PhD in Sociology

PhD in Sociology

Her study is based in an Ayahuasca treatment center in the Peruvian jungle, where she was in residence as a researcher for nearly two years. In her analysis, plant medicine opens onto broad questions about Western conceptions of both 'sickness' and 'healing.' She interrogates the individualist assumptions that produce the 'pathologies' and the treatments associated with psychopharmacology and other modalities now typical in Western mental health practice.

PhD in Sociology

According to faculty, Petty is "an exemplary scholar and citizen of the program."

Dissertation Title: Deliberating Diversity: Race and Gender in FCC Ownership Debates, 2007-2011

Dissertation Title: Making #BlackLivesMatter: A Social Media Ethnography of Cultural Trauma

Dissertation Title: Stewards of the Kingdom: Christianity and Neoliberalism

Dissertation Title: Gender, Group Solidarity, Group Conflict, and the Civic Engagement of Iranian Americans

Dissertation Title: Missing Voices: Participants' Narratives of the National Park Service's Summer in the Parks Program [1968-1976]

Dissertation Title: Generating Solidarity: The Playful Politics of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dissertation Title: Reluctant Radicals: from Democratic Aspiration to Violent Conspiration in the Wake of Egypt’s Arab Spring

Dissertation Title: The Transformation of “Capacity” in International Development: US AID and the Rise of Transnational Militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1977-2017)

Dissertation Title: Popular Power, Agency, and Communes in Venezuela

Dissertation Title: Defining Bullying: A Split-Ballot Survey Experiment

How car-lovers are helping communities

December 2017 graduate Virginia D’Antonio studied Corvette clubs and how they are reengaging community members.

Dissertation Title: Social Perceptions Matter: Exploring Factors that Influence Perceived Community HIV/AIDS Stigma amongst Black, White, and Hispanic Men Who Have Sex with Men

Dissertation Title: Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change: A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-In, and Personal Carbon Footprints

Dissertation Title: School Reform, Care Work, and Social Reproduction in Two Public Elementary Schools

Randy Lynn is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and the founder of the Few Years' Resolution initiative (www.fewyearsresolution.com). His work has been published in academic books and journals, and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Dissertation Title: Racialized Microaggressions, Internalized and Intersecting Oppressions, and Identity Negotiation among Students of Color at a Predominately White University in the US Southeast

Dissertation Title: The Transformation of Ethnic Conflict and Identity in Syria

Dissertation Title: Underrepresented Minority Students in Urban School Districts: A Study of Technology Use and Student Academic Performance in Math Grades Four and Eight

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montgomery College

Dissertation Title: Contextualizing the Support Systems of Single Mothers in College: Facilitating Critical Feminist Analysis Using Mixed Methods

Sara Moore is a tenure-track faculty in the Department of Sociology at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.