Master's Degrees In Sociology Awarded by the University of Chicago, 1893 – 1935
This list was prepared by Philip M. Hauser for Robert E. Lee Faris's Chicago Sociology. At the time, Hauser was Chairman of the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago.
| 1893 | Clifford Webster Barnes | Stages in the Theological Development of Martin Luther |
| 1894 | David Clarence Atkinson | Attempt of Chicago to Meet the Positive Needs of the Community |
| Ira Woods Howerth | Are the Italians a Dangerous Class? | |
| Henry Barret Learned | The Social Philosophy of Adam Smith | |
| 1897 | Annie Marion MacLean | Factory Legislation for Women in the United States |
| 1898 |
Henrietta Isman Goodrich (Mrs B.J. Rothwell) |
Laboratory Methods in House Sanitation, Together with an Outline of Class-Room Instruction |
| 1899 | Alta Annette Harmon | University Extension for Rural Communities |
| 1900 | Nellie Mason Auten | Some Phases of the Sweating System in Chicago |
| 1902 | Fred Goodrich Frink | The Garbage Problem in Chicago |
| Jane Seymour Klink | The Relation of the Medicine Man to the Educational System of the Early Ages of North America | |
| Carl Dean Thompson | The Need of Cooperation of the Rochdale Type | |
| Edwin Elbert Thompson | The Social Development of Indianapolis | |
| 1903 | Monroe Nathan Work | The Negro Real-Estate Owner in Chicago |
| 1904 | Laura Estelle Watson Benedict | The Hunting Pattern of Mind as Expressed in Totemism among the North American Indians |
| James Garfield Randall | The Sunday Kindergarten | |
| 1905 | John McLearie | The Modern Treatment of the American Negro |
| Thomas Newlin | no thesis | |
| Ephraim Jacob Zook | Social Tendencies among the American Mennonites | |
| 1906 | Harvey William Elam | Outlines of Rural Community Life |
| John Wesley Henninger | no thesis | |
| James Dysart Magee | no thesis | |
| George Ashbury Stephens | Juvenile Court System of Kansas | |
| 1907 | John Alvin Dean | MacKaye's Economy of Happiness |
| Geraldine Lermit | no thesis | |
| Yetta Scheftel | Persistence of Poverty | |
| 1908 |
Olive Orton Anderson (Mrs. Elwood O. Anderson) |
The Chicago Teachers' Federation |
|
Ruby Lee Lamb (Mrs. John M. Miner) |
The First Three Years of Paul's Career as a Christian | |
| Hector MacPherson | no thesis | |
| Bennett Taylor Waites | Child-Labor in the Cotton Mills of Alabama | |
| Tsing Nyuh Woo | no thesis | |
| 1908 | Lebbeus Wood | The Methodology of Carl Menger |
| 1909 | Samuel Jacob Brandenburg | no thesis |
| 1910 | Robert Bryan McCord | The Morality of the American Negro |
| Otto Edward Peterson | A Comparative Study of Mill's Utilitarianism and Small's Functional System of Ethics | |
| Mary Catherine Tinney | Catholic Charities with Illustrations from Chicago | |
| 1911 | Juliet Hammond | A Problem in the Psychology of Social Work |
| William Christopher Mongold | The Boycott as a Means of Social Control | |
| Philip Frederick Matzinger | A Study of the Effects of Primitive Art upon Primitive Morals | |
| 1912 | Elizabeth Whitemore Baker | The Social and Economic Conditions of Women Teachers in the United States |
| Herman Henry Beneke | A Comparison of White Boys and Adult Indian Groups | |
| William Bennett Bizzell | Variability and Socialization | |
| Victor William Bruder | The Relation of Religion to the "On-Going" of the Social Process | |
| J. Edward Erickson | A Neglected Element in Representative Government | |
| Edwin May Hursh | The Training of the Child among Primitive African Peoples | |
| Vella Vernelle Martin | A Study of Family Schedules | |
|
Ruth Newberry (Mrs William A. Thomas) |
Origin and Criticism of Funds to Parents' Act | |
| Paul Helie Perigord | Catholic Social Action in France | |
| Walter Marion Smith | The Relation of Education to Social Progress | |
| 1913 | Walter Hudson Butler | The Family as an Organ of Control |
| Rebecca Baxter Gilkeson | Economic and Social Survey of Augusta County, Virginia 1880-1910 | |
| John Harrison Kolb | Arbitration in the Chicago Street-car Controversy of 1912 | |
|
Georgia Pearl McElroy (Mrs. Arthur C. Hunt ) |
no thesis | |
| Stuart Alfred Queen | The Beginnings of Public Relief | |
| Ralph Edward Souers | Industrial Workers of the World | |
| 1914 | Paul Evans Coleman | The Necessity of Compulsory Sickness Insurance |
