Ph.D. Students on the Academic Job Market

Autry, Robyn
Advisor:Seidman, Gay
Email:rautry@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated June 2008
Dissertation Title:The Magical Presence of the Past: Re-Making Nation at Museums in the United States and South Africa
Interest Areas:Comparative Historical Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Political Sociology; Culture
Boulianne, Shelley
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Advisor:Oliver, Pamela
Email:sboulian@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:December 2007
Dissertation Title:Role of the Internet in Political Engagement
Interest Areas:Political Sociology, Research Methods and Statistics, Mass Communications and Gender
Bowen, Sarah
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Advisor:Collins, Jane
Email:sbowen@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated June 2008
Dissertation Title:Geographical Indications: Promoting Local Products in a Global Market (A Cross-National Comparative Study)
Interest Areas:Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Economic Change and Development, Research Methods, Economic Sociology, Latin American Studies, European Studies, Sociology of Agriculture
Hatton, Erin
Curriculum Vitae
Advisor:Wright, Erik Olin and Peck, Jamie
Email:ehatton@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:August 2007
Dissertation Title:The Making of the Kelly Girl: The Rise of the Temp Industry & the Changing Meaning of Work in America
Interest Areas:Sociology of Work, Gender, Labor, Historical Sociology, Qualitative Methods
Kwon, Keedon
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Advisor:Wright, Erik Olin
Email:kkwon@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated December 2007
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
Lang, Amy
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Advisor:Wright, Erik Olin
Email:alang@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated August 2007
Dissertation Title:A New Tool for Democracy? The contours and consequences of citizen deliberation in the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
Interest Areas:Political Sociology, Social and Political Theory, Qualitative Research Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Small Group Behavior and Communications
Leung, Ricky
Advisor:Fujimura, Joan
Email:rleung@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:December 2007
Dissertation Title:Doing Nanotechnology in China
Interest Areas:Organizational and Economic Sociology; Sociology of Science and Technology; Asian/China Studies; Research Methods
Levitsky, Sandra
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Advisor:Suchman, Mark
Email:slevitsk@umich.edu
Ph.D. Date:December 2006
Dissertation Title:Private Dilemmas of Public Provision: The Formation of Political Demand for State Entitlements to Long-Term Care
Interest Areas:Sociology of Law; Political Sociology; Social Movements; Health Policy; Qualitative Methods
Current Postion:Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Morimoto, Shauna
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Advisor:Friedland, Lewis and Ferree, Myra Marx
Email:smorimot@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:April 2008
Dissertation Title:Democracy for Kids: Becoming Citizens in the Post-Industrial Age
Interest Areas:Race, Class and Gender, Political Sociology, Youth, Social Theory, State Policy & Institutions, Law and Society, Community, Civil Society and Public Sociology
Robles, Andrea
Curriculum Vitae
Advisor:Collins, Jane L.
Email:robles@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated December 2007
Dissertation Title:Dismantling the Myth of the Ideal Worker: Low-Income Mothers Balancing Work and Family
Interest Areas:Women and Work, Economic Change and Development, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity
Schneiderhan, Erik Paul
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Advisor:Emirbayer, Mustafa
Email:eschnei@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated October, 2008
Dissertation Title:Jane Addams and the Rise and Fall of Pragmatist Social Provision at Hull-House, 1871-1908
Interest Areas:Historical sociology, political sociology, sociological theory, and economic sociology
Schwartzman, Luisa F.
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Advisor:Loveman, Mara
Email:lschwart@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated May 2008
Dissertation Title:Breaking the Wall, Drawing the Line: Racial Categories, Social Boundaries and Affirmative Action in Brazil
Interest Areas:Social Stratification, Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Comparative Sociology, Latin America
Stiles, Kaelyn
Curriculum Vitae
Advisor:Bell, Michael
Email:kstiles@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated July 2008
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
Swider, Sarah
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Advisor:Seidman, Gay
Email:sswider@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated Spring 2008
Dissertation Title:Behind Great Walls: Tolerated illegal migration and the construction industry
Interest Areas:Sociology of Work and Labor, Gender, Global Inequality and Immigration, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Asian Studies
Vidal, Matthew
Curriculum Vitae
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Advisor:Rogers, Joel and Wright, Erik Olin
Email:mvidal@irle.ucla.edu
Ph.D. Date:May 2007
Dissertation Title:Lean Enough: Factory Relations of Production under Neoliberal Globalization
Interest Areas:Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Organizations, Political Sociology, Theory, Class Analysis, Political Economy, Economic Geography
Current Postion:Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Voyer, Andrea
Advisor:Emirbayer, Mustafa and Sandefur, Gary
Email:avoyer@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:June 2008
Dissertation Title:Living Difference and Talking Diversity: Interactions, Identifications, and Institutions
Interest Areas:Culture, Theory, Race & Ethnic Relations, Social Psychology and Microsociology
Whitaker, Mark
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Advisor:Elder, Joseph
Email:mwhitake@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated August 2007
Dissertation Title:Ecological Revolution: The Political Origins of Institutionalized Environmental Degradation and Amelioration
Interest Areas:Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Network Analysis, Urban Sociology, Social Theory
White, Robert
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Advisor:Palloni, Alberto
Email:rwhite@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated July 2008
Dissertation Title:Selected for Attainment: The Lasting Effects of Childhood Health
Interest Areas:Social stratification, family demography, medical sociology, economic sociology, quantitative methodology
White, Cynthia
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Advisor:Seidman, Gay
Email:white@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated December 2007
Dissertation Title:Constructing the GATT: Agribusiness, Grain, and Agricultural Trade
Interest Areas:Sociology of Economic Change, Methods and Statistics, Demography, Medical Sociology, Gender
Yocom, James
Advisor:Suchman, Mark
Email:jeyocom@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:May 2007
Dissertation Title:Categories, Categorization Effects, and the Institutionalization of Punitive Attitudes
Interest Areas:Criminology, Statistics, Criminal Justice, Methods, Social Psychology