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PhD Date : Spring 2024 (Expected)

Dissertation Title : Making the Economy through the National Income

Areas of Research/Teaching : Economic Sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociological Theory; Science Knowledge and Technology; Political Sociology

Dissertation Committee : Andrew Lakoff (Chair), Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Kyung Moon Hwang

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Yael Findler

PhD Date : July 2024 (Expected)

Dissertation Title : Organizational Speech Projects in A Discursive Field of Suffering: The Case of Israeli Non-Profits

Areas of Research/Teaching : Cultural Sociology; Collective Action; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Movements; Therapeutic Culture/Discourse; Organizations; Sociological Theory; Introduction to Sociology; Jewish-Israeli Society; Political Sociology; Trauma; Gender

Dissertation Committee : Nina Eliasoph (Chair), Paul Lichterman, Michael Messner, Gelya Frank

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Dissertation Title : Imagining the State to Get Things Done: NGOs Dancing with an Authoritarian State in Interactions

Areas of Research/Teaching : Political Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Organizations; Social Theory; Social Movements; Qualitative Research Methods; Ethnography; Civic Engagement and Volunteering; Non-governmental Organizations; Chinese State and Society; International Migration; Sociology of Globalization

Dissertation Committee : Nina Eliasoph (Chair), Paul Lichterman, Bin Xu, Lori Yue

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Dissertation Title : Political Polarization, Community Organizing, and Modes of Civic Engagement: How Local Context Facilitates Political Extremism Among American Libertarians

Areas of Research/Teaching : Sociology of Culture; Political Sociology; Sociological Theory; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Group Processes; Radical Politics; Civic Organization; Sociology of Science and Technology; Introduction to Sociology

Dissertation Committee : Nina Eliasoph (Chair), Iddo Tavory, Hajar Yazdiha, Ann Crigler

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Eliza Brown

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. I received my PhD in Sociology from New York University in 2021. My research has been published in  American Sociological Review, Social Science & Medicine,  and  Sociological Forum . My work has been cited in media outlets such as  New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic,  and  Wired.  My writing has been featured on sociology sites such as  Contexts  and  The Society Pages . My articles have received the American Sociological Association (ASA) Body and Embodiment Section Best Graduate Student Paper award and an honorable mention for Best Article from ASA Sociology of Population section. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. I am currently working on my book project,  Gaming Health: How Doctors and Patients Weigh Risk and Chance at Fertility Clinics.  In this book, based on my dissertation research which included observations of hundreds of doctor-patient consults at three fertility clinics as well as interviews with over a hundred patients and doctors, I argue that presenting medical choices as a game of chance allows medical providers to thread the needle of maintaining their medical authority with patients who are also paying customers and makes it possible for patients to take part in medical decision making within the bounds set up by their providers. More information can be found on my website:  elizacbrown.com  

Samuel Dinger

I am a sociologist of masculinities and forced migration in the contemporary Arab world. My research follows the everyday lives of a group of young Syrian men from the urban outskirts of Damascus as they work to build and sustain lives in Lebanon’s central Beqaa valley. I use life-history interviews and ethnographic methods to explore how forced migration and exile reconfigure their gendered definitions of self and morality, experiences of agency, and orientations towards the future.

My writing has been published in Ethnography , Humanity , Contexts , and the edited volume Refugees as City-Makers . My research has received fellowship funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Max Weber Stiftung, and the NYU Gallatin Urban Democracy Lab.

Teaching and mentoring are central elements of my academic identity. I currently teach multiple courses at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, where I also designed the research tutorial for a community-based learning fellowship that supports urban social justice organizations in New York City. In 2022, I received the NYU Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Social Sciences.

I received my MA in Sociology from NYU (2018), my BS from Georgetown University in International Politics and Arab Studies (2011), and completed advanced Arabic language training at the American University in Cairo’s Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA).

Sarah Iverson

My research agenda contributes to sociological understandings of race/ethnicity, work and organizations, and health. It is motivated by novel and enduring questions in sociology: How do people create collective meaning in institutional settings? How do these meanings inform action? What role does meaning-making play in facilitating or inhibiting racial inequality? Motivated by these questions, I have studied a range of sites and populations, from an ethnoracially diverse community health organization to a bottle and can redemption center frequented by unhoused workers. I use a range of methods to explore these concerns, from immersive organizational ethnography and in-depth interviewing to quantitative analyses of secondary data. By investigating taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of race, work, and identity, my work aims to strengthen theoretical and institutional approaches to combating inequality. My research is published in  Genealogy ,  Demography , and the  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography . I have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. I’ve also taught or led discussion sections throughout my time in graduate school. In 2022, I received the Outstanding Teaching Award from NYU’s college of Arts and Sciences.