| Bertram Paul Holst | The History and Present Status of Eugenics as a Theory | |
| Gertrude Aileen Sager | The Italian Women and Girls of Chicago | |
| Treusinn Zoen Zee | no thesis | |
| 1915 | Elmina Louise Blount | Suggestion and Imitation: Forms of Social Interaction |
| Joe Wegner Hoover | Social Attitude among the Mennonites | |
| Freida Bertha Zeeb | The Mobility of the German Women | |
| 1916 | Albert Russell Mann | Some Effects of the Social Concept on Recent Economic Theory |
| Verle Morrow | The Negro Familial Sentiments | |
| Waichi Saito | The Systems of Sociology | |
| Joseph Nathaniel Sletten | Martin Luther's Attitudes and Values | |
| 1917 | Clarence Cecil Church | Types of Social Groups |
| Elmina Louise Forrest | Municipal Reference Libraries in Relation to Social Control | |
| Euphemia E. McClintock | no thesis | |
| Ernest Hugh Shideler | A Comparative Study of Parental Conditions of Juvenile Delinquents in the United States | |
| 1918 | James Wyatt Marrs | Attitude of Typical Individuals toward Birth Control |
| Samuel Pitlik | The Messianic Myths: Its Role in the Life of the Jewish People | |
| Taka Takanashi | The Status of Women under Modern Conditions of Japanese Life | |
| Frederic Milton Thrasher | The Boy Scout Movement as A Socializing Agency | |
| Kimball Young | Sociological Study of a Disintegrated Neighborhood | |
| 1919 | Martin Hayes Bickham | The Relations of Sociology and Religion from 1865 to 1915 |
| Loraine Richardson Green | The Rise of Race Consciousness in the American Negro | |
| Clemens Niemi | Americanization of the Finnish People in Houghton County Michigan | |
| George S. H. Rossouw | The Family and Social Life of the Dutch-speaking South African: A study of Familism as a Factor in Social Organization | |
| 1920 | Thomas Russell Davis | Negro Servitude in the United States |
| Ernest Theodor Krueger | Life History Case Studies in Temperments and Social Attitudes of College Freshmen | |
| Erle Fisk Young | Suggestions for the Formulation of a Program of Moral Training in the United States Army: A Preliminary Examination | |
| 1921 | Norman Sylvester Hayner | The Effects of Prohibition on Packingtown |
| Augustus Frederick Kuhlman | The Social Survey of the City of Jackson and Madison County, Tennessee | |
|
Olga May Meloy (Mrs A. L. Carter) |
The Harrisburg Playground System | |
| Ernest Russell Mowrer | A Study of Variance between the Legal Grounds for Divorce and the Natural Causes of Family Disintegration as Indicated by Court Records | |
| Kenoske Sato | Sociological Thought in the Philosophy of John Dewey | |
| William Bradley Stone | Measuring the Ability of Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Grade Pupis to Read a Narrative | |
| Hiedsaburo Yokoyama | Japanese Associations in America | |
| 1922 |
Evelyn Buchan (Mrs E. B. Crook) |
The Delinquency of Girls |
| Daniel Chich Fu | Ancestor Worship as a Type of Social Control | |
| Guy B. Johnson | The New Ku Klux Klan Movement | |
|
Sarah Florence Lewis (Sonnia Lee) |
Social Aspects of Post-War Immigrant Jews | |
| William Penn Meroney | The Town Church and the Modern Home | |
| Anne Elizabeth Neely | The Foreign Student on the American Campus | |
|
Beryl Rogers (Mrs. McClasky) |
A Modern Mining Community: A Sociological Study | |
| Harriet Catherine Rosenthal | The Intermarriage of Jew and Gentile: A Study in Cultural Conflicts and Accommodation | |
| Harry Bird Sell | The American Federation of Labor and the Labor Party Idea | |
| Hsuincher H. Sie | The Chinese Student Movement in 1919-1920 | |
| 1923 | Ernest Richmond Burton | Employees' Representation |
| William Andrew Daniel | Bi-Racial Organization | |
| Masou Kato | The Mechanism of Expressive Behavior in the Growth of Self | |
| Henry Lewis Davis Moore | A Study of the Vocational Choices and Motives of a Selected Group of Grammar School Children | |
|
Ruth Shonle (Mrs Cavan) |
The Isolated Religious Sect | |
| 1924 | Bertam Wilbur Doyle | Racial Traits of the Negro as Negroes Assign Them to Themselves |
| Jacob Louis Frank | The Germanic or Nordic Race Theory | |
| Lois Kate Halley | A Study of Motion Pictures in Chicago as a Medium of Communication | |
| Maurice Haim Krout | Theories and Methods in American Sociology 1872-1922 | |
