Explore a sample list of theses written by past Department of Educational Policy Studies graduate students.
| MA Student | Title | Professor | Year |
| Andrew Wells | Politics and Partnerships: Black Radicalism and Education in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1865-1877 | Walter Stern | 2019 |
| Choua Xiong | The Moment I knew I was Woke”: Civic Engagement and Political Education for Southeast Asian American Youth in a Social Justice-oriented Community-Based Organization | Stacey Lee | 2017 |
| Demond Hill | Moving Towards Freedom: Locating Liberation in Black Youth Workers and Community-based Educational Spaces | Bianca Baldrige | 2020 |
| James Meadows | Reverse Racism: Courts, Colleges and the History of an Idea | Walter Stern | 2018 |
| Katie Suchor | Say What You Really Believe’: Freedom Schools, Youth Empowerment, and Black Power in 1960s Milwaukee | Adam Nelson-Erica Turner | 2018 |
| Liz Hauck | The Hands that Rocked the Cradle of Liberty: The ‘conservative not feminist’ activism of white mothers of R.O.A.R. in Boston during the 1970s | Adam Nelson | 2017 |
| Mai Neng Vang | …giving them that safe space to be Hmoob”: One community’s response to hegemonic forces | Stacey Lee | 2017 |
| Mary Johnson | Black D/deaf Youth: Illuminating Forgotten Voices | Bianca Baldrige | 2018 |
| Merry Farrier | We Got Love for Each Other’: Building Relationships in a Strength-Based Peer Mentoring Program | Erica Turner | |
| Rachel Johnson | Hoping to Rise: The Complexity of Black Parent Engagement in an African American Immersion School | Linn Posey-Maddox | 2017 |
| Rose Miesner | Disruption, Dilemmas, and Discretion: Understanding the Daily Work of Special Educators | Erica Turner | |
| Anthony Hernadez | Material Hardship in Community and Technical Colleges. | Lesley Bartlett | 2017 |
| Ned Frame | Black Power, Black Studies: Creating the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin, 1966-1970 | Adam Nelson | 2019 |
| Marlo A. Reeves | Youth In(Action)? A Case Study of Youth Organizing in the Midwest | 2017 |