Dissertation Research

The Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)
supports dissertation research on conflict resolution topics through
funding, the expertise of faculty associates, and other PARCC resources. 

 

Below are dissertation research projects supported by PARCC.

 

 

2008

                                                                             Social Science                                                                                 

                                                 Tilla Sewe McAntony                                                      

Public Sector Management Reforms in Africa: Analysis

                       of Anticorruption Strategies in Kenya                           

  

2007

     Anthropology     

          George Farag           

Diaspora and Transitional Administration: Shiite Iraqi Diaspra

                               and the Administration of Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq                                    

 

                                                                    Public Administration                                                                        

                                               Lynne Celeste Hinnant                                                  

The Trust Experience from the Truster's Perspective:

                  A theoretical discussion and experiment                     

 
Social Science  

Diane R. Swords

Crossing the line: Democracy, Spirituality and Politics

in the United States Anti-Nuclear Social Movements

  

2006

          Anthropology            

                              Suzanne Elizabeth Morrissey                                       

Life strategies: Motherhood, urban poverty, and the WIC program

                                        in Syracuse, New York                                                    

 

Anthropology
Svetlana Peshkova 

Otincharlar in the Ferghana Valley: Islam, Gender and Power

          

 

2005

       Social Science         

                                                   Brian Booth Blancke                                                       

Rebuilding the longhouse: Obstacles to and opportunities

for settling the Cayuga Indian Nation land claim through negotiation          

 

 Social Science         

Loretta Kuliawat Denhart

Helping new neighbors: Resettlement workers' construction of refugee identity      

 

Anthropology
Kerry Fosher

"I'm just thinking out loud here": Making United States homeland security at the local level         

 

 Social Science         

                                        Rachel Miriam Goldberg                                                

How our values shape our practices: Exploding the myth of neutrality        

 

Social Science         

       Marie Pace                

The Compassionate Listening Project: A case study in citizen diplomacy and peacemaking      

 

2004

          

                                         Child and Family Studies                                              

Tiffany Brown           

Racial and Ethnic Socialization in African American Families: Scale development and validation         

 

International Relations    

                                                     Cerag Esra Cuhadar                                                       

Evaluating track-two diplomacy in pre-negotiation:
A comparative assessment of track-two initiatives on water and Jerusalem
                                in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict                                   

 

Social Science
Tamara Shevaun Steger
Environmentalism and Democracy in Hungary and Latvia

                                                                                                            

2003

 

Political Science      

                                    Rodney Devi Cunningham                                           

Civil society and development in Nigeria: An exploratory study

of student attitudes and perceptions

 

Social Science
Amy Rebecca Gay   

Neither judge nor jury: Norms and the role of mediators

                                   in court-referred mediations                                           

 

Social Science         

                Michael Stephen Messina-Yauchzy                            

Engendering outrage: Women and men in campus anti-rape organizing

Political Science
Anna Ohanyan

Winning Global Policies: The Network-Based Operation of Microfinance
NGOs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996-2002

 

2002

 

Social Science         

                                          Lawrence Albert Dunn                                                   

Negotiating cultural identities: Conflict transformation in Labrador              

 

Political Science      

Krisan L.Evenson    

Sources of Canadian political values: A comparison of teacher

        and student cohorts, socialization agents and province differences            

 

Environmental Studies    

Christos N.Kyrou     

Perception of risk and conflict intensity in an environmental conflict :

                    a case study of wolf restoration in northern New Hampshire                         

 

Social Science
Donghee Yoo

Media, culture, and the transformation of the protracted inter-Korean conflict

 

2001

 

Social Science         

                                           Cornelius Funk-Unrau                                                   

If the Lubicon lose we all lose: A case study of interchurch advocacy

and intervention in an Aboriginal land rights conflict 

 

Social Science
                                                       Timothy Karl Hedeen                                                      

The influence of referral source coerciveness on mediation

                               participation and outcomes                                            

 

History
David Charles Lobb,

An ivory tower of fear: Academics of the racist right   

 

Social Science
Ann Marie Marshall 

Organizing across the divide: Everyday life, feminist activism,

and the election of women to public office

          

Social Science         

Janet Helene Zinn  

Pro-choice work under siege: Politicization, mobilization

and commitment in three urban communities            

 

2000

 

Political Science      

Neal Alan Carter      

Ethnoterritorial justice: A pragmatic analysis of arguments

linking social identities to constitutional reform in Belgium and Canada    

 

