Recent Graduates from the Ph.D Program
2007-08
Brian Hewlett
Spiritual but Not Religious Being: Exploring Structural Antecedents for the Paring of Spiritual and Non-Religious Identities across National Boundaries. Committee: Chaves (Co-Chair), Ragin (Co-Chair), Grant.
Bill Tsitsos
The Interaction of Race & Theological Orientation in Congregation Social Service Provision. Committee: Chaves (Chair), Ragin, Grant. Towson University, Assistant Professor.
Samantha Kwan
Contested Meanings about Body, Health, and Weight: Frame Resonance, Stategies of Action, and The Uses of Culture. Committee: Bergesen (Co-Chair), Roth (Co-Chair), Chaves. University of Houston, Assistant Professor.
George Hobor
Post-Industrial Pathways: The Economic Re-Organization of the Urban Rust Belt. Committee: Schwartzman (Co-Chair), Galaskiewicz (Co-Chair), Ragin. Center for Urban Research and Public Policy Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 year Post-doc.
Nancy Martin
Small Groups in Big Churches. Committee: Chaves (Co-Chair), Breiger (Co-Chair), Leahey California State University Long Beach, Assistant Professor.
Steven Nelson
Offender Crime Perspectives: A Study in Affect Control Theory. Committee: Molm (Co-Chair), McPherson (Co-Chair), Beyerlein, Smith-Lovin. Clemson University, Assistant Professor.
Rebecca Sager
The "Purpose Driven" Policy? Explaining State-Level Variation in the Faith-Based Initiative Committee: Chaves (chair), Galaskiewicz, Milward. Loyola Marymount University, Assistant Professor.Christine Sheikh
Religious and Ethnic Variation Among Second-Generation Muslim Americans Committee: Chaves (Co-Chair), Grant (Co-Chair), Fernandez University of Denver, Assistant Professor.
2006-2007
Jessica Collett
Third Party Intervention and Relationship Outcomes: Extending Social Exchange Theory Through the Incorporation of Intermediaries Committee: Molm (chair), Chaves, Walker University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor.
Omar Lizardo
Globalization, World Culture and the Sociology of Taste: Patterns of Cultural Choice in Cross-National Perspective. Committee: Breiger (chair), Leahey, Healy. University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor.
David Brubaker
Change and Conflict in Congregations: Exploring the Relationship Between Size Transitions and Conflict Intensity in Religious Congregations. Committee: Chaves (chair), Galaskiewicz, Ragin. Conflict Studies at Eastern Mennonite University, Assistant Professor.
Mary Nell Trautner
Screening, Sorting, and Selecting in Complex Personal Injury Cases: How Lawyers Mediate Access to the Civil Justice System. Committee: Breiger (Chair), Grant, MacCorquodale. State University of New York at Buffalo, Assistant Professor.
2005-2006
Gordon Abra
Structural Change In Exchange Relations. Committee: Molm (chair), Breiger, Smith-Lovin. California State University Long Beach, Full-time Lecturer.
James (Jamie) Bowie
Innovation, Imitation, Legitimacy and Deviance in the Design Graphical Trademarks in the United States, 1884-2003. Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Croissant. Northern Arizona University, Researcher.
Kristi Clark Miller
The Adoptive Identity: Stigma and Social Interaction. Committee: Walker (chair), Smith-Lovin (co-chair), Molm, Roth Montana State University, Adjunct Lecturer
Melissa S. Fry
Aging and Behavioral Health: Power and Accountability in Outsourced Public Policy Implementation Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Clemens, Chaves, Milward. Auburn University, Assistant Professor.
Martin Hughes
Processes of Legitimation: The University of Phoenix and Its Institutional Environments . Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Clemens, Fernandez Indiana. University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor.
Brayden King
Constructing Perceptions of Value: Corporate Acquisitions Communications Industries, 1997-2002 Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Soule. Brigham Young University, Assistant Professor.
Kathleen (Kate) O'Neil
Contexts of Exchange and The Pricing of Art Committee: Breiger (chair), Galaskiewicz, Healy, Ragin. Denison University, Assistant Professor.
David Schaefer
Resource Variation in Social Exchange Networks: The Effects of Duplicability and Transferability on the Use of Power . Committee: Molm (Chair), Breiger, McPherson, Galaskiewicz. Arizona State University, Assistant Professor.
