Sociology Graduate Alumni: PhDs Awarded &
Placement Over the Past Decade

Chair of committee listed in parenthesis.

2006-2007

MCCARTY, PHILIP, 2007 "Mapping the Culture War: Measuring Frames in Political Debate," (J. Mohr). Post Doctoral/Researcher in the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UC Santa Barbara.

DEGIULI, FRANCESCA, 2007 "Laboring Lives: A Look at Transnational Work Practices: The Case of Eldercare Work in Italy," (R. Appelbaum, K. Bhavnani). Lecturer/Researcher in the Department of Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara.

BRYANT, KARL EDWARD, 2007 "The Politics of Pathology and the Making of Gender Identity Disorder ," (B. Schneider). Assistant Professor, Sociology and Women's Studies, State University of New York, New Paltz.

MECHLINSKI, TIMOTHY M., 2007 "Negotiation and supplication: the social, cultural, and political interactions of west African mobility control," (J. Foran & K. Bhavnani) Lecturer, Sociology Department, UCSB.

2005-2006

BRUCE, TRICIA C., 2006 "Moved Within: Voice of the Faithful as an Intra-Institutional Social Movement," (W. Roof) Research Associate, Georgetown University.

DAVIS, JOANNA, 2006, "The Scene is Dead, Long Live the Scene" Music, Identity, and the Transition to Adulthood," (D. Bielby, Cruz) Lecturer, Sociology Department.

FALCON, SYLVANNA MARTINA, 2006, "Where are the Women?" Transnational Feminist Interventions at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism," (Gordon) Lecturer, Sociology Department.

FEARON, DAVID SPENCER, 2005, "Social Enaction: How Talk-in-Interaction Constitutes Social Organization," (Lerner)

GARCIA, LORENA, 2006 "Beyond the Latina Virgin/Whore Dichotomy: Investigating the Sexual Subjectivity of Latina Youth," (D. Segura) Assistant Professor, in the Department of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago.

KLOUZAL, LINDA ANN, 2006, "Rebellious Affinities: Narratives of Community, Resistance, and Women's Participation in the Cuban Revolution (1952-1959)," (Foran)

LINTON, LARRY D., 2006, "Leaving Your Child Behind: Unassisted and Assisted Parental Leave-taking in an Infant-Toddler Daycare Center," (Lerner, Zimmerman)

MURGUIA, SALVADOR JIMENEZ, 2005, "A World According to Pana-Wave Laboratory: An Extreme Response to Globalization in Japan," (Juergensmeyer)

SHAPIRO, EVE ILANA, 2005, "The Disposable Boy Toys: Identity Transformation in a Drag King Community," (Schneider, Taylor)

2004-2005

HUGHES, GLYN, 2004, "SportCo: Branding, Management Culture, and Subjectivity in U.S.Sports Media," (Schneider) Executive Director, Common Ground Diversity Initiative, University of Richmond

JACOB, MICHELE, 2004, "An Embodied Social Problem: Understanding Diabetes on an American Indian Reservation," (Schneider) Assistant Professor, University of San Diego

JONES, SARAH, 2004, "Studying 'Success' at an 'Effective' School: How a Nationally Recognized Public School Overcomes Racial, Ethnic, and Social Boundaries and Creates a Culture of Success," (Zimmerman).

LUFT, RACHEL, 2004, "Race Training: Antiracist Workshops in a Post-Civil Rights Era," (Gordon) Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans

SAMARA, TONY, 2005, "State Security in Transition: The War on Crime in Post-Apartheid South Africa." (Gordon). Assistant Professor, George Mason University, VA.

SANDOVAL, ANNA, 2005, "Social Fear: Women's Organizations and their Experiences with Violence in Guatemala", (Foran) Assistant Professor, Simmons University

SULLIVAN, RICHARD, 2004, "Social Movement Dynamics of Labor Organizing: Transcending Market-Based Approaches to Labor Revitalization.", (Flacks) Assistant Professor, Illinois State University

WAKIN, MICHELE, 2004, "A Place to Call Home: An Ethnographic Study of Solutions to Homelessness in Santa Barbara, CA." (D.Bielby, Zimmerman). Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State College, MA.

WIDICK, RICHARD, 2004: "Trouble in the Forest: Redwood Timber Wars, Romnant Communities, and the Modern Social Imaginary," (Friedland), Lecturer, UCSB.

1999-2003
ALLAIN, Greg, 1999: "The State and Regional Development Organizations in New Brunswick, Canada (1960-1990)," (Molotch), Professor of Sociology, Universite de Moncton, Canada.

DALTON, Susan, 1999: "We are Family: Understanding the Structural Barriers to the Legal Formation of Lesbian and Gay Families in California," (Sutton).

NEVAREZ, Leonard, 1999: "The Role of the New Urban Economy in Local Politics and Philanthropy: Do Software, Entertainment, and Tourism Sectors Make a Difference?" (Molotch), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vassar College. Recipient of the 2000 Cressey Dissertation Prize.

