The name, date of graduation, and dissertation title of each graduate of the PhD program since 2004 is listed below.
Seongho An, PhD
April 2019
Effective Advocacy on Social Media: Results from a National Study of Homelessness Nonprofits in the United States
Allison R. Russell, PhD
April 2019
Volunteering in Retirement and Retirement from Volunteering: Three Papers on Volunteering in Older Adulthood
Daniel Heist, PhD
February 2019
Understanding Donor-Advised Funds: The Behavioral Economics, Macroeconomics, and Public Policies Relating to an Emerging Trend in Philanthropy
Ama Nyame-Mensah, PhD
November 2018
Generating the Other: Exploring the Multigenerational Effects of Exposure to the United States Sociopolitical System on the Item Response Patterns of Black and Latinx Children
Ashley Fuss, PhD
April 2019
The Prevention of Depression: A Machine Learning Approach
Jeffrey Sharlein, PhD
June 2018
“At the end of the Day, We’re Still in the Hood”: Lawbreaking, Agency, and Geography among Youth in Marginalized Neighborhoods
Chenyi Ma, PhD
June 2018
Home Recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Jia Xue, PhD
Spring 2018
Agenda-Setting for Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring The Role Of Social Media, United States – Based Twitter
Dexia Kong, PhD
February 2018
Health Services Utilization among Older Asian Americans
Shimrit Keddem, PhD
July 2018
Application of the Social-Ecological Framework to Understand Breastfeeding Outcomes in Women Veterans
Kalen Flynn, MSW, PhD
April 2018
Beats per Minute: Exploring the Impact of Violence and Neighborhood Conditions on Adolescents in Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Christina DeNard, MSW, PhD
August 2017
Child Welfare Caseworkers: A Pivotal Role in the Uptake of Evidence-Based Practices
Sambuddha Chaudhuri, PhD
August 2017
Exploring the Role of Financial Incentives to Promote Adherence to Anti-Retroviral Medication in PLWHA
Travis Labrum, MSW, PhD
August 2017
Factors Associated with the Occurrence of Family Violence Perpetrated by Persons with Mental Illness: A National Online Survey
Ryan Petros, PhD
August 2017
Learning and Utilizing WRAP’s Framework: The Process of Recovery for Serious Mental Illness
Eunhae Kim, PhD
May 2017
Perception and Utilization of Telehealth Technology for Chronic Disease and Depression Care in Older Adults: A National Survey
Allison E. Thompson, PhD
May 2017
Natural and Formal Mentors Among Youth in Foster Care: How Do Mentor Type and Relationship Dynamics Explain Variance in the Quality of the Mentoring Relationship?
Alexandra Schepens Wimberly, PhD
May 2017
A Yoga Intervention for Substance Use and Stress for Returning Citizens
Daniel Treglia, PhD, MPP
April 2016
Using Positive Psychology to Explain Shelter Use: A Study of Homeless Families in New York City
Elizabeth Noll, PhD
April 2015
Navigating the Discourse of Dependency: Welfare-Reliant Mothers in College: An Institutional Ethnography
Megan Stanton, PhD
April 2015
Short-Circuiting Neoliberal Development: A Case Study of the Usha Multi-Purpose Cooperative
Marlene Walk, PhD
April 2015
Schools, Teachers, and Their Work: Essays on Attitudes and Responses to Organizational Change
Daniel Warren Curtis, PhD
January 2015
Blessings and Burdens: How Immigrants to the United States Who Are Latter-day Saints Perceive the Benefits and Costs of Being Religious
Minseop Kim, PhD
September 2014
Parental Nonstandard Work Schedules and Children’s Academic Achievement
Micheal Lynden Shier, PhD
June 2014
Social Innovations by Nonprofits: Inter- and Intra-Organizational Factors
Samira Ali, PhD
December 2013
A Family-Based Sexual Health Communication Intervention with a Sex Worker Community in Kolkata, India
Stacey Barrenger, PhD
December 2013
Mental Illness and Prison Reentry Intervention in a High Risk Context
Casey Bohrman, MSW, PhD
May 2013
Police Officer Assessments of Mental Illness, Substance Use and Co-occuring Mental Illness and Substance Use: It’s Common Sense
Michelle Evans-Chase, PhD
May 2013
Mindfulness Meditation with Incarcerated Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial Informed by Neuropsychosocial Theories of Adolescence
Katharine McGinley Kaplan, PhD
May 2013
Assessing the Impact of an Internet-Based Parenting Intervention for Mothers with Psychiatric Disabilities: Randomized Controlled Trial
Julie A. Tennille, MSW, LSW, PhD
May 2013
An RCT of an Evidence-Based Practice Teaching Model with the Field Instructor/Social Work Intern Dyad
Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen, PhD
December 2012
Foster Care: An Analysis of Factors that Impact Placement Stability
Mayaan Lawental Schori, PhD
December 2012
Organizational Correlates of Medication Assisted Treatment in Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities: Examining How Institutional Forces Shape Treatment
Thomas Byrne, PhD
August 2012
Modeling rates of chronic homelessness in American communities
Itay Greenspan, PhD
August 2012
Israeli environmental NGOs and philanthropic foundations: Donor dependence, organizational characteristics, and selection mechanism
Jonathan Lukens, PhD
August 2012
The willingness to engage: A factorial survey of clinical social workers’ adherence to the value of client autonomy in treating the severely mentally ill
Heather A. Klusaritz, MSW, PhD
May 2012
Health professionals training in the era of the patient protection and affordable care act (P.L. 111-148): Educating to meet workforce demands
Charlene Chen McGrew, PhD
May 2012
Social service agency partnerships with religious congregations in Wilmington, Delaware
Raymond Albert, PhD
August 2011
How black men in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia frame work and the work ethic in relation to their economic status
Francis Harper Barchi, PhD
August 2011
Autonomy, intimate partner violence, and women’s health in Northern Botswana: The Maun women’s study
Joanna Bisgaier, PhD
August 2011
Provider barriers to specialty medical and oral health care access for children
Sara Wiesel Cullen, PhD
August 2011
Maternal psychotic disorders and pediatric health care utilization: Medicaid-insured families in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Manisha Joshi, PhD
August 2011
Attitudes towards wife-beating among women in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan: An empirical examination using multiple indicator cluster surveys
Kristie Thomas, PhD
August 2011
Homelessness and domestic violence: Examining patterns of shelter use and barriers to permanent housing
Rosemary Frasso, PhD
May 2011
Exploring the association between low maternal health literacy and pediatric health care utilization: Are limited reading skills a barrier of concern?