Social Science         

Robin L. Riley          

Hidden soldiers: Gender, militarism, and the discourse of defense

 

Anthropology            

                                  Yamuna Sangarasivam                                                 

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the cultural production of nationalism

and violence: Representing the integrity of nation and the choice for armed struggle 

Social Science

Jessica Joy Senehi

Constructive Storytelling: Building Community, Building Peace 

1999

Political Science

Bruce Winfield Dayton

In Between Science and Decision:  A Study of Policy Frames and the Global Climate Discourse    

 

1998

 

Social Science         

  John T. Crist             

An ordered anarchy: Mobilization for civil disobedience

                         in Bengal and Bombay, 1929-1934                              

 

Social Science         

                                         Anna Christine Snyder                                                  

Conflict and consensus-building at the fourth UN World Conference

on Women: A study of international nongovernmental cooperation

        

 

1997

 Political Science      

                                             Anna M. Agathangelou                                                

The Cypriot "ethnic" conflict in the Production of Global Power

            

Social Science         

                                        Marie Catherine Agen                                                    

Rights and respect: A study of the competing concerns of Alliance Quebec

and the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal      

 

Social Science
Patrick Glenn Coy   

Protecting human rights: The dynamics of international nonviolent

                     accompaniment by Peace Brigades International in Sri Lanka                    

 

Social Science
Margaret M. Riordan

Keeping the candle lit: The ethic of just care in the context of

Catholic peace and justice activism

          

1996

 

Social Science         

                                               Michael Barry Bowler                                                      

Participation and dynamics in the programs of a nongovernmental

               organization in a Bangladesh village                           

 

Social Science         

Van Jon Cleary-Hammarstedt

"Traitors to a masculine cause:" The belief system and conflicts of the

pro-feminist, gay-affirmative men's movement in the United States, 1985-1990

 

Political Science      

      Bhavna Dave           

Politics of language revival: National Identity and State Building in Kazakhstan     

 

Political Science
                                                   Terrence Robert Guay                                                    

The European Union and integration theories:
                                          The case of Europe's defense industry
                                              

 

          Social Science         

Bonnie M. Winfield 

Creating a place to call home: Administrators' and women homeowners'

perspectives on an urban home-ownership program

 

1995

 

          Social Science         

Zoltan Joseph Bedy

Couch potatoes and the indifferent electorate: Television viewing, voting, and responsible citizenship  

 

          Geography                

                             Nalani Meulilatha Hennayake                                      

Competing discourses of development in post-colonial Sri Lanka:

               Cultural and political negotiation of the vernacular and universal                

 

Social Science
                                     Constance Catherine Joseph                                       

Older Jewish women: The use of accounts in creating and sustaining the self        

 

Sociology
Byeong-chul Park   

Motivational dynamics of student movement participation in contemporary South Korea 

 
Social Science
Lynne Woehrle        

The staff of life: Women baking for social change:

                                 An ethnography of the Basic Kneads Wholegrain Bakery                             

 

1994

 

Sociology
                                                  Cheryl Lee Carpenter                                                     

                 The social production of Fresh Air Charity Work, 1870-1930                        

 

Political Science      

Martha Frances Lee

                                     Environmental apocalypse: A case study of 'Earth First!'                               

 

Social Science         

                                        Brian Douglas Polkinghorn                                           

        The influence of regulatory negotiations on EPA as an institution               

 

Sociology
Brenda Kay Uekert  

Rivers of blood: A comparative study of government massacres                 

 

1993

 

                 Sociology                  

                                                      Anne Norinne Bates                                                       

The Sociology of Auguste Rodin

          

International Relations
                                           James John Gerard Byrne                                             

Conflict, complexity and children; integrated education in a segregated society:

                                  Northern Ireland, a case study                                       

 

Social Science
Kimberly A.Chang   

Culture, power, and morality: Moral voices of Chinese students

 

Social Science         

                                             Celia B.Cook-Huffman                                                   

Social identity in intra and intergroup conflict: A study of the interaction

              of social identity, conflict and gender in a local church group                       

 

Political Science      

                                                     Richard W.Coughlin                                                       

Power, pluralism and culture: Reinterpreting development in Mexico         

 

Political Science      

Amit Mukherjee        

                    International protection of journalists: Practice and prospects                      

 

 Political Science      

                                              James Forrest Rinehart                                                  

Revolution and the millennium: A comparative, historical,

and analytical study of the functions of millenarianism in the

Chinese, Mexican, and Iranian revolutions                 

 

