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2021

Ulrike Bialas, *21

Ulrike Bialas, *21
  • Forever 17: The Contested Ages of Asylum Seekers in Germany

Colleen Campbell, *21

Colleen Campbell, *21
  • Reproduction as a Site of Power and Contestation: Informed Consent and Black Women’s Negotiation of Medical Decision-Making

Ian Lundberg, *21

Ian Lundberg, *21
  • Research Begins with a Goal: A Framework Illustrated by Gap-Closing Estimands

Daniela R. Urbina, *21

Daniela R. Urbina, *21
  • When the Tables Turn: Marriage and Gender Inequality in Latin America

2020

Cary Beckwith, *20

Cary Beckwith, *20
  • Three Essays on Local Social Orders

Clark Bernier, *20

Clark Bernier, *20
  • The Dynamics of Post-Bureaucracy: How Status Shapes Authority in Contemporary Organizations

Jessamin Birdsall, *20

Jessamin Birdsall, *20
  • Racial Diversity in British Evangelicalism: Frames, Barriers, and Practices

Sergio Galaz Garcia, *20

Sergio Galaz Garcia, *20
  • Has the Time Come? Three Essays on the Relationship Between Historical Contingency and Politicization in the Immediate, Short and Long Run

Liora O'Donnell Goldensher, *20

Liora O'Donnell Goldensher, *20
  • Homebirth Politics: Feminists, Conservatives, and the Struggle Over Expert Knowledge

Gozde Guran, *20

Gozde Guran, *20
  • Brokers of Order: How Money Moves in Wartime Syria

Rebecca Johnson, *20

Rebecca Johnson, *20
  • Zero-Sum Rights: Student Needs, Parental Intervention, and Hidden Rationing in K-12 Education

Arum Park, *20

Arum Park, *20
  • The Social Construction of Internet Addiction: A Comparative Study of South Korea, Japan, and the U.S.

Leah Margareta Gazzo Reisman, *20

Leah Margareta Gazzo Reisman, *20
  • Strategizing for Social Good: How Consulting Shapes the Nonprofit Sector

Grace Tien, *20

Grace Tien, *20
  • Global Disruptors: Startups, Entrepreneurs, and Investors in the Age of Technocapitalism

2019

Amanda Cheong, *19

Amanda Cheong, *19
  • Omitted Lives: Access to Civil Registration and its Implications for Inequality

Sharon Cornelissen, *19

Sharon Cornelissen, *19
  • The Unequal Neighborhood: Hardship and Privilege in Northwest Detroit

Leah L. Gillion, *19

Leah L. Gillion, *19
  • Education, Political Ideology, and Academic Outcomes

Sarah James, *19

Sarah James, *19
  • The Role of Sleep in the Status Attainment Process

Samantha Jaroszewski, *19

Samantha Jaroszewski, *19
  • Fantasy Sports: Community through Ritual and Technology

Kimberly Kracman, *19

Kimberly Kracman, *19
  • Accounting for Property: The Role of Technical Narratives in the Distribution of Wealth

Joel Mittleman, *19

Joel Mittleman, *19
  • LGB Youth in America's Schools: New Evidence from a Changing Context

Nicole Pangborn, *19

Nicole Pangborn, *19
  • Ethnicity, Emotions, and Relations in an Italian-American Suburb

Emilce Santana, *19

Emilce Santana, *19
  • Can Love Conquer All? Platonic and Romantic Relationships Across Ethnoracial Lines

Martin Sybblis, *19

Martin Sybblis, *19
  • Open for Business: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Economic Development in the Caribbean

Mélanie Terrasse, *19

Mélanie Terrasse, *19
  • No Wrong Door: Data Sharing and Coordination in Nonprofit Social Services

Han Zhang, *19

Han Zhang, *19
  • Three Papers on Collective Action

2018

Cheng Cheng, *18

Cheng Cheng, *18
  • Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision-Making in China

Angela Dixon, *18

Angela Dixon, *18
  • The Color of Inequity: Perceptions of Discrimination in Latin America

Linsey Nicole Edwards, *18

Linsey Nicole Edwards, *18
  • Time & Efficacy: Neighborhoods, Temporal Constraints, and the Persistence of Poverty

Heba Gowayed, *18

Heba Gowayed, *18
  • Refuge: Syrian Refugee Incorporation and the Production of New Minorities

Allison Kenney, *18

Allison Kenney, *18
  • Authority in Urban School Governance: Stasis and Change in New Haven Public Schools

Heather Kugelmass, *18

Heather Kugelmass, *18
  • Racial Disparities in Access to Mental Health Care: A Field Experimental Approach

Kendall Cox Park, *18

Kendall Cox Park, *18
  • B the Change: Social Companies, B Corps, and Benefit Corporations

David Barron Schwartz, *18

David Barron Schwartz, *18
  • Crowd and Community: Organizations and Occupations in Crowdsourced Work

2017

Alfredo Garcia, *17

Alfredo Garcia, *17
  • The Walls of Wynwood: Art and Change in the Global Neighborhood

Denia Garcia, *17

Denia Garcia, *17
  • Integration Beyond Numbers: Getting Along and Working Together in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

Angelina Grigoryeva, *17

Angelina Grigoryeva, *17
  • Household Economies in the Context of Financialization and Population Aging

Andrew Ledford, *17

Andrew Ledford, *17
  • Islamism in the Middle East and North Africa

Kathyrn Li, *17

Kathyrn Li, *17
  • Between Resistance and Accommodation: Evangelical Christian Therapists Engaging the Secular World