José Soto-Márquez

José G. Soto-Márquez is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an Urban Democracy Lab Doctoral Fellow at New York University. He researches and teaches on the topics of migration, race/ethnicity, gender, theory, cities, work, inequality, health, and the family.  His dissertation focuses on one of Europe’s so-called “lost generations” and draws on two years of ethnographic observations of and 135 in-depth interviews with young and high-skilled Spanish immigrants, who left Spain after the 2008 global financial crisis. His doctoral work explores Spanish immigrants’ divergent and gendered social mobility, assimilation/integration, and ethnoracial identification across New York City, Buenos Aires, and London. 

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Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley

Area(s) of Interest: Migration, globalization, culture, sensation/embodiment, food

Advisor: Carrillo

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Emma Brandt

Area(s) of Interest: Culture and Knowledge; Media and Technology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology; Nations and Nationalism; Post-Socialist Studies; Ethnography and Qualitative Methods

Advisor: Griswold

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Oscar Ruben Cornejo Casares

Area(s) of Interest: Sociology of Immigration (Especially Undocumented Immigration); Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Law

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Area(s) of Interest: Chinese Middle Class, Culture, Mathematical sociology, Mobility

Advisor: Mahoney

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Emily Handsman (PhD 2022)

Area(s) of Interest: Education; Inequality; Culture; Organizations

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Austin Jenkins

Area(s) of Interest: Science, Knowledge, & Technology; Crime, Law, & Deviance; Alcohol, Drugs, & Tobacco

Advisor: Epstein

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Kory Johnson (PhD 2021)

Area(s) of Interest: Comparative-Historical Sociology; Inequality, Poverty and Mobility; Latin America; Political Sociology; Quantitative and Mixed-Methods; Race, Gender and Class; Social Policy

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Gershwin Penn

Area(s) of Interest: Sociology of Education, Inequality, Race and Ethnicity

Advisor: Watkins-Hayes

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Sonia Planson (PhD 2023)

Area(s) of Interest: Immigration, Race, Ethnicity; Citizenship and Identity; Culture; Education

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Wayne Rivera

Area(s) of Interest: Science and Technology Studies, Emotions, Trauma & Violence, Networks, Medical Sociology

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Area(s) of Interest: Political and Economic Sociology; Fiscal Sociology, Sociology of Finance, Comparative-Historical Studies, Chinese Society

Advisor: Carruthers

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Area(s) of Interest: Comparative Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Development; Global and Transnational Sociology; Health, Science and Medicine; Israel/Palestine

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Luna Vincent

Area(s) of Interest: Sociology of Knowledge, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Theory

Advisor: Pattillo

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Area(s) of Interest: Neighborhood Inequality; Urban Organizations; Networks; Crime, Violence, and the Criminal Justice System; Housing and Gentrification; Mixed Methods

Advisor: Papachristos

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Devin Wiggs

Area(s) of Interest: Economic Sociology; Political Sociology; Financialization; Labor and Social Movements; Inequality; the Welfare State; Global Capitalism; Mixed-Methods.

Advisor: Prasad

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Cinthya Guzman

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Dissertation Title: Situated Agency and the Unfolding of Emotional Experiences 

Dissertation Committee:  Dan Silver, Melissa Milkie, and Ethan Fosse 

Research and Teaching Areas:  Theory, Emotions, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Introduction to Sociology 

Statement on Teaching and Research Interests:  Cinthya Guzman’s research primarily focuses on the theoretical canonization processes in sociology across English, German, and French contexts, revealing the institutional and cultural influences that shape the discipline. A secondary exploration examines the interplay between emotions and agency, especially the societal implications of boredom, utilizing innovative methodologies to combine real-time observations with qualitative insights. In the classroom, Cinthya teaches various core and substantial areas, including introduction to sociological perspectives, theory, and qualitative methods, as well as courses in gender inequality and special topics in culture and theory. Her emphasis on interactive exercises and experiential learning ensures students actively grasp and apply theoretical concepts. She is the recipient of the University of Toronto’s TA Teaching Excellence Award 2022.  

Publications:  

• Guzman, Cinthya, Dan Silver, Lars Döpking, Lukas Underwood, and Sébastien Parker. 2023. “Towards a Historical Sociology of Canonization: Comparing the development of Sociological Theory in the English, German and French language contexts since the 1950s.”  European Journal of Sociology . 1-44.     
• Silver, Dan*, Cinthya Guzman*, Sébastien Parker and Lars Döpking. 2022. “The Rhetoric of the Canon: Functional, Historicist, and Humanist Justifications.” The American Sociologist : 1-27.  
• Guzman, Cinthya. 2020. “ Routine Disruption during COVID-19.” Contexts Magazine .   
• Guzman, Cinthya and Daniel Silver. 2018. "The Institutionalization of Sociological Theory in Canada." Canadian Review of Sociology,  55(1): 9-39.  
• Tepperman, Lorne*, Cinthya Guzman*, and Ioana Sendriou*. 2017. Picturing Social Problems . Oxford University Press.   

