PhD in Sociology

Jeffrey L Johnson, 2016

Jeffrey L Johnson
  • Dissertation: examines the interaction of social movement communication and the social structure of media, asking how social movement actors move claims into the public sphere in an era of personalized digital media.
  • Published in Symbolic Interaction: Johnson, J.L. and Amy L. Best. 2012. “Radical Normals: The Moral Career of Straight Parents as Public Advocates for their Gay Children.” Symbolic Interaction 35:3 (321-339).
  • 2011: GMU Outstanding Sociology Graduate Student Award.
  • 2011: winner of the Irene B. Taeuber Graduate Student Paper Award from the District of Columbia Sociological Society.