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Recently Graduated Students

NameDegree and DateDissertation/Thesis TitleMentorPlacement
Gissel PerezPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2023Jurors & Jailhouse Informants: An Examination of Video-Recorded Secondary Confessions Lora LevettAssistant Professor of Practice, University of Arizona
Carole AhossinPh.D., Sociology, 2023 Marriage and Integration: Exploring the Perceptions of Belonging of Black African Immigrants in the United States Nicholas Vargas
Dominique FairleyPh.D., Sociology, 2023Transcending Race and Place By Exploring Queer Space: Navigating Judgement and Discrimination in Lived Realities of Queer and/or Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of ColorRebecca HansonAdjunct Instructor, University of Florida
Cassidy HaighPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2023An Empirical Test of Forensic Confirmation Bias in the Prosecution Context Lora LevettAssistant Professor, University of Bridgeport
Ruijie MaoPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2023Sentencing and Crime Patterns of Selling and Buying Trafficked Women in ChinaLonn Lanza-Kaduce
Jennifer ApplebaumPh.D., Sociology, 2023 Exploring the Intersection of Social Inequalities and Multispecies Family Dynamics: Implications for Human Health and Well-Being Barbara ZsembikAssistant Professor, UF Public Health and Health Professionals
Robert BaezPh.D., Sociology, 2023 Politicizing Pride: A Grounded Theory Study of Queer Liberation Organizing in New York City Kendal BroadLead Community Health Worker, Department of Epidemiology, UF College of Public Health and Health Professions and UF College of Medicine
Michelle EliassonPh.D., Sociology, 2023 Police Officers' Perceptions of Battery Victims' Credibility Barbara ZsembikAssistant Professor, Iona University
Eaven HolderPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2023 Essays on the Measurement, Reporting, and Classification of Hate Crime in the United States Chris GibsonAssistant Professor, Old Dominion University
Mackenzie KushnerPh.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. YouthAbby FaganData and Policy Specialist, Crime and Justice Institute
Ruiyi SunPh.D., Sociology, 2022 Disparities of Psychological Well-Being, Subjective Well-Being, and Health among Older Adults: The Influence of the 2008 Financial CrisisMonika Ardelt
Pilar Morales GinerPh.D., Sociology, 2022 "We Only Have to Look Around Us": An Analysis of Sense of Place in a Context of Climate Change Stephen PerzPostdoctoral Researcher, Universidad de Granada
Joseph HoftPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 The Effect of Pretrial Detention and Framework on Plea Bargaining Decisions Jodi LaneAssistant Professor,
University of Lynchburg
Elizabeth HartsellPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 An Examination of the Marion County Diversion Drug Court Jodi LaneAssistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Sarah BoeshartPh.D., Sociology, 2022"We Deserve Better": Sapphic Grief with Media LossKendal Broad
Yiorgo TopalidisPh.D., Sociology, 2022The Whitening Process Model: Forging an Anti-Racist Praxis for Descendants of European Immigrants in the United States Nicholas VargasCo-Assistant Director, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida
Amanda LewisPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 Beyond the Bars – Exploring the Lives of Exonerees & Their Loved Ones as They Cope With Miscarriages of JusticeLora Levett and Monika ArdeltResearch Associate,
Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative;
Board Advisor, DC Project Connect
Jared AdamsPh.D., Sociology, 2022 Revisiting the Academic Caste System: Prestige, Gender, and Stratification and Inequality in Academic NetworksRaffaele Vacca
Joseph RiveraPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2022 On Law and Wildlife: American Law in a Global Legal SchemeLonn Lanza-KaduceLecturer, Criminology & Law, University of Florida
Dorothy Du Ph.D., Criminology & Law, 2022Examining and Specifying the Effect of Neuroscientific Evidence on Jurors' Perceptions and Decision MakingChris GibsonAssistant Professor, Guilford College
Daniel ActonPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2021Sibling Influences: Delinquency and VictimizationChris GibsonAdjunct Instructor, College of Charleston
Jiae ParkPh.D., Sociology, 2021The Transition to Adulthood and Depressive Symptoms: A Case of South KoreaTanya Koropeckyj-Cox
Tianyuan TangPh.D., Sociology, 2021Three 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 ChinaTanya Koropeckyj-Cox