MUTCHLER, Matt G., 1999: "Gay Youth's Sexual Stories: Encountering and Producing Sexual Politics, Masculinities, and Sexualities in the Era of AIDS," (Schneider), Assistant Professor, CSU - Dominquez Hills.

KESSLER, Judi, 1999: "North American Economic Integration, Transnational Apparel Production Networks, and Industrial Upgrading: The Southern California-Mexico Connection," (Sutton), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Monmouth College.

LATEGOLA, Amy, 1999: "Losing Faith: Failure to Mobilized a Cooperative 'Challenger' Movement in a Low-Income D.C. Neighborhood," (Appelbaum), Researcher, Housing Assistance Council, Washington D.C.

WESTON, Joan, 1999: "Comic Books, Superheroes and Boys," (D. Bielby), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ohio University.

BEAMISH, Tom, 1999: "Silent Spill: The Anatomy of a Chronic Pollution Event at the Guadalupe Dunes, California," (Molotch), Assistant Professor, UC Davis.

HARRISON, Milmon, 1999: "Name It and Claim It': The Word of Faith Movement, the 'Faith Message' and the Social Construction of Doctrinal," (Roof), Assistant Professor of African American Studies, UC Davis.

WHEELER, Britta, 2000: "The Institutionalization of the Avant-Garde: Performance Art 1970-2000," (D. Bielby), Senior Instructor, General Education and Fashion Design, Art Institute of New York City, NY.

GUERRA-PEARSON, Francesca, 2000: "'The Chief Ornaments of a Christian Metropolis': Charitable, Moral, and Benevolent Institution Building in New York City, 1736-1920," (Mohr).

REED, Jean Pierre, 2000: "Revolutionary Subjectivity: Eventful, Cultural, and Ideological Explanations in the Nicaraguan Revolution," (Foran), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Memphis.

SHAYNE, Julie, 2000: "'The Revolution Question': Feminism in Cuba, Chile, and El Salvador Compared, 1952-1999," (Foran), Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and Sociology, Emory College.

JACKSON, Shirley, 2000: "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves: The Activism of African American Women in Contemporary African American Women's Organizations," (Segura), Associate Professor of Sociology, Southern Connecticut State University.

PAULSEN, Krista, 2000: "Fairgrounds as Battlegrounds: Preserving Cultural Institutions in Changing Communities," (Molotch), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Florida.

HA, Frank, 2000: "Facework and Embarrassment in Social Interaction," (Baldwin), Lecturer, Moorpark College.

JOHL, Valgeet, 2001: "Odd Couples: A Study of Interpersonal Interaction in Private and Public Realms," (Molotch).

GESCH, Marilyn, 2001: "'Body Politics' in the Body Politic: AIDS, Sexuality, and the Religious Right," (Schneider).

ZUGMAN, Kara, 2001: "Mexican Awakening in Postcolonial America: Zapatista in Urban Spaces in Mexico City," (Foran), Assistant Professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

CHUA, Peter, 2001: "Condom Matters and Social Inequalities: Inquiries into Condom Production, Exchange and Advocacy Practices," (Bhavnani), Assistant Professor, Sociology, San Jose State University.

CORDERO, Jonathan, 2001: "Irreverent Visions: The Cultural, Political and Religious Uses of Sacrilege," (Cruz, Mohr), Assistant Professor of Sociology, California Lutheran University.

VANDEGRIFT, Darcie, 2001: "Paradise Under Development: Memory and Social Inequality in a Costa Rican South Caribbean Tourist Town," (Gordon), Assistant Professor, Sociology, Drake University.

PEÑA, SUSANA, 2002: "Visibility and Silence: Cuban American Gay Male Culture in Miami," (Gordon), Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green University.

HECHTMAN, TODD, 2002: "Searching for Generation X: Defining College Student Identities in the 1990s," (Flacks), Assistant Professor, Sociology, Eastern Washington University.

LOE, MEIKA, 2002: "(De)Constructing Viagra: Claims, Markets and the Science of Sex," (Schneider), Assistant Professor, Sociology, Colgate University.

TAYLOR, JUDY, 2002: "Activist Bureaucrats: A Study of the People Who Turn Movement Ideals into Institutional Logics," (Flacks, Schneider), Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto.

CARRUYO, LIGHT, 2002: "Forest Politics, Gendered Subjects: Local Knowledge and the Negotiated Meanings of Development in Rural Dominican Republic," (Bhavnani, Foran), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Vassar College.

COLLINS, DANA, 2002: "Laboring Districts, Pleasuring Sites: Hospitality, 'Gay' Life, and the Production of Urban Sexual Space in Manila," (Bhavnani), Assistant Professor, University of Missouri at Kansas City.

TORRES, ALICIA, 2002: "Parting Company: The Social and Organizational Process of Downsizing," (Duneier/W. Bielby), Assistant Professor, George Washington University.

LOU, DEBORAH, 2003: "Gay/Lesbian-Straight Relations and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Construction of 'Positive' Gayness in Hillcrest, (Schneider).

