Emory Sociology Ph.D. Job Placement (1994-2009)

Emory Sociology Ph.D. Alumni (1990 to present)

Maria Amado

• Dissertation: The Strength of Strong Ties: Mexican Origin Immigrants in the Atlanta Labor Market (2003).
• Location: Guilford College (Sociology and Anthropology - Assistant Professor and Chair).

Linda Beer

• Dissertation: Income Inequality and Transnational Corporate Penetration: A Cross-National Analysis, 1975-1995 (2001).
• Location: Centers for Disease Control (HIV/AIDS).

Franziska Bieri

•  Dissertation: From Conflict Diamonds to the Kimberly Process: How NGOs Reshaped a Global Industry (2008).
• Location: North Georgia College & State University (Sociology - Assistant Professor).
  

Randy Blazak

• Dissertation: The Suburbanization of Hate: The Ethnographic Study of American Skinheads (1995).
• Location: Portland State University (Sociology - Associate Professor).

Anne Borden

• Dissertation: Making Money, Saving Souls: The Emergence and Evolution of Christian Bookstores in the United States (2006).
• Location: Morehouse College (Sociology - Visiting Assistant Professor).

Timothy Brezina

• Dissertation: Maltreatment and Delinquence: The Question of Intervening Process (1996).
• Location: Georgia State University (Criminal Justice - Associate Professor).

B. Clifford Brown

• Dissertation: Race Relations and Labor Market Conflict: Implications of the 1919 Steel Strike for the Labor Movement and Urban Racial Violence (1996).
• Location: University of New Hampshire (Sociology - Associate Professor).

John Brueggemann

• Dissertation: Realizing Solidarity: Comparative Historical Analyses of Inter-Racial Labor Organizing in the Coal, Steel, and Auto Industries, 1927-1941(1994).
• Location: Skidmore College (Sociology - Associate Professor).

Jacob Bucher

• Dissertation: The Camouflage Collar: Examining the Causes of Crime Among the Military (2009).
  
• Location: Baker University (Social Sciences - Assistant Professor).
  

Vincent Carter

• Dissertation: Existence and Persistence: The Effects of Institutional Characteristics on Persistence and Graduate Rates at Four-Year Colleges and Universities (2002).
• Location: Emory University (Office of Institutional Research - Asst Dir, Evaluation & Survey Research).

Richard Clarke

• Dissertation: Moving up in the Organization: Determinants of Promotion During Organizational Stress (1993).
• Location: Atlanta Police Department (Management Services).

Jody Clay-Warner

• Dissertation: Perceptions of Gender Bias in the Legal System: A Procedural Justice Account (1997).
• Location: University of Georgia (Sociology - Associate Professor).

James Cleghorn

• Dissertation: "This Work of Justice:" The Search for Moral Common Ground in the Authority Relations of Work (1995).

Carrie Coward Bucher

• Dissertation: You are What You Hear: The Relationship Among Race, Class, Gender, and Musical Taste (2009).
• Location: Benedictine College (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Charity Crabtree

• Dissertation: Boundary Work and Legitimating Claims Among Acupuncturists and Physicians (2009).
• Location: Emory University (Postdoctoral Fellowship for Program Development, Emeritus College).
  

Tomeka Davis

• Dissertation: Laissez Faire Education Policy: Organization and Equity in School Choice
• Location: Georgia State University (Sociology - Assistant Professor)

Nicola Dawkins

• Dissertation: Responses to Partner Abuse: Modeling the Paths to Substance Abuse, Suicide Attempts, and Retaliative Partner Violence (2001).
• Location: Macro International (Research Associate).

Clark Denny

• Dissertation: A Model of the Probability of Survival from Birth (1996).
• Location: Centers for Disease Control (Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities).

Michael Elliott

• Dissertation: A Cult of the Individual for a Global Society: The Development and Worldwide Expansion of Human Rights Ideology (2008).
• Location: Towson University (Sociology - Assistant Professor).
  

Amy Fasula

• Dissertation: Keeping the Girls "Safe" and Powerless: The Sexual Double Standard and African American Girls’ Sexual Risk (2005).
• Location: Centers for Disease Control (HIV/AIDS).

Stephanie Funk

• Dissertation: Risk Assessment for Juveniles on Probation (1997).
• Location: Hanover College, Indiana (Sociology - Assistant Professor)
  

Natasha Morgan Ganem

• Dissertation: The Role of Negative Emotion in General Strain Theory (2006).
• Location: Savannah College of Art and Design (Senior Coordinator for Assessment).