Jordan Foster

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Dissertation Title: The Rich Kids of Instagram: Tracing Symbolic Wealth and Social Visibility in The Digital Era

Dissertation Committee: Josée Johnston, Shyon Baumann, and David Pettinicchio

Research and Teaching Areas: Cultural sociology, media studies, inequality

Statement on Teaching and Research Interests:  Jordan Foster is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of culture, new media, and inequality with a critical focus on how everyday and taken-for-granted trends reinforce and reproduce inequality. His dissertation project, “The Rich Kids of Instagram,” follows the rise of social media influencers and the industry personnel who surround them to show what forms of content influencers traffic in, the status characteristics that shape their visibility online, and the rewards that follow. Outside of this work, Jordan engages with critical questions related to social media platforms and their democratic and inclusive potentials. Specifically, he investigates what opportunities and challenges these platforms provide to historically marginalized communities and those who embody markers of difference.

Publications:

• Jordan Foster. 2023. “Platformed Cultural Production and Calibration in the Covid-19 Pandemic.” New Media & Society .
• Jordan Foster, David Pettinicchio, Michelle Morato, Andy Holmes, and Martin Lukk. 2023. “Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving, and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis.” Sociology .
• Jordan Foster. 2022. “It’s All About the Look: Appearance, Attractiveness and Authenticity Online.” Social Media + Society .
• Jordan Foster. 2022. “‘Scatter My Ashes at Saks Fifth Avenue: Boundary Work and the Role of Intermediaries in Fashion.” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(5): 1485-1503.
• Jordan Foster and Jayne Baker. 2022. “Muscles, Makeup and Femboys: Analyzing TikTok’s “Radical” Masculinities.”   Social Media + Society .
• Jordan Foster and David Pettinicchio. 2021. “ A Model Who Looks Like Me: Communicating and Consuming Representations of Disability .” Journal of Consumer Culture , 22(3): 579-597.

Marie-Lise Drapeau-Bisson

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Dissertation Title: Reading, Evaluating and Commemorating Feminism : Excluding and reviving dynamics in the reception of L'Euguélionne in Québec

Dissertation Committee: Judith Taylor (Chair), Shyon Baumann, Josée Johnston

Research and Teaching Areas: Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Arts, Qualitative Methods, Social Movements Studies, Commemoration Studies, Feminist Studies, Québec Studies.

Statement on Teaching and Research Interests:  My work is motivated by a desire to understand how activists innovate to escape erasure. While activists often rely on a well-worn repertoire of tactics for continuity, they need to transform their repertoires to address new issues and renew mobilization. This tension is at the heart of research projects I have undertaken over the past 10 years: from the pots and pans protests in Montreal, to reproductive justice activists in Northern Ireland, to Québec feminists practicing commemorative work to defy the invisibilisation of the movement’s cultural production.

My work puts in conversation literatures that, despite important consonances, are not in dialogue due to disciplinary or linguistic boundaries. In my teaching, this bridging work broadens students' horizons and helps them develop critical thinking skills. I also help students to develop concrete job market skills through assignments that borrow from various genres, from peer feedback, to letter writing, to project proposals. You can learn more about my current research and teaching interests by visiting my website .

• Drapeau-Bisson, Marie-Lise (Forthcoming) “Critical Appraisal and Masculine Authority: The Boys' Club’s Derogatory Method of Reading Canadian Feminist Speculative Fiction” in  Cultural Sociology . 
• Drapeau-Bisson, Marie-Lise (2019) “ Beyond Green and Orange: Alliance for Choice – Derry’s mobilisation for the Decriminalisation of Abortion ” in  Irish Political Studies , 35(1): 25.
• Drapeau-Bisson, Marie-Lise, Francis Dupuis-Déri and Marcos Ancelovici (2014) “‘La grève est étudiante, la lutte est populaire!’ Manifestations de casseroles et assembles de quartier” in  Un Printemps rouge et noir, regards croisés sur le grève étudiante de 2012,   edited by Marcos Ancelovici and Francis Duipuis-Déri, Montréal: Écosociété.

Noga Keidar

Dissertation title : The Making of Urban Knowledge: Ideas, Cities, Gurus

Dissertation committee : Dan Silver (Chair), Mark Fox, John Hannigan

Research and teaching areas: Urban Sociology, Political Socioloy, Sociology of Ideas, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

In her research, Noga examines what it means for a messy and complex entity like a city to adopt a new idea, and how particular ideas have become ‘must-haves’ for cities. Her different research projects touch upon these issues from different angles, asking, for instance: How do urban models become relevant when placed in a context extremely different from the one in which they were formulated?  How does the ‘same’ idea vary over time and across geographical scales? How have a small group of charismatic urban thinkers established their position as urban ‘gurus’? And how in practice do they connect cities with ideas? Noga examines these questions using multiple qualitative and quantitative methods. Noga is currently an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also teaches Urban Sociology and works as the Deputy Director and Head of Research of the " Urban Clinic ". 

