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Sociology Department
Graduate Program

 

New Ph.D. Graduates


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Chardie Baird

Chardie Baird has been hired an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her dissertation study was entitled "Women’s Early Career Goals and Attainments at Midlife."

Curriculum Vitae

Emily Boyd

Date completed PHD: Summer 2007
Dissertation title: "Altering Bodies, Transforming Selves: Emotion and Gender on 'Extreme Makeover.'"
Job/position of employment: Assistant Professor at Minnesota State University-Mankato beginning fall 2007

Stephanie Woodham Burge

Stephanie Woodham Burge will assume a faculty position in the Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma (Norman), in Fall 2006. Her dissertation was entitled "Gendered Pathways in Higher Education in the 1970s and 1990s: Change and Stability in the Pursuit of a Science Degree."

Cynthia Davis

Cynthia Davis completed her dissertation entitled "Welfare Reforms' Misdiagnosis of What Ails the Poor: The Consequences for Income, Employment and Family Structure." She is on faculty in the Department of Social Work at Florida A&M University.

Jason Eastman

Date completed PHD: Summer 2007
Dissertation title: "The Southern Rock Music Revival: Identity Work and Rebel Masculinity."
Job/position of employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology position at Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina beginning fall 2007.

Henry Eliassen

Henry Eliasson is now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston - Downtown. His dissertation study was entitled "Religiosity, Physical Disability, and the Social Distribution of Problematic Drinking in an Aging Population."

Curriculum Vitae

Brandy Harris

Brandy Harris defended her dissertation this summer entitled "Determinants of Resident Mental Health in Florida's Assisted Living Communities." Brandy Harris is now a Program and Research Associate with the National Council on Aging in Washington, DC.

Rachel LaCroix

Date completed PHD: Fall 2007
Dissertation title: "You've Come Part of the Way, Baby: The Status of Women and Women's Sports in Intercollegiate Athletic Departments 35 Years After Title IX."
Job/position of employment: Program Administrator, Bureau of Health Systems Development, Agency for Health Care Administration

Azizah Linjawi

Azizah Linjawi is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah Saudia Arabia. Her dissertation study was entitled "Exploring Reproductive Roles and Attitudes in Saudi Arabia."

Ryan MacDonald

Ryan MacDonald will assume a postdoctoral fellowship position at Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Fall 2006. His dissertation study was called "Social Context and Mental Health: The Role and Significance of Neighborhood and Family Context."

Trent Moore

Trent Moore assumed a Scientific Data Analyst position at Northrop Grumman/CDC in Atlanta, beginning in May 2006. His dissertation study was entitled "A Construct Validation of Partner Awareness Risk among Seronegative Heterosexual Couples."

Curriculum Vitae

Cheryl Robbins

Cheryl Robbins has accepted a position with the Epidemic Intelligence Service as an Epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, effective July 2007. Her dissertation was entitled "Cultural and Structural Explanations of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Women's Health Care."

David Russell

David Russell will assume a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University in Fall 2007. His dissertation study was called "Household Composition and Psychological Well-Being."

Ashley Schmidt

Ashley Schmidt completed her dissertation entitled "Making Assisted Living a Home: Relocation, Social Support, and the Mental Well-Being of Residents in Assisted Living." Ashley has been hired as a Program Coordinator of Advocacy for AARP in Austin, Texas.

Naomi Spence

Naomi is now a postdoctoral scholar at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her dissertation was entitled "Reproductive Patterns and Women's Later Life Well-Being."