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.
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 |