Past Graduate Students
Gina Allen 
Graduation Year: 2004
Degree Earned: M.A.
Thesis Title: Adolescent Suicidal Ideation and Strain: Individual and Neighborhood Effects
Committee Chair: Robert Baller
Appointment: Ph.D. candidate at The University of Minnesota
 
 
Stacy DeCoster 
Graduation Year: 1999
Degree Earned: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: "Disadvantaged Structural Positions, Family Types and Adolescent Delinquency and Depression"
Committee Chair: Karen Heimer
Appointment: North Carolina State University
 
 
Benjamin Earnhart 
 
Graduation Year: 2000
Degree Earned: M.A.
Thesis Title: "A Partial Replication of Power Control Theory"
Committee Chair: Karen Heimer
Appointment: University of Iowa (Data and Computer Consultant)
 
 
Nick Pedriana 
Graduation Year: 2000
Degree Earned: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: "Maximizing Law's Impact: Early Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Transformation of State Capacity 196-1971"
Committee Chair: Robin Stryker
Appointment: Louisiana State University
 
 
Dong-Joon Shin 
 
Graduation Year: 2003
Degree Earned: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Cultural and Social Structural Causes of Deviance: A Study of Cross-National Variation in Homicide and Suicide
Committee Chair: Robert Baller
Appointment: Department of Police Administration, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea
 
 
Sarah Spilman 
 
Graduation Year: 2004
Degree Earned: M.A.
Thesis Title: Child Abduction, Parental Distress, and Social Support
Committee Chair: Karen Heimer
Appointment: Assistant Scientist at the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, Iowa State University
 
 
Ryan Spohn 
 
Graduation Year: 2003
Degree Earned: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Strain and Deviant Adaptations
Committee Chair: Celesta Albonetti
Appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work, Kansas State University
 
 
Tom Stucky 
Graduation Year: 2001
Degree Earned: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: "An Institutional Resources Perspective on Crime and Control in U.S. Cities"
Committee Chair: Karen Heimer
Appointment: Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
 
 
Halime Unal 
 
Graduation Year: 2003
Degree Earned: Ph.D.
Thesis Title: Variations in the Gender Ratio of Criminal Punishment Across States and Over Time
Committee Chair: Karen Heimer
Appointment: Department of Sociology, Mugla University, Turkey
 
 
Matthew Zevenbergen 
 
Graduation Year: 2006
Degree Earned: M.A.
Thesis Title: Is Gender Equality a predictor or gendered homicides?
Committee Chair: Robert Baller
Appointment: Vernon Research Group