2016

Maria Abascal, *16

Maria Abascal, *16
  • Black-White Relations in the Wake of Hispanic Population Growth

Alexander Davis, *16

Alexander Davis, *16
  • Equal but Separate? Building Gender, Sex and Status into Public Restrooms in the United States, 1883-2015

Janeria Easley, *16

Janeria Easley, *16
  • Getting a Job, Getting to Work: Hidden Inequality in Spatial Mismatch Among US Ethnoracial Groups

Kerstin Gentsch, *16

Kerstin Gentsch, *16
  • How Admission Policy Shapes College Access: Evidence From Two Sectors

Joanne W. Golann, *16

Joanne W. Golann, *16
  • Scripting the Moves: Class, Control, and Urban School Reform

Aaron Gottlieb, *16

Aaron Gottlieb, *16
  • Mass Incarceration in the United States: New Evidence on Implications and Ways Forward

Yossi Harpaz, *16

Yossi Harpaz, *16
  • Compensatory Citizenship: A Comparative Study of Dual Nationality in Serbia, Mexico and Israel

Jennifer Huynh, *16

Jennifer Huynh, *16
  • The City Within: Growing up Vietnamese in Little Saigon

Patrick Ishizuka, *16

Patrick Ishizuka, *16
  • Culture or Constraints? Parenthood and the Persistence of Inequality

Tina Lee, *16

Tina Lee, *16
  • Collusion without Corruption: Shifting Frames and Conflicting Rationalities in the Private and Public Sectors in China

Lauren Senesac, *16

Lauren Senesac, *16
  • Do-It-Yourself Biology Labs: Analysis of An Emerging Organizational Form

Kyla Thomas, *16

Kyla Thomas, *16
  • Hidden (Dis)Advantages of Class: How Cultural Signals of Class Shape U.S. Labor Market Outcomes

Saul Thorkelson, *16

Saul Thorkelson, *16
  • Diversity amidst Nationalism: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Democratic Inclusion in Europe and the United States.

Jessica Yiu, *16

Jessica Yiu, *16
  • Tiger Children in Old and New Immigrant Destinations: The Divergent Educational Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Youth in Spain, Italy and the U.S

2015

Edward Berchick, *15

Edward Berchick, *15
  • The Evolving Importance of Early-Life Health for the Reproduction of Educational Disadvantage Across Birth Cohorts

Sarah Brayne, *15

Sarah Brayne, *15
  • Stratified Surveillance: Policing in the Age of Big Data

Elaine Enriquez, *15

Elaine Enriquez, *15
  • Convicts and Convictions: The Society, Identity, and Morality of Incarcerated Men

Rachael-Heath Ferguson, *15

Rachael-Heath Ferguson, *15
  • Hustle: Social Order in Extralegal Exchange

Lauren Gaydosh, *15

Lauren Gaydosh, *15
  • Beyond Orphanhood: Family Structure and Child Health in Tanzania

Erin Johnston, *15

Erin Johnston, *15
  • Learning to Practice, Becoming Spiritual: Spiritual Disciplines as Projects of the Self

Allison Youatt Schnable, *15

Allison Youatt Schnable, *15
  • Do-It-Yourself Aid: The Emergence of American Grassroots Development Organizations

Brad Smith, *15

Brad Smith, *15
  • Business as Spiritual Vocation: Evangelical Executives on Faith and Work

Mahesh Somashekhar, *15

Mahesh Somashekhar, *15
  • Immigrant Business in Suburban America: How and Why Ethnic Economy Workers in the Suburbs Are Struggling to Get By

Charles Varner, *15

Charles Varner, *15
  • Taxation Without Borders: How Elite Embeddedness Trumps Millionaire Migration

2014

Aasha Abdill, *14

Aasha Abdill, *14
  • Papa May Have: An Intimate Examination of Fatherhood in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Yael Berda, *14

Yael Berda, *14
  • Colonial Legacy and Administrative Memory: The Legal Construction of Citizenship in India, Israel and Cyprus

Angele Christin, *14

Angele Christin, *14
  • Clicks or Pulitzers? Web Journalists and Their Work in the United States and France

Rene Flores, *14

Rene Flores, *14
  • The Social Consequences of Subnational Restrictionist Immigration Policies in the U.S.

Jeff Lane, *14

Jeff Lane, *14
  • The Digital Street

Karen Levy, *14

Karen Levy, *14
  • The Automation of Compliance: Techno-Legal Regulation in the U.S. Trucking Industry

Rourke O'Brien, *14

Rourke O'Brien, *14
  • Macroeconomic Conditions, Welfare State Policy, and the Evaluation of Disability

David Pedulla, *14

David Pedulla, *14
  • Non-standard, Contingent, and Precarious Work in the “New Economy”

Victoria Reyes, *14

Victoria Reyes, *14
  • Global Borderlands: A Case Study of Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines

Stephanie Schacht, *14

Stephanie Schacht, *14
  • Organizational Form and Mission in the Alternative Food Movement

Naomi Sugie, *14

Naomi Sugie, *14
  • Finding Work: A Smartphone Study of Job Searching, Social Contacts, and Wellbeing After Prison

2013

Julia Gelatt, *13

Julia Gelatt, *13
  • Immigration Status and Child Well-Being in the United States

Sara Hassani, *13

Sara Hassani, *13
  • Magnifying Disaster: The Causes and Consequences of Home Underinsurance

