Dissertations from 2012
The Effect of Race on Crime: A Multilevel Analysis, Wanjun Cui
The Politics of Protection and Promotion: the Case of the Coal Industry in Environmental Politics, Elizabeth Ashley East
Parenting Behind Bars: A Qualitative Study of Incarcerated Mothers, Beth Allen Easterling
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Finance and Managerial Control in the US Forest Products Industry, 1945-2008, Andrew Augustus Gunnoe
Growing a Local Movement: New Social Movements, Food, and Activism, Liam Vangsnes Hysjulien
"To Preserve This Much-Injured Race": Techniques of Neutralization and Indian Removal, 1829-1831, Robert Michael Keeton
Understanding Biotechnology: Conceptualizing and Measuring US Public Concern, Jenna Ann Lamphere
Changes in US Ethnic Niches, 2005-2010, James N. Maples
The Global Debt Minotaur: An Analysis of the Greek Financial Crisis, Steven Alfonso Panageotou
Gender, Social Ties, And Reentry Experiences, Jennifer Rhiannon Scroggins
Short-Term Missions: Reinforcing Beliefs and Legitimating Poverty, William Vaughan Taylor
New Means, Old Ends? World Bank Governmentality in Thailand and Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nicholas Ryan Zeller
Dissertations from 2011
The Role of "Sense of Place:" A Theoretical Framework to Aid Urban Forest Policy Decision-Making, Kimberly Louise Davis
Mediating Justice: Toward A Critical-Reflexive Sociology, George Christopher Gondo
Education & Crime: A Study in Student Perceptions of Culpability, Larry Curtis Long
Passivity: Looking at Bystanding Through the Lens of Criminological Theory, Rahim Manji
Women and the Environment: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Gender and Demographic Characteristics of Environmental Concern, Carmel Elizabeth Price
Unto the Least of These: The Pentecostal Church and Social Ministry, Stacey U Tucker
The Financial Crisis as an Expression of Macrohistorical Trends: World Hegemony, Neoliberal Globalization, and Financialization in 21st Century Capitalism, Shane Montgomery Willson
Dissertations from 2010
Systems, Social Order, and the Global Debt Crisis, John Hamilton Bradford
Regulating the Global Politico-Economic Order: The Functioning of the Development Assistance Provision Regime, Justin James Gann
Gender Differences in Attitudes toward Math and Science among Elementary Students: An Exploration of the Role of Teachers, Katie F. Gugliotta
Modernity, Capitalism, and War: Toward a Sociology of War in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914, Eric Royal Lybeck
The Assumption of Non-coerciveness and the Total Food Market, Harwood Schaffer
Interstitial Copresence: Experiencing Self With and Within Everyday Forms of Electronically Mediated Communication, Steven J. Seiler
Georgian's Reaction to Water Shortage: Water Conservation Behavior during the 2007 Drought, Alexander M. Stoner
Adolescent Female Substance Use: An Examination of Male Peer Influences and Parental Control, Sarah Gwynne Whiteford
"Rapping About Authenticity": Exploring the Differences in Perceptions of "Authenticity" in Rap Music by Consumers.", James L. Wright
Dissertations from 2009
Giving Back Not Giving Up: Generativity Among Older Female Inmates, Regina White Benedict
The Construction of Social Networks of Support in a New Latino Gateway, Meghan Elizabeth Conley
Contested Legitimacy: Coercion and the State in Ethiopia, Dima Noggo Sarbo
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas: Rethinking Economic Integration After the Failures of Neoliberalism, Shannon D. Williams
Dissertations from 2008
Migrating Money: Remittances in a Global Setting, Robert Randall Adams
Skin Color Bias in the Immigration Process: A Multi-Methods Approach, Sarah E. Hendricks
Industrial Concentration and Quality of Life, James Nathaniel Maples
Masters Theses from 2007
Media, Accounts, and Coherence: ‘De Facto’ Impression Management of a Transgressing Sport Star in The Chicago Tribune, Erin Maureen Austin
Does National Policy Influence Individual Car Driving Behavior: A Cross-National Study of the European Union, Erika Lynn Borek
The Falling Rate of Profit Thesis Reassessed: Toward a Sociology of Marx’s Value Theory of Labor, John Hamilton Bradford
Groundwater: A Community’s Management of the Invaluable Resource Beneath its Feet, Nancy D. Brannon
Counterterrorism and the Deterrence Doctrine, Casey E. Cordy
Felony Disenfranchisement Legislation: A Test of the Group Threat Hypothesis, Angel Dawn Geoghagan
Eight Karats of Justice: Analysis of the Grassroots Resistance Movement Against Goldmining in the Villages of Bergama, Turkey, Banu Aysu Koçer
Meth Epidemic in Rural Tennessee: Construction of a Social Problem, Brian Harold Langley
From Gay Street to Turkey Creek: Knoxville’s Urban and Suburban Growth Machines, Katherine Leigh Morris
The Social Ecology of Parenting: Systematically Modeling The Antecedents of Supportive and Intrusive Parenting, Julie A. Schluterman
Extraction, Ecology, Exploitation, and Oppression: The Political Economy of Coal in Appalachia, William R. Wishart
Masters Theses from 1998
Murder for Hire: Event Characteristics and Causal Implications, Nicole Madonna Corsaro