School of Leadership Studies Alumni Updates - Summer 2018
Nick (ORGL) and Dana (DPLS current student) Questad recently welcomed their third baby girl to the family. Madeline Rose, 7 lbs 8 oz, was born on Gonzaga Day at 10:11 PM. She's following in her parents footsteps as a true Zag!
Elizabeth Benz (COML, '18), of Portland, Maine, was promoted to Director of Student Support, College of Graduate and Professional Studies, at the University of New England. Elizabeth manages the support team that provides high-touch retention services for the UNE online population. You can see Elizabeth's COML portfolio at https://ebenz8.wixsite.com/ebenz.
ORGL alumnus Greg Witkop, M.D. recently published a book Dignified Leadership: Curing the Cancer of Objectification. Dr. Witkop is an associate scientist at the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory.
The following students recently finished their dissertations and will join the 5,000 other School of Leadership Studies alumni from around the globe. Congratulations!
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Professor: Dissertation Chair |
Official Name In Program |
Dissertation Title |
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1 |
Barbour |
Thomas R. Buck |
Evangelical Leadership: A Study of Saints and the Rhetoric of Evangelization |
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2 |
Barbour |
Antonio Jiménez-Luque |
Critical Intercultural Leadership Process for Social Change:Critical Consciousness, Resistance and Emancipation in a Pluri-EthnicSocial Movement Organization |
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3 |
Ferch |
Harry Daniels-Schatz |
Homelessness, Transformational Leadership, and Policy Reform: A Mixed Methods Study |
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4 |
Ferch |
Cami Eastep |
A Portrait of Servant Leadership: Women Caring for New Mothers Through Preparing and Sharing Food |
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5 |
Francovich |
Kay Ditzenberger |
Servant Leadership, Community and Inclusion: A Case Study of the Ike Special |
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6 |
Francovich |
Andrea Fallenstein |
Leadership and Social Movements |
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7 |
Francovich |
Jeff Geldien |
How Elements of Sensemaking, Constructive Development, and Pragmatism Impacted the Law and Policy Change for NCAA Student-Athletes |
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8 |
Francovich |
David McNamee |
Factors of Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth in Response to Combat-Inflicted Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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9 |
Francovich |
Kimberly Mungaray |
Re-imagining Accounting Leadership through a Phronetic Lens |
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10 |
Francovich |
Ivon Prefontaine |
How Teachers (Ex)perience Becoming Who They Are as Teachers: A Phenomenological Study |
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11 |
Francovich |
Paul Susac |
Dogmatism as an Expression of Ideological Loyalty |
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12 |
Francovich, Gambrell, Ferch |
Kevin D. Williams |
A Decision-Making Framework for Resource Mobilization and Social Movements for Organized Communities Suffering From Oppression |
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13 |
Gambrell |
Jim Jones |
The Influence of Learning Organization Maturity on Employee Engagement within Higher Education Information Technology Business |
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14 |
Gambrell |
Kirk Kimberly |
Developing an Instrument to Assess the Co-implementation of the Community Policing and Compstat Police Reforms |
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15 |
Gambrell |
Amy Martin |
Making Meaning of Leadership: A Phenomenological Study of Italian American Women |
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16 |
Gambrell |
Valerie Shayman |
Traumatized by Trauma: The Impact of Vicarious Trauma on Higher Education Threat Assessment Professionals |
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17 |
Fu |
Chi Hua “Denise” Ho |
An Emergent-Peace Model: Leading Through an Evolving Socioeconomic Alliance Between Mainland China and Taiwan—A Multiple Case Study |
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TOTAL DOCTORAL GRADUATES AY 2017-18: 17 |
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