Dissertations from 2018
Out-Group Threat or Inter-Group Contact Theory? Out-Group Attitudes and Interaction in Times of Diversity Growth, Annette Jacoby
The Potency of Policy?: A Comparative Study of Filipino Elder Care Workers in the United States and Israel, Abigail F. Kolker
Unpacking Ostalgia: Where Biography Meets History, Melanie Lorek
The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
Dissertations from 2017
Pension Fund Evictions: Lessons for Housing and Labor, Marnie F. Brady
Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women, Kuan-Yi Chen
"Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime": Liberal Carceral Logics and the Reproduction of Settler Colonial Violence in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land
The Value of Value-Added: Science, Technology, and Policy in Educational Evaluation, Daniel Douglas
The Queer Allure of Digital Sociality, Benjamin Parrish Haber
Medical Transnationalism: Korean Immigrants’ Medical Tourism to the Home Country, Sou Hyun Jang
The Life and Death of Urban Ethnic Enclaves: Gentrification and Ethnic Fragmentation in Brooklyn's 'Polish Town', Aneta Kostrzewa
Trump’s “America First” Trade Policy and the Politics of U.S. International Investment Agreements, Jesse Liss
Desisting in Prison: Myth and the Council for Unity Model, Kevin Moran
Denial: A Sociological Theory, Christina Nadler
Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Samantha Pina Saghera
Aesthetic Geographies: Art, Crises, Urban Imaginaries, Erin Siodmak
Community, Identity, and Tradition within a Progressive Christian Congregation, James W. Skinner
Culture and Class in Marginalized Minority Educational Attainment, Alan R. Takeall
Sewing Garments, Sowing Lives: Two Generations of Migrant Workers' Back and Forth to the Chinese Coast, Alice Tzou
Dissertations from 2016
Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India, Natascia Boeri
Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Marcos D. Burgos
Ecological Transitions of U.S. Elementary School Students: Their Short– and Long–Term Educational Outlooks, Anthony Buttaro Jr.
“Love” Across the Strait: Cross-Border Marriage Between Chinese Women and Taiwanese Men, Paoyi Huang
Obesity over the Life Course: Perspectives in Health and Mortality, Noura E. Insolera
Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy, Jinwon Kim
Where Have All The Feminists Gone?: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Students' Attitudes Toward Gender Equality, Erin Maurer
Race and Gender in the Advancement to Partnership: Perceptions of Black Female Lawyers, Tsedale M. Melaku
The Relative Impact of Psychosocial Well-being and Mental Health on the Relationship between Economic Circumstance and Religiosity, Veronica Momjian
Empty Metal Jacket: The Biopolitical Economy of War and Medicine, Sandra Lee Trappen
The Price of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Class Structure, and Language Endangerment in Shanghai, Fang Xu
Dissertations from 2015
Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana, Visnoonand Bisram
The Myth of the Unteachable: Youth, Race and the Capacity of Alternative Pedagogy, Cathy R. Borck
Blessed Disruption: Culture and Urban Space in a European Church Planting Network, John D. Boy
Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Perry Bullock
"Managers" in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom Management Coursework in Teacher Education Programs, Jonathan Ryan Davis
Searching for a Place to Stand: Redefining Citizenship, Community, and the Right to Public Space in the Era of "Stop, Question, and Frisk", Jan N. Haldipur
Labor Market Trajectories of Black Women in the United States, 1980 to 2010, Danielle Jackson
Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis: Global Toolkits and Urban Reinvestment in Buenos Aires, Jacob H. Lederman
No Shortcuts: The Case for Organizing, Jane Frances McAlevey
Surviving the Gauntlet: Adult Undergraduates in American Higher Education, David Bernard Monaghan
Income Inequality And Vulnerabiility To Flood Hazard In Brazil, Rebecca Rasch
Undocumented Youth Living Between the Lines: Urban Governance, Social Policy, and the Boundaries of Legality in New York City and Paris, Stephen P. Ruszczyk
On the Midnight Train to Georgia: Afro-Caribbeans and the New Great Migration to Atlanta, LaToya Asantelle Tavernier
The Measure of a Man: The Role of Measurement in Shaping Our Understanding of College Graduation along Ethnic Lines, Andrew Middleton Wallace
Dissertations from 2014
Don't Push Me Over the (Knowl)Edge: The Social Correlates of Latino High School Dropouts, Robert Charles Baskerville
