Graduate Dissertations
For more information on graduate dissertation titles and research interests, visit the current PhD students page and the graduate alumni page.
2012
Berman, Elise; The Faces of Deception: Childhood, Age, and Avoiding giving in the Marshall Islands
Cooper, Amy; Vital Politics: Medicine and Citizenship in Venezuela
Fein, Elizabeth; The Machine Within: An Ethnography of Asperger's syndrome, Biomedicine, and the Paradoxes of Identity and Technology in the Late Modern United States
Hota, Pinky; Affecting Violence: Development, Religion and Indigeneity in Kandhamal
Imai, Ryoko; Charity begins abroad: Considerations of when to give, when not to give, and who is worthy
Kassem, Layla; Psychotherapy Between Two Cultures: A Portrait of Psychotherapists in Egypt
2011
Bergmann, Samantha; Who Wears the Pants?: Family Roles, Gender Role Identity, and Relationship Quality Among Female Co-Parenting Couples
Brezis, Rachel; Social and Non-Social Memory in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Eliacin, Johanne; An Ethnography of the "Epidemic" of Schizophrenia among individuals of African-Caribbean Heritage in England
Goss, James; Speech-gesture Mismatches and Dynamic Coordination I Schizophrenia
Hickman, Jacob; Morality and Personhood in the Hmong Diaspora: A Person-Centered Ethnography of Resettlement
Kushner, Hallie; Substance Users and the Psychiatric Role of the Emergency Department
Smith, Ben; Language and the Formation of Masculine Potency in Peruvian Aymara Boyhood
Sousa, Amy; Pragmatic Ethics, Sensible Care: Psychiatry and Schizophrenia in North India
Thompson, Greg; Involving Identity: a study of the effects of identity in-interaction on the involvement of tutees in the tutoring encounter
2010
Bird, Matthew; The Other Paths: Cultural Economics, Comparative Economic Performance, and the Formation of Capitalist Mentalities in Lima Peru
Braff, Lara; Re/conceiving Personhood: The Localization of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mexico City
Hoffman, Christy; Costs of reproduction among rhesus macaque females on Cayo Santiago
Ingersoll, Jason; Depression, Subjectivity, and the Embodiment of Suffering in Urban Reform China
Lee, Yoon; Examination of 12-month-old infant coping behavior: A longitudinal study of relations, among parenting behavior, infant coping behavior, and infant problem behavior
Mosenkis, Jeff; Understanding the Bamboo Ceiling: Culture and East Asian Barriers to U.S. Workplace Promotion
Numanbayraktaroglu, Sevda; Language, Self and Context: Sociohistorical Constitution and Interactional Actualization of the Self through Discourse Genres; The case of Turkish Heteroglossia
Sandberg, Shana Fruehan; Embodying Intimacy: Premarital Romantic Relationships, Sexuality, and Contraceptive Use Among Young Women in Contemporary Tokyo
2009
Cassaniti, Julia; Control in a world of change: Emotion and Morality in a Northern Thai town
Dahl, Bianca; Left Behind: orphaned Children and the Politics of Kinship, Culture, and Caregiving during Botswana's AIDS Crisis
Fricano, Guy; Max Weber's theory of Charisma and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal: An examination of fit leading to a proposed complementariness with Mircea Eliade's Phenomenology of Religion
Myers, Neely; Culture of Recovery: Schizophrenia, the United states Mental Health Care System, and the American Ethos of the Self-Made Man
Perez Felkner, Lara; Cultivating College Dreams: Social Pathways to Educational Attainment
Riedel, Barnaby; The Character Conjuncture: Islamic Education and its Social Reproduction in the United States
2008
Abuhamdeh, Sami; What Makes an Intrinsically Motivated Activity Intrinsically Motivated: The Role of Challenge
Marrow, Jocelyn; Psychiatry, Modernity and Family Values: Clenched Teeth Illness in North India
Phillips, Sarah Van Deusen; When Looking is Listening: Gesture, Multi-Modal Language, and the Socialization of Deaf Children in Castellano-Speaking Families
Xue, Wenping; Meaning in transmission: A case study of the psychological consequences of globalized consumption in China
Yee, Jason; Health and Sociality: Exploring Bidirectional Relationships Between Behavior and Physiology from a Systems Perspective
2007
Ahmed, Karen; The "Business" of Culture: Morality and Practice in Islamic Finance
Honde, Christina; The Relation of Atypical Maternal Behavior ("Disruptive Communication") to Maternal Risk Factors and Infant Attachment
Iskra, Annette; Nobody Wins: Psychological Effects of War and Repatriation in Croatia
Sosa, Stephanie; Emotion Display Rules and Well-Being in Small Town Yucatan: How Adaptive Emotion Response Alternatives Vary By Cultural Context.
