Ph.D. Research

Selected Titles of Recently Submitted Dissertations

The list below illustrates the breadth of dissertation topics pursued by recent students:

• African American Male Youth Violence and Internalized Racism
• “The Feelings of My Family Are with Me”: The Posttraumatic Coping of Adolescent Survivors of the Holocaust
• Situating Child Care Concerns: Child Care Instability in Neighborhood and Policy Contexts
• Growing Up in the Ownership Society: Exploring Links Between Housing Tenure and Adolescent Self-Perceptions
• Examining TANF Sanction Policies: Who Gets Sanctioned and What Are the Effects?
• When Friends Are Murdered: A Qualitative Study of the Experience, Meaning, and Implications for Identity Development of Older African-American Female Adolescents
• The Low Down on the Down Low: An Investigation into the Discordance between Sexual Identity and Sexual Behavior
• From Protagonists to Spectators and Back? The Legacy of the Chilean Military Dictatorship and Community Participation in La Pincoya