 Social Science

                                           William Carlton Warters                                                  

Challenged to change: Perspectives of abusive men involved

                            in wife abuse prevention programs                               

 

1992

 

                                                     International Relations                                                   

Saleh M. Al-Namlah

                     Political legitimacy in Libya since 1969: A Weberian perspective               

 

Social Science
Verna Marie Cavey 

Fighting among Friends: The Quaker Separation of 1827 as a

                                        study in conflict resolution                                              

 

     Sociology                  

                           Douglas Foster Challenger                                           

The moral foundations of society: A study of Aristotle's and

Durkheim's conceptions of social science                   

 

Political Science      

        Feng Chen               

Ideology and economic pragmatism under state socialism:

                              Redefining the ownership system in China, 1978-1990                                 

 

Political Science      

                                             Thomas Jay D'Agostino                                                 

The evolution of an emerging political party system:

                 A study of party politics in the Dominican Republic, 1961-1990                   

 

Social Science         

                                          Nora Amalia Femenia                                                     

National self-images, enemy-images and conflict strategies

                      in the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas War                              

 

Political Science      

           Ting Gong                 

The politics of corruption in contemporary China:

                                   A structurationist analysis                                               

 

  Social Science         

Amy S.Hubbard       

Cross-cultural conflict resolution groups: American Palestinians

and Jews in dialogue on the Middle East

          

Social Science         

Rachel A.Kelly         

                         Cultural Determinants of Agression                              

 

     Sociology                  

Gina Petonito           

Constructing the enemy: Justifying Japanese internment

 during World War II 

 

Social Science         

                                          Christine Cecilia Wagner                                               

Rediscovering Memorial Day: Politics, patriotism and gender                     

 

1991

 

Political Science      

                                          Labite Adzereke Kittisou                                                

Issues management and decision-making:

A comparative study of France's and the U.S.'s military interventions         

 

Social Science         

                                             Rosemary Averell Manes                                               

The 'Pieds-noirs': A case study in the persistence of subcultural distinctiveness    

 

1990

 

Political Science      

                                               Thomas Knight Adams                                                   

Military doctrine and the organization culture of the United States Army    

 

    Social Science       
Ali Hasan Al-Tawati

Saudi agricultural policy from a rural and regional perspective                    

 

Social Science         

                                          John Richard Kendrick, Jr.                                             

Patterns of participation and processes of recruitment in the peace movement      

 

1989

 

                                                    International Relations                                                   

Sankaran Krishna   

The state, autonomy and foreign policy: An analysis of India, 1947-1987  

 

Political Science      

                                                  Ronald George Shaiko                                                   

The public interest dilemma: Organizational maintenance and political

representation in the public interest sector                  

 

Geography                

Gerard Toal               

Critical geopolitics: The social construction of space and place

                                   in the practice of statecraft                                              

 

1988

 

Social Science         

                                             Rajendraprasad B. Dave                                                

From ecocrisis to ecodevelopment: Micro-level environmental movements in India

 

Social Science         
                
David Carter List                         

We never forget': IWW support for Finnish draft resisters on the

Minnesota Iron Range during World War I                   

 

 

Political Science      

                                       Jerome Denis O'Callaghan                                           

DWI sentencing and public opinion: A comparison of commission-plan

and elected judges  

 

Public Administration     

Rosemary O'Leary   

The impact of federal court decisions on the policies and administration

of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

 

Social Science         

                                           Raymond Arthur Whiting                                               

The use of mediation as a dispute settlement tool: An historical review

and scientific examination of the role and process of mediation                  

 

1987

 

                                                International Relations                                                   

Gautam Kumar Basu

The state, development and military interventions: Politico-economic

relationships in the Third World                                     

 
Sociology
Harry William Murray
Isaiah's Fast: The Practice of Hospitality in the Catholic Worker Movement

Social Science         

                                               Terrell Anne Northrup                                                     

Women's and men's conceptions of war, peace, and security:

The relationship between sex, sex-role identification and war/peace attitudes        

 

        Social Science         

Philip Roy Nowicki  

Regulating and resolving new car warranty problems and disputes:

An analysis of lemon laws, FTC Rule 703 and alternative dispute resolution          

 

1978

   Sociology
Catherine Gladys Valentine
Art for Whose Sake?: The Sociology of a Community Art Museum