Submissions from 2024
“Embracing Existence: Exploring Mexican-American Identity, Agency, and Resistance”, Daisy Alcantar
“Eating the Other”: Invisibilities and Inequalities Within Culinary Cosmopolitanism, Francesca Bernardino
Predatory Inclusion in Higher Education: Labor and Financial Exploitation at a Predominantly White Institution in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Maia N. Pedrosa
Submissions from 2023
Un-Scene: How Responses to Sexual Violence Reproduce Legal Hegemony in the Bay Area’s Punk and DIY Community, Sophia R. Kaufmann
Making the Revolution: The Young Lords and the Creation of a New Puerto Rican Identity, Jaylynn M. Rodriguez
Submissions from 2022
Looking Up and Playing Down: The Paradoxes of Performing Wealth at a Liberal Arts College, Greer Lichtenberg
Beyond Vegan: Producer and Restaurant Involvement in the Mainstreaming of Plant-Based Meat, Inge Pham-Swann
Protected Places: Comparing Valuations of Public Lands in U.S. Conservation Legislation, Bergen Schmidt
Plague! Public Health, Community Memory, and HIV/AIDS, Aidan M. Williams
Racialization of Foreigners and Self in the Chinese Immigration Project, Xunwen Zou
Submissions from 2020
The Tensions of Mobilizing Emergent Tactics: Lessons from the Standing Rock Occupation, Margaret E. Breen
Between Gentrifiers and Tourists: Walk-in Gentrifiers, Institutional Expansion and Space in Boston’s Chinatown, Justin Wong
Submissions from 2019
“Being Able to Breathe Publicly:” Trans and Gender Nonconforming People Healing through Embodied Activity, KP Blake-Leibowitz
The Business of Fatherhood: Professional Fathers' Parental Leave Experience in the U.S. and Sweden, Linnea Fox
“Trying to March Less and Organize More”: Culture, Capital, and Structure in Civic Engagement Among College Students, Bailey Haas
The Unrecognized Role of Parental Incarceration on In-School Suspension Rates, Meg Hinson
Uber Effort: The Production of Worker Consent in Online Ride Sharing Platforms, Ruotong Wang
Game Time:" Not Too Much, Nor Too Little", Xuemeng Yao
Submissions from 2018
Combative Values: Hybrid Masculinities and the Gendered Consumption of Violence in Women’s Mixed Martial Arts, Nicholas E. Shriver
Prescribing the Impossible: State Ideals of Intensive Parenting, Francesca Vescia
Submissions from 2017
Contextualizing Palestinian Hybridity: How Pragmatic Citizenship Influences Diasporic Identities, Nicholas E. Bascuñan-Wiley
Children as Bearers of Culture: How Authorities Interpret Law Protecting Culture in International Adoption, Erica Ditmore
Does Social Consumption Mitigate Stigma? Identity Formation in an Urban Farmers’ Market, Claire Looney
“I Treat Everyone with Respect”: Debt Collection Attorneys as Agents of Institutionalized Racism in a Color-blind America, Mahala Miller
Submissions from 2016
Battle for the Soul of the Working Class: Trajectories and Dynamics of Class Politics in the United States and France, Junius Brown
Whose Needs Does Service Serve? Complicating the Citizen Soldier Narrative, Hannah Lair
Submissions from 2015
Negotiating the Neighborhood: The Role of Neighborhood Associations in Urban Planning Processes, Lane K. Holden
Lawyered Up: Local Communities, Courts, and Urban Renewal, Madeline Spolin
Submissions from 2014
Transnational Narratives: Interpretation and Appropriation of Black Identity by West African Immigrants, Mbemba Camara
How does a Believer Become Evangelical?: Using Habitus to Track the Transfer of Religious Meaning Across Social Contexts, Ethan W. Johnson
"I'm More Than the Sum of My Parts": Multiracial Identities and the Creation of Racial Meaning, Hannah D. Johnson
Mexican Identity Beyond Labels, Beyond Borders, Jessica Muñoz
The Mary Poppins Problem: Enforcing Protective Legislation for Domestic Workers in America, Anna Pickrell
Submissions from 2013
Migrant Farmworkers and Access to Health Care in Minnesota: Needs, Barriers, and Remedies, Rachel L. Gunsalus
The Cultural Omnivore in Its Natural Habitat: Music Taste at a Liberal Arts College, Anna Michelson
The Bureaucratic Savior: How Human Service Professionals Allocate Rights to Noncitizens, Mary Pheng