Erin Jacobs, *13

Erin Jacobs, *13
  • Prisoner Reentry in Context: Labor Market Conditions, Neighborhoods, and the Employment and Recidivism Outcomes of Former Prisoners

Jayanti Owens, *13

Jayanti Owens, *13
  • Habits that Make, Habits that Break: Gender, Children's Behavior Problems, and Educational Attainment Across Two Decades

Michelle S. Phelps, *13

Michelle S. Phelps, *13
  • Dissertation: The Paradox of Probation: Understanding the Expansion of an "Alternative" to Incarceration During the Prison Boom

LiErin Probasco, *13

LiErin Probasco, *13
  • More Good Than Harm: Moral Action and Evaluation In International Religious Volunteer Tourism

Michael Schlossman, *13

Michael Schlossman, *13
  • Not Quite Treatment, Not Quite Punishment: A Case Study of American Juvenile Justice in the Get-Tough Era (1987-2009)

Liza Steele, *13

Liza Steele, *13
  • Valuing the Welfare State: A cross-national analysis of attitudes about income inequality and redistribution in 91 countries with case studies of Brazil, China, France, and the United States

LaTonya Trotter, *13

LaTonya Trotter, *13
  • Medical Work/Nursing Work: Negotiating the Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care

Erik Vickstrom, *13

Erik Vickstrom, *13
  • The Production and Consequences of Migrant Irregularity: Senegalese in France, Italy, and Spain

Sharon Yoon, *13

Sharon Yoon, *13
  • Re-Conceptualizing the Enclave in An Era of Transnationalism: Ethnic Solidarity and Upward Mobility in the Korean Enclave in Beijing

2012

Amir Goldberg, *12

Amir Goldberg, *12
  • Where Do Social Categories Come From? A Comparative Analyses of Online Interaction and Categorical Emergence in Music and Finance

Carol Ann MacGregor, *12

Carol Ann MacGregor, *12
  • School’s Out Forever: The Decline of Catholic Education in the United States

Emily A. Marshall, *12

Emily A. Marshall, *12
  • PhD Dissertation: Population Problems? Demographic Knowledge and Fertility in Great Britain and France, 1945-2005

Alexandra Murphy, *12

Alexandra Murphy, *12
  • The Social Organization of Black Suburban Poverty: An Ethnographic Community Study

Craig Upright, *12

Craig Upright, *12
  • New-Wave Cooperatives Selling Organic Food: The Curious Endurance of an Organizational Form

2011

Michael Benediktsson, *11

Michael Benediktsson, *11
  • The Suburban Scripts: Built Environment and Socioeconomic Change in the American Suburbs

Bart Bonikowski, *11

Bart Bonikowski, *11
  • Dissertation: "Toward a Theory of Popular Nationalism: Shared Representations of the Nation-State in Modern Democracies."

Becky Hsu, *11

Becky Hsu, *11
  • Assisting the Rural Poor: Moral Understandings, Microfinance, and International Voluntary Efforts in Southwestern China.

Rania Salem, *11

Rania Salem, *11
  • Economics of Courtship: Matrimonial Transactions and the Construction of Gender and Class Inequalities in Egypt

Daniel Schneider, *11

Daniel Schneider, *11
  • Wealth and the Propensity to Marry

Hana Shepherd, *11

Hana Shepherd, *11
  • Dissertation: "Great Decisions: The Organizational Basis of Foreign Policy Ideas in the Council on Foreign Relations."

Scott Leon Washington, *11

Scott Leon Washington, *11
  • Hypodescent: A History of the Crystallization of the One-Drop Rule in the United States, 1880-1940

Kevin Woodson, *11

Kevin Woodson, *11
  • Fairness and Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century Corporate Workplace: The Perspectives of Young Black Professionals

2010

Sofya Aptekar, *10

Sofya Aptekar, *10
  • Immigrant Naturalization and Nation Building in North America

Phillip Connor, *10

Phillip Connor, *10
  • A Theory of Immigrant Religious Adaptation: Disruption, Assimilation, and Facilitation

Nicholas Ehrmann, *10

Nicholas Ehrmann, *10
  • Yellow Brick Road

Alice Goffman, *10

Alice Goffman, *10
  • On the Run

Pierre Kremp, *10

Pierre Kremp, *10
  • Bubble & Inequality: The Diffusion of Stock Ownership in the U.S.

Petra Nahmias, *10

Petra Nahmias, *10
  • The Social Epidemiology of Maternal Obesity In Egypt

Amy Michelle Reynolds, *10

Amy Michelle Reynolds, *10
  • Saving the Market: The Role of Religious Values, Authority, and Networks in International Trade Discourse

Cristobal Young, *10

Cristobal Young, *10
  • The Non-Pecuniary Costs of Unemployment: Three Empirical Studies of Job Loss and Search

2009

Debbie Becher, *09

Debbie Becher, *09
  • City of Philadelphia's Use of Eminent Domain

Donnell Butler , *09

Donnell Butler , *09
  • Franklin & Marshall College

Sharon Bzostek, *09

Sharon Bzostek, *09
  • Mothers’ Union Formation Following a Non-Marital Birth

Clemencia Cosentino, *09

Clemencia Cosentino, *09
  • Examination Regimes and Student Achievement

Hillary Levey, *09

Hillary Levey, *09
  • Harvard University

Valerie Lewis, *09

Valerie Lewis, *09
  • Slums and Children’s Disadvantage: The Case of India

Rebekah Massengill, *09

Rebekah Massengill, *09
  • Critical Capitalism: Moral Discourse in the Debate Over Wal-mart