• Making Jerusalem “Cooler”: Creative Script, Youth Flight, and Diversity
• Residential Segregation in Israel, 1961-2008: The Spatial Assimilation of Immigrants

James Lannigan

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Dissertation title : “Discourse and structure: An examination of the organizational identities and networks of contemporary specialty coffee retailers”

Dissertation committee : Bonnie Erickson (supervisor), Clayton Childress, Josée Johnston

Research and teaching areas: Social Research Methods, Sociology of Culture, Social Networks, Urban Sociology

James Lannigan is a PhD candidate enrolled in the Sociology department at the University of Toronto. His current research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of the Sociology of Culture, Social Networks, and Urban Sociology. His dissertation work focuses on the networks of specialty coffee retailers paying close attention to the development of distinct identity-making practices and their contemporary adaptation to challenges in the marketplace from chain competition. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, James has been recently focusing on how this population has adapted their organizational practices to deal with uncertainties facing the niche as a whole.

• Lannigan, J. (2020).  Making a space for taste: Context and discourse in the specialty coffee scene . International Journal of Information Management, 51, 101987.
• Gruzd, A., Lannigan, J., & Quigley, K. (2018).  Examining government cross-platform engagement in social media: Instagram vs Twitter and the big lift project . Government Information Quarterly, 35(4), 579-587.
• Lannigan, J. (2017, July).  Branding practices in the new (Er) media: a comparison of retailer twitter and web-based images . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (pp. 1-5).
• Klein, M., Gruzd, A., & Lannigan, J. (2017).  Using Deliberation-Centric Social Network Analysis to Measure Balkanization . Available at SSRN 2914554.
• Lannigan, J., & McLaughlin, N. (2017). Professors and politics: Noam Chomsky’s contested reputation in the United States and Canada. Theory and Society, 46(3), 177-199.

Martin Lukk

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Dissertation title : The Distributional Question in Contemporary Nationalism

Dissertation committee : Erik Schneiderhan, Geoffrey Wodtke (co-chair, U. Chicago), David Pettinicchio, Vanina Leschziner

Research and teaching areas : Political Sociology, Inequality and Stratification, Social Policy, Health and Illness, Race and Ethnicity

Statement on teaching and research interests : I study the political consequences of economic inequality. The dramatic growth in income and wealth inequality in industrialized countries is among the major social and economic developments of the postwar era. My research examines the individual consequences of this and related transformations in three areas: political identity, voting behavior, and social welfare. I am particularly interested in how income inequality shapes conceptions about legitimate membership in the nation; how attitudes about the nation affect support for radical-right parties; and how novel digital solutions to financing individual health care needs reproduce economic inequality. I study these issues primarily using quantitative analyses of survey data and computational approaches to data collection and analysis. My scholarship contributes to research in multiple areas, including political sociology, inequality and stratification, social policy, health and illness, and race and ethnicity. At the core of my work is an effort to understand how long-term structural changes shape individuals’ political lives in today’s democratic societies, including decisions about how to identify, vote, and get help in times of need. I am author of the forthcoming book GoFailMe: Digital Philanthropy and the Politics of Social Welfare (Stanford University Press, 2023), written with Erik Schneiderhan.

Man Xu (Angela)

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Dissertation Title: : Brokering transnational exchange: examining Chinese Muslim’s identity formation and relational labor in the global trade economy

Dissertation Committee: : Patricia Landolt (co-chair), Ping-Chun Hsiung (co-chair), Laura Doering

Research and Teaching Areas: Globalization, Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, China Studies

Statement on Teaching and Research Interests:  I study globalization and migration as forces of change that shape social identity, ethnic relations, economic processes, and state governance. My research interprets recent shifts in the global political economy, such as the rise of Global China and the expanding ties within the Global South. My dissertation delves into the experiences of Hui Muslims who work as brokers facilitating trade between China and the Middle East. This project theorizes how the growing trade economy within Asia produces new segment of relational labor, and how ethnic minority people’s brokerage work contributes to shifts in the structure of the global economy. The dissertation brings into dialogue economic sociology, race, ethnicity, and migration studies, to advance the sociology of brokerage.

