The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

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The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

Graduate Scholarship

Sociology Dissertations
Cities, Neighborhoods & Communities

2011 Albright, Len
Community Social Organization and the Integration of Affordable Housing Residents in a Suburban New Jersey Community

2011 Nashashibi, Rami
Islam in the 'Hood: Exploring the Rise of Ghetto Cosmopolitanism

2009 Wallace, Danielle Marie
An Investigation of Individual Perceptions, Neighborhoods, and Disorder

2009 Weinstein, Liza Jenifer
Redeveloping Dharavi: Toward a Political Economy of Slums and Slum Redevelopment in Globalizing Mumbai

2008 Sanford, Marc Maurice
Consumption and the Urban Milieu: Using Consumption as a Measure of Similarity for Defining Urban Neighborhoods

2007 Ren, Xuefei
Building Globalization: Transnational Architectural Production in Urban China

2006 Ivester, Sukari Kimar
A Tale of Two Communities: The Relationship between Community Development, Community Health, and Social Capital

2006 Kirk, David Scott
Unraveling the Neighborhood and School Effects on Youth Behavior

2005 Gwynne, Julia
Post-Secondary Plans of Chicago Youth: The Roles of Schools and Neighborhoods

2005 Hyra, Derek Scott
Race, Politics and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville

2003 Kim, Jibum
Community Context and the Lives of Korean American Immigrant Elderly

2003 Pashup-Graham, Jennifer R.
Coping with Changes in the Neighborhood: Residential Capital, Aging and Neighborhood Preferences

2003 Timberlake, Jeffrey Martin
Effects of Residential Segregation on Racial Inequality in Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence

2002 St. Jean, Peter K. B.
Not on My Block: The Criminogenic Life-Course of Place on Chicago's South Side

2001 Hill, Lori Diane
Conceptualizing Educational Attainment Opportunities for Urban Youth: The Effects of School Capacity, Community Context and Social Capital

2000 Marwell, Nicole Paige
Social Networks and Social Capital as Resources for Neighborhood Revitalization

1998 Carr, Patrick Joseph
Keeping Up Appearances: Informal Social Control in a White Working Class Neighborhood in Chicago

1998 Kandel, William Alan
Temporary U.S. Migration and Children's Educational Outcomes in Three Mexican Communities

1998 Kefalas, Maria Joan
The Last Garden: Culture and Place in a White, Working-Class Chicago Neighborhood

1998 Moore, Mignon Renee
Family and Community Correlates of Sexual Debut and Pregnancy among African-American Female Adolescents in High-Poverty Neighborhoods

1997 Pattillo-McCoy, Mary Elizabeth
At the Crossroads: A Qualitative Study of Social Organization in a Black Middle Class Neighborhood

1997 Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
American Project: A Historical-Ethnography of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, 1962-1995

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