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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

 

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

 

Maria Biskup
“Allergy to Feminism?” A Case Study of a Women’s Organization in Poland.

J. Elise Brown
The Social Construction of Female Identity in the Early Christian Church
Carlene Buchanan
Are Sisters Doing it (ALL) for Themselves: Elderly Black Women and the Healthcare Decision
Making

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Patrick Inglis
Cyber Caste

 

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

 

Francois Joseph
The Religious Practices in the Construction/negotiation of Diaspora Identity among Haitian
Immigrants in New York City.
Ervin Kosta
Ethnicity Unbound: How Albanians Redraw the Ethnic Boundary on Arthur Avenue.

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

 

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

 

Emily Mahon
Paradoxes of Piety in Young Muslim American Women

 

Noriko Matsumoto
The Invention of Multiethnic Space: East Asian Immigration in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

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

 

Jean Phelps
Voice and Advocacy in the Urban Ghetto

 

Binh Pok
Comparative Analysis of Second-Generation Chinese Immigrants: Experience, Insertion and
Assimilation in France and United States.
Lisa Pollich
The Management of Spoiled Hidden Identity: The Case of Disclosure of Migraine Headaches
in the Workplace.
Megha Ramaswamy
Masculinity as Risk, Masculinity as Protection: Sex, Drugs, Violence & Recidivism Among
Incarcerated Urban Adolescents
Liza Reisel
Public Higher Education and Welfare State Regimes: A comparative Analysis of Social
Stratification and Educational Outcome in Norway and the United States

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

 

Shana Siegel
Reactions to a Six Nations land reclamation among residents of Caledonia, Ontario, Canada
Rachel Swaner
Youth Civic Engagement: Strategies for Youth-led Policy Change

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

 

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

 

Aleksandra Wagner
From Ego to Relation: On Encountering and on Becoming, American

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

 

J. Heather Wiley
Welfare Reform

 

Craig Willse
From Social Problems to Governance Problems: Health and Housing After
the Welfare State