Dissertations
Dissertations are listed by award year then alphabetically by last name.
| Year | Name | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Bascunan-Wiley, Nick | Sensing Palestine in Chile: Mobility, Belonging, and Power in the Comida Árabe Foodscape |
| 2024 | Brandt, Emma | Media Metaphors: The Politics of News Consumption in Serbia |
| 2024 | Cornejo Casares, Oscar | The Life and the Afterlife of Migrant Illegality |
| 2024 | Ge, Hongjia | My Turn to Shine: Diversity in Chinese Local States’ Abilities and Their Unexpected Developmental Successes |
| 2024 | Pass, Kenneth | HIV Apartheid: Black Politics and the Fight Against Health Inequities |
| 2024 | Song, Qi | Platform Economy in Emerging-Market China: State-Corporate Relations, Market Reorganization, and Worker Welfare |
| 2024 | Urwasi, Kadek Wara | Interests, Power, and Ideas: The Politics of Urban Informality Governance in Jakarta, 1945-2022 |
| 2024 | Wiggs, Devin | Labor's Assets: Unions, Pensions, and Capital Strategies in the American Labor Movement |
| 2023 | Acosta Gonzalez, Laura | Social Origins of Perpetual Civil Wars |
| 2023 | Alston, Brandon | Policing the Margins: Race, Surveillance, and Resistance |
| 2023 | Banks, Erica | A Life of Reentry: Black Women, Reverberations of Incarceration, and the Life Course |
| 2023 | Brown, Karlia | From Priest to Prisoner: Examining the Contribution of Pioneers in the Chicagoland Reentry Landscape from the 1950s to the 1970s |
| 2023 | Clark, Morgan | “Skanks Need to Pay with Their Lives”: Online Harassment, Cyberstalking, and Violence against Women Online |
| 2023 | Coenders, Yannick | Dispersal: How Western Cities Came to Oppose Nonwhite Residential Concentration post World War II |
| 2023 | Eliyahu, Miri | Making Markets Moral: How Do Social Action Movements Change Markets, and How Do Markets Change Social Action Movements? |
| 2023 | Kuperberg, Jeremy | Contested Destinations: Tourism and Memory in the Former Yugoslavia |
| 2023 | Lehoucq, Emilio | Open-Source Capitalism and the Rise of Machine Learning |
| 2023 | Planson, Sonia | Racialized Assimilationism and the Dilemmas of Cultural Transmission: Immigrant Families in Paris and Chicago |
| 2023 | Utama, Rahardhika | Embedded Peasantry and Economic Transformation in the Asian Rubber Belt |
| 2022 | Escamilla Garcia, Angel | Knowledge, Place, and Experience in the Migration Journey: How Central American Migrant Youth Negotiate Violence in Mexico |
| 2022 | Fallin, Mallory | Diagnosing the Future: Translating Climate Change into Public Health |
| 2022 | Handsman, Emily | The DEI Doctrine: How Suburban Schools Interpret Inequality |
| 2022 | Kenn, Kris | Losing the War but Fighting the Battles: Interrogating the Feelings, Actions, and Beliefs of a Privacy Hungry Populace |
| 2022 | Kirk, Gabriela | Can Electronic Monitoring Fix Mass Incarceration? Understanding the Role of Electronic Monitoring in Local Policy Reform Efforts |
| 2022 | Laperriere, Marie | Defining Struggles: Treatment Programs and the Limits of Domestic Violence Policy |
| 2022 | Law, Tina | Parsing the Language of Rebellion: Impacts of the 1960s Black-Led Urban Uprisings on American Public and Legal Discourse |
| 2022 | Li, Lantian | Rentier Developmentalism: Institutional Contradiction, Uneven Health Reforms, and the Pharmaceutical Industry in China |
| 2022 | Lynne, Alyssa | Transnationalizing Gender, Medicine, and Standardization: Gender-Affirming Healthcare in Thailand and the United States |
| 2022 | McKean, Anna | From Covert Action to Overt Activism: The Evolution of Corporate Sociopolitical Involvement |
| 2022 | Michelson, Anna | Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre |
| 2022 | Nanni, Antonio | Essays on the Sociological Analysis of Segregation and Natural Language |
| 2022 | Oliver, Mariana | Bladerunner 2022? An Empirical Assessment of Mass Surveillance from a National Survey of Police Departments |
| 2022 | Owen, Andrew | The Social Consequences of the Fracking Boom: Family Formation, Crime, and Economic Structure in the Upper Great Plains |
| 2021 | Adams-Romena, Dominique | Mapping Intimacies: Black Queer Women in Chicago’s Urban-Digital Sphere |
| 2021 | Albrecht, Kathryn | Data Distortions and the Quantification of Fear |
