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2007 Graduates

Helleringer, Stephane
Dissertation Title: "Sexual Network Structure, Diffusion and Prevention of HIV Within Populations: A Case Study Using Complete Network Data in Likoma Island (Malawi)"

Rose, Clayton (PhD with Distinction)
Dissertation Title: "Race At The Top: Organizational Response to Institutional Pressures and the Racial Composition of the Corporate Elite"

Vaquera, Elizabeth
Dissertation Title: "With The Help of my Friends: Best Friends and the Educational Outcomes of Hispanic Ethnic Youth"

Zhang, Yuping
Dissertation Title: "Relationships and Children's Schooling in Rural Northwest China: Teachers', Mothers', and Children's Perspectives"

2006 Graduates

Benson, Janel
Dissertation Title: "Adulthood in Motion: A Longitudinal Examination of Stratification in Early Adulthood "

Costello, Bridget
Dissertation Title: "Astrology in Action: Culture and Status in Unsettled Lives "

Cunningham, Brooke Ayoka (MD/PhD)
Dissertation Title: "Partially Treated: Aids, Inequality and Ethics. The Controversy Over the Short Course AZT Trials."

Dinwiddie, Gniesha
Dissertation Title: "The Social Antecedents of Stress Exposure Implications for Status Variations and Social Disparities for Mental Health. "

Jaeger, Jan
Dissertation Title: "An Ethnographic Analysis of Institutional Review Board Decision-Making."

Kane, Danielle
Dissertation Title: "Engendering Change: Cultural and Social Networks."

Kulkarni, Vani (PhD with Distinction)
Dissertation Title: "Health, Culture & Democracy: The Case of Decentralization of Healthcare in India."

Mazelis, Joan Maya
Dissertation Title: "Our Strength is in our Unity: Reciprocity, Stigma, and Ideology as Foundations of and
Obstacles to Social Capital Among the Poor."

Minicozzi, Alessia
Dissertation Title: "Baby Doctors: The Socialization and the Bioethics of the First-Year Attending."

Smardon, Regina
Dissertation Title: "Learning to Label: Disability Narratives in Clear River, USA."

Torres, Kimberly
Dissertation Title: "Manufacturing Blackness: Skin Color Necessary But Not Sufficient: Race Relations and Racial Identity at an Ivy League University."

Winslow-Bowe, Sarah
Dissertation Title: "Husbands' and Wives' Relative Income: Persistence, Variation, and Outcomes."

2005 Graduates

Flores, Nadia
Dissertation Title: "The Interrelation Between Social
Context, Social Structure, and Social Capital in
International Migration Flows from Mexico to the United
States."

Kennedy, Sheela
Dissertation Title: "Education and Family Change: A
Comparative Study of Shifts in the Timing and Structure of Family Formation."

Landriscina, Mirella
Dissertation Title: "Claim-Makers and Actors: Advocacy for Homeless People in Philadelphia, 1981-2003."

Kudler, Taryn
Dissertation Title: "Living Life in Between: Ritualizing the
Self in Cancer Survivorship."

Redstone, Ilana
Dissertation Title: "Three Studies of Immigrant Labor Market Assimilation in the United States."

Smith, Kirsten Pardue
Dissertation Title: "Understanding High Levels of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United Stated: A Between- and Within-Country Analysis."

2004 Graduates

Akom, Antwi
Dissertation Title: "Ameritrocracy: The Racing of Our Nation's Children."

Brooks, Scott N.
Dissertation Title: "The "I" in Team: How Young Black Men Gain Respect Through Basketball."

Eachus, Susan
Dissertation Title: "Implementing Welfare Reform in Massachusetts and Washington State: Bureaucracy and Ideology in Street-Level Policy."

Fischer, Mary
Dissertation Title: "Finding a Place: The Social and Academic Adjustment of Minorities to College."

Hickes Lundquist, Jennifer
Dissertation Title: A Counterfactual Approach to the Black- White Differential in Family Trends: The Effect of a "Total Institution."

Hiemstra, Heidi
Dissertation Title: "Families of Love: Post-Adoptive Parents and Family Discourse."

Insinger, Mori
Dissertation Title: "Engaging Students: A Sense of Community Through Clustered Classes and Extracurricular Cultural Activities in an Inner-City High School."

Jones, Nikki
Dissertation Title: "Girls Fight: Negotiating Conflict and Violence in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods."

Kempner, Joanna
Dissertation Title: "Aching Heads, Making Medicine: Gender and Legitimacy in Headache."

Khalfani, Akil Kokayi
Dissertation Title: "Conflicting Notions of Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Discovering Divergence in the Affirmative Action Debate in South Africa and the United States."

Lee, Helen
Dissertation Title: "The Multiple Contexts of Infant Feeding Decisions: Breastfeeding Intention, Behaviors, and Beliefs Among Low-Income, Inner-City Mothers."

Meltzer, Bari
Dissertation Title: "Paid Labor: Labor Support Doulas and the Institutional Control of Birth."

Rab, Sara
Dissertation Title: "Swirling Students: Putting a New Spin on College Attrition."

