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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Rebecca Bier

Date Ph.D. Expected

Spring 2026

Interest Areas

Sociology of education, social stratification, early childhood education and care, and quantitative methods

Advisor

Eric Grodsky

Dissertation Title

“Disparities in access and enrollment in preschool in the United States: Impacts on children, mothers, and teachers”

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Daniela Campos Ugaz

Date Ph.D. Expected

Fall 2025

Interest Areas

Work and Labor; Economic Sociology; Comparative Political Economy; Global and Transnational Sociology; Law and Society; Gender; Migration; Latin America.

Advisor

Gay Seidman

Dissertation Title

“The Politics of Skills Shortages: Labor Sourcing in the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in the United States, Germany, and Costa Rica

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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. Received

Fall 2025

Interest Areas

Gender, Law & Society, Social Movements, and Sexual Violence 

Advisors

Myra Marx Ferree and Chaeyoon Lim

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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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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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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