Recent Ph.D. Recipients

* Shown in reverse chronological order by year

Student	Advisor	Dissertation	Year
Isatou Jack	Dean H. Sutphin	Learning through participatory action research and organizing to craft stakeholder partnerships for urban agricultural development in The Gambia	August 2007
Kimberly L. Niewolny	Arthur L. Wilson	Growing new farmers or producing new producers?: A critical discourse analysis of the Growing New Farmers Consortium, 2000-2005	August 2007
Margo J. Hittleman	Scott Peters	Counting caring: Accountability, performance and learning at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center	January 2007
Jennifer Rivera	William Camp	Test item construction and validation: Developing a statewide assessment for agricultural science education	January 2007
Peter Abue	Margaret Kroma	Participation and social learning in church-based organizations: Implications for poverty eradication in Nigeria	August 2006
Josie Lauritsen	Arthur L. Wilson	Governing literacy: A critical discourse analysis of the United Nations Decades of Literacy, 1990-2000 and 2003-2012	August 2006
Kimberly G. Noethen	Deborah Trumbull	Teacher expertise and personal theories of learning: Master and novice science teachers' interpretations of a constructivist teaching episode	August 2006
Laurie A. Vasily	Scott Peters	Reading one's life: A case study of an adult educational participatory action research curriculum development project for Nepali Dalit social justice	August 2006
Anna Marie Waldron	William Trochim	A mixed methods evaluation of an afterschool science club's influence on adolescent girls' attitudes toward science	August 2006
Derek Cabrera	William Trochim	Systems thinking	May 2006
Leah Mayor	Rosemary Caffarella	"We come to rebuild ourselves": Tourists, tourist spaces, and reconceptualizing transformative learning theory	May 2006
Diane Lang	John Sipple, Kenneth Strike	"We do it like this...": An ethnographic case study of a gan-style early childhood program and metaphors for school as community	January 2006
David Amudavi	Margaret Kroma	Linking institutional partnerships, community groups and rural livelihood improvement in Kenya	August 2005
Marieme Lo	N'Dri Assie-Lumumba	Understanding and capitalizing on social learning: An asset-based approach to capacity-building and development of women's microenterprises in West Africa	August 2005
Virginia L. Augusta	Ronald Ehrenberg	The growing stratification of the academic labor market: Is there permeability from the non-tenure-track to the tenure-track ranks?	May 2005
Patricia Faddegon	William Camp	The Kids Growing Food school gardening program: Agricultural literacy and other educational outcomes	May 2005
Aram deKoven	George Posner	A comparison of teachers versus D.A.R.E. officers as educators of high and low risk middle school youth about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs	January 2005
Helene Gregoire	Scott Peters	Reflecting on the practice stories of educators working in the arts: Lessons for community youth development	January 2005
Michael A. Simons	Dean H. Sutphin	Student experiences and the learning environment of international project teams in a global seminar	January 2005
Kathryn Burkgren	Richard Ripple	An exploratory study: Examining individual creativity, influence, and moral values as key components of effective sustainable leadership	May 2004
Terrance Dougherty	John Sipple	The relationship between school district budget failure and superintendent turnover in select rural school districts in New York State: A longitudinal study, 1991-2000	May 2004
William Kresse	John Sipple	Working with the new lay teaching force: Labor relation models in Catholic schools and implications for exit and voice	May 2004
Carolyne Call	Dawn Schrader	Intellectual safety and epistemological position in the college classroom	January 2004
Leanne Avery	William Carlsen	Knowledge, identity, and teachers' multiple communities of practice	August 2003
Daniel Meyer	William Carlsen	Social engagement in curriculum design	August 2003
Patricia Crosscombe	Arthur L. Wilson	Critical reflection and learning from experience: A phenomenological analysis of dairy farmers' narratives	May 2003
Ruth A. Hopkins	Richard Ripple	A comparison of matching methods, choice and assignment, in formal adult mentoring relationships in the community college context	May 2003
Michael Vallely, Jr.	John Sipple	New York State's Comprehensive District Education Planning: A script for an institutionalized response or a lever for real instructional change?	May 2003
