Completed PhD Dissertations

The dissertation is the capstone piece of the PhD education. It represents an independent and original piece of scholarship and demonstrates the doctoral candidate's mastery of both content material and the research process. Doctoral candidates complete their dissertation after finishing coursework, passing their comprehensive exams and receiving approval for their thesis proposal from their dissertation committee.

Students work closely with their PhD supervisor and committee while conducting their PhD research and in writing the dissertation. The final product typically consists of three article-length chapters, an introduction and a conclusion.

We have been awarding doctorates in Sociology since 1963. The following table contains a list of dissertations completed since 2010. Most of the dissertations are available to the public in full text form in the university's data repository T-Space.