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Dr. Rui
Song
The economic
well-being of low-income immigrants in the U.S. : an examination of the
impact of the 1996 welfare reform on immigrants
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Dr. Terry Tsuji
Hyphenated Cultures: Ethnicity and Nation in Trinidad
Chair:
Alex Stepick
Members:
Barry Levine, Anthony Maingot, Terry Rey (Temple
University), Kevin Yelvington (University
of South Florida)
Terry is currently a Visiting Professor at Nova Southeastern University.
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Dr. Suzanne Weber
Life and death in the forest
: landscape agency during the Holocaust
Chair: Hugh Gladwin
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Dr. Dean Anthony Wagstaffe
The cultural
politics of Jamaican dancehall music in South
Florida
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Dr. Mary Louise Jorda
Can
Physicians Become Nurses? A Comparison of the Socialization of Three
Groups of Nursing Students
Chair: Guillermo Grenier
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Dr. Cecilia Nana Derby
Autonomy
and Authority in the Lives of Children who Work as Domestic Servants in
Ghana
Chair:
Hugh Gladwin
Nana
accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Virginia State
University.
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Dr. David McGuirk
An Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Hispanics in Miami-Dade County
Chair: Hugh Gladwin
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Dr. Scott Sherouse
Authority
and Stratification in the Bahamas. The Quest for
Legitimacy
Chair: Barry Levine, Members:
Ivelaw Griffith, Betty Morrow, Alex Stepick
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Dr. Alexis Rose Lay
Boundary
Maintenance in Qatar:
Interpretation of Domination, Segregation and Subordination
Chair: Stephen M. Fjellman, Members: Guillermo Grenier,
Douglas Kincaid
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Dr. Eileen Smith
Black
Churchgoers, Environmental Activism, and the Preservation of Nature in Miami, Florida
Chair: William T. Vickers,
Members: Alex Stepick, Hugh Gladwin
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Dr. Pamela Clark
The
Body Matters: Understanding Social Differences in Mental Health
Chair: William R. Avison, Members: Lilly Langer, Jay Turner, Eric
Wagner
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Dr. Paula Fernandez
Academic
Orientations of African-American Adolescents in Miami-Dade County
Chair: Alex Stepick, Members: Hugh Gladwin, Walter Peacock
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Dr. Carol M. Hoffman
Middle-Class
Immigrant Identities: Dominican-Americans in South
Florida
Chair: Stephen M. Fjellman, Members: Patricia Price, Sarah J. Mahler
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Dr. Ronald L. Stubbs
Flânerie: A Post-Reflexive Mode of Urban Research
Inquiry
Chair: Stephen M. Fjellman,
Members: Kathleen Martín, Barry Levine
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Dr. Nicole Dash
Decision-Making
Under Extreme Undertainty: Rethinking Hazard
Related Perceptions and Action.
Chair: Walter G. Peacock, Members Betty Morrow
and Hugh Gladwin
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Dr. Petia Knowles
Gender Across Cultures: The Immigration
Experience/Bulgarian Immigrants in South Florida.
Chair: Steve Fjellman,
Members: Betty Morrow and Barry Levine
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Dr. Lisa Konczal
The Academic Orientation of the First and Second
Generation Nicaraguan Immigrant Adolescents.
Chair:
Alex Stepick, Members: Naadine
Fernandez and Sarah Mahler.
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Dr. Jane Morgan
Un-Equal Opportunity: Sex
and School Among First and Second Generation Mexican Immigrant
Adolescent Girls.
Chair:
Alex Stepick, Members: Betty Morrow and
Marilyn Hoder-Salmon.
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Dr. Elena Sabogal
Cultural Perception of Space and Place in the South Florida Environment.
Chair:
Hugh Gladwin, Members: Walter Gillis Peacock and William T. Vickers.
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Dr. Alma C. Suarez
Generation Change Among Women in Rural Valencia.
Chair:
William T. Vickers, Members: Barry B. Levine and Lois West.
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Dr. Dora Acherman Chor
The Maintenance of Tracking: The Role of Organizational Culture.
Chair:
Betty H. Morrow, Members: Alex Stepick,
Dennis Wiedman, Stephen Fain.
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Dr. Valmarie Albertini
Influences on Immigrant Students' Perceptions of the
Chances of Making it in the United States.
Chair:
Guillermo Grenier, Members: Betty H. Morrow,
Andres Gil.
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Dr. Michelle Rice
A
Case Study of the Ellison Model's Use of Mentoring as an Approach
Toward Inclusive Community
Building.
Committee:
Chair:
Hugh Gladwin, Members: Steve Fjellman, Deryl Hunt.
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Dr. Katherine Condon
Health
Care Utilization Behavior of Elders in a Multicultural Urban
Environment.
Chair:
Hugh Gladwin, Members: Lilly Langer, Betty H. Morrow.
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Dr. Bennie Osborne
Clash of Identities: An Examination of the Complexity of
Racial and National Identity and their Impact on Ethnic Solidarity Between
Black American and Jamaicans.
Chair:
Alex Stepick, Members: Stephen M. Fjellman, Walter Gillis Peacock, Barry B. Levine, Stan Bowie.
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Dr. Debbie Teed
Voices
at the Shores: Ethnolinguistic Identity among
Adolescent Haitian Students.
Chair: Stephen
M. Fjellman, Members: Jean-Robert Cadely, Robin Sheriff.
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Dr. Jennifer Wilson
The State of Emergency
Management 2000: The Process of Emergency Management Professionalization in the United States and Florida.
Chair:
Betty H. Morrow, Members: Walter Gillis Peacock, David Neal.
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Dr. Max Orezzoli
Health
Beliefs and Health Care Options of Disparate Black Communities in the United States.
Committee: William T. Osborne (Chair), Stephen M. Fjellman, Abraham Lavender.
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Dr. Michael Barnett
Rastafarianism
and the Nation of Islam as Institutions for Group-Identity Formation
among Blacks in the United
States: A Case Study Comparing their
Approaches.
Committee: William T. Osborne(Chair),
Stephen M. Fjellman, Abraham Lavender.
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Dr. Juan Castillo-Cocom
Vulnerable Identities: Maya Yacatec
Identies in A Post Modern World.
Committee: Kathleen Martin (Chair), Hugh Gladwin, R.
McKenna Brown, Carlos Borjorquez Urzaiz.
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Dr. Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel
Towards the Formation of a Sustainable South Florida: An
Analysis of Conflict Resolution and Consensus
Building in the South Florida Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Initiative.
Committee: Janet Chernela
(Chair), William T. Vickers, David Bray, Stephen M. Fjellman.
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Dr. Steven Kurtz
Without Women: Masculinities, Gay Male Sexual Culture and
Sexual Behaviors in Miami,
Florida.
Committee: Alex Stepick (Chair),
Lois West, Stephen M. Fjellman.
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Dr. Milan Zafirovski
Social
Construction of Economic Exchanges: A Weberian
Approach.
Committee:
Barry B. Levine (Chair), Stephen M. Fjellman,
Walter Gillis Peacock.
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Dr. Joaquin Trujillo
A Phenomenology of Crack Abuse.
Committee: Guillermo Grenier
(Chair), Barry B. Levine, Martin Tracey, George Kovacs.
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Dr. Orville Taylor
Structural Adjustment and Labor in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
Committee: Guillermo Grenier
(Chair), Anthony P. Maingot, Kathleen Martin.
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