Graduate Students on the Job Market
Rebecca Bielamowicz
Dissertation Title: Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Reproduction of Inequality over the Life Course
Dissertation Chair: Ted Mouw
Areas of Interest: Social Stratification; Race & Ethnicity; Sociology of Education; Social Demography
beccajb@live.unc.edu | CV Request
Minne Chen
Dissertation Title: Sexual Education in China: Exploring Effectiveness and Implementation in Vocational High Schools
Dissertation Chair: Yong Cai, Kathleen Mullan Harris
Areas of Interest: Medical Sociology, Family Sociology, Mixed Methods
mchen16@live.unc.edu | CV Request
Alexis Dennis
Dissertation Title: Racial/ethnic Disparities in Depression among Young Adults in the United States
Dissertation Chair: Bob Hummer
Areas of Interest: Population Health; Mental Health; Medical Sociology; Race / Class / Gender; Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification; Life Course
acdennis@live.unc.edu | Website | CV Request
Karam Hwang
Dissertation Title: Transforming Affinities: Sociability, Race, and Friendships on Three College Campuses
Dissertation Chair: Karolyn Tyson
Areas of Interest: Race, Class, and Gender, Sociology of Education, Culture
hwangk@live.unc.edu | CV Request
Meng-Jung Lin
Dissertation Title: Women, Genes, and STEM: The Effects of Biology and Social Factors on STEM Careers
Dissertation Chair: Guang Guo
Areas of Interest: Society and Genomics, Advanced Quantitative Method, Gender
Janelle Viera
Dissertation Title: “More Puerto Rican than a Coquí”: Race, Place, and Generational Perspectives among Stateside Puerto Ricans
Dissertation Chair: Jacqueline Hagan
Areas of Interest: Race and ethnicity, migration, social mobility, Puerto Ricans and U.S. Latinxs, qualitative methods
jviera@email.unc.edu | CV Request
David Rigby
Dissertation Title: The Making of Devolution: Political Competition and Immigration Policymaking in the US, 1960-2017
Dissertation Chair: Kenneth T. Andrews
Areas of Interest: Immigration, Political Sociology, Race and ethnicity, Computational social science, Social Movements
drigby@live.unc.edu | Website | CV