Careers and Outcomes
Recent PhDs from our Department have gone on to tenure-track positions at a variety of colleges and universities including Emory University, SUNY-Stony Brook, Rutgers University, Georgia Tech, Central European University, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Wake Forest University. Others have gone on to applied research positions and leadership roles at ICF International, Sociologists for Women in Society, Meta and Springtide Research Institute and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Placements
2010 – 2024
2024
Carol Ann Jackson
Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University
Zachary Kline
The College of New Jersey
Rianka Roy
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Davida Schiffer
Assistant Professor, Northern Michigan University
Jessica Yorks
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
2023
Ordoitz Galilea
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Susquehanna University
Kristen Kirksey
Project Policy Analyst | Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco
2022
Amy Lawton
Research Manager, Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, Brandeis University
Nabil Tueme
Senior Research Associate | Springtide Research Institute
Emma Gonzalez-Sobrino
Director of Communications, Jews of Color Initiative
2021
Ezana Amdework Atsbeha
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Selam Esayas Negatu
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Latisha Nielsen
Associate Professor, Sociology | Central Connecticut State University
Jordan McMillian
Field Representative, University of Connecticut Professional Employees AFT Union
2020
Koyel Khan
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Tennessee Wesleyan University
Michael Rosino
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Molloy College
Ruth Hernandez
Scholar-in-Residence | Wabash College
Shi (Sylvia) Pu
CEO, Sylvia Pu Consulting
Kathleen Ragon
Assistant Clinical Professor, Labor Education | Penn State
2019
Cristina Khan
Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook University
Qiong Wu
Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology | Central European University, Hungary
Angran Li
Assistant Professor, Sociology, NYU Shanghai
Joonghyun Kwak
Postdoctoral researcher, Education Department | Oxford University
Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh
Fellow, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino
UX Researcher | Meta
Abby Willis
Teaching Assistant Professor, Sociology, Siena College
Kamryn Warren
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Northern Iowa University
2017
Josef Ma
Assistant Professor | National Tai Pei University, Taiwan
Nicolas Simon
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Eastern CT State University
2016
Farhan Yousaf
Professor, Sociology, ; Director, Institute of Peace and Security Studies | University of Punjab
Allen Hyde
Associate Professor, Sociology | Georgia Institute of Technology
Aspen Chen
Adjunct faculty, Sociology | North Hennepin Community College
Kristine Olsen
Adjunct faculty, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies | University of Connecticut
2015
Roseanne Njiru
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences | University of Nairobi, Kenya
Christopher Donnelly
Staff Researcher | State of VT, Dept. of Mental Health
2014
Miho Iwata
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Towson University
Travis Lowe
Associate Professor, Sociology | University of Tulsa
Barret Katuna
Executive Officer | Sociologists for Women in Society
2013
Stacy Missari
Associate Professor, Sociology | California State University, Northridge
Chandra Waring
Assistant Professor, Sociology | U Mass-Lowell
Ranita Ray
Associate Professor, Sociology | University of New Mexico
Christine Zozula
Associate Professor, Sociology | University of Rhode Island
Shweta Adur
Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies | California State University, Fullerton
Rachel Leventhal-Weiner
Chief Research and Planning Officer | Connecticut's Office of Early Childhood
Lwendo Moonzwe Davis
Manager, Research and Data Analysis | ICF International
2012
Mustufa Gurbuz
Program Analyst | US Dept of Housing and Urban Development
Cheryl McFarland
Director of Data and Evaluation | Central Jersey Family Health Consortium
2011
Deric Shannon
Associate Professor, Sociology | Oxford College, Emory University
Jungyun Gill
Associate Professor, Sociology | Stonehill College
Melissa Lavin
Associate Professor, Sociology | SUNY-Oneonta
Thomas Hochschild Jr.