Whitham, Jessica; The Grunt and Girney Vocalizations of Free-Ranging Female Rhesus Macaques
2006
Bromer, Juliet; Beyond child care: The family support and community roles of African-American child care providers
Calabrese, Joseph; Mirror of the Soul: Cultural Psychiatry, Moral Socialization and the Development of the Self in the Native American Church
Finger, Brent; Exploring the Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment Disorganization
Hammack, Phillip; The Narrative Stalemate: Conflict, Identity and the Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Adolescence
Horton, Randall; Refining Theory and Practice in the Cultural Psychology of Emotion: Tibetan "Anger" and the Roots of the Modern Tibetan Commitment to Non-Violence
Persun, Nadia; Choosing Marriage or Cohabitation: Understanding Psychosocial Precedents and Effects on Personal and Relationship Satisfaction
2005
Abramson, Amy; Playing with Power: An Exploratory Study of How Generation and Gender are Linked to Assertive Behavior in Mother-Child Interaction in African-American families
Epstein, Richard; Beyond the Yellow Door: Outcome and Follow-Up Studies in a Residential Treatment Center
Novotny, Doug; The Interpersonal Significance of Conflicting Messages in Couple Communication: An Examination of Relational Patterns Among Adolescent African-American Expectant Parents in Chicago
Pelka, Suzanne; Lesbian Couples Using In-Vitro Fertilization to Co-Mother: A Cultural Study of Biological Ties
Tirodkar, Manasi; Adaptations of Contemporary Ayurvedic Medical Practice in Urban India
Zuker, Pam; Working Marriages: Marital Interaction, Flow, and Marital Satisfaction
2004
Allen, Jacqueline; From “Stinkin” Thinkin’” to “Easy Does It”: Narratives of Enculturation and Psychological Transformation in Alcoholics Anonymous
Bennis, Will; Experience, Values, Beliefs, and the Sociocultural Context In Gambling Decision Making: A Field Study of Casino Blackjack
Davies, Elizabeth; Retrospective Reevaluation of Personally Salient Events: A Longitudinal Study
Gortner, David (Psychology: Human Development); Varieties of Young Adult Personal Theologies: Content, formative Influences, and Current Relationships to Everyday Life
Guest, Andrew; Cultural processes of psychosocial competence and middle childhood: Play, self-esteem, and teamwork in two distinct impoverished communities
Pyati, Aarti; Going the Cultural Distance: Worldview-relevant counseling at India’s Premiere Psychiatric Institute
Singer, Melissa; Gesture speech Mismatches During Instruction and Learning: Handing Out More Information
2003
Hermes, Gretchen (Psychology: Human Development); The Embodiment of Social Isolation: Bio-Behavioral Systems, Pre-Disease Pathways, and Patterns of Aging
Glover, Christine; What Women Want: The Role of the Social Environment on Romantic Partner Preferences
Karel, Ernst (Psychology: Human Development); Kerala Sound Electricals: Amplified Sound and Cultural Meaning in South India
McDonald, Mary (Human Development); A Phenomenological Study of Adult Development: Older Women, Growth Seeking, and Experiencing Turning Point Events
Reichman, Jill; The Relationship of Acculturation and Folk Medical Beliefs IN Recently Emigrated Mexican Nationals
Stolpe, Brigitta (Psychology: Human Development); Cultural endocrinology: Menarch, Modernity and the Transformative Powers of Social Reconfigurations
2002
DaCosta, Kneia(Psychology: Human Development); Eyes on the Prize or Head in the Sand?: Urban Black Adolescents’ Constructions of the Future
Harlem, Andrew (Psychology: Human Development); The Making of the 'Culturally Competent" Psychologist: A Study of Educational Discourse and Practice
Hoogstra, Lisa (Psychology: Human Development); Divergent Paths after High School: Transitions to College and Work
Nakamura, Jeanne (Psychology: Human Development); Sustaining Engagement: Continuity and Change into Later Life