| Eyler Newton Simpson | The Use of Literary Materials in the Study of Wishes and Personality Types | |
| Georg Bryan Vold | Evidences of the Influence of Herbert Spencer upon the Sociological Writings of Franklin H. Giddings | |
| 1925 | Nels Anderson | The Hobo |
| William Ryland Boorman | A Suggested Technique for Vocational Guidance Analysis | |
| Ada Jeanette Davis | A Social Psychological Study of Musicians | |
| Vong-Kyih Nyi | The Change in Status of Chinese Women | |
| Shao Hwa Tan | Chinese Characters: Their Nature, Origin and Development | |
| Willard Walter Waller | Fluctuations in the Severity of the Punishment of Criminals from the XI to the XX Centuries | |
| Louis Wirth | Culture Conflicts in the Immigrant Family | |
| 1926 | William Arthur Butcher | Juvenile Delinquency in a Rapidly Growing City |
| William Paul Carter | A Social Psychological Study of the Only Child in the Family | |
| Paul Raymond Conway | The Apartment House Dweller: A Study of the Social Change in the Hyde Park Community | |
| Julia Emery | The Modern Symphony Orchestra: A Study in Social Control | |
| Charlotte Day Gower | Origin and Spread of Antillean Culture | |
| Stanley Thomas Hajicek | Case Study of Restlessness | |
| Francis Raymond Jenkins | The Evolution of Negro Race-Consciousness | |
| Fredrick Franklin Stephan | Some Social Aspects of the Telephone | |
| Ching Chao Wu | Chinese Immigration in the Pacific Area | |
| 1927 | Harriet Moulton Bartlett | The Injured Workman |
| Grace Earhart Chaffee | A Sociological Investigation of the Amana and Amish-Mennonite Communities | |
| Elza Allen Crooks | Social Development of the Nineteenth Century and Theological Activity | |
| Naomi Musmaker Giffen | Differences in the Lives of Men and Women Eskimo in Society, with Special Reference to the Economic Life | |
| Wilton Marion Krogman | Problems and Methods in the Study of the Culture Represented in the Ohio Mounds | |
|
Helen Elizabeth Gregory MacGill (Mrs Everett C. Hughes) |
Land Values: Land Values: An ecological factor in the Community of South Chicago | |
| 1928 | Walton Simon Bittner | Attitude and Opinions on Immigration and Birth Control |
|
Ellen Engelmann Black (Mrs. Sanford Winston) |
A Study of the Diffusion of Culture in a Relatively Isolated Mountain Community | |
| George Franklin David | Personnel Studies of College Girls | |
| Clarence Elmer Glick | Winnnetka: A Study of A Residential Suburban Community | |
| Murray Howard Leiffer | The Boys' Court of Chicago | |
| Mildred Helen McAfee | The Y.W.C.A. A Case study of a Religious Movement | |
| Edward Wilkerson Montgomery | The Social Attitudes of the American Negro on the Race Problem | |
| Paul HomerNesbitt | A Study of the Aurignacian Site, La Ruth (France) | |
| Alonzo William Pond | A Contribution to the Study of Prehistoric Man in Algeria, North Africa | |
| James HundleyWiley | A Study of Chinese Prostitution | |
| 1929 | Paul Goalby Cressey | The Closed Dance Hall in Chicago |
| Joseph Leo Duflot | A Social Psychological Study of the Failing Student in High School and College | |
| Arthur Raymond Mangus | The Church and Politics: A study of the Work of the Commission on Political Action of the Chicago Church Federation | |
| Raymond Edward Nelson | A Study of an Isolated Industrial Community | |
| Ruth Gustafson Newcomb | An Analysis of the Concept of Personality Type | |
| Laura Mayne Pedersen | Some Sociological Aspects of Educational Reforms | |
| Chester Curtis Scott | A Study of the Boys' Work Program of a Social Settlement in Its Relation to Delinquency | |
| Dena Evelyn Shapiro | Indian Tribes and Trails of the Chicago Region: A Preliminary Study of the Influence of the Indian on the Early White Settler | |
| Harold Walter Sweeney | Certain Aspects of Invention in the Relation to Cultural Evolution | |
| 1930 | Paul Baker | Opinions on Punishment: Their Content and Rationale |
| Olive Lillian Barton | Social Psychology in the Interpreting and Furthering of Personality Adjustments | |
| John Dollard | The Pre-Machine American Family | |
| Margueritte Luesing Elowson | Some Aspects of the Cook County Juvenile Court in Relation to the Readjustment of the Delinquent Girl | |
| Robert E. Lee Faris | The Development of the Philosophy Underlying the Durkheim School of Social Theory | |
