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Jeanie Akamanti (Ph.D. expected May 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
Stephen P. Hagan (Ph.D. expected May 2008)
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
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Research Interests:Social Movements, Deviance, Social Problems, Culture, Leisure, Technology, Media Analysis, Religion
Course Syllabi: Soc 108 Introduction to Sociology
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
Geraldine M. Hendrix-Sloan (Ph.D. expected May 2008)
Dissertation: (prospectus) “Inclusion and Exclusion: A Qualitative Study of Escorts and Boundary Work”
Research Interests: Sociology of deviance, criminology, sociology of culture, gender, theory, social stratification.
Course Syllabi: SOC 223/WMST 223 (Women and Men in Contemporary Society) Fall 2007 SOC 372 (Criminology)
Contact Information Department of Sociology 3435 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901 Phone: (618) 453-7632 Email: gera133@siu.edu
Shelly McGrath (Ph.D. expected May 2008)
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Contact Information Department of Sociology 3429 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901 Phone: Email: smcgrath@siu.edu
Melissa Powell-Williams (Ph.D. expected May 2008)
Dissertation: “Identity Correspondence and Frame Resonance: Examining Deaf Culture Movement Collective Identity in the United States” (prospectus)
Committee: Robert D. Benford Ph.D (Chair), Darren Sherkat Ph.D, Jennifer L. Dunn Ph.D, Thomas C. Calhoun Ph.D, and Paul H. Menkis
Abstract: Using the analytical tool frame resonance, this research will empirically assess the alignment of personal and collective identities within the context of the Deaf Culture Movement (DCM) in the United States. Though social movement researchers assume that identities, culture, beliefs, and values are developments of interactional processes, the current literature remains considerably one sided in its emphasis on this meaning work on the part of elite social movement organizers. Thus, this research takes for granted the variability of how collective identities and ideologies are understood, adopted, and resonate at the micro level. Through routine observation of various DCM activities, in-depth interviews, and a focus group with deaf who regularly participate within DCM activities, this research will examine their process of adopting, modifying, or rejecting the DCM identity and how this relates to their everyday experiences.
Research Interests: Social Movements, Identity, Social Psychology, Sociology of Emotion, Domestic Violence, Victimization, Sociology of Religion
Course Syllabi: Soc 108 Introduction to Sociology Soc 308 Statistics for the Social Sciences
Contact Information Department of Sociology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois 62901 Mail Code: 4524 Office: (618) 453-7632 Home: (618) 549-5301 Email: ponchmo@siu.edu
Todd Powell-Williams (Ph.D. expected May 2008)
Dissertation: "The Social Control of the Westboro Baptist Church: Fuel to the Fire?" (prospectus)
Committee: Dr. Robert D. Benford (Chair, Southern Illinois University), Dr. Thomas C. Calhoun (Jackson State University), Dr. Jennifer L. Dunn (Southern Illinois University), Dr. Darren E. Sherkat, Southern Illinois University, and Dr. Vincent J. Webb (Sam Houston State University)
Abstract: The social control of mobilization can be carried out by a number of external agents; among them are the police, legislators, organized countermovements, and the news media. Internally, this control operates through communication between group members, particularly through the use of narrative. My dissertation research examines how the tactics and strategies of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have been shaped and maintained through both internal and external elements of social control, and is guided by five general questions: First, how have attempts to externally control the protests of the WBC been perceived by church members, and how have these perceptions shaped their subsequent activities? Second, how do WBC members collectively negotiate their responses to these attempts at external control? Third, how does the utilization of negotiated management as a protest policing strategy function for both the WBC and the police. Next, what sort of narratives do WBC members put forth related to their experiences with direct action and external social controls, and how do these narratives align with their ideological beliefs? Finally, how do these collectively shared narratives function as formalized elements of the internal control of their mobilization?
Research Interests: Social Control of Mobilization, Social Problems, Criminological Theory, Collective Behavior/Social Movements, Qualitative Research Methods
Course Syllabi: Soc 108 Introduction to Sociology Soc 215 Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States Soc 302 Contemporary Social Problems
Contact Information Home: 404 West Sycamore Street Carbondale, IL 62901 (618) 549-5301
Office: Department of Sociology, MC 4524 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Il 62901 (618) 453-7622 E-mail: tawill@siu.edu
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