CURRICULUM

Dissertation titles

Representative dissertations, completed or in progress, from the Social Policy Ph.D. Programs:

Government & Social Policy

Traci Burch (Ph.D., 2007), "Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy."

Michael Fortner, "Must Differences Divide?: The Institutional Roots of Racial Politics."

Benjamin Goodrich, "Integrating Political Sociology into the Political Economy of the Welfare State."

Jason Lakin, "Slouching Toward Equality: The Politics of Health Reform in Developing Countries."

Ryan T. Moore, "Essays in Statistical Design and Analysis for Social Policy."

Daniel Schlozman, "Building Marjorities: Parties, Anchoring Groups, and Electoral Coalitions."

Francis X. Shen, "Putting a Price on Rape: The Politics of Civil Prosecution."

Vesla Mae Weaver (Ph.D., 2007), "Frontlash: Race and the Politics of Punishment."

Martin R. West (Ph.D., 2006), "The Origins and Consequences of Public Sector Collective Bargaining."

Jesse Bradford, "American Muslims in the Aftermath of 9/11."

Andrew Clarkwest (Ph.D., 2005), "What's History Got to Do With It? Change and Continuity in African American Marital Disruption from Reconstruction to the Present."

Cybelle Fox (Ph.D., 2007), "The Boundaries of Social Citizenship: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State, 1900-1950 ."

Sarah Halpern-Meekin, "A Relationship Legacy: The Intergenerational Transmission of Marriage and Divorce."

David J. Harding (Ph.D., 2005), "Why Neighborhoods Matter: Structural and Cultural Influences on Adolescents in Poor Communities."

Matissa Hollister (Ph.D., 2006), "Escaping Poverty in the New Economy: Careers and Intergenerational Mobility Among Two Cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys."

Helen B. Marrow (Ph.D., 2007), "Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural and Small-Town U.S. South."

Jal Mehta (Ph.D., 2006), "The Transformation of American Educational Policy: Ideas and the Rise of Accountability Politics."

Richard Mora, "Latino Boys and Masculinity."

Bikila Ochoa, "Of Worldviews, Norms, and Juvenile Offender Re-entry."

Melanie Penny, "The Perceptual Bases of Social Organization."

Maria Rendón, "Transition Out of School and Into Young Adulthood: The Role of Neighborhoods in Education and Work Outcomes of Mexican American Youth."

Wendy Roth (Ph.D., 2006), "Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans’ and Puerto Ricans’ Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility."

Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D., 2007), "The Enduring Inequality of Race and Place: Racial Inequality in the Neighborhood Environment Over the Life Course and Across Generations."

Jennifer Sykes McLaughlin, "Paychecks and Parenting: Heterogeneity in Working Class Childrearing Strategies."

Laura Tach, "Beyond Concentrated Poverty: Economic Heterogeneity in America's Neighborhoods,"

Christopher Wimer (Ph.D., 2007) "Successful Childrearing in Diverse Neighborhood Environments: Understanding the Role of Secure, Stable Employment."

Scott Winship, "Effects of Family Structure on Child Outcomes."

Daniyal Zuberi (Ph.D., 2004), "Differences That Matter: The Impact of Social Policy on the Working Poor in Canada and the U.S."