Mentoring and Student Committees

 

Post-doctoral

 

Silvia Dominguez, Sociology, Northeastern University. Ford Foundation Diversity Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2009-2010 (Mentor)

 

Sandra D. Simpkins, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. W.T. Grant Foundation Fellowship, 2007-2012 (Mentor/qualitative methods advisor)

 

 

PhDs in Progress (Chair)

 

Jennifer Arney             School of Social and Family Dynamics (Sociology)

Olivia Salcido               School of Justice and Social Inquiry

 

PhDs in Progress (Committee Member)

 

Melinda Alexander     School of Geographical Sciences

Neslihan Cevik                        School of Social and Family Dynamics (Sociology)

Sarah Stohlman                      Department of Sociology, USC

Arely Zimmerman      Department of Political Science, UCLA

 

PhDs Completed (Chair)

 

Luis Fernandez           School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2005)

Dissertation: Policing Protest Spaces: Social Control in the Anti-Globalization Movement.

 

Belinda Herrera          School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2009) (*co-chair)

Dissertation: “Living on the Edge of the Law: Undocumented 1.5 Mexican Immigrants and their Expressions of Citizenship.”

 

Sang Kil                       School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Fall 2006)

Dissertation: “Covering the Border: How the News Media Creates Race, Crime Nation and the USA-Mexico Divide.”

 

Zeynep Kilic                 Program in Sociology, SSFD (Fall 2006)

Dissertation: “Reluctant Citizens: Belonging and Immigrant Identification in the Era of Transnationalism.”

 

Carole McKenna          School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Fall 2008)

“Militarism: Micro-Macro Power Arrangements between Wives, Soldiers, and the Military-Industrial-Service-Complex.”

 

Carlos Posadas            School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2007)

Dissertation: “Women’s Translocal Networks and How they Organize Resettlement by Looking at Specific Spheres of their Lives.”

 

Tyler Wall                    School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2009) (*co-chair)

Dissertation: “War-Nation: Military and Moral Geographies of the Hoosier Homefront.”

 

 

PhDs Completed (Committee Member)

 

Randall Amster           School of Justice Studies (Spring 2002)

Dissertation: “Patterns of Exclusion, Forces of Resistance: Urban Sidewalks, National Forests, and the Contested Realms of Public Space.”

 

Cindy Bejarano           School of Justice Studies (Summer 2001)

Dissertation: “A Mosaic of Latino Cultures: Young Lives at the Crossroads of Sameness and Difference.”

 

Naomi Bellot               School of Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2009)

Dissertation: “Gender Vulnerabilities in the Caribbean: A Focus Upon Indigenous Kalinago (Carib) Women in Bataka, Dominica.”

 

Everardo Garduño      Dept. of Anthropology (Fall 2005)

“From Invented to Imagined and Invisible Communities: Mobility, Social Networks and Ethnicity among the Yumans of Baja California.”

 

Gail Gibbons               School of Social Work (Fall 2006)

Dissertation: “Twenty-five Years Later: A Comparative Study of the Socioeconomic Integration of Vietnamese Refugees in Arizona.”

 

Anneliese M Harper    School of Human Communication (Spring 1996)

Dissertation: “The Impact of Immigration on Rural Guatemalan Women Ways of Speaking (Gossip)”

 

Khaleel Husssaini         School of Social and Family Dynamics (Sociology) (Spring 2008)

“Immigrant Adaptation Among Mexican Students in the Southwest: Understanding Differences Among Fifth Graders’ Consumption Norms of Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Marijuana.”

 

Heather Kuhn             Harvard School of Public Health (Spring 2005) (External Reader)

Dissertation: “Health Profile of Farm workers and Interface of Workers with Healthcare in Imperial County, California:  A Qualitative Analysis.”

 

Brenda Ohta              School of Social and Family Dynamics (Sociology) Spring 2008

Dissertation: “Determinants of Care for Medicare Recipients at the End of Life: Utilization and Decision Making in the Acute Care Hospital.”

 

Emily Skop                  Dept. of Geography (Spring 2002)

Dissertation: “The Saffron Suburbs: Asian Indian Immigrants Community Formation in Metropolitan Phoenix.”

