| Name | Degree and Date | Dissertation/Thesis Title | Mentor | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion Cassard | Ph.D., Sociology, 2024 | Enacting the Cohousing Imaginary: A Feminist Critical Realist Case Study of Diversity and Gender Justice in French and U.S. Cohousing | Christine Overdevest | |
| Keelyn Taylor | Ph.D., Sociology, 2024 | Negotiating Hyper(in)visibility on Instagram: Fatness, Feminisms, and "Bodies Out of Place" | Monika Ardelt | |
| Giyeon Seo | Ph.D., Sociology, 2024 | Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes toward Family | Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox | |
| Unna Yared | Ph.D., Sociology, 2024 | "Being Arab is an Act of Resistance": How Arab American Women Experience and Negotiate Racialized Boundaries and Identity | Rebecca Hanson | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Georgia Military College |
| Sameera Akella | Ph.D., Sociology, 2024 | Beyond Just Managing Hopelessness: The Health-Seeking Processes and Negotiations for Queer and/or Trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color in the United States | Charles Gattone | Assistant Professor, Stonehill College |
| McKenzie Jossie | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2024 | An Examination of the Collateral Consequences of Misdemeanor Probation in Florida | Jodi Lane | Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University |
| Janna Tamargo | Ph.D., Sociology, 2024 | Authenticity, Gender, and Italian American Restaurant Websites | Marian Borg | CEO, Roma Media |
| Gissel Perez | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2023 | Jurors & Jailhouse Informants: An Examination of Video-Recorded Secondary Confessions | Lora Levett | Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Arizona |
| Carole Ahossin | Ph.D., Sociology, 2023 | Marriage and Integration: Exploring the Perceptions of Belonging of Black African Immigrants in the United States | Nicholas Vargas | |
| Dominique Fairley | Ph.D., Sociology, 2023 | Transcending Race and Place By Exploring Queer Space: Navigating Judgement and Discrimination in Lived Realities of Queer and/or Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color | Rebecca Hanson | Adjunct Instructor, University of Florida |
| Cassidy Haigh | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2023 | An Empirical Test of Forensic Confirmation Bias in the Prosecution Context | Lora Levett | Assistant Professor, University of Bridgeport |
| Ruijie Mao | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2023 | Sentencing and Crime Patterns of Selling and Buying Trafficked Women in China | Lonn Lanza-Kaduce | |
| Jennifer Applebaum | Ph.D., Sociology, 2023 | Exploring the Intersection of Social Inequalities and Multispecies Family Dynamics: Implications for Human Health and Well-Being | Barbara Zsembik | Assistant Professor, UF Public Health and Health Professionals |
| Robert Baez | Ph.D., Sociology, 2023 | Politicizing Pride: A Grounded Theory Study of Queer Liberation Organizing in New York City | Kendal Broad | Lead Community Health Worker, Department of Epidemiology, UF College of Public Health and Health Professions and UF College of Medicine |
| Michelle Eliasson | Ph.D., Sociology, 2023 | Police Officers' Perceptions of Battery Victims' Credibility | Barbara Zsembik | Assistant Professor, Iona University |
| Eaven Holder | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2023 | Essays on the Measurement, Reporting, and Classification of Hate Crime in the United States | Chris Gibson | Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University |
| Mackenzie Kushner | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 | Rethinking the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Scale: A Developmental Approach to Evolving Adversities and Their Association with Deleterious Outcomes among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Youth | Abby Fagan | Data and Policy Specialist, Crime and Justice Institute |
| Ruiyi Sun | Ph.D., Sociology, 2022 | Disparities of Psychological Well-Being, Subjective Well-Being, and Health among Older Adults: The Influence of the 2008 Financial Crisis | Monika Ardelt | |
| Pilar Morales Giner | Ph.D., Sociology, 2022 | "We Only Have to Look Around Us": An Analysis of Sense of Place in a Context of Climate Change | Stephen Perz | Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad de Granada |
| Joseph Hoft | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 | The Effect of Pretrial Detention and Framework on Plea Bargaining Decisions | Jodi Lane | Assistant Professor, University of Lynchburg |
| Elizabeth Hartsell | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 | An Examination of the Marion County Diversion Drug Court | Jodi Lane | Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University |
| Sarah Boeshart | Ph.D., Sociology, 2022 | "We Deserve Better": Sapphic Grief with Media Loss | Kendal Broad | |
| Yiorgo Topalidis | Ph.D., Sociology, 2022 | The Whitening Process Model: Forging an Anti-Racist Praxis for Descendants of European Immigrants in the United States | Nicholas Vargas | Co-Assistant Director, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida |
| Amanda Lewis | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 | Beyond the Bars – Exploring the Lives of Exonerees & Their Loved Ones as They Cope With Miscarriages of Justice | Lora Levett and Monika Ardelt | Research Associate, Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative; Board Advisor, DC Project Connect |
| Jared Adams | Ph.D., Sociology, 2022 | Revisiting the Academic Caste System: Prestige, Gender, and Stratification and Inequality in Academic Networks | Raffaele Vacca | |
| Joseph Rivera | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 | On Law and Wildlife: American Law in a Global Legal Scheme | Lonn Lanza-Kaduce | Lecturer, Criminology & Law, University of Florida |