Jessica CasimirPh.D., Sociology, 2021The Synchronicity of Chronic Illness and Caregiving: An Ethnographic Exploration of Grandmother Caregivers in the Valley of a 1000 Hills, South AfricaBarbara ZsembikAssistant Professor of Sociology, Western Carolina University
Julia ArroyoPh.D., Sociology, 2021Pathways into Raising Grandchildren among Latinx Grandparents in Central FloridaBarbara ZsembikAssistant Professor, College of Charleston
Dion CampbellPh.D., Sociology, 2021Community and Identity among Those Who Play Video Games: A Grounded ApproachMarian Borg
John BlasingPh.D., Sociology, 2020Sports, Nationalism, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Turkish Football FandomTamir Sorek
David CanartePh.D., Sociology, 2020Migration, Social Support, and Health in Immigrant Communities: A Study on Roma in France and Immigrant Farmworkers in FloridaRaffaele VaccaAdjunct Instructor, East Tennessee State University
Thomas SmithPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2020A Theory of Biosocial SupportChris GibsonAssistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Stephanie Dhuman GironPh.D., Sociology, 2020Fusions and Fault-Lines: Puerto Rican Experiences in a Florida CommunityNicholas VargasAssistant Professor, Hamilton College
Antionette McFarlanePh.D., Sociology, 2020Constance ShehanClinical Research Coordinator III, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida
Kara FransiscoPh.D., Sociology, 2020Bad Bodies and Contested Conceptions: Exploring Trying to Conceive, Pregnancy, and BirthBarbara ZsembikQualitative Researcher, Independent Consultant, Fransisco Writing, Research, & Analysis
Abigail NovakPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2020Exclusionary Discipline across the Life-Course: an Age-Graded Examination of the School-To-Prison PipelineAbby FaganAssistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi
Cory LowePh.D., Criminology & Law, 2020Moral Communities in Chicago: Examining the Relationship between Family and Community Religiousness and Youth Substance Use and DelinquencyChris GibsonDirector of Research at Loss Prevention Research Council
Stephanie MintzPh.D., Criminology & Law, 2020Learning Extremism: A Social Learning Theory Approach to Explaining Engagement in Violent ExtremismLonn Lanza-Kaduce
Elise CostaPh.D., Criminology, Law, & Society, 2019From genes to jurorsChris GibsonAssociate Program Director for Behavioral Health & Justice, National Association of Counties
Tolga TezcanPh.D, Sociology, 2019Determinants of Return Migration Intention and Circular Migration: The Case of Turkish Immigrants in GermanyAlin CeobanuAssociate Professor, California State University School of Social, Behavioral & Global Studies
Martha RoseroPh.D. Sociology, 2019The Important Things for Us. Resilience and Relationality in Colombian Ethnic Group Contexts during Times of CrisisStephen PerzSocial Inclusion Director (Afro Descendants Fellow), Conservation International
Ryan ThomsonPh.D, Sociology, 2019Destructionment: Gates & Fakes Invade the Gullah/Geechee's Sea IslandsStephen PerzAssistant Professor, Auburn University Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Erin CastroPh.D., Criminology, Law, & Society, 2019Following in Their Footsteps: the Interweaving Pathway of Self Control, Depressive Symptoms, and External Parental Factors on Intergenerational DevianceMarvin KrohnAssistant Professor, College of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Florida State University
Stephen PridgenPh.D., Sociology, 2019Cultural cognition and wisdom as strategies to combat anti-intellectualism in higher educationMonika ArdeltAssistant Professor, Concord University Department of Social Work and Sociology
Kristin Johnson GardnerPh.D., Criminology, Law & Society, 2019Examining the Impact of Transfer on Adult Recidivism over the Long Term: A Propensity Score Matching ApproachLonn Lanza-KaduceAdjunct Instructor, University of Florida
Sara MoorePh.D., Sociology, 2019Occupations and earnings inequalityCharles PeekDeputy Director of Research at Public Wise
Anneloes "Anne" MookPh.D, Sociology, 2019Certification, market construction, and the global value chainChristine OverdevestSenior Team Scientist, Colorado State University
Tameka Samuels-JonesPh.D., Criminology, Law, & Society, 2019Regulatory law and local stakeholder influences on green crime in the Blue Mountains, JamaicaStephen PerzAssociate Director, Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC); Assistant Professor-Law, Governance & Accountability