Submissions from 2012
The Creation of State-Level Regulatory Systems: A Case Study of Post-Prohibition Alcoholic Beverage Regulation, Jeremy Carp
With Heart-Strings Attached: Funding Decisions as Identity Work in Nonprofit Organizations, Jonathan L. Cole
The Walls We Build: Borderwork and Manipulation of Power Relations in Hebron, Shahar Eberzhon
Socialization with Alcohol or Alcohol as Socialization: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to Understanding College Student Alcohol Use, Sean B. Hoops
Time for Myself, Time for Others: Gender Differences in the Meaning of Retirement, Kate L. Lanning
Going Global: Explaining Participation in the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Joshua Rubin
“Because this is not the end:” Motivation and Change in People Living with HIV/AIDS, Chloe I. Souza
Submissions from 2011
Making or Maintaining Connections Online? YouTube as Both Site and Tool of Social Interaction, Morgen Chang
"Declaraciones de Deseo y Declaraciones de Realidad": State-Indigenous Relations and Intercultural-Bilingual Education in Peru and Guatemala, Emily Christie
Language in the Name of National Security: The Transformation of Arabic Language Instruction in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education, Evelyn Daugherty
Maximizing Student Integration through Student Employment: A Study of the First-Year College Student Work Experience, Amanda Duhon
Consuming Inequality: The Phenomenon of Consumption as Entertainment Among Mad Men Viewers, Daniel Henry
"Getting Educated": Working Class and First-Generation Students and the Extra-Curriculum, Taylor Laemmli
Submissions from 2010
Resegregation in Minneapolis Public Schools: Tipping Points for Academic Success, Collin Cousins
Church, Sex, and Communal Bonds: How Religion and Sexual Activity Affect the Mental Health of Older Adults, Kathryn Ganong
Beyond Theology: The Social Construction of Compliance Within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Iain Johnson
State Sponsored Liberal Feminism in Jordan, Andrew Pragacz
"I'm a Community Clinic Kind of Gal": Coping with Emotional Labor in Community-Based Organizing, Alexandra M. Zoellner
Submissions from 2009
Style and Consumption Among East African Muslim Immigrant Women: The Intersection of Religion, Ethnicity, and Minority Status, Jennifer L. Barnes
El Que no Tiene Dinga, Tiena Mandinga: Black Collective Identity Formation among Afro-descendants in Dominican Republic and Ecuador, Shantee Rosado
Submissions from 2008
Toy Stories: Mothers and the Meanings of Toys, Jennifer Diaz
Flocking Together: Bridging and Bonding Ties in Retirement Migration, Emily A. Gadek
Parents or Peers? Comparing the Effects of Demographics and Social Ties on Attitudes Towards Diversity, Jeremiah Hess
Balancing Marriage and Friends: The Funeral of Friendship?, Cora Polsgrove
Choosing Truth: The Influence of Function, Institutions, and Global Culture on the Establishment of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Claire B. Posner
Privatization and Social Change: Housing Policy in the United States, Sweden and the Netherlands, Joseph Schweigert
Submissions from 2007
Off the Beaten Path: Rural Students and the Pursuit of Higher Education, Ellen Bracken
The Origins of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Peru, Ashley DeMinck
From Political to Personal: Forming Feminist Identities, Elizabeth Newman
Binge Drinking in College, Audrey Peer
Jazz and the Academy, Thomas Phelan
Japanese-Brazilian Return Migration: Pushes, Pulls, and Prospects, Stephanie N. Phillips
Submissions from 2006
Policing Sexuality in America’s Churches: Theological, Congregational, and Political Influences on Regulation of Same-Sex Behavior, Demoya R. Gordon
Fat Teen Trouble: A Sociological Perspective of Obesity in Adolescents, Katherine Malnor
"Political Economy" : Variability and Consistency in the Development of Worker Owned Cooperatives, Cris Ramon
Playing for an Active Community: Sports Participation and Civic Engagement, Ian E. Ritz
Negotiating Change: An Analysis of the Origins of Ghana's National Health Insurance Act, Jennifer L. Singleton
