Graduate Scholarship
Our graduate students produce dissertation research in a wide variety of areas. Here are some examples of research from the last fifteen years, organized by topic.
Sociology Dissertations 2010-1995
List of Topic Areas
Cities, Neighborhoods & Communities
Criminology
Culture
Demography
East Asia
Economic Sociology
Education
Family
Gender & Sexualities
Health
Identities, Interactions & Everyday Lives
Networks & Social Capital
Organizations & Institutions
Politics & Social Movements
Race & Ethnicity
Religion
Social Stratification
Sociology of Law and Knowledge
Work, Professions, & Occupations
The following is a sampling of recent publications derived from department dissertations.
- Ari Adut, On Scandal (Cambridge University Press)
- Christopher Browning, "Sexual Contact Between Children and Adults" (American Sociological Review) (with Edward Laumann)
- David Grazian, Blue Chicago (University of Chicago Press)
- Derek Hyra, The New Urban Renewal (University of Chicago Press)
- Maria Kefalas, Promises I Can Keep (University of California Press)
- Nicole Marwell, Bargaining for Brooklyn (University of Chicago Press)
- Daniel McFarland, "Student Resistance" (American Journal of Sociology)
- Mignon Moore, "Intraracial Diversity and Relations among African Americans" (American Journal of Sociology)
- Jeffrey Morenoff, "Neighborhood Mechanisms and the Spatial Dynamics of Birth Weight" (American Journal of Sociology)
- Andrew Papachristos, "Murder by Structure: Dominance Relations and the Social Structure of Gang Homicide" (American Journal of Sociology)
- Michal Pagis, "Embodied Self-Reflexivity" (Social Psychology Quarterly)
- Mary Pattillo, Black Picket Fences (University of Chicago Press)
- Fabio Rojas, From Black Power to Black Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Michael Rosenfeld, The Age of Independence (Harvard University Press)
- Sandra Smith, Lone Pursuit (Russell Sage Foundation)
- Peter St. Jean, Pockets of Crime (University of Chicago Press)
- Sudhir Venkatesh, American Project (Harvard University Press)
- Andrés Villarreal, "Political Competition and Violence in Mexico: Hierarchical Social Control in Local Patronage Structures" (American Sociological Review)
- Alford Young, The Minds of Marginalized Black Men (Princeton University Press)
If you are interested in information about graduate student placement, please visit the Placement page.
