Ph.D.s on the Job Market

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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