Sociology Graduate Students
Cohorts (by entering year): 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1996 and before
2007
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Social Determinants of Health and Mortality; Race/Ethnic and Sex Inequities in Health; Risky Behaviors; Research Methods; Survey Methodology; and Contextual Analyses | ||
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Capital punishment; criminology; secondary effects jurors experience after serving death penalty jury | ||
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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 | ||
| 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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Qualitative research methods; Asian folk traditions and identity formation | ||
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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. | ||
2006
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-Public policy for Children; Demographic Research; social movements -specifically the relationship between political space, governmental rhetoric, demographic change; and quantitative methodology. |
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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 & deviance, social psychology, drug use, qualitative methods . |
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| -Criminal justice, capital punishment, deviance, and legal research in a multi-state context. | |||
-Medical sociology; environmental sociology. |
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-Gender and class based studies of inequality; studying gender from the theoretical perspective of intersectionality; deviance and social capital. |
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-Population studies; disparities in health outcomes of disadvantaged populations; social impact of AIDS; globalization & inequality |
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-Theory, qualitative methods, sociology of religion, epistemology. |
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-Theory, epistemology, and environmental sociology. |
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-Crime and Deviance concentration. |
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-Environmental Sociology and Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods; study of human dimensions of environmental change, social movements. |
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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, Militarism, Sociology of Science, and Theory | ||
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Sex & 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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-qualitative and feminist research methods, narrative and life history interviewing | ||
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- criminology, sociology of education, stratification and juvenile delinquency | ||
| -stratification and health/health behaviors |
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-stratification/inequality, race, gender, and ethnicity - immigration, theory, teaching sociology online, using science fiction to teach sociology. |
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| -criminology, qualitative/interpretive, deviance/criminology. |
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-gender, human needs, culture and religion, and qualitative sociology. | ||
| -collective behavior, disasters, evacuation modeling | |||
| -gender socialization and program development in juvenile justice. |
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2004
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-disasters (natural, technological, and human-induced), environmental sociology, social network analysis, reseach methods, quantitative analyses | ||
| -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 | |
| -sociology of power, social construction of the environment and energy, energy policy and perceptions | |||
| -criminology, juvenile delinquency, criminal justice, quantitative methods. | |||
| -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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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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-Gender and sexualities; social theory; qualitative sociology; social movements
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| -medical sociology, bioethics, race and gender | |||
| -political activism, 'virtual' social movements, collective identity | |||
| -crime, punishment and social control; the intersection of religion
and punishment |
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-Social Psychology, Narrative, Sociocultural Linguistics, Everyday Life, Social Theory | ||
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-racial identity and race, class, and gender inequality | ||
2002
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-gender, social movements, community studies | ||
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-environmental decision making, place attachment, natural hazards | ||
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-criminology, gender, juvenile delinquency |
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-sociology of gender, family, animals & society | ||
| -social psychology, sexualities, gender | |||
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-power/empowerment, education and social change & development | ||
| -environmental sociology, energy efficiency and poverty | |||
| -criminology, violence against women, rural sociology | |||
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-Deviance, Sociology of Drugs, Qualitative Methods and Social Theory |
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-deviance, sociology of religion; New Religious Movements, and social psychology of Self & Identity | ||
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-the development of the diagnosis of and treatments for PTSD. Criminology. Researcher for LEAP program - examines gender and academia. |
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2001
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-drugs and gambling | ||
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-drugs, death penalty, crime and gender | ||
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-gender, feminist theory, feminist research methods | ||
2000
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Drugs in Society (esp. Methamphetamine); Gender and Drugs; Clandestine Meth Labs; Policing; Social Construction of Deviance; Criminological & Justice Theories.- |
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1996 and earlier
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-aging, death and dying, and gender | ||












