Belisa González

• Dissertation: Increasing Collaboration or Conflict: The Role of Shared Status in Cross-Racial Organizing between African American and Mexican American Women in Georgia (2006).
• Location: Ithaca College (Sociology - Assistant Professor)

Inny Ham

• Dissertation: The Effects of Economic Development, Dependence, and World System on Occupational Sex Segregation: A Cross-National Analysis (1991).
• Location: Ewah Woman's University, South Korea (Sociology).

Cynthia Hewitt

• Dissertation: Job Segregation, Ethnic Hegemony and Earnings Outcomes among African Americans in Atlanta (1997).
• Location: Morehouse College (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Cynthia Hinton

• Dissertation: The Effects of Social Forces on Professionalization: Case Studies of Genetic Counselors and Sickle Cell Counselors (2006).
• Location: Centers for Disease Control (Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities).

David Hurst

• Dissertation: The Transformation and Expansion of Higher Education in the United States from the Civil War to the Present (1998).
• Location: Centers for Disease Control (Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response).

Stuart J. Hysom

• Dissertation: An Experimental Test of the Theory of Reward Expectations (2004).
• Location: Texas A and M University (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Alma Idiart

• Dissertation: Neo-Liberal Experiments, State Reform, and Social Policy in the 1980s and the 1990s: The Cases of Argentina and Chile (2002).
• Location: University of Buenos Aires (Social Sciences – Professor).
  

Diane H. Jones

• Dissertation: Job Characteristics, Social Support and Their Impact on Perceived Health Status (1992).
• Location: United States Military Service, Germany (Instructor).

Joanne Kaufman

• Dissertation: Understanding Race and Violence: Why Life Experiences Matter (2001).
• Location: University at Albany-SUNY (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Robert Kadel

• Dissertation: Cultural Capital Advantage?: New Conclusions about Cultural Participation and High School Academic Performance (1998).
• Location: Techinnoval - Highlands Ranch, CO (Education Consultant Company - founder).
  

Nikki Khanna

• Dissertation: Living Life in Black and White: Identity Formation and Negotiation among Black-White Biracial Americans (2007).
• Location: University of Vermont (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Caitlin Killian

• Dissertation: Cultural Choices and Identity Negotiation of Muslim Maghrebin Women in France (2001).
• Location: Drew University (Sociology - Department Chair; Associate Professor).

Henry Lee III

• Dissertation: An Empirical Mathematical Model of the Expectation of Life Function (1998).
• Location: Southern Company (Financial Analyst).

Richard Lee

• Dissertation: Unitarian Universalists: Organizational Dilemmas of the Cult of the Individual (1992).
• Location: Sterling Research Group (Marketing Research - Project Manager).

Suni Lee

• Dissertation: Power, Outcomes, and Satisfaction in Exchange Relations (1991).
• Location: Ajou University, South Korea (Sociology).

Kathleen Liddle

• Dissertation: A Shop of Our Own: Feminist Bookstores in North America (2006).
• Location: University of Toronto (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Thomas A. Loya

• Dissertation: Global Prodemocracy Movements (2003).
• Location: University of Nottingham (Director, Planning & Management Information Division).

Elizabeth Macke

• Dissertation: Determinants of Contraceptive Use in Belize (1993).
• Location: University of the South (School of Theology).

Michelle Manasse

• Dissertation: Problems in a Problem-Solving Court? Overcoming Operational Obstacles in a Mental Health Court: An Organization Analysis (2005).
  
• Location: Towson University (Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice - Assistant Professor).

Kristen Marsh

• Dissertation: Compromised Revolution: A Political Economic Explanation of Negotiation (2001).
• Location: Mary Washington College (Sociology - Associate Professor).

Leslie E. Martin

• Dissertation: Who are the People in Your Neighborhood: Mobilizing in Response to Gentrification in Atlanta (2003).
• Location: Mary Washington College (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Mamamelela Matlhako

• Dissertation: The Effects of Education on Economic Growth in Southern Africa: The Cases of Botswana, South Africa, and Swaziland, 1970-1994 (2001).
• Location:  Empire State College (Brooklyn Unit - Mentor/Coordinator) and John Jay College, The City University of New York of Criminal Justice (Sociology - Part-time Faculty).

Shelley Matthews

• Dissertation: Self-Complexity and Crime: Extending General Strain Theory (2009).
  
