Colette Ngana
DISSERTATION TITLE
Burned in Cuyahoga County: Fundamental Causes and the Geography of Vulnerability
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
2024
Lacey Caporale
DISSERTATION TITLE
Displaced and Situated in Place: A Critical Study of Relational Space in a Gentrifying Neighborhood
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
2024
Polina Ermoshkina
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Besides Me, My Mother Has No One”: Caregiving Experiences and Expectations of Only Daughters of Single Mothers in Ufa, Russia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
2024
Erin Phelps
DISSERTATION TITLE
Instrumentation of Queer Graduate Students of Color Persistence: An Exploratory Analysis
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
2024
Casey Albitz
DISSERTATION TITLE
Evicted in Cleveland, Ohio: A Sociology of Displacement and the Role of the Court
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
2023
Sherri Brown
DISSERTATION TITLE
Does Long-Term Stress Contribute to Racial Disparities in Health? Testing an Extended Stress Process Model
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
2022
Sara Kennedy
DISSERTATION TITLE
How Transportation Plays a Role in Care of People with Epilepsy
MOST RECENT POSITION
Research Associate in the Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Department at CWRU
GRADUATION YEAR
2022
Danielle Sabo
DISSERTATION TITLE
The Weight of Trauma: Exploring the relationship between intimate body trauma and disordered eating across the early life course
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
2022
Kaitlyn Barnes Langendoerfer
DISSERTATION TITLE
Aging in Place Through Neighborhood Decline: How and Why Older African American Adults Stayed in Cleveland
MOST RECENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology, Wilkes University
GRADUATION YEAR
2022
Luma AlMasarweh
DISSERTATION TITLE
Transnational Projects of Second-Generation Arab Americans
MOST RECENT POSITION
Researcher at Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education,
Case Western Reserve University
GRADUATION YEAR
2021
Spencier Ciaralli
DISSERTATION TITLE
"The Climax of the Story: Queering Women's Sexual Histories and Pleasure Narratives"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Visiting Assistant Professor in Augustana University's Department of Sociology
GRADUATION YEAR
2021
Wenxuan “Cherry” Huang
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Leisure to Explore or Failure to Launch? A Cohort Comparison of the Transition to Adulthood Between Late Baby Boomers and Early Millennials"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Research Assistant Professor in Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University
GRADUATION YEAR
2021
Jiao Yu
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Fertility History and Later Life Health: A Sequence Analysis of Cohorts Before and During the One-Child Policy Era"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota
GRADUATION YEAR
2021
Anne Bryden
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Navigating Resources after Spinal Cord Injury: The Utility of Human Rights"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Director of Clinical Trials and Research, Institute for Functional Restoration, CWRU Investigator, Cleveland FES Center
GRADUATION YEAR
2020
Holly Renzhofer Pappada
DISSERTATION TITLE
“The Experience and Psycho-Social Implications of Chronic Pain: The Importance of a Medical Diagnosis”
MOST RECENT POSITION
GRADUATION YEAR
2020
Christine Schneider
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Living the Forgetting Experience: An exploratory Inquiry of the Lived Experience of MCI Among Older Disabled Veterans"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Executive Director for INclusionWorks Consulting 501c3 Coporation
GRADUATION YEAR
2020
Kelly Melvin-Campbell
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Who Is Talking With Whom? An Investigation of Community Policing and Inter-Agency Collaboration In a Rustbelt Secondary City: A Case Study"
MOST RECENT POSITION
School-Justice Partnership Director, Mahoning County Juvenile Court
GRADUATION YEAR
2019
Timothy Goler
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Racial Differences in Stressful Life Events, Coping and Psychological Well-being among Urban Older Adults"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Norfolk State University
GRADUATION YEAR
2019
Alicia Smith-Tran
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Racialized Runners: Life Stories of Middle-Class Black Women"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College
GRADUATION YEAR
2018
Tirth Bhatta
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Sociohistorical Changes in the Education-Health Gradient: A Five-Cohort Comparative Study of Black and White U.S. Adults"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
GRADUATION YEAR
2017
Rachel Harrison
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Finding Forever Homes: Examining Parental Motives and Preferences in Adoption"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Associate Dean for Research, Walsh University
GRADUATION YEAR
2017
