Latest Dissertation Projects  

Ayse Aikaln
Exchanging Affect: The Migrant Domestic Workers Market in Turkey

Darren Barany
Neocontradictions: The Rise of the New right and the Decline of the American Welfare State

Carla Barrett
"Adult Kids" in New York Criminal Court

Robert Baskerville
The Social Origin of Integrationism: The Rise of the Black New Class and the Fate of the 20th Century Black Freedom Struggle

Tamara Mose Brown
West Indian Babysitters in Brooklyn Parks: Negotiating Social Spaces in Public and Private Places

Erynn Masi de Casanova
Making up the Difference: Ecuadorian Women Engaged in Direct Selling

Randol Contreras
"Still Making it”: An Ethnographic Analysis of Changing Drug Markets and Drug Robbers in South Bronx Neighborhood

Hyunho Choi
Korean, Twice Removed: Korean-Chinese Immigrants in New York.

Tracy Chu
The Pathology of Victimhood: Mental Health and the Social Construction of "Trauma" Among Refugee/Asylum-seeking Survivors of Torture

Martha Crum
Media Discourse, Facts and the Construction of Public Opinion on Tax Policy from 2000 - 2005

Thurston Domina
The New Cosmopolitans: Understanding America's Rural Brain Drain

 

Joanna Dreby
Child-rearing in Mexican Transnational Families

Christopher Freed
Scientific Knowledge about Alcohol Addiction in Twentieth-century America: A Historical Accomplishment

Deborah Gambs
The Art of the Social: Live Objects, New Aesthetics, Moving Time

Steve Garlick
Images of Life: Gender, Technoscience, and Knowledge

Greg Goldberg
Own Nothing, Have Everything: File-Sharing Networks and the New Economy of Music

Jeffrey Graham
Loose Lips Sink Ships: A Sociological Examination of Rumor Control in the United States Since World War II

Rachel Grob
Parenting in the Genomic Age

Christian Grov
Sexual Compulsivity among men who have sex with men

Christopher Gunderson
Contentious Politics in the Era of Neo-Liberal Globalization: The genesis of Neo-Zapatismo

Judy Halasz
Questioning the Workaday World: Bohemianism as a Way of Life on the Lower East Side of NYC and Ithaca, NY late 1960s - present

Fatmir Haskaj
Kosovo/a: Subsovereignty Ethnicity and Violence

Patrick Inglis
Cyber Caste

Denise Ingram
Balancing Act: Welfare Mothers and the Management of a stigma Post 1996 Welfare Reform

Colin Jerolmack
Placing and Problematizing Animals: A Comparative Ethnography

Rose Kim
Violence and Trauma as Constitutive Elements in Racial
Formation and Identity

Mehmet Kucukozer
Peasant Rebellions in the Age of ‘Neoliberal’ Reforms: The Zapatistas of Mexico and the Kurds of Turkey

Kristin Lawler
Radical: Surfers and American Culture in the Twentieth Century

 

Penny Lewis
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight? Historical Memory and the Class Dynamics of Vietnam Antiwar Sentiment and Movement in the United States

Tania Levey
Higher Education and Social Inequality: The Role of Community Colleges

Emily Mahon
Paradoxes of Piety in Young Muslim American Women

Lauren McDonald
Think Tanks, University Policy Institutes, and Ideology: The debate over Ideas, Research, and Strategy in Public Education Policy Making

Doug Meyer
Experiencing Anti-Queer Violence: The Identity Construction Processes of LGBT Hate Crime Victims

Rich Ocejo
Nightlife: Bars, Neighborhoods, and the Production of Urban Culture

Jay Pastrana Jr.
Organizing Intersectional Politics: Narratives of People of Color in Lesbian and Gay Organizing

Jean Phelps
Voice and Advocacy in the Urban Ghetto

Diana Rickard
Constructing Spoiled Identity: The Case of the Child Molester

Michelle Ronda
Professionalizing the Community in Comprehensive Community Initiatives: A Study of Governmentality in Far Rockaway, NY

Abigail Schoneboom
Diary of a Working Boy: An Investigation of Time and Knowledge Work

Polly Sylvia
If you See Something, Say Something: The Power of the “War on Terrorism’ to Name What it is that We See

Rebecca Tiger
Drug Courts and Coerced Treatment: The Social Construction of “Enlightened Coercion”

Robert W Turner III
Fifteen Minutes of Fame: the Life and the Mind of the NFL Athlete

Alia Tyner
Crafting Success: Alternative School Students and the Meaning of their education

Dominic Wetzel
Fundamentalism Strikes Back: Modernity, Everyday Life and the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment

J. Heather Wiley
Welfare Reform

Craig Willse
The Madness of Information: Technoscience, Biopower and Mental Health Management

Hella Winston
Embodying Virtue: Negotiating the Demands of Hasidic Womanhood

Jonathan Wynn
The Walking Tour Guide: Cultural Workers in the Disneyfied City