| 2021 | Arslan, Melike | Unruling Markets: How the Fight Against Monopolies Derailed Globally |
| 2021 | Cataldi, John | Contentious Southern Symbols and Community Interaction: The Confederate Battle Flag as Sacred, Profane and Offensive |
| 2021 | Fang, Jun | When China Meets Hollywood: Global Collaboration and State Intervention in a Creative Industry |
| 2021 | Ferrant, Coline | Food in the Lives of Paris and Chicago Residents |
| 2021 | Lee, John | Three Essays on Religious Identity and the Cultural Authority of Science |
| 2021 | Lovell, Erik | Dependence as Independence, Instability as Immaturity: The Organizational Contradictions of LGBTQ+ Young Adult Homelessness |
| 2021 | Johnson, Kory | Welfare in (and from) Crisis: Democracy, State Elites and a New Paradigm for Understanding Welfare State Development in the Americas |
| 2021 | Nguyen, Y Thien | When State Propaganda Becomes Social Knowledge: Legacies of the Southern Republic |
| 2021 | Tolman, Arielle | Prosecuting Prisoners: Criminalization of Incarcerated People in an Era of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization |
| 2021 | Yung, Vincent | From the History of Network Visualization, Indicators of Interdisciplinarity, to the Career of Metaphor: Formal and Computational Methods and the Illumination of Patterns Otherwise Unknowable |
| 2020 | Adediran, Atinuke | Essays on Pro Bono Institutions, Organizations, and Professionals |
| 2020 | Basseches, Joshua | Private Power in the U.S. States: Business Interests and the Design of State-Level Climate and Renewable Energy Policies |
| 2020 | Boutros, Magda | The True Color of Police Violence: How Activists Expose Racialized Policing in Colorblind France |
| 2020 | Buchter, Lisa | Reinventing diversity, Activists interfering with the managerialization of the law |
| 2020 | Burk, Derek | The Bicycle as a Growth Machine: The Role of Business, Community, and the Environment in the Rise of Bicycle Friendly Policy |
| 2020 | Hexel, Ole | Inter Vivos Transfers in Twenty European Countries (2004 - 2017) |
| 2020 | Pryma, Jane | The Politics of Pain Relief: Managing Suffering in the United States and France |
| 2019 | Degenshein, Anya | Speculative Justice: The Shifting Temporality of Crime in U.S. Counterterrorism Stings |
| 2019 | Friedman, Brittany | Guerilla: Racial Coercion, White Supremacy, and the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family |
| 2019 | Guisti, Joseph | Discipline and Empower: "Doing Something" about Addiction in Mexico City |
| 2019 | Meyer, Jessica | (Not) Working to Sleep: Employment's Contribution to Gender and Socioeconomic Sleep Differences |
| 2019 | Rayzberg, Margarita | Controlling the Field: Experimental Social Science and Politics of Evidence in International Development |
| 2019 | Sediqe, Iman | War Side to West Side, Afghan Americans in Little Kabul: An Exploration of Refugee Integration and the Racialization of Islam |
| 2019 | Sommers, Zachary | Bias and Perceptions in the Criminal Justice System: Three Empirical Approaches to Policing, Terrorism, and Plea Bargaining |
| 2018 | Balasubramanian, Savina | Communicating Contraception: Social Science and the Politics of Population Control in Cold War India |
| 2018 | Bartram, Robin | Picking Battles with Buildings:Governing Material Inequality in the City |
| 2018 | Becker, Kelly | Examining the High School-to-College Transitions of Chicago Public School Students |
| 2018 | Carroll, Christopher | Catholicism(s) on Chicago's Southside: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Among Early-Generation Irish and Mexican Americans |
| 2018 | De Los Rios, Diego | In This Country but Not of It: Immigration and Religion Among Colombian Evangelicals in the United States and Spain |
| 2018 | Goksel, Nisa | Reconfiguring the Political: Kurdish Women's Resistance from the Local to the Transnational |
| 2018 | Johnson, Anthony | Social Identity, Campus Culture, and Academic Peer Networks at an Elite University |
| 2018 | Kaiser, Joshua | The Hidden Sentence: Understanding the Historical Rise of a Broader, Lesser Known Form of Penal Control in the United States |
| 2018 | Knudsen, Marcel | Whats in a Wage: Minimum Wage Increases and Workplace Hierarchies in the Restaurant Industry |
| 2018 | Lee, Kangsan | Spill(over) a Little Paint: Inter-Market Status Dynamics under the Marketization of Global Contemporary Art Markets |
| 2018 | Mastrangelo, Marisol | Disconnected: Examining the Help-Seeking Behaviors of Mexican American First-Generation College Students |
| 2018 | McElhattan, David | Three Essays on Criminal Background Screening in the United States |
| 2018 | Menon, Alka | Looking Good: Race and Cosmetic Surgery in Transnational Perspective |
| 2018 | Morse, Jaimie | Legal Mobilization in Medicine: Seeking Rights to Justice and Rights to Healthcare for Survivors of Sexual Violence Globally since the 1970s |
| 2018 | Nickow, Andre | Development as Mobilization: Rural Land Rights in Bihar, India |
| 2018 | Pamphile, Vontrese | Social Evaluations in Organizational Philanthropy |
| 2018 | Peterson, David | The Verge of Science: Why Experimental Psychology Struggles to Make Progress |
| 2018 | Shiff, Talia | Reconfiguring the Deserving Refugee: Moral Boundary Work and Decision-Making in US Asylum Policy |
| 2018 | Vogler, Stefan | Ruling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge |
| 2017 | Adipa, Priscilla | Engaging spaces, engaged audiences: The socio-spatial context of cultural experiences in art galleries and art museums |
| 2017 | Conwell, Jordan | All Money is Not Created Equal: Racial Differences in Students' Educational Returns to Parental Income |
| 2017 | Forrat, Natalia | The Infrastructure of Authoritarianism: State-Society Relationship, Public Sector Organizations and Regime Resilience in Putin's Russia |
| 2017 | Forstie, Clare | Community Is Wherever These Friends Are: LGBTQ Friendships and Ambivalent Community in River City |
| 2017 | Galonnier, Juliette | Choosing Faith and Facing Race: Converting to Islam in France and the United States |
| 2017 | Hanson, Anna | Follow the Money: Risk, Transparency, and Financial Regulation in the Age of Terror |
| 2017 | Jao, Yu-Han | Educational Standardization and Inequality of Educational Opportunity. A Comparative Study on East Asia |
| 2017 | Kovalsky, Elyse | Foreclosed: Economic Decision-Making in Insecure Households |
| 2017 | Kozlowska, Iga | Memory Entrepreneurs and the "Invisible Iron Curtain": Transnationalizing Historical Memories |
| 2017 | Loughran, Kevin | Race and the Construction of City and Nature |
| 2017 | Mangione, Gemma | Making Sense of Things: Access and the Therapeutic Turn in Museum Gardens and Galleries |
| 2017 | Matlhare, Sakhile | "Africanness" as a Professional Trading Chip: Contemporary African Artists as Producers and Secondary Arbiters in the Gatekeeping Process |
| 2017 | Naguib, Rim | Intelligentsia Class Formation and Ideologies in Peripheral Societies: Comparing Egypt and Iran, 1922-1952 |
| 2017 | Owens, Kellie | Too Much of a Good Thing: Risk Perception and Practice Variation in Contemporary American Childbirth |
| 2017 | Rodriguez-Franco, Diana | Participatory Institutions and Environmental Protection: Popular and Prior Consultations in Latin America |
| 2017 | Sanchez Cardenas, Ricardo | Decolonizing Nation-States in Latin/x America: Twenty First Century Postcolonial Constitutionalism and the Paradoxes of (Trans)nationalism, 1989-2014 |
| 2017 | Sargent, Brian | Broken Promises: Neoliberalism and Embedded Logics of Racial Domination in Community Development Policy Implementation |
| 2017 |
Wohl, Hannah |
Creative Visions: Innovation and Style in the Production of Contemporary Art |
| 2016 |
Brewster, Kiyona |
Stepping Out on Faith: Family, Gender, and Religious Belonging in the African American Church |
| 2016 | Headworth, Spencer | Policing Welfare: Investigation and Punishment in Public Assistance |
| 2016 | Asante, Kofi | 'Purchased allies' or 'thorns in the government's side'?: African Merchants and Colonial State Formation in the Nineteenth Century Gold Coast |
| 2016 | Robinson, John | Poverty, Place and Portfolio: Managing Neighborhood Inequalities in the Finance-Driven Economy |
| 2016 | Demetry, Daphne | Episodic Organizations: Pop-up and Underground Restaurants and the Temporality of Organizational Life |
| 2016 | Finch, Mary Beth | Selling Fair Trade: Markets, Morality and Ambiguity |
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