Summers-Effler, Erika
Dissertation Title: "Swirling Students: Putting a New Spin on College Attrition."

Wang, Hongyu
Dissertation Title: "The Performance of Multiple Imputation for Missing Data in the Context of Cox Regression Model."

2003 Graduates

Clampet-Lundquist, Susan
Dissertation Title:
" Hope or Harm: Deconcentration and the Welfare of Families in Public Housing."

Gingerich, Jeffrey
Dissertation Title: " Sharing the Faith: Racial and Ethnic Identity in an Urban Mennonite Community."

Holtman, Matthew
Dissertation Title: "Surgical Misadventure: The Production and Mitigation of Serious Complications in Surgery."

Joyce Kissane, Rebecca
Dissertation Title: "Welfare Reform and the Private Safety Net."

Livingston, Gretchen
Dissertation Title: Does Membership have its Privileges? Gender, Social Capital, and Employment outcomes among Mexican Immigrants

2002 Graduates

Clarke, Averil
Dissertation Title:The Sexless Lives of College Educated Black Women: When Education Means No Man, Marriage or Baby

Gupta, Payal
Dissertation Title: Marriage at a distance : spouse separation and the migrant family

Hodos, Jerome
Dissertation Title:Globalization, Institutions and Political Culture in Struggling Regions

Kmec, Julie
Dissertation Title:Race in the Workplace and Labor Market Inequality

Metraux, Stephen
Dissertation Title:Taking Different Ways Home: The Intersection of Mental Illness, Homelessness and Housing in New York City.

Moore, Kesha
Dissertation Title:Creating the Black American Dream: Race, Class and Community Development

Nothaft, Amanda
Dissertation Title: Teen Sexual Partnerships and Contraceptive Use

Smallacombe, Patricia
Dissertation Title:Why Do They Stay: Rootedness and Isolation in an Inner-City White Neighborhood

Stoner-Eby, Scott
Dissertation Title:Three Essays on Adolescent Behavior in an Urban High School Context: Black-White Differences in School Experiences and Smoking; A Multifaceted Approach to School Engagement and Dropout; Black-White Differences in Evidence of Opposition to School

Schatz, Enid J.
Dissertation Title: Numbers and narratives : making sense of gender and context in rural Malawi

Shevchenko, Olga
Dissertation Title:"Living on a Volcano": The Lived Experience of Social Change in Contemporary Russia

Thompson, Jennifer
Dissertation Title: The Effects of College Major on Work Outcomes: Gender Differences and Change Over Time, 1960s/1970s-1980s/1990s

2001 Graduates

Aldikacti, Gul.
Dissertation Title:Framing, Culture, and Social Movements: A Comparison of Feminist and Islamist Women's Movements in Turkey

Butts, Milton
Dissertation Title:An Ethnography of Incarcerated Youth in an Assessment of the Concept Readiness to Leave

Green, Lynn
Dissertation Title: Beyond Risk: Sex, Power and the Urban Girl

O'Connell, Virginia
Dissertation Title: Attrition in Surgical Residency Programs

Stewart, Quincy
Dissertation Title: Modeling Social and Demographic Phenomena: Mortality, Inequality and Labor Force Growth

Williams, Stephanie
Dissertation Title: Art Museums and High Culture in the Life of the Middle Class Black American

Wilcox, Sarah
Dissertation Title:Scientific Communities, Gay Communities & the Production of Knowledge: The Social Construction of Biological Ideas About Same-Sex Sexuality

2000 Graduates

Boulis, Ann Kathryn
Dissertation Title: Mammography screening for low income women

King, Rosalind
Dissertation Title:Women's Fertility in Late Modernity

Pepper, Sarah
Dissertation Title: Single Among Marrieds: Characteristics, Living Arrangements and Attitudes of the Never Married

Reddy, Sita
Dissertation Title: Reinventing Medical Traditions: The Professionalzation Of Ayurveda In Contemporary America

Rosenholtz, Victoria
Dissertation Title:American Fundamentalism In The Independent Baptist Tradition

1999 Graduates

Carpenter, Laura
Dissertation Title: Virgin Territories: The Social Construction of Virginity Loss in the Contemporary United States

Eichberg, Sarah
Dissertation Title: Bodies of Work: Cosmetic Surgery and the Gendered Whitening of America

Hart, Jacqueline
Dissertation Title: The Wellness Ethic in Action: A Case Study of Company X

Kinsman, Sara
Dissertation Title: The Influence of Peer Norms on the Process of Early Sexual Initiation

Lake, Eileen
Dissertation Title: The Organization of Hospital Nursing

Neidell, Shara
Dissertation Title: Agency From Within: The Power of Relationships and Women's Influence on Contraceptive Use in South Asia

Neild, Ruth
Dissertation Title: Same Difference: School Choice and Educational Access in an Urban District

1998 Graduates

Carpenter, Laura
Dissertation Title: Virgin Territories: The Social Construction of Virginity Loss in the Contemporary United States

Dunbar, C. Elaine
Dissertation Title: Trials and Error: Litigation and the Morality of the Law

Finkle, Isaac
Dissertation Title: Nietzche and Weber

Gadsden, Gloria
Dissertation Title:Femininity and Traditionality: A Textual Analysis of Gender Roles and Sexuality in Women's Magazines, 1986-1995

Goldsmith, Julie
Dissertation Title: Working The System Client's use and Experience of Social Welfare Institutions in Philadelphia, 1940 to the Present

Ito, Masayuki
Dissertation Title: New Religious Consciousness in Advanced Industrial Societies: Explorations of the Osho Rajneesh Movement and its Members in Japan

Koropecky J-Cox, Tatyana
Dissertation Title: The Conditional Benefits of Parenthood (or Childlessness) for Subjective Well-Being in Older Adulthood.

