Alumni Dissertations and Employment (1995 to Present)

 

Year Author Dissertation Title Current Employment
2012 Shashi Gayadeen Ritualizing Social Problems: Intermediaries in the Institutionalization of Anti-Hazing Legislation Buffalo State College, Assistant Professor
2012 Cassi Meyerhoffer What's Race Got to Do With It?  An In-depth Analysis of Neighborhood Preferences and Residential Segregation Southern Connecticut State Univ, Assistant Professor
2012 Philip Veliz The Role of Interscholastic Sport in Public High Schools: A Zero-Sum Game or a Bridge to Success? Univ of Michigan’s Substance    Abuse Research Ctr, post doc
2011 Hatsuki Higashida Spouse Effects on Economic Assimilation among Foreign-Born Men and Women: Analyses on Marital Returns  
2011 Laverne McQuiller Williams Sex in the City: an Examination of Routine Activities Theory in Rochester, NY RIT / Dept of Criminal Justice - chair, assistant professor
2011 James Ross Is it in Their Best Interest? The Relationship of Courtroom Workgroup Members' Observed Behaviors to Case Processing in a New York Family Court SUNY/Brockport - Pre-Law Program – director, assistant professor
2011 Chad Sexton The Impact of Strain on Hate Crime: Testing Agnew’s Macro-Level General Strain Theory SUNY/Fredonia – Dept of Sociology – adjunct professor
2011 Yi-Ping Shih Raising an International child: Parenting, Class, and Social Boundaries in Taiwan Sociology Institute in Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Post Doc 
2011 Robert Slammon deCode: Genomics, anonymity, and Informatic Control University of Pittsburgh – Dept of Sociology – adjunct professor
2010 Thomas Hanford

Oil City: Landscapes of Resistance in Urban Development

SUNY/Cortland, Administration
2010 Mary Matteliano

How Professional Socialization and Practice Characteristics Shape Culturally Competent Care

SUNY/Buffalo Rehabilitation Sciences, Clinical Assistant Prof
2010 Jennifer McCormick

Women and the Wage Gap:  Examining the Association Between Women's Commitment to Work and Earnings

Trocaire College – Dept of Criminal Justice – assistant professor
2010 Carolyn Storms

"There's No Sorry in Roller Derby": A Feminist Examination of the Collective Identity Formation of Women in the Full Contact Sport of Roller Derby

