2012 Spring
Goodman, Ryan, PhD
Dissertation Title: How We Fight: Strategies at Emergence among Animal Rights and LGBTQ Rights Organizations
Dissertation Committee: Richard Wood (Chair), John Roberts, Susan Tiano, Bert Useem.
Thompson, Warren, MA
Thesis Title: Evangelizing the State
Thesis Committee: Andrew Schrank (Chair), Richard Wood, Les Field.
2011 Fall
Catron, Peter, MA
Thesis Title:¡NO SE PUEDE!: The Decline of Immigrant Unionization Through the Great Recession of 2008
Thesis Committee: Andrew Schrank (Chair), Melissa Binder, John Roberts.
Halbgewachs, Nancy, PhD
Dissertation Title: Censorship and Holocaust Film in the Hollywood Studio System
Dissertation Committee: George Huaco (Chair), Richard Coughlin, Susan Tiano, James Stone.
Rowland, Lynzie, MA
Thesis Title: The Influence of Women's Status on Economic Development: A Pooled Time Series Cross-Sectionl Analysis of 126 Couuntries, 1980-2005.
Thesis Committee: Susan Tiano (Chair), Aki Roberts, Wayne Santoro.
Trujillo, Saundra, MA
Thesis Title: Jail Incarceration and Violent Crime Rates: A cross-sectional exploratory analysis in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thesis Committee: Maria Velez (Chair), Christopher Lyons, Lisa Broidy
2011 Summer
Carlisle, Jessica, MA
Thesis Title: Gender, Jobs and Labor: Understanding the Gendered Division of Household Labor in Dual Earner, Middle Class Families Based on Job Dynamics
Thesis Committee: Nancy Lopez (Chair), Robert Fiala, Aki Roberts.
2011 Spring
Beals, Rebecca, MA
Thesis Title: Constructing the "At-Risk" Student in Education: A Sociopolitical Analysis from 1960-2009
Thesis Committee: Nancy Lopez (Chair), Roberto Ibarra, Robert Fiala.
Edwards, Kerry, PhD
Dissertation Title: Male offenders' work experiences pre-prison, in-prison, and upon reentry: Interactions between work and crime
Dissertation Committee: Beverly Burris (Chair), Richard Coughlin, Christopher Lyons, Paul Steele.
2010 Fall
Kleymann, Erin, MA
Thesis Title: Motherhood and Desistance: The Influence of Children in Women's Offending
Thesis Committee: Lisa Broidy (Chair), Christopher Lyons, Maria Velez.
Pitts, Kimberly, PhD
Dissertation Title: Latina Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence: Likelihood of Reporting to Mid-South Police
Dissertation Committee: Susan Tiano (Chair), Robert Fiala, Nancy Lopez, Yaschica Williams.
2010 Summer
Halim, Nafisa, PhD
Dissertation Title: Human Development in Poor Countries: Bangladesh in Comparative Perspective
Dissertation Committee: Andrew Schrank (Chair), Susan Tiano, Howard Waitzkin, Christine Sauer.
Lechuga, Chalane E., PhD
Dissertation Title: "They'll expect more bad things from us.": Latino/a Youth Constructing Identities in a Racialized High School in New Mexico
Dissertation Committee: Nancy Lopez (Chair), Phillip Gonzales, Ricky Lee Allen, Laura Gomez.
2009 Fall
La Luz B., W. Azul, PhD
Dissertation Title: Hispanos in the Valley of Death: Street-Level Trauma, Cultural-PTSD, Overdoses, and Suicides in North Central New Mexico
Dissertation Committee: Nancy Lopez (chair), Magdalena Avila, Ernest Stringer, and Susan Tiano
LaPoint, Kevin, PhD
Dissertation Title: Liberal and Devout: the Sources of Enthusiasm and Organizational Commitment Within the Liberal Religious Niche
Dissertation Committee: Richard L. Wood (chair), Beverly H. Burris, William R. Miller, and Rhys H. Williams
Nowacki, Jeffrey, MA
Thesis Title: Policy, Racial Threat, and Economic Conditions: A Look at Police Use of Deadly Force
Thesis Committee: Lisa Broidy (chair), Christopher Lyons and Aki Roberts
2009 Summer
Diaz, Aaron N., MA
Thesis Title: "The impact of indian gaming on educational attainment & poverty
among native american tribes."
Thesis Committee: Nancy Lopez (chair), Roberto Ibarra and Aki Roberts
McConnell, Marjorie S., PhD
Dissertation Title: Comparing the effectiveness of Hantavirus outreach in NW New Mexico, Panama, and Chile.
Dissertation Committee: Philip A May (Chair), Richard Coughlin, Gary Simpson and Susan Tiano
2009 Spring
Ben-Meir, Yossef, PhD
Dissertation Title: Participatory development and its emergence in the fields of community and international development
Dissertation Committee: George Huaco (chair), Richard Coughlin, Ernest Stringer and Susan Tiano
Olson, Colin B., PhD
Dissertation Title: Who rules the city? how growth coalition elites believe they influence decision-making
Dissertation Committee: John M. Roberts (chair), Susan Tiano, Harry Van Buren and Richard L. Wood
2008 Fall
Volke, Chris D., MA
Thesis Title: An assessment of four Christian denominations' ideology toward homosexuality
Thesis Committee: Robert Fiala (chair), Nancy Lopez and Susan Tiano
2008 Summer
Zhu, Geshu, MA
Thesis Title: Globalization or regionalization : geographical patterns and the dynamics of foreign direct investment in the contemporary world automotive industry
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2008 Spring
Green, Brenda L., MA
Thesis Title: "Carving our own niche" : Arab American women's discourses of gender ideals in marriage
Thesis Committee: Susan Tiano (chair), Phillip Gonzales, Nancy Lopez |