Sociology Graduate Students
Cohorts (by entering year): 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1996 and before
2008
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Adelle Monteblanco | Environmental sociology, environmental inequality, population-environment relationships | |
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Amanda Shigihara | Social psychology, quantitative/qualitative methods, in particular, studies on popular culture and identity formation | |
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Benjamin Lamb | Classical social theory; cultural hermeneutics; epistemology; postmodern and gender theory | |
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Colleen Hackett | Crime and deviance, ex-offender reentry, prisoners' rights, the criminalization of homelessness, social inequalities | |
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Kari Alexander | Religion and spirituality; queer identity; theory; and social change | |
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Mary Robertson | Qualitative sociology; political economy, migration, globalization; geographic area of interest is Latin America and the Caribbean | |
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Matthew Bear | Nonviolent social change; what activates empathy, altruism, and activism; qualitative methods | |
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Mollie Stauss | Qualitative and feminist research methods; deviance/criminology; criminal justice with focus on community based alternatives to incarceration for female offenders | |
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Nitika Sharma | ||
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Robert Kemp | Energy issues in growth and sustainability, population studies, social inequality and energy | |
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Stephanie Allen | Health care disparities, aging, social demography, and death and dying | |
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Tamara Williams | Intersectionality; sexual health disparities; language privilege | |
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Tracy Deyell | Violent juvenile crime, parricide, family violence | |
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Wade Smith | Social psychology, organizational sociology, and military sociology | |
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Wee Kiat Lim |  |
Environmental sociology; crises as intersection between the environment, technology and organizations; qualitative methods |
2007
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Social determinants of health and mortality; race/ethnic and sex inequities in health; risky behaviors; research methods; survey methodology; and contextual analyses | |
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Traci Lacock | Capital punishment; criminology; secondary effects jurors experience after serving death penalty jury | |
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Environmental sociology; qualitative research methods;; disaster studies within a social context, and the study of providing assistance to disaster survivors through educational and community organizations | ||
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Environmental sociology; societal and governmental preparation for and response to natural and man-made disasters, perceptions of environmental risk, and human-induced environmental feedback systems | ||
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Environmental sociology; environmental inequality; food security and population pressure; the rising urban agriculture movement; and various other human-environment interactions | ||
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Qualitative research methods; Asian folk traditions and identity formation | ||
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Criminology, social inequalities | ||
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Intimate partner violence and the impact of addiction and trauma histories on female offenders. | ||
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Qualitative research with particular interest in human-animal studies within sociology; animal-assisted therapy and animal industries. | ||
2006
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Public policy for Children; Demographic Research; social movements -specifically the relationship between political space, governmental rhetoric, demographic change; and quantitative methodology. |
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Social inequalities in health, population studies, and gender |
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-Media, in particular video games. Study of impact gaming has on culture. |
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-Criminology and its ramifications for society; affects of death penalty on the attorneys and investigators involved; qualitative methods and feminist criminology. |
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-Qualitative research methods; gender; family. |
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-Crime & deviance, social psychology, drug use, qualitative methods . |
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-Medical sociology; environmental sociology. |
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-Population studies; disparities in health outcomes of disadvantaged populations; social impact of AIDS; globalization & inequality |
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-Theory, qualitative methods, sociology of religion, epistemology. |
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-Theory, epistemology, and environmental sociology. |
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-Intimate Partner, Family & Interpersonal Violence; Adolescent Violence; Women and Crime; Victimization; and Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology. |
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-Environmental Sociology and Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods; study of human dimensions of environmental change, social movements. |
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-Issues around community formation and design, including environmental aspects of community; incorporating organizational considerations; identity within activist or community groups; qualitative/ interpretive sociology. |
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2005
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-Environmental Sociology, Militarism, Sociology of Science, and Theory | ||
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Sex & Gender (Feminist Theory, Inter-locking Oppressions);
Criminology (Juvenile Delinquency, the Death Penalty, Prisons);
Education (Hip Hop Pedagogy) Race & Ethnicity; Stratification & Inequality |
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criminology, sociology of education, stratification and juvenile delinquency |
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-stratification and health/health behaviors |
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-stratification/inequality, race, gender, and ethnicity - immigration, theory, teaching sociology online, using science fiction to teach sociology. |
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-criminology, qualitative/interpretive, deviance/criminology. |
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-gender, human needs, culture and religion, and qualitative sociology. | ||
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-collective behavior, disasters, evacuation modeling | ||
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-gender socialization and program development in juvenile justice. |
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2004
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Disasters (natural, technological, and human-induced), environmental sociology, social network analysis, reseach methods, quantitative analyses | ||
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Environmental Sociology, Qualitative Methods, and Social Theory |
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Technology, labor power and globalization, white-collar automation, human interface design, corporate ethics, management culture, workplace inequality, management/labor relations, corporate/consumer relations, consumer complicity in labor exploitation and environmental degradation | |
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Sociology of power, social construction of the environment and energy, energy policy and perceptions | ||
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Criminology, juvenile delinquency, criminal justice, quantitative methods. | ||
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Gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. | ||
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Social psychology, ethnography and interpretive sociology, gender, sexuality, health and illness | ||
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Environmental sociology, public perceptions of environmental problems | |
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2003
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Stratification of Race, Class, and Gender; Disasters; Environmental Sociology |
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Teaching Sociology, Social Psychology, Qualitative Methods, and Teaching with Technology | ||
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Gender and sexualities; social theory; qualitative sociology; social movements
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Medical sociology, bioethics, race and gender | ||
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Political activism, 'virtual' social movements, collective identity | ||
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Crime, punishment and social control; the intersection of religion
and punishment |
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Social Psychology, Narrative, Sociocultural Linguistics, Everyday Life, Social Theory | ||
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Racial identity and race, class, and gender inequality | ||
2002 and earlier
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-gender, social movements, community studies | ||
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-sociology of gender, family, animals & society | ||
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-social psychology, sexualities, gender | ||
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-power/empowerment, education and social change & development | ||
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-criminology, violence against women, rural sociology | ||
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-Deviance, Sociology of Drugs, Qualitative Methods and Social Theory |
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-the development of the diagnosis of and treatments for PTSD. Criminology. Researcher for LEAP program - examines gender and academia. |
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-drugs, death penalty, crime and gender | ||
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