Christina Mora, *09

Christina Mora, *09
  • De Muchos, Uno: The Institutionalization of Latino Panethnicity in the United States 1960-1990

Alexandria Walton Radford, *09

Alexandria Walton Radford, *09
  • Where Do They Go? How Gender, Race, and Social Class Shape High School Valedictorians’ Paths to Their Undergraduate Institutions

2008

Renelinda Arana, *08

Renelinda Arana, *08
  • Rebuilding Society Behind Prison Walls: Examining the Structure of Prisoner-Run Reform Organizations

Rebecca Casciano, *08

Rebecca Casciano, *08
  • "By Any Means Necessary": The American Welfare State and Machine Politics in Newark's North Ward

Conrad Hackett, *08

Conrad Hackett, *08
  • Religion and Fertility in the United States: The Influence of Affiliation, Region, and Congregation

Gregoire Mallard, *08

Gregoire Mallard, *08
  • The Atomic Confederacy: Europe's Quest For Nuclear Weapons and the Making of The New World Order

Christine Percheski, *08

Christine Percheski, *08
  • Women’s Employment, Family Structure and Social Inequality

Anna Sun, *08

Anna Sun, *08
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies, Kenyon College

Christopher Wildeman, *08

Christopher Wildeman, *08
  • Parental Incarceration, the Prison Boom, and The Intergenerational Transmission of Stigma and Disadvantage June 2008

2006

Adriana Abdenur, *06

Adriana Abdenur, *06
  • Assistant Professor of International Affairs

Rina Agarwala, *06

Rina Agarwala, *06
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: From Work to Welfare: Informal Workers’ Organizations and the State in India

Maitrayee Bhattacharyya, *06

Maitrayee Bhattacharyya, *06
  • Marital Assimilation Among U.S. Raised Asian Indians: Contours, Consequences, and Alternative Pathways

Michelle Bellessa Frost, *06

Michelle Bellessa Frost, *06
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Texas High Schools and Precursors to Students' College Attendance

Michael Lindsay, *06

Michael Lindsay, *06
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Faith in the Corridors of Power: Religious Identity and Public Leadership

Traci Schlesinger, *06

Traci Schlesinger, *06
  • Assistant Professor – DePaul University

Laura Stark, *06

Laura Stark, *06
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Morality in Science: How Research is evaluated in the Age of Human Subjects Regulations

Anna Zajacova, *06

Anna Zajacova, *06
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Sociodemographic Factors and Health: Examination of Select Pathways Over the Lifecourse

2005

Sada Aksartova, *05

Sada Aksartova, *05
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Civil Society from Abroad: U.S. Donors in the former Soviet Union

Kelly A. Hoffman, *05

Kelly A. Hoffman, *05
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: State Authority and International Environmental Law

Alexandra Kalev, *05

Alexandra Kalev, *05
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: Changing Organizational Structures and Managerial Diversity

Rachel Kimbro, *05

Rachel Kimbro, *05
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Intergenerational Differences in Health Behaviors for Mexican-Americans: The Role of Culture and Cohesion

Virag Molnar, *05

Virag Molnar, *05
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Modernity and Memory: The Politics of Architecture in Hungary and East Germany After the Second World War

Margarita Ann Mooney, *05

Margarita Ann Mooney, *05
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Upward Climb or Downward Slide? Religion and Mediating social Capital in the Haitian Communities of Miami, Montreal and Paris

César F. Rosado Marzán, *05

César F. Rosado Marzán, *05
  • Ph.D., J.D.

Gabriel Rossman, *05

Gabriel Rossman, *05
  • Assistant Professor – UCLA

Joan Leann Walling, *05 S*03

Joan Leann Walling, *05 S*03
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Power of Receiving: Finding Moral Meaning in Care-Receiving Episodes

2004

Joshua A. Guetzkow, *04

Joshua A. Guetzkow, *04
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Carrot and the Stick: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Welfare and Criminal Justice

Jean T. Knab (Tansey), *04

Jean T. Knab (Tansey), *04
  • Senior Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research

Ann J. Morning, *04 S*04

Ann J. Morning, *04 S*04
  • Associate Professor – NYU

Frederick F. Wherry, *04 S*02

Frederick F. Wherry, *04 S*02
  • Professor, Departmental Representative
  • Department of Sociology
  • Princeton University

Dirk Mathias Zorn, *04

Dirk Mathias Zorn, *04
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Hail to the Chief: Conceptions of Control and the Rise of the Chief Financial Officer in the American Firm

2003

Nina Bandelj, *03

Nina Bandelj, *03
  • Assistant Professor – University of California

Julian B. Dierkes, *03

Julian B. Dierkes, *03
  • Associate Professor and Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research, Univ of British Columbia
Website: twitter.com/jdierkes

Eszter Hargittai, *03

Eszter Hargittai, *03
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: How Wide a Web? Inequalities in Accessing Information Online

Kazuko Suzuki, *03

Kazuko Suzuki, *03
  • The State and Immigrant Adaptation: A Comparative Study of the Korean Diaspora in Japan and the United States

2002

Gwendolyn A. Cadge, *02

Gwendolyn A. Cadge, *02
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Seeking the Heart: The First Generation Practices Theravada Buddhism in America

Marion Wigby Carter, *02

Marion Wigby Carter, *02
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Do “Macho” Men Visit the Midwife? Husband Involvement in Maternal and Child Health in Rural Guatemala

Kristen S. Harknett, *02

Kristen S. Harknett, *02
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Single Parents and Rational for Marriage

