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Ashwood, Loka (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Bell, Michael M.
Interest Areas: Environment and agrifood systems; qualitative methods; science and technology studies; economic change and development; race and ethnicity
Dissertation Title: Rural Rebels: The Fight for Freedom in the Georgia Countryside
Bakken, Geoff (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Emirbayer, Mustafa
Interest Areas: Social movements, Political sociology, Ethnography, Theory, Research methods, Statistics
Dissertation Title: "Let's Take Our Country Back!" The Moral Foundations of the Tea Party Movement
Blakeslee, Laura (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Palloni, Alberto and Carlson, Marcia
Interest Areas: Social demography; Maternal & child health; Socioeconomic and family influences on health
Dissertation Title: The Social Context of Vaccine Resistance: Factors that Influence the Timing and Prevalence of Vaccination
Calnitsky, David (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Wright, Erik Olin
Interest Areas: Social policy, Work and Labour Markets, Social Inequality, Economic Sociology, Crime, Social Theory
Dissertation Title: Basic Income in a Small Town: Investigating Manitoba’s Basic Annual Income Experiment
Ewoodzie, Joseph (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Emirbayer, Mustafa
Interest Areas: Cultural Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Ethnography
Dissertation Title: Getting Something to Eat: An Ethnography of Foodways in Jackson, MS
Current Position: Dissertation and teaching fellow, Department of Sociology, Kenyon College
Fairbairn, Madeleine (Ph.D. Expected April 2014)
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Advisor: Kloppenburg, Jack; Seidman, Gay
Interest Areas: Environmental Sociology, Agri-food Systems, Development, Global/Transnational Sociology, Political Economy, Social Movements
Dissertation Title: "Just Another Asset"?: Farmland in an Age of Global Finance
Garbarski, Dana (Ph.D. August 2012)
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Advisor: Gerber, Theodore
Interest Areas: Social stratification; health and epidemiology; the life course; social demography; survey methodology; sociological research methods; statistics for social science
Dissertation Title: Dyadic and Dynamic Relationships: An Extension of the Socioeconomic Status-Health Framework
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher. Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gathman, Cabell (Ph.D. August 2013)
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Advisor: Maynard, Doug and Fujimura, Joan
Interest Areas: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, Technology
Dissertation Title: Information Disclosure, Relationship Maintenance & Self-Presentation on Facebook
Grigg, Jeffrey (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Gamoran, Adam
Interest Areas: Social Stratification/Inequality, Sociology of Education, Research Methods
Dissertation Title: Student Mobility, Identity Threat, and Self-Affirmation
Hollander, Matt (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Maynard, Doug
Interest Areas: Ethnomethodology/conversation analysis, social psychology, criminology, sociological theory, obedience to authority, social psychology of heroism
Dissertation Title: The decisive moment: Directive sequences, resistance to authority, and the ethnomethodology of Milgram's experiment
Karraker, Amelia (Ph.D. August 2012)
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Advisor: Herd, Pamela
Interest Areas: Health inequalities; Biodemography; Marriage and family among older adults
Dissertation Title: Feeling Poor and Being Sick: Three Essays on Social Status, Psychosocial Resources, and Health
Current Position: National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Kaufman, Nicole (Ph.D. Expected Spring 2014)
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Advisor: Ferree, Myra Marx
Interest Areas: Criminology/Penology, Political Sociology, and Law & Society; Critical and Feminist Analysis
Dissertation Title: Making ex-prisoners into citizens: Processes of state and non-state organizational intervention
Current Position: Instructor, Arts and Sciences, Madison College in Madison, WI- Keller, Julie (Ph.D. August 2013)
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Advisor: Bell, Michael M.