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Alexander Adames

Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

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Research Interests

Social stratification — Social mobility — Sociology of education — Racial and ethnic stratification

Social demography — Labor market inequality — Social Psychology

Dissertation Title

Heterogeneity in Black-White Economic Disparities in the United States

Faculty Advisors

Xi Song (Chair), Camille Z. Charles, Annette Lareau, and Hyunjoon Park

Ellen Bryer

2018 Cohort

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Social Stratification; Higher Education; Student Debt; Transition to Adulthood; Social Class; Wealth Inequality

Navigating Credentials, Loans, and Value:  Student Pathways to and Through Graduate Education

Emily Hannum (chair), Jerry Jacobs, Hyunjoon Park, Lauren Russell

Ashleigh Cartwright

2017 Cohort

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Allison Dunatchik

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Gender; Families; Work; Social stratification; Social demography; Quantitative methods; Time use

The Production of Gender Inequality in Different-Sex Couples: A Life-Course Approach

Xi Song (Chair), Jerry A. Jacobs, Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Peter Francis Harvey

Postdoctoral Fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard

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Culture, social inequality, education

Learning their Station: Socialization and Discrimination in Two Elementary Schools

Annette Lareau (Chair), Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Robin Leidner, and Melissa Wilde

Tessa Huttenlocher

2016 Cohort

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Organizations, social stratification, religion, education, the nonprofit sector, qualitative methods, comparative historical methods

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Social Stratification (Dr. Hyunjoon Park, Dr. Emily Hannum, Dr. Pilar Gonalons-Pons)

Sociology of Organizations (Dr. Benjamin Shestakofsky, Dr. Mary-Hunter McDonnell, Dr. Jerry Jacobs)

The Religious Origins of Educational Inequality: American Denominational Investment in Higher Education in the Early 20th Century

Dr. Melissa Wilde (Chair)

Dr. David Grazian

Dr. Mary-Hunter McDonnell

Dr. Jerry A. Jacobs

Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University Society of Fellows, Department of Sociology

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Race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; intersectionality; affect; Black feminist theory; qualitative methods; family; informal adoption; religion

Camille Zubrinsky Charles (Chair), Melissa Wilde, Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Yasmin Mertehikian

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Gender; Work; Labor Market; Domestic Work; Inequality; Social and Racial Stratification; Intersectionality; Social Demography; Developing Countries; Quantitative Research Methods ; Qualitative Research Methods.

Three essays on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor market outcomes in Argentina

Emilio Parrado (Chair), Jerry Jacobs, Chenoa Flippen, Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Eugenio Paglino

Ph.D. Student in Sociology and Demography

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Blair Sackett

Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University

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Social inequality; international migration; work and organizations; economic sociology; race and ethnicity; global and transnational sociology; sociology of development; sociology of culture; sociology of the family; qualitative research methods, ethnography

Annette Lareau (co-chair), Randall Collins (co-chair), Mauro Guillen, Chenoa Flippen

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Climate change, labor, gender, rural, social resilience, cities, neighborhoods and disaster sociology

David Grazian, Chenoa Flippen, Nikhil Anand, Benjamin Shestakofsky, & Daniel Aldana Cohen. 

David Sorge

PhD, Sociology

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Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation; Social Movements; South Asia; Theory; Face-to-Face Interaction; Internal Conversation and Self-Formation

Three Essays in the Sociology of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, and Emotional Interventions in De-Escalation

Randall Collins, Guobin Yang, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Rutgers, Dept. of Anthropology), Raheel Dhattiwala (Oxford)

Jack Thornton

2019 Cohort

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Generous: The Labor of Philanthropy in Higher Education

David Grazian (chair), Jason Schnittker, Benjamin Shestakofsky

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Sarah E. Farr

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Urban Sociology; Economic Sociology; Housing and Property; Identity; Place; Inequality

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

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Migration/Transnationalism, Aging, Gender, Family, Race and Ethnicity

Jenna Nobles

Jenna Nobles, Myra Marx Ferree, Theodore P. Gerber, Katherine Jensen, Almita Miranda

“Aging Without a Safety Net: Unauthorized Immigrants in Later Life”

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Julia Goodwin

December 2023

Population health and aging, quantitative social science and demography, quantitative data analysis and methodology

Mosi Adesina Ifatunji and Katherine Curtis

“Considering Measurement Bias in Cognition at the Intersection of Race and Gender”

Nona Maria Gronert

Summer 2023

Gender; Law and Society; Organizations; Social Movements; Sexual Violence

Myra Marx Ferree and Chaeyoon Lim

Joseph Conti, Eunsil Oh, Kate Walsh

“The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017”

Amy Jones Haug

Date ph.d. received.

