Name |
Year of Ph.D. |
Title of Dissertation Research Project |
| Maggie Zraly |
2008 |
"Resilience in Rwandan Women's Genocide Survivor Networks". Maggie is now a Postdoctoral Scholar in Global Health in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State Unviversity. |
| Elizabeth Carpenter-Song |
2007 |
"Lived Experiences of Behavioral and Emotional Disorders in U.S. Children and Families". She is now a post-doctoral fellow in the Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard University. |
David
Kaawa-Mafigiri |
2007 |
"Social Networks and Social Support for Tuberculosis Control in Kampala, Uganda". Now a postdoctoral with AIDS International Training and Research Program, funded by the Fogarty International Center at NIH. Beginning in September he will be Associate Director of Center for Social Science Research on AIDS and NIH funded training and research center at CWRU, MUK, JCRC, MUST. |
| Kate E. Masley |
2007 |
"Living the 'Latina Paradox': An Ethnography of Pregnant and Postpartum Mexican Immigrants in Northeast Ohio". Now Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at CSU. |
| Michelle Eder |
2005 |
Parental Decision-Making About Children's Participation in Clinical Research |
| Kathryn McGowan |
2004 |
A Body History of Polio-Related Impairments in the United States |
| Heather Lindstrom |
2004 |
Aging and Modernization: A Field Study of the Determinants of Elders' Social Status in American and Independent Samoa |
| Sana Loue |
2004 |
Perceptions of Partner Violence Among a Sample of Self-Identified Puerto Rican and Non-Hispanic White Men and Women in Cuyahoga County |
| Carmit McMullen |
2003 |
Aging with Grace: Health Evaluation and Identity Among African-American Elders |
| Jacklyn Chisholm |
2002 |
Self-Identity and the Acquisition of Cultural Knowledge in University Settings |
| Margaret Cooney |
2002 |
The Experience and Knowledge of Menopause Among Low-Income Cleveland Women |
| Christopher Dole |
2002 |
Outlaws, Swindlers, and Authentic Healers: Legitimacy, Identity, and Religious Healing in Urban Turkey |
| Jessica Price |
2002 |
Pharmaceuticals in Popular Medical Culture: An Exploration of Unregulated Circulation and Consumption of Biomedicines in A Central African Town |
| Christina Saunders Sturm |
2002 |
Breast Cancer Illness Narratives: Examining the Experience of Living With Breast Cancer |
| James Spilsbury |
2002 |
Hazards and Help-Seeking in Inner-City Cleveland: The Child's Perception of Neighborhood Danger, Safety and Support |
| Sarah Chard |
2001 |
Ugandan Women's Health Beliefs, Social Networks and Tuberculosis Treatment Seeking |
| Elizabeth Coker |
2001 |
The Making of the Egyptian Psychiatric Patient: Reinterpreting Cultural Symbols Through Biomedical Discourse |
| C. Jeff Jacobson, Jr. |
2001 |
Spirits, Demons, and Nightmares: Moral Images of Self and Other in Puerto Rican Life History and Religious Discourse |
| Ben Jiao |
2001 |
Socio-Economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet |
| Joanna Skilogianis |
2001 |
Great Expectations Vs. State Expectations: Fertility Limitation Among Women in Urban Greece |
| Sherilyn Briller |
2000 |
Whom Can I Count on Today?: Contextualizing the Balance of Family and Government Old Age Support for Rural Pensioners in Mongolia |
| Micah Parzen |
2000 |
"Culturally Appropriate" Mental Health Care: Wilderness Therapy and Navajo Youth |
| Nyamdorj Yandag |
2000 |
Basal Metabolic Rate of Mongolian Pastoral Nomads |
| Regina Feldman |
1999 |
Burning Ashes - An Anthropological Study of Intellectual and Moral Judgment in the Historians' Debate |
| Elisa Gordon |
1999 |
If It's Not Broke, Don't Fix It: Patients' and Clinicians' Decision Making for Treatment of End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States |
