RECENTLY CONFERRED (2006-2012)
DAN MORRISON
PHD DATE: 2012; ADVISOR: Laura Carpenter
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Body, Self, Device: Nonhuman Objects and Human Identity"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor at Pepperdine University
YANG GAO
PHD DATE: 2012; ADVISOR: Steven Tepper
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "TV Talk: American Television, Chinese Audiences and the Pursuit of an Authentic Self"
CURRENT POSITION: Lecturer at Vanderbilt University
DAMIAN WILLIAMS
PHD DATE: 2010; ADVISOR: Richard Lloyd
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Down and Out in Music City: The Urban Structuration of Homelessness"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor at Concordia College
HARMONY NEWMAN
PHD DATE: 2010; ADVISOR: Laura Carpenter
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Constructions of Risk: Strategic Framing in Breastfeeding Discourses"
CURRENT POSITION: Adjunct Professor at Tulane University and University of New Orleans
HAIHONG WANG
PHD DATE: 2009; ADVISOR: Dan Cornfield
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: " 'I Love You, So I Choose to Not Be with You' : The Practice of Transnational Parenting among Chinese Immigrants"
CURRENT POSITION: Research Associate at Cygnus Applied Research
LYNDI HEWITT
PHD DATE: 2009; ADVISOR: Holly McCammon
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "The Politics of Transnational Feminist Discourse: Framing Across Differences, Building Solidarities"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University
EMILY TANNER-SMITH
PHD DATE: 2009; ADVISOR: Tony Brown
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Pubertal Development and Substance Use Among Adolescent Girls: The Importance of Social Interactions and Social Context"
CURRENT POSITION: Research Associate at the Vanderbilt Peabody Institute
LAURIE WOODS
PHD DATE: 2008; ADVISOR: Gary Jensen
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Sometimes It's Personal: Hate Crime Prosecution in California"
CURRENT POSITION: Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University
COURTNEY MUSE
PHD DATE: 2008; ADVISOR: Holly McCammon
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Elephant in the Room: Organizational Framing and Personal and Collective Identity Conflicts Resolution Among Log Cabin Republicans"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Director, Center for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University
SOMA CHAUDHURI
PHD DATE: 2008; ADVISOR: Gary Jensen
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Tempest in a Tea-Pot: an Analysis of Contemporary Witch Hunts in the Tea Plantations of India"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University
SHEILA KATZ
PHD DATE: 2008; ADVISOR: Karen Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: Pursuing a 'Reformed' Dream: CalWORKS Mothers in Higher Education after Ending Welfare as We Know It"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University
GEORGE SANDERS
PHD DATE: 2008; ADVISOR: Jennifer Lena
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Late Capital: Negotiating a New American Way of Death"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University
HEATHER TALLEY
PHD DATE: 2008; ADVISOR: Monica Casper
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Face Work: Cultural, Technical, and Surgical Interventions for Facial 'Disfigurement' "
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina University
JOSHUA PACKARD
PHD DATE: 2008; ADVISOR: Richard Pitt
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Organizational Structure, Religious Belief, and Resistance: The Emerging Church"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Midwestern State University
TERESA TERRELL
PHD DATE: 2007; ADVISOR: Holly McCammon
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "We Live Here and We Don't Think It's a Bad Neighborhood: How Leadership Influences Participation in Birmingham's Inner-City, African-American Neighborhood Associations"
CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Alabama in Huntsville
ASHLEY THOMPSON
PHD DATE: 2007; ADVISOR: Gary Jensen
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Southern Identity: The Meaning, Practice and Importance of a Regional Identity"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor at Lynchburg College
SHELBY PANNELL
PHD DATE: 2007; ADVISOR: Laura Carpenter
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Mothers and Daughters: The Creation and Contestation of Beauty and Femininity"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Belmont University
ALICIA BONAPARTE
PHD DATE: 2007; ADVISOR: Karen Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "The Persecution and Prosecution of Granny Midwives in South Carolina, 1900-1940"
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College
MARIA TEMPENIS SHELLEY
PHD DATE: 2007; ADVISOR: George Becker
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Take It Like a Man: A Study of Men's Emotional Culture"
STEVE LEE
PHD DATE: 2007; ADVISOR: Daniel Cornfield
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Musical Stratification: Explaining the Aesthetic Mobility of Music Genres"
CURRENT POSITION: Adjunct Professor of Sociolgoy at Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences; Institutional Research Analyst for the Institutional Research Office at Chapman University
GABRIELLE CHAPMAN
PHD DATE: 2007; ADVISORS: Gary Jensen and Walter Gove
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "The Application of Theory to Intervention: The Intersection of Theories of Deviance and Juvenile Delinquency Intervention Programs?
