Mentoring and Student
Committees
Post-doctoral
Silvia Dominguez, Sociology, Northeastern
University. Ford Foundation Diversity Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2009-2010 (
Sandra D. Simpkins,
PhDs in Progress (Chair)
Olivia
Salcido
PhDs in Progress (Committee Member)
Melinda Alexander School of Geographical Sciences
Sarah
Stohlman Department
of Sociology, USC
Arely Zimmerman Department
of Political Science, UCLA
PhDs Completed (Chair)
Dissertation: Policing Protest Spaces:
Social Control in the Anti-Globalization Movement.
Dissertation:
“Living on the Edge of the Law: Undocumented 1.5 Mexican Immigrants and their
Expressions of Citizenship.”
Sang
Kil
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.”
“Militarism: Micro-Macro Power
Arrangements between Wives, Soldiers, and the
Military-Industrial-Service-Complex.”
Carlos
Posadas
Dissertation:
“Women’s Translocal Networks and How they Organize
Resettlement by Looking at Specific Spheres of their Lives.”
Dissertation:
“War-Nation: Military and Moral Geographies of the Hoosier Homefront.”
PhDs Completed (Committee Member)
Randall
Amster
Dissertation:
“Patterns of Exclusion, Forces of Resistance: Urban Sidewalks, National
Forests, and the Contested Realms of Public Space.”
Cindy Bejarano
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
Everardo Garduño Dept. of Anthropology (Fall 2005)
“From Invented to
Imagined and Invisible Communities: Mobility, Social Networks and Ethnicity
among the Yumans of
Gail
Gibbons
Dissertation:
“Twenty-five Years Later: A Comparative Study of the Socioeconomic Integration
of Vietnamese Refugees in
Anneliese M Harper
Dissertation:
“The Impact of Immigration on Rural Guatemalan
Khaleel Husssaini
“Immigrant
Adaptation Among Mexican Students in the Southwest:
Understanding Differences Among Fifth Graders’ Consumption Norms of Alcohol,
Cigarettes, and Marijuana.”
Heather
Kuhn
Dissertation: “Health Profile of Farm workers and
Interface of Workers with Healthcare in
Dissertation: “Determinants of Care for Medicare Recipients at the
End of Life: Utilization and Decision Making in the Acute
Emily
Skop Dept.
of Geography (Spring 2002)
Dissertation:
“The Saffron Suburbs: Asian Indian Immigrants Community Formation in
Metropolitan
Qualifying Examinations only
Eugenio
Arene Educational
Policy Analysis,
Neel
Bhattacharjee Dept.
of Geography
Terna Gbasha
Mei
Lei
M.A. Theses (Chair)
Cherie
Espinoza
Thesis:
“Education for Extinction: Protecting Our Roots from
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
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
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
Final
Project: “ Redesingning the
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
Emily Skop Dept.
of Geography (Summer 1997)
Thesis:
“Segmented Paths: The Geographic and Social Mobility of Mariel Cuban Exiles.”
Honors Theses (Director)
Michelle
Brady
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
Thesis:
“A System Flawed: The Death Penalty in the
Honors Theses (Committee
Member)
Thesis:
“Salvadorian migrant: A case study to investigate their schooling experience, cultural
identity and their language maintenance in (
Falynn Glickstein
Honor’s thesis:
“Killings of the Women in
Brenna
Gromley Department
of History (Spring 2008)
“Battling Neighbors: The
Lauren
Kerchenko Department
of History (Fall 2000)
Thesis:
“From the
Michelle
Speck Dept.
of Anthropology (Spring 2001)
Thesis:
“Mexican Immigrant Women.”
Christy Garcia B.A. Research Apprenticeship
Vanessa Tucker B.A. Research
Apprenticeship
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
Malea Chavez B.S. Research Apprenticeship