Emory Cowen Dissertation Award
EMORY L. COWEN DISSERTATION AWARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF WELLNESS
The Society for Community Research and Action grants an annual dissertation award to the best dissertation identified on a topic relevant to positive well-being and the prevention of dysfunction completed during the prior two years. The Dissertation Award was established in 1997.
Past Award Recipients
| 2019 | Erin R. Ellison, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Advisor: Regina Day Langhout | |
| Dissertation Title: Collaborative Competence and Relational Praxis Among Community Organizers: The Reproduction of, and Resistance to, Systems of Oppression | |
| 2018 | Michelle Stratton, Pacifica Graduate Institute |
| Advisor: Mary Watkins | |
| Dissertation Title: Culture, Resilience, and Adaptation: The Voices of Rwandan and Congolese Refugees | |
| 2017 | Simon Coulombe, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| Advisor: Janie Houle | |
| Dissertation Title: Self-management Questionnaire and Profiles of Recovery from Anxiety and Mood Disorders. | |
| 2016 | Sarah Reed, Michigan State University |
| Advisor: Robin Lin Miller | |
| Dissertation Title: Thriving and Adapting: Resilience, sense of community and systemics among young Black gay and bisexual men | |
| 2015 | Andrew Case, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Advisor: Carla Hunter | |
| Dissertation Title: More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring a Black Cultural Center as a Counterspace for African American College Students | |
| 2014 | Lindsay Satterwhite Mayberry, Vanderbilt University |
| Advisor: Beth Shinn & Craig Anne Heflinger | |
| Dissertation Title: Family Processes in the Context of Housing Instability and Intensive Service Use: Implications for Parenting and Caregiver Wellbeing | |
| 2013 | Frank Snyder |
| Advisor: Brian Flay | |
| Dissertation Title: Enhancing social-emotional and character development for youths' success: A theoretical orientation and an evaluation using a cluster-randomized design | |
| 2012 | Allison Dymnicki |
| Advisor: Roger Weissberg | |
| Dissertation Title: The Relation of School Factors to Changes Associated with a Violence Prevention Program | |
| 2011 | David Faigan, Bowling Green State University |
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| Dissertation Title: Community-based Theater and Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities: An Investigation of Individual and Group Development, Social Activism, and Community Integration | |
| 2010 | Natalie Wilkins, Georgia State University |
| Advisor: Gabriel Kuperminc | |
| Dissertation Title: Family Processes Promoting Achievement Motivation and Perceived School Competence among Latino Youth: A Cultural-ecological-transactional Perspective | |
| 2009 | Andrew Lohmann, Claremont Graduate University |
| Adviser: Dale Berger | |
| Dissertation Title: The Impact of a Freeway on Neighborhood: Sense of community, Size, and Methods of Measurement | |
| 2008 | Louis Brown, Wichita State University |
| Advisor: Greg Meissen | |
| Dissertation Title: Making it Sane: The Participation Benefits of Consumer-Run Organizations | |
| 2007 | Lisabeth Finn, Curtin University of Technology |
| Advisor: Brian Bishop | |
| Dissertation Title: Mutual Help Groups and Psychological Well-Being: A Study of GROW, a Community Mental Health Organization | |
| 2005 | Elise Cappella, University of California at Berkeley |
| Advisor: Rhona Weinstein | |
| Dissertation Title: The Prevention of Social Aggression Among Girls | |
| 2004 | Caren Caty, California School of Professional Psychology |
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| 2003 | Jessica Rose Goodkind, Michigan State University |
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| Dissertation Title: Promoting Refuge Well-Being: A Community Based Advocacy and Learning Intervention. | |
| 2002 | Shaun Haines, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco |
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| 2001 | Iain Butterworth, Victoria University of Technology |
| Advisor: Adrian Fisher | |
| Dissertation Title: Adult Environmental Education:: A Community Psychology Perspective | |
| 2000 | Emily Ozer, University of California at Berkeley |
| Advisor: Rhona Weinstein | |
| Dissertation Title: Urban Adolescents' Exposure to Violence: The Role of Support, School Safety, and Social Constraints in a School-Based Sample of Boys and Girls. | |
| 1999 |
Sybil Madison, University of California at Berkeley |
| Advisor: Rhona Weinstein | |
| Dissertation Title: And Still They Rise: Factors Related to Resilience in African American Students Affected by the Prince Edward County School Closing | |
| 1998 | Htiro Yoshikawa, New York University |
| 1997 | Lisa Blum, Rutgers University |