Ph.D. Students on the Academic Job Market |
| Andrew, Megan |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Hauser, Robert M. |
| Email: | mandrew@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | July 2009 |
| Dissertation Title: | A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Cumulative Disadvantage in Post-Secondary School: Cohorts, Careers, and Generations |
| Interest Areas: | Research, survey, and quantitative methods; social stratification, education, work, and social welfare policy |
| Barian, Angela |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Ferree, Myra Marx |
| Email: | abarian@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Chewing The Fat: Understanding Discourses of Childhood Obesity |
| Interest Areas: | Gender, Race and Class, Culture, Sexuality, Health, Embodiment |
| Breazeale, Nicole |
| Advisor: | Collins, Jane |
| Email: | nbreazea@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Kicking the Tobacco Habit: Small Farmers, Local Markets, and the Consequences of Global Tobacco Standards |
| Interest Areas: | Sociology of Economic Change and Development, Agro-Food Systems, Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Globalization, Gender, Cultural Studies, Appalachia, Latin America |
| Christensen, Wendy |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Ferree, Myra Marx |
| Email: | wchriste@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Mobilizing Military Motherhood: Negotiating Support, Activism and Politics in the U.S. War on Terrorism |
| Interest Areas: | Sociology of gender, sociology of culture, qualitative methods, social theory (classical, contemporary and feminist), war and the military, internet communications technology |
| Collares, Ana Cristina |
| Advisor: | Gamoran, Adam |
| Email: | acollare@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Social Inequality and the Expansion of Higher Education in Brazil |
| Interest Areas: | Social Stratification and Inequality, Sociology of Education, Quantitative Methods, Sociology of Science, International Comparisons, Health and Family Studies |
| Desmond, Matthew |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Emirbayer, Mustafa |
| Email: | mdesmond@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty |
| Interest Areas: | Race & Ethnicity, Urban Sociology & Poverty, Inequality, Housing, Organizations & Work, Theory, Ethnography, Research Methods |
| Hart-Brinson, Peter |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Oliver, Pamela |
| Email: | pbrinson@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated June 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Social Generations and the Cultural Foundations of Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage |
| Interest Areas: | Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology, Media and Communication, Sociology of Sexualities, Theory, Methods |
| Holzer, Elizabeth |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Ferree, Myra Marx |
| Email: | eholzer@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | I Am Only Looking Up to God: Protest, Repression and Homecoming in a West African Refugee Camp |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology, Refugee Studies, Social Theory, Gender, Law and Society |
| Kordsmeier, Gregory T. |
| Advisor: | Fujimura, Joan |
| Email: | gkordsme@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Roles of Stage Managers and Their Aesthetic Consequences |
| Interest Areas: | Culture, Art, Social Psychology and Microsociology, Qualitative Methods |
| Kwon, Keedon |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Wright, Erik Olin |
| Email: | kkwon@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Mass-Manufacturing the Animal Laborans: Moral Campaigns for Economic Development in Japan and South Korea |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Theory |
| Lakkimsetti, Chaitanya |
| Advisor: | Ferree, Myra Marx |
| Email: | clakkims@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Governing Sexualities: Biopower, Governmentality and Citizenship in Postcolonial India |
| Interest Areas: | Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Sexualities, Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods |
| McCoy, Katherine |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Advisor: | Wright, Erik O. |
| Email: | kmccoy@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | "Ready, Aim, Hire: The Social and Political Implications of Military Outsourcing" (on the use of private military companies) |
| Interest Areas: | Political Sociology; Sociology of Law; Military Sociology; Peace, War and Social Conflict |
| Pfeffer, Fabian |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Hauser, Robert M. and Wright, Erik O. |
| Email: | fpfeffer@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Intergenerational Wealth Effects in the United States and Germany |
| Interest Areas: | Social Stratification, Sociology of Education, Comparative Sociology, Quantitative Methods |
| Sharp, Shane |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Emirbayer, Mustafa; Macdonald, Cameron; Ferree, Myra Marx |
| Email: | josharp@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated June 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | The Constraining and Enabling Effects of Religion and Culture on the Actions of Intimate Partner Abuse Victims |
| Interest Areas: | Social Psychology, Religion, Culture, Qualitative Methods, Family, Deviance |
| Stiles, Kaelyn |
| Advisor: | Bell, Michael |
| Email: | kstiles@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| 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 |
| Voyer, Andrea |
| Advisor: | Emirbayer, Mustafa and Sandefur, Gary |
| Email: | avoyer@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | August 2009 |
| Dissertation Title: | Living Difference and Talking Diversity: Interactions, Identifications, and Institutions |
| Interest Areas: | Culture, Theory, Race & Ethnic Relations, Social Psychology and Microsociology |
| Warren, Sarah |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Seidman, Gay |
| Email: | swarren@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated May 2010 |
| Dissertation Title: | Multicultural Citizenship in Chile and Argentina: Mapuche Claims for Identity and Autonomy |
| Interest Areas: | Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Globalization, Transnational Social Movements |
| Weathersbee, T. Elizabeth |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Maynard, Doug |
| Email: | tweather@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated December 2009 |
| Dissertation Title: | Requesting, altruism, and the consent for human tissue donation |
| Interest Areas: | Social Psychology and Microsociology, Research Methods, Sociological Theory, Medical Sociology, Language and Society |
| White, Robert |
| Personal webpage |
| Advisor: | Palloni, Alberto |
| Email: | rwhite@ssc.wisc.edu |
| Ph.D. Date: | Anticipated December 2009 |
| Dissertation Title: | Selected for Attainment: The Lasting Effects of Childhood Health |
| Interest Areas: | Social stratification, family demography, medical sociology, economic sociology, quantitative methodology |