Pietersz, Ruvanee (Psychology: Human Development / Mental Health Research); Making the Connection: Psychosocial Well-Being Group Psychotherapy and On-Line Support Groups for Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Roney, James (Psychology: Human Development); Psychological and Hormonal Responses of Men to Sensory Cues from Women. (William Henry Prize)
Sandhya, Shaifali (Psychology: Human Development); A Study of Hindu Married Couples: The Role of Family Living Arrangements and Gender in Maintaining Happiness and Well-Being
Wang, Ning (Psychology: Human Development); The Making of a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
2001
Bae, Sue Hyun (Psychology: Human Development / Mental health Research); The Experience of Professional Autonomy among Psychotherapists in Korea and the West
Bartoli, Eleonora (Psychology: Human Development / Mental Health Research ); Psychoanalytic Practice and the Religious Patient: The Politics of Agency and Responsibility
Hostetler, Andrew Jon (Psychology: Human Development); Single Gay Men: Psychology Well-Being, Cultural Models of Adult Developments and the Meaning of Being Single by Choice
Hunter, Jeremy Paul (Psychology: Human Development); Vital Powers and Wasted Possibilities; Engaged and Bored Teenagers in America
Joseph, Michael Craig (Psychology: Human Development); The Virtues as a Cultural Domain: a Study of Arabic-Speaking Muslims
Kinnunen, Leann Helka (Psychology: Human Development); Evidence Concerning the Etiology of Sexual Orientation in Human Males: Differential Effects of Fluoxetine on Cerbral Glucose Metabolism of Exclusively Homosexual and Exclusively Heterosexual Men
Rich, Grant Jewell (Psychology: Human Development); Aspiring Adolescents: Optimal Career Development
Spencer, Natasha Anne (Human Development); Diversity in Human Ovarian Aging: Social and Race-Linked Context of Reproductive Aging in Women
Wolfe, Rustin (Psychology: Human Development); The Experience Sampling Method and Career Counseling: The Interrelations of Situated Experience, Work Values, and Career Orientation Among Adolescents
2000
Furdyna, Jadwiga E. (Psychology: Human Development); Parential Behavioral Control in Response to Neighborhood Adversity: Positive and Negative Effects on Adolescent Rick Behavior, Peer Relationships, and Emotional Wellbeing
Jenuwine, Michael (Psychology: Human Development); Narratives of Suicidal Adolescents
Nicoletti, Patrick Robin Tempest (Psychology: Human Development); The Impact of Social Status on Preschoolers Display of Direct and Ritualized Responses to Peer Conflict
Reischer, Erica (Human Development); Muscling In: The Female Body Aesthetic and Women's Roles in Contemporary American Society
Richardson, Jerome (Psychology: Human Development); Maternal Teaching Strategies: Their Impact beyond the Task Being Taught
Suth, Andrew (Human Development); Adolescent Fathers: The Meanings of Their Experience and Their Commitment to Fatherhood
1999
Axelman, Michael (Psychology: Human Development); The Rational Experiences of African-American Adolescents and the Role of Significant Adults: An Examination of Teenage Lives During the Transition to High School
DeBoer, David Scott (Psychology: Human Development); Vicissitudes of Hope in the Lazarus Effect: Psychological Responses of HIV-Positive Gay Men in the Post Era of HIV and AIDS
Gianino, Lawrence (Psychology: Human Development); Children's Understandings of Everyday Economic Practices
Koven, Michele E. J. (Psychology: Human Development); French-Portuguese Bilinguals' Enactments of Self In Two Languages
Mintz, Judith Marsha(Psychology: Human Development); The Social Construction of Self-esteem: Narrative Discourse Practices among Parents and Preschool Children in a Middle-class European-American Community
1998
Borhan, Lihanna (Psychology: Human Development); Self-Image of Malaysian Adolescents
Brodsky, Nicole (Psychology: Human Development); Art Imitates Life Imitates Art: Evolving Themes in the Lives and Works of Creative Artists
