Isabel J. Anadon
Date Ph.D. Expected
2023
Interest Areas
Punishment; Race & Ethnicity; Research Methods; Socio-legal Studies
Advisor(s)
John Eason
Dissertation Title
“Interior Immigration Enforcement: Structural Mechanisms and the Punishment of Immigrants in the United States”
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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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Annaliese Grant
Credentials: Pronouns: she/they
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2023
Interest Areas
Class/Inequality, Gender, Family and Childhood, Media
Advisor
Marcia J. Carlson
Dissertation Committee Members
Christine Schwartz, Joan Fujimura, Mignon Moore, Jonathan Gray
Dissertation Title
“A Multi-Method Approach to Family Media Use and Social Class”
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Nona Maria Gronert
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2023
Interest Areas
Gender; Law and Society; Organizations; Social Movements; Sexual Violence
Advisors
Myra Marx Ferree and Chaeyoon Lim
Dissertation Committee Members
Joseph Conti, Gwendolyn Leachman, Kate Walsh
Dissertation Title
“The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017”
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Chloe Haimson
Date Ph.D. Expected
June 2022
Interest Areas
“Fear, Algorithms, and Re-Incarceration: Making it Home in the Twenty-First Century.”
Advisor(s)
Pamela Oliver and John Eason
Dissertation Title
“Parole Supervision in the Era of Decarceration”
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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
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2022
Interest Areas
Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Social Demography, Gender and Family
Advisor
Eric Grodsky
Dissertation Title
“Three essays on higher education and inequality”
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Kurt W. Kuehne
Credentials: Pronouns he/him/his
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2023
Interest Areas
Labor Migration; Urban Sociology; Race/Class/Gender; Global and Transnational Sociology; Social Exclusion
Advisor
Gay Seidman
Dissertation Committee Members
Gay Seidman
Dissertation Title
“Lives in Limbo: Boundary-Making, Control, and Precarious Migrant Workers in the Global City”
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Taylor Laemmli
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2023
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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Kerem Morgül
Credentials: Pronouns he/him/his
Ph.D. Completed
August 2022
Interest Areas
Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, International Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Civic Engagement
Advisors
Michael M. Bell and Pamela E. Oliver
Dissertation Committee Members
Chad A. Goldberg, Yoshiko Herrera, Paris Aslanidis
Dissertation Title
“Muslim Nationalism and Public Attitudes toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey”
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Jill Eileen Richardson
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Ph.D. Expected
May 2022
Interest Areas
Environmental sociology; Political sociology; Science and technology studies; Race and Ethnicity; Food systems
Advisor
Randy Stoecker
Dissertation Committee Members
Pam Oliver, Josh Garoon, Katherine Curtis, and Tim van Deelen
Dissertation Title
“Managing Identity, Knowledge, and Morality in Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) for Wildlife in Montana”
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Jason Robey
Credentials: Pronouns he/him/his
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2023
Interest Areas
Crime, Law, and Deviance; Punishment; Inequality; Stratification; Quantitative Methods
Advisor
Michael Massoglia
Dissertation Committee Members
Michael Light, Felix Elwert, Jenna Nobles, Lawrence Berger
Dissertation Title
“The Contraction of the American Penal Landscape”
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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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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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Andrew Wolf
Date Ph.D. Received
August 2021
Interest Areas
Work & Employment, Gig-Economy, Labor Unions, Immigration, Economy Sociology, and Urban Sociology
Advisor
Gay Seidman
Dissertation Title
“Manufacturing Disruption: Worker and Union Response to the Gig-Economy in New York City”
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Leafia Zi Ye
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
Date Ph.D. Expected
May 2023
Interest Areas
Immigration and Race/Ethnicity; Aging and the Life Course; Population Health; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods
Advisor
Michal Engelman
Dissertation Committee Members
Jason Fletcher, Jenna Nobles, Stephanie Robert (Social Work), Alberto Palloni
Dissertation Title
“Curbs and Costs: U.S. Immigrants’ Socioeconomic Integration throughout the Life Course”
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