Professor, Sociology | Valdosta State University
Barbara Gurr
Associate Professor in Residence, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies | University of Connecticut
2010
Jamie Gusrang
Assistant Professor, Social Science | Community College of Philadelphia
Angie Beeman
Associate Professor, Public/Int'l Affairs | Baruch College-CUNY
Maura Kelly
Associate Professor, Sociology | Portland State University
Gordon Gauchat
Associate Professor, Sociology | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Natalie Peluso
Data and Placement Administrator | University of Cumbria, UK
Mary Burke
Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies | University of Vermont
Doctoral Dissertations Granted
2014 – 2024
2024
Carol Ann Jackson
Ph.D. Dissertation: By Any Means Necessary: Criminalization, Trauma, and Resilience of Youth of Color Living in an Inner City
Zachary Kline
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Rise of “Choice” Programs: 100 Years of Social Sorting in Social Welfare Services
Rianka Roy
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Counter-Conduct of Labor: How Indian Tech Workers Organize in India and the US
Davida Schiffer
Ph.D. Dissertation: Gender, Revealed: Cisnormativity in Everyday Discourses
Jessica Yorks
Ph.D. Dissertation: When There are No Colleges Nearby: The Pursuit of Economic Mobility in an Education Desert
2023
Galilea Ordoitz
Ph.D. Dissertation: What it Takes to Throw a Party: Community Frames of Meaning, Identity and Contestation in the Festival of San Fermín
Kristen Kirksey
Ph.D. Dissertation: Global Priorities and Local Realities: The Implementation of Global Health and Development Policy in Ethiopia
2022
Amy Lawton
Ph.D. Dissertation: Donor Bodies, Medical Schools, and the Scientific Sacred
Emma Gonzalez-Lesser
Ph.D. Dissertation: Becoming Jewish: Ethno-Racial Identity and Jews by Choice
Nabil Tueme
Ph.D. Dissertation: Latino Youth Activism: Reconceptualizing Risk in Social Movement Theory
2021
Latisha Nielsen
Ph.D. Dissertation: You drop them off, I’ll pick them up: An Analysis of Families lived Experiences With Building Cultural Capital in their Progeny.
Jordan McMillan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Risk and Framing in Health Social Movements
Selam Esayas Negatu
Ph.D. Dissertation: Clapping with One Hand: Conceptualizing Female Headship and Intersecting Inequalities in Farming in Ethiopia
Ezana Amdework Atsbeha
Ph.D. Dissertation: Crafting a Hybrid: Water, Infrastructure, and Conflict in Irrigation Institutions in Ethiopia
Caner Hazar
Ph.D. Dissertation: The LGBT Movement in Turkey, 1980-2020: Applying a Heteronational Matrix Analysis
2020
Ruth Hernandez
Ph.D. Dissertation: "Rompiendo Fronteras:" Family Reunification and Activism in a Transnational Mexican Community
Koyel Khan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Between Nationalism and Neoliberal Globalization: the practices of Indian Classical Dance
Shi (Sylvia) Pu
Ph.D. Dissertation: Institutions, Self-transformations, and the Making of the Chinese Middle Class
Kathleen Ragon
Ph.D. Dissertation: "This is a place of Business:" The Market Schema and Graduate Employee Unionization in the Corporate University
Michael Rosino
Ph.D. Dissertation: Democracy is Awkward: Grassroots Progressive Politics and Racial Inequality
2019
Chong-suk Han
Ph.D. Dissertation: Different Shades of Queer: Race and Racism in Gay America
Cristina Khan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color
Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh
Ph.D. Dissertation: When Rituals Migrate: A Study Of The Relationships Between Collaborative Culture Practices And Social Ties Among Ethiopian Immigrants In Israel
Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino
Ph.D. Dissertation: "Todo es un interes." Puerto Ricans, Belonging, "Race", and Threat in Hartford
Abby Willis
Ph.D. Dissertation: State Projects/ Daily Life: Negotiating Non-Monogamies
Angran Li
Ph.D. Dissertation: Unequal Childhoods Revisited: Examining the Causal Effects of Concerted Cultivation in Elementary School
Qiong (Miranda) Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation: Inequality Matters in Transitional China: The Hukon System, Class Structure, and Stratification Outcomes
Joonghyun Kwak
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Impact of the Great Recession on Attitudes toward Globalization: A Cross-National Study of 22 Countries
2018
Erika Del Villar
Ph.D. Dissertation: Our Holy Grail: Power, States, and Networks in the Stymied Global Quest to Define Terrorism
Devon Goss
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Paradox of Integration: Whites Entering Spaces of Color
Nikki McGary
Ph.D. Dissertation: Adolescent Reproduction and the Contradictory Role of the State: A Discourse Analysis of Abortion Laws and Parental
Todd Vachon
Ph.D. Dissertation: Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice
Kamryn Warren
Ph.D. Dissertation: Resettlement as Everyday Life: Navigating the Bureaucracy of Forced Migration
2017
Kuo-Hsun (Josef) Ma
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Inequality of Digital Learning among Students in Rich and Poor Countries
Nicolas Simon
Ph.D. Dissertation: First-Generation College Students And Their Social Capital, An Intersectional Approach
Malaena Taylor
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Movements and Mainstream Media: Framing Processes in an Ideologically Segmented TV News Field
2016
Por-fu Aspen Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Early Academic Growth of Children of U.S.