Brian Sloat Steensland, *02

Brian Sloat Steensland, *02
  • Assistant Professor – Indiana University

2001

Dana A. Glei, *01

Dana A. Glei, *01
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Integration of Traditional and biomedical Care During Pregnancy and Birth in Rural Guatemala

Kieran J. Healy, *01

Kieran J. Healy, *01
  • Assistant Professor – University of Arizona

Steven J. Tepper, *01

Steven J. Tepper, *01
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Culture, Conflict and Community: Struggles Over Art, Education and History in American Cities

W. Bradford Wilcox, *01

W. Bradford Wilcox, *01
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Soft Patriarchs & New Men: Religion, Ideology, and Male Familial Involvement

2000

Antony W. Alumkal, *00

Antony W. Alumkal, *00
  • Assistant Professor – Iliff School of Theology

Bethany P. Bryson, *00

Bethany P. Bryson, *00
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Conflict and Cohesion: Why the Canon Wars Did Not Destroy English Literature

Erin L. Kelly, *00

Erin L. Kelly, *00
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology – University of Minnesota

Abigail Cope Saguy (Smith), *00

Abigail Cope Saguy (Smith), *00
  • Assitant Professor – UCLA Department of Sociology

1999

Jason A. Kaufman, *99

Jason A. Kaufman, *99
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Sometimes Civil Society: Urban Development, Municipal Politics, and the Impact of the Communications Revolution on 19th Century American Cities

Usic Kim, *99

Usic Kim, *99
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Controlling Uncertainty: Relationship Management in the Organizational Field of U.S. Investment Firms

Elizabeth M. Pettit, *99

Elizabeth M. Pettit, *99
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor

Tracy L. Scott, *99

Tracy L. Scott, *99
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: What’s God Got to Do With It? Protestantism, Gender, and the Meaning of work in the U.S.

1998

John H. Evans, *98

John H. Evans, *98
  • Associate Professor – Univ. of CA, San Diego

Jeffrey K. Hass, *98

Jeffrey K. Hass, *98
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: To the Undiscovered Country: Institutions, Authority, Culture and Russia’s Transition to the Market, 1988-1997

Hongqiu Yang, *98 S*94

Hongqiu Yang, *98 S*94
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Cultural Meaning of Health: Social Ties and Health Among the Elderly in China and Japan

1997

Courtney J. Bender, *97

Courtney J. Bender, *97
  • Associate Professor – Columbia University

Matthew M. Chew, *97

Matthew M. Chew, *97
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: International Cultural Influence and Problems of Knowledge Production in Cultural Peripheries: The Case of Modern Chinese and Japanese Philosophy

John Schmalzbauer, *97

John Schmalzbauer, *97
  • Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University

Hiromi Taniguchi, *97

Hiromi Taniguchi, *97
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: U.S. Men’s and Women’s Wage Attainment, 1968-1988

Maureen R. Waller, *97

Maureen R. Waller, *97
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Redefining Fatherhood: Paternal Involvement, Masculinity, and Responsibility in the “Other America”

Gray Wheeler, *97

Gray Wheeler, *97
  • MBA – Harvard Business School

Hongxin Zhao, *97

Hongxin Zhao, *97
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Children of Teenage Mothers: What Determines Their Resilience

1996

Timothy J. Dowd, *96

Timothy J. Dowd, *96
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Structure of Charismatic Moral Action

Matthew P. Lawson, *96

Matthew P. Lawson, *96
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Structure of Charismatic Moral Action

Richard Lee Rogers, *96

Richard Lee Rogers, *96
  • Ph.D. *96

Libby A. Schweber, *96

Libby A. Schweber, *96
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Assertion of Disciplinary Claims in Demography and Vital Statistics: France and England, 1830-1885

1995

Sina Mandalinci, *95

Sina Mandalinci, *95
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Class Differences in Vulnerability to Stress: Exploring Stress Loops and Predictive Capacity as Mediating Variables

Matthew J. Price, *95 S*91

Matthew J. Price, *95 S*91
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Unmaking of the British Middle Class: Progressive Liberalism and the Discourse of Managerial Authority in Early Twentieth Century Britain

Jack Veuglers

Jack Veuglers
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Institutionalization of France’s Front National

1994

Victoria Chapman Bruno, *94

Victoria Chapman Bruno, *94
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Working Hard or Hardly Working? An Examination of Children’s Household Contributions in the 1990s.

Timothy Clydesdale, *94

Timothy Clydesdale, *94
  • PhD Dissertation: Money and Faith in America: Exploring the Effects of Religious Restructuring and Income Inequality on Social Attitudes and Family Behavior.

Bai Gao, *94

Bai Gao, *94
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Social Origin of Economic Reasoning: Three Changing Paradigms in Japanese Economic Policy, 1931-1965

1993

Eva M. Garroutte, *93

Eva M. Garroutte, *93
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Language and Cultural Authority: Nineteenth-Century Science and the Colonization of Religious Discourse

Beth K. Kosiak (Kaplowitz), *93 S*86

Beth K. Kosiak (Kaplowitz), *93 S*86
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Stress, Coping, and the Social Self: An Experimental Examination of Coping Behavior

Naomi Rutenberg, *93

Naomi Rutenberg, *93
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Estimation of Fecundability from Survey Data on Coital Frequency

Jennifer A. Strickler, *93

Jennifer A. Strickler, *93
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Contraceptive Risk-Taking and Contraceptive Failure Among Users of Female Barrier Methods

1992

Stephen W-K. Chiu, *92

Stephen W-K. Chiu, *92
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The State and the Financing of Industrialization in East Asia: Historical Origins of Comparative Divergences

Edward P. Freeland, *92

Edward P. Freeland, *92
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Dynamics of Nonprofit and Public Organizational Growth in Health Care and Higher Education: A Study of U.S. States, 1910-1980

Laura L. Rudkin-Miniot, *92

Laura L. Rudkin-Miniot, *92
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Gender Differences in Wellbeing Among the Elderly in Java, Indonesia

Marsha G. Witten, *92

Marsha G. Witten, *92
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Guarding the Castle of God—Religious Speech in Context of Secularity: An Examination of the Sermon Discourse of two Protestant Denominations in the Contemporary U.S.

