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Ph.D.s

Recent Ph.D.s in Sociology. 

Roberts, Derek
"Authentic Bodies: Subcultural Reactions to the Mainstreaming of Body Modification"

Brower, Tracy
Making it Work: Corporate Executive Opinions on Work-Life Support 2011

Hilliker, Laurel
Who Am I Now? Experiences with Formal Grief Care Among Michigan Baby Boomers After Spousal Loss 2011

Lowry, Deborah Sue Wilson
When Mommy and Daddy Get Home: The Impact of Income and Shift Work on Parent-Child Interactions 2008

Oliver, Chris
Toxic Decisions: A Sociological Study of the Contamination of US Water Supplies by Methyl Tertiary Butyl Either (MTBE) 2008

Tanaka, Kimiko
Aging in Japan: Importance of Social Integration 2008

Waeckerlin, Elisabeth
Catholic and Protestant Conservatives and Gender Ideology in Religious Politics 2008

Wang, Ya Chien
A Systematic Evaluation of Culturally Sensitive HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions in the US, 1996-2007 2008

Woods, Joshua
Imagining Terror: The People, the Press and Politics 2008

Bain, Carmen
Reconciling Competing Values for Corporate Social Responsibility: EurepGAP Standards in the Chilean Fresh Fruit Value Chain 2007

Konefal, Jason
Saving the Oceans via the Market: Social Movements in the Marketplace 2007

Kuhn, Catherine
Movin' on Out? Toward a Better Understanding of the Residential Outcomes of Families Living in Concentrated Urban Poverty 2006

Worosz, Michelle
Pits, Pests, and the Industrial Tart 2006

Carl, Bradley
Michigan Educational Policy and Values: Instrumental Values and the Formation of Charter School Policy 2005

Gu, Chien-Juh
Gendered Transnational Struggles and Agencies: Immigration, Social Relations, and Mental Health in a Taiwanese American Community 2005

Jewell, Gayla
Preconditions to Interorganizational Collaboration among stakeholder Organizations that Care About Prostituted Women 2005

Lin, Yu-His
Adaptation and Health of First-Generation Taiwanese Americans 2005

Siyengo, Andile
Sweet Oranges, Uncertain Markets, and Bitter Losses: A Study of Small Scale Citrus Farming in the Eastern Cape, South Africa 2005

Yamaguchi, Tomiko
Discourse Perspective on Agrifood Biotechnology Controversies: Bt Cotton in India 2005

Barber, Kimberly
The Role of Chronic Illness, Personal Agency, Social Support, and Healthcare Discrimination in Mental Wellbeing and Alternative 2004

Bundresmann, Ragnhild
Patient Perception of Provider Adherence to Treatment and Self-Care Standards: The Case of Diabetes Self-Care 2004

Rother, Andrea
Risk Perception, Risk Communication, and the Effectiveness of Pesticide Labels in Communicating Hazards to South African Farm Workers 2004

Bustamante, Juan
"Boarderlands Transnationalism: The Significance of Political, Gender, and Family Ties on Mexican Immigration Life in South Texas", fall 2011. Juan has accepted a tenure track position with the University of Arkansas, fall 2012.