Immigrants: A Longitudinal Analysis
Allen Hyde
Ph.D. Dissertation: Neoliberalism, Finance, and Income Inequality: An Examination of Affluent Capitalist Democracies
Kristine Olsen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Negotiating Success: Organizational Continuity and Decline in the Movement for Same-Sex Marriage
Farhan Yousaf
Ph.D. Dissertation: Fleeing Violence: Gender, Human Rights, and Trafficking in Women in Pakistan
2015
Christopher Donnelly
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Virtual Vanguard: White Supremacism, the Internet, and Social Change
Roseanne Njiru
Ph.D. Disseration: Nipe-nikupe: A Multi-level Perspective of Gender and HIV Prevention in Heterosexual Marriages in Kenya
2014
Miho Iwata
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Racial Landscape in Japan
Barret Katuna
Ph.D. Dissertation: Breaking the Glass Ceiling?: Gender and Leadership in Higher Education
Christine Zozula
Ph.D. Dissertation: Meaningful Punishment: Community Courts and Constructions of Crime
Previous Years
2013
Shweta Adur
Ph.D. Dissertation: Negotiating Sexuality and Ethnicity: Queer South Asians in the U.S.
Cheryl (Smith) McFarland
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Changing Structure of Healthcare Organizations: Examining Physician-Hospital Integration and its Impact on Healthcare and Quality of Care in Metropolitan Areas
Stacy Missari
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sexual Empowerment for All?: Exploring the Connections between Social Inequality and Expectations of Sexual Pleasure from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Rachel Leventhal-Weiner
Ph.D. Dissertation: Keeping it in Context: Examining Spatial Stratification of College Attendance for Rural, Urban, and Suburban Students
Lwendo Moonzwe
Ph.D. Dissertation: Women's Empowerment and Sexual Risk in Zambia
Ranita Ray
Ph.D. Dissertation: Against the Odds: Urban Youth, Poverty, and "Success"
Chandra Waring
Ph.D. Dissertation: Beyond "Codeswitching": The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans
2012
Mustafa Gurbuz
Ph.D. Dissertation: Kurdish Ethnic and Islamic Mobilizations in Turkey: A Study of Rival Movements
2011
Barbara Gurr
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Ruling Relations of Reproductive Healthcare for Native American Women
Thomas R. Hochschild Jr.
Ph.D. Dissertation: Neighbors by Design: Determinants and Effects of Residential Social Cohesion
Melissa Lavin
Ph.D. Dissertation: What Strippers Know and Do: Substance Use and Sanctions at Mell’s Belles
Deric Shannon
Ph.D. Dissertation: Making Culture: Food Not Bombs
Jungyun Gill
Ph.D. Dissertation: Forming, Doing, and Governing Adoptive Motherhood of Asian Children: Implications for a Non-Biocentric Theory of Families
Mary Burke
Ph.D. Dissertation: Medico-Psychology, Body Politics, and the Transgender Health Movement
Gordon Gauchat
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere
2010
Maura Kelly
Ph. D. Dissertation: Feminist Identity, Feminist Politics: A Sociological Exploration of Contemporary U.S. Feminism
Natalie Peluso
Ph. D. Dissertation: High Heels and Fast Wheels: Alternative Femininities in Neo-Burlesque and Flat-Track Roller Derby
Jamie Gusrang
Ph. D. Dissertation: Removing the “Risk” from Adolescent Sexual Behavior: An Intersectional Analysis of Adolescent Sexual Empowerment
Angie Beeman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Grassroots Organizing and Post-Civil Rights Racism: The Dilemma of Negotiating Interracial Solidarity in a Color-Blind Society
2009
Medora Barnes
Ph.D. Dissertation: Balancing Beliefs, Behaviors, and a Baby: How young dual-earner couples negotiate paid and unpaid work during the transition to parenthood
Lauren Ross
Ph.D. Dissertation: Contradictions in Power, Sexuality, and Consent: An Institutional Ethnography of Male Neonatal Circumcision
David Kremelberg
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sources and Targets of Anti-Semitism in the United States
Thomas Volscho
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sterilization Racism: A Quantitative Study of Pan-Ethnic and Ethnic Disparities in Sterilization, Sterilization Regret, and Long-Acting Contraceptive Use
Katie Acosta
Ph.D. Dissertation: Amigas y Amantes”: How First and Second Generation Latinas Negotiate Family, Partnerships, and Community in the United States
Timothy Stablein
Ph.D. Dissertation: Negotiating Spaces: A Study of Street Life, Peer Involvement, and Homelessness in Harvard Square
