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 |