Race and Ethnicity; Ethnography; Theory; Sociology of Law and Public Health

Jane Collins

Pamela Oliver, John Eason, Alice Goffman, Bianca Baldridge

“Diversity as the Modern Racial Incorporation Strategy and the Unseen Burden of Diversity-Work”

Jungmyung Kim

Organizations, Work and Occupations, Culture, Social Inequality, Criminal Justice

Robert Freeland

“Police Resistance to Institutional Changes through Complexity: A Study of Occupational Identity Maintenance”

Taylor Laemmli

Class; Culture; Work; Consumption; Social Theory

Mustafa Emirbayer

“Class Keeping: The Professional Production of Elite Status”

Alex Mikulas

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Social Demography; Urban and Community Sociology; Spatial sociology and analysis; place; housing; racial inequity

Katherine Curtis; Post-doctoral fellow advisor Dr. Liz Roberto, Rice Sociology

Katherine Curtis (Chair), Max Besbris, Malia Jones, Mosi Ifatunji, and Keith Woodward

“Foreclosure and the Dynamics of Residential Racial Structure: Racial-Spatial Change in US Housing Markets from the Pre- to Post- Foreclosure Crisis Eras, 1990 to 2020”

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Masoud Movahed

Spring 2023

Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Comparative Historical Sociology

Erik Olin Wright, Ivan Ermakoff, Jane Collins

Dissertation Committee Members:

Ivan Ermakoff (Chair), Jane Collins, Joel Rogers, Christine Schwartz, Tim Smeeding, Gøsta Esping-Andersen

“Varieties of Capitalism, Income Inequality, and Mobility”

Nathan Seltzer

Demography; Social Stratification; Labor Markets; Population Health; and Computational Methods

“The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization”

Grace E. Venechuk (née Finnigan-Fox)

Spring 2024

Demography, sociology of the life course, work and health, population aging, health disparities and policy, epigenetics

Michal Engelman

“Implications of Contemporary Work Quality for Disparities in Healthy Aging”

Benny Witkovsky

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Spring 2025

Political Sociology;  Community and Urban Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Polarization; Urban Governance

“Fig Leave and Fortress: Nonpartisan Politics in a Polarized Time”

Matthew J. Zinsli

Summer 2024

Sociology of Economic Change and Development; Science and Technology Studies; Agro-foods Studies; Environmental Sociology; Qualitative Methods

Gay Seidman & Samer Alatout

“Terroir technopolitics: The dynamics of geographical indication legitimization in the Global South”

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Research/Teaching Interests : social movements; media; culture; mis/disinformation; institutional distrust; ethnographic methods; qualitative data analysis 

Courses Taught: Protest, Politics, and Change: Social Movements; Conspiracy Culture; Order and Change in Society

Bio :  Sarah  J. Halford  is a PhD Candidate in the Sociology Department. She studies social movements, media, and culture, with special interests in mis/disinformation, institutional distrust, and online activism, and conspiracy movements. Her dissertation research is an ethnographic study on the role of institutional distrust in recruitment to, and sustained participation in, the Anti-5G Movement. She holds an M.A. in Sociology from Brandeis University, an M.A.  in Individualized Studies from New York University, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the New School University. 

Publications : Halford ,  Sarah  J. 2023. "Conspiracy Movements: A Definitional Introduction and Theoretical Exploration of Organized Challenges to Epistemic Authority."  The Sociological Quarterly 64 (2): 187-204. 

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PhD: August 2023

• Current Position: Visiting Lecturer of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College
• Research/Teaching Interests : collective action and social movements, gender, violence, temporality, feminist theory
• Favorite courses to teach: "Violence and Intimacy" and "Sociology of Families, Kinship, & Sexuality"

Personal Website: www.samantha-leonard.com

Dissertation Abstract : My dissertation research, “Defining Violences: Fielding Intimate Partner Violence in Argentina and the United States” is a comparative study of the intimate partner violence fields of action in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Boston, Massachusetts. This project involved ethnographic and archival research conducted between 2015-2020, including 13 months of ethnographic research conducted in Argentina and the U.S. between 2019-2020. In this project, I bring a temporal lens to the issue of IPV by extending the concept of slow violence to theorize how the temporality of IPV shapes the practices of service providers in Buenos Aires and Boston. I also develop the concept of temporal regimes to analyze field variances. I argue that between 2015-2020 the field of Boston was oriented towards the future through a temporal regime of prevention that centers discourses of public health, while Buenos Aires was oriented towards the present through a temporal regime of recuperation that centers discourses of embodied citizenship.

Selected Publications :

• Leonard, Samantha. 2019. “What is the Work? And With Whom Are We Working?: Relational Practices within the Intimate Partner Violence Field.” Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 34(4):535-551.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109919868837
• Leonard, Samantha and Ann Ward. 2022. “Tales from the (Disrupted) Field: Contemplating Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Midst of Pandemic.” Ethnography.  https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381221145424

Expected Date of PhD: May 2024

• Research/Teaching Interests : Inequality and stratification, sociology of education, critical geography, & spatial analytics
• Favorite courses to teach: Sociology of Education; Intro to Sociology; Stratification & Inequality; Methods

