Global Socioology, Political Economy, Sociology of Mass Media/Popular Culture, Social Development, Sociology of Religion/Cults & Sociology of Alcoholism Drug Abuse and Addiction

GRADUATE STUDENTS	SPECIALTY AREA	DISSERTATION TOPIC	ADVISOR
Paul Bugyi Curriculum Vitae	Medicine, Education, Stratification, Culture, Social Psychology, Deviance	The dissertation explores issues of health disparities. While medical sociologists have shown that resources (economic, cultural, social), effect health outcomes, the ways these resources actually have an effect is unclear. I link resources to particular attitutdes and behaviors that scholars of social class have made connections to before (i.e., Melvin Kohn, Annette Lareau, Paul Willis). I show the mechanism by which resources (or lack of resources) become actualized in the form of health outcomes. Research sujects are dialysis patients, a population where the type of resources mentioned above are highly necessary for long-term survival. The project consists of regression analyses based on 200 completed questionnaires, and evidence from 20 in-depth interviews with patients.	Kenneth Feldman
Deidre Caputo Levine Curriculum Vitae	Criminology, Reentry and Reintegration After Prison, Sociology of Punishment, Race and Ethnicity, Embodiment	Wearing the Yard Face: The Carceral Habitus and Reintegration Post Prison	Michael Schwartz
Brooke Ellison Curriculum Vitae	Sociology of Science, Public Policy, Bioethics, and Medicine and Society	The Globalization of Stem Cell Research Policy from a Field Theory	Daniel Levy
Rachel Kalish Curriculum Vitae	Sexuality, Gender, Family	A mixed methods examination of collegiate sexual behaviors in encounters termed "hook ups," "dates," and "relationships."	Michael Kimmel
Carol Lindquist Curriculum Vitae	Sociologies of Food, Gender, Family & Work, Consumption, and Qualitative & Visual Methods	The Household Meals Project: Feeding Power	Kenneth Feldman and Javier Auyero
Gary Maynard Curriculum Vitae	Neo-liberalism, Tobacco Advertising and Youth Smoking in the Developing World: A Lagged Panel and SEM Analysis of Direct and Indirect Effects on Rates of Youth Smoking	John Shandra
Michael Restivo Curriculum Vitae	Information & Communication Technologies, Soc. of Knowledge, Peer Production, Volunteerism, Organizational Sociology, Political Economy	Why Wiki Works - Peer Production and Making Knowledge the Wiki Way	Arnout Van de Rijt
Eric Shircliff Curriculum Vitae	Health, Globalization, and Quantitative Methods	Development and Health: A Cross-National Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality in the Developing World	John Shandra