University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ruby is a 2025 Ph.D. recipient. Her interest areas are race; gender; education; children and youth; online learning; social inequality; and qualitative methods. Her advisor is Monica Grant. Her dissertation title is, "Student-Teacher Interactions in the Context of Alternative Education"
Biography 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” More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography Date Ph.D. Expected Spring 2027 Interest Areas Stratification, Education, Gender Advisor Eric Grodsky Dissertation title A Tale of Two Trends: The Rise of Graduate Degrees and Women More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography Date Ph.D. Received 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” More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography Date Ph.D. Expected May 2026 Interest Areas Higher Education & Graduate Communities; Poverty & Social Mobility; Life Histories and Narrative Analysis Advisor Pamela Oliver Dissertation Title “Straddling Fences: Elite Academia, Graduate Education, and the Pursuit of Community” More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography 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” More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography Date Ph.D. Expected Spring 2027 Interest Areas Political Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Advisors Ivan Ermakoff, Chaeyoon Lim Dissertation Title “Religion as a Social Movement Resource in the Transition to the 21st Century” More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography Date Ph.D. Expected Spring 2026 Interest Areas Communities and Urban Sociology; Political Sociology; Poverty; Class Analysis and Historical Change; Sociology of Economic Change and Development; Environmental Sociology Advisor Ivan Ermakoff Dissertation Title “The Politics of Public Participation in Land Use Governance in Chicago” More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography Date Ph.D. Expected: June 2027 Interest Areas: Class analysis; political sociology; quantitative and qualitative methods. Advisor: Ivan Ermakoff Dissertation title: The British Class Matrix More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Website
Biography Date Ph.D. Expected Spring 2027 Interest Areas Rural Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Community Development; Mixed-methods Advisor Katherine Curtis Dissertation Title “The transition of production agricultural land to conservation reserves across two cases” More Information Personal Website