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Past Dissertations
Book Contracts for Dissertations
Dissertations into Books, 1998-2007
Faculty-Graduate Student Publications
Graduate Student Publications: Articles, Books, and Book Reviews
Recent Publications by Former Ph.D.s, 1998-2007
Past Dissertations
Betina Freidin (February 2008)
"Acapuncture Worlds in Argentina: Contested Knowledge, Legitimation Processes, and Everyday Practices"
Jillian Dickert (May 2007)
"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 Studeis"
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 Clasing Systems"
P. Rafael Hernandez (May 2006)
"Use of Population Catagories as Variables in U.S. Health Reasearch: 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 Alernative 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"
Book Contracts for Dissertations
Tobin Belzer, Jewish Identity at Work, State University of New York Press.
Cameron Macdonald, Working Mothers and Mother-Workers: Nannies, AuPairs, and the Social Construction of Mothering, University of California Press.
Dissertations into Books, 2002 - to present
Monish Das Gupta (PhD 1999). Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States, Duke University Press, 2006.
Seungsook Moon (PhD 1994). Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea (Politics, History, and Culture), Duke University Press, 2005.
Kathleen Jenkins (PhD 2002). Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ, Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Jean Elson (PhD 2000). Am I Still a Woman? Hysterectomy and Gender Identity, Temple University Press, 2004.
Amy Agigian (PhD 1998). Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination is Changing the World, Wesleyan University Press, June, 2004.
Henry Rubin (PhD 1996). Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men, Vanderbilt University Press, 2003.
Victoria Pitts (PhD 1999). In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Farzin Vahdat (PhD 1998). God and Juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity, Syracuse University Press, 2002.
Elena Stone (PhD 1994). Rising From Deep Places: Women's Lives and The Ecology of Voice and Silence, Peter Lang, 2002.
Faculty-Graduate Student Publications, 2000 - to present
With Professor Peter Conrad
"Contestation and Medicalization," (with Cheryl Stults). In Pamela Moss and Kathy Teghtsoonian (eds.), The Contours of Contestation, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
"From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: Medicalization and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising," (with Valerie Leiter). Sociology of Health and Illness, R&R just resubmitted.
"Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Public Risk Scares: The Case of Menopause and HRT," (with Cheryl Stults). for a volume edited by Donald Light to be published by Columbia University Press
"Medicalization of Deviance," (with PJ McGann). Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell. 2006. (published with former graduate student)
"Trends in the use of Psychopatric Medications in Adolescents, 1994-2001," (with Liz Goodman, Cindy Thomas, and Rosemary Casler, Psychiatric Services). 57: 63-69, 2006.
"Human Growth Hormone and the Temptations of Biomedical Enhancement," (with Deborah Potter). Sociology of Health and Illness, 26: 184-215, 2004.
"Medicalization, Markets and Consumers," (with Valerie Leiter). Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2004, in press.
"Homosexuality and Remedicalization," (with Alison Angell), Society, 41 (5): 32-39, 2004.
Health and Health Care as Social Problems (co-edited with Valerie Leiter). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
"Enhancing Biology? Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Augmentation" (with Heather Jacobson). In Simon J. Williams, Gillian A. Bendelow and Linda Berke (eds.), Debating Biology: Sociological Reflections on Health Medicine and Society, London: Routledge, 2003.
"Constructing the 'Gay Gene' in the News: Optimism and Skepticism in the American and British Press," (with Susan Markens). Health, 2001, 5: 373-400.
"From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Some Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories," (with Deborah Potter). Social Problems, 2000, 47: 559-82.
"Medicalization of Deviance," (with P.J. McGann). Encyclopedia of Crime and Deviant Behavior. Sage, 2000, pp. 218-22.
With Professor David Cunningham
"The Emergence of 'Worthy' Targets: Deviance Narratives within the FBI." (with Barb Browning). Sociological Forum. Forthcoming Fall, 2004.
"Comparative Collective Community-Based Learning: The `Possibilities for Change in American Communities' Program." (with Cheryl Kingma-Kiekhofer). Teaching Sociology. Forthcoming, 2004.
"Capturing the Structure of Musically-Based Youth Subcultures: The Case of 'Emo'." (with Emilie Hardman, and Ann Morrison Spinney). Poetics, under review.
"Contexts for Mobilization: Community Connections and Klan Presence in North Carolina, 1964-1966. " (With Benjamin T. Phillips). Revise and resubmit, Social Problems.
With Professor Karen V. Hansen
"Care and Kinship: An Introduction," (with Anita Ilta Garey, Rosanna Hertz, and Cameron Macdonald) Journal of Family Issues, 23:6 (September 2002): 703-715.
"Sociability and Gender: Visiting Patterns of Working People in Nineteenth-Century New England," (with Cameron Macdonald) Social Science History, 25:4 (Winter 2001): 537-563.
With Professor Marty Krauss
"Adults with Autism Living at Home or in Non-Family Settings: Positive and Negative Aspects of Residential Status." (with Marsha Mailick Seltzer, and Heather T. Jacobson) Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 49, No 2, 111-124, 2005.
With Professor Shulamit Reinharz
HBI series on Jewish women, chapter on Feminist Content Analysis (with Rachel Kulick) in Tova Hartman's Feminist Encounters Traditional Judaism, Feb 2008.
"Feminist Content Analysis." (with Rachel Kulick) Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Ed. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006.
With Professor Carmen Sirianni
The Civic Renewal Movement: Community Building and Democracy in the Unites States, Kettering Foundation Press, forthcoming in 2004, first author, with Lewis Friedland.
Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal, University of California Press, 2001, first author, with Lewis Friedland.
"The New Student Politics: Sustainable Action for Democracy," Journal of Public Affairs 71:1 (August 2004), first author, with Lewis Friedland.
"Civic Innovation, Conflict, and Politics," The Good Society 12:1 (2003), 74-82 (for 6-article symposium on Sirianni and Friedland, Civic Innovation in America) first author, with Lewis Friedland.
"Working in the Service Society (Labor and Social Change Series)," ed. Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni. Paperback - October 1996.
With Professor Stefan Timmermans
"What Does it Mean to be a Profession in the Twenty-First Century?," (with Emily Kolker) Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Forthcoming, 2004.
"Medicine, Values and Ethics," (with Emily Kolker). In Science, Technology, and Society, edited by Sal Restivo, Oxford University Press, 2004.
"Evidence-Based Medicine, Clinical Uncertainty, and Learning to Doctor," (with Alison Angell). Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 42:4 (2001): 342-359.
"The Redemption of Thalidomide: Standardizing the Risk of Birth Defects," (with Valerie Leiter). Social Studies of Science, 30:1 (2000): 41-72.
Graduate Student Publications: Articles, Books, and Book Reviews
Bryson, Stephanie A
"Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern
Psychoanalysis." (Book Review). Clinical Social Work
Journal, 32, n. 2 (2004): 228-230.
"Characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorders who recieved services through community mental health centers," Stephanie A. Bryson, Susan K. Corrigan, Thomas P. Mcdonald and Cheryl Holmes. Autism 2008; 12; 65. DOI: 10.1177/1362361207085214. Click here to see the article.
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"Body Image: New Problem or Ancient Preoccupation?"
(Book Review). Psychiatric Services, 54, (2003): 255-256.
Cohan, Deb
Guest Editor, Violence Against Women: An
International and Interdisciplinary Journal, special issue
on teaching about violence against women.
Duffy, Mignon
"Reproducing Labor Inequalities: Challenges for
Feminists Conceptualizing Care at the Intersections of
Gender, Race, and Class," Gender & Society,
Vol. 19, n. 1, (2005): 66-82.
Freidin, Betina
"Las Met foras de la Corrupcion," ("The
Metaphors of Corruption"), in R. Sautu (Ed.) La Trama Social
de la Corrupcion, Buenos Aires: Lumiere (in collaboration
with P. Boniolo and I. Perugorria) 2004.
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"Variation in The Perceived Passage of Time: A Cross-
National Study," Social Psychology Quarterly (in
collaboration with M. Flaherty and R. Sautu), under review.
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"The Dead Body and Organ Transplantation," in C.
Faircloth (Ed.) Aging Bodies, Altamira Press, 2003.
Fried, Mindy
"Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings." ASA Footnotes. March 2008. Click here to see.
Jacobson, Heather
"Challenges to Independent Child Citizenship: Families,
Immigration and the State." (with Valerie Leiter, Jennifer
Lutzy McDonald). Social Problems, Revise and Resubmit.
Kingma-Kiekhofer, Cheryl
"Comparative Collective Community-Based
Learning: The 'Possibilities for Change in American
Communities' Program." (with David Cunningham). Teaching
Sociology. Forthcoming 2004.
Kolker, Emily
"Framing as a Cultural Resource in Health Social
Movements: Funding Activism and The Breast Cancer Movement
in the U.S., 1990-1993." Sociology of Health and Illness,
forthcoming.
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"Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Reconfiguration
of Medical Knowledge," (with Stefan Timmermans). Journal of
Health and Social Behavior, forthcoming.
Lovejoy, M. & Stone, P.
"Sidetracked: Professional Women's Career Interruption and Redirection." American Sociological Association,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug. 2006.
Lovejoy, M.
"Bodily Subjectivity: Mapping A New Perspective on Women's Body Experience." American Sociological Association,
Atlanta, GA, Aug. 19, 2003.
Osnowitz, Debi
"Managing Time in Domestic Space: Home-based
Contractors and Household Work," Gender & Society,
Vol 19, n. 1, (2005): 83-103.
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"Constructing Ties and Enacting Norms: Networking Among Contract Professionals," Work and Occupations, revise and resubmit.
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"Hidden Academics: Contract Faculty in Canadian Universities, by Indhu Rajagopal." (Book review). Work and Occupations, v. 31, n.1 (2004):148-149.
Zincavage, Rebekah
"It's Like a Family: Caring Labor, Exploitation, and Race in Nursing Homes," Lisa Dodson and Rebekah M. Zincavage. Gender & Society,
2007;21 905-928:
Book Review: Not-So-Nuclear Families. By Karen V. Hansen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005, 261 pp., $23.95 (paper). Margaret K. Nelson. Gender Society 2007;21 933-935
Recent Publications by Former Ph.D.s, 2001 - to present
Victoria Pitts, Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture, Rutgers, 2007.
Karen Anne Wolf, A History of Nursing Ideas, Jones & Bartlett, 2006.
Marilyn Rueschemeyer (Co-Author) Art and the State: The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective (St. Antony's Series), Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Lynn Schlesinger, Instructional Materials for Teaching Sociology and Disability Studies, American Sociological Association, 2004.
Tobin Belzer, Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives, SUNY Press, 2003.
Johnny Williams, African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas, University of Mississippi Press, 2003.
Elizabeth Higginbotham, Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration, University of North Carolina Press, 2001.