Searching for Theses and Dissertations at UCLA and Beyond
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Index to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations.
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Over 5 million dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution. UCLA students, faculty, and staff can request non-UCLA dissertations via interlibrary loan.
Theses and Dissertations
These are selected theses and dissertations submitted by UCLA students for which the UCLA Library has full-text electronic access through ProQuest Digital Dissertations. The UCLA Library also has full-text access to dissertations (since 1997) from other UC campuses, so you can search for these works as well.
- "In a World Still Trembling": American Jewish Philanthropy and the Shaping of Holocaust Survivor Narratives in Postwar America (1945-1953)Deblinger, Rachel Beth, Ph.D., 2014
Keywords: Holocaust, American Jewish organizations, Philanthropy, Narratives of survival - "Who Am I to Judge?" : How a Jesuit University Addresses LGBT Issues on CampusHughes, Bryce Edward, Ph.D., 2015
Keywords: Campus climate, Grassroots leadership, Jesuit higher education, LGBT faculty, LGBT staff, Organizational change - Buddhist Propagation and Modernization: The Significance of P'ogyo in Twentieth-Century Korean BuddhismNathan, Mark Andrew, Ph.D., 2010
Keywords: Korea, Modernization, Buddhism - Contesting Obligations: American Missionaries, Korean Christians, and the State(s), 1884—1919Cha, Sung Kwang, Ph.D., 2011
Keywords: Korea, Christiantiy, Church and state, Imperialism, Missionaries, Japanese colonialism - Gede Rising: Haiti in the Age of VagabondajSmith, Katherine Marie, Ph.D., 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Vodou, Visual culture, Gede, Urban arts, Popular religion - Growning up Muslim in America: Managing Multiple Cultures in Everyday LifeO'Brien, John, Ph.D., 2012
Keywords: Muslim youth--United States, Muslim families, Religious life, Cultural pluralism - Meditation in an Indian Buddhist Monastic CodeBass, Jeffrey Wayne, Ph.D., 2013
Keywords: North Indian Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Meditation, Recitation of texts, Enlightenment, Vinaya literature - Off Melrose: Sustaining Orthodox Jewish Religious Life in a Secular SpaceTavory, Ido, Ph.D., 2010
Keywords: Orthodox Jews, Ethnography, Community, Neighborhood, Religion - Politics of Equality: Caste and Gender Paradoxes in the Sikh CommunityBehl, Natasha, Ph.D., 2010
Keywords: Sikh, Punjab, Gender studies, Caste, Gender paradox, India - Prayer and Care: How Elderly Nuns Sustain Well-BeingCorwin, Anna Insolio, Ph.D., 2014
Keywords: Catholic nuns, Aging, Spirituality, Care giving, Prayer - Russian Theological Anthropology and Bakhtin: The Aesthetics of the Divine ImageGray, Marilyn Louise, Ph.D., 2011
Keywords: Russia, Orthodox Christianity, Kenotic, Salvation, Solovyov, Vladimir, Divine image, Bakhtin, Mikhail