Dissertations from 2024
A Place to Age: How Older African Immigrants Understand Life and Living, Rebecca Amin
The Intersection of Mental Illness and Queerness: A Quantitative Study, Jennie E. Benjamin
“Being a Mother Don’t Come with No Directions”: How Formerly Incarcerated Black Mothers Parented Behind Bars, Asantewaa Darkwa
Refugees in Transit: Refugee Women’s Perspectives on Space, Transportation, and Mobility During Resettlement in Atlanta, Leanna Greenwood
Racial Microaggressions Within White Spaces: Experiences and Mental Health Consequences Among Black Students And Faculty, Briana Keith
The Role and Correlates of Future Orientation on Health Outcomes for Youth Experiencing Homelessness, Ana LaBoy
A Genealogy of Consent: A Discourse Analysis of High-Profile Cases Before and After #MeToo, Katherine Schweigert
Health and Human Trafficking in Motels: A Mixed-Methods Study of Youth Experiencing Homelessness in a Unique Social Setting, Kara Tsukerman
Kinetic Networks: How Discussions Matter to Discussion Networks and Depression, George S. Usmanov
Dissertations from 2023
Dumb Hillbillies? Media Portrayal in the Age of Trump A Critical Discourse Analysis, Alana M. Anton
Dwelling in the House of the Lord: Retention, Retreat, and Reuse in Atlanta Neighborhood Churches, Joy D. Appel
Femcels: Where are the Women in the Incelosphere? An Exploratory Content Analysis of Femcel Forums, Madeline Bobo
That’s Cap: How Racial Capitalism Feeds The Burnout of Black Millennials Living in The U.S., Oluyemi Farinu
An Evaluation of Alabama's Chemical Endangerment Law on Infant Health Outcomes, Mia Milne
Sexuality and Dementia: Assisted Living Staff Negotiate the Autonomy of Residents’ Sexual Needs, Josephine Misaro
Between a Place and a Non-Place: A Multilevel Analysis of Exclusion in Atlantic Station, Alexus Moore
Social Structural Sorting in U.S. Schools, Sarah Roche
The Influence of Social Capital on College Persistence and Completion for African American Males, Jacquelyn Carlotta Strickland
Facing the Gray Rhino: Food Pantries in DeKalb County and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Rita B. Thomson
Mixed Race Masculinity in 2020 and Beyond, Christina M. Wan
Decolonizing Black Gangs: A New Theory of Black Gang Formation Through Pursuits of Economic, Political, and Community Power, Kamil D. Williams
Dissertations from 2022
Keeping the Spelman Sisterhood and Becoming Morehouse Men: An Intersectional Critical Discourse Analysis on Gendered Policies at HBCUs, Tiara Giddings
What Makes Trans Lives More Livable?: An Intersectional Content Analysis of #WeHappyTrans* and #TheGenderTag, Jordan F. Miller
Black Habitus and Social Capital: A Case Study in Protection Against Negative Health Outcomes in Atlanta, Georgia, Ebony Respress
White Profession, Black Professional: Working under the Whims of White Authority in the Contemporary Workplace, Ifeanyichukw Ukpabi
The Gender Consensus: Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinities in Men’s Interventions, Christopher Vidmar
"It's Not Normal to Feel like You're Dying on Your Period...": Understanding the Journey to Diagnosis for Endometriosis, Leah MK Youngblood Dr.
Dissertations from 2021
Black and Foreign: Haitian Immigrant Identities and Well-Being in America, Mollie Innocent-cupid
But Where Are You Really From?: Black and Asian American Women's Experiences of Gendered Racialized Microaggressions, Dresden Lackey
Minority Stress in the Context of the Disablement Process Model, Jeffrey Lentz
Where is Hope in Old Age? A Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Migration Experience and Well-being, Jing Liu
Set Trippin': An Intersectional Examination of Gang Members, Lea Marzo
Birth Lost in Translation: Obstetric Violence and the Plight to Humanize Institutional Birth, Claudia Tillman
Thinking Cis: Racialized Cissexism, Cis-Heterosexual Men, And Cis-LBQ Women, Alithia Zamantakis
Dissertations from 2020
Older Adults' Intimacy Process in the Realm of Long-term Care, Andrea F. Fitzroy
I Didn't Know it was Harassment: Pervasive & Unrecognized Discrimination on the College Campus, Tiffany A. Parsons
Relationships to Alcohol Among Black Queer Women and Non-Binary People, Brittany Jean Taylor
Dissertations from 2019
Revolutionary Departures: Reimagining the World of Black Fatherhood, Clinton Boyd Jr.