1991

Guang Guo, *91

Guang Guo, *91
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: A Multivariate Proportional Hazards Model for Correlated Risks, with an Application to Child Survival in Guatemala

Sarah G. Hewins, *91 S*82

Sarah G. Hewins, *91 S*82
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Backstretch: Social Structure and Community in the Stable Area of the Thoroughbred Racing Industry

David Jacobson, *91

David Jacobson, *91
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: A Nation’s Sovereignty Under Seige: The U.S. in an Age of Global Inter-Dependence

Deborah A. Kaple, *91 E

Deborah A. Kaple, *91 E
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Emulating Control: The Stalinist Origins of Chinese Industrial Organization Management, 1949-1953

Keith F. MacAllum, *91

Keith F. MacAllum, *91
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Technological Innovation in a High School Math Department: A Structural and Cultural Analysis

1990

Kathryn L. Kost, *90

Kathryn L. Kost, *90
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Contraceptive Discontinuation in Peru: Patterns and Demographic Implications

Ryoko Kato Tsuneyoshi (Kato), *90

Ryoko Kato Tsuneyoshi (Kato), *90
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Formation of Behavior Patterns in American and Japanese Elementary Schools

1989

William George Lehrman II, *89

William George Lehrman II, *89
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Organizational Form and Failure in the Life Insurance Industry

Kia I. Reinis, *89

Kia I. Reinis, *89
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Impact of the Proximate Determinants of Fertility: Evaluating the Bongaarts of Hobcraft-Little Methods of Estimation

1988

Sajeda Amin, *84 *88

Sajeda Amin, *84 *88
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Impact of Health Interventions on Socio-Economic Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in Punjab, India

Fatma Muge Gocek

Fatma Muge Gocek
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Toward a Theory of Westernization and Social Change: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society

Shaomin Li, *88

Shaomin Li, *88
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: China’s Population Policy: A Model of A Constant Stream of Births

David E. Woolwine, *88

David E. Woolwine, *88
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: George Herbert Mead: A Critical Reassessment of His Philosophy and Its Relationship to Symbolic Interactionism

1986

Lea Keil Garson (Keil), '78 *86

Lea Keil Garson (Keil), '78 *86
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Centenarian Question: Old-Age Mortality in the Soviet Union, 1897 1970

Carolyn Makinson, *86

Carolyn Makinson, *86
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Sex Differentials in Infant Mortality in Egypt

Clifford I. Nass, '81 *86

Clifford I. Nass, '81 *86
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Society as Computer: The Structure of Information Work in the United States 1900-1980

Paul W. Stupp, *86

Paul W. Stupp, *86
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: A General Procedure for Estimating an Intercensal Age Schedule

1985

Ann K. Blanc (Klimas), *85

Ann K. Blanc (Klimas), *85
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Effect of NonMarital Cohabitation on Family Formation and Dissolution: A Comparative Analysis of Sweden and Norway

Karen A. Cerulo, *85

Karen A. Cerulo, *85
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Solidarity and its Effects on Musical communication: an Empirical Analysis of National Anthems

Ulla M. Larsen, *85 S*85

Ulla M. Larsen, *85 S*85
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Measure of Sterility: A Comparative Study of Levels and the Differentials of Sterility in Cameroon, Kenya and Sudan

Ann Shola Orloff, *85

Ann Shola Orloff, *85
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins of Pensions and Old Age Insurance in Canada, Great Britain and the United States, 1880s-1930s.

1984

Carol J. Auster, *84

Carol J. Auster, *84
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Nontraditional Occupational Choice: A Comparative Study of Women and Men in Engineering Job.
  • Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2011

Sally E. Ewing, *84

Sally E. Ewing, *84
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Insurance in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1912-1933: A Study of Legal Form and Administrative Practice

Barbara S. Mensch, *83 S*84

Barbara S. Mensch, *83 S*84
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Effect of Child Mortality on Contraceptive Use and Fertility in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Korea

James A. Riccio, *84

James A. Riccio, *84
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Treatment and Custody in Juvenile Correctional Facilities: A Study of Staff and Resident Behavior

1983

Kevin J. Christiano, *83

Kevin J. Christiano, *83
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Religious Diversity and Social Change in the Turn-of-the-Century American Cities

Jill Spencer Grigsby, *83

Jill Spencer Grigsby, *83
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Use of Contraception for Delaying and spacing Births in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Korea

Bart K. Holland, *83

Bart K. Holland, *83
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Breast-Feeding and Infant Mortality: A Hazards Model Analysis of the Case of Malaysia

Janet S. Kalwat, *83

Janet S. Kalwat, *83
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Divorce, Remarriage, and Childbearing: A Study of Fertility Differences Between Women in First and Second Marriages

Laina Savory, *83

Laina Savory, *83
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Strong Attributes and Weak Ties: The Contributions of Background Characteristics and Personal Contacts in Finding a Job

Frank J. Wayno Jr., *83 P07

Frank J. Wayno Jr., *83 P07
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Retirement Decision Process: A Multinomial Logit Analysis of the Expected Retirement Decisions of Middle-Aged Male Workers

1982

Christopher R.X. Adamson, *82

Christopher R.X. Adamson, *82
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Hard Labor: The Form and Function of Imprisonment in Nineteenth-Century America.

