Sociology Department
Capital Never Sleeps, and Neither Should We: The Good Sense of Social Movement Unionism
Catching Herself In the Middle: How Chinese-American Adoptees and Their Parents Construct Narrative and Ethnic Identity
Since 1992, over 85,000 children have been adopted from China by U.S. citizens (Miller-Loessi and Kilic 2001:246; U.S. Department of State 2013). Most of these adoptees are girls. They were abandoned as infants due the combined factors of patrilineal culture...
Constructing dialogue around sexual violence: #metoo
Criminalizing blackness and humanizing whiteness: policy, media, and the racialization of drug use in America
Crisis, Desire, and “Reality Shifting”: How Young Women Imagine Self and Intimacy in Neoliberal Risk Society
Critiquing Institutional Diversity: Ethnic Minorities' Racial Identity Formations in Ideological and Physical Counter-Spaces
The term diversity within institutions has been used as a selling point for colleges and universities. Verbally, institutions pride themselves in committing to increasing 'diversity'. But what happens after more students of color enter historically White- serving institutions? Through a...
Cultivating Children for the Common Good: (De)-Constructing Citizenship in Danish Child Care Institutions
Dancing in the stars: the radical capacity of utopic thought
Designing for the Anthropocene: sympathies, tensions and hypocrisies in clothing
Diversifying the Teaching Workforce: A Critical Race Theory Content Analysis of Popular Texts on Teacher Diversity
DREAMers Act: How Undocumented Latina/o Youth Define Citizenship Through Online Discourse
Duck and Cover: The Dissemination of Domestic Cold War Propaganda from 1947 to 1957 and Its Lasting Impact on Race Relations
Education for Abolition: A Prison Abolitionist Curriculum for a Youth After-School Program
El eterno retorno: latinx youth radicalism and resistance through art
Exporting a National Identity: Green Tea's Entrance into the Global Food Network
Finding Feminism: The Ideologies of Hip-Hop from Black Women in Spaces of Higher Education
Hip-hop is the most affluent subset of Black Culture today. The globalization and mass appeal of hip-hop has made this genre bigger than music; it's style, it's dance, it's art, and even literature. Hip-Hop music is a genre that is...
Formations of Queer Diaspora: Trauma and Empire
This thesis project is explores the contours of nation-state violence and the trauma-inflicted upon deviant populations transnationally. I will explore how fluid, relational experiences with violence evoke transnational diasporic formations which can begin to be actualized when we consider their...