SUNY/Brockport – adjunct professor
2009 Nancy Maroun Participatory Development Approach Impact on Reconciliation Process at the Local Level in Post-Civil-Conflict Societies:  A Field Study of a Lebanese Village Canisius College, Buffalo State College - lecturer
2009 Jonathan Trinidad Role Resourcefulness and the Working Student Crisis: Rethinking Identity Theory and Resource Perspective as Complimentary Frameworks Point Loma Nazarene University – Dept of Sociology – assistant professors
2008 Elizabeth Gage Socioeconomic Status and Family Adaptation to Pediatric Cancer SUNY/Buffalo - Dept of Community Health and Health Behavior – assistant professor
2008 Jongyun Kim Adjustment Problems Among Korean Elderly Immigrants in New York Joint Center for Policy Research
2008 Patricia Neff Raising an ADHD Child:  An Examination of Maternal Well-Being in Canada and the United States Buffalo State College
2007 Cindy Cooper A City Foreclosed: Mortgage Default, Residential Abandonment and Property Code Enforcement in Buffalo, New York City of Buffalo, Assistant Corporation Counsel
2007 Miki Iida More Polite/Less Polite:  The Relative Degree of Politeness in Japanese Interaction Ritsumeikan University
2007 Kimberly McGann Thieves, Thugs, and Thirst:  Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina Nazareth College
2007 Paulette Niewczyk Health Care Disparities in Buffalo, New York: The Intersections of Individual and Community Level Factors Daemen College
2007 Kathy Pierino An Analysis of Women's Role in Society, Work Organizations and Policing: The Impact of Tokenism on Social and Personal Life Hilbert College
2007 Haixia Wang Family Functioning and Adolescent Adaptation Outcomes:  A Comparative Study of Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status Institute for Children and Poverty
2006 Diane Bessel The Role of Results Oriented Management in Reshaping Homeless Assistance In Western New York United Way of Buffalo and Erie County
2006 Danis Gehl Love the Place You Live: The Effect of Student Transients and College Embeddedness on Perceptions of Neighborhood Stability and Safety SUNY/Buffalo
2006 Babak Mohassel State Regime Haunting: Resonance and Deterritorialization Bloomsburg University
2006 Letitia Thomas Pathways to Success or Failure: Factors Affecting Academic Achievement Among Black Students SUNY/Buffalo
2005 David Blake Juvenile Justice and the Regulation of Parental Control St. Bonaventure
2005 Paul Fuller Stabilizing Attention Deficit Disorder St. John Fisher
2005 Joyce Joyce The Impact of Marital Status on the Economic Well-Being of Women in Later Life St. Bonaventure
2005 Timothy McCorry Parental Control: Gender and Delinquency in Patriarchal and Non-Patriarchal Households, A Qualitative Assessment Buffalo State College
2005 Melissa Menasco A Reconsideration of Social Control Theory: Understanding the Interwoven Nature of the Social Bond, Academic Performance and Juvenile Delinquency SUNY/Buffalo
2005 Xinwei Miao Neighborhood Effects and Teenage Childbearing in New York City New York City Comptroller Office
2005 Daniel Webb Urban Stall: Development Failure in Buffalo and Western New York from 1980 to 2004 Ciurczak and Co.
2005 Christina Weber Historical Trauma: The Case of Children of Vietnam Veterans North Dakota State
2004 Kim Cattat The Impact of Parental Resource Dilution and Older Sibling Modeling on Younger Sibling Deviance SUNY/Brockport
2004 Kuo-Pin Hsieh Exploring the Variations in the Persistence of Ethnic Identity: Comparing Plains Aborigines in Two Taiwanese Communities Hsing-Kuo University
2004 En-Ling Pan Ethnic Variations in the Effects of Single-Mother Families and Support Networks on Adolescent Functioning and Behavior Academia Sinica
2004 Kurt Reymers Can Communitarianism Exist Online? The Case of typy2k SUNY/Morrisville
2004 Erin Robinson-Caskie Framing the Environment: The Development of Community Action in Response to Community Contamination Canisius College
2004 Li-Hua Yang A Cross-Cultural Analysis on Stability and Change Among Sex Offenders in Taiwan: An Empirical Examination of the Life-Course Husan Chuang University
2003 Hangwoo Lee Implosion and the Internet:  Virtual Interactivity and Interactive Virtuality in a Usernet Newsgroup Chungbuk National University
2002 Amy Hequembourg Territories of Lesbian Motherhood: Meanings in Flux Research Institute on Addictions
2002 Jeong-Gyu Kim The Mechanism of Power and Control on Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Explaining Variation of Parental Control, Religiosity, Delinquent Peers and Delinquency Pohang College
2002 Richard Mancuso Effects of Lifespan Childhood and Partner Victimization on Women's Drug-Related Problems and Drug-Related Lifestyle Activities SUNY/Buffalo
2002 Minjoo Oh Beyond Containment and Stability: Eating Practices and Identity in a Hetrotopic Field University of Mississippi
2002 Patricia Tweet Where Global Meets Local: Multinational Corporations, Nonprofit Organizations and Local Civil Society in Rochester, New York SUNY/Brockport
2002 Lisa Zurn The Effects of Competitive Level, Gymnastic-Related Stress, Coaching Style, and Team Cohesion on Disordered Eating Patterns in Females Young Presidents Organization
2001 Sara Brallier Provision of Instrumental Support to Elderly Persons by Their Adult Children Coastal Carolina College
2001 Neil Wieloch The Social Movement of Harm Reduction: Processes, Power and the Subject of the Drug User Utah State University
2000 Suzette Cote Modernity, Risk, and Contemporary Crime Control Strategies as Risk Management: An Analysis of Sex Offender Statutes and the Shift Toward a Risk Society California State University, Sacramento
2000 Chigon Kim Economic Restructuring, Flexible Employment Practices and Contingent Workers: Socio-Spatial Configurations of Labor Market Flexibility University of Dayton
2000 George Siefert Bureaucratic Accretion and Administrative Expansion in American Colleges and Universities Daemen College
1999 Venessa Garcia The Political Economy and Myths of Juvenile Justice Systems Kean University
1999 Gilbert Klajman Authoritarianism and the Sex-Power Interaction Montclair College
1999 Deborah Bucki The Formation of St. Joseph Intercommunity Hospital as a Reflection of Ethnic Assimilation Director, Polish Arts Club
1998 Janice Clifford The Effects of Parental Divorce on Adult Marital Quality and Stability Auburn University
1998 Kathryn Hausbeck Spectral Feminism: Analyzing Postfeminism 1981-1992 University of Nevada / Las Vegas
1998 George Patterson The Effects of Social Factors, Socialization, and Coping on the Psychological Distress Among Police Officers New York University
1997 Cheryl Albers The Professionalization of Family Child Care: A Social World Analysis of the Segmentation of an Occupation Buffalo State College
1997 Dene Dann The Impact of Stigma and Labeling as a Social Response to Deviance on the Resocialization of the Traumatic Brain-Injured Individual SUNY/Buffalo
1996 Chrstine Dietz Images of Non-Heterosexuals in Social Work Discourse: A Content Analysis of Social Work University of New England
1996 Joomyong Hahn Personal and Relational Resources, Social Support, and Mental Health of the Elderly in Korea Employed in Korea
1996 Kathleen Miller Fertility Intentions of Married Parents: A Rational Choice Analysis Research Institute on Addictions
1996 Jong Woo Park Resources and Adjustment in Later Life: A Case Study of the Korean Elderly in Los Angeles Kyungbuk University
1996 Caroline Patchel Diverting Status Offenders: The Effects of Legislative Change on Case Processing in Two Counties Buffalo State College
1996 Amy Pienta Labor Force Behavior of Married Women in Later Life University of Michigan
1995 Joni Boye-Beaman The Intergenerational Transmission of Physical Aggression: The Social Learning Model Saginaw Valley State University
1995 Susan Bullers Women's Employment and Perceived Control University of North Carolina, Wilmington
1995 Xiaogang Deng Toward an Integrated Theory of Crime: An Empirical Study of Shoplifting Behavior University of Massachusetts
1995 Stephanie McSpirit Agrarian Change and Peasant Revolution in El Salvador and Guatemala University of Eastern Kentucky