Ashley Thompson
PhD Date: 2007; Advisor: Jensen, Gary
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Southern Identity: The Meaning, Practice and Importance of a Regional Identity"
Current Postion:

Shelby Pannell
PhD Date: 2007; Advisor: Carpenter, Laura
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Mothers and Daughters: The Creation and Contestation of Beauty and Femininity"
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Belmont University

Alicia Bonaparte
PhD Date: 2007; Advisor: Campbell, Karen
Dissertation Title/Topic: "The Persecution and Prosecution of Granny Midwives in South Carolina, 1900-1940"
Current Position:

Maria Tempenis Shelley
PhD Date: 2007; Advisor: Becker, George
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Take It Like a Man: A Study of Men's Emotional Culture"
Current Position:

Steve Lee
PhD Date: 2007; Advisor: Cornfield, Daniel
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Musical Stratification: Explaining the Aesthetic Mobility of Music Genres"
Current Position: Institutional Research Analyst for the Institutional Research Office at Chapman University (Orange, CA)

Gabrielle Chapman
PhD Date: 2007; Advisors: Jensen, Gary and Gove, Walter
Dissertation Title/Topic: "The Application of Theory to Intervention: The Intersection of Theories of Deviance and Juvenile Delinquency Intervention Programs?
Current Position:

Amy Stinton
PhD Date: 2006; Advisor: Jensen, Gary
Dissertation Title/Topic: "The Causes and Consequences of Running Away: What Difference Does Gender Make?"
Current Position:

Ken Spring
PhD Date: 2006; Advisors: Jensen, Gary and Peterson, Richard
Dissertation Title/Topic: "The Regularization of Risk in Music Scenes"
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Belmont University

Lynn Hampton
PhD Date:  2006; Advisor:  Cornfield, Daniel
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Crossing Boundaries and Bridging Barriers: The Socio-Cultural Processes that Foster the Formation of Social Capital for Youth."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middle Tennessee State University

Christine Mowery
PhD Date:  2006; Advisor:  Campbell, Karen
Dissertation Title/Topic: "A Re-examination of the Resource Mobilization Framework: The Impact of National Resources on State Suffrage Outcomes."
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, VA)

Ranae Evenson
PhD Date: 2005; Advisor: Thoits, Peggy and Campbell, Karen
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Adolescent Identity Processes and Mental Health."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wartburg College (Waverly, IA)

Melissa Sloan
PhD Date: 2005; Advisor:  Campbell, Karen
Dissertation Title/Topic: "There Is No Happiness at Work!": The Performance and Consequences of Emotion Management in the Workplace."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Behavioral Science at Drew University (Madison, NJ)

Terrie Spetalnick
PhD Date: 2005; Advisor:  McCammon, Holly
Dissertation Title/Topic: "When Can Citizen Agents Influence Policy? A Time-Series Regression Analysis of Advocacy Groups' Efforts to Increase U.S. Federal Monetary Support of Child Care, 1964-2001."
Current Position: Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University

Cynthia Ganote
PhD Date:  2004; Advisor:  Carpenter, Laura
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Hopeful Action: A Qualitative Explication of Social Capital Processes Utilized for Neighborhood-Based Social Change."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Mary's College of California (Moraga, CA)

Pamela Hull
PhD Date:  2004; Advisors:  Gove, Walter and Campbell, Karen
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Race, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Effects on Adolescent Well-Being."
Current Position: Associate Director of Center for Health Research at Tennessee State University

Janelle Lee
PhD Date:  2004; Advisor:  Thoits, Peggy
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Chinese American Female Identity."

Betty McCall
PhD Date:  2004; Advisor:  Cornfield, Daniel
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Client Ascendancy:  The Impact of Patient Characteristics on Physician Income."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lycoming College (Williamsport, PA)

Carrie Lee Smith
PhD Date:  2004; Advisor:  Campbell, Karen
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Women's Work or Medical Work?:  The Role of Empathy in Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Claims of Expertise."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Millersville State University (Millersville, PA)

Koji Ueno
PhD Date:  2004; Advisor:  Campbell, Karen and Thoits, Peggy
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Friendship Integration and Adolescent Mental Health."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL) 

Lori Westphal
PhD Date:  2004; Advisor:  Thoits, Peggy
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Cancer Support Groups as Subcultural Phenomena."
Current Position: Program Evaluator, Tobacco Prevention Program, Florida Deparment of Health

Mary Ellen Hill
PhD Date:  2003; Advisor:  Thoits, Peggy
Dissertation Title/Topic:  “How Support Groups Work:  Exploring the Role of Support Groups as a Community-Based Response for Cancer Patients in Northern Ontario.”
Current Position: Senior Researcher at The Center for Rural and Northern Health Research in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

Mary Karpos
PhD Date:  2003; Advisor:  Jensen, Gary
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Determinants of the Uniform Crime Report Rape Rate: Organizational Influences on the Founding Process."
Current Position: Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University

Rosie Noble
PhD Date:  2003; Advisor:  Jensen, Gary
Dissertation Title/Topic:  "Race Matters: Black Rage in the American Prison System."
Current Postion: Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Vanderbilt University; Tennessee Higher Education Commission - Director of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)

Ellen Marie Granberg
PhD Date: 2002; Advisor: Thoits, Peggy
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Identity Transformation Due to Weight Loss."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clemson University (Clemson, SC)

Charles Wilmoth
PhD Date: 2002; Advisor: Gove, Walter
Dissertation Title/Topic: "The Role of Abilities, Interests and Endogenous Reinforcement in the Selection and Maintenance of Careers: An Application of a General Model of Motivation."

James Wilson
PhD Date: 2002; Advisor: Gove, Walter
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Education, Cohort Replacement, and (Mis)assumptions in Social Science  Research."
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fordham University (NY)