Recent Graduates
All UT Sociology Theses and Dissertations, as well as undergrad honor's theses, are now deposited electronically in TRACE and are available at: http://trace.tennessee.edu/socioetds/. Information on our graduates is divided into graduation year.
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Joel Michael Crombez |
PhD |
The Anxiety and the Ecstasy of Technical Vertigo: Psychological and Sociological Foundations of Critical Socioanalysis from the Italian Renaissance to the 21st Century |
Harry F. Dahms |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College |
Nuray Karaman |
PhD |
Experiences of Musliim Female Students in Knoxville: At the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Religion |
Michelle Christian |
Assistant Professor, Usak University, Turkey |
Zachary Joseph McKenney |
PhD |
The State of the Union? Transnational Manufacturing and the US Labor Movement |
Jon Shefner |
Instructor, University of Tennessee |
Holly Ningard |
PhD |
Attorney Stories of Environmental Crime: Harms, Agents, and Ideal Cases |
Lois Presser |
Lecturer, Ohio University |
William Taylor |
PhD |
High Stakes Education: The Business of Reform, Grassroots Organizing and the Community School Alternative |
Jon Shefner |
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Jessica West |
MA |
Meet the Duggars: The Reproduction of Gender Privilege in the Popular Construction of Sibling Sexual Abuse |
Lo Presser |
Adjunct Instructor, University of North Carolina-Asheville |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Landon Bevier |
PhD |
Never Forget: The Meaning of the Global War on Terror in Post-9/11 U.S. Presidential Discourse. |
Michelle Brown |
Public School Teacher - Stewart County TN |
Sarah D’Onofrio |
MA |
“Only the Intervenor Cared”: Critical Junctures in the Rise of Dairy CAFOs and Neoliberal Environmental Policy in Wisconsin.” |
Paul K. Gellert |
Doctoral Student, University of Tennessee |
Sylvia Isabel Duluc-Silva |
MA |
“Food Justice and Practices in the Five Points Community of Knoxville, Tennessee: A Survey of Residents Living in an Urban Food Desert.” |
Robert Emmet Jones |
Law Clerk, US Environmental Protection Agency |
Elizabeth A. East |
PhD |
Capitalist Organizing and Organizations: The Case of the American Petroleum Institute. |
Paul K. Gellert |
Post-doctoral scholar in the green economy project working for Dr. Shefner |
Ahmet Fidan |
PhD |
Women’s Help-Seeking Behavior for Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Assistant Professor, Adiyaman University, Turkey |
Katherine Gerlaugh |
PhD |
Twenty-First Century Deindustrialization and Uneven Development in Appalachia. |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Assistant Professor, Lenoir Rhyne College |
Anthony Knowles |
MA |
“Automation, Work, and Ideology: The Next Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of Labor.” |
Harry Dahms |
Doctoral Student, University of Tennessee |
Steven Alfonso Panageotou |
PhD |
The Three Dimensions of Political Action in the United States Democracy: Corporations as Political Actors and "Franchise Governments" |
Jon Shefner & Harry Dahms |
Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University |
Shannon Williams |
PhD |
A Contribution to the Critique of Labor Share Analyses. |
Paul K. Gellert |
Instructor/lecturer at School of Justice and Safety, Eastern Kentucky University |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Katie Marie Highbaugh |
MA |
“A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Website: A Cultural Criminology of Peace- and Community-Building.” |
Lois Presser |
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Jenna Ann Lamphere |
PhD |
"Shades of Green: A Comparative Analysis of the US Green Economies" |
Jon Shefner |
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Galveston |
Aaron Robert Lemelin |
MA |
“Young Adults and the Consequences of Precarious Work.” |
Jon Shefner |
Freelance web developer, Tampa Bay area |
Katherine Leigh Morris |
PhD |
The Scruffy City: Development in Knoxville, TN. |
Jon Shefner |
see above |
Douglas Ray Oeser |
MA |
“The Rhetoric of Perpetual Warfare: A Political Discourse Analysis of the Obama Administration’s Legitimation of U.S. Drone Strikes.” |
Lois Presser |
