Education Ph.D. Alumni

Dissertation Titles of Ph.D. in Education Graduates

2025

• Melissa Lefebvre (Ph.D. Education), Teacher's Evaluation and Reporting Orientations and Their Impact on Elementary Students' Motivation: A Secondary Analysis of ECLS-K: 2011 Data
• Rebecca Kelley (Ph.D. Education)
• Shantel Palacio (Ph.D. Education)
• Victoria Puglia (Ph.D. Education), The Impacts of Social Media on Teacher Environment Perceptions
• Emilie Coppinger (Ph.D. Education), "How Do You Replicate a Relationship?" An Exploration of How a School-Community Partnership Was Conceptualized and Enacted
• Steven Mark Chamberlin (Ph.D. Education), A Study in the Student Experience of Care – What it Looks, Sounds, and Feels Like for Students in a Rural Public High School

2024

• Denise Susanne Desrosiers (Ph.D. Education), What "Doing the Work" is Taken to Mean: Higher Education Faculty's Conceptualizations of DEIJ Work
• Eric Kulberg (Ph.D. Education), Legalization, Medical Exemptions, and Decriminalization of Marijuana Laws. An Exploratory Study of Campus Police Officers' Perceptions and Policing Practices in Response to New Marijuana Laws

2023

• Sarah Jusseaume (Ph.D. Education), Narrative Insight into How Rural, First-Generation College Students and Their Families Establish Non-Deficit, Multi-Sited Identities
• Elaine Marhefka (Ph.D. Education), Designing for the Dissonance: Community-engaged Field Experiences for Challenging Curricular Misconceptions of Place toward Localizing and Indigenizing Curricula within Elementary Teacher Education
• Kevin Joseph Pietro (Ph.D. Education), Examining Empathy during an Initial Nutrition Counseling Session through Video-Cued Narrative Reflection

2022

• Dennis Magliozzi (Ph.D. Education), 'Unapologetically Vernalcular': A Study of Composing Process of Youth Writing and Performing Slam and Spoken Word Poetry
• kimberly mcglinchey (Ph.D. Education), The Efficacy of Response to Intervention on Academic Outcomes at the Secondary School Level in a New England School District
• Sumeyra Gok Gulmezoglu (Ph.D. Education), Narratives of Becoming: Conceptualization of Teacher Identity Through the Experiences of Educators from Racially, Linguistically, and Culturally Minoritized Backgrounds
• Paula Marie Dinardo (Ph.D. Education), First-Generation Student Status as a Predictor of Participation in Selected High-Impact Practices at the University of New Hampshire
• Ian Patrick Hanley (Ph.D. Education), Sociocultural Dimensions of Environmental Stewardship in New Hampshire: Implications for Adult Environmental Education

2021

• Kathryn Slater (Ph.D. Education), "I Know You're Family": An Exploration of the Enduring Relevance of a Pre-College Summer Bridge Program for Underrepresented Minoritized Students
• Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan (Ph.D. Education), Broadly Base Graduate School Sponsored Communication Skills Programs: A Study in Three Essays of Programs and Perceptions of the Diversification of Career Pathways
• Sheri K. Dion (Ph.D. Education), Discourses of Diversity: A Qualitative Case Study of Language Pedagogies Through an Intersectional Lens

2020

• Maria Agorastou (Ph.D. Education), From Believing to Doing: Teacher Ownership of Inclusive Education Practices a Grounded Theory Case Study
• Jacob Aaron Bennett (Ph.D. Education), “Speaking of Dignity”: Interviews with Non-unionized Adjunct Faculty Teaching in an English Department at a Catholic Church-Affiliated University
• Beth S. Fornauf (Ph.D. Education), Indefinable Forces: How Teachers Negotiate Narratives of Ability and Inclusivity while Applying Universal Design for Learning
• Jessica Burrows Heald (Ph.D. Education), Through the Door: A Case Study of Kindergarten Transition in One Elementary School
• Andrew Korman, (Ph.D. Education), Reducing Dropout Rates of New Hampshire High School Students by Increasing the Compelled Years of Attendance: An Analysis of Local Administrator Perceptions of and Responses to State Law 193:1
• Carrie Portrie (Ph.D. Education Child & Youth Communities), A Longer Day in Head Start: An Ethnographic Case Study About How Staff and Parents Navigated Extended Service Duration at A Local Center

2019

• Te-Hsin Chang (Ph.D. Education), Dare to Care? An Exploration of Student-Teacher Caring Relationships
• Joy Dangora Erickson (Ph.D. Education), Emic Views of a Reading Intervention: A Qualitative Case Study of Motivation and Engagement
• Benjamin Matthew Horton III (Ph.D. Education), Perspectives on Change: The Coeducational Transition of Saint Anselm College 1969-1979
• Myles L. Lynch (Ph.D. Education Child and Youth Communities), Workplace Creativity and Motivation Among Camp Counselors in a Residential Summer Camp Setting
• Lori Tyler Gula (Ph.D. Education), The Purpose and Value of Agricultural Experiment Stations Today: A Perception Study of the Directors of State Agricultural Experiment Stations

