Recent Dissertations
2020
Erik Rodriguez: “Time,
Schedules, and the College Student with ADHD”
Will Oliver: “Making Military
Wives: Militarizing Social Reproduction of Military Families”
2019
Bernadette White: "A Drop in the Bucket:
Transnational Philanthropy for Development Work in India by the Indian American
Community”
Angie Mejia: “Las Lloronas: Mujeres, Depresión, and the Sociological
Imagination”
2018
Tracy Vargas: "Dollar Store Economy: Reproducing Inequality within the Organization of Retail Service Work"
Jessica Hausauer: "Sanctioning the
Poor: A Structural and Individual Analysis”
Aaron Hoy: "The Experience and Meaning of Same-Sex Marriage: A Life-Course Perspective"
2017
Kasturi Gupta: "The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary India"
Ynesse Abdul-Malak: "Healthy Immigrants?
Exploring Country of Origin, Pre-Immigration Experiences and Acculturation in
Relationship to U.S. Immigrants’ Health"
Natalee Simpson: "Families Designed Through Art: Exploring Embodied Experience and Conception Disclosure based on Sexual Identity"
2016
Chantell B. Frazier: "Adolescent Health Behaviors Related to Reproductive Health: Does Structural Violence Matter?"
Tre Wentling: "Trans Gender Embodied States of Recognition: Agency and Fragmented Citizenship"
2015
Yasmin Ortiga: "Educating for Export: Philippine Higher Education and the Production of Migrant Workers"
Carrie Roseamelia: "Leading Teacher Unions: Negotiating Challenges and Impact"
Kelly Szott: "Governing through Health: The Biomedical and Public Health Management of Drug Using Bodies"
2013
Megan Bahns: "Gender Regimes in Finance: The Social Organization of Money Work"
Glenda Gross: "My Pedagogy is Where So Much of my Feminism Happens"
Karyn Stewart: "Weighing in on Heavy Issues: Exploring Race, Nativity, and Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Indes in Relatonship to Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight"
Fumilayo Showers: "Nursing the Nation: Globalization, Gender, Race, State, and African Immigrant Women in health Care Work in the U.S.A.."
Gokhan Savas:"An Intersectional Analysis of the Female Postsecondary Advantage: Gender, Race, and College Selectivity."
2012
Liat Ben Moshe: "Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics Within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S., 1950-Present"
Elizabeth S. Mignacca: "The Class Ceiling in Doctoral Education: Social Class in the Formation of Scholars"
Don C. Sawyer III: "I Ain't Do Nothing!: The Social and Academic Experiences of Black Males in a Dismantled School"
Alecea I. Standlee: "The Real Virtual World: Connectivity and Techno-mediation in the Lives of College Students"
Medani Bhandari: “Exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature National Program Development in Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparative Study of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh”