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Author:

Thomas, Tori Lashan

Title:

Race, High School Racial Segregation, and Educational Attainment Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

school racial segregation
race/ethnicity
postsecondary outcomes

File:

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Committee Members:

Michelle Lynn Frisco, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John David Iceland, Committee Member
David M Ramey, Committee Member
Erica Frankenberg, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Millan, Cassandra Leigh

Title:

Worth the Weight: Framing Social Processes as Weighted Social Networks

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Social Networks
Weighted Networks
Homophily
ERGMs
International Migration
Adolescent Friendship

File:

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Committee Members:

Diane Helen Felmlee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane Helen Felmlee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Outside Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hernandez, Erik Liet

Title:

EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION IN POST-WORLD WAR II AND THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND TYPE 2 DIABETES MORBIDITY DECOMPOSING CHANGE FOR COHORTS BORN BETWEEN 1935-1954

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Education Expansion
Diabetes
Morbidity
Cohort Analysis
Decomposition
Demography
Chronic Disease

File:

Download Full_Text_Dissertation_20200522.pdf

Committee Members:

David P Baker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David P Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Hardy, Committee Member
Maryellen Schaub, Outside Member
John D Iceland, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bacon, Rachel Jeannine

Title:

THREE PAPERS ON DIETARY ACCULTURATION: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND TWO EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS TO THE BLACK CARIBBEAN POPULATION

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Dietary acculturation
Caribbean immigrants
Segregation
Race
Health Disparities
Adventist Health Study

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Augustus Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Roger Finke, Committee Member
Eric Plutzer, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Di Giovanni, Anna

Title:

sibling placement in foster care: do states maintain sibling connections?

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Sibling placement
Foster care

File:

Download Anna_DiGiovanni_s_Master_s_Thesis_Fall_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Anne Font, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie Elizabeth King, Special Signatory
Christian Michael Connell, Special Signatory
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Morse, Anne Roback

Title:

Probabilistic State-Level Population Projections in India

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Projections
Probabilistic projections
India
Sex ratio at birth
Sex ratio
Fertility

File:

Download Morse_Dissertation_forsubmission_200728.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashton Michael Verdery, Committee Member
Jennifer Elyse Glick, Committee Member
Mary Katherine Shenk, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kovach, Claire

Title:

Multidimensional Classes of Hardship

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

poverty
hardship
material hardship
latent class analysis

File:

Download KovachClaire-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John David Iceland, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Iceland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Hardy, Committee Member
Molly Ann Martin, Committee Member
Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Outside Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fabinyi, Claude

Title:

Networks of Hymns and Denominations - A Visual History of Changes in Denominational Boundaries through Hymn Publication from 1700-1900

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

hymns
boundaries
denominations
social network analysis

File:

Download Fabinyi_-_Thesis_Submission__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary J Adler, Jr., Committee Member
Diane Helen Felmlee, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ramirez, Daniel Nicholas

Title:

In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: Health disparities, mortality, and off-spring effects of exposure to the Dutch Famine.

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Dutch famine
early life
population heatlh
aging
life course

File:

Download Ramirez_Dissertation_FRev__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Andrew Haas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Andrew Haas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Molly Martin, Committee Member
Jonathan Kyle Daw, Committee Member
Brian Clemens Thiede, Outside Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kamada, Takuma

Title:

Living in the Crack Epidemic: Suburbanization, Segregation, and Concentrated Poverty

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Crack Epidemic
Quasi-Experiment
Residential Inequality
Urban sociology
Demography

File:

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Committee Members:

Corina Antohi Graif, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Antohi Graif, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
John David Iceland, Committee Member
Holly Nguyen, Committee Member
Brian Clemens Thiede, Outside Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair