Mentoring
and Student Committees
Post-doctoral
Leisy J. Abrego, Chicano Studies Department, UCLA. Ford Foundation Diversity Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013 (Mentor)
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)
Lilian Chavez Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics
Haruna Fukui School of
Social and Family Dynamics
Dulce Medina School
of Social Transformation
PhDs in
Progress (Committee Member)
Melinda Alexander School of Geographical Sciences
Chara Price Family and Human
Development, Sanford School, ASU
Aundrea
Snitker Women & Gender Studies, ASU
Wan Yu School
of Geographical Sciences, ASU
PhDs
Completed (Chair)
Dissertation: “Prescription
Drug Advertising and the Biomedical Construction of Affective Disorder: Effects
for Consumers, Physicians, and Society.”
*Assistant Professor,
University of Houston, Clear Lake
Dissertation: “Policing Protest Spaces: Social Control in the
Anti-Globalization Movement.”
*Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University (earlier, Grinnell
College)
Dissertation:
“Living on the Edge of the Law: Undocumented 1.5 Mexican Immigrants and their
Expressions of Citizenship.”
*Research
Analyst, Arizona Supreme Court, Phoenix, Arizona
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.”
*Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
Zeynep Kilic Sociology,
School of Social and Family Dynamics (Fall 2006)
Dissertation: “Reluctant Citizens: Belonging and Immigrant Identification in the Era of
Transnationalism.”
*Assistant Professor, University of Alaska
Dissertation: “Militarism: Micro-Macro Power Arrangements between Wives,
Soldiers, and the Military-Industrial-Service-Complex.”
*Instructor,
Ferris State University
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.”
*Assistant
Professor, New Mexico State University
Olivia
Salcido School of
Justice and Social Inquiry (Spring 2011)
Dissertation:
“Wolves” or “Blessing”: Victims’/Survivors’ Perspectives on the Criminal
Justice System.
*Tempe
Preparatory Academy
Dissertation:
“War-Nation: Military and Moral Geographies of the Hoosier Homefront.”
*Assistant
Professor, Eastern Kentucky University
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.”
Dissertation:
“Gender Vulnerabilities in the Caribbean: A Focus Upon
Indigenous Kalinago (Carib)
Women in Bataka, Dominica.”
Dissertation:
“Religious Revival in Modern Turkey: Muslim, The New
Muslim Entrepreneurs, and Sites of Hybridity.”
Chantal Figueroa Department of Organizational
Leadership, Policy, & Development (Summer 2014)
“State of Terror, States of Mind: Gender, Mental
Health and Systems of Care in Guatemala City.” (University of Minnesota)
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 Sociology, School of Social and
Family Dynamics (Spring 2008)
“Immigrant Adaptation Among
Mexican Students in the Southwest: Understanding Differences Among Fifth
Graders’ Consumption Norms of Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Marijuana.”
Atsuko
Kawakami Sociology, School of
Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2012)
“Aging and Identity Among Japanese Immigrant
Women.”
Heather
Kuhn School of Public
Health (Spring 2005) (Harvard University) (External Reader)
Dissertation: “Health Profile of Farm workers and
Interface of Workers with Healthcare in Imperial County, California: A
Qualitative Analysis.”
Dissertation: “Determinants of Care for Medicare Recipients at the End
of Life: Utilization and Decision Making in the Acute Care Hospital.”
John Rosinbum Department
of History, ASU (Spring 2014)
“A Crisis Transformed: Refugees, Activists and Government Officials in
the United States and Canada during the Central American Refugee Crisis.”
Emily Skop Dept.
of Geography (Spring 2002)
Dissertation:
“The Saffron Suburbs: Asian Indian Immigrants Community Formation in
Metropolitan Phoenix.”
Andrea
Vest Family and Human Development, Sanford School, ASU (Fall
2014)
Dissertation: “Latino Adolescents’ Organized
Activities: Understanding the Role of Ethnicity and Culture in Shaping
Participation.”
Paz Elizabeth Villegas Dept.
of Sociology and Equity Studies (University of Toronto) (Summer 2012) (outside
reader)
Dissertation: “Assembling and (re)marking migrant illegalization:
Mexican migrants with precarious status in Canada.”
Arely
Zimmerman Department of
Political Science, (Spring 2010) (UCLA)
Dissertation:
“Contesting Citizenship: Identity, Rights, and Participation across Borders,
Central Americans in Los Angeles.”
Qualifying
Examinations only
Eugenio Arene Educational
Policy Analysis, School of Education
Neel Bhattacharjee Dept.
of Geography
Estye Fenton Department
of Sociology and Anthropology (Northeastern University)
Terna Gbasha School of Justice and Social
Inquiry
Mei Lei School of Public
Affairs
M.A.
Theses Completed (Chair)
Cherie
Espinoza School of Justice
Studies (Fall 2000)
Thesis:
“Education for Extinction: Protecting Our Roots from Arizona English-Only
Initiative.”
Dulce
Medina Sociology, School
of Social and Family Dynamics (Summer 2011)
Thesis:
Emily
Sawyer Sociology,
School of Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2009) (co-chair)
Thesis:
“The Adoption of Biomedicine into Quechua
Cosmology of Health and Illness: Treatment-Seeking Behavior in an Indigenous
Ecuadorian Community.” (Co-Chair)
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 Competed (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.”
Aurelia
de La Rosa Aceves Sociology, School of
Social and Family Dynamics (Spring 2011)
“Phoenix’s
Place for the Homeless: Stories from the Maricopa County Human Services
Campus.”
Mario Escobar Department
of Spanish (Fall
2011)
“Globalización, violencia y
solidaridad: prácticas discursivas eurocentroamericanas
y chicanas.”
Miriam Hilin Department of Sociology
(Spring 2005)
“Immigration Law and the Family Stability of Mexican
Undocumented Immigrants.”
Juan
Esteban Mejía Aguilar Estudios de
Población, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico (Summer 2014)
“Migrantes
Desaparecidos: Una Búsqueda Interminadble.”
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.”
Chara Price Family and Human Development,
Social and Family Dynamics (Fall 2012)
“Sibling Behaviors and Mexican Origin Adolescents’ After-School Activity
Participation.”
Emily Skop Dept. of Geography (Summer
1997)
Thesis: “Segmented Paths: The Geographic and Social
Mobility of Mariel Cuban Exiles.”
Honors
Theses Completed (Director)
Michelle
Brady School of Justice
Studies (Fall 2000)
Thesis:
“The Stalker: A Creative Project.”
Chrisanne Gultz School
of Politics and Global Studies (Spring 2014)
“The Media Construction of Undocumented Immigration as
a National Crisis”
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 Completed (Committee Member)
Anna
Fairbanks Bethancourt Department of
English (Spring 2011)
“Consolidating Migrant Identity in Arizona: Newcomers and a State’s Need
for Social Empathy.”
Loredana Cuatro Nochez School of Languages and Linguistics,
Griffith University, 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.”
Haley McInnis Sociology
(Spring 2013)
“The Role of Religious Organizations in Progressive Social
Movements: Local Churches and Their Response to Senate Bill 1070.”
Michelle
Speck Dept. of
Anthropology (Spring 2001)
Thesis:
“Mexican Immigrant Women.”
Lea Fordyce Obama
Scholar Mentorship Program 2013-2014
William McDonald B.S. Research Apprenticeship, School
of Politics & Global Studies, 2013
Mauro Whiteman B.S. Research Fellow, Center for the Study of
Religion and Conflict, Fall 2012
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