| Charles Shelton Newcomb | A Single Numerical Index of Age and Sex Distribution of Population | |
| Adah Marie Peirce | An Analysis of the Changes in the Concept of Three Hundere Forty-six Freshmen Students at Stephens College | |
| Mildred Helen Price | The Effects of an Adult Education Project upon a Group of industrial Women | |
| Ernest Franklin Riegel | A Study of a Social Settlement in and Industrial Community with Special Reference to Juvenile Delinquency | |
| Anthony Steven Stephan | Factors Making For and Retarding Success in Sample Chicagoe Public-School Community Centers | |
| Helen Griffin Woolbert | Types of Social Philosophy as a function of Father-Son Relationship | |
| Richard Latham Woolbert | The Social Effects of the Radio | |
| 1931 | Mostafa Abassi | The Rise of Nationalism in Persia |
| Mack Phillip Charmichael | The Negro Family in Texax | |
| Ruth Minna Eisendrath | The Effects of the Urban Environment upon a Large Family Group | |
| Melissa Mae Elliott | Negro News and News Agencies | |
|
Clara Guignard (Mrs Robert E.L Faris) |
The Vocational Guidance Movement | |
| Martha Haygood Hall | The Nursemaid: A Social Psychological Study of an Occupational Group | |
| Frederick Hurd | A Study in the Securing of Life History Documents and their Statistical Analysis | |
| Jose Colomban Rosario | Historical Development of the Jibaro of Puerto Rico and His Present-day Attitudes toward Society | |
| Daniel Chich Russell | The Roadhouse: A study of Commercialized Amusements in the Environs of Chicago | |
| Johannes Stuart | Study of Divorce in Cook County | |
| Nell Snow Talbot | Some Factors in the 1928 Presidential Elections | |
| 1932 | Anne L. Austin | The Sociology of Professionalization as Shown by Nursing |
|
Dorothy Fah Beck (Mrs H.P. Beck) |
The Development of the Dental Profession in the United States: A study in the Natural history of a profession | |
| Regena Mari Beckmire | The Study of Highland Park as a Residential Suburb | |
| Bingham Dai | Speaking with Tongues or Glossolalia | |
|
Freda Goldeen (Mrs Rasael Silver) |
The Concept of "Society" in Sociology | |
| Betty M. Hill | A Comparative Study of Delinquency in Four National Groups in Cook County Juvenile Court in 1930 | |
| Earl Shepard Johnson | The Ecology of the Physician | |
| Richard Otto Lang | Variance, by Occupation, of happiness or unhappiness in Marriage Rated by Acquaintance of Married Couples | |
| Earl Richard Moses | Community Factors in Negro Delinquency | |
| George Bristol Jr. Pitts | A Study in the Detemination of Vocational Interest | |
| 1933 | Chester S. Alexander | The Young Man Employed in the Loop |
| Philip M. Hauser | Motion Pictures in Penal and Correctional Institutions: A Study of Reaction of Prisoners to Movies | |
|
Estelle Chetola Hill Mrs. A.H. Scott |
The Economic Factor in the Roosevelt-Hoover Election | |
| R. Donald Pierson | A Study in Fashion as Indicated by Facial Adornment | |
| John Paul Reed | Some Basic Factors in the Development of Public Opinion in Japan | |
| Karl Yu Su | An Analysis of Child Personality by Means of the Neurotic Inventory | |
| 1934 | Carrie M. Barlow | Auburn Gresham: The survey of a Local Community |
| Ifu Chen | The Old Chinese Family: The Study of Familial Control | |
| Lois Diehl | The Young Women's Christian Association in Estonia. A study in the Transplanting of an institution | |
| Forrest E. LaViolette | Some Problems Relating to the Concept of Culture | |
| Pearl C. Maurer | A Study of Personality Adjustment of 600 Children in the Sixth Seventh and Eighth Grades | |
| Francis Ellsworth Merrill | The News and the Money Market | |
| Theodore K. Noss | The Awakening of the Quaker Movement against Negro Slavery in Colonial Pennsylvania and West New Jersey | |
| Margaret Lovell Plumley | Comparative Study of Self and Friends' Ratings of Seventy Personality Traits. | |
| Alfred L. Severson | Discrimination Against the Jews in Employment in Chicago Offices, with Particular Reference to Four groups of offices | |
| 1935 | Lois M. Hansaker | Motivation of Professional Choice among Social Workers |
| Katherine E. Niles | A study in the Sociology of Reading | |
| Walter Pfeil | Workers' Education in Chicago | |
| S. Kirson Weinberg | A Study of Isolation among Chicago Shelterhouse Men. |
