Former PhD Students (Dissertation Committee Chair)

Dissertation Title: The end of poverty, or the emergence of the horizontal ghetto? Post public housing spatial concentration and youth in Baltimore

Dissertation Title:  Teaching Transformations: Post-Apartheid Generation and Apartheid History Education

Dissertation Title:  Second Generation Optimism and The Reproduction of a Working Class: The Relevance of the Urban Context in the School and Work Trajectories of Mexican-Origin Young Adult Males

Dissertation Title:  American and Irish Ghettos: A Comparison of Race and Residential Segregation in the United States and Ireland

Dissertation Title: The Catholic Church and the Immigrant Rights Movement: The Ethics and Politics of Mobilizing for Immigrant Rights

Dissertation Title: American/Muslims: Reactive Solidarity, Identity Politics and Social Identity Formation in the Aftermath of September 11th

Dissertation Title:  Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South

Winner of the 2008 Best Dissertation Award American Sociological Association

Published as:  New Destination Dreaming:Immigration, Race and Legal...

Dissertation Title: Becoming South Asian: An Examination of Identity, Intergroup Relations, and Responses to 9/11

Dissertation Title:  Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans’ and Puerto Ricans’ Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility

Dissertation Title:  Replenished Identity: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and Ethnic Identity

Published as:   Replenished Ethnicity:Mexican Americans, Immigration and Identity