Graduate Students on the Job Market
Inés Martínez Echagüe
Dissertation Title: The Feminist Tide and Everyday Gender in Latin America
Dissertation Chair: Kate Weisshaar
Areas of Interest: Gender, Family, Work and Family, Romantic Relationships, Inequality, Social Change, Feminism, Theory, Qualitative & Quantitative Methods (especially In-Depth Interviewing)
Katherine (Katie) Furl
Dissertation Title: Beauty, Boundaries, and Being Seen: How Appearance Norms Amplify Digital Inequalities
Dissertation Chair: Neal Caren
Areas of Interest: Social Inequality and Stratification, Sociology of Sex and Gender, Digital Sociology, Communication and Media Sociology, Social Psychology
furlk@live.unc.edu | Website | CV
William Holtkamp
Dissertation Title: Belief Systems, Network Locations, and Belief Change: The Effects and Determinants of Core and Periphery Belief Network Positions.
Dissertation Chair: Scott Duxbury
Areas of Interest: Belief Systems, Computational Methods, Culture, Social Networks, Illegal Markets, Political Belief Systems
Erica Janko
Dissertation Title: Moving with Care: Aging without a Public Safety Net for Elder Care
Dissertation Chair: Tania Jenkins
Areas of Interest: Gender, Disability, Aging & the Life Course, Family, Work, Political Sociology
erica.janko@unc.edu | Website | CV
Jiyeon Kim
Dissertation Title: Occupational Wages, Transition Pathways, and Secondary Jobholding: An Examination of Gendered Patterns in the Direct Care Workforce
Dissertation Chair: Ted Mouw
Areas of Interest: Gender and Work; Care Economy; Direct Care Workforce; Occupational and Wage Mobility; Quantitative Methods
Ken Cai Kowalski
Dissertation Title: Folk Economic Conceptions of Postindustrial Transition in the United States
Dissertation Chair: Charles Kurzman | Advisor: Andrew Perrin (Johns Hopkins University)
Areas of Interest: Economic sociology, political culture, social theory, public opinion (inequality & technology), qualitative methods
kencaikowalski@unc.edu | Website | CV
Todd Lu
Dissertation Title: At the Crossroads of Climate, Jobs, & Justice: Green Jobs Coalitions in North Carolina
Dissertation Chair: Neal Caren
Areas of Interest: Social Movements, Environmental Sociology, Race & Ethnicity, Labor Movements, Culture
toddjlu@live.unc.edu | Website | CV
Tianhao Zhang
Dissertation Title: Reproducing Racial Commonsense regarding Asians in Social Interactions.
Dissertation Chair: Barbara Entwisle
Areas of Interest: Race, Social Interaction, Culture, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis