Former Doctoral Students (Current Employment) and Dissertation Title


Lisa Ransdell
(Dean of Liberal Arts and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO.)
1990. "Postpartum Depression and the Medicalization of Motherhood: A Comparison of Lay and Professional Views."

Nancy Elaine Whittier
(Associate Professor of Sociology, Smith College, Northampton, MA.)
1991. "Feminists in the 'Post-Feminist' Age: Collective Identity and the Persistence of the Women's Movement."

Phyllis Gorman
(Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Manager, Ohio Department of Administrative Services; and Lecturer in Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)
1992. "The Ohio AIDS Movement: Competition and Cooperation between Grassroots Activists and Professionally Sponsored Organizations."

Kelly A. McCormick
(Executive Director of MOMAZONS, Columbus, OH)
1992. "Moms Without Dads: Women Choosing Children."

Patricia Gagne
(Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.)
1993. "The Battered Women's Movement in the 'Post-Feminist' Era: New Social Movement Strategies and the Celeste Clemencies."

Mary Elizabeth Krouse
(Associate Professor of Sociology, Oho University, Athens, OH.)
1993. "Gift Giving and Social Transformation: The Aids Memorial Quilt as Social Movement Culture."

Martha A. Schmidt
(Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate of the Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.)
1993. "Emotion, Identity, and Social Movements: The Effects of Jeffrey Dahmer's Serial Killings on Milwaukee's Lesbian and Gay Community."

Andre Arianrhodd Levi
(Reference Department, Columbus Public Library, Columbus, OH)
1996. "Feminist Reconstructions of Identity in a Self-Help Program: A Study of Two Social Movement Organizations for Incest Survivors."

Jo Reger
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY)
1997. "Social Movement Culture and Organizational Survival in the National Organization for Women."

Melinda Goldner
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Union College, Schenectady, NY)
1998. "Explaining the Success of the Alternative Health Care Movement: How Integrative Medicine is Expanding Western Medicine."

Kimberly Dugan
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT)
1999. "Culture and Movement-Countermovement Dynamics: The Struggle over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights."

Nicole C. Raeburn
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA)
2000. "The Rise of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights in the Workplace."

Jessica Maguire
( Chief Financial Officer, FrogNet, Athens, OH)
2002. "Ecstatic Pain and A labor of Love: Emotive Praxis of the Midwifery Movement."

Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Memphis, Memphis TN)
2002. "Nation-Building in Post-Aparthied South Africa: Transforming Gender and Race Relations through Sports."

Elizabeth Kaminsky.
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT )
2003. "Listening to Drag: Music, Performance, and the Construction of Oppositional Culture."