Ph.D. Recipients

2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001 / 2000 / 1999 / 1998


2007

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

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.

Dr. Suzanne Weber

 

Life and death in the forest : landscape agency during the Holocaust

 

Chair: Hugh Gladwin

2006

Dr. Dean Anthony Wagstaffe

 

The cultural politics of Jamaican dancehall music in South Florida

2005

Dr. Mary Louise Jorda

Can Physicians Become Nurses? A Comparison of the Socialization of Three Groups of Nursing Students

Chair: Guillermo Grenier

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.

2004

Dr. David McGuirk

An Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Hispanics in Miami-Dade County

Chair: Hugh Gladwin  

Dr. Scott Sherouse

Authority and Stratification in the Bahamas. The Quest for Legitimacy

Chair: Barry Levine, Members: Ivelaw Griffith, Betty Morrow, Alex Stepick

Dr. Alexis Rose Lay

Boundary Maintenance in Qatar: Interpretation of Domination, Segregation and Subordination

Chair: Stephen M. Fjellman, Members: Guillermo Grenier, Douglas Kincaid

2003

Dr. Eileen Smith

Black Churchgoers, Environmental Activism, and the Preservation of Nature in Miami, Florida

Chair: William T. Vickers, Members: Alex Stepick, Hugh Gladwin

Dr. Pamela Clark

The Body Matters: Understanding Social Differences in Mental Health

Chair: William R. Avison, Members: Lilly Langer, Jay Turner, Eric Wagner

Dr. Paula Fernandez

Academic Orientations of African-American Adolescents in Miami-Dade County

Chair: Alex Stepick, Members: Hugh Gladwin, Walter Peacock

2002

Dr. Carol M. Hoffman

Middle-Class Immigrant Identities: Dominican-Americans in South Florida

Chair: Stephen M. Fjellman, Members: Patricia Price, Sarah J. Mahler

Dr. Ronald L. Stubbs

Flânerie: A Post-Reflexive Mode of Urban Research Inquiry

Chair: Stephen M. Fjellman, Members: Kathleen Martín, Barry Levine

Dr. Nicole Dash

Decision-Making Under Extreme Undertainty: Rethinking Hazard Related Perceptions and Action.

Chair: Walter G. Peacock, Members Betty Morrow and Hugh Gladwin

Dr. Petia Knowles

Gender Across Cultures: The Immigration Experience/Bulgarian Immigrants in South Florida.

Chair: Steve Fjellman, Members: Betty Morrow and Barry Levine

Dr. Lisa Konczal

The Academic Orientation of the First and Second Generation Nicaraguan Immigrant Adolescents.

Chair: Alex Stepick, Members: Naadine Fernandez and Sarah Mahler.

2001

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.

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.

Dr. Alma C. Suarez

Generation Change Among Women in Rural Valencia.

Chair: William T. Vickers, Members: Barry B. Levine and Lois West.

Dr. Dora Acherman Chor

The Maintenance of Tracking: The Role of Organizational Culture.

Chair: Betty H. Morrow, Members: Alex Stepick, Dennis Wiedman, Stephen Fain.

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.

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.

2000

Dr. Katherine Condon

Health Care Utilization Behavior of Elders in a Multicultural Urban Environment.

Chair: Hugh Gladwin, Members: Lilly Langer, Betty H. Morrow.

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.

Dr. Debbie Teed

Voices at the Shores: Ethnolinguistic Identity among Adolescent Haitian Students.

Chair: Stephen M. Fjellman, Members: Jean-Robert Cadely, Robin Sheriff.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1999

 

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.

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.

Dr. Milan Zafirovski

Social Construction of Economic Exchanges: A Weberian Approach.

Committee: Barry B. Levine (Chair), Stephen M. Fjellman, Walter Gillis Peacock.

Dr. Joaquin Trujillo

A Phenomenology of Crack Abuse.

 

Committee: Guillermo Grenier (Chair), Barry B. Levine, Martin Tracey, George Kovacs.

1998

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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