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Ph.D. Students on the Academic Job Market

Alvarado, Steven
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Advisor:Gamoran, Adam
Email:salvarad@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:August 2011
Dissertation Title:The Effect of Neighborhood Context on Obesity and Educational Achievement Among Youth
Interest Areas:Stratification, Education, Social Demography, Immigration, Health
Current Position:Postdoctoral fellow, University of Notre Dame
Benson, Celeste
Advisor:Oliver, Pamela
Email:cbenson@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated May 2013
Dissertation Title:Variation in US Welfare Regimes: A Gender and Family Approach
Interest Areas:Political Sociology, Gender and Family, Globalization, Welfare States, Comparative Political Economy
Gathman, Cabell
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Advisor:Maynard, Doug and Fujimura, Joan
Email:cgathman@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:May 2011
Dissertation Title:Information Disclosure, Relationship Maintenance & Self-Presentation on Facebook
Interest Areas:Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, Technology
Hart-Brinson, Peter
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Advisor:Oliver, Pamela and Friedland, Lew
Email:hartbrin@grinnell.edu
Ph.D. Date:August 2010
Dissertation Title:Social Generational Change and the Foundations of Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage
Interest Areas:Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology, Media & Communcation, Civil Society and Social Movements, Sociological Theory, and Research Methods
Current Position:Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Grinnell College
Haskins, Anna
Advisor:DiPrete, Thomas
Email:ahaskins@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:May 2013
Dissertation Title:Mass Incarceration and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Effects of Families, Schools, and the Penal System on Racial Inequality in Educational Outcomes
Interest Areas:Social Stratification, Educational Inequality, Sociology of Education, Race and Ethnicity, Intergenerational Social Processes and the Family, Social Consequences of Mass Incarceration
Heideman, Laura
Curriculum Vitae
Personal webpage
Advisor:Seidman, Gay
Email:lheideman@gmail.com
Ph.D. Date:December 2012
Dissertation Title:Making Society "Civil": NGOs, Donors, and Post-war Peacebuilding in Croatia
Interest Areas:Political Sociology; Sociology of War and Peace; Sociology of Development; Research Methods/Statistics; Democratization; Globalization; Human Rights; Transitional Justice
Current Position:Postdoctoral scholar, University of Notre Dame
Keller, Julie
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Advisor:Bell, Michael M.
Email:jkeller@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated May 2013
Dissertation Title:Life in Limbo: Transnational Migration, Masculinities and Labor in a Rural New Immigrant Destination
Interest Areas:Sociology of Gender, Migration, Rural Sociology, Classical Sociological Theory, Qualitative Methods, Sexualities
Kordsmeier, Gregory T.
Advisor:Fujimura, Joan
Email:kordsmeierg@wlu.edu
Ph.D. Date:June 2011
Dissertation Title:The Play’s The Thing: Stage Managers as Support Personnel and Their Role in the Creation of Art
Interest Areas:Culture, Art, Social Psychology and Microsociology, Qualitative Methods
Current Position:Visiting Professor, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Lakkimsetti, Chaitanya
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Advisor:Ferree, Myra Marx
Email:clakkimsetti@fas.harvard.edu
Ph.D. Date:August 2010
Dissertation Title:Governing Sexualities: Biopower, Governmentality and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
Interest Areas:Sociology of Gender, Sexualities, Law & Society, Global Sociology, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Methods
Current Position:Postdoctoral Fellow-Harvard University
Lim, So-jung
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Advisor:Raymo, James M.
Email:slim@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated May 2013
Dissertation Title:"Bad Jobs" for Families: Family Outcomes in the Context of Labor Market Changes
Interest Areas:Demography; Family; Health; Stratification; Work and labor market; Social Policy; Quantitative Methods; East Asia
Nichter, Matthew
Advisor:Wright, Erik Olin
Email:mnichter@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated Summer 2013
Dissertation Title:Rethinking the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Radicals, Repression, and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1930-1970
Interest Areas:Political Sociology, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Labor, Race
Schudde, Lauren
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Advisor:Goldrick-Rab, Sara
Email:lschudd@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated May 2013
Dissertation Title:Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Higher Education: Exploring Variation in the Effects of College Experiences on Student Success
Interest Areas:Social Stratification, Social Mobility, Education Policy, Quantitative Methods
Slez, Adam
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Advisor:Martin, John Levi and Curtis, Katherine
Email:aslez@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:August 2011
Dissertation Title:The Changing Context of Electoral Politics in the American West, 1861-1896
Interest Areas:Historical sociology, political sociology, network analysis, and quantitative methods
Current Position:Postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Stiles, Kaelyn
Curriculum Vitae
Advisor:Bell, Michael
Email:kstiles@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:August 2011
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
Current Position:Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Van Gunten, Tod
Curriculum Vitae
Personal webpage
Advisor:Wright, Erik Olin
Email:tvangunt@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:July 2012
Dissertation Title:Power and Pesos: Economics, Expertise and the Politics of Money in Mexico and Argentina
Interest Areas:Comparative Economic and Political Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge and Science; Globalization; Networks; Theory
Current Position:Postdoctoral scholar, Madrid, Spain
Zinda, John
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Advisor:Green, Gary
Email:jzinda@ssc.wisc.edu
Ph.D. Date:Anticipated May 2013
Dissertation Title:Organizing Tourism, Conservation, and Development in Southwest China
Interest Areas:Environmental Sociology, Development and Globalization, Contemporary Chinese Society, State and Society, Conservation Biology, Agriculture, Spatial Data Analysis

Postdoctoral Students on the Academic Job Market

Garbarski, Dana
Curriculum Vitae
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Advisor:Gerber, Theodore
Email:dgarbars@ssc.wisc.edu
Dissertation Title:Dyadic and Dynamic Relationships: An Extension of the Socioeconomic Status-Health Framework
Interest Areas:Social stratification; health and epidemiology; the life course; social demography; survey methodology; sociological research methods; statistics for social science
Current Position:Postdoctoral Researcher. Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program. University of Wisconsin-Madison