CURRENT POSITION: Research Associate at Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies; also, criminal justice consultant
AMY STINTON
PHD DATE: 2006; ADVISOR: Gary Jensen
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "The Causes and Consequences of Running Away: What Difference Does Gender Make?"
KEN SPRING
PHD DATE: 2006; ADVISORS: Gary Jensen and Richard Peterson
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "The Regularization of Risk in Music Scenes"
CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology Department Chair, Associate Dean School of Social Sciences at Belmont University
LYNN HAMPTON
PHD DATE: 2006; ADVISOR: Daniel Cornfield
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Crossing Boundaries and Bridging Barriers: The Socio-Cultural Processes that Foster the Formation of Social Capital for Youth."
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middle Tennessee State University
CHRISTINE MOWERY
PHD DATE: 2006; ADVISOR: Karen Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "A Re-examination of the Resource Mobilization Framework: The Impact of National Resources on State Suffrage Outcomes."
CURRENT POSITION: Visiting Lecturer of Sociology at University of Richmond
CONFERRED (2003 - 2005)
RANAE EVENSON
PHD DATE: 2005; ADVISOR: Peggy Thoits and Karen Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Adolescent Identity Processes and Mental Health."
CYNTHIA GANOTE
PHD DATE: 2004; ADVISOR: Laura Carpenter
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Hopeful Action: A Qualitative Explication of Social Capital Processes Utilized for Neighborhood-Based Social Change."
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Mary's College of California
MARY ELLEN HILL
PHD DATE: 2003; ADVISOR: Peggy Thoits
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: “How Support Groups Work: Exploring the Role of Support Groups as a Community-Based Response for Cancer Patients in Northern Ontario.”
CURRENT POSITION: Senior Researcher at The Center for Rural and Northern Health Research in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
PAMELA HULL
PHD DATE: 2004; ADVISORS: Walter Gove and Karen Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Race, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Effects on Adolescent Well-Being."
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Medicine (Epidimology) at Vanderbilt University
MARY KARPOS
PHD DATE: 2003; ADVISOR: Gary Jensen
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Determinants of the Uniform Crime Report Rape Rate: Organizational Influences on the Founding Process."
CURRENT POSITION: Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University
JANELLE LEE
PHD DATE: 2004; ADVISOR: Peggy Thoits
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Chinese American Female Identity."
BETTY MCCALL
PHD DATE: 2004; ADVISOR: Daniel Cornfield
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Client Ascendancy: The Impact of Patient Characteristics on Physician Income."
CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Sociology at Lycoming College
ROSIE NOBLE
PHD DATE: 2003; ADVISOR: Gary Jensen
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Race Matters: Black Rage in the American Prison System."
CURRENT POSITION: Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University; Tennessee Higher Education Commission - Director of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
MELISSA SLOAN
PHD DATE: 2005; ADVISOR: Karen Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "There Is No Happiness at Work!": The Performance and Consequences of Emotion Management in the Workplace."
CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee
CARRIE LEE SMITH
PHD DATE: 2004; ADVISOR: Karen Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Women's Work or Medical Work?: The Role of Empathy in Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Claims of Expertise."
CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Sociology at Millersville State University
TERRIE SPETALNICK
PHD DATE: 2005; ADVISOR: Holly McCammon
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "When Can Citizen Agents Influence Policy? A Time-Series Regression Analysis of Advocacy Groups' Efforts to Increase U.S. Federal Monetary Support of Child Care, 1964-2001."
CURRENT POSITION: Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University
KOJI UENO
PHD DATE: 2004; ADVISOR: Karen Campbell and Peggy Thoits
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Friendship Integration and Adolescent Mental Health."
CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida State University
LORI WESTPHAL
PHD DATE: 2004; ADVISOR: Peggy Thoits
DISSERTATION TITLE/TOPIC: "Cancer Support Groups as Subcultural Phenomena."
CURRENT POSITION: Program Evaluator, Tobacco Prevention Program, Florida Deparment of Health