2008
Stephen Ostertag
Ph.D. Dissertation: Negotiating News A Study of the Social Construction of News Realities or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Know the News-World
2007
Debarashmi, Mitra
Ph.D. Dissertation: Globalization, Women’s Labor Force Status, and Empowerment: A Cross-National Study
Andrew Fullerton
Ph.D. Dissertation: Between Industry and Labor Market: Examining the Impact of the Spatial Agglomeration of Firms and Industries on Wages in the U.S.
Casey Borch
Ph.D. Dissertation: Whose Opinion Counts? An Analysis of the Opinion-Policy Linkage in the U.S. States
William Armaline
Ph.D. Dissertation: Human Rights Abuses and Systemic Racism Through the Criminalization of Survival: An Ethnographic Exploration of Juvenile Detention in a New England City
Anjana Narayan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Ethnic Organizations and Ethnic Identities: Websites as a Tool for Creating Transnational Gendered Identities
2006
Laura Steck
Ph.D. Dissertation: Gender and Parenthood in Postsecondary Education: The Social Organization of Everyday Life Among Undergraduate Students with Children
2005
Christine Fay
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Context of the Performance Appraisal Process: Exploring Individual, Organizational Job, and Social Effects on Employee Reactions to Performance Appraisal
Rachel Sullivan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Negotiating Family Approval of Black/White Interracial Relationships
Donald Levy
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sports Fanship Habitus: An Investigation of the Active Consumption of Sport, Its Effects and Social Implications Through the Lives of Fantasy Sport Enthusiasts
Karen Powell Sears
Ph.D. Dissertation: Extending Disidentification Theory: The Effects of Stereotype Threat on the Self-Concept, Academic Engagement, and School Performance of African American and Latino High School Students
2004
Danielle Currier
Ph.D. Dissertation: Gendered Athletes: The Social Construction of Gender, Sexuality, and Emotion Among College Athletes
Virginia Merlini
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Case Study of the Equestrian Sport of Polo: An Integrative Approach To Issues of Structure, Function, and Interaction
Sandra Bender Fromson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Pawns, Knights, Or Kings: Understanding the Role of Regulators in Public Policy
2003
Beth Jacobson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Rooting for Laundry: An Examination of the Creation and Maintenance of a Sport Fan Identity
Dena Wallerson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Staying Black”: An Analysis of Outcomes of Pressure to Demonstrate One’s Racial Connectedness
Florence Maatita
Ph.D. Dissertation: Mothers and Playgroups: “Doing” Motherhoods in the Social Sphere
Beth A. Merenstein
Ph.D. Dissertation: Racial Reproduction: The Development and Expression of Racial Knowledge Among Immigrants
Frederick Roth
Ph.D. Dissertation: Urban Policing in the Democratic Third World: A Comparative Study of Botswana and Mauritius
2001
Donna Bird
Ph.D. Dissertation: Determinants of State-Level Health Care Reform Policies, 1988-1994
Joan Twiggs
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Medical Framing of Abortion: A Comparative Study of Abortion Discourse in the Media and the Supreme Court
Marita McComiskey
Ph.D. Dissertation: Passionately Political Peace-Activist Parents: Nurturing the World While Politicizing the Family
Mark Swiencicki
Ph.D Dissertation: Difference For Sale: How Advertisers Construct Different Versions of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Ten Men’s Magazines
Mangala, Subramaniam
Ph.D. Dissertation: Translating Participation in Informal Organizations into Empowerment: Women in Rural India
2000
Rosalie Stone
Ph. D. Dissertation: Beyond Hispanic: Decomposing the Earnings Gap Between Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans
Angus Donald Vail
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Tattoos We Deserve: Producing Culture and Constructing Elitism
Monibo Sam
Ph.D. Dissertation: Obstacles to the Continuity of Small Businesses: The Problem of Succession in Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in South-Eastern Nigeria, 1971-1997
John T. Ambenge
Ph.D. Dissertation: Breaking Traditional Bonds: Analysis of Female Rural-Urban Migration in Kenya
Lance E. Hannon
Ph.D. Dissertation: Urban Poverty, Public Assistance, and Murder in the U.S.
