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Current Students

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  • 2009 Cohort students

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Contacts

Becky Drasin
Graduate Program Associate

Ann Meier
Director of Graduate Studies

Graduate News

  • Dr. Haltinner on her way to Idaho

    Kristin Haltinner successfully defended her dissertation, "The Conservative Next Door," on May 23. Her advisors are Profs. Ron Aminzade and David Pellow. Dr. Haltinner begins an Assistant Professor of Sociology position at the University of Idaho-Moscow in Fall 2013. Congratulations, Dr. Haltinner!

    May 23rd, 2013
  • Yu-Ju Chien Successful Defense

    Yu-Ju Chien successfully defended her dissertation "Constructing Knowledge and Policies on Avian Influenza: How Do International Organizations Craft Global Models?" on May 10, 2013. Dr. Chien is advised by Joachim Savelsberg.

    May 14th, 2013
  • Four Students Receive Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (DDF) for 2013-14

    Hollie Nyseth Brehm, "Conditions and Courses of Genocide" Advisors, Joachim Savelsberg and Elizabeth Boyle.

    Wen Fan, "Children of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Disrupted Education, Send-Down Experience, and Midlife Health". Advisor, Phyllis Moen

    Kyle Green, "The Allure of Mixed Martial Arts: Meaning Making, Masculinity, and Embodiment in Suburbia." Advisors, Doug Hartmann and Teresa Gowan

    Wenjie Liao, "Remembering the Faces of Law: Engaging the Law through Constructing the Past in Transitional China". Advisors, Elizabeth Boyle and Joachim Savelsberg

    May 7th, 2013