John Sonnett
Representing the Earth: Global Climate Issues in Popular, Political, Scientific, Business, Industry, and Environmentalist News; A New Old Sociology of Knowledge. Committee: Ragin (chair), Breiger, Croissant. University of Mississippi, Assistant Professor.
2004-2005
Lisa Martinez
Latino Political Patricipation: Internal Diversity and External Constraints. Committee: Breiger (chair), Schwartzman, Soule, Garcia. Northeastern University, Assistant Professor.
Michael Mulcahy
Regulating Labor: The Formation and Effects of a World Labor Regime in the 20th Century. Committee: Schwartzman (chair), Ragin, Soule. Grant University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor.
2003-2004
Timothy Bartley
Certifying Forests and Factories: The Emergence of Private Systems for Regulating Labor and Environmental Conditions. Committee: Breiger (chair), Clemens, Ragin, Schneiberg, Healy. Indiana University, Assistant Professor.
Irenee Beattie
Tracking Women's Transition to Adulthood: High School Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and the Early Life Course Outcomes of Schooling. Committee: Shockey (chair), Arum, England, Soule. Washington State University, Assistant Professor.
Sandra Marie Way
For Their Own Good? The Effects of School Discipline and Disorder on Student Behavior and Academic Achievement. Committee: Breiger (chair), Arum, Shockey, Morrill. New Mexico State University, Assistant Professor.
Elizabeth Borland
Growth, Decay, and Change: Organizations In The Contemporary Women's Movement In Buenos Aires, Argentina Committee: Soule (Chair), Ragin, Galaskiewicz, Stillerman, Saba. The College of New Jersey, Assistant Professor.
Jason Clark Miller
Framing Juveniles: Negotiation and Process in the Handling of Juvenile Court Cases. Committee: Smith-Lovin (chair), Soule, Snow, Morrill Montana State University, Assistant Professor.
Bradley Koch
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: The Interaction of Institutional Logics and Organizational Forms. Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Schwartzman, Clemens.
Wade Roberts
Civilizing States of Development: Nongovernmental Organizations and the State in the Developing World. Committee: Ragin (chair), Schwartzman, Clemens, Gerber. Colorado College, Assistant Professor.
2002-2003
Rick Don Axelson
Toward Theory--Based Approaches For Analyzing And Enhancing Postsecondary Student Success Committee: Fernandez (chair), Bergesen, Grant, Leahey, Brown. Riverside Community College, Assistant Professor.
Michelle L. Companion
Embracing Autonomy: The Impact of Socio-Cultural And Political Factors On Tribal Health Care Management Levels. Committee: Cornell (chair), Soule, Shockey. University of Colorado, Assistant Professor.
Richard Hutchinson
Local Social Movements: A Case Study of Their Character, Operations and Persistence . Committee: Snow/Soule (co-chairs), Grant, McPherson. Louisiana Tech University, Assistant Professor.
Jenny Irons
Defending Order, Defending Boundaries: The Political Management of Race During the Civil Rights Movement. Committee: Soule (chair), Clemens, Cornell, Healy. Hamilton College, Assistant Professor.
Mark A. Konty
Values, Deviance And Conformity: Measuring Values With The Factoral Survey Method. Committee: Smith-Lovin (chair), Molm, Breiger, Polakowski. Washington State University, Assistant Professor.
Richard Pitt
Domestic Capital, Portative Capital, Gender Capital: The Effects of Independent Living and Family of Destination on Men's Household Labor Participation. Committee: Smith-Lovin (chair), McPherson, Walker, Roth, Shockey. Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor.
2001-2002
Saylor Breckenridge
Organizational Change in the Arizona Funeral Home Industry, 1968-1999: Density, Concentration and Vital Rates in a Measured Resource Space. Committee: Clemens (chair), Breiger, Shockey. Wake Forest University (North Carolina), Assistant Professor.
Jennifer Earl
The Banner Versus the Baton: Explaining Protest Policing in the U.S., 1960-1975. Committee: Soule (chair), Clemens, Morrill, Breiger. University of California-Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor.
Kristie Taylor
Constitutional Alcohol Prohibition in the United States: Power, Profit and Politics. Committee: Schwartzman (chair), Clemens, Healy. Senior Research Analyst with a Washington, D.C. consulting firm.