Dissertations from 2024
Turning Movements into Markets: How Corporations Co-Opt Cultural Values for Profit, Anthony J. Capote
Ethnoracial Inequality in Egalitarian Sweden: Swedish Exceptionalism and Racial Legacies, Beiyi Hu
Contesting 'Black,' Negotiating 'Asian’: Second-Generation Indo-Caribbean Identities in New York City and Toronto, Cristine S. Khan
Making and Unmaking Multiethnic Black Neighborhoods: Immigration, Race, and Gentrification in New York and Paris, Maura McGee
Inadvertent Exit: Divorce in the Haredi Community, Miriam R. Moster
Understanding Tax Progressivity as a Mechanism of Gender Difference in Tax Payment Patterns and Post-Tax Income, Morgan A. Richards-Melamdir
Love in the Time of Dating Apps: Exploring Latino Young Adults’ Experiences Constructing Online Identity, Partner Preferences, and Plans for Happily Ever After, Dakota Z. Ross-Cabrera
Interracial Instagram: Depictions of Interracial Couples on Instagram, Christie Sillo
Claiming the Right to Belong: Diversity and the Politics of Inclusion in Queens, New York, Susan J. Tanenbaum
On the Lower Levels of the Ivory Tower: What Color Collars do Adjunct Faculty Wear?, Frederick Tucker
Dissertations from 2023
Older Adults in the Great Recession: Labor Force Transitions, Perceived Workplace Ageism and Life Satisfaction, Duygu Başaran Şahin
Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health: Provider Perspectives, Elisabeth Brodbeck
Lasting Inequalities: Gender Earnings Inequality Across Generations, Periods and Countries, Juliana de Castro Galvao
Party Time: The Working Families Party and the US Political System, 1998–2018, Luke P. Elliott-Negri
The Promise of Universalism Deferred: Political Economy of Social Policy in 21st Century Latin America, Juan C. Ferre
Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies, Ricardo Gabriel
The Construction of Marijuana Possession Laws and Policies: How Policymaking and Enforcement Racialized the War on Marijuana, Edwin Grimsley
Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008), Maria Heyaca
Regulating the Care Boom: Labor Standards Enforcement and Paid In-Home Care Work, Isaac Jabola-Carolus
Navigating Families, Negotiating Identities: Asian-White Mixed Family Experiences, Hayden Daeshin Ju
From Prostitution to Sex Trafficking: Dilemmas of Victim Service Workers Helping Chinese Immigrant Women at the Courts, Yen-Chiao Liao
Seeing Africans in China: Defining Race and Racial Hierarchy in Contemporary China, Xuemeng Li
From Voting Rights to Voter Turnout: Three Papers on the Interplay of Racial Resentment, Racial Threat, and Politics, Kevin Morris
Frontier Precarities: Inequality and Exclusion in Tech, Spiros M. Papadantonakis
Learning to Fly while Staying Grounded: How Forcibly Displaced Individuals Develop a Sense of Belonging in Disempowered Cities, Janina L. Selzer
Pedagogies of Reform: The Role of Game-Based Learning in Recontextualizing Education, Hamad Sindhi
A Sociology of Gab: A Computational Analysis of a Far-Right Social Network, Nga Than
Colonial Geographies of Gendered Violence and Mental Health in the United States and Puerto Rico, Lorraine Lizbeth L. Torres Colon
The Rent Is Too Damn High:the Spatial and Longitudinal Dimensions of Housing Affordability, Kasey Zapatka
Dissertations from 2022
Close-Quarters Antagonism: The New Left Within and Against the War on Poverty, Andrew S. Anastasi
Brave New Wombs: Hysterectomy, Gender, and Stratified Reproduction, Andréa Becker
The Moral Economy of Ordinary Belarussians and a Critical Examination and Re-Evaluation of the 2020 Post-Electoral Uprising, Geoffrey Blank
Carceral Calisthenics: Physical Culture in The Hood, Albert L. de la Tierra
Diversion: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Nonprofit Organization, Leah E. Glass
Time and Power: The Will to Temporalize in Digital Culture, Talha Issevenler
Indigenous Mexicans in New York City: Immigrant Integration, Language Use, and Identity Formation, Leslie A. Martino-Velez
Perceptions of Economic Vulnerability and Public Opinion in the United States: A Theoretical, Historical, and Quantitative Approach, Cody R. Melcher
Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in the Colombian Countryside, Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría
"It Was Handed to Them": The Origins of Targeted Delivery and the Spirit of Nanomedicine, Marzena Woinska
Dissertations from 2021
The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Standing Trans Before the Law, Kyla Bender-Baird
Food-as-Medicine: An Everyday Strategy of Health, Rachel Rebecca Bogan
Navigating Ocha: LGBT Practitioners' Participation and Navigation of Lucumí, Carlos M. Camacho
The Logic of the Land: The Agrarian Roots of Uneven Development in Brazil, Chris Carlson
Class Act: Symbolic Revolution and the Meaning of College in Prison, Ruth E. Delaney