Gregory Graham
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Racial Disparities in Hip and Knee Replacment Therapy as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis in the VA Health Care System of the United States: What is the Effect on Depressive Symptomology?"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Instructor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing [Deceased]
GRADUATION YEAR
2017
Rebecca Siders
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Voices from the Inside: Gender & the Meaning of Care"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Outreach Coordinator/Public Affairs Officer, Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command, Suffolk, VA
GRADUATION YEAR
2016
Margaret Waltz
DISSERTATION TITLE
"(Im)Patient Patients: An Ethnography of Medical Waiting Rooms"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Research Associate, Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
GRADUATION YEAR
2016
Cory Cronin
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Hospitals' Choices and the Institutional Environment: the Role of Community Benefit in the Health Care Sector"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Associate Professor and Health Services Administration Program Coordinator, Department of Social and Public Health, Ohio University
GRADUATION YEAR
2015
Casey Schroeder-Jenkinson
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Let's Talk about Sex…or Not: Doctor-Patient Communication about Sexual Health"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Assistant Professor and Director of IPE, Simulation and Outcomes, Physician Assistant Program, SOM, CWRU
GRADUATION YEAR
2015
Melinda Laroco Boehm
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Eating Good in the Neighborhood? A Qualitative Investigation of Seniors Living in Public Housing and Their Foodscape Navigation"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Director of Research Development, Bouve College of Health Science, Northeastern University
GRADUATION YEAR
2014
George Kypriotakis
DISSERTATION TITLE
"A year in their lives: Trajectories of well-being for patient diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, Division of OVP, Cancer Prevention and Populations Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
GRADUATION YEAR
2012
Joshua Terchek
DISSERTATION TITLE
"ADHD and Self-Discrepancy: The Social Construction of ADHD in Adulthood"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Director of Institutional Research, Lakeland Community College
GRADUATION YEAR
2012
Lynn Falletta
DISSERTATION TITLE
"It's Not Just Pure Science: Federal Funding of Children's Mental Health Research through the Request for Applications (RFA) Process"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Research Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, Kent State University
GRADUATION YEAR
2011
Noah Webster
DISSERTATION TITLE
"The Embodiment of Diabetes and the Affect on Self-Care Strategies"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Associate Research Scientist, Life Course Development Program, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
GRADUATION YEAR
2011
Andrew Hund
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Uncovering the Interconnection of Ses and Ethnicity to Health Related Quality of Life: An Investigation of White and Native Alaskans"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Sociology, United Arab Emirates University [Deceased]
GRADUATION YEAR
2010
Karie Feldman
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Post Parenthood Redefined: Race, Class, and Family Structure Differences in the Experience of Launching Children"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Full-time lecturer, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
GRADUATION YEAR
2010
Adam Perzynski
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Between Facts & Voices: Medical and Lay Knowledge of the Spread of Hepatitis C"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Professor of Medicine and Sociology, Director, Patient-Centered Media Lab, Center for Health Care Research and Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center
GRADUATION YEAR
2008
Loren Lovegreen
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Characteristics & Antecedents of Residential Moves made by Retirement Community Dwelling Elders in Late Life"
MOST RECENT POSITION
VP, Academic and Research Regional Administration, Northern Lights College
GRADUATION YEAR
2007
Katherine Abbott
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Blending Resources: Informal Networks and HealthCare Utilization by Frail Male Veterans"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Executive Director, Scripps Gerontology Center; Professor of Gerontology, Department of Sociology & Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow, Miami University
GRADUATION YEAR
2005
Pamela Monaghan Geernaert
DISSERTATION TITLE
"A Reservation Nursing Home: Cultural Continuity & Quality of Life in an Institutional Setting"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Sociology, Shippensburg University, PA
GRADUATION YEAR
2002
Rebecca Meehan
DISSERTATION TITLE
