Ph.D. Students on the Academic Job Market |
| Alvarado, Steven |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Gamoran, Adam |
| Email: | salvarad@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Effect of Neighborhood Context on Obesity and Educational Achievement Among Youth |
| Interest Areas: | Stratification, Education, Social Demography, Immigration, Health |
| Current Position: | Postdoctoral fellow, University of Notre Dame |
| Benson, Celeste |
| Advisor: | Oliver, Pamela |
| Email: | cbenson@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Variation in US Welfare Regimes: A Gender and Family Approach |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology, Gender and Family, Globalization, Welfare States, Comparative Political Economy |
| Berman, Danielle |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Gerber, Theodore; Collins, Jane |
| Email: | dberman@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated December 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | Make it our way: The role of fast food corporations in restructuring Russia’s agri-food system |
| Interest Areas: | Agri-food systems, Economic Change and Development, Globalization, political economy, sociology of health & nutrition, post-soviet studies |
| Bruch, Sarah |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Ferree, Myra Marx |
| Email: | sbruch@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Dynamics of Racial Inequality in Schools: Racial Composition, Class Positions, and Organizational Mechanisms of Social Closure |
| Interest Areas: | Social stratification; race and ethnicity; social policy and politics; sociology of education; education policy; quantitative methods; political sociology |
| DeWaard, Jack |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Gerber, Theodore |
| Email: | jdewaard@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated July 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Temporal Dynamics of International Migration and Linkages to Anti-Foreigner Sentiment |
| Interest Areas: | International and Internal Migration; Race and Ethnicity; Stratification, Inequality and Immigrant Integration; Social Demography; Quantitative Methods—Demographic, Statistical and Spatial |
| Garbarski, Dana |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Gerber, Theodore |
| Email: | dgarbars@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Dyadic and Dynamic Relationships: An Extension of the Socioeconomic Status-Health Framework |
| Interest Areas: | Social stratification; health and epidemiology; the life course; social demography; survey methodology; sociological research methods; statistics for social science |
| Gathman, Cabell |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Maynard, Doug and Fujimura, Joan |
| Email: | cgathman@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | May 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | Information Disclosure, Relationship Maintenance & Self-Presentation on Facebook |
| Interest Areas: | Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, Technology |
| Golding, Shaun |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Curtis, Katherine |
| Email: | sgolding@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated March 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Gentrification and Inequality in the Rural US 1975-2000 |
| Interest Areas: | Rural Demography, Community Development, and Health; Environmental Sociology; Inequality; Migration |
| Han, Hongyun |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Palloni, Alberto |
| Email: | hhan@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | Childhood Obesity and Academic Achievement |
| Interest Areas: | Social Demography, Stratification, Medical Sociology, Quantitative Methodology |
| Harris, Joseph |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Seidman, Gay |
| Email: | jharris@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | A Right to Health?: Professional Networks, HIV/AIDS, and the Politics of Universal Health Care |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology, Globalization, Social Change and Development, Medical Sociology, Social Policy, Citizenship, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, and Research Methods |
| Hart-Brinson, Peter |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Oliver, Pamela and Friedland, Lew |
| Email: | hartbrin@grinnell.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Social Generational Change and the Foundations of Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage |
| Interest Areas: | Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology, Media & Communcation, Civil Society and Social Movements, Sociological Theory, and Research Methods |
| Current Position: | Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Grinnell College |
| Heideman, Laura |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Seidman, Gay |
| Email: | lheideman@wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Making Society "Civil": NGOs, Donors, and Post-war Peacebuilding in Croatia |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology; Sociology of War and Peace; Sociology of Development; Research Methods/Statistics; Democratization; Globalization; Human Rights; Transitional Justice |
| Holland, Jennifer |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Thomson, Elizabeth; Raymo, James |
| Email: | jholland@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | Why Do? The meaning of marriage in the Nordic Countries |
| Interest Areas: | Demography, Family Sociology, Quantitative Methods, Comparative Cross-National (Europe, USA) |
| Current Position: | Postdoctoral fellow, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands |
| Kordsmeier, Gregory T. |
| Advisor: | Fujimura, Joan |
| Email: | kordsmeierg@wlu.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | June 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Play’s The Thing: Stage Managers as Support Personnel and Their Role in the Creation of Art |
| Interest Areas: | Culture, Art, Social Psychology and Microsociology, Qualitative Methods |
| Current Position: | Visiting Professor, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA |
| Lakkimsetti, Chaitanya |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Ferree, Myra Marx |
| Email: | clakkimsetti@fas.harvard.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Governing Sexualities: Biopower, Governmentality and Citizenship in Postcolonial India |
| Interest Areas: | Sociology of Gender, Sexualities, Law & Society, Global Sociology, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Methods |
| Current Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow-Harvard University |
| Mirosa, Oriol |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Wright, Erik; Seidman, Gay |
| Email: | omirosa@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Global Water Regime: Water Policy between Commodification and Human Rights in Bolivia and South Africa |
| Interest Areas: | Political sociology, Environmental sociology, Social movements, Sociology of economic change and development, Sociological theory, Research methods, Latin America, Africa |
| Nguyen, Mytoan |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Seidman, Gay |
| Email: | mnguyen@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated December 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Going Back Where They Came From? Second Generation Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese) Ethnic Migration to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Interest Areas: | Migration, Racial and Ethnic Studies, Ethnography, Globalization and Development, Service Learning Methods |
| Nichter, Matthew |
| Advisor: | Wright, Erik Olin |
| Email: | mnichter@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated August 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Rethinking the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Radicals, Repression, and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1930-1970 |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Labor, Race |
| Slez, Adam |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Martin, John Levi and Curtis, Katherine |
| Email: | aslez@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Changing Context of Electoral Politics in the American West, 1861-1896 |
| Interest Areas: | Historical sociology, political sociology, network analysis, and quantitative methods |
| Current Position: | Postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| Stiles, Kaelyn |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Bell, Michael |
| Email: | kstiles@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2011 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Rise of Mindfulness Meditation in the United States |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology, Sociology of Health/Medicine, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Culture, Qualitative Methods, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Agriculture, Sociology of Science, Sociology of Race/ Ethnicity |
| Current Position: | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA |
| Van Gunten, Tod |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Wright, Erik Olin |
| Email: | tvangunt@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated July 2012 |
| Dissertation Title: | Power and Pesos: Economics, Expertise and the Politics of Money in Mexico and Argentina |
| Interest Areas: | Comparative Economic and Political Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge and Science; Globalization; Networks; Theory |
| Voyer, Andrea |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Emirbayer, Mustafa and Sandefur, Gary |
| Email: | avoyer@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2009 |
| Dissertation Title: | Doing Difference: Diversity Training, Diversity Talk and Somali Immigrant Incorporation in Lewiston, Maine |
| Interest Areas: | Culture, Theory, Immigration, Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Race & Ethnic Relations |
| Current Position: | Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College |