anthropology

anthropology dissertations


Graduate Research: Dissertations

 
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