Cynthia C. Barrere
Ph.D. Dissertation: Nurse-Patient Communication: The Influence of Gender, Time, and Context
1999
Heather Madray
Ph.D. Dissertation: Cultural and Institutional Factors in Health Promotion Theory: The Case of HIV Prevention in Russia
Robert J. Mills
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Determinants of Adolescent Tobacco Use
Bandana Purkayastha
Ph.D. Dissertation: Ethnic Vitality of Asian Americans and Hispanics: Do Places Matter?
1998
Hong Xiao
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Childrearing Values in the United State and China
Sandra Enos
Ph.D. Dissertation: Managing Motherhood in Prison: Examining the Enactment of Motherhood in a Special Setting
Julia McQuillan
Ph.D. Dissertation: Gender and Marital Power: Explaining the Division of Labor, Perceived Equity, and Distress Among Two Earner Couples
Loretta Bass
Ph.D. Dissertation: Working for Peanuts: Children’s Market Work in Urban Areas of Senegal
Daniel Skidmore
Ph.D. Dissertation: Money on the Wing: The Deregulation of Banks and Airlines from a Contingency Perspective
Denise Anthony
Ph.D. Dissertation: Investing In Trust: Building Cooperation and Social Capital In Micro-Credit Borrowing Groups
Ruth Arnold
Ph.D. Dissertation: Constrained Choices: Contingent Work Among Youth and Young Adults During the 1980s and Early 1990s
1997
Sue L. Williams
Ph.D. Dissertation: Gender Regimes and the Prophecy of Place: Micro/Macro Dimensions of Stratification Processes for Young Women
Silke Roth
Ph.D. Dissertation: Political Socialization, Bridging Organization, Social Movement Interaction: The Coalition of Labor Union Women, 1974-1996
Ronit Shemtov
Ph.D. Dissertation: Goal Expansion Among Social Movement Organizations: The Case of Community-Environmental Groups
Alice Pritchard
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace
1995
Xun Wang
Ph.D. Dissertation: Institutional Environment, Management Systems and Organizational Effectiveness: A Study of Industrial Enterprises in China
1994
Laurie Gordy
Ph.D. Dissertation: Which Side of the Tracks are You on?: The Politics of Tracking in an American Secondary School
Su Epstein
Ph.D. Dissertation: Characters Amok: The Representation of Serial Killers in American Films
1993
Mark A. Winton
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Sociology of Science and Male Sexual Dysfunctions
Pamela J. Byrnes
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Massachusetts Universal Health Insurance Law: A Case Study of Making Health Care Policy
Yiorgos Apostolopoulos
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Perceived Effects of Tourism Industry Development: A Comparison of Two Hellenic Islands
1992
Barbara G. Sosnowitz
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Social Construction of AIDS and the Personalization of Risk
Anthony J. Sommo
Ph.D. Dissertation: Making It Blind: Institutional Barriers to Life Goals
Sung Ho Ko
Ph.D. Dissertation: Urbanization in the Third World: South Korea, 1960-1980
Kurt J. Greenland
Ph.D. Dissertation: Workers' Health and Safety in the United States: The Effects of Economic Segmentation and Social Class
Jennifer Brown
Ph.D. Dissertation: Safer Sex Practices: Gender, Power and Risk in a College Student Population
1991
James Charles Williams,
Ph.D Dissertation: Socialization Experience and Identity Foreclosure: An Exploration of the Effects of Role Disengagement on the Personal Adjustment of Former College Athletes
Wayne Luther Thompson
Ph.D Dissertation: The Ecology of Membership Change in Presbyterian Congregations, 1970-1988
Patrick Hynes
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Corporate Control of Psychiatry: The Emergence and Dynamics of Psychiatric Concurrent Review
1990
Seong Y. Shin
Ph.D. Dissertation: An Analysis of Person-Environment Interaction in Elderly Migration Streams to and within the Northeast: 1975-1980
Elaine J. Hall
Ph.D. Dissertation: Waiting on Tables: Gender Integration in a Service Occupation
Judith Fifield
Ph.D. Dissertation: Gender, Class and the Illness Experience of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Suphot Dendoung
Ph.D. Dissertation: Malaria Control Programs and Community Participation in Four Contrasting Thai Communities
Eleni G. Apospori-Sografos