Futorian-Salzman, Jody (Psychology: Human Development); Culture and Deafness: Influences on the Mother-Child Interaction
Larvie, Sean Patrick (Psychology: Human Development); Managing Desire: Sexual, Citizenship and AIDS in the Contemporary Brazilian
Patton, John Douglas (Psychology: Human Development); Exploring the Relative Outcomes of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Factors of Entropy and Order in Adolescence
Schmidt, Jennifer (Psychology: Human Development); Overcoming Challenges: Exploring the Role of Action, Experience, and Opportunity in Fostering Resilience among Adolescents
Smith, David Paul (Psychology: Human Development); Patterns of Religion Experience among Psychotherapists and their Relation to Therapeutic Orientation
1997
Asakawa, Kiyoshi (Human Development); The Experience of Interdependence and Independence in the Self-Construal Asian American and Caucasian American Adolescents: Feelings, of Connectedness and Academic Motivation
Huang, Pei-Lin (Psychology: Human Development); Family Context and Social Development in Adolescence
Schiff, Brian (Psychology: Human Development); Telling Survival and the Holocaust
Walker, Janet (Psychology: Human Development); Manufacturing Reality: Gender, Culture, and the Resolution of Everyday Moral Conflicts
1996
Choi, Sung Aie Christina (Human Development); The Survival Strategies of Middle-Aged Women in Korea
Hektner, Joel (Psychology: Human Development); Exploring Optimal Personality Development: A longitudinal Study of Adolescents
Jensen, Lene Arnett (Psychology: Human Development); Different Habits, Different Hearts: Orthodoxy and Progressivism in the United States and India
Joo, Eunsun (Psychology: Human Development); The Psychotherapeutic Relationship in Korea: Cross-National and Internal Cultural Comparison
Parks, Barbara Kirshner (Psychology: Human Development); Flow, Boredom, and Anxiety in Therapeutic Work: A Study of Psychotherapists Intrinsic Motivation and Professional Development
1995
Bernas, Ronan Surtida (Psychology: Human Development); Choosing and Maintaining a Position oin a Socio-moral Issue: An Argumentative Reasoning Approach
Choe, In-Soo (Human Development); Motivation, Subjective Experience, Family and Academic Achievement in Korean High School Students
Corcoran, Katherina Charle (Human Development); Perceptions of Self-Change in Adolescent Development from an Interpersonal Therapeutic Perspective
Menon, Usha (Human Development); Receiving and Giving: Distributivity as the Source of Women's Wellbeing
Mockros, Carol Ann (Psychology: Human Development); The Social Construction of Extraordinary Selves: A Life Span Study of Creative Individuals
Voight, Janet Dianne (Psychology: Human Development); The Relation of Positive and Negative Social Network Characteristics to the Adjustment of Low-Income, African-American Mothers
1994
Cox, Susanne Marie (Psychology: Human Development); Attachment in Preterm Infants and Their Mothers: Neonatal Risk Status and Maternal Representations
Bell, Douglas Norman (Psychology: Human Development); Meetings on the Horizon of Meanings: A Cultural Analysis of Adolescents "Reading" AIDS
Freel, Karen Alta (Human Development); The Guardians of Childhood Safety: The Role of Parents in Injury Prevention
Fung, Heidi-Han-Tih (Psychology: Human Development); The Socialization of Shame in Young Chinese Children
Glaessner, Barbara Elizabeth (Psychology: Human Development); Bilingual Children in School: The Negotiation of Language Use in a First Grade Classroom
Levesque, Helen LaCrosse (Psychology: Human Development); Women's Definitions of Feminity: An Investigation of Social Class Differences
Myers, Olin Eugene Jr. (Human Development); Young Children's Sense of Connection to Animals: The Developmental Basis of an Ecological Self
Sawyer, Robert Keith (Human Development); The Performance of Pretend Play: Enacting Peer Culture in Conversation
Taylor, Dorothy L. (Human Development); The "I" Entity: A Treatise on the Self-Other Relation