Collective Memory, Women's Identity and the Church, Jo Ana Elise Brown
Sharps, Squares, and Scalpers: Gambling in the Urban Underground, AnneMarie Cesario
(Remember) The Future: The Preemptive Governance of Memory in the Age of Mass Catastrophe, Kimberly J. Cunningham
When Wives Migrate and Leave Husbands Behind: A Jamaican Marriage Pattern, Elaine B. Douglas-Harrison
The intern economy: Laboring to learn in the music industry, Alexandre Frenette
Planetary Improvement: Discourses and Practices of Green Capitalism in the Cleantech Space, Jesse Adam Goldstein
Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism, Keisha La'Nesha Goode
Enchanted Entrepreneurs: The Labor of Esoteric Practitioners in New York City, Karen Gregory
A Gift We Can't Keep Giving: An Analysis of the Prevalence and Consequence of Educators' Unpaid Labor, Jared Martin Hanneman
Run for Health: Health(icization), Supplements, and Doping in Non-Elite Road Running, April D. Henning
The Kids Are All Right Online: Teen Girls' Experiences With Self-Presentation, Impression Management & Aggression On Facebook, Alison Michelle Hill
Assembling Autism, Kate Suzanne Jenkins
Roundup Ready Nation: The Political Ecology Of Genetically Modified Soy In Argentina, Amalia Leguizamon
The Privileged "In-Between" Status of Latino Jews in the Northeastern United States, Laura Limonic
New Portlandia: Rock n' Roll, Authenticity and the Politics of Place in Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Ross London
America is Not the Heaven We Dream Of: Race, Gender, and Refugee Status among Liberians in Staten Island, New York, Bernadette M. Ludwig
Confucius, Yamaha, or Mozart? Cultural Capital and Upward Mobility Among Children of Chinese Immigrants, Wei-Ting Lu
The Other Tribeca: Immigrant Work and Incorporation amid Affluence, Elizabeth A. Miller
Mayibuye! Let Us Reclaim! Assessing the Role of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Rebuilding, Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman
Renewal and Disposability: Projects and Narratives of Development and Dispossession in the "New" New Orleans, Allison Padilla-Goodman
Existing But Not Living: Neo-Civil Death And The Carceral State, CalvinJohn Nagel Smiley
Social Context and Perceived Belonging: A Comparative Study of Children of Immigrants in New York and Madrid, Jessica Sperling Smokoski
Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity, Alyson Kay Spurgas
Blogging Through Motherhood: Free Labor, Femininity, and the (Re)Production of Maternity, Kara Mary Van Cleaf
On the Same Page: The Strong Teacher Professional Community at the Heart of a Good New York City Public Middle School, Nathan Warner
Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany, Ilgin Yorukoglu
Dissertations from 2013
"Banding Together": Biosociality, Weight Loss Surgery, and Neoliberal Discourses Around Obesity, Zoë C. Meleo-Erwin
Dissertations from 2012
Strategic Citizenship: Dual Marginalization and Organized Transnational Political Mobilization among Ecuadorian and Dominican Migrants, Howard Caro-Lopez
The Creeks, Beaches, and Bay of the Jamaica Bay Estuary: The Importance of Place in Cultivating Relationships to Nature, Kristen L. Van Hooreweghe
Dissertations from 2011
The Relationship of Race and Social Integration on the Health Status of Older Adults in An Urban City, Thomas T. Jordan
Mother Country: Reproductive Tourism in the Age of Globalization, Lauren Jade Martin
Becoming Normal: The Social Construction of Buprenorphine and New Attempts to Medicalize Addiction, Julie C. Netherland
Dissertations from 2010
"If You See Something, Say Something": The Power of the 'War on Terrorism' to Name What We See, Polly Sylvia
Dissertations from 2009
Are Sisters Doing It (All) for Themselves? Elderly Black Women and Healthcare Decision Making, Carlene Buchanan Turner
Dissertations from 2008
Turning Space into Place in the Sprawling “New City”: Shrinking Space, Visions of Place, Homeowners in Conflict, Lael Leslie
Dissertations from 2001
Crime Legends in Old and New Media, Pamela Donovan
Dissertations from 2000
Redemption and Recovery: An Ethnographic Comparison of Two Drug Rehabilitation Programs, a Faith Community and a Therapeutic Community, Daniel E. Hood
Dissertations from 1995
Social Consequences of Delayed Childbearing and Infertility, Joan Liebmann-Smith
Dissertations from 1991
The Dynamics of Program Development: A Case Study in Urban Mental Health Services, John Kastan
Dissertations from 1986
Viewers' Perceptions of Gender Roles on Television, Susan Barbara Prager