Interest Areas: Sociology of Gender, Migration, Rural Sociology, Classical Sociological Theory, Qualitative Methods, Sexualities
Dissertation Title: Life in Limbo: Transnational Migration, Masculinities and Labor in a Rural New Immigrant Destination
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College 
Kraus, Nicole M. Butkovich (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Gerber, Theodore
Interest Areas: Social Stratification; Race and Ethnicity; Migration and Globalization; Quantitative Research Methods; the Russian Federation and Former Soviet Union
Dissertation Title: Constructing Xenophobia: Geography, Gender, and Generation of Nation in the Russian Federation
Lakkimsetti, Chaitanya (Ph.D. August 2010)
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Advisor: Ferree, Myra Marx
Interest Areas: Sociology of Gender, Sexualities, Law & Society, Global Sociology, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Methods
Dissertation Title: Governing Sexualities: Biopower, Governmentality and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
Current Position: Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Gender Studies & Center for Feminist Research, USC- Madden, Erin (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
Advisor: Herd, Pamela and Senier, Laura
Interest Areas: Medical sociology, qualitative methods, migration, health policy, national security policy, socioeconomic change and development, race and ethnicity, social movements
Dissertation Title: In the Name of National Security: How National Security Policies Affect Health Care Access for U.S. Citizens and Immigrants in South Texas Border Regions 
McCarty, Alyn Turner (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Gamoran, Adam
Interest Areas: Stratification/Inequality, Education, Health
Dissertation Title: Parent Social Networks, Mental Health, and Educational Disadvantage of Children in Poverty
McReynolds-Pérez, Julia (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Seidman, Gay
Interest Areas: Medical Sociology, Economic Change and Development, Gender, Transnational Social Movements
Dissertation Title: Pharmaceutical Abortion and the Activist-Led Democratization of Reproductive Choice in Argentina
Current Position: Instructor, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa- Navot, Edo (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Wright, Erik Olin
Interest Areas: Economic sociology, social stratification, quantitative methods
Dissertation Title: Class, inequality and economic stability 
Nguyen-Akbar, Mytoan (Ph.D. Expected December 2013)
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Advisor: Seidman, Gay
Interest Areas: Global and Transnational Sociology; International Migration; Race and Ethnicity; Qualitative Methods; Service-learning
Dissertation Title: Ambivalent Diasporics: High-Skilled 'Return' Migration and Social Change in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam- Nichter, Matthew (Ph.D. Expected Fall 2013)
Advisor: Wright, Erik Olin
Interest Areas: Political Sociology, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Labor, Race
Dissertation Title: Rethinking the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Radicals, Repression, and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1930-1970
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida 
O'Connell, Heather (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Curtis, Katherine
Interest Areas: Racial and Ethnic Inequality; Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization; Migration
Dissertation Title: Racial Composition and Black-White Inequality: The Role of Migration
Orne, Jason (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Bell, Michael M.
Interest Areas: Sexualities; Race and Ethnicity; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Queer Metropolis: Sexual Racism in Chicago's Boystown
Schudde, Lauren (Ph.D. May 2013)
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Advisor: Goldrick-Rab, Sara
Interest Areas: Social Stratification, Social Mobility, Education Policy, Quantitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Higher Education: Exploring Variation in the Effects of College Experiences on Student Success
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ctr for Analysis of Postsecondary Education & Employment, Teachers College of Columbia Univ
Shoji, Megan (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Gamoran, Adam
Interest Areas: Social Stratification, Racial/Ethnic Inequality, Education, Education Policy, Quantitative Methods, Mixed Methods
Dissertation Title: Nice to Meet You? Exploring the Development of Supportive Parent-School Relationships in Low-Income Latino Communities
Sims, Jennifer Patrice (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: DeLamater, John
Interest Areas: Race and Ethnicity, Critical Mixed Race Theory, Social Psychology, Gender and Sexuality
Dissertation Title: Doing Race: Physical Appearance, Identity and the Micro-Politics of Racial Ambiguity
Turner, Kimberly (Ph.D. August 2012)
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Advisor: Carlson, Marcy
Interest Areas: Social Demography, Families and Households, Race and Ethnicity, Stratification and Inequality
Dissertation Title: Hand in Hand: Three Essays Examining the Link between Family Behaviors and Well-being among Black and White Men
Current Position: Frank H. T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Population Center, Cornell University
Turowetz, Jason (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Maynard, Douglas
Interest Areas: Social Psychology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Science, Sociological Theory, Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis
Dissertation Title: The Narrative Realization of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Van Gunten, Tod (Ph.D. July 2012)
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Advisor: Wright, Erik Olin
Interest Areas: Comparative Economic and Political Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge and Science; Globalization; Networks; Theory
Dissertation Title: Power and Pesos: Economics, Expertise and the Politics of Money in Mexico and Argentina
Current Position: Postdoctoral scholar, Madrid, Spain
Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Elwert, Felix
Interest Areas: Social and formal demography; racial stratification; quantitative methods; labor; social theory
Dissertation Title: Essays in Mortality Selection and Inequality
Young-Hyman, Trevor (Ph.D. Expected May 2014)
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Advisor: Wright, Erik Olin; Freeland, Robert
Interest Areas: Organizations; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Development; Research Methods
Dissertation Title: Taking Control of Innovation: Democratic Employee Ownership in the U.S. Automated Manufacturing Equipment Industry
Zinda, John (Ph.D. August 2013)
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Advisor: Green, Gary
Interest Areas: Environmental Sociology, Development and Globalization, Contemporary Chinese Society, State and Society, Conservation Biology, Agriculture, Spatial Data Analysis
Dissertation Title: Organizing Tourism, Conservation, and Development in Southwest China
Current Position: Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University