Crime Analyst, Asheville (NC) Police Department |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Joel Michael Crombez |
MA |
“After the Human: Theory and Sociology in the Age of Fractal Ambiguity, Dromology, and Emergent Epi-spaces.” |
Harry F. Dahms |
Doctoral Candidate, University of Tennessee |
Nicholas John Hauman |
PhD |
Social Systems and Psychic Confluence: Flash Mobs, Communications, and Agency. |
Harry F. Dahms |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bethany Lutheran College |
Kiam Loong Daniel Lai |
PhD |
Constructing Victimhood: Opposition to Legislation Protecting LGBT Students against Bullying. |
Lois Presser |
Internationally acclaimed artist |
Rhiannon A. Leebrick |
PhD |
Environmental Gentrification and Development in a Rural Appalachian Community: Blending Critical Theory and Ethnography. |
Harry F. Dahms |
Assistant Professor at Wofford College |
Kyle Ward Letteney |
MA |
“America’s Lethal Dilemma: Legitimating Old Methods of Execution in an Era of Abolition.” |
Lois Presser |
Police Officer, City of Charlotte Government |
Benjamin Corey Webster |
MA |
“Entropy and the Economy of Violence: Anthropophagy and Sacrificial Violence in Late Modernity.” |
Michelle Brown |
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Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Lauren Kimberlee Copley, now Lauren Saban |
PhD |
Uncovering Latino Sex Trafficking in a New Destination Area: A Case Study. |
Michelle S. Brown |
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville |
Jon Cariba Phoenix |
MA |
“Using Audio/Visual Media to Increase the Sociological Imagination of an Adolescent Audience.” |
Harry F. Dahms |
Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of Louisville |
Jennifer Lindmar Schally |
PhD |
Agent of Harm and Good Corporate Citizen? e Case of Tyson Foods. |
Lois Presser |
Lecturer in Criminal Justice Penn State Harrisburg Middletown, PA. |
Tobin N. Walton |
PhD |
Self, Society, and Environment in the 21st Century: e Development and Assessment of an Ecological Identity Scale. |
Robert E. Jones |
Assistant Professor, Social Work and Sociology, North Caroline A&T State University. |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Meghan Elizabeth Conley |
PhD |
Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Director of Community Partnerships at Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee |
Sarah Ellen Hendricks |
PhD |
Mobility and Isolation: Latino Immigrant Adjustment in Atlanta, Georgia. |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Assistant Professor, Howard Community College, Silver Spring, Maryland |
Zachary Joseph McKenney |
MA |
“Who Supports Labor? The Intersection of Race and Skill in Union Campaigns.” |
Jon Shefner |
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee |
Aaron S. Routhe |
PhD |
Religion’s Influence on Environmental Concern: U.S. Evangelicals’ Construction of Climate Change Perceptions. |
Sherry Cable |
Lecturer in Sociology, Carroll University |
Aaron Thomas Rowland |
PhD |
How Left a Turn? Legacies of the Neoliberal State in Latin America. |
Jon Shefner |
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee-Martin |
Alexander Stoner |
PhD |
Sociobiophysicality, Cold War, and Critical Theory: Human-Ecological Transformation and Contemporary Ecological Subjectivity. |
Harry F. Dahms |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Salisbury University |
Kayla Marie Stover |
MA |
“I am Working for the Good Guys: Street-Level Enforcement of the Clean Water Act in East Tennessee.” |
Sherry Cable |
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Wanjum Cui |
PhD |
The Effect of Race on Crime: A Multilevel Analysis. |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Senior Service Fellow, National Center for Health Statistics Research Data Center, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Branch. |
Elizabeth Ashley East |
MA |
“The Politics of Protection and Promotion: the Case of the Coal Industry in Environmental Politics.” |
Robert Emmet Jones |
Lecturer, University of Tennessee |
Beth Allen Easterling |
PhD |
Parenting Behind Bars: A Qualitative Study of Incarcerated Mothers. |
Lois Presser |
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC |
Andrew Augustus Gunnoe |
PhD |
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Finance and Managerial Control in the US Forest Products Industry, 1945-2008. |
