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