Sociology Graduate Students
Cohorts (by entering year): 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 & before
2009
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Environment-society relationships, social elements of sustainability, environmental justice, and social inequality. |
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Population studies, women's healthcare, public policy, aging and society, social psychology, animals and human health. |
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Barbara Grossman-Thompson | Social implications of outdoor and wilderness based tourism;
the potential of outdoor education to function as a feminist social tool;
the theoretical evolution of ecofeminism;
the particularly gendered effects of agricultural transitions in the Global South. |
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Population Studies, Women's Healthcare, Unintended Pregnancy, Societal
Influences on Women's Contraceptive Use, and Social Psychology. |
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Institutions, environmental policy, and social change. |
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Sociology of education, educational inequality, and social stratification. |
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Sociology of Gender, Intimate Partner Violence, Inequalities (Race, Class, Gender). |
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The social dimension of climate change, hazard and disaster mitigation, prevention, and adaptation,
climate change induced human migration and environmental refugee issues. |
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Social Disparities in Health, specifically in relation to Traumatic Brain Injury. |
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2008
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Environmental sociology, environmental inequality, population-environment relationships |
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Social psychology, quantitative/qualitative methods, in particular, studies on popular culture and identity formation |
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Classical social theory; cultural hermeneutics; epistemology; postmodern and gender theory |
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Crime and deviance, ex-offender reentry, prisoners' rights, the criminalization of homelessness, social inequalities |
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Religion and spirituality; queer identity; theory; and social change |
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Qualitative sociology; political economy, migration, globalization; geographic area of interest is Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Nonviolent social change; social revolutions; social justice links between human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues; social psychology including empathy, altruism, and activism; qualitative methods. |
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Qualitative and feminist research methods; deviance/criminology; criminal justice with focus on community based alternatives to incarceration for female offenders |
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Gender and race biases, deviance, and feminist theories. |
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Energy issues in growth and sustainability, population studies, social inequality and energy |
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Intersectionality; sexual health disparities; language privilege |
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Violent juvenile crime, parricide, family violence |
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Social psychology, organizational sociology, and military sociology |
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Environmental sociology; crises as intersection between the environment, technology and organizations; mixed methods, with qualitative focus. |
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2007
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Social Epidemiology; Demography; Health Disparities; Mortality; Sociology of the Family;
Health Lifestyles; Community and Neighborhood Effects; Quantitative Methods. |
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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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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. |
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2006
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Population studies, labor migration, development, and quantitative methods.
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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 and deviance, social psychology, drug use, qualitative methods . |
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Gender and sexuality, social psychology, and qualitative methods. |
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Population studies; HIV/AIDS; life course transitions; social inequalities. |
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Qualitative/interpretive sociology, social psychology of religion and atheism, and deviance. |
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Theory, culture, gender, and qualitative methods. |
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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; Population Studies; Climate Change; and Quantitative Methods . |
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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, Political Sociology, Theory, War & Militarism |
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Sex and 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,juvenile delinquency, race and ethnicity, intimate partner violence |
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Stratification and health/health behaviors |
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Sociological theory, collective memory, and collective and national identity. |
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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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Criminology, assortative mating, intergenerational problem behavior. |
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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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HIV-impacted communities, Education, and Natural Resource Conservation in southern and eastern Africa, specifically the interactions between HIV/AIDS
and the Wildlife Conservation Establishment; Corporeal Representation; Subjectivity; Governmentality; Transnationalism; Power; Race; Social Class; Gender;
Political Ecology; Science and Technology Studies; Marxist theory; Poststructuralist theory; Feminist theory; Critical Race Studies; Globalization theory;
Neoliberalism and the Environment; and Ethnographic Methodology
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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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s | 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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Sexuality, gender, media, technology, cultural sociology, and sociological theory. |
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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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Sexuality, gender, media, technology, cultural sociology, and theory. |
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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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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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2002 and earlier
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Sociology of gender, family, animals & society |
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Theory, criminology, and qualitative methods. Dissertation tentatively titled: 'Becoming Psychic: The Process of Discovering and Training Psychic Skills' |
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