Professional Activities

One of the hallmarks of graduate work is the opportunity it affords to contribute to the discipline's active discourse. Graduate students at UB are involved actively in this endeavor through publishing and presenting at conferences.

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Student Publications

Our graduate students are making their mark on the discipline through publications. Here's a list of publications since 1998:

Brallier, Sara A.

Hequembourg, Amy L.

Richard F. Mancuso

• Mancuso, Richard F. and Brenda A. Miller (in press) "Crime and Punishment in the Lives of Women Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Users: Exploring the Gender, Lifestyle, and Legal Issues." in L. Goodstein and C. Renzetti (eds.) Gender and Crime: Contemporary Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Donald W. Matteson

• Burr, Jeffrey A., John T. Hartman, and Donald W. Matteson. (1999)
• Matteson, Donald W.,Jeffrey A. Burr, and James R. Marshall. (1998) Infant Mortality: A Multi-level Analysis of Individual and Community Risk Factors. Social Science and Medicine. 47(11):1841-1854.

Ross, James J.

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Student Representation at Conferences

UB Sociology graduate students are active in professional conferences, such as the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Eastern Sociological Society, Midwest Sociological Society, and National Council on Family Relations. Here's a small sample of what we've been up to.

American Sociological Association Meetings

• 2000 Meetings (Washington, DC)
  • Diane R. Bessel:
  • George Dillmann: "The Paradox of Simple Living: Voluntary Simplicity as Meaningful Resistance"
  • Lisa A. Cafferata-Zurn:
• 1999 Meetings (Chicago, IL)
  • Diane R. Bessel:
  • Cindy Cooper:
  • Paul C. Fuller:
  • Donald W. Matteson: "Compromised Birth Outcomes: National Analyses of Infant Mortality and Low Birthweight, 1989-1991."
• 1998 Meetings (San Francisco, CA)
  • Diane R. Bessel. "Describing the Mundane: Applying Habermas to the Family"
  • Dr. Lynn Magdol and Diane R. Bessel. "Social Capital, Social Currency, and Portable Assets: The Impact of Residential Mobility on Exchanges of Social Support"
  • Richard F. Mancuso. "The Drug Subcultural Lifestyle: Uncovering the Hidden Transcripts and Forms of Resistance for Women Living on the Edge"
  • Minjoo Oh and Dr. Jorge Arditi. "Food Culture and Technologies of Self"
  • Neil F. Wieloch. "Syringe Exchange: Competing Issues and the New Social Movement of Harm Reduction"
  • Dr. Christopher Mele and Neil F. Wieloch. "Inventing Silicon Alley: Public Investment and Corporate Capital in the Remaking of Lower Manhattan"
• 1997 Meetings (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  • Cheryl Albers. "Professionalization of Family Child Care"
  • Diane R. Bessel. "Reproducing Consumers: The Role of the Housewife in Consumer Economy"
  • Dr. Jan Mutchler and Sara Brallier. "Language Use Among Older Members of Ethnic Groups in the U.S."
  • Kimberly Cattat. "People with Physical Disabilities and Legal Authorities: An Examination of Second Class Citizens"
  • Janice E. Clifford. "The Effects of Single Parent Families on Adult Children's Marital Stability"
  • Amy Hequembourg. "(Re)Creating Motherhood"
  • Chigon Kim. "The Public Sphere and the Democratization of Everyday Life"
  • Richard F. Mancuso. "The Best of Intentions: New York State's Child Protection System and the Laws Used to Mask the Real Reason for Organizational Failure."
  • Dr. Jan Mutchler, Dr. Jeffrey Burr, and Donald W. Matteson. "The Effects of Housing Market Characteristics on Coresidence Decisions Among Older Minority Adults"
  • Thomas S. Parzymieso. "The Downsizing of the American Military and its Effects on African Americans"
  • Neil Wieloch. "Resistance and the Re-definition of Poltics and the Practice of Straight Edge"

Eastern Sociological Society

• 2000 Meetings (Baltimore, MD)
  • Diane R. Bessel
  • Erin E. Robinson: Emerging Discourses: Ecofeminism as Action and Theory"
• 1999 Meetings (Boston, MA)
  • Dr. Michael P. Farrell, Diane R. Bessel and David Blake: "Social Support or Fair Weather Friends?"
  • Danis Gehl:
  • Donald W. Matteson and Diane Bessel: "Interracial Relationships and Relationship Quality"
  • Dr. Jan Mutchler and Joyce A. Joyce:
  • Erin E. Robinson: "Social Control in Social Movement Activity: Barriers to Social Justice"
• 1998 Meetings (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Diane R. Bessel. "Getting By With the Help of My Friends: The Role of Social Support among Non-Married Women with Children"
  • Richard F. Mancuso. "Foucault Paper"
  • Donald W. Matteson. "The Effects of Parental Divorce on Adult Status Attainment."

Midwest Sociological Society

• 2000 Meetings (Chicago, IL)
  • Diane R. Bessel: ""
  • George Dillmann: "Social Constructions of Nature as Environmental Problems: Difficulties with the Social Constructionist-Realist Debate"
  • Erin E. Robinson: "Framing Environmental Problems: Local Media Coverage at Love Canal, NY."
• 1999 Meetings (Minneapolis, MN)
  • Diane R. Bessel: "In the Name of the Father: Women and Men in the Promise Keepers Movement"
• 1998 Meetings (Kansas City, MO)
  • George Dillmann. "Social Capital Formation in the Cohousing Intentional Community"
  • Paul C. Fuller. "Historical Sociology Paper"
  • Donald W. Matteson. "Intersections of Academic and Virtual Community"
  • Donald W. Matteson, Diane R. Bessel, and Paul C. Fuller. "Voluntary Childlessness: An Examination from the Intersections of the Normative, Microeconomic, and Conflict Perspectives"

Society for the Study of Social Problems

• 1999 Meetings (Chicago, IL)
  • Erin E. Robinson. "Perception and Proximity: The Risk of Living Near a Hazardous Waste Site."
• 1998 Meetings (San Francisco, CA)
  • Erin E. Robinson. "Frame Analysis and the Social Construction of Disaster: Competing Frames at Love Canal, NY"

American Society of Criminology

• 1998 Meetings (Washington, DC)
  • Maguin, E., B.A. Miller, R.F.Mancuso, and J.G. Fox. "Geographic Distribution of Domestic Violence Calls: Individual and Neighborhood Predictors."
  • Fox, J.G., E. Maguin, B.A. Miller, and R.F. Mancuso. "Hot Spots of Crime and Domestic Violence: Testing a Criminology of Place and Domestic Violence."

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