Rogers, Holly
Dissertation Title:Ending Welfare As We Know It: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Administration of time Limits in Florida's Family Transition Program

1996 Graduates

Poltorak, Yulia
Dissertation Title:To Bridge the gulf: State, Society and the Russian Bureaucratic Ideal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Teitler, Julien
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Neighborhood Norms on Youth Sexual and Fertility Behavior

1995 Graduates

Christakis, Nicholas
Dissertation Title: Prognostication and Death in Medical Thought and Practice

Gager, Constance
Dissertation Title: Is Love Stronger Than Justice? Perceptions of Fairness in the Division of Household Labor

Levine, Burton
Dissertation Title: Professional Betrayers: The Secret World of Political Spies

Polgar, Michael
Dissertation Title: Nurses and AIDS Care: Occupational Rick Perception and the Social Construction of HIV

Subramanian, Saskia
Dissertation Title: Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Understanding Child Abuse in American Culture

1994 Graduates

Balin, Jane
Dissertation Title: Community and Contagion: a Neighborhood's Reception to a Nursing Home for People With AIDS

Bergen, Raquel
Dissertation Title: Managing Wife Rape: A Case Study Of A Battered Women's Shelter and a Rape Crisis Center

Chriss, James
Dissertation Title: Goffman, Parsons, and Contemporary Sociology: Working Towards Integration

Encandela, John
Dissertation Title: In The Company Of Friends: The Organizational And Community Dimensions Of Chronic Pain Among Continuing Care Retirement Community Residents

Eun, Ki-Soo
Dissertation Title: The Transition to Adulthood in Korea Sequences of Life Events and Their consequences on the Timing of Marriage

Ghozzi, Kamel
Dissertation Title: The Resilience Of Religious Institutions And the Making Of Protest Movements A Comparative Study Of Tunisia And Iran

Marton, William
Dissertation Title: Aging, The Family, and Informal Care of the Elderly in the United States: 1987-2025

Wright, Rosemary
Dissertation Title: Women in Computer Careers: Controlled Progress in a Male Occupation

1993 Graduates

Geter, Robert
Dissertation Title: Crack Prostitution In Philadelphia: A Career Model

King, Valarie
Dissertation Title:The Consequences Of Outside Father Involvement For Children's Well-Being.

London, Andrew
Dissertation Title:The Demography Of HIV-ANTIBODY Testing

Noakes, John
Dissertation Title:Enforcing Domestic Tranquility: State Building and the Origin of the (Federal) Bureau of Investigation, 1908-1920

Porter, Aaron
Dissertation Title:The Career of a Professional Institution: A Study of Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris, Higginbotham, and Associates

Walker, Karen
Dissertation Title: Between Friends: Class, Gender, and Friendship

1992 Graduates

Chow, Susie
Dissertation Title: The Emergence, Decline and Persistence of Modern Medical Procedures: The Case of Tonsillectomy

Ferdousi, Tahmina
Dissertation Title: Turnover From Jobs in an Internal Labor Market the Study of Gender Inequality

Fleishmann, Steven
Dissertation Title: The Wars Within the War: A case History and Context

Ingersoll, Richard
Dissertation Title: Conflict and Control in Educational Organizations: An Analysis of the Teaching Occupation

Lin, Fang Mei
Dissertation Title: Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990

Wu, Chuyuan-Yua
Dissertation Title: The Politics of Financial Development in Taiwan

1991 Graduates

Feldman, Barbara
Dissertation Title: Entry Routes And Career Attainment Of Print Journalists

Shapari, Hasan
Dissertation Title: In Search Of The Sociology Of Companionship In Emile Durkheim And Max Weber.

Tang, Joyce
Dissertation Title:The Career Mobility Of Asian American Engineers: Earnings, Career Status, Promotion, And Attrition

1990 Graduates

Brown, Samuel
Dissertation Title: Community Attachment in a Racially Integrated Neighborhood

Farnum, Richard
Dissertation Title: Prestige In The Ivy League: Meritocracy At Columbia, Harvard and Penn, 1870-1940

Glicksman, Allen
Dissertation Title: The Psychological Well-Being Of Elderly Jews: A Comparative Analysis.

Meekers, Dominique
Dissertation Title: Marriage and premarital childbearing in Cote d'Ivoire

Messikomer, Carla
Dissertation Title: A Social Anatomy Of Disability.

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