What’s behind School Choice? Middle-Class Parents in France, Race, and Decisions over Public Middle Schools, Anthony E. Healy
Hair That Moves: Black Solidarity, Cognitive Pluralism, and the Natural Hair Movement, Taura Taylor
Propagating Privilege: An Analysis of the Marketing and Consumption of Donor Sperm, Megan Tesene
Dissertations from 2018
But Some of Us Are Brave: Race, Rape Culture and Sexual Violence on College Campuses, Kayla N. Charleston
Black On Both Sides: An Examination of Race and Class in the Ghetto Mecca, Jonathan P. Grant
Whole Indian: Racism, Resistance, And (Re)Membering Turtle Island, Marshall Jeffries
Community Supervision and Mental Health: The Psychological Well-Being and Expectations of Officers Supervising People with Serious Mental Illness, Nicholas Powell
Mental Health Stigma And Indigent Defense, Ruth Richardson
Everybody Has It but No One Knows Much About It: How Patient-Provider Communication & HPV Knowledge Impact the Lived Experience of Having HPV, Kelsey Schwarz
Person-environment Fit, Neighborhood Satisfaction, and Social Interaction Among Relocated Public Housing Residents in Atlanta, Renee A. Skeete
Navigating Food Deserts: A Geo-Ethnography of Atlanta Residents' Experiences, Routines, and Perceptions, Lakeisha Tate
Dissertations from 2017
"Big Black Beasts": Race and Masculinity in Gay Pornography, Desmond Goss
Black Girl Magic? The Influence of the Strong Black Woman Schema on the Mental Health of Black Women in the United States, Stephanie Hall
'Tis Better to Give and to Receive: Social Support, Stress, and Mental Health in Dyadic Relationships, Stephanie Hansard
One Step at a Time: The Dilemmas, Strategies, and Outcomes of Bi-National Same-Sex Relationships During DOMA and Beyond, Aline Jesus Rafi
Accessing Health: Examining Racial and Geographic Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence as a Result of the Built Environment, Amanda Powell
Racialized Emotions and the Construction of Blackness in Jamaican Citizenship Textbooks (1994 - 2006), Jennifer Renee Simon
"Why Even Bother? They Are Not Going To Do It": Racism and Medicalization in the Lactation Profession, Erin V. Thomas
Mixed Messages: The Effect of Social Location, Parental Communication About Sex, and Formal Sexual Education on Protective Sexual Behaviors, Eryn G. Viscarra
Broken Bonds: The Role of Place-Based Social Bonds in Shaping Public Housing Relocation Outcomes, Chandra Ward
Dissertations from 2016
Successful Sexual Aging: A Feminist Gerontological Examination of Sexual Behavior and Health, Christina Barmon
"Some guys do, but that's not me." Language use and the rejection of hegemonic masculinity., Lanier Basenberg
Notorious but Invisible: How Romani Media Portrayals Invalidate Romani Identity and Existence In Mainstream Society, Melanie Covert
Public Housing Relocation and Utilization of the Food Safety Net: The Role of Social Capital and Cultural Capital, Marcie Hambrick
An Imperfect and Incomplete Quest for Freedom: An Extended Case Study of Black American Counter-Framing and Resistance Strategies, Angela Luvara
Red, White, and Gay?: American Identity, White Savior Complex, and Pink Policing, Marik Xavier-Brier
Dissertations from 2015
Wed-Locked: Television and the Acceptance of Same-sex Relationships, Cory Albertson
Exploring the Efficacy of the Volunteer Return Preparation Program for Low-Income Taxpayers, Melissa Mae Hayes
Ill-Timed: The Effect of Early Chronic Illness Onset on Young Adult Psychosocial Development, Eundria A. Hill-Joseph
The Effect of Social Capital on Hispanic Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes, Amy Stalzer
Dissertations from 2014
The Impact of Age, Race and Ethnicity on Employment, Jeremy Bennett
Acculturation and Mental Health among Latino and Asian Immigrants in the United States, Elif Bulut
Race, Gender, and High School Experience--Exploring Intersecting Factors Influencing Black Males? Educational Attainment and College Aspiration, Emmie JoAnne Cochran-Jackson
A Sociological Investigation of Early Gradutes in U.S. High Schools, Jeff S. Duvall
Porn Sex vs. Real Sex: Exploring Pornography's Impact on Sexual Behaviors, Attitudes, and Relationships, Stacy Gorman
Dissertations from 2013
The Mental Health Consequences of Losing a Parent: Does Culture Moderate the Impact of Parental Death?, Daisuke Ito
Unbearable Fruit: Black Women's Experiences with Uterine Fibroids, Ranell L. Myles
From No Hope to Fertile Dreams: Procreative Technologies, Popular Media, and the Culture of Infertility, Evelina W. Sterling
Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships, Melissa E. Travis
Dissertations from 2012
The Dance of Privacy: Disclosure of Private Information in Semi-Public Settings, Amanda M. Jungels
Constructing Time and Space and Transcending Boundaries in Long-Distance Relationships, Orsolya Kolozsvari
Self-Concepts of Homeless People in an Urban Setting: Processes and Consequences of the Stigmatized Identity, Josie L. Parker
Neighborhood Social Interaction in Public Housing Relocation, Christopher W. Pell
Not Just A "Place For Friends": Teenagers, Social Networks, and Identity Vulnerability, Cenate Pruitt
Postpartum Depression: Standardizing Motherhood?, Pamela J. Regus
Dissertations from 2011
Patients, Partners, and Practitioners: Interactions and Meaning- Making Following Spinal Cord Injury, Alexis A. Bender
Coming Out Narratives: Realities of Intersectionality, Marni A. Brown
Spectacular Subjects: The Violent Erotics of Imperial Visual Culture, Moon M. Charania
The Timely Use of Prenatal Care and its Effects on Birth Outcomes in Black Women of Low Socioeconomic Status in the South, Pamela V. Daniels
"Yeah, I Drive an SUV, but I Recycle":The Cultural Foundations of Environmentally Significant Behavior, Gail L. Markle
Paths to Peacebuilding: Amnesty and the Niger Delta Violence, Benjamin A. Okonofua
HOV to the MD? A Multilevel Analysis of Urban Sprawl and the Risk for Negative Health Outcomes, William Mark Sweatman Ph.D.
Regulating Healthy Gender: Surgical Body Modification among Transgender and Cisgender Consumers, Elroi J. Windsor