David Scott Davis, *82

David Scott Davis, *82
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Deviance and Social Isolation: The Case of the Falsely Accused

Sharon Mengchee Lee, *82

Sharon Mengchee Lee, *82
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Effects of Race and Education on Attitudes of Alienation, 1962 and 1976

Wesley Monroe Shrum Jr., *82

Wesley Monroe Shrum Jr., *82
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Organized Technology: Networks and Innovation in Technical Systems

Claudette Yvonne Smith (Morrison), *82

Claudette Yvonne Smith (Morrison), *82
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Age at First Birth and Fertility Decline in Costa Rica: An Examination of the Demographic context of the First Birth and Related Pattern of Subsequent Fertility

1981

Neil G. Bennett, *81

Neil G. Bennett, *81
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Estimation Techniques Derived From Structural Relations in Destabilized Populations

Howard I. Goldberg, *81

Howard I. Goldberg, *81
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Marital Fertility in Sri Lanka: An Assessment of World Fertility Survey Data

Thomas J. Neville, *81

Thomas J. Neville, *81
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Television Viewing and the Expression of Interpersonal Distrust

Maxine A. Weinstein, *81

Maxine A. Weinstein, *81
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Childbearing and Marital Separation: Evidence from the 1970 National Fertility Study

1980

Margaret E. Flemming, *80

Margaret E. Flemming, *80
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: White Ethnic Fertility in the U.S.: Convergence: 1890-1975

Masamichi Stephen Sasaki, *80

Masamichi Stephen Sasaki, *80
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Network Analysis of Industrial Organizations in Japan: Group Cohesiveness, Leadership, and Group Productivity

Susan Cotts Watkins (Cotts, *80

Susan Cotts Watkins (Cotts, *80
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Variation and Persistence in Nuptiality: Age-Patterns of Marriage in Europe, 1870-1960

1979

Dennis B. Smith, *79 P99 P09

Dennis B. Smith, *79 P99 P09
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Stratification, Perceived Rewards and Job Satisfaction

1978

Roderick J. Harrison, *78

Roderick J. Harrison, *78
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Occupational Structure, Opportunity and Mobility: Adapting Vacancy Models To National Occupational Structures

Christopher H. Hunter, *78

Christopher H. Hunter, *78
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Leadership-Role Differentiation in Small Groups: Some Methodological and Substantive Issues

Joseph L. Lennards, *78

Joseph L. Lennards, *78
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Streaming and Status Socialization in the Dutch Secondary School System

Douglas S. Massey, *78

Douglas S. Massey, *78
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Residential Segregation of Spanish Americans in United States Urbanized Areas

Kevin F. McQuillan, *78

Kevin F. McQuillan, *78
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Modernization and Internal Migration: The Cases of Nineteenth Century England and France

Steven Messner, *78

Steven Messner, *78
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Income Inequality and Murder Rates: A Cross-National Analysis

D. Eleanor Westney, *78

D. Eleanor Westney, *78
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Organizational Development in Meiji Japan: A Study of Prefectural Variation in Modernization 1880-1915

1977

James F. McCarthy, *77

James F. McCarthy, *77
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Patterns of Marriage Dissolution in the United States

1976

Mary B. Breckenridge (Barber), *76

Mary B. Breckenridge (Barber), *76
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Time Series Model of Age-Specific Fertility: An Application of Exploratory Data Analysis

Vallon L. Burris Jr., *76

Vallon L. Burris Jr., *76
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Child’s Conception of Economic Relations: A Genetic approach to the Sociology of Knowledge

David W. Faure, *76

David W. Faure, *76
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Local Political Disturbances in Kiangsu Province, China, 1870-1911

Jonathan L. Kamin, *76

Jonathan L. Kamin, *76
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Rhythm and Blues in White America: Rock and roll and Acculturation and Perceptual Learning

Michael David Levin, *76

Michael David Levin, *76
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Family Structure in Bakosi: Social Change in an African Society

Nazek K. Nosseir, *76

Nazek K. Nosseir, *76
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Measures of Fertility and Mortality in the governorates of Egypt 1947-1960

1975

Gwendolyn L. Lewis, *75

Gwendolyn L. Lewis, *75
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Paradigms, Consensus, and Group Structure: A comparison of Three Scientific Subfields

Jane A. Menken, *75 P86

Jane A. Menken, *75 P86
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Estimating Fecundability

Michael P. Soroka, *75

Michael P. Soroka, *75
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Status Discrepancy, Subjective Class, and Political Involvement

Belgin Tekce, *75

Belgin Tekce, *75
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Urbanization and Migration in Turkey—1958-1965

Aykut Toros, *75

Aykut Toros, *75
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Tarsus-II-A Social Experiment in Fertility Regulation

1974

Barbara A. Anderson (Snow), *74 W*74

Barbara A. Anderson (Snow), *74 W*74
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Internal Migration in a Modernizing Society: The Case of Late 19th Century European Russia

Lewellyn Hendrix, *74

Lewellyn Hendrix, *74
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Migration from an Ozark Community: A Microo-sociological Study of Social Involvement and Integration