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Roles of Perceived Severity of Legal Sanctions, Perceived Legitimacy of Criminal Justice System, and Differential Experience of Legal Sanctions on Deterrence
1989
Angwara D. Kiwara
Ph.D. Dissertation: Workers' Health and Safety in Kenya and Tanzania
Mark D. Hardt
Ph.D. Dissertation: Relative Population Change in Nonmetropolitan Counties, 1970-1980 and 1980-1985
1988
Robert R. Weaver
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Diffusion of Decision Support Technology in Medicine
Sylvie Carole Tourigny
Ph.D. Dissertation: Remission or Death: The Social Psychology of Stress and Coping in Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma Patients
1987
Timothy Frederick Morse
Ph.D. Dissertation: Dying to Know: Workers' Struggle to Get Information on Toxic Chemicals
Richard Joseph Jacobsen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Primary Care and the Urban Poor: A Case Study of Organization-Environment Relations
1986
Sharyn Leanne Roach
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Recruitment of Men and Women Lawyers to In-House Legal Departments: The Interplay of Environmental, Organizational, and Individual Properties
Randi Lynn Miller
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Impact of Voluntary Busing on the Desegregation Experiences of Minority Students in Five Connecticut Suburban Communities
Catherine Alice McDonald
Ph.D. Dissertation: Establishment of Alternative Health Organizations
Vanetta-Marie D’Andrea
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Women of Survivance: A Case Study of Ethnic Persistence Among the Members of Franco-American Women's Groups in New England, 1950-Present
Valerie Jean carter
Ph.D. Dissertation: New Technology and Relations of Control in Clerical Work: The Impact of Office Automation on the Clerical Labor Process
1985
William Norman Singleton
Ph.D. Dissertation: Talcott Parsons' Theory of Scientific Development and Talcott Parsons' Theoretical Productions
Mark Albert Mesler
Ph.D. Dissertation: Negotiated Order and the Clinical Pharmacist
William P. Anderson Jr.
Ph.D. Dissertation: Intersecting Cultures in Mass Society: National, Regional, and Local Hegemony in Southern and Regional Cities, 1950-1980
Akwasi Aidoo
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Class, the State, and Medical Decolonization in Ghana: in the Political Economy of Health Care
1984
Harold Sadowy
Ph.D. Dissertation: Physician Pricing: Theory and Practice, A Comprehensive Topic Overview and In-depth Analysis of a Local Market
Ruth Lyn Riedel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Survival of the Fittest: The Process and Politics of Evaluating Medical Practice
Kathleen Mary Carroll
Ph.D. Dissertation: Women in the Contemporary American Mystery Novel: A Study in the Sociology of Literature
1983
Stuart Allen Wright
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Sociological Study of Defection from Controversial New Religious Movements
Kathleen Driscoll (Laszio)
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Emergence of Social Structure in a Modern Dance Company: A Case Study
Lois Marie Dagle
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Healthy Deviant: Personal Identity, Interpersonal Communication, and the Variable Impact of Labeling
1982
John Neyland Wright
Ph.D. Dissertation: Fear of Crime: Determinants and Consequences
Sharla Patrice-Logan Rausch
Ph.D. Dissertation: Perception of Sanctions, Informal Controls and Deterrence
Julia W. Miller
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Factors Affecting Coronary Heart Disease Mortality
Beatrice Esther Manning
Ph.D. Dissertation: Nurses on Strike: A Case Study
Roland E. Holstead
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Differential Responses of Protestant Church Policies to Racial Change in an Urban Area
Rochelle C. Feldman
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Institutionalization of the Women's Movement in American Higher Education
1981
Christine Noelle Witzel
Ph.D. Dissertation: Nurse Practitioners and Patient-Oriented Care: The Impact of Setting, Role, and Practitioner
Joseph F. Mulhall
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Apprenticeship of the Handicapped: An Interactional Analysis of the Disruption and Reconstitution of the Social Careers of Physically Disabled Persons
