Dissertations
1997 to Present
Hannah Thomas (August 2012)
"Foreclosure Through the Eyes of Real Estate Agents in Boston: An Institutional Ethnography"
Guy Abutbul Selinger (May 2012)
“The Construction of Ethnic Subjects in the Israeli Middle Class”
Meg Lovejoy (February 2012)
“Is Hooking Up Empowering for College Women? A Feminist Gramscian Perspective”
Zehra Yasmin Zaidi (February 2012)
“Chaddars and Pink Collars in Pakistan: Gender, Work and the Global Economy”
Ken (Chih-Yan) Sun (Aug 2011)
"Aging Across Borders: The Case of Older Taiwanese Immigrants and Their Return Counterparts"
Miranda Waggoner (Aug 2011)
"Expanding the Reproductive Body: The Emergence of Preconception Care, 1980-2010"
Alison Better (Aug 2010)
"Pleasure for Sale: Feminist Sex Stores"
Rachel Kulick (May 2010)
"Youth Empowering Youth: Collective Processes in Making Independent Media"
Ashley C. Rondini (May 2010)
"Negotiating Identity: Elite Institutions, Low Income First generation College Students, and Their Parents"
Chris Gillespie (May 2009)
"The Experience of Living With Measured Risk: The Cases of Elevated PSA and Cholesterol Levels as Proto-Illnesses"
Cheryl Stults (May 2009)
"The Process of a 'Risk Scare:' The Cases of Hormone Replacement Therapy, Silicone Breast Implants, and Antidepressant Therapy in Youth"
Stephanie Anne Bryson (February 2009)
"Constructing the Good Enough Family: Child Welfare Decision-Making in the ASFA ERA"
Rachel L. Rockenmacher (February 2009)
"'Teach Us, Don’t Tell Us:' Young Adults With Interfaith Parents Choose Their Religious and Ethnic Identities"
Betina Freidin (February 2008)
"Acupuncture Worlds in Argentina: Contested Knowledge, Legitimation Processes, and Everyday Practices"
"From Welfare to Social Care? A Comparative Analysis of Welfare State Restructuring, Mobilization Strategies, and Social Policy Change in the United States"
Deborah Anne Potter (May 2007)
"Uncommon Partners: Citizen Participation and Lay-Professional Relationships in Three Community Collaboratives for Children's Mental Health"
Benjamin Phillips (February 2007)
"Numbering the Jews: Evaluating and Improving American Jewish Population Studies"
Johanna M. Wigg (February 2007)
"A Culture of Dementia: Examining Interpersonal Relationships between Elders with Dementia"
Heather Jacobson (August 2006)
"Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity"
Paul Hess (August 2006)
"Bureaucracy versus Total Quality Management: A Sociological Theory of Classing Systems"
P. Rafael Hernandez (May 2006)
"Use of Population Categories as Variables in U.S. Health Research: Furthering Reifications while Hindering Explanations"
Jennifer L. Zoltanski (May 2006)
"The Construction of Rape as a Crime against Humanity: Recognition and Prosecution by the International Crime Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia"
Anastasia M. Norton (August 2005)
"U Da Sembe Fa Aki (We Are People of this Place) Place-Attachment and Belonging: A Saramaka Response to Globalization"
Debra J. Osnowitz (August 2005)
"Marketing Expertise: The Contingent Experience of Contract Professionals"
Deborah J. Cohan (February 2005)
"Rage and the Sociological Imagination"
Mignon Duffy (February 2005)
"One Hundred Years of Buying Care: Gender, Race, Immigration, and Market Care Work in the Twentieth Century"
Sadhana Bery (August 2004)
"Evidentiary Whiteness: The Re/Production of White Praxis"
Tobin Belzer (May, 2004)
"Jewish Identity at Work."
Karen Werner (May, 2004)
"A Sociology of Contemporary Activist Art (1990-2003)"
Lawrence Holcomb (May, 2003)
"Revisiting Race: Toward An Analytic Social-Psychological Approach to Racial Construction"
Christa Marie Kelleher (May, 2003)
"Postpartum Matters: Women's Experiences of Medical Surveillance, Time and Support After Birth"
Katrin Kriz (May, 2003)
"Welfare States and Emotional Risk: Family Policy Gaps and Childcare Maintenance by Employed Mothers in Britain, Germany and Sweden"
Mathew B. Johnson (February, 2003)
"Social Class and Cultural (Re)production in Higher Education: An Ethnographic Look at the Culture of Student Affairs Offices"
Kathleen Jenkins (February, 2002)
"'Awesome Families': Reforming Family in the International Churches of Christ"
Jonathan Martin (May, 2001)
"Stew of Discontent: Middle Class Americans' Economic Populism"
Valerie Leiter (May, 2001) (Joint Degree in Sociology and Social Policy with the Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare)
"Gentle Intrusions: Family-Centered Care in Early Intervention"
Christian John Churchill (May, 2000)
"The Calling: Bureaucracy, Technology and Ideology in the Telefundraising Industry"
Jean Elson (May, 2000)
" 'Am I Still a Woman?': An Analysis of Gynecological Surgery and Gender Identity"
Mary Godwyn (May, 2000)
"Is Sociological Theory Useful in Cases of Extreme Inequality?"
Tina Lynn Taylor (May, 2000)
"Living Digitally: Embodiment in Virtual Environments"
Blaine Anton Vogt (May, 2000)
"Border Fish: Salmon Crises, Environmental Imaginaries, and the Politics of Sustainability"
Victoria Pitts (May, 1999)
"Body Strategies: Signifying the Body in Subculture"
Elizabeth Wood (May 1999)
"Working in the Fantasy Factory: Interaction, Intimacy and the Construction of Power in Strip Clubs"
Faith I.T. Ferguson (May 1999)
"Kin Keepers and Gatekeepers: Kinship and Family Identity among Single Mothers by Choice"
Monisha Das Gupta (February, 1999)
"Identities, Interests and Alternative Spaces: Transnational Perspectives on South Asian Political Participation in the U.S."
David Shafer (February, 1999)
"Respiratory Therapists on the Edge: Technology, Professions, and Medical Work"
Amy Carol Agigian (1998)
"Contradictory Conceptions: Lesbian Alternative Insemination"
Betsy Aron (1998)
"The Ecology of Trade Unionism in New England"
Benjamin Davidson (1998)
"Ecstasy: An Inquiry Into Gay Male Identity and Contemporary Culture"
Cameron Lynne Macdonald (1998)
"Working Mothers and Mother-workers: Nannies, Au Pairs and the Social Construction of Mothering"
Angela L. Thompson (1998)
"Unveiled: The Emotion Work of Wedding Coordinators in the American Wedding Industry"
Farzin Vahdat (1998)
"God and the Juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity"
Gwenn C. Eylath (1997)
"Marching and Watching: the Sociological Meaning of the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Pride March"
Harriett Elizabeth Hayes (1997)
"Building a Learning Community: A Case Study of an Independent High School"
Marcia R. Hood-Brown (1997), deceased
"Making the Impossible Space: Communicative Practice, Radical Feminism, and Prostitution"
Robert A. Irwin (1997)
"Hierarchy, Egalitarian Politics, and the Structure and Effectiveness of Social Movement Organizations"
Hilary Loring (1997)
"The Power of the Ordinary in Self-Transformation: Theory and Empirical Analysis"
Ana Filomena de Fatima Barbosa Monteiro de Macedo (1997)
"Rosa Luxemburg's Contribution to Feminist Critical Thought: A New Conception of Emancipatory Politics"