Sungkyu Lee, PhD
May 2011
Effects of social networks on medical comorbidity among people with serious mental illness
Stacy Raphael, PhD
May 2011
Race and higher education: A critical study of professors’ perceptions beyond courses on race, at a predominantly white institution
Huiquan Zhou, PhD
May 2011
The role of private non-profit organizations in promoting compulsory education in rural China: Applying the public-private mix model
Jodi Levinthal, PhD
December 2010
The community context of animal abuse and human maltreatment
Jason Matejkowski, PhD
August 2010
“Differential treatment” of persons with severe mental illness in parole release decisions?
Staci Perlman, PhD
May 2010
Building bridges to promote educational well-being: A population-based study of the impact and timing of out-of-home placement, child maltreatment, and homelessness
Brian Coleman, PhD
December 2009
Post-conversion experiences of African-American male Sunni Muslims: Community integration and masculinity in twenty-first century Philadelphia
Karen Zurlo, PhD
December 2009
The mediating effects of the sense of control on the financial well-being of older adults
Julie A. Cederbaum, PhD
August 2009
The influence of maternal HIV Serostatus on mother-daughter sexual risk communication and adolescent engagement in HIV risk behaviors
Melissa E. Dichter, PhD
August 2009
Safety risks and service needs among women who have experienced police intervention for intimate partner violence
Tae Kuen Kim, PhD
August 2009
Impact of income transfers on poverty reduction among the working poor in Korea
Tawandra L. Rowell, PhD
August 2009
The impact of drugs on the sexual behavior of incarcerated African-American males
Kerry Dunn, PhD
May 2009
Re-forming the social: Neoliberal voluntarism in the warehouse prism
Mona Basta, PhD
December 2008
It’s a matter of trust: How single mothers leaving welfare make child care decisions
Joel M. Caplan, PhD
August 2008
Parole release decisions in New Jersey: Effects of positive and negative victim and non-victim input
Beverly D. Frazier, PhD
May 2008
Assessing Philadelphia’s community institutional capacity for prisoner reentry
Rachel A. Fusco, PhD
May 2008
Domestic violence crimes and child exposure: A population-based investigation of direct sensory exposure and the nature of involvement
Mary Cary Bradley, PhD
December 2007
Mothers, children, and parenting: The role of age and a test of home visitor services as a strategy to improve parenting of adolescent mothers
Michele A. Belliveau, PhD
August 2007
Navigating the policy context: Experiences of undocumented Mexican mothers in a new suburban immigrant community
Victoria E. Stanhope, PhD
August 2007
The role of process: Examining consumer-provider service interactions
Mary Cavanaugh, PhD
May 2007
An exploration of the feasibility and utility of the Dialectical Psychoeducational Workshop (DPEW) as a preventative intervention for males at potential risk of intimate partner violence
Sungeun Lee, PhD
May 2007
Predictors of departure from supported housing among persons with severe mental illness
Amy Blank, PhD
December 2006
Access for some, justice for any? The allocation of mental health services to people with mental illness leaving jail
Min-Kyoung Song, PhD
August 2006
Termination of parental rights and adoption in foster care
Sara K. Bressi, PhD
May 2006
Utilization of physical health services among persons with severe mental illness
Margaret Lee Koppel, PhD
May 2006
Accessible housing for low-income tenants with physical disabilities following the 1988 Fair Housing Act Amendments: Outcomes and processes in four cities
Kim E. Nieves, PhD
May 2006
Dispatch and delay: An analysis of case processing time for Pennsylvania capital post conviction petitions
Sara-Ann Steber, PhD
December 2005
Risk and protective factors that contribute to smoking among pregnant and parenting teens
Hyekyung Choo, PhD
August 2005
Stress process of adjustment problems among adolescents in immigrant families: Generational differences
Nushina M. Siddiqui, PhD
August 2005
Psychosocial and cultural factors affecting substance-abusing African American women’s HIV sexual risk behaviors: A risk and protection perspective
Janis L. Goodman, PhD
May 2005
Identity formation within a multicultural context: A field study of early adolescent African-American girls set in an inner-city community in North Philadelphia
Nicole G. Ives, PhD
May 2005
Understanding Bosnian refugee integration and how it differs by country of resettlement: Denmark and the United States of America
Robert P. Fairbanks II, PhD
December 2004
Communal re-appropriation of blighted spaces: Governmentality and the politics of everyday life in the Kensington Recovery House movement
Hwa-Ok Bae, PhD
August 2004
Understanding the dynamics of child maltreatment recurrence
Jill W. Sinha, PhD
August 2004
African American youth and communities of faith: Capitalizing on compassion, at risk for greatness
Nancy F. Koppelman, PhD
May 2004
Defying dependence: Learning from women in recovery and service providers about family survival
