Graduate Students on the Job Market

Joseph Bongiovi

Dissertation Chair: Arne Kalleberg
Areas of Interest: Organizations; work; international and comparative, particularly Asia and Latin America; gender; peace, war and defense
bongiovi@email.unc.edu| Website | CV

Shane Elliott

Dissertation Title: “Capitalizing Craft: Identity Work in Craft Beer Markets of Production and Consumption”
Dissertation Chair: Arne Kalleberg
Areas of Interest: Organizations; work
cselliot@email.unc.edu| CV

Sarah Gaby

Dissertation Title: “Becoming Activists: Participatory Practices in Youth Civic Associations.”
Dissertation Chairs: Andy Andrews and Neal Caren
Areas of Interest: Social Movements; inequality and politics; political sociology; organizations; online organizing; youth and civic engagement; race and class inequality; quantitative and qualitative methods
sgaby@unc.edu | Website | CV

Bo Hyeong Jane Lee

Dissertation Title: “Young Women’s Work-Family Orientations and Educational Outcomes in Emerging Adulthood”
Dissertation Chair: Lisa Pearce
Areas of Interest: Family; religion; inequality
janeblee@live.unc.edu | Website | CV

Autumn McClellan

Dissertation Title: Social Psychological Influences on Participation in Online Collective Action
Dissertation Chair: Neal Caren
Areas of Interest: Inequality, Social Movements, Research Methods, Quantitative Sociology
mcclela@email.unc.edu | CV

Renee Ryberg

Dissertation Title: “Inequality and the Transition to Adulthood”
Dissertation Chair: Lisa Pearce
Areas of Interest: Transition to adulthood; life course studies; adolescence; education; family; social stratification
rryberg@live.unc.edu | CV

Anna Rybinska

Dissertation Title: “Non-normative Childbearing Behavior Over the Life Course”
Dissertation Chair: S. Philip Morgan and Yong Cai
Areas of Interest: Fertility/Mortality and Population Growth; Family; Life Course and Aging; Advanced Quantitative Methods
annar@live.unc.edu| CV

Holly Straut Eppsteiner

Dissertation Title: “Constrained Choices: Immigrant Mothers Negotiating Work, Family, and Legality in the New South”
Dissertation Chair: Jacqueline Hagan
Areas of Interest: International migration; gender, work, occupations, and labor markets; family; qualitative methods; religion and migration
hstraut@unc.edu | Website | CV

Didem Turkoglu

Dissertation Title: “Who gets to have a say in Higher Education: Neoliberal Reforms, Protest, and Opposition”
Dissertation Chairs: Charles Kurzman and Neal Caren
Areas of Interest: Political Sociology; Social Movements; Race/Ethnicity; Economic Sociology; Political Culture; Comparative Historical Sociology; Mixed Methods
turkoglu@live.unc.edu| Website | CV

Joshua Wassink

Dissertation Title: “Self-Employment, International Migration, and Mobility in Mexico”
Dissertation Chair: Jacqueline Hagan
Areas of Interest: International Migration; Social Stratification; Economic Sociology; Demography; Mixed Methods Research; Latin America; Global Development
wassink@live.unc.edu | CV

Batool Zaidi

Dissertation Title: “Son preference and daughter aversion: Pakistani parents’ investment in health and education”
Dissertation Chair: Samuel P. Morgan
Areas of Interest: Demography; Gender; Family; Mixed Methods; Development Sociology; Maternal and Child Health; Social Inequality; Social Justice and Education
bzaidi@live.unc.edu| CV