OVERMYER-VELÁZQUEZ, REBECCA, 2003: "Indian, Nation, and State in Guerrero, Mexico," (Gordon), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Whittier College.

GARDINALI, PAOLO, 2003: "Open Source: Digital Communities and the New Economy of Information," (Mohr), Associate Director, Social Science Survey Center, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, UCSB.

KOLLMEYER, CHRISTOPHER, 2003: "Globalization and Class Compromise: Political Change in 15 Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1980-1999," (Appelbaum), Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.

KIDWELL, MARDI, 2003: " 'Organizing Trouble': Gaze in Interactions Between Very Young Children and Caregivers, " (Lerner), Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, University of New Hampshire.

WARD, E. JANE, 2003: "Beyond the Rainbow: Diversity and Inequality in Lesbian and Gay Organizations," (Schneider), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside.

1996-1998
GOTO, Masayuki, 1996: "George H. Mead: A Text Database Analysis of His Writings," (Baldwin), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Seijo University, Japan.

WYSOCKI, Diane, 1996: "Somewhere Over the Modem: Interpersonal Relationships and Computer Bulletin Boards," (Schneider), Professor of Sociology and Director of Women???s Studies, University of Nebraska, Kearny.

ELY, John, 1996: "Inside-Out: Halfway House Staff Management of Punishment and Empathy on the Ambiguous Boundary Between Prison and the 'Outside'," (Sutton), Associate Professor of Sociology, St. Mary's College.

TREPAGNIER, Barbara, 1996: "Silent Racism in White Women," (Bhavnani), Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas State University at San Marcos.

KING, Neal, 1996: "Real Men: Cop Action and the Moral Logic of 'Losing Ground," (Fenstermaker), Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech University.

FEE, Dwight, 1996: "Coming Over: Friendship Between Straight and Gay Men," (Molotch), Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College, Vermont.

GRINDSTAFF, Laura, 1996: "Airing Dirty Laundry: Behind the Scenes of a Daytime Televeision Talkshow," (Molotch), Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis.

HUFFMAN, Matt, 1997: "Organizations, Internal Labor Markets, and the Structure of Gender Inequality in U.S. Firms," (Bielby/Wong), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine.

MONTELL, Frances, 1998: "Women and Sex Talk: Popular Culture and Normative Sexuality," (Cruz).

SCOTT, Greg, 1998: "Sewing with Dignity: Class Struggle and Ethnic Conflict in the Los Angeles Garment Industry," (Appelbaum), Assistant Professor of Sociology, DePaul University.

BANDY, Joe, 1998: "Border Crossings: Transnational Movements for Alternative Development and Radical Democracy in the US-Mexico Border Region," (Foran), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bowdoin College.

STARR, Amory, 1998: "Naming the Enemy: The Emergence of an International Anti-Corporate Social Movement," (Flacks), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Chapman University.

VELASCO, Steven, 1998: "Work Values: Sources of Variation and Consequences for Earnings Inequality Between Men and Women," (W. Bielby), Director, Institutional Research, Budget & Planning, UC Santa Barbara.

1994-1995

QUEST, Carol, 1994: "Each in Her Own Way: Women's Adaptation to Divorce," (Shibutani).

DO, HIEN DUC, 1994: "The New Outsiders: Vietnamese Students in Higher Education," (Flacks), Associate Professor of Sociology, San Jose State University.

SCRIVEN, Paul, 1994: "The Story of the ACA: Is There Such a Person?" (Shibutani).

GRATTET, T. Ryken, 1994: "Legal Metamorphosis: Source of Legal Institutional Transformation in Progressive America," (Sutton), Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis. Recipient of the 1997 Cressey Dissertation Prize.

WILLIAMS, Denise, 1994: "Never Again Will Our Differences Convert Us Into Enemies: An Interactionist Perspective on Coalition Negotiations in Chile," (Shibutani), Assistant Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, California State University, Domingez Hills.

DONAHUE, Karen, 1995: "Radiologic Technologist: Alienation and Deskilling in a `High Technology' Profession," (Appelbaum), Assistant Professor, University of LaVerne.

NIDEFFER, Robert, 1995: "Bodies, No-Bodies, and Anti-Bodies at War: Operation Desert Storm and the Politics of the 'Real'," (Molotch), Associate Professor of Studio Art and Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

CHRISTERSON, Bradley, 1995: "Rags and Riches: The Organization and Location of Production in the Global Apparel Industry," (Appelbaum), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Biola College.

FEHER, Shoshanah
, 1995: "Passing Over Easter: Constructing the Boundaries of Messianic Judaism," (Sutton).

MCCAUGHEY, Martha, 1995: "Physical Feminism: An Ethnographic Study of the North American Women's Self-Defense Movement and Its Transformation of Gender Ideology," (Gordon), Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies, Appalachian State University.

DOLNY, H. Michael, 1995: "Patriotism and War Support During the Persian Gulf War," (Flacks).

 


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