In spite of the challenges facing our 2020 cohort of Sociology majors, we are so proud of the work they have accomplished with their theses. While we were unable to host our annual BA Thesis Symposium where they would have been able to present to fellow students and staff at the department, we are excited to be able to share some of their work here and on social media. Spanning a wide variety of sociological topics, 4th years have created posters, presentations, and other digital media to showcase their original research to you all (click images for more/full presentations). We congratulate all of the 2020 Sociology cohort on their achievements and wish them all the best in their future endeavors.
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The Class of 2020 Sociology Cohort |
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Anna Aguiar Kosicki |
All Business is Show Business: Social Capital, Gendered Exploitation, Organizational Structure, and the Law in the #NotinOurHouse Movement and the Chicago Theater Standards |
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Kiana Amini |
The Cost of Knowledge Production: Academics’ Strategies of Negotiating Ethical Tensions in Social Science Research and Fieldwork |
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Adrianna Barnett |
“Real” Greek Life: Exploring Organizational Essence, Boundary Maintenance, and Organizational Commitment |
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Hanna Batlan |
The Gentrifier's Dilemma: Gentrification and Progressive Hospitality in the Oakland Food Industry |
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Emma Chosy |
Nobody Knows You, Baby, The Way I Do: Knowledge-Gathering as Fan Work in One Direction Fan Communities |
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Henry Clarke |
The Performed Sports Fan: How Chicago Cubs Fans Make Sense of their Fandom through Audience and Site Mediation |
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Kate Clement |
Ring Before Spring: A Quantitative Analysis of Millennial Marital Timing under the Lens of U.S. Cultural Regions |
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Solomon Dworkin |
Contestation and Coherence in the Occupational Rhetoric of Facility Managers |
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Brian Fenaughty |
State Written, City Implemented: How the Illinois TIF Act Changed How the Illinois TIF Act Changed and Chicago Changed with It |
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Juliana Freschi |
Order Among Outcasts: Boundary-Making in Chicago’s Contemporary Tattoo Scene |
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Bettina Hammer |
“More Than Just Words on a Page:” How Belief Transforms into Truth Through Social Rebuke |
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Katie Karp |
Cultural Consumption Practices at UChicago: Conspicuous Consumption |
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Jared Kerman |
Waking Toward Recognition: Performance, Embodiment, and the Pursuit of Realness within the Chicago House and Ball Scene |
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Ruth Landis |
Faith-Based Organizing: Theorizing the Role of Religion on the Progressive Left |
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Hannah Lee |
The Intersubjectivity of Diversity in the Legal Field |
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Anna Li |
East Eats West: A Discursive Analysis of Cultural Legitimation in Chinese Cookbooks Published in the Age of Global Cosmopolitanism |
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Tyrone Lomax |
Recidivism & Re-entry: Connecting Social Workers' Business Environments and their Workability |
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Lorraine Lu |
The Legitimization of Surveillence: China's Social Credit System |
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David Matz |
“Girls Play Those Champions”: Players Using Game Structure to Frame Gendered Interactions Online |
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Seychelle Mikofsky |
“It Too Will Pass”: Identity Management Strategies of Queer Students at Brigham Young University |
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Veronica Myers |
(Re)Structuring the Social Space: A Study of Communitarian Identity and Organizational Transformation at Arcosanti |
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Jein Park |
Redefining Gentrification in Chicago’s West Loop: How Commercialization Transformed a Desolate Meatpacking District into the City’s Trendiest Consumption Destination |
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Jessica Robinson |
Probation and Imprisonment: Investigating Penal Regime Types |
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Karla Ruiz |
La Isla Desencantada: Civil and Political Disenchantment Among Puerto Ricans after Hurricane |
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Aleena Tariq |
Many Hands Make Heavy Work: Dilemmas of Coalition-Building in Chicago’s Environmental Justice Movement |
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Nick Villar |
Crime and Commerce: A Study of Urban Vibrancy and Criminal Activity in Chicago |
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Fikayo Walter-Johnson |
Spatializing Kinship: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of West African Immigrant Kinship Networks in Affordable Housing Cooperatives |
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Kanisha Williams |
Many Libraries, One Chicago: Public Spaces as Substitutions to the Public Safety Net |
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Evan Zhao |
(Re)Orienting Desire and Politics: Western Queer Subjectivity under Chinese Authoritarianism |
