Dissertations from 2024
BLACK SURVIVORSHIP AND VICTIMIZATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF MEDIA PORTRAYALS ON BLACK BODIES AND STATE SANCTIONED GUN VIOLENCE, Mahalia C. Crawford
Navigating Gray: Examining Impression Management for Individuals in Black-White Interracial Relationships, Salimata L. Fall
LGB Fertility: How Biological, Material, and Social Barriers Shape Desired, Intended, and Actual Fertility, Dustin M. Hughes
Round II: Exploring the Experiences of Black, First-Generation Graduate and Professional Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Derrick D. Lathan
Have a Little Faith in Me: Exploring Individual and Neighborhood Predictors of Fear of Crime and Trust in the Police, Joy Ngelor Watchese
Everyone Sleeps on Drag Kings: Exploring the Popularity Disparity Between Drag Kings and Drag Queens via Drag Consumers' TikTok Comments, Kami Rutherford
Additional Impacts of Drug Policy Reform: Exploring the Unintended Effects of Marijuana Legalization, Nicholas T. Van De Voorde
SEXUAL ABUSE: A MULTI-FACETED PROBLEM, Marcus Venable
Pregnant Black Bodies in Peril: A Multi-Method Analysis of Obstetric Outcomes and Gestational Experiences, Courtney E. Williams
Dissertations from 2023
Benevolent Sexism, Misogynoir and Violence: What Part Do Social and Structural Systems Play in Violence Against Women?, Caitlin A. Charles
Political Conspiracy Communication, Oliver T. Garretson
Media Coverage of Non-Ideologically Motivated Mass Shootings versus Ideologically Motivated Mass Shootings and How the Media Affects College Students' Perceptions of Mass Shootings, Jennifer L. LaRose
Dissertations from 2022
Collective Resources and Reentry Success: Disentangling Variation Across Units of Analysis, Elizabeth Estelle Brault
Behind the Timeline: The Gendered Dynamics Among Civilian Volunteer Search and Rescue Organizations, Kyle Breen
Pharmakon in the Firelands: Connecting Historical Discourses and Small-Town Social Contexts with Substance Use Experience, Andrew Robert Burns
Newly Dependent: The Living Experiences of Transnational Women in North America, Tasia Mehzabin Kazi
The Lived Experiences of Migrant Domestic Workers in Taiwan, Li-Yu Liao
Enforcing Child Support: An Intersectional Approach, Maretta McDonald
"I'm Not Your Ride or Die": A Qualitative Study of Black Women's Experiences in Intimate Marketplaces, Alana Jamelle Peck
Dissertations from 2021
Epidemic Uncertainties and the Construction of Risk in Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) Epidemics: The Case of Ghana., John Kojo Aggrey
Policing Understood as a Racial Project: An Exploration of the Role Law Enforcement Has Played in the Shaping of Race Relations in the United States, Jahaan Chandler
The Emergence of the Legitimacy of Religious Healing Knowledge in Taiwan, Wei-Cheng Chiu
College Football Student-Athletes, Peggers, and Specialty Gyms: Qualitative Analyses of Sexual Subcultures, Lynnette Coto
Do Black Girls Receive Later Developmental Disability Diagnoses?: Results from a National Study of Children in the United States, Danequa Forrest
Virtual Worlds: Social Interactions Among Online Gamers Through Voice Chat, Omar Bradley Ictech II
Dissertations from 2020
Motivation, Higher Education, Belonging, and Development: Integration of Highly Educated Immigrants into the Western Labor Market, Cihan Aydiner
Gender Equality, Tolerance, and Wellbeing in Turkey: The Role of Religion, Ramazan Aydogdu
National Guard Familes: The Relationship between Institutional Discourses and Lived Experiences, Kimberly Saunier Boudreaux
Family Matters. Or Does It? Family Involvement in American Education, Isaiah Fink Avraham Cohen
Facets of Family Resilience: South Louisiana and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Kathryn Sweet Keating
Dissertations from 2019
Examining the Mechanisms of Religious Ecology on Population Health and Material Well-Being, Joseph Andrew Clark
The Religion of Policing: Race, Riots, and the Killing of Alton Sterling, Landon Jay Douglas
