Sarah E. Farr
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
June 2024
Interest Areas
Urban Sociology; Economic Sociology; Housing and Property; Identity; Place; Inequality
Advisor
Gay Seidman
Dissertation Committee Members
Gay Seidman, Katherine Curtis, Max Besbris, Jane Collins, Stephen Young
Dissertation Title
“The Politics of Homeownership: Property Relations, Distributive Struggles, and Group Formation”
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Kristina Fullerton Rico
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2023
Interest Areas
Migration/Transnationalism, Aging, Gender, Family, Race and Ethnicity
Advisor
Jenna Nobles
Dissertation Committee Members
Jenna Nobles, Myra Marx Ferree, Theodore P. Gerber, Katherine Jensen, Almita Miranda
Dissertation Title
“Aging Without a Safety Net: Unauthorized Immigrants in Later Life”
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Shiro Furuya
Credentials: Pronouns he/him
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
Interest Areas
Demography; Health; Aging and life course; Family; Quantitative methods.
Advisor
Felix Elwert
Dissertation Committee Members
Felix Elwert (chair); Jason M. Fletcher; Eric Grodsky; Jenna Nobles; James M. Raymo
Dissertation Title
“Consequences of retirement on health, mortality, and family”
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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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Noah Hirschl
Credentials: Pronouns he/him
Date Ph.D. Expected
August 2023
Interest Areas
Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Social Demography, Poverty and Inequality
Advisor
Eric Grodsky
Dissertation Title
“Three essays on higher education and inequality”
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Youbin Kang
Date Ph.D. Expected
Dec. 2023
Interest Areas
Global and Transnational Sociology; Labor and Labor movements; Race, Class, Gender; Community & Urban Sociology; Sociological Theory; Socio-Legal Studies; Comparative Historical Methods; East and Southeast Asia
Advisor
Gay Seidman
Dissertation Title
“Infrastructure, Circuits, and Labor in the New York City and Seoul Subways 1970-2020”
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Taylor Laemmli
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
Interest Areas
Class; Culture; Work; Consumption; Social Theory
Advisor
Mustafa Emirbayer
Dissertation Title
“Class Keeping: The Professional Production of Elite Status”
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Anita Li
Date Ph.D. Expected
August 2024
Interest Areas
Demography; Sociology of Family; Social Stratification; Gender
Advisor
Christine Schwartz
Dissertation Title
“Three Papers on Trends in the Gendered Division of Paid Labor In the United States”
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Wendy Y. Li
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
Interest Areas
Political sociology, political economy, public policy, qualitative methods, mixed methods research
Advisors
Joseph Conti (chair), Chaeyoon Lim, Fabien Accominotti, Susan Yackee
Dissertation Title
“Careers, Social Networks, and the Revolving Door in Policymaking Processes”
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Ruo-Fan (Mikki) Liu
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
Interest Areas
Education, Culture, Children & Youth, Stratification, Organization, Qualitative Methods
Advisor
Mustafa Emirbayer & Eric Grodsky
Dissertation Committee Members
Mustafa Emirbayer, Eric Grodsky, Jessica Calarco, Robert Freeland, Eunsil Oh, Lesley Bartlett
Dissertation Title
“Accidental Tactics: How Social Classes Negotiate Opportunities in a Changing Society”
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Alex Mikulas
Credentials: Pronouns he/him
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
Interest Areas
Social Demography; Urban and Community Sociology; Spatial sociology and analysis; place; housing; racial inequity
Advisors
Katherine Curtis
Dissertation Committee Members
Katherine Curtis (Chair), Max Besbris, Malia Jones, Mosi Ifatunji, and Keith Woodward
Dissertation Title
“New Housing Landscapes in the Post-Recovery US Market”
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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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Chiara Clio Packard
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
Interest Areas
Criminal Justice, Law and Society, Race and Ethnicity, Poverty, and Welfare
Advisor
Pamela Oliver and John Eason
Dissertation Title
“The question is, should you charge?”: An Ethnographic Study of Prosecutorial Decision-Making”
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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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Christian Michael Smith
Date Ph.D. Completed
August 2020
Interest Areas
Stratification and Mobility; Social Class and Poverty; Causal Inference; Sociology of Education; Higher Education
Advisor
Eric Grodsky
Dissertation Title
“Starting and Finishing: Three Essays on Narrowing Socioeconomic Inequality in College Attendance and Persistence”
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Grace E. Venechuk (née Finnigan-Fox)
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
Spring 2024
Interest Areas
Demography, sociology of the life course, work and health, population aging, health disparities and policy, epigenetics
Advisor
Michal Engelman
Dissertation Title
“Implications of Contemporary Work Quality for Disparities in Healthy Aging”
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Tamara A. Wattnem
Date Ph.D. Received
May 2021
Interest Areas
Environmental sociology; development and economic change; agri-food systems; political sociology; Latin American history; social movements; political economy
Advisor(s)
Jane Collins and Erik Olin Wright
Dissertation Title
“Neoliberal Resource Nationalism: The Scramble for Mexico’s Hydrocarbons and Minerals”
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Lucas Z. Wiscons
Credentials: Pronouns he/him
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
Interest Areas
Legal studies, social psychology, race, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, sociology of everyday life, sociology of mental health, science & technology studies (STS), sociological theory, qualitative methodology
Advisor
Douglas W. Maynard
Dissertation Title
“Doing Justice: Policing as a situated and methodological production of participants in interaction”
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Matthew J. Zinsli
Credentials: Pronouns he/him
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2024
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
“The science and politics of quality food standards: Global governance, policy diffusion, and the implementation of geographical indications in the Global South”
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