"The Emerging Role of the Deacon’s Wife in the Catholic Church"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Associate Professor, Kent State University
GRADUATION YEAR
1997
Kimberly A. Skarupski
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Depression and Physical Illness: A Longitudinal Analysis of the National Health & Nutrition Examinational Survey"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Office of Faculty Development, School of Medicine; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology); Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health; John Hopkins University
GRADUATION YEAR
1996
Mark Latcovich
DISSERTATION TITLE
"The Effects of the Ministerial Environment of Roman Catholic Permanent Deacons and their Wives"
MOST RECENT POSITION
President-Rector, Professor of Pastoral Theology, Saint Mary Seminary & Graduate School of Theology; President-Rector, Borromeo Seminary
GRADUATION YEAR
1995
Neale Chumbler
DISSERTATION TITLE
"The effects of pre-professional and professional socialization and intergenerational solidarity on podiatric medical students' negative stereotypes and attitudes toward treating the elderly"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Dean, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Texas; Professor, Rehabilitation and Health Services
GRADUATION YEAR
1994
Julian Montoro-Rodriguez
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Cooperation and Competition Among Aged Parents and Adult Children"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Professor , School of Social Work & Sociology; Director, Gerontology Program UNC, Charlotte
GRADUATION YEAR
1994
Jeanne Mattern
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Life Satisfaction in Retirement: A Study of Continuity & Change"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Director, Performance Improvement & Outcomes, Corporate Compliance Office; BOD President, University Settlement
GRADUATION YEAR
1993
Elaine A. Borawski
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Predictors, components and sequelae of social integration of the aged within age-homogeneous environments"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition, Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Nutrition, CWRU School of Medicine; Director, CWRU Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods
GRADUATION YEAR
1992
Jon Stuckey
DISSERTATION TITLE
"The Relationship between Social Ties & Emotional & Physical Well-being among Spousal Caregivers of Patients with Dementia"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Executive Director of Development, Messiah College
GRADUATION YEAR
1992
Sonia Alemagno
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Health and Illness behavior of Type A individuals"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Dean, College of Public Health, Kent State University; Professor, Health Policy & Management, Kent State University
GRADUATION YEAR
1991
Trina Anglin
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Physician Management of Sexually Abused Children & Adolescents: A Model of Physician Behavior"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Retired Chief, Adolescent Health Branch at Health Resources & Services Administration/Maternal & Child Health Bureau
GRADUATION YEAR
1983
Mary Edmonds
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Social Class & the Functional Health Status of the Aged Black Female"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Emeritus, Vice Provost of Student Affairs, Stanford University [Deceased]
GRADUATION YEAR
1982
Marian Cohen
DISSERTATION TITLE
House Officers and the Changing Health Delivery System
MOST RECENT POSITION
Professor, Sociology, Framingham State University; Director, Center for Social Research at Framingham State University
GRADUATION YEAR
1981
Edward H. Thompson, Jr.
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Social Chronicity: Chronic Mental Patients in an Era Following Deinstitutionalization"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Professor Emeritus, Sociology & Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Sociology, CWRU
GRADUATION YEAR
1980
Roy Ruckdeschel
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Teachers and Their Unions; A Rank and File Perspective"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Emeritus Professor of Social Work, St. Louis University
GRADUATION YEAR
1975
Linda Lindsey
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Speech Behavior, Communicative Interference and Interracial Contact"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Senior Lecturer, Sociology/American Culture Studies, Washington University, St. Louis; Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maryville University of St. Louis
GRADUATION YEAR
1974
Naomi Breslau
DISSERTATION TITLE
"The Impact of Client Social Setting on Non-Professional Work Role"
MOST RECENT POSITION
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University [Deceased]
GRADUATION YEAR
1972
Juliet Saltman
DISSERTATION TITLE
"Open Housing as a Social Movement: A Sociological Study of Challenge, Conflict, and Change"
MOST RECENT POSITION
-
GRADUATION YEAR
1971