• IN THE NAME OF CULTURE: THE POLITICS OF CELEBRATION IN THE MULTICULTURAL CIVIL SPHERE 

  Richer, Zach (2018)

  A common barrier to the civic integration of immigrant and minority groups is the suite of symbolic classifications that structure everyday relations in diverse societies and set standards for inclusion and exclusion in ...

• BEYOND HONORARY WHITENESS: IDEOLOGIES OF BELONGING AND KOREAN ADOPTEE IDENTITIES 

  Laybourn, Wendy Marie (2018)

  Using Asian Critical Race Theory as a framework, this dissertation examines how Korean adoption contributed to constructions of race – racial meanings and a racial order – and the effects on Korean adoptees’ identity ...

• Disproportionality, Discourse, and the Debate over Coal-Fired Power 

  Galli Robertson, Anya M (2018)

  Following Freudenburg’s framework of the “double diversion,” this dissertation aims to understand environmental inequality as the product of two interrelated processes: (1) inequality in the generation of environmental ...

• The Sociological Study of Expert Knowledge Work: Current Trends and Changes in the Study of the Professions, Professionalization, and Professionalism 

  Yagatich, William (2018)

  This dissertation is a collection of three papers, separate but related investigations in the sociological study of expert knowledge. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives developed in the study of the professions, this ...

• Coming Home as "Wounded Warriors": Identity, Stigma, and Status among Post-9/11 Wounded Veterans 

  Montgomery, Sidra (2017)

  Increased public attention on wounded and injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has popularized the term "wounded warrior.” This defining phrase is used as both a colloquial term and an official status. This ...

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