Ph.D.s On the Job Market
Katherine McFarland Bruce
Dissertation Title: "Cultural Contestation and Community Building at LGBT Pride Parades."
Dissertation Chair: Andrew J. Perrin
Areas of Interest: U.S. Political Culture, Social Movements, Mass Media, Gender and Sexuality, Social Theory
Jonathan (JD) Daw
Dissertation Title: "The Origins of Inequality in the Kidney Transplantation System"
Dissertation Chair: Ted Mouw
Areas of Interest: Biodemography, Health and Health Disparities, Inequality, Quantitative Research Methods
Michele Easter
Dissertation Title: "Some Sort of Larger Force at Work": Meanings and Implications of Genetics for women with Eating Disorders."
Dissertation Chairs: Peggy Thoits and Andrew Perrin
Areas of Interest: Culture, Social Psychology, Genetics and Society, Medical Sociology
Yingchun Ji
Dissertation Title: "Understanding How Economic and Ideational Factors Combine to Influence the Timing of Marriage."
Dissertation Chair: Lisa D. Pearce
Areas of Interest: Social Demography, Family, Gene and Environment
Interaction, Stratification, and Quantitative Methods
Lindsey King
Dissertation Title: "Job Insecurity at the Intersection of Labor Markets and Welfare States."
Dissertation Chair: Arne Kalleberg
Areas of Interest: Sociology of work, Social psychology, Political sociology
Emily McKendry-Smith
Dissertation Title: "Old Gods, New Religions, and Modern Marriages in Nepal."
Dissertation Chair: Lisa D. Pearce
Areas of Interest: Religion, Family, Social Theory, Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods, Cultural Sociology, Gender
Craig Owen
Dissertation Title: "The Study of Peer Influences Using Experimental Design Methodology."
Dissertation Chair: Francois Nielsen
Areas of Interest: Stratification and Inequality, Survey Methodology, Genetics, Macrosociology, Economic Sociology
J Micah Roos
Dissertation Title: "Science Knowledge in the United States: Factors that Contribute to the Public's Understanding of Science."
Dissertation Chairs: Kenneth Bollen and Andrew Perrin
Areas of Interest: Stratification and Inequality, Social Theory, Quantitative Methods, Measurement, Education, Religion, Culture and Knowledge.
Brandon Wagner
Dissertation Title: "Context and Development of Sexual Concurrency in American Young Adults"
Dissertation Chair: Kathleen Mullan Harris
Areas of Interest: Health, Fertility, Family, Methodology, Casual Inference, Bio-Social Interplay