Paul K. Gellert |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Maryville College, Maryville, TN |
Liam Vangsnes Hysjulien |
MA |
“Growing a Local Movement: New Social Movements, Food, and Activism.” |
Jon Shefner |
Advisor, Dept. of Political Science, UTK |
Robert Michael Keeton |
PhD |
"To Preserve This Much-Injured Race": Techniques of Neutralization and Indian Removal, 1829-1831. |
Lois Presser |
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Pellissippi State Community College |
Jenna Ann Lamphere |
MA |
“Understanding Biotechnology: Conceptualizing and Measuring US Public Concern.” |
Robert Emmet Jones & Stephanie Bohon |
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Galveston |
James N. Maples |
PhD |
Changes in US Ethnic Niches, 2005-2010 |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Associate Professor, Eastern Kentucky University |
Steven Alfonso Panageotou |
MA |
“The Global Debt Minotaur: An Analysis of the Greek Financial Crisis.” |
Harry Dahms/Jon Shefner |
Lecturer, University of Tennessee |
Jennifer Rhiannon Scroggins |
PhD |
Gender, Social Ties, And Reentry Experiences. |
Hoan N. Bui |
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Montana State University Billings. |
William Vaughan Taylor |
MA |
“Short-Term Missions: Reinforcing Beliefs and Legitimating Poverty.” |
Jon Shefner |
Assistant Professor, Chattanooga State Community College |
Nicholas Ryan Zeller |
MA |
“New Means, Old Ends? World Bank Governmentality in ailand and Lao People's Democratic Republic.” |
Paul K. Gellert |
Ph.D. student, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Kimberly Louise Davis |
PhD |
The Role of “Sense of Place:” A Theoretical Framework to Aid Urban Forest Policy Decision-Making. |
Robert Emmet Jones |
Senior Research Associate, Energy, Environment, and Resources Center (EERC), University of Tennessee |
George Christopher Gondo |
MA |
“Mediating Justice: Toward A Critical-Reflexive Sociology.” |
Harry F. Dahms |
Director, Research and Grants, The Amputee Coalition |
Larry Curtis Long |
MA |
“Education & Crime: A Study in Student Perceptions of Culpability.” |
Stephanie Bohon |
Assistant Director Transfer Admissions, University of Tennessee |
Rahim Manji |
MA |
“Passivity: Looking at Bystanding Through the Lens of Criminological Theory.” |
Lois Presser |
Law Associate, Corporate Department, Davis-Polk Law Firm |
Carmel Elizabeth Price |
PhD |
Women and the Environment: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Gender and Demographic Characteristics of Environmental Concern. |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn |
Stacey U. Tucker |
PhD |
Unto the Least of These: The Pentecostal Church and Social Ministry. |
Asafa Jalata |
Owner, To Be Healthy Today, Cleveland, Tennessee |
Shane Montgomery Willson |
MA |
“The Financial Crisis as an Expression of Macrohistorical Trends: World Hegemony, Neoliberal Globalization, and Financialization in 21st Century Capitalism.” |
Jon Shefner |
Ph.D student, U Kansas Sociology |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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John Hamilton Bradford |
PhD |
Systems, Social Order, and the Global Debt Crisis. |
Harry F. Dahms |
Associate Professor of Sociology, Mississippi Valley State University |
Justin James Gann |
MA |
“Regulating the Global Politico-Economic Order: The Functioning of the Development Assistance Provision Regime.” |
Jon Shefner |
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Eric Royal Lybeck |
MA |
“Modernity, Capitalism, and War: Toward a Sociology of War in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914.” |
Harry F. Dahms |
Lecturer (Sociology), University of Exeter |
Harwood Schaffer |
PhD |
The Assumption of Non-coerciveness and the Total Food Market. |
Asafa Jalata |
Research Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics, University of Tennessee. |
Alexander M. Stoner |
MA |
“Georgian's Reaction to Water Shortage: Water Conservation Behavior during the 2007 Drought.” |
R. Scott Frey |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Salisbury University |
Sarah Gwynne Whiteford |
PhD |
Adolescent Female Substance Use: An Examination of Male Peer Influences and Parental Control. |
Suzaanne B. Kurth |