Alan R. Lopez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Reality Construction and Transformation in an Eastern Mystical Cult: A Sociological Study
Norman Lifton
Ph.D. Dissertation: Saintliness and Deviance: The Catholic Worker Movement
Sylvia Kenig
Ph.D. Dissertation: Limits on Theory: A Case Study of the Relationships of Market and State to Theory in the Community Mental Health Movement
Lois Haignere
Ph.D. Dissertation: Admission of Women to Medical Schools: A Study of Organizational Response to Movement and Public Policy Pressures
Richard Hector Guerrette
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Emmanuel Servant Community: A Case Study of a Social Movement Organization
Jay Lance Gould
Ph.D. Dissertation: Consumer Influence in Health Planning: The Effects of Health Experiences and Personal Characteristics
1980
Susan Spiggle
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Emergence of a Social Movement: Nineteenth Century Women's Rights
Stephen Sharkey
Ph.D. Dissertation: Art into Society: The Case of Italian Futurism
Jesus N. Samper-Ahumada
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Ecological Complex and Service Sector Growth: The Case of Non-Metropolitan Counties in the Northeastern United States, 1950-70
Robert A. Lowe
Ph.D. Dissertation: Responding to Non-Conformity: The Influence of Social and Situational Factors on Observers' Reactions
Frances A. Boudreau (Newman)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Selves and Significant Others: A Study of Women Who "Drop Back In.”
1979
Richard A. Lusky, 1979
Ph.D. Dissertation: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Comprehensive Rehabilitation for the Physically Disabled: A Regional Investigation
Lawrence A. Lovell-Troy
Ph.D. Dissertation: Kinship Structure and Economic Organization Among Ethnic Groups: Greek Immigrants in the Pizza Business
Randolph Lamkin Jr.
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Multivariate Analysis of Social and Psychological Precursors of the Coronary-Prone Behavior Patter
Nora Ganim (now Barnes)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Isolation, Powerlessness, and Fraud: The Plight of the Elderly Consumer
David K. Carboni
Ph.D. Dissertation: Occupational Specialization Movements: The Case of Geriatric Medicine in the U.S.A. and Great Britain
1978
Michele Wilson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Folk Crime: Patterns of Accommodation between Law Enforcers and Law Violators
Robert P. Weber
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Dynamics of Value Change, Transformations, and Cycles: British Speeches from the throne, 1689-1972
Ursula G. Dibble
Ph.D. Dissertation: Socially Sheared Deprivation, Participation in Non-Violent Protest and the Approval of Violence: The Experience of American Blacks During the Nineteen Sixties
Rosalyn P. Darling
Ph.D. Dissertation: Parents, Pediatricians, and Societal Relations to Congenitally Handicapped Children: A Career Study of Conflicting Definitions of the Situation
1977
John P. Roche
Ph.D. Dissertation: Ethnic Attitudes and Ethnic Behavior: Italian Americans in Two Rhode Island Suburban Communities
Bruce London
Ph.D. Dissertation: Metropolis and Nation: An Ecological Analysis of Primate City-Hinterland Relationships in Thailand
William G. Flanagan
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Extended Family as an Agent in Urbanization: A Survey of Men and Women Working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
1976
Thomas S. Weinberg
Ph.D. Dissertation: Becoming Homosexual: Self-Discovery, Self-Identity, and Self-Maintenance
Steven J. Stack
Ph.D. Dissertation: Inequality in Industrial Society: Income Distribution in Capitalist and Socialist Nations
John A. Pandiani
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Roles, Social Norms, and Driving Behavior
Joseph M. Holtzman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Regional Planning and Coordinating Structures in Health Care: A Sociological Analysis
Francis J. Hearn
Ph.D. Dissertation: Domination and Legitimation in Industrial Capitalism: The Incorporation of the English Working Class and the Historical Roots of One-Dimensionality
Joseph R. Fernandez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Conscription in the Civil War and World War I: The Rejection and Acceptance of Authority
Joseph W. Debolt
