Ten of our doctoral students have successfully defended their dissertation in 2023-2024 and will be graduating in May 2024. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
| SEMESTER | DISSERTATION TITLE |
| Summer 2023 | |
| Hangqing Ruan | Epidemiological Transition and Shifting Mortality Inequality: An Extension of Fundamental Cause Theory |
| Fall 2023 | |
| Hao-Chun Cheng | Variability Of Age At First Union Formation And First Marriage And Its Potential Effects On Experiencing Depression |
| Jisun Min | Heterogeneous Effects of Grandchild Care on Employment, Working Time, and Work-Family Conflict |
| Justin Maietta | It’s Not Like I Can Just Pause Diabetes:” How People Living with Type 1 Diabetes Navigate Relationships, Reproduction, and Parenting |
| Chandra Reyna | Latinx Motherhood Reassessed: How Second and Later-Generation Latina Mothers Redefine Motherhood, Latinidad, and Pursue Intergenerational Healing |
| Seung Wan Kim | Understanding Women’s Labor Force Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Migration, Kin Support, and Relationship Dynamics |
| Spring 2024 | |
| Connor Powelson | Warriors, Guardians, Wolves, and Sheep: Officer perceptions of police-civilian identities and the persistence of organized inequity |
| Hope Xu Yan | Social Inequalities in Motherhood: The Consequences on Mothers' Well-being and Children's Outcomes |
| Jingwen Liu | The Worst of Times? Aging with Limited Family Ties in the United States |