Jessica Smilowitz Pearson (Smilowitz), *74 P99

Jessica Smilowitz Pearson (Smilowitz), *74 P99
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Process of Solving an Industrial Health Hazard

Ronald R Rindfuss, *74

Ronald R Rindfuss, *74
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Measurement of Personal Fertility Preferences

Andrew T. Scull, *74

Andrew T. Scull, *74
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in 19th Century England

1973

Ukandi G. Damachi, *73

Ukandi G. Damachi, *73
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Trade Union Role in the Development Process: The Case of Ghana

Anthony R. Harris, *73

Anthony R. Harris, *73
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Deviant Identity, Rational Choice, and Cognitive Simplification

Robert N. Hill, *73 P95

Robert N. Hill, *73 P95
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Interprovincial Migration and its Effects on Settlement Patterns in Iran for the Intercensal Period 1956-1966

Victor W. Marshall, *73

Victor W. Marshall, *73
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Continued Living and Dying as Problematical Aspects of Old Age

Hilary J. Page, *73

Hilary J. Page, *73
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Age, Marriage Duration and Fertility: An Analysis of Cross-Sectional Data

1972

Lorna R. Marsden, *72 S*67

Lorna R. Marsden, *72 S*67
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Doctors Who Teach: An Influence on Health Delivery in Ontario

Robert I. Rhodes, *72

Robert I. Rhodes, *72
  • Ph.D., 1972

Philip Wexler, *72 P92

Philip Wexler, *72 P92
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Children of Immigrants: A Study of Education, Ethnicity and Change in Israel

1971

Gilbert F. Rozman, *71 S*78 P96 E

Gilbert F. Rozman, *71 S*78 P96 E
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Urban Networks in Ch’Ing China and Tokugawa, Japan

Jan S. Smith, *71

Jan S. Smith, *71
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Status, Status Inconsistency and Political Involvement

Russell A. Stone, *71

Russell A. Stone, *71
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Change in Commercial Organization: A Tunisian Case Study

1970

Ronald Silvers, *70

Ronald Silvers, *70
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Artists and Asociability: Studies in the Ideology of Alienation.

Robert J. Birrell, *70

Robert J. Birrell, *70
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Structure of Chinese Agriculture Communes 1960-66

James R. Posner, *70

James R. Posner, *70
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Income and Occupation of Negro and White College Graduates: 1931-1966

1969

Walter D. Connor, *69

Walter D. Connor, *69
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Deviance, Control and Social Policy in the USSR

Chandler Davidson, *69

Chandler Davidson, *69
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Negro Politics and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas 1968

Albert I. Hermalin, *69 P84

Albert I. Hermalin, *69 P84
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Homogeneity of Siblings on Education and Occupation

Peter J. Stein, *69

Peter J. Stein, *69
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Impact of Selectivity: The College Experience and the Social-Historical Context on the Attitudes of Women

1968

Victor A. Liguori, *68

Victor A. Liguori, *68
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Stability and Change in the Social Structure of Atlantic Coast Commercial Fisheries

1967

Yunshik Chang, *67

Yunshik Chang, *67
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Population in Early Modernization: Korea

Edward F. B. Harvey, *67 S*72

Edward F. B. Harvey, *67 S*72
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Structure and Process in Industrial Organizations

Kazuko Tsurumi, *67

Kazuko Tsurumi, *67
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Adult Socialization and Social Change: Japan Before and After World War II

1966

John P. Hewitt, *66

John P. Hewitt, *66
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Social Stratification and Social Productivity

1965

Henry D. Carsch, *65

Henry D. Carsch, *65
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Dimensions of Meaning and Value in a Sample of Fairy Tales

Jack D. Douglas, *65

Jack D. Douglas, *65
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Sociological Study of Suicide: Suicidal Actions as Sociologically Meaningful Actions

Myron Glazer, *65

Myron Glazer, *65
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Professional and Political Attitudes of Chilean university Students May 1965

1964

Herbert V. Gamberg, *64

Herbert V. Gamberg, *64
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: White Perception of Negro Race and Class as Factors in the Racial Residential Process

Samir G. Khalaf, *64

Samir G. Khalaf, *64
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Managerial Ideology and Industrial Conflict in Lebanon

1963

Bernard Beck, *63

Bernard Beck, *63
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Real World of the Little Men

Paul Hollander, *63

Paul Hollander, *63
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The New Man and His Enemies – A Study of the Stalinist Conception of Good

1962

Thomas K. Burch, *62

Thomas K. Burch, *62
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Internal Migration in Venezuela – A Methodological Study 1962

1961

Arthur B. Shostak, *61

Arthur B. Shostak, *61
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Role and Viability of the Single-Firm, Unaffiliated Union 1961

1960

Harrison C. White, *60

Harrison C. White, *60
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Research and Development as a Pattern in Industrial Management: A Case Study of Industrialization and Uncertainty 1960

1959

David Matza, *59

David Matza, *59
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Moral Code of Delinquents: A Study of Patterns of Neutralization 1959

1951

George W. Barclay, *51

George W. Barclay, *51
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan 1951

Norman B. Ryder, *51 P72 E

Norman B. Ryder, *51 P72 E
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Cohort Approach: Essays in the Measurement of Temporal Variations in Demographic Behavior 1951

1950

Stanley H. Udy Jr., '50 *58

Stanley H. Udy Jr., '50 *58
  • Ph.D. Dissertation: The Organization of Production in Non-Industrial Culture 1958