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
David Braudt
Dissertation Title: Investigating Gene-Environment Interactions in Social Stratification and Inequality
Dissertation Chairs: Kenneth A. Bollen and Kathleen Mullan Harris
Areas of Interest: Social Stratification, Quantitative Methods (with a particular interest in Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables), Education, Population Health, and the integration of genetic and social science research
dbraudt@live.unc.edu | Website | CV
Samuel Fishman
Dissertation Title: Burning with Educational Ambition: Psychosocial-Demographic Models of Educational Attainment.
Dissertation Chair: S. Philip Morgan
Areas of Interest: Stratification, Inter-generational Transmission, Fertility/Mortality and Population Growth, Education, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Quantitative Methods
samfish@live.unc.edu | CV
Jonathan Horowitz
Dissertation Title: Work, Love, and Dissent: Activist Participation in the Transition to Adulthood
Dissertation Chair: Kenneth T. Andrews
Areas of Interest: Education, Life Course Sociology, Social Movements, Inequality and Stratification
horowit1@email.unc.edu | Website | CV
Moira Johnson
Dissertation Title: The Predictors and Health Consequences of Non-Cognitive Resources in Young Adulthood
Dissertation Chair: Kathleen Mullan Harris
Areas of Interest: Social determinants of health, Life Course Sociology, Demography, Quantitative Methods
johnsomp@live.unc.edu | CV
Laura Krull
Dissertation Title: Patterns of Discrimination Against Same-Sex Couples in U.S. Churches
Dissertation Chair: Lisa D. Pearce
Areas of Interest: Religion
lmkrull@live.unc.edu
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
Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt
Dissertation Title: Emigrant Claims and Consular Protection Services in the United States: An Analysis of Mexico’s Department of Protection Administrative Data 2010-2015
Dissertation Chair: Jacqueline Hagan
Areas of Interest: Immigration and Migration, Crime and Delinquency, Crime Victimization, Quantitative Research Methods, Stratification
rdmart@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
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
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