Webb, Catherine Mary (Human Development); Recollected Early Life Experience and Hardiness
1993
Wong, Maria Mei-Ha (Psychology: Human Development); Autonomy, Quality of Experience, and Academic Performance
1992
Brachman, Jr., Malcolm K. (Human Development); Effects of Patient and Therapist Age and Gender on Psychotherapeutic Process in Early Sessions: Patients' Experiences of Relationships and Involvement
De Vos, Eric Stephen (Psychology: Human Development); Complications of Labor: Newborn Behavioral Correlates, and Prenatal Psychological Mediation
Wakschlag, Lauren S. (Psychology: Human Development); Intergenerational Continuities: The Influence of Mother-Grandmother Relationships on Parenting in the African-American Young Mother Families
Wortham, Stanton Emerson Fisher (Human Development); Participant Examples and Classroom Interaction
1991
Clark, Cynthia Marie Dell (Psychology: Human Development); The Cultural Psychology of Christmas and Easter-with Special Reference to Children
Daly, John Joseph (Human Development); Magical Thinking in Everyday Life: Coping with Lung Cancer
Davila, Norma (Psychology: Human Development); Patients' Experiences of Therapeutic Support Early in Treatment: The Effects of Current Social Network, General Expectations, and Anticipated Difficulties on Patients' Evaluations and Response to Individual Psychotherapy
Lombard, Lisa Sharon (Psychology: Human Development); Narcissistic Consequences of Female Infertility: Disruption and Restoration
Nordmann, Nancy House (Human Development); An Autogenetic Approach to Interpersonal Development
1990
Brooks, Lonna K. (Psychology: Human Development); Temperament in Five- and Six-Year-Old Anglo-American, Korean-American, and Adopted Korean Children
Burke, Nancy (Psychology: Human Development); Freud, Time, and the Content of Philosophy
Boxer, Andrew Mark(Human Development); Life Course Transitions of Gay and Lesbian Youth: Sexual Identity of Development and Parent-Child Relationships
Fitzgerald, Linda Mae (Human Development); Contributions of Home and Child Care to Competence in Early Childhood
Ham, Mark Patrick (Psychology: Human Development); Competence in Daily Living: A Study of Children and Adolescents at Risk for Depression
Levesque, Roger J. R. (Psychology: Human Development); Adolescents in Love: An Exploration of Adolescent Love Experiences across and within Five Socio-Cultural Groups
Pickett, Susan Ann (Psychology: Human Development); Parental Burden and a Chronically Mentally Ill Offsprings' Vocational Outcome: Exploring the Connections
Raffaelli, Marcelli (Psychology: Human Development); Sibling Conflict in Early Adolescence
Sullivan, Maria Ann (Psychology: Human Development); The Cultural Meanings of Mental Illness: Depression and Alcoholism Among the Irish
1989
Browning, Margaret Masters (Human Development); Self-Regulation in the Strange Situation: Assessment of Developmental Vulnerabilities in Premature Infants
Donner, Edward J. (Human Development); The Contributions of Arousal and Mood to Health and Illness
Ehrenberg, Sara Jean (Human Development); The Effects of Analytic Instructions on Young Children's Ability to Solve Scientific Problems Systematically
Lorek, Patricia Ann (Behavioral Sciences: Human Development); The Academic and Emotional Sequelae of Parental Divorce in Talented Adolescents
Pool, Debora Leman (Human Development); A Study of Children's and Adults' Understanding of "Moral," "Traditional," and "Prudential" Breaches
Rathunde, Kevin Raymond (Psychology: Human Development); Family Context and Optimal Experience in the Development of Talent
Swenson, Jill Dianne(Behavioral Sciences: Human Development); TV News Viewers: Making Meaning Out of Iran Contra
Tarragona, De Oliveres (Human Development); Patients' Experiences of Psychotherapy between Sessions: Their Relationship to Some Input, Process, and Output Variables of Psychotherapy
Webb, Catherine Mary (Human Development); Recollected Early Life Experience and Hardiness
