Graduate Students on the Job Market

Akram Al-Turk

Dissertation Title: The Rise of Performance-Based Accountability in Education: 1965-1994
Dissertation Chair: Kenneth T. Andrews
Areas of Interest: Organizations, Political Sociology, Public Policy, Urban Affairs, Social movements, Sociology of Knowledge
alturkaa@live.unc.edu | Website | CV

Claire Chipman Gilliland

Dissertation Title: Clergy Voices: How Conflicts over Race and Sexuality in America are Framed from the Pulpit
Dissertation Chair: Lisa Pearce
Areas of Interest: Religion, Stratification, Family
cchipman@live.unc.edu | Website | CV

Iliya Gutin

Dissertation Title: A Growing Risk: Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Subjective Ambiguity in the Relationship between Weight and Health
Dissertation Chair: Robert A. Hummer
Areas of Interest: Social Demography; Population Health; Medical Sociology; Sociology of Health and Illness
igutin@live.unc.edu| Website | CV

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: Political Sociology, Immigration, Race & Ethnicity, Computational Sociology, Collective Behavior/Social Movements
drigby@live.unc.edu | Website | CV

Katherine Tait

Dissertation Title: Secure Work in the Worker-Cooperative Sector
Dissertation Chair: Neal Caren
Areas of Interest: Collective Behavior/Social Movements, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Work, and Theory
ktait@live.unc.edu | Website | CV

Brionca Taylor

Dissertation Title: “We’re Not an Academic School”: Race, Gender, and Teachers’ Emotion Work in Temporary Public Alternative Schools
Dissertation Chair: Karolyn Tyson
Areas of Interest: Education, Race, Gender, Emotions, and Qualitative Methods
brioncat@live.unc.edu | Website | CV