The Impact of Local Demographic Change in the Contemporary United States, Christopher Maggio
Dream City: Post-Millennials and Millennials Navigate School, Work, and Housing in New York City, Omar Montana
Dating Apps, or, Ghosts in the Viral Affect Machine, Gregory Narr
Not So Black and White: How Second-Generation Nigerian Americans Decide Whom to Marry, Karen Okigbo
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mexican Return Migration across the Life Course, Mara G. Sheftel
Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian Nikkeis’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands, Hiroyuki Shibata
Which Way South? A Chronicle of the Autoworkers’ Ill-Fated Quest for a Land Route from Detroit to Chattanooga (with a Brief Sojourn in Germany), Abraham Walker
Instrumentalizing the Past: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Poland, Jonathan Zisook
Dissertations from 2020
Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis, Emily B. Campbell
Goals, Power, and Culture: The Effects of School Organizational Features on Parental Involvement, Vandeen A. Campbell
Raising Haiti: The Transmission of Ethnic Culture Across Generations, Vadricka Y. Etienne
Learning to Fail? Student Experiences in Remedial Mathematics in Community Colleges, Margaret P. Fay
A Re-evaluation of the Hyper-selectivity Perspective: The Case of Second-Generation Filipinos, Brenda B. Gambol Gavigan
Migratory Timescapes: Experiences of Pausing, Waiting, and Inhabiting the Meanwhile of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Mexico, Isabel Gil Everaert
Going Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age, Anna Gjika
The Life and Death of Mambo: Culture and Consumption in New York's Salsa Dance Scene, Carmela Muzio Dormani
Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile, Pilar Ortiz
Is the South (Still) America’s Sacrifice Zone? A Regional Analysis of Toxic Emissions, 1987–2017, Tanesha A. Thomas
Paper, Places, and Familias: Tracing the Social Mobility of Mexicans in New York, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa
Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow's Renovation, Anna Zhelnina
Dissertations from 2019
Nude in a Classroom: The Contemporary World of Life Modelling, Kannaki Bharali
Restoring Solidarity: "Accountability" in Radical Leftist Subcultures, Sarah M. Hanks
Same-Sex Union Formation and Dissolution in the United States and Europe, Eric Ketcham
Everyday Violence: Catcalling and LGBTQ-Directed Aggression in the Public Sphere, Simone A. Kolysh
Group Distinctiveness and Ethnic Identity Among 1.5 and Second-generation Russian-speaking Jewish Immigrants in Germany and the U.S., Jay (Koby) Oppenheim
Illicit Psychoactive Medication Use: Experiences of Medicalization and Normalization, Mark Pawson
Independent Women? Social class and Social Policy after the Gender Revolution in the West, Berglind H. Ragnarsdóttir
Rich in Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics of the Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin
Defending the "Bad Immigrant": Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus, Sarah Rose Tosh
Emperor of Work: Chinese Restaurants, Worker Subjectivities, and the New Regime of Flexible Labor, Tommy Wu
Dissertations from 2018
"But the Heart Stays Turkish": Identifications of Immigrants and Boundaries of Belonging in America, Zeynep Selen Bayhan
Uneven Policing: Low-Level Arrests During Gentrification, Fiscal Crisis, and Suburbanization, Brenden Beck
"I Was Not Sick and I Didn't Need to Recover": Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) as a Refuge from Criminalization, David Frank
Highly Skilled Immigration in the United States in An Age of Globalization: An Institutional and Agency Approach, Marcela F. González
Gendering Flexicurity: The Effects of Flexicurity on Gender Equality, Szu-Ying Ho
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
There’s Nothing Here: Tenure, Attachment, and Changing Perceptions in Gentrifying Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Sara Martucci
Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry, Andrew McKinney
The Structurally Adjusted School: School Restructuring and Youth Political Incorporation in Suburban America, Erin Michaels
The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States, Sara Salman
Electric Light: Automating the Carceral State During the Quantification of Everything, R. Joshua Scannell
Insecure Hegemony: The Cultural Construction of 'Righteous Retaliation' in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden, Marisa Tramontano
The Trajectory from School to Work: A Study of Life Chances of School Leavers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, Dirk Witteveen
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