Department of Sociology

Ph.D.s on the Job Market

 

College of Liberal Arts

 

 

 

 

 

 
Kristina Dzara
 
 
Jacob Jantzer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeanie Akamanti (Ph.D. expected December 2008)

 

Dissertation: “ Effects of Electronic Benefit Transfer on People with Disabilities: A Qualitative Examination"

 

Committee: Dr. Robert D. Benford (Chair), Dr. Thomas Calhoun, Dr. Jennifer L. Dunn, Dr. Michelle Miller, and Dr. Elisabeth Reichert .

 

Abstract: .  I use ethnography and grounded theory to identify the effects of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) policy on people with disabilities and analyze how the policy is constructed to serve as a form of social control. My research examines how EBT affects life choices and opportunities for recipients. It also illustrates how this policy marginalizes and undermines the civil and human rights of those with disabilities and creates and perpetuates the social construction of disability.

 

Research Interests: Constructs of Disability, Social Control of Marginal Populations.

 

Curriculum Vitae (In PDF Format)

 

Course Syllabi: SOC 223/WMST 221 Women and Men in Contemporary Society

 

Contact Information

Department of Sociology

3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901

Phone: 618-453-2494 (w)

Email: akamanti@siu.edu

 

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Kristina Dzara (Ph.D. expected May 2009)

 

Dissertation: “An Exploration and Comparison of Indicators of Marital Sexuality as Predictors of Divorce"

 

Committee: Dr. Darren Sherkat (Chair), Dr. Lew Hendrix, Dr. Chris Wienke, Dr. Rachel Whaley, Dr. Fred Solt

 

Primary Research Interests: Family, Sexuality, Quantitative Methods

Secondary Research Interests: Criminology

 

Curriculum Vitae (In PDF Format)

 

Course Syllabi:

SOC 223/WMST 221 Women and Men in Contemporary Society

SOC 340: Family

 

Contact Information

Department of Sociology

3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901

Phone: 618-453-2494 (w)

Email: kdzara@siu.edu

 

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Stephen P. Hagan (Ph.D. expected May 2009)

 

Dissertation: (prospectus) “We Provide the Dance Floor, You Make the Music”: E-movements, Building and Maintaining Community Through the Progressive Blogosphere

 

Committee: Dr. Robert D. Benford (chair), Dr. Darren Sherkat, Dr. Jennifer L. Dunn, Dr. Tim Clark, Dr. John Downing

 

Abstract:

 

Research Interests:Social Movements, Deviance, Social Problems, Culture, Leisure, Technology, Media Analysis, Religion

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Teaching Philosophy

 

Course Syllabi:

Soc 108 Introduction to Sociology

Soc 303 Sociology of Deviance

 

Contact Information

Department of Sociology

3429 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901

Office: 3427

Phone: 618-528-6395

Email: sphagan@siu.edu

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Jacob Jantzer (Ph.D. expected May 2009)

 

Dissertation:

 

Committee: Dr. Darren Sherkat (Chair)

 

Abstract:

 

Research Interests:

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Course Syllabi:

Soc 312: Elements of Sociological Research

Soc 215: Race and Ethnic Relations in the US

 

Contact Information

Department of Sociology

3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901

Phone: 618-453-2494 (w

Email: jjantzer@siu.edu