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PhD's on the Job Market
Our current PhD's who are searching for positions.
Tyson Brown
Dissertation Title: Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Wealth and Health Trajectories
Dissertation Chair: Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Areas of Interest: Life course and Aging Stratification, Race/Ethnic and Gender Inequality, Social Demography, Health Disparities, Wealth Mobility, Quantitative Methods
Tianji Cai
Dissertation Title: To Weight or To Adjust: An empirical study of the design-based and model-based approaches
Dissertation Chair: Guang Guo
Areas of Interest: Methodology, Social Network Analysis, Gene and Environment Interplay, and Social Stratification
Michele Easter
Dissertation Title: Eating Disorders as ‘Genetic’: Meanings and Implications for Women with Eating Disorders
Dissertation Chairs: Peggy Thoits and Andrew Perrin
Areas of Interest: Culture, Social Psychology, Genetics and Society, Medical Sociology
Raj Ghoshal
Dissertation Title: The Origins and Trajectories of Racial Violence Memory Movements
Dissertation Chair: Kenneth (Andy) Andrews
Areas of Interest: Race, class, & gender, with emphasis on race, Culture (especially collective memory), Social movements and political sociology
Website: www.rajghoshal.com
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
Website: http://www.unc.edu/~lmking
Beth A. Latshaw
Dissertation Title: What makes men mother and mop? - Constancy and change in the care work performed by American men
Dissertation Chair: Philip N. Cohen
Areas of Interest: Family/Demography, Sex & Gender, Social Psychology, Culture (Particularly in the American South), Race, Class & Gender
Alexis Silver
Dissertation Title: Growing Up “Gringo:” Transitions to Adulthood for Children of Immigrants in a Small Town, New Immigrant Destination
Dissertation Chairs: Jackie Hagan and Ted Mouw
Areas of Interest: Migration, Family, Race and Ethnic Studies, Life Course, Globalization, Latin American Studies, Social Demography, Public Policy, Pedagogy
Ana Teixeira
Dissertation Title: Swimming with Dolphins: A Study in Organizational Legitimacy Processes in the Southern California Tuna Industry
Dissertation Chair: Howard Aldrich
Areas of Interest: Organizations and work (legitimacy, organizational mistakes and disasters, corporate social responsibility, organizational knowledge), Social stratification & migration (especially, children, senior, immigrant populations), Economic Sociology, Food & health (policy, industry, consumers)
Maria (Ria) W. Van Ryn
Dissertation Title: "Raising them Right": Jewish and Islamic Education in America
Dissertation Chair: Lisa Pearce
Areas of Interest: Sociology of Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Social Theory, Pedagogy