The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

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The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

Graduate Scholarship

Sociology Dissertations
Politics and Social Movements

2011 Chiang, Chi-Chen
Global Assemblage  of Citizenship Rights in the United States

2011 Lin, Helen JanYee
The Women's Movements and the Gendering of Taiwanese Democracy, 1949-1999

2010 Pacewicz, Jan
Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Post-Industrial Economy

2008 Lin, Fen
Turning Gray: Transition of Political Communication in China 1978-2008

2008 Bartlett, Anne Louise
Insurgent Politics: London, the Darfur Crisis and the New Landscape of Transnational Political Action

2008 Lechtman, Zohar
Gendering Chicago Politics: Institutionalization of Women in Positions of Power

2007 Rinaldo, Rachel Anne
Mobilizing Piety: Women, Islam, and the Public Sphere in Indonesia

2007 MacIndoe, Heather Frances
Public Goods and Public Claims: Foundation Philanthropy in Chicago 1990-2000

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

2005 Lee, Zong-Rong
The Tertius State: Corporate Control under State Power and Intercorporate Affiliations

2004 Adut, Ari
Scandal as Strategy and Social Form: The Conditions, Dynamics and Paradoxes of French Political Corruption Affairs

2004 Chen, Lijun
Building Local State Capacity in China

2002 Augis, Erin Joanna
Dakar's Sunnite Women: The Politics of Person

2002 Zubrzycki, Genevieve G.
With or Without the Cross? Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland

2002 Barman, Emily Alice
Between Giving and Getting: Donor Choice and the Field of Workplace Charity

2001 Straughn, Jeremy Brooke
Homeland Dilemmas After State Socialism: The Politics of Narrative and Nation-Building in Eastern Germany

2000 Go, Julian
Transcultured States: Elite Political Culture in Puerto Rico and the Philippines under U.S. Colonial Rule

1999 Wang, Horng-luen
In Want of a Nation: State, Institutions and Globalization in Taiwan

1998 Hrycak, Alexandra Martha
From the Iron Fist to the Invisible Hand: Writers, Artists and the Nation in Ukraine

1998 McSweeney, Elizabeth Jane
The Meaning of Political Party Opposition: Social Democratic Party Fortunes in Japan and the Federal Republic of Germany

1998 Suh, Doowon
From Individual Welfare to Social Change: The Expanding Goals of Korean White-Collar Labor Unions, 1987-1995

1997 Ermakoff, Ivan
Democratic Breakdowns and the Politics of Self-Servitude

1997 Wang, Fang
Support for a New Welfare State in Taiwan: Social Change, Political Dynamics and Public Opinion

1996 Jang, Wonho
The New Political Culture and Political Change in Japan

1996 Sohrabi, Nader
Constitutionalism, Revolution and the State: The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 with Comparisons to the Russian Revolution of 1905

1996 Ellingson, Stephen James
Discourse, Action, and Social Change: The Politics of Race, Slavery, and Abolitionism in Pre-Civil War America

1996 Deng, Fang
Information Gap and Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements

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