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Midway University |
James L. Wright |
PhD |
"Rapping About Authenticity": Exploring the Differences in Perceptions of "Authenticity" in Rap Music by Consumers. |
Suzaanne B. Kurth |
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Dalton State University. |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Regina White Benedict |
PhD |
Giving Back Not Giving Up: Generativity Among Older Female Inmates. |
Lois Presser |
Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Maryville College |
Meghan Elizabeth Conley |
MA |
“The Construction of Social Networks of Support in a New Latino Gateway” |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Director of Community Relations at Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee |
Dima Noggo Sarbo |
PhD |
Contested Legitimacy: Coercion and the State in Ethiopia. |
Jon Shefner |
Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University |
Shannon D. Williams |
MA |
“The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas: Rethinking Economic Integration After the Failures of Neoliberalism.” |
Paul Gellert |
continued on for PhD in our department. |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Robert Randall Adams |
PhD |
"Migrating Money: Remittances in a Global Setting" |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Associate Professor, LaGrange College. |
Sarah E. Hendricks |
MA |
“Skin Color Bias in the Immigration Process: A Multi-Methods Approach.” |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
see below |
James Nathaniel Maples |
MA |
“Industrial Concentration and Quality of Life” |
Stephanie A. Bohon |
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Eastern Kentucky University. |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Erin Maureen Austin |
MA |
“Media, Accounts, and Coherence: ‘De Facto’ Impression Management of a Transgressing Sport Star in e Chicago Tribune.” |
Lois Presser |
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Erika Lynn Borek |
MA |
“Does National Policy Influence Individual Car Driving Behavior: A Cross-National Study of the European Union.” |
Stephanie Bohon |
Disaster Program Manager, American Red Cross of Eastern Pennsylvania |
John Hamilton Bradford |
MA |
“The Falling Rate of Profit Thesis Reassessed: Toward a Sociology of Marx’s Value Theory of Labor.” |
Harry F. Dahms |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mississippi Valley State University |
Nancy D. Brannon |
PhD |
Groundwater: A Community’s Management of the Invaluable Resource Beneath its Feet. |
Sherry Cable |
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Casey E. Cordy |
MA |
“Counterterrorism and the Deterrence Doctrine.” |
Jon Shefner |
Senior Investigative Case Manager at The Robinson Group. |
Angel Dawn Geoghagan |
PhD |
Felony Disenfranchisement Legislation: A Test of the Group Threat Hypothesis. |
Hoan Bui |
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Banu Aysu Kocer |
PhD |
Eight Karats of Justice: Analysis of the Grassroots Resistance Movement Against Goldmining in the Villages of Bergama, Turkey. |
Sherry Cable |
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yeditepe University in Turkey. |
Brian Harold Langley |
MA |
“Meth Epidemic in Rural Tennessee: Construction of a Social Problem.” |
Jon Shefner |
Independent Private Investigator, Knoxville, TN |
Katherine Leigh Morris |
MA |
“From Gay Street to Turkey Creek: Knoxville’s Urban and Suburban Growth Machines.” |
Jon Shefner |
Professor, Sociology, Pellissippi State, Knoxville |
Julie A. Schluterman |
PhD |
The Social Ecology of Parenting: Systematically Modeling the Antecedents of Supportive and Intrusive Parenting. |
Brian K. Barber |
Associate Professor of Sociology at Arkansas Tech University. |
William R. Wishart |
MA |
“Extraction, Ecology, Exploitation, and Oppression: The Political Economy of Coal in Appalachia.” |
Robert E. Jones |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Creighton University |
Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Major Professor | Current Position |
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Heith Copes |
PhD |
Finding a Ride: Decision-Making among Auto Thieves. |
Neil Shover |
Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham |