| Year | Name | Dissertation Title |
| 2012 | Parker, Josie | Self-Concepts of Homeless People in an Urban Setting: Processes and Consequences of the Stigmatized Identity |
| 2012 | Regus, Pamela | Postpartum Depression: Standardizing Motherhood? |
| 2011 | Brown, Marni | Coming Out Narratives: Realities of Intersectionality |
| 2011 | Bender, Alexis | Patients, Partners, and Practitioners: Interactions and Meaning- Making Following Spinal Cord Injury |
| 2011 | Charania, Munira | Spectaculat Subjects: The Violent Erotics of Imperial Visual Culture |
| 2011 | Daniels, Pamela | |
| 2011 | Markle, Gail | |
| 2011 | Okonofua, Benjamin | Paths to Peacebuilding: Amnesty and the Niger Delta Violence |
| 2011 | Pruitt, Cenate |
Not Just A "Place For Friends": Teenagers, Social Networks, and Identity Vulnerability, |
| 2011 | Sweatman, William | HOV to the MD? A Multilevel Analysis of Urban Sprawl and the Risk for Negative Health Outcomes |
| 2011 | Windsor, Elroi | Regulating Healthy Gender: Surgical Body Modification among Transgender and Cisgender Consumers |
| 2010 | Combs, Barbara |
The Ties That Bind: The Role of Place in Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, |
| 2010 | Medley-Rath, Stephanie | Scrapworthy Lives: A Cognitive Sociological Analysis of a Modern Narrative Form |
| 2010 | Richards, Melanie |
Mass Media's Relationship to Adolescents' Values and Behaviors: A Theory of Mediated |
| 2010 | Sinha, Cynthia |
Dynamic Parenting: Ethnic Identity Construction in the Second-Generation Indian American |
| 2010 | Yasumoto, Saori | Culture, Cognition, and Parenthood in Japanese and American Homes |
| 2009 | Baird, George James | Identity Work for "Boomer" Professionals: Career Transition in the Restructured Economy |
| 2009 | Banton, Nicole | Nipple Matters: A Black Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Infant Feeding Among African American Mothers |
| 2009 | Cavalier, Elizabeth | Working It "Out": Employee Negotiations of Sexual Identity in Sport Organizations |
| 2009 | Harmon, Mary Patricia | Disentangling Individual and Community Effects on Environmentally Sensitive Behaviors |
| 2009 | Holland, William | Who is My Neighbor?: Framing Atlanta's Movement to End Homelessness, 1900-2005 |
| 2009 | Luo, Baozhen | The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on Familial Elder Care in Rural China |
| 2009 | Walters, Mikel | Invisible at Every Turn: An Examination of Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence |
| 2008 | Lepore, Michael | Direct Care Workers' Motivations for Employment in Long-Term Care, Assisted Living, and Particular Facilities: A Process of Reconciling Conflicting Values |
| 2008 | Li, Wei | The Interaction between Ethnic Relations and State Power: A Structural Impediment to the Industrialization of China, 1850-1911 |
| 2008 | Mills, Melinda | Who Do You Think You're Border Patrolling?: Negotiating "Multiracial" Identities And "Interracial" Relationships |
| 2008 | Palder, Amy | So, Who Feels Pretty?: Negotiating the Meaning of Femininity in a Nonheterosexual Community |
| 2008 | Ruddiman, Elizabeth Price | Is Smart Growth Fair Growth: Do Urban Growth Boundaries Keep Out Racial Minorities? |
| 2008 | Shapkina, Nadejda V. | Operation Help: Counteracting Sex Trafficking of Women from Russia and Ukraine |
| 2007 | Coin, Francesca | Pickles and Pickets after NAFTA: Globalization, Agribusiness, the U.S.-Mexico Food-Chain, and Farm-Worker Struggles in North Carolina |
| 2006 | Davis-Sowers, Regina | Salvaging Children's Lives: Understanding the Experiences of Black Aunts Who Serve as Kinship Care Providers Within Black Families |
| 2006 | Konrad, Miriam | Transporting Atlanta: The Mode of Mobility Under Construction |
| 2006 | Lippard, Cameron | Building Inequality: A Case Study of White, Black, and Latino Contractors in the Atlanta Construction Industry |
| 2006 | Pearson, Fiona | Making Education Work: The Effects of Welfare Reform on the Educational Goals and Experiences of TANF Participants |
| 2006 | Ponder, Bentley | Against the Odds: Resiliency and the Fostering of Furture Academic Success Among At-Risk Children in Georgia |
| 2005 | Gheorghiu-Stephens, Cristina | Does Commitment Matter? A Comparative Gender Analysis of Work Commitment and Labor Market Outcomes in Western-Capitalist and Former-Socialist Countries |
| 2004 | Griffin, Gary | Beyond Post-Industrialism: An Examination of Life Style in the Information Society |
| 2004 | Luck, Phil | Meat as Ideology: It's What's for Dinner |
| 2003 | Gentry, Quinn Michelle | Risk in the Rough: An Ethnographic Inquiry of How Poor African American Women Who Smoke Crack Reduce Their Risks for HIV Infection |
| 2003 | Khair, Emilie M. | The Culture and Construction of Mother and Daughter Affective Solidarity in Diverse Dyads |
| 2003 | Williams, Michael D. | Help-Seeking Behavior as a Predictor of Participation in Department of Veterans Affairs-Sponsored Visual Impairment Rehabilitation |
| 2002 | Boeri, Miriam | I'm An Addict, But I Ain't No Junkie: An Ethnographic Analysis on the Drug Using Career of Baby Boomers |
| 2002 | Cochran, Roger | The Meaning of Self: Differences Between Cohorts and Between Users of Biomedicine and Complementary/Alternative Medicine |
| 2002 | Combs, Bess L. | The Role of Community Day Programs in the Lives of Low-Income Residents of Assisted Living Facilities |
| 2002 | Klein, Gretchen | Dr. Girl: The Feminization of Veterinary Medicine |
| 2002 | Perkins, Molly | Survival in a Small African American-Owned and -Operated Assisted Living Facility: A Process of Negotiating Risks |
| 2002 | Verrill, Linda A. | Changes in Role-Identity Meaning and Well-Being During the Transition to Retirement: Comparing Early and Later Retirees |
| 2001 | Dolan, Kathleen | HIV and STIs Among Lesbian Women: Constructions of Risk and Protection |
| 2000 | Fuqua, Ron | Liberation Ideology and Practice in a Nursing Home |
| 2000 | Gregory, Donald Gilbert | More Than a Breadwinner: A Quantitative Feminist Analysis of Highly Involved Fathers |
| 2000 | Lofton, Teresa C. | Reclaiming an American Indian Identity: the Ethnic Renewal of the Lower Muskogee Creeks |
| 2000 | Moore, Paula | The Effects of Professionalization on Teachers' Attitudes Promoting Equity in K-12 Student Achievement |
| 2000 | Rinalducci, Edward | Authenticity Movements in Ethnic and Religious Revivalism: A Reconceptualization and Examination of Cultural Communal Identity Movements |
| 2000 | Sharpe, Tanya Telfair | Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Exchange, Poor Black Women, and Reproduction |
| 1999 | Barnes, Sandra | Positive Attitudes, Behavior, and Community Ties in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: The Impact of Neighborhood Effects, Household Economic Level, and Social Variables |
| 1999 | Crosby, Nandi | The Souls of Black Men: Male Discourse and its Critical Implications for Rethinking Black Feminist Thought |
| 1999 | Heishman, Annette | 'Get Rid of It and Don't Dwell on It': Explanatory Models and Experiences of Breast Cancer by rural Women |
| 1999 | Hugh, Margaret M. | A Comparative Study of Adult Socialization in Eritrea and the U.S. |
| 1998 | Allen, Gay | "It's Not a Cold" : From Cancer Person to Cancer Survivor -- The Process of Living with Cancer |
| 1998 | Basile, Kathleen C | From Unwanted Sex to Wife Rape: Examining Sexual Coercion in Marriage on a Continuum of Severity |
| 1998 | Brown, Cheryl Lynn | Family or Work: Identity Salience Battles for Working Men and Women |
| 1998 | King, Sharon | Future Planning Among Older African-American Parents of Adult Dependent Children: Retiring From the Caregiving Career |
| 1997 | Bull, Sheana Salyers | Challenging Traditional Gender Roles: What is the Impact of Employment on Machismo/Marianismo and Sexual Behavior for Latino Men and Women? |
| 1997 | Paterline, Brent | Structural and Social Psychological Determinants of Prisonization |
| 1997 | Taylor, Leslie F | Psychotropic Drug Use in a Nursing Home |
| 1996 | Foster, Howard | An Examination of Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction |
| 1996 | Fraser, James | The Impact of Organizational Composition on the Emergence of Corporate Culture |
| 1996 | Porterfield, Jeff | The Influence of Neighborhood and Alienation on Norm Violating Behavior Among Atlanta Residents |
| 1996 | White, William S. | Growth Machines, Place Entrepreneurs, and Social Construction of Enclave Economies: An Examination of Atlanta's Chinese Enclave Economy |