| Dorothy Du | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 | Examining and Specifying the Effect of Neuroscientific Evidence on Jurors' Perceptions and Decision Making | Chris Gibson | Assistant Professor, Guilford College |
| Daniel Acton | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2021 | Sibling Influences: Delinquency and Victimization | Chris Gibson | Adjunct Instructor, College of Charleston |
| Jiae Park | Ph.D., Sociology, 2021 | The Transition to Adulthood and Depressive Symptoms: A Case of South Korea | Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox | |
| Tianyuan Tang | Ph.D., Sociology, 2021 | Three Studies on the Second Demographic Transition: Attitudes toward Divorce and Links between Union Status and Health in the United States and Perceptions of Children in China | Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox | |
| Jessica Casimir | Ph.D., Sociology, 2021 | The Synchronicity of Chronic Illness and Caregiving: An Ethnographic Exploration of Grandmother Caregivers in the Valley of a 1000 Hills, South Africa | Barbara Zsembik | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Western Carolina University |
| Julia Arroyo | Ph.D., Sociology, 2021 | Pathways into Raising Grandchildren among Latinx Grandparents in Central Florida | Barbara Zsembik | Assistant Professor, College of Charleston |
| Dion Campbell | Ph.D., Sociology, 2021 | Community and Identity among Those Who Play Video Games: A Grounded Approach | Marian Borg | |
| John Blasing | Ph.D., Sociology, 2020 | Sports, Nationalism, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Turkish Football Fandom | Tamir Sorek | |
| David Canarte | Ph.D., Sociology, 2020 | Migration, Social Support, and Health in Immigrant Communities: A Study on Roma in France and Immigrant Farmworkers in Florida | Raffaele Vacca | Adjunct Instructor, East Tennessee State University |
| Thomas Smith | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2020 | A Theory of Biosocial Support | Chris Gibson | Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi |
| Stephanie Dhuman Giron | Ph.D., Sociology, 2020 | Fusions and Fault-Lines: Puerto Rican Experiences in a Florida Community | Nicholas Vargas | Assistant Professor, Hamilton College |
| Antionette McFarlane | Ph.D., Sociology, 2020 | Constance Shehan | Clinical Research Coordinator III, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Kara Fransisco | Ph.D., Sociology, 2020 | Bad Bodies and Contested Conceptions: Exploring Trying to Conceive, Pregnancy, and Birth | Barbara Zsembik | Qualitative Researcher, Independent Consultant, Fransisco Writing, Research, & Analysis |
| Abigail Novak | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2020 | Exclusionary Discipline across the Life-Course: an Age-Graded Examination of the School-To-Prison Pipeline | Abby Fagan | Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi |
| Cory Lowe | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2020 | Moral Communities in Chicago: Examining the Relationship between Family and Community Religiousness and Youth Substance Use and Delinquency | Chris Gibson | Director of Research at Loss Prevention Research Council |
| Stephanie Mintz | Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2020 | Learning Extremism: A Social Learning Theory Approach to Explaining Engagement in Violent Extremism | Lonn Lanza-Kaduce | |
| Elise Costa | Ph.D., Criminology, Law, & Society, 2019 | From genes to jurors | Chris Gibson | Associate Program Director for Behavioral Health & Justice, National Association of Counties |
| Tolga Tezcan | Ph.D, Sociology, 2019 | Determinants of Return Migration Intention and Circular Migration: The Case of Turkish Immigrants in Germany | Alin Ceobanu | Associate Professor, California State University School of Social, Behavioral & Global Studies |
| Martha Rosero | Ph.D. Sociology, 2019 | The Important Things for Us. Resilience and Relationality in Colombian Ethnic Group Contexts during Times of Crisis | Stephen Perz | Social Inclusion Director (Afro Descendants Fellow), Conservation International |
| Ryan Thomson | Ph.D, Sociology, 2019 | Destructionment: Gates & Fakes Invade the Gullah/Geechee's Sea Islands | Stephen Perz | Assistant Professor, Auburn University Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology |
| Erin Castro | Ph.D., Criminology, Law, & Society, 2019 | Following in Their Footsteps: the Interweaving Pathway of Self Control, Depressive Symptoms, and External Parental Factors on Intergenerational Deviance | Marvin Krohn | Assistant Professor, College of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Florida State University |
| Stephen Pridgen | Ph.D., Sociology, 2019 | Cultural cognition and wisdom as strategies to combat anti-intellectualism in higher education | Monika Ardelt | Assistant Professor, Concord University Department of Social Work and Sociology |
| Kristin Johnson Gardner | Ph.D., Criminology, Law & Society, 2019 | Examining the Impact of Transfer on Adult Recidivism over the Long Term: A Propensity Score Matching Approach | Lonn Lanza-Kaduce | Adjunct Instructor, University of Florida |
| Sara Moore | Ph.D., Sociology, 2019 | Occupations and earnings inequality | Charles Peek | Deputy Director of Research at Public Wise |
| Anneloes "Anne" Mook | Ph.D, Sociology, 2019 | Certification, market construction, and the global value chain | Christine Overdevest | Senior Team Scientist, Colorado State University |
| Tameka Samuels-Jones | Ph.D., Criminology, Law, & Society, 2019 | Regulatory law and local stakeholder influences on green crime in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica | Stephen Perz | Associate Director, Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC); Assistant Professor-Law, Governance & Accountability |