| Delia Easton |
1998 |
The Cultural Context of Puerto Rican Adolescents: Perception of HIV Risk |
| John Garrity |
1998 |
The Ethos of Power: Navajo Religious Healing of Alcohol and Substance Abuse |
| Jonnie Marks |
1998 |
Gut Feelings, The Holy Spirit, and a Processed World: Embodied Knowledge of Breast Cancer Risks in African-American Women |
| Timi Lynne Barone |
1997 |
Perceived Stress and Health in British and Asian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients |
| Elizabeth Lewton |
1997 |
Living Harmony: The Transformation of Self in Three Navajo Religious Healing Traditions |
| Charles Rwabukwali |
1997 |
Gender, Poverty, and AIDS in Kabarole, Western Uganda: The Sociocultural Context of Risk and Preventative Behaviors |
| Aylin Atillasoy |
1996 |
Daily Survival Versus the Threat of AIDS: Street Youth and the Street Economy in New York City |
| Frederick Bloom |
1996 |
Living in the HIV Spectrum: Life Stories and Illness Narratives of Gay Men |
| Robert Schrauf |
1995 |
Andalusian Carnaveleros and Hermanos: Cultural Schemata and Reconstructive Retrieval in Autobiographical Memory |
| Anita Shankar |
1995 |
In Search of the Light in Your Eyes: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives of Vitamin A Deficiency in Nelali Children |
| Kinuko Omori |
1994 |
Sociocultural Influences on Child Health and Nutritional Status in Karen Highlanders of Thailand |
| Lisa Mitchell |
1993 |
Making Babies: Routine Ultrasound Imaging and the Cultural Construction of the Fetus in Montreal, Canada |
| Sandra Laston |
1992 |
Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease in Village Children in Nepal |
| Isabel Parraga |
1992 |
Dietary Beliefs, Nutritional Patterns and Nutritional Status of Urban Aymara Women and Children |
| Amy Blue |
1991 |
Culture, Nevra, and Institution: The Making of Greek Professional Ethnopsychiatry |
| Yachun Ku |
1991 |
Chinese Rural Elderly in the Post Mao Era - Two Villages in Zhejiang Province |
| Kathryn Oths |
1991 |
Medical Treatment Choice and Health Outcomes in the Northern Peruvian Andes |
| Preecha Upayokin |
1991 |
Treatment Choice, Disease Outcome and Stigma: An Investigation of Leprosy Patients and Illness Behavior in Thailand |
| Pamela Zahorik |
1991 |
Juvenile Diabetes: A Study of Children's Perceptions of Their Illness (Diabetes) |
| Lillian Emmons |
1989 |
Determinants of Dieting Behavior and Eating Disorders in High School Students |
| John Blangero |
1987 |
Population Genetic Approaches to Phenotypic Microevolution in the Jirels of Nepal |
| Jeffrey Borkan |
1987 |
Occupational Health and Safety in Context: An Examination of Three Polyurethane Foam Plants in Israel |
| Sarah Williams-Blangero |
1987 |
Patterns of Marital Exchange and Phenotypic Differentiation in the Jirels of Nepal |
| Gregory Pappas |
1986 |
The Magic City: An Ethnography of Unemployment in a Working Class Community |
| Yewoubdar Beyene |
1985 |
An Ethnography of Menopause: Menopausal Experiences of Mayan Women in a Yucatan Village |
| Steven Folmar |
1985 |
Fertility and the Economic Value of Children in Pokhara Valley, Nepal |
| Maryann Foley |
1984 |
Personal and Social Effects of Being a Carrier of Hepatitis B |
| Ellen Lazarus |
1984 |
Pregnancy and Clinical Care: An Ethnographic Investigation of Perinatal Management for Puerto Rican and Low Income Women in the United States |
| James Ross |
1981 |
Hindu and Tibetan Reproduction and Fertility in Northwestern Nepal: A Study of Population, Ecology and Economics |
| Doris Frances Goist |
1980 |
Will You Still Need Me? Will You Still Feed Me? When I'm 84' (Aging in England and Ohio) |
| Susan Rebecca Hagey |
1980 |
Healing Entrepreneurship in the Philippines |