Ruby Bafu
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Date Ph.D. Expected
Spring 2025
Interest Areas
Race; gender; education; children and youth; online learning; social inequality; and qualitative methods
Advisor
Monica Grant
Dissertation Title
“Student-Teacher Interactions in the Context of Alternative Education”
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Sadie Dempsey
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
Spring 2025
Interest Areas
Political Sociology, Democracy, Social Movements, Social Inequality, Civil Society, Political Communication, Ethnography and Qualitative Methods
Advisor
Mustafa Emirbayer
Dissertation Title
“Expanding Democracy: An Ethnography of Engaged Citizenship in Wisconsin”
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Julia Goodwin
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Date Ph.D. Expected
December 2023
Interest Areas
Population health and aging, quantitative social science and demography, quantitative data analysis and methodology
Advisors
Mosi Adesina Ifatunji and Katherine Curtis
Dissertation Title
“Considering Measurement Bias in Cognition at the Intersection of Race and Gender”
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Nona Maria Gronert
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Date Ph.D. Expected
Summer 2023
Interest Areas
Gender; Law and Society; Organizations; Social Movements; Sexual Violence
Advisors
Myra Marx Ferree and Chaeyoon Lim
Dissertation Committee Members
Joseph Conti, Eunsil Oh, Kate Walsh
Dissertation Title
“The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017”
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Amy Jones Haug
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Date Ph.D. Received
2020
Interest Areas
Race and Ethnicity; Ethnography; Theory; Sociology of Law and Public Health
Advisor
Jane Collins
Dissertation Committee Members
Pamela Oliver, John Eason, Alice Goffman, Bianca Baldridge
Dissertation Title
“Diversity as the Modern Racial Incorporation Strategy and the Unseen Burden of Diversity-Work”
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Jungmyung Kim
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2025
Interest Areas
Organizations, Work and Occupations, Cultural Sociology, Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, Methods
Advisor
Robert Freeland
Dissertation Title
“Police Resistance to Institutional Changes through Complexity: A Study of Occupational Identity Maintenance”
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Taylor Laemmli
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2025
Interest Areas
Stratification, theory, class, work, culture, consumption, and elites
Advisor
Mustafa Emirbayer
Dissertation Title
“Class Keeping: The Professional Production of Elite Status”
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Masoud Movahed
Date Ph.D. Expected
Spring 2023
Interest Areas
Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Comparative Historical Sociology
Advisors
Erik Olin Wright, Ivan Ermakoff, Jane Collins
Dissertation Committee Members:
Ivan Ermakoff (Chair), Jane Collins, Joel Rogers, Christine Schwartz, Tim Smeeding, Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Dissertation Title
“Varieties of Capitalism, Income Inequality, and Mobility”
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Nathan Seltzer
Date Ph.D. Received
April 2020
Interest Areas
Demography; Social Stratification; Labor Markets; Population Health; and Computational Methods
Advisor(s)
Jenna Nobles
Dissertation Title
“The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization”
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Julia T. Thomas
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2025
Interest Areas
Sociology of Law and Punishment, Criminology, Racial Inequality, Stratification, Historical Sociology
Advisor
Michael Massoglia
Dissertation Title
“Capital Punishment and the Legacy of Lynching”
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Benny Witkovsky
Credentials: Pronouns he/him/his
Date Ph.D. Expected
Spring 2025
Interest Areas
Political Sociology; Community and Urban Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Polarization; Urban Governance
Advisors
Mustafa Emirbayer
Dissertation Title
“Fig Leave and Fortress: Nonpartisan Politics in a Polarized Time”
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Matthew J. Zinsli
Credentials: Pronouns he/him
Date Ph.D. Expected
Summer 2025
Interest Areas
Sociology of Economic Change and Development; Science and Technology Studies; Agro-foods Studies; Environmental Sociology; Qualitative Methods
Advisor
Gay Seidman & Samer Alatout
Dissertation Title
“Terroir technopolitics: The dynamics of geographical indication legitimization in the Global South”
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