Ph.D. Dissertation: Personality and Leadership in Small Groups: An Exploration of the Relationship between Leadership and Internal vs. External Locus of Control
Jon Darling
Ph.D. Dissertation: An Interactionist Interpretation of Bachelorhood and Late Marriage
Vincent L. Bolduc
Ph.D. Dissertation: Association and Community
1975
Charles H. Swanson,
Ph.D. Dissertation: Female Sexual Careers: The Paths and Processes in Becoming Sexually Active
Donald M. Perry
Ph.D. Dissertation: Tolerance of Deviants and Social Class
Charlotte G. O’Kelly
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Black Press and the Black Protest Movement: A Study of the Response of Mass Media to Social Change, 1946-1972
Hugh F. Lena III
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Anatomy and Functioning of the Hospital: A Comparative, Longitudinal Analysis of Organizational Structure and Performance
Lakshmi B. Krishnamurty
Ph.D. Dissertation: Reference Group Theory and Drug Use Dynamics in a College Population
James R. Hayes
Ph.D. Dissertation: The War Within a War: Dissent in the Military with an Emphasis upon the Vietnam Era
Richard C. Bibbee
Ph.D. Dissertation: Historico-Criticism and Social Theory: A Study of the Development of the Forms of Collective Thought by the Use of Mathematical Structures
1974
Andrew P. Hopkins
Ph.D. Dissertation: Return to Crime: A quasi-Experimental Study of the Effects of Imprisonment and Its Alternatives
1973
Ames F. Tryon
Ph.D. Dissertation: An Ecological Analysis of Factors Associated with Variations in the Supply of Dental Manpower in Metropolitan America
Ronald G. Iacovetta
Ph.D. Dissertation: Socioeconomic Status, Adolescent-Adult Interaction, and Peer Group Involvement
1972
Charles E. Hurst
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Study of the Relationships Among Race, Class and Consciousness
Scott B. Cummings
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Influence of Family Life on the Scholastic Performance of Urban High School Students: A Critical Examination of the Cultural Deprivation Hypothesis
1971
Meredith D. Pugh
Ph.D. Dissertation: Consequences of Student Self-Evaluations
Samih Khalil Farsoun
Ph.D. Dissertation: Family Structure in a Modernizing Society
1970
Mostafa Nagi
Ph.D. Dissertation: Demographic and Socio-Economic Analysis of the Egyptian Labor Force, 1938-85
Janice Swenson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Alienation of Social Involvement
1969
Patrick Luck
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Determinants of Self Esteem
1968
Robert Sherwin
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Class Values and Deviant Behavior: An Empirical Test of Some Theories of Delinquency
1967
Virginia Vidich
Ph.D. Dissertation: Climatic Public Health and Nutritional Correlates of Infant Mortality Variations Among Cities in Columbia, South America, 1962.
Elechanan Lahav
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Incongruency and Occupational Choice
Michael Gordon
Ph.D. Dissertation: Juvenile Delinquency in the American Novel 1905-1967: A Study in the Sociology of Literature
Cyril Robert Friedman
Ph.D. Dissertation: Attitudes Toward Protest Strategy and Participation in Protest Groups Among Negro Americans
Willard Callender
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Social Psychological Study of Suicide Related Behavior in a Student Population
1966
Franklin Watson
Ph.D. Dissertation: An Analysis of Selected Demographic and Social Differences Among the Suburbs of the Metropolitan Community of Hartford, CT.
John Petras
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Genesis and Development of Symbolic Interactions in American Sociology
Harry Kienzle
Ph.D. Dissertation: Emile Durkheim and American Sociology: A Study in the Philosophical Presuppositions of a Science
1960
Leona Beatrice Bachrach
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sociological Correlates of Neonatal and Post Neonatal Mortality in the United States 1949-1951
1957
William Almy Morrison
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Relationships of Family Size and Socio-Cultural Variables to Attitudes toward Family Planning in a Village of India
1954
Leo Arthur Suslow
Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Security in Guatemala: A Case Study in Bureaucracy and Social Welfare Planning