2018

• Erika M. Baril (Ph.D. Education Child & Youth Communication), Perceptions of Caregiver Coaching and Factors That Influence Implementation: A Mixed Methods Case Study of New Hampshire's Part C Early Intervention
• Justin Vincent Benna (Ph.D. Education), Superintendent Trustworthiness: An Interpretive Qualitative Study of New Hampshire Public Elementary School Principals' Experiences and Perceptions
• Shaleen Cassily (Ph.D. Education), Burned Out or Trapped in Conscientiousness: A Case Study of Three NH Middle School Teachers
• Carla M. Evans (Ph.D. Education), Can Schools Be Reformed by Reforming Assessment?: The Effects of an Innovative Assessment and Accountability System on Student Achievement Outcomes
• Matthew S. Hicks (Ph.D. Education), An Exploratory Study of Followership in New Hampshire High Schools
• Michael Hildebrant (Ph.D. Education), The Activity of Becoming a Second-Career Teacher
• Islam Karkour (Ph.D. Education), World Languages Coursework and Intercultural Sensitivity in American Higher Education
• Jennifer M. Logsdon (Ph.D. Education), "There's No Way a College Can Close": Student Experiences in a For-Profit Institution Closure

2017

• Caroline Arakelian (Ph.D. Education), Understanding Transition Planning and Postsecondary Outcomes for Young Adults with Disabilities Across National, State, and School Levels
• Sara Clarke-Vivier (Ph.D. Education), Designing a Curriculum for Difficult History: Teachers, Museum Workers, and War Photojournalism.
• Quixada Moore-Vissing (Ph.D. Education), The Supper Effect: Community Engagement as a Path to School and Community Change in a Small Rural Town.
• Vilmarie Sanchez-Rothkegel (Ph.D. Education), Facilitating Preservice Teachers' Examination of Beliefs About Language and Linguistic Diversity
• Jennifer Scarpati (Ph.D. Education), Are 21st Century After School Programs an Effective Academic Intervention for Elementary School Students Attending High Poverty Schools?
• Clio Stearns (Ph.D. Education), Affective Classroom Life: A Psychoanalytic and Cultural Exploration of Social and Emotional Learning

2016

• Alan Kurtz (Ph.D. Education), A mixed methods study of the effects of family-centered transition planning on the quality of transition individualized education plans of youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• Kathryn McCurdy (Ph.D. Education), Supporting early career teacher learning: An investigation into induction supports and early career teacher professional learning in New Hampshire
• Christina Robison (Ph.D. Education), Players, consumers and creators: Literacy orientations among adolescents attending a small, rural school
• Joann Stemmermann (Ph.D. Education), Strategic gendering: The negotiated social actions of adolescent girls

2015

• John Cook (Ph.D. Education), Doing the tough work: Care and the dynamics of community-university engagement

2014

• Douglas Gagnon (Ph.D. Education), Understanding the distribution of teacher effectiveness
• Christine McCart (Ph.D. Education), Exploring outdoor ethics through the lens of the Four Component Model: A mixed methods study
• Michael Schwartz (Ph.D. Education), Competencies for the 21st century: teaching an understanding of others, critical thinking, leadership and a sense of obligation. Perceptions of educational leaders
• Paul Shirilla (Ph.D. Education), The ability of adventure education to influence the social skill development of urban middle school students
• Shannon Swiger (Ph.D. Education Literacy), Growing teachers: The practice of teacher leadership and its implications for professional development in literacy instruction

2013

• Robin Ellwood (Ph.D. Education), "I am a scientist": How setting conditions that enhance focused concentration positively relate to student motivation and achievement outcomes in inquiry-based science
• Meghan Hubacz (Ph.D. Education), How a teacher's sense of self-efficacy and implicit theory of intelligence relate to student achievement in mathematics
• Barbara Jasinski (Ph.D. Education), A personal and collaborative journey of change: Lessons learned about leadership, mentoring and motivation from an educational community's work with Donald Graves
• Benjamin Mirkin (Ph.D. Education), Examining social climate and youth social goals on extended wilderness courses: A path toward improving participant experiences
• Eve Noss (Ph.D. Education), Peer mediation in Massachusetts public middle & high schools: Perceptions of educators
• Lauren Provost (Ph.D. Education), The Multifaceted Nature of Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching: Understanding the Use of Teachers' Specialized Content Knowledge and the Role of Teachers' Beliefs from a Practice-based Perspective
• J. David Starbuck (Ph.D. Education), Developing competence: A qualitative inquiry of college student leadership in university outdoor orientation programs

2012

• Juliann Dupuis (Ph.D. Education), Student Science Achievement and the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in the Classroom and on Standardized Tests
• Jeffrey Frenkiewich (Ph.D. Education), Watching children: A history of America's race to educate kids and the creation of the 'slow-learner' subject
• Barbara Tindall (Ph.D. Education Literacy), Writing for numbers: The Cultural Production of Good Writers in the Time of High Stakes Writing Assessments