Ph.D. Students on the Academic Job Market |
| Alvarado, Steven |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |
| Personal webpage |
| 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 |