Google Scholar:  https://scholar. google.com/citations?user= 9waX6bMAAAAJ&hl=en

Dissertation Abstract : My dissertation brings together a set of issues that sit in balance across my areas of expertise: race, urban sociology, and the sociology of education. The main data source for this research is a set of interviews with white parents of public-school students who elected to participate in ‘learning pods’ during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through analyses of interview data, I examine how status interfaced with the pandemic context to inform families’ decisions about their children’s schooling during the 2020-21 school year. Learning pods, though they proved to be temporary phenomena, provided an excellent point-of-entry for a sociological study of privileged parenting in U.S. metropolitan areas. Extant literature in the sociology of education and in urban sociology has demonstrated that families with race and class privilege tend to leverage their power and private resources to benefit their own children’s experiences in heterogeneous public schools. The project has provided me with the opportunity to use qualitative data to engage a series of theoretical arguments about how status informs day-to-day practices and social behaviors. Early findings reveal how parents leveraged their social networks to form pods, resulting in homophilous, spatially proximal groups in otherwise diverse school districts. Additionally, interview data demonstrate how parents’ rationales for participating in a learning pod rarely reflected their concern over their children’s academic progress. Instead, interview data echo a wider trend in both education and popular culture—anxiety over the status of children’s mental health and social connectedness in a socio-political context of increasing inequality and insecurity set against the backdrop of the climate crisis.  

Dembo, R.S., Jennifer LaFleur, Ilhom Akobirshoev, Daniel P. Dooley, Neelesh Batra, and Monika Mitra. (2022). "Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities among Children with Special Health Care Needs in Boston, Massachusetts."   Disability and Health Journal,   15(3), 1013-16.

Braimah, H., LaFleur, J., Haque, Z., and Wallace, D. (2022). "Can We Just Talk? Exploring Discourses on Race and Racism Among U.S. Undergraduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic."   Educational Review,   74(3), 576-590.

LaFleur, J. (2020). “The Race That Space Makes: The Power of Place in the Colonial Formation of Social Categorizations”.   Sociology of Race and Ethnicity . 7(4), 512-526.

LaFleur, J. (2020) “Racial Passing” in   Critical Understandings in Education Encyclopedia: Critical Whiteness Studies . Edited by Zachary Casey. Leiden, ND: Brill Press.

LaFleur, J. (2020) “Centring Race in ‘Colour-blind’ Contemporary Education Policy: A Genealogy of U.S. Private School Choice and its Implications for Research”.   Race, Ethnicity and Education , 26(2), 205-225.

Dembo, R. S., & LaFleur, J. (2019). “Community Health Contexts and School Suspensions of Students with Disabilities.”   Children and Youth Services Review , 102(C), 120-127.

White, H., LaFleur, J., Houle, K., Hyry‐Dermith, P., & Blake, S. M. (2017). “Evaluation of a School‐based Transition Program Designed to Facilitate School Reentry Following a Mental Health Crisis or Psychiatric Hospitalization”.   Psychology in the Schools , 54(6).

LaFleur, J. (2016). “Locating Chicago’s Charter Schools: A Socio-spatial Analysis”.   Education Policy Analysis Archives , 24(19).

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Chris Bosley is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo with broad interests in work and health. His research to date has concentrated on how organizational level factors shape individual level outcomes, notably on the relationship between work-related stress and employee mental and physical health. Chris' dissertation focuses on the structural and relational contexts of workplace stress, assessing what particular social stressors at work affect employee health the most. Chris is primarily a quantitative researcher and is experienced in survey research methods, having developed two original surveys for his research. Chris also has experience in large-scale data management, analysis, and visualization while working as a Graduate Assistant for UB's Office of Institutional Analysis.

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Short Bio Byung Soo Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research focuses on how Asian immigrant families in the United States experience the changes of family relations and the narratives of the families that reveal the gap between the subjective perception of family relations and the structural changes in a given society. His current research examines how Asian immigrant family members interpret the meaning of eldercare with the intersection of gendered experiences.

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Short Bio Jiaying Lin is a Sociology Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Instructor at the University at Buffalo. Her research interests are Law & Society, Life Course, Domestic Violence and Qualitative Methods. Her dissertation “Understanding the Impact of the First Anti-Domestic Violence Law in China” uses social ecological model to examine the interplay of factors situated at the various levels of the social ecology in the Chinese context. These levels are: the narrative patterns of domestic violence related issues on the state-owned news media on the societal level; how judges handled domestic violence allegations on the institutional level; and different cohorts’ survivors’ legal consciousness on the individual level.

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Short Bio Laura Obernesser is a family sociologist. Her qualitative research focuses on how individuals idealize family, make sense of their relationships and roles within families and the effects these understandings have on their everyday experiences. Her research focuses on (1) family ideals: the desires, fears, and expectations held by individuals within families related to family life and how inequalities have effects on how individuals understand their relationship to societal expectations in the context of changing families and (2) agency: the behaviors and thoughts families engage in to cope with, and sometimes change their realities.

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Fixed term: 3 years, part time: 0.5FTE (18.5 hours per week)

Please note that employment in the post of Graduate Teaching Assistant is contingent on the continuation of PhD study

Interview date: 7/8 August 2024

We are looking for two highly motivated and committed individuals with a willingness and ability to contribute to the teaching and learning on a range of modules on our BA (Hons) Sociology undergraduate programme, as well as other related activities in sociology, whilst also pursuing further postgraduate research (MPhil/PhD) studies.

Ideally, each GTA will be best suited to facilitate their own and students teaching and learning in the following sociological subfields aligned with their already allocated modules for the 2024-25 academic year and one of the Centre for Psychological and Social Sciences Special Interest groups:

• GTA One: sex/gender, health/wellbeing, identities/self
• GTA Two: inequalities, race/ethnicity, environment/sustainability

The successful candidates will register as a postgraduate research student (associated fees will covered by the faculty) in an area aligned with either: 1) the specific modules listed for either of the two GTA posts that they will deliver from the 2024-25 academic year; 2) the wider range of modules on our current UON BA (Hons) Sociology undergraduate programme; and/or 3) other potential sociology topics, such as those listed on the QAA Sociology Benchmark Statement.

How to apply:

Please submit an online application and email the following by the closing date on 28 July 2024 to  [email protected] :

• a short description of approx. 500 words of how your experience and qualifications to date have prepared you to undertake postgraduate research activities;
• an overview of approx. 1000 words of your PhD Proposal – including title, purpose, context, theory/concepts, justification/rationale, argument, methodology/methods, research question, aims, objectives and timescale; as well as a short bibliography of key sources (not included in the word count).

The length of contract is three years. You will be expected to work between Mondays-Wednesdays. Teaching will largely take place in two trimesters between September/October and May/June. Face-to-face will take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. Online teaching will take place on Wednesdays. This leaves you Thursday and Fridays to engage in postgrad studies. 

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The successful candidate will have the passion to provide a significant contribution to our outstanding NSS scores through the education of our UON sociology students to the highest standards, based on advanced academic sociological knowledge and skill, and an experienced active blended workshop-based case study approach to teaching and learning.

You will join a team who deliver a diverse range of sociology modules around the areas of classical/contemporary sociological theory, education, identities/self, in/equalities and in/justice, crime, race/ethnicity, gender/sex/love/body, health/wellbeing, environment, media/culture, social change, the future, and death, as well as other sociological areas.

You will also be expected to be able to facilitate dissertation supervision in whatever viable potential topics our students want to pursue, and possibly other undergraduate/postgraduate sociological areas if/where required.

Other duties will include participation and engagement in personal academic tutoring, skills development, assessment, administrative tasks, quality assurance, induction, marketing/recruitment activities, school engagement, community outreach, module and programme development, programme/subject/faculty meetings, professional networking, continuing professional development, income generation, and any other duties normally expected from an individual of this level in respect of teaching, research, scholarship, and curriculum responsibility – including academic research as both a sociology lecturer and graduate student engaging in PhD studies.

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• Undergraduate Degree - A good honours degree in Sociology or another related discipline
• Master’s Degree – a good Master’s degree in sociology or another related discipline
• Professional Recognition – a willingness and ability to work towards successfully achieving a HEA Fellow or teaching qualification recognised by HESA

The Faculty of Health, Education and Society offers more than just a learning environment for students – the team is focused on improving the health and wellbeing of people living and working across Northamptonshire. Our research aims to address inequalities through innovative interdisciplinary research, education and enterprise to improve the whole population’s health and wellbeing. We pride ourselves on our emphasis on participation and our inter-professional relationships. Our ability to draw on academic expertise from disciplines as diverse as psychology and sociology, as well as those more traditionally related to education and health/social care, means that we can consider real-world problems holistically.

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Stanford’s Graduate School of Education is seeking a faculty member at any rank whose work focuses on systems that support learning in the early years of life (birth through early elementary). Applicants’ disciplines (e.g., psychology, economics, sociology) and areas of research may vary; however, a primary emphasis should be on the public systems that provide services and supports to children, parents, care providers, and educators (e.g., child care, healthcare, child welfare). Example domains include early childhood workforce training and credentialing, compensation, and retention; impacts of universal pre-K program implementation on infant and toddler care; and PreK-G3 alignment efforts. Emphasis on multi-systems integration and innovations in data science to support such integration may be beneficial. Research that includes historically underrepresented groups and focuses on equity in early childhood is strongly desirable. The candidate will contribute to the new Stanford Center on Early Childhood and should be eager to collaborate across disciplines within the Stanford Graduate School of Education and across other Schools and Institutes across campus. The successful candidate will be expected to teach and advise students at the graduate level.

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