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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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. |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |