Development | Reconsidering Common Professional Development and Its Impact on Teacher Learning: An Examination of Teacher Motivation in a Self-Directed Model of Teacher Professional Learning | April 28, 2022 at 10 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Katrina Bulkley | |
| Alfred M. Limbere | Mathematics Education | Using Teacher Noticing and Video-Mediated Professional Learning to Develop Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching the Derivative | April 28, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Steven Greenstein | |
| Kencia Mele | Family Science and Human Development | Impact of Family Expectations on the Marital Practices of Haitian-American Couples | April 29, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Pearl Stewart | |
| Jill Del Pozzo | Clinical Psychology | Multiple Risk Factors for Schizotypy in a Non-Clinical Population: Exploring the Continuum of Psychosis Two Years Later | May 2nd, 2022 at 12:30 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Christopher King | |
| Carrie Bergeson | Family Science and Human Development | Community-Based Programs as Spaces for Critical Consciousness Not Containment: Black Youths’ Perspectives | May 6, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Robert Reid | |
| Rocco Placenti | Family Science and Human Development | How Exposure to Poverty Related Issues in the Classroom Affects Students’ Attitudes and Interactions with Their Social Environment | May 11, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Pearl Stewart | |
| DeVanté J. Cunningham | Clinical Psychology | The Relationship Between Racial Microaggressions, Mental Health, and Academic Self-Efficacy in Black College Students: Is a Supportive Mentor Protective? | May 13, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Carrie Masia Warner | |
| Lucinda Idell Harris | Family Science and Human Development | Lift Every Voice: Black High School Students’ Lived Experiences with Racism and Discrimination Through a Critical Race Theory Lens | May 20, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. | Zoom | Dr. Robert Reid | |
| Tanya Singh | Clinical Psychology | Factors Related to Formal and Online Help-seeking Behaviors Among Latinx College Students | June 6, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Jazmin Reyes-Portillo | |
| Sowmya Singh Thakur Kshtriya | Clinical Psychology | Using Path Modeling to Investigate the Adverse Childhood Experiences on Post-Traumatic Growth through Meaning-Making, Resilience, and PTSD Symptoms | June 9, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Paul Amrhein | |
| Whitney Dartnell | Clinical Psychology | Conversational Dynamics Between Caregivers And Children: The Role Of Elaboration And Autonomy Support On Children’s Memory Reports | July 18, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Nicole Lytle | |
| Erell Feb Lim Germia | Mathematics Education | Investigating Elementary School Students’ Reasoning about Dynamic Angles | July 19, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Nicole Panorkou | |
| Csilla Greiner | Family Science and Human Development | “Saying That You’re Sorry but Knowing There is Nothing You Can Do to Bring Their Person Back”: Teachers’ Perceptions of Supporting Grieving Students | June 24, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Sara Goldstein | |
| Bhagyashree Vaidya | Environmental Management | Characterization of Abiotic Factors that Impact Soil Function in Contaminated Soil | August 3, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dr. Nina Goodey |
Please contact docstudy@montclair.edu with any changes to the schedule above.