The Rise and Fall of Focused Deterrence Initiatives, Chandra Lynore Joseph
After-School Martial Arts: A History, Perceptions of Academic Advantage, and Effects on Academic Performance, Rose Marie Kelley
Contextualizing Gender Inequality in Division of Household Labor and Family Life: A Cross-National Perspective, Hyojung Kim
Disaster Vulnerability and Social Capitals in the Gulf Coast and Flint, Michigan, Vanessa Parks
Cruzando para el Otro Lado: Motivation, Communication, and the Migrant Experience, Crystal Paul
An Intersectional Analysis of Black Working-Class Women Becoming Members of the Academy, Tifanie W. Pulley
A Comprehensive Assessment of Rape Myths, Hookup Culture, and Social Structure among Heterosexual Individuals, Timothy Thomas Reling
Incarcerated Workers and Inmate All-Hazard Firefighters in Emergency Response and Disasters: A Captive Labor Force, Jordan Carlee Smith
Stress and Suicidality: Effects of Stressful Life Events, Contextual Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and Early Life Traumas, Muhammed Yildiz
Dissertations from 2018
Feminism and The Black Church: A Qualitative Analysis Of Feminism Among Black Women In A Southern Baptist Church, Brianne Alexandra Painia
Dimensions of Diversity in U.S. Arts Participation: Race-ethnicity, Education, Genre Origins, and Means of Broadcast Consumption, Nile DeGray Patterson
Dissertations from 2017
Becoming Engineers: Exploring Gender, Choice and Intersectional Identities Among Women in Undergraduate Engineering, Emily Gwen Blosser
Reach Back and Get It: Community Cultural Wealth, the P-20 Pipeline, and the History of Black Illiteracy, Dari Green
Local Embeddedness Matters: A Study of Hip-Hop Artists' Interaction With Their Local Community, Castel Vette Sweet
Dissertations from 2016
Visionary Sociology in Action, Luke Castle
The Limits of Professional Autonomy: An Interview-based Comparative Analysis of the Workplaces and Perceptions of Educators and Healthcare Professionals, Joseph Paul Cleary
Perceptions of Criminality: An Experiment on Race, Class, and Gender Stereotypes, Patricia Davis
The Social Contagion of Adolescent Depression: Applying a Differential Susceptibility Model, Win Guan
Fear No Evil: Making Sense of Intersectionality and Fear of Crime Amongst Blacks in High Crime Neighborhoods, Melinda Jackson
Developing Mediators: An Analysis of the Changing Associations of Ghanaian Internet Cafe Users between 2003 and 2014, Matthew Gregory LeBlanc
Are We Really Bowling Alone? Family Changes and Social Capital in American Society, Ya-Feng Lin
Inmate Populations in a Disaster: A Labor Force, a Vulnerable Population, and a Hazard, Jordan Carlee Smith
Leveling the Playing Field: Sport and Resistance in Low-Wealth Communities, Danielle Jo Thomas
Dissertations from 2015
Social Vulnerability in the Wake of 2010 BP Oil Spill: The Case of Southeast Louisiana, Michael Ray Cope
Civic Community, Structural Disadvantage, and Suicide: An Ecological Analysis of Middle-Age Non-Hispanic White Male Suicide Across the Rural-Urban Continuum, Kayla R. Fontenot
A Study of After-School and Summer Programs: The Effectiveness of Law-Related Youth Educational Programs for Adolescents in Marginalized Communities, Pamela Anne Labbe
Alcohol Consumption among Turkish Adolescents: A Test of General Strain Theory, Ugur Orak
A Test of General Strain Theory: Suicidal Ideation and Attempt Among Adolescents in Istanbul, Turkey, Muhammed Yildiz
Why Interpersonal Ties are Important for People: An Analysis of the Concept of Social Capital and Its Dimensions of Holism, Convertibility, and Conductibility, Durmus Ali Yuksek
Dissertations from 2014
Mind Playing Tricks: Individualism, Upward Mobility, and the Commitment to Self-Determination Among the Urban Poor, Will Bryerton
Peer Bullying of Academically Oriented Students: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and School Context, Brett Lehman
