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Immigration, Religion, Health behavior, Neighborhood effectsDissertation:
Food, Race and Religion: Dietary Acculturation in the Adventist Health Study
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Social Theory; Narrative; Culture; Collective Memory; History of SociologyDissertation:
Ghosts and the Imagined Past
My dissertation looks at the overlap between folklore--specifically ghost-lore--and the imagined past. What I want to know is how ordinary persons who tell ghost stories do the work of imagining the past, intentionally or not, through the act of telling.
Kelsey Cundiff
- Ph.D. Candidate in Criminology
- 2019-2020 Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
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Crime Trends, Neighborhoods, Life-CourseDissertation:
My dissertation assesses the theoretically relevant individual level factors associated with the 1990's crime decline. Through the use of longitudinal data for two cohorts of youth who come of age before and after the decline, I compare their engagement in violence from ages 13-18 and examine the extent to which several factors can explain the differences between the two cohorts in violence. Additionally, I examine the age-crime curves of each cohort and analyze possible explanations for cohort differences in their age associated declines in violence.
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Courts and sentencing, Morality, Sociology of deviance, Crimes against childrenDissertation:
Specifying focal concerns: a survey examining how criminal judges account for the dangerousness, blameworthiness, practical constraints, and rehabilitation potential of defendants
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Social Demography, Inequality, Education, Health Disparities, Race/Gender, Quantitative MethodsDissertation:
Education and Type 2 Diabetes: Decomposing Change from Cohorts Born 1935-1954
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Stratification, Poverty, & Race and EthnicityResearch Interests
Social Movements, Political and Comparative-Historical Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Social Problems, Sociology of Organizations, Social Theory, and Qualitative MethodsDissertation:
Path Dependence, Anti-fracking Mobilization, and Shale Policy Divergence in New York and Pennsylvania
Cadhla McDonnell
- University Graduate Fellow
- PhD Candidate in Sociology and Demography
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Gender and Parenting; Work and Family; Time Use; Fertility; Gender Ideology; Social Demography; Social InequalityResearch Interests
Social Networks, Inequality, Immigration, Health, Criminology, Quantitative Methods, Computational SociologyDissertation:
Worth the Weight: Framing Social Processes as Weighted Social Networks
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Demography, Fertility, Demographic Transitions, Population Projections, Quantitative Methods, Survey MethodologyDissertation:
Probabilistic Projections of the Sex-Ratio at Birth: A Methodological
Case-Study in India
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Family, Social Demography, Social Inequality, Family PolicyResearch Interests
Life course, mortality, health.Dissertation:
Using a unique data set that combines Dutch census information with detailed medical records, my dissertation explores the long term effects of in-utero malnutrition on health in late life, mortality, and intergenerational transmissions. I focus on cohorts exposed to large scale famine while in-utero during the Dutch Hunger Winter (1944).
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Sociology of Education, Demography, School Racial Segregation, Race and EducationDissertation:
High School Racial Segregation & Racial Ethnic Differences in Aspirations and Attainment
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Family, romantic relationshipsResearch Interests
Aging and Life Course, Health Disparity, Cross-national Study, Quantitative MethodologyDissertation:
Educational Attainment and Late-life Trajectories of Health in Developing Contexts