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Gilligan, Megan

Dissertation Committee Chair: J. Jill Suitor 

Email: mgilliga@purdue.edu PhD (expected): May 2013

Dissertation Title: “Stretching the Ties that Bind: Causes and Consequences of Adult Children’s Estrangement from their Parents.”

Research Interests :Parent-adult child relations; family relationships and health; interpersonal ambivalence

Teaching Interests: Sociology of the Family; Aging and the Family; Gender; Research Methods  

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Hendrix, Kimber

Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Sarah Mustillo

Email: klhendri@purdue.edu

PhD (expected): August 2013

Dissertation Title: "Persistence of Stigma:  How Does Timing and Duration of Weight Stigma Impact Identity and Life Outcomes in Adolescents?"

Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Children and Youth, Adolescent Obesity, Stigma and Identity

Teaching Interests: Social Psychology, Medical Sociology, Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Social Research Methods.

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Newcamp, Julie

Dissertation Committee Chair: Elizabeth Hoffmann

Email: newcampja@purdue.edu

PhD (expected): May 2013

Dissertation Title: Lactation Support & the Law: A Study of Organizational Legal Compliance

Research Interests: Social Law & Policy; Qualitative Methods; Work & Organizations; Criminology; Police Work; Terrorism/Homeland Security

Teaching Interests: Social Problems; Sociology of Law; Criminology/Criminal Justice; Qualitative Methods; Introduction to Sociology

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 Shilpi, Sarkar

Dissertation Committee Chair: Eugene C. Jackson

Email: ssarkar@purdue.edu

PhD: August 2012

Dissertation Title: “The Mover and Shaker: The Teacher as a Holistic Transformative Intellectual and Creative Atypical Deviant". A Biographical Case Study on Suvro Chatterjee: A Contemporary Indian Teacher.

Research Interests: Values, identity and behavior; Relationship between the Individual and Society; Culture and the Environment

Teaching Interests: Introductory Sociology, Social Problems, Individual and Society, Social Psychology, Sociological Theory, Values and Societies

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Vargas, Nicholas

Dissertation Committee Chair: Kevin Stainback

Email: Nvargas@purdue.edu

PhD (expected): May 2013

Dissertation Title: When Others Disagree: Racial Contestation and the Multi-Dimensionality of Race

Research Areas: Race & Ethnicity, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Religion, Immigration and Identity, Interpersonal Network Diversity

Teaching Areas: Race & Ethnicity, Social Inequalities (Race, Class, Gender), Social Problems, Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods

Curriculum Vitae: See Website: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nvargas