Battered men and our changing attitudes toward intimate partner violence, Ashley Marie Perry
Prophets, Studio Revolutionaries, and On-the-Ground Activist: Hip-Hop/Rap Artists' Approaches to Community Engagement, Castel Sweet
Dissertations from 2013
Educating for environmental justice : social/environmental marginality and the significance of experiences for environmental activism and proenvironmental behavior, Donovon Keith Ceaser
An ecological analysis of US county-level suicide rates : an application of spatial patterning models, Chantel Dufrene Chauvin
The unequal distribution of professional autonomy in schools, Joseph Cleary
Dragged into the future : how interent communications and media legitimacy facilitate lagging gender norms, Skylar C. Gremillion
The Role of Trust in Neighborhood Recovery: Examinations from New Orleans’ Recovery from Hurricane Katrina, David Traweek Maddox
Vagrant masculinity : a process of masculine self-conceptualization in formerly incarcerated Black men, Le'Brian Alexander Patrick
Nonprofit organizations in the making of civic community : exploring how the structure of nonprofit sectors matters for community wellbeing, Sarah Prater Walsh
Theses from 2012
Critical EE at OSBG: a case study in addressing environmental action through critical education, Donovon Keith Ceaser
Exploring the influence of civic community structures on family poverty in a multilevel context, Candice A. Myers
Income inequality and mortality: a test of competing pathways, Lisa Winters
Dissertations from 2011
Latinos, immigration policy, and geographic diversification: examining the effects of concentrated poverty, segregation, and low-skill employment on homicide, Raymond Barranco
Crime in New Orleans: applying the civic community perspective to urban violence, Jessica M. Doucet
Educational qualification and racial attitudes: does educational qualification really matter?, Bonny Ghosh
An investigation of the relationship between religion and marriage on self-reported health, Patrick Joseph Graham, Jr
Dissertations from 2010
Person or place? A contextual event-history analysis of homicide victimization risk, Emily R. Berthelot
Social change, social capital, and civic community: a qualitative study of the long-term effects of industrial restructuring on a coastal community, Timothy C. Brown
Prejudice and The New Latino Migration: The Geographic Locus of Anti-Latino Sentiment, Angela Caraway
Traditionalism and temporal variance in predictors of gendered homicide, 1970-2000, Julia Maria D'Antonio-Del Rio
Gender differences and cultural contexts: psychological well-being in cross-national perspective, Makiko Hori
The feminization of private investigation: a sociological analysis, Jessica Simpson Pearce
Dissertations from 2009
Community social capital and suicide rates, Anna Cutlip
The structure of social networks: examining gender differences and effects on social support and psychological distress, Lacie Lin Marie Michel
Women and science in development: a longitudinal analysis of gender, networks, and information technology in Ghana, Kenya, and India, Beverly Paige Miller
Effects of network capital and social support on mental health by race and class, Claire Norris
Beyond crime quantites: a multilevel analysis of the relative prevalence of interracial violence, Shaun A. Thomas
Dissertations from 2008
Cause of Hispanic homicides in major metropolitan areas, Michael Gregory Bisciglia
The culture of conservative Protestantism and income inequality: a multilevel analysis, Skylar Craig Gremillion
A longitudinal study of married women's probability of being housewives in reforming urban China, Chiung-Yin Hu
The anomaly of racial variance in female perpetrated spousal killing: a structural explanation, Mark Melder
Destructive behavior among adolescents: the role of social integration in the academic institution, Matthew E. Wilkinson
Dissertations from 2007
Integration-Regulation and rural suicide: a test of three alternative models, Russell R. Davis