• Location: Mississippi State University (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Lisa Meyer

• Dissertation: International Trade Liberalization and Gender Relations in Labor Markets : A Cross-National Analysis, 1970-1998 (2001).
• Location: State University of New York - Geneseo (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

John M. (Mike) McMullen

• Dissertation: The Baha'i Faith in Atlanta: On the Religious Construction of a Global Identity (1995).
• Location: University of Houston-Clear Lake (Sociology - Associate Professor).

Barret Michalec

• Dissertation: Learning to Cure but Learning to Care?  Empathy in Preclinical Medical Education (2009).
• Location: University of Delaware (Sociology & Criminal Justice - Assistant Professor).
  

Jennifer Miller-Scher

• Dissertation: Fathers' Involvement in Infant Care (1997).

Joya Misra

• Dissertation: The Emergence of Family Allowance: A Gendered Comparative-Historical Analysis of the Welfare State (1994).
• Location: University of Massachusetts - Amherst (Sociology - Associate Professor).

Tang Ng

• Dissertation: The Democratic Transition Model Revisited: World Bank, Debt, Democracy, and Welfare Effort in Neo-Liberal Context (2000).

Lisa Norman

• Dissertation: HIV Prevention among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Poly-Theoretical Approach (1998).
• Location: Kingston University, Jamaica (Instructor).

Thomas Peters

• Dissertation: Organizing the Already Organized: The Confrontation between Class Paternalism and Union Transformation (1994).
• Location: Georgia Highlands College - Floyd campus (Sociology - Associate Professor).

Sharyn Potter

• Dissertation: A Tale of Two Hospital Types: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Declining Distinction Between For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals in America (1998).
• Location: University of New Hampshire (Sociology - Associate Professor).

Brian Powell

• Dissertation: State and Regional Variation in Scholastic Aptitude Test Performance (1984).
• Location: Indiana University, Bloomington (Sociology - Professor).
  

Mohammad Rafi

• Dissertation: A Longitudinal Study of the Link between Labor Force Participation and Reproductive/Child-Care Behavior of U.S. Women (1992).
• Location: International Development Support Services, India (Research Associate).

Lauren Rauscher

• Dissertation: Work Makes Life Sweet?: Employment and Mental Health among Black, White, and Mexican-American Women
• Location: California State University (Assistant Professor).

Cesar Rebellon

• Dissertation: Status Acquisition and Delinquency : A Theoretical Foundation and Longitudinal Test (2002).
• Location: University of New Hampshire (Sociology - Assistant Professor).

Kay Shaffer

• Dissertation: Managerial Perceptions of Skills Developed or Enhanced through Volunteer Work (1994).
• Retired from Georgia State University
  

Sandra Stone

• Dissertation: Problem-Oriented Policing Approaches to Drug Enforcement: Atlanta as A Case Study (1993).
• Location: West Georgia College (Vice Chancellor for Academic Planning and Programs for the University System of Georgia).

Saswati Sunderam

• Dissertation: The Institutionalization of Gender Stratification in Contemporary Societies: A Case Study of Japan,1960-1990 (1997).
• Location: Centers for Disease Control (Reproductive Health).

Mike Sweat

• Dissertation: The Social Construction of Risk: AIDS Knowledge and Risk Perception Among the United States Population (1992).
• Location: Medical University of South Carolina (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Professor).

Kathryn A. Sweeney

• Dissertation: Negotiating Power: Power, Race and Gender Ideology in Same-Race and Interracial Marriages (2006).
• Location: Purdue University-Calumet (Behavioral Sciences - Assistant Professor).

Beth Tarasawa

• Dissertation: Fight or Flight? Immigration, Status Competition, and Language Assistance Resources in Metropolitan Atlanta (2009).
  
• Location: St. Norbert College (Department of Sociology- Assistant Professor).
  

Sherod Thaxton

• Dissertation: The Social Geometry of Death: Social Structure and Capital Punishment in Georgia, 1993-2000 (2009).
• Location: Office of the Federal Defender for the Eastern District of California (Capital Habeas Unit - Research and Writing Attorney).

Ashby Walker

• Dissertation: Creating gateways to the home circle : food, gender, and domesticity in American magazines (2007).
  
• Location: Mars Hill College, North Carolina (Department of Sociology, Chair; Assistant Professor)
  

Michelle Waters

• Dissertation: The Effects of Marital Disruption on Children: A Review, Update, and an Extension (1995).
• Location: Applied Sociology in the field of Philanthropy.
  

William Winders

• Dissertation: Welcome to the Free Market : Class Bases of U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1938-1996 (2001).
• Location: Georgia Tech (School of History, Technology & Science - Associate Professor).