 

Qualifying Examinations only

 

Eugenio Arene            Educational Policy Analysis, School of Education

Neel Bhattacharjee    Dept. of Geography

Terna Gbasha             School of Justice and Social Inquiry

Mei Lei                         School of Public Affairs

 

M.A. Theses (Chair)

 

Cherie Espinoza          School of Justice Studies (Fall 2000)

Thesis: “Education for Extinction: Protecting Our Roots from Arizona English-Only Initiative.”

 

Emily Sawyer              School of Social and Family Dynamics (Soc) (Spring 2009) (*co-chair)

Thesis: “The Adoption of Biomedicine into Quechua Cosmology of Health and Illness: Treatment-Seeking Behavior in an Indigenous Ecuadorian Community.”

 

Cecilia Martinez-Vasquez       School of Justice Studies (Summer 2005)

Thesis: “Identity Formation Among Salvadoran Youth of the 1.5 and Second Generation.”

 

 

M.A. Theses (Committee Member)

 

John Abiel Benítez      Dept. of Geography (Summer 2002)           

Thesis: “The Hispanic Protestant Landscape in Mesa, AZ.

 

Melissa Carpenter        Dept. of English/ Comparative Literature (Spring 2001)      

Thesis: “También somos madres: Militancy and Maternity in Latin American Testimonios.”

 

Miriam Hilin                 Department of Sociology (Spring 2005)

“Immigration Law and the Family Stability of Mexican Undocumented Immigrants.”

 

Robert Miller                School of Architecture  (Spring1998)

Final Project: Redesingning the INS Building to Accommodate the Social and Cultural Diversity of Immigrants.”

 

Paul Ara Nersessian    Dept. of Religious Studies (Summer 2002)

Thesis: “Borderlands Scholarship.”

 

Reena Patel                Global Technology and Development (ASU East) (Summer 2003)

Thesis: “The Re-Enforcement of Traditional Gender Roles in the Technology Sector: A Case Study of Female Engineers in India.”

 

Emily Skop                  Dept. of Geography (Summer 1997)

Thesis: “Segmented Paths: The Geographic and Social Mobility of Mariel Cuban Exiles.”

 

Honors Theses (Director)

 

Michelle Brady                        School of Justice Studies (Fall 2000)

Thesis: “The Stalker: A Creative Project.”

 

Sean McKenzie                        Departments of Political Science & Spanish (Spring 2008)

“Formation of Perceptions of Migration Among Wives and Mothers Left Behind in Rural Honduras.”

 

Magdalena Valenzuela          School of Justice Studies (Spring 2000)

Thesis: “A System Flawed: The Death Penalty in the United States.”

 

Honors Theses (Committee Member)

 

Loredana Cuatro Nochez  School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith Universtiy, Australia (Summer 2007)

Thesis: “Salvadorian migrant: A case study to investigate their schooling experience, cultural identity and their language maintenance in (Queensland) Australia.”

 

Falynn Glickstein         School of Justice Studies (Spring 2004)

Honor’s thesis: “Killings of the Women in Juarez.”

 

Brenna Gromley         Department of History (Spring 2008)

“Battling Neighbors: The United States Response to Honduran-El Salvador “Soccer War.”

 

Lauren Kerchenko      Department of History (Fall 2000)

Thesis: “From the Ukraine to the US: Immigrant Women and Assimilation.”

 

Michelle Speck             Dept. of Anthropology (Spring 2001)

Thesis: “Mexican Immigrant Women.”

 

Other Undergraduate Mentoring

 

Christy Garcia              B.A.     Research Apprenticeship        School of Social and Family Dynamics, Fall 2007

 

Vanessa Tucker           B.A.     Research Apprenticeship        School of Social and Family Dynamics, Fall 2007

 

Joshua Whistler            B.S.      Fellow, Center for Religion and Conflict, Fall-Spring 2004-05

 

Olivia Reyes                B.S.      Fellow, Center for Religion and Conflict, Fall-Spring 2004-05

 

Sonia Anaya               B.S.      Research Apprenticeship        School of Justice Studies Fall 2003

 

Malea Chavez             B.S.      Research Apprenticeship        School of Justice Studies Fall 1998