Graduate Students on the Job Market
Research Interests
Race, Criminal Legal Systems, Policing, Social Stratification and Inequality
Dissertation Title:
Redefining Risk to Reclaim Wellbeing: Examining Individual, Relational, and Collective Consequences of Racial Inequities in Policing
Dissertation Committee:
Drs. David Harding and Christopher Muller (Co-Chairs), Dr. Tianna Paschel, Dr. Erin Kerrison
Research Interests
Labor Markets, Work, Social Stratification and Inequality, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methods
Dissertation Title:
Intragenerational Mobility and Inequality in Local Labor Markets
Dissertation Committee:
Neil Fligstein (chair), David Card, Heather Haveman, Daniel Schneider
Research Interests
law and punishment, political sociology, urban governance, methods
Dissertation Title:
Making Community Count: Violence Prevention and the Delegated Penal State
Research Interests
medical sociology, comparative historical sociology, bioethics, pedagogy, labor
Dissertation Title:
From Quackery to Emergency:
Expertise and the Making of Eugenics
Expertise and the Making of Eugenics
Dissertation Committee:
Christopher Muller, Armando Lara-Millán, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Osagie Obasogie (Public Health)
Research Interests
Economic Sociology, Technology, Organizations, Culture, Theory
Dissertation Title:
Time and Money Well Spent? Meanings of Platform Work
Dissertation Committee:
Heather Haveman (chair), Marion Fourcade, Calvin Morrill
Research Interests
Politics, Media, Racism, Theory, Digital Studies
Dissertation Title:
The 1619 Panic
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (chair), Marion Fourcade, Kim Voss, Rodney Benson (NYU), Wendy Brown (Political Science)
Research Interests
Social policy, health and medicine, family, race and gender, maternal and child welfare
Dissertation Title:
Punitive Protection: The Transformation of Child Welfare and Perinatal Regulation
Dissertation Committee:
Cybelle Fox (Chair), Calvin Morrill (Sociology and Law), Ann Swidler, Raka Ray, Jill Duerr Berrick (Social Work)
Research Interests
Race, ethnicity, gender, immigration, sexuality, and aging
Dissertation Title:
“Racializing Desire: Race Making Among Intermarried Asian and White American Spouses”
Dissertation Committee:
Cybelle Fox (co-chair), Raka Ray (co-chair), G. Cristina Mora, and Leslie Salzinger
Research Interests
International migration, race and ethnicity, national identities, state-building, ethnographic methods, Latin America.
Dissertation Title:
Who is Afrodescendant? Classification Struggles and Legal Recognition in Argentina and Chile
Dissertation Committee:
Mara Loveman (chair), Irene Bloemraad, Tianna Paschel, David Cook-Martin, Calvin Morrill
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Racial Attitudes, Quantitative Methods, Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Gender
Dissertation Title:
The Social Roots of Implicit Racial Bias
Dissertation Committee:
Sandra Susan Smith (co-chair, Harvard Kennedy School)
David J. Harding (co-chair)
Cybelle Fox
Jack Glaser (Goldman School of Public Policy)
David J. Harding (co-chair)
Cybelle Fox
Jack Glaser (Goldman School of Public Policy)
Research Interests
Gender, Law and Society, Medical Sociology, Social Movement
Dissertation Title:
The making of agentic vulnerability: The legal and medical construction of rape victims' injuries in South Korea
Dissertation Committee:
John Lie, Kim Voss (Co-chairs), Yan Long, Cihan Tugal, and Laura Nelson (Gender and Women’s Studies)
Research Interests
Inequality, Education, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Affect and Emotion, Economic Sociology
Dissertation Title:
Mobility Ideologies: Precarity and Meaning-Making in the College-for-All Generation
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (chair), Marion Fourcade, Tianna Paschel, Tolani Britton (School of Education)
Research Interests
Medical Sociology, Labor, Gender/Sexuality, Theory
Dissertation Title:
Capitalizing on Disability: Labor Process and Governance in Disability Employment Programs
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (chair), Kim Voss, Armando Lara-Millán, Leslie Salzinger, and Linda Blum
Research Interests
Gender, Political Sociology
Dissertation Title:
Love in War? The Strategic Use of Intimacy in Armed Conflict
Research Interests
International Migration; Latinx Sociology; Social Policy; Gender and Sexuality; Work; Law & Society
Dissertation Title:
The Promise, Progress, and Pitfalls of Lawful Permanent Residency
Dissertation Committee:
Irene Bloemraad, Cybelle Fox, Kim Voss, Lisa García-Bedolla