PhD Students

Ozlem Altiok, current (co-advisee).  Dissertation research topic: Democratization and the politics of gender in Turkey.

Loka Ashwood, current. Dissertation research topic: The politics of nuclear power development in rural areas.

Chris Bocast, current. Dissertation research topic: Acoustic ecology.

Monica Erling, current. Dissertation research topic: The role of place in the construction of racial and ethnic identity.

Julie Keller, current (co-advisee). Dissertation research topic: Immigrant farm workers in Wisconsin and Mexico.

Katharine Legun, current. Dissertation research topic: The biology of markets.

John Chung-Eng Liu, current. Dissertation research topic: The political economy of carbon markets.

Alexandra Lyon, current.  Dissertation research topic: Barriers to variety in the organic vegetable seed industry.

Jason Orne, current.  Dissertation research topic: Race, desire, and the queer community.

Gina Spitz, current.  Dissertation research topic: Residential segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sarah Lloyd, graduated 2012.  Dissertation:  Changing Agricultural Expectations: Emergent Multifunctionality in Richland County, Wisconsin

Samuel Pratch, graduated 2012. Dissertation: Potatoes In The Páramo: A Case Study of the Underlying Forces Driving Agricultural Expansion in Tuñame, Venezuela

Kaelyn Stiles, graduated 2011. Dissertation: New Universalism: The Rise of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program in the U.S

Bradley Brewster, graduated 2011. Dissertation: Environmental Reconstruction in Microsociological Theory for Microsociological Reconstruction in Environmental Sociology.

Christine Vatovec, graduated, 2010. Dissertation: Do No Harm: The Ecological and Public Health Implications of End-of-Life Medicine.

Damayanti  Banerjee, graduated, 2006.  Dissertation research topic: Between the Rivers: Reconstructing Social and Environmental Histories of Displacement.

Lyn MacGregor, graduated 2005. Dissertation:  Habits of the Heartland: Producing Community in a Small Midwestern Town.

Michael Carolan, graduated 2002.  Dissertation: Trust and Sustainable Agriculture: The Construction and Application of an Integrative Theory.

Gregory Peter, graduated 2001.  Dissertation: Entrepreneurship as if People Mattered : Capitalists, Community Lifestyles, and Cultural Pockets.

Peggy Petrzelka, graduated 1999.  Dissertation: The (Loess) Hills : Power and Democracy in a “New” Landform.

Susan Jarnagin, graduated 1998.  Dissertation: Rationalizing Nature : Attitudes Toward Land Tenure Change and the Environment in Three Communities in Central Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Last updated May 2, 2013