Nancy Lowmaster	George Posner, William Carlsen	Learning the art: Introduction of novice chemists into the community of practice through participation in undergraduate research in a liberal arts setting	January 2003
Esther Prins	Merrill Ewert	Literacy for empowerment? The contradictory, gendered effects of a Christian literacy program on women's and men's empowerment in El Salvador	January 2003
Andre Smith	George Posner	The influence of primary and secondary education on socio-economic well-being in sub-Saharan Africa: A thirty-nine-year analysis	January 2003
Richard C. Kiely	Arthur L. Wilson	Toward an expanded conceptualization of transformational learning: A case study of international service-learning in Nicaragua	August 2002
Amber Dailey	Carol Conroy	Journal writing in the classroom and its impact on student learning outcomes and instructor practice	May 2002
Nancy Franz	Merrill Ewert	Transformative learning in intraorganizational partnerships	May 2002
Theresa Fulton	Deborah Trumbull	Changing science: A history of plant genomics in the United States	May 2002
Yvonne L. LaMar	Richard Ripple	Selected African-American women and moral reasoning: A grounded theory analysis	May 2002
Eduardo Sabio	Merrill Ewert	Social capital and transformative learning: Linkages and dynamics in inter-organizational relations within the Landcare Approach in the Philippines	May 2002
Laura Suazo-Gallardo	Merrill Ewert	The human farm: Transformative learning among hillside Honduran farmers	May 2002
Kristen Grace	Kenneth Strike	Professional autonomy and collective endeavor in academic departments: A study of department identity and practices that benefit the scholar, the institution, and the public	January 2002
Christine Saltzberg	David Deshler	Nursing students' uncertainty experiences and epistemological perspectives	January 2002
Cynthia Shelley	Carol Conroy	A qualitative study of responses to program reform, collaboration and subsequent outcomes of teacher education in agriculture programs: A two-university case study	January 2002
Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano	David Deshler	Intercultural education for Quechua women: A participatory study on gender relations, cultural preservation and identity formation in rural Bolivia	August 2001
Beverly Blacksher	David Deshler	Education for self-knowledge: Students' self-awareness through reflection in response to literature by African American women	August 2001
Shannon Hayes	Arthur L. Wilson	Prying open the attic door: how the members of a participatory sustainable agriculture organization established a voice in their community	August 2001
Kieran M. Killeen	David Monk	Fees at the schoolhouse door: Perspectives on alternative local revenues for public school finance	August 2001
Morrison Chakane	Deborah Trumbull	Eliciting African pre-service teachers' conceptions of the nature of science	May 2001
Michael Doxtater	Kenneth Strike	Indigenology: A decolonizing learning method for emancipating Iroquois and world indigenous knowledge	May 2001
Hyea-Sook Ryoo	David Monk	Multilevel influence on student achievement: An international comparative study	May 2001
Elise West	Dawn Schrader	Exploring the critical and reflective thinking of freshman in introductory college science courses	May 2001
Lesa Carter	Deborah Trumbull	In her heart I am: A study of black women graduate students and their habits of surviving	January 2001
Jill Timmel	Richard Ripple	Creativity and acculturation: Psychological and cultural effects on the divergent thinking of Cuban preadolescent immigrants entering the United States	January 2001
Matthew Davidson	Dawn Schrader	Using moral maxims to promote character development in sixth-grade students: A collaborative action research approach for planning, implementing, and evaluating comprehensive character education strategies	August 2000
Ellen deLara	David Deshler	Adolescents' perceptions of safety at school and their solutions for enhancing safety and decreasing school violence: A rural case study	August 2000
Chari Fuerstenau	Emil Haller	In the shadow of the tower: A qualitative analysis of high-ability students in the search phase of college choice	August 2000
Emmy Mbozi	Roger Steele	Transformational learning: Small-scale farmers' learning processes about crop markets in southern Zambia	August 2000
Gace Scarano	Deborah Trumbull	Inquiring minds: Case studies of two middle school science teachers as they include inquiry and graphing in their curricula	August 2000
Craig Vivian	Kenneth Strike	The influence of school communities of student identity	August 2000