Dissertations in Progress

Alena Alamgir.  Old Wine in New Bottles:  Vietnamese Migrant Workers in State-Socialist Czechoslovakia 1967-1989 and the Czech Republic Today, (Jozsef Borocz, Ann Mische, Catherine Lee)

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

Anna da Silva.  Patterns of Governance in Global Health:  Changing Roles of the State and Non-State Actors in the Production and Distribution of Vaccines, (Jozsef Borocz, Paul McLean, Catherine Lee), in progress

Audrey Devine Eller, Awaiting the Bell: How Students Engage Post‐Secondary
Planning in their Everyday Lives. (Patrick Carr, Karen Cerulo, Arlene Stein)

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)

Rachelle Germana.  Hyphenators and Hypen-Haters:  Social Identities and the Practice of Hypenating, (Eviatar Zerubavel, Ira Cohen, Karen Cerulo, Richard Williams).

Neha Gondal. Do People with Small Families Sociate Differently? (Paul McLean, Eviatar Zerubavel, Deborah Carr, Ann Mische).

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)

Maria Islas-Lopez. The Future in the Present:  Projectivity in a Transnational Migrant Community. (Ann Mische, Karen Cerulo, Robyn Rodriguez)

Janet Lorenzen.  Restricting Consumption:  Creating and Maintaining Contrary Lifestyle Practices in the American Consumer Economy, (Paul McLean, Thomas Rudel, Karen Cerulo)

Bijita Majumdar.  Imperial Connections, Difference and Identity:  Indians in South Africa 1860-1920.  (Ethel Brooks, Robyn Rodriguez, Joseph Borocz, Paul McLean)

Dawne Mouzon.  Using Intersectionality to Understand Racial Differences
in Mental Health:  The Roles of Social Ties, Goal-Striving Stress, and
Measurement, (Allan Horwitz, Deborah Carr, Kristen Springer)

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)

Frederic O. Rasumssen. Cultural Definitions of Emotional Problems:  Impact on Care Seeking & Satisfaction with Care among Hispanic/Latino Populations Living in the United States. (Allan Horwitz, Stephen Hansell, Karen Cerulo)

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)

Dena T. Smith.  On the Boundaries Between Meaning-making and Medicalizatin in Contemporary American Psychiatry.  (Deborah Carr, Allan Horwitz, Patrick Carr)

Karen Stein.  Vacations:  The Social Organization of Temporary Identity.
(Eviatar Zerubavel, Deborah Carr, Karen Cerulo, Richard Williams)

Dorota Szymkowiak.  The Role of Race in Mental Health Treatment Patterns, (Deborah Carr, Sarah Rosenfield, Julie Phillips), in progress

Theresa Viggiano.  Depressed Elder Nursing Home Residents' Use of Mental Health Services: A Multi-Level Analysis. (Stephen Crystal, Deborah Carr, Julie Phillips)

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)

Tracie Witte.  Creating Morality:  Competing for Medical Marijuana Legislation. (Karen Cerulo, Julie Phillips, Allan Horwitz)