Dissertations in Progress

Ivana Brown. "I Like Being a Mom, But..."  The Sociological Ambivlaence of Motherhood. (Judith Gerson, Sarah Rosenfield, Deborah Carr)

Karen Danna-Lynch. Role Switching: A Social/Cognitive Approach to Multiple Role Enactment. (Karen Cerulo, Allan Horwitz, Sarah Rosenfield, Eviatar Zerubavel)

Thomas DeGloma. Awakenings: Autobiography, Collective Memory, and the Social Geometry of Personal Discovery. (Eviatar Zerubavel, Allan Horwitz, Ann Mische, Arlene Stein)

Audrey Devine Eller, Preparing for Life After High School. (Patrick Carr, Karen Cerulo, Arlene Stein)

Stephen Fichter. Shepherding in "Greener" Pastures:  Causes and Consequences of Affiliation Crossing by Celibate Catholic Priests into Married Protestant Ministry. (Ellen Idler, Benjamin Zablocki, Eviatar Zerubavel)

Anna Forster. When the Word Meets the World:  An Inquiry into Concept
Use in Sociological Epistemology. (Judith Gerson, Catherine Lee,
Patricia Roos, Kristen Springer)

Asia Friedman.  Sex Seen:  The Social Enactment of Sex and the Sex Gender Continuum. (Eviatar Zerubavel, Karen Cerulo, Arlene Stein, Judith Gerson)

Jennifer Fuld. Social Support, HIV Risk and Risk Avoidance Among Women Injecting Drug Users Who Have Sex with Women. (Sarah Rosenfield, Judith Friedman, Patricia Roos)

Jenna Howard. Recovery from Recovery: The Temporal Organization of Identity. (Eviatar Zerubavel, Allan Horwitz, Sarah Rosenfield)

Chantelle Marlor. The Cultural Construction of Ecological Knowledge: How does the Construction Process Affect the Conclusions? (John L. Martin, Eviatar Zerubavel, Thomas Rudel)

Baris Mucen.  A Study of Doxa of Modernization as the Limit of Political Reality in Turkey. (Ethel Brooks, Jozsef Borocz, Paul McLean)

Maria Mwikali Kioko. Exploring the Ties of First Generation Kenyan Immigrants in the USA as an Aspect of Their Transnational Connections. (Judith Gerson, Leslie McCall, Ethel Brooks)

Manjusha Nair.  Intimate Contentions:  Class, Community and Nationhood in Post Colonial India 1947-2005. (Jozsef Borocz, Paul McLean, Ethel Brooks)

Hilary Phillips. How do Schizophrenics Spend Their Time? (Allan Horwitz, Sarah Rosenfield, Benjamin Zablocki, Martin Steinberg)

Paul Reck. Placing Race and Policing in Context:  An Investigation of How Patrol Officers' Perceptions of Racial Groups are Shaped by the Local Contexts in Which They are Imbedded. (Paul Hirschfield, Catherine Lee, Zaire Dinzey-Flores)

Sourabh Singh. Locating a Short Lived Authoritarian State in the History
of Politics and Social Space in Postcolonial India.  (Paul McLean, Ethel
Brooks, Ann Mische)

Elizabeth Williamson. The Mobilization of Emotions, Power Dynamics, Frames and Framing Processes and Their Effect on Commitment to a Social Movement. (Benjamin Zablocki, Ann Mische, Karen Cerulo)

Xiaohui Xin.  Reinvention of Acupuncture in America:  1970-2006. (David Mechanic, Thomas Rudel, Ellen Idler)