Recent Placements
Academic Appointments:
Erik Westlund (2016)
Dissertation Title: The Origins and Implications of Postsecondary Academic Mismatch
Job Placement(s): Visiting Professor, University of Iowa
Sol Espinoza (2015)
Dissertation Title: Women’s Labor, Money, and Modern Marriage in America: A Mixed-Methods Socio-Historical Study of Gender, Race, Class, and the Shifting Economics of Marrying
Job Placement(s): Visiting Assistant Professor, Catholic University
Burak Gurel (2015)
Dissertation Title: The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China and India (1950-1990)
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey)
Yao Li (2015)
Dissertation Title: Informal Norms and Protest Space: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
Job Placement(s): Lecturer, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
Mike Reese (2015)
Dissertation Title: Changing Course: The Influence of Social Position and Social Networks on College Facultyâs Adoption of Educational Innovations
Job Placement(s): Director, Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University
Rachel Core (2014)
Dissertation Title: The Fall and Rise of Tuberculosis: A Study of How Institutional Change Affected Health Outcomes in Shanghai, 1972-2013
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology at Stetson University
Sahan Savas Karatasli (2014)
Dissertation Title: Financialization, Hegemonic Transitions and Nationalism: State-Seeking Nationalist Movements in the Longue Durée
Job Placement(s): Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University
Robert Nathenson (2014)
Dissertation Title: Children of Mexican Immigrants’ Academic Achievement and Socio-Emotional Development in Traditional and Non-Traditional U.S. Destinations: Legislation, Schools, and Neighborhoods
Job Placement(s): Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Pasciuti (2014)
Dissertation Title: Political Economy and Urban Development: Why Hegemonic Regimes are also Urban Systems
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Laila Bushra (2013)
Dissertation Title: Globalization and the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Pakistan
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan
Elizabeth Dayton (2013)
Dissertation Title: First in My Family: Family Relationships and Educational Mobility
Job Placement(s): Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford School of Education and Center for Education Policy Analysis
Felipe Amin Filomeno (2013)
Dissertation Title: The Social Bases of Intellectual Property Regimes: Biotechnology in South American Soy Bean Agriculture
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kevan Harris (2013)
Dissertation Title: The Martyrs Welfare State: Politics and Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, UCLA
Benjamin Scully (2013)
Dissertation Title: Development in the Age of Wagelessness: Labor, Livelihoods and Decline of Work in South Africa
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
Erdem Yoruk (2013)
Dissertation Title: The Politics of the Turkish Welfare System Transformation in the Neoliberal Era: Welfare as Mobilization and Containment
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor Koc University in Turkey
Shaohua Zhan (2013)
Dissertation Title: A Second Industrious Revolution: Examining Contemporary Rural Development in China through the Lens of the 18th Century
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, Nanyan Technological University, Singapore
Yin Yue (2012)
Dissertation Title: Attained Social Position and Personality Among Rural Migrants to Urban China
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor in the School of Public Economics & Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Mindelyn Buford II (2011)
Dissertation Title: Outside of the Gateway, Just off the Beltway: Nigerian and Ghanaian Immigrants in the United States
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Peter Rosenblatt (2011)
Dissertation Title: The Renaissance Comes to the Projects: Public Housing, Urban Redevelopment, and Racial Inequality in Baltimore
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Lu Zhang (2010)
Dissertation Title: From Detroit to Shanghai? Globalization, Market Reform, and Dynamics of Labor Unrest in the Chinese Automobile Industry, 1980 to the Present.
Job Placement(s): Assistant Professor, Temple University
Research Positions:
Nazish Zafar (2016)
Dissertation Title: Synergy between Government and Small Business
Job Placement(s): NUS Enterprise & INSEADERS
Matt Messell (2016)
Dissertation Title: Profiles in Resilience
Job Placement(s): Social Security Administration
Sika Koudou (2015)
Dissertation Title: Who Can I be the Best Parent to? An Analysis of US Race Relations through the Lens of International Adoption
Job Placement(s): Social Science Research Analyst, Social Security Administration
Siri Warkentien (2015)
Dissertation Title: Racial School Segregation and the Transition to College
Job Placement(s): Advanced Quantitative Education Researcher at RTI International in their Center for Equity and Evaluation
Wei-ting Chen (2015)
Dissertation Title: Private Dinners, Public Families: Low-Income Mothers’ Accounts of Family Foodwork
Job Placement(s): Banyan Communications
Barbara Condliffe (2015)
Dissertation Title: Summer Learning in the City: How Schools, Families, and Neighborhoods Influence Urban Elementary School Students’ Opportunities and Achievements
Job Placement(s): MDRC
Christian Villenas (2014)
Dissertation Title: Explaining the Disability Gap in Access to Postsecondary Education: The Role of Social Factors
Job Placement(s): Advocates for Children of New York
Astra Bonini (2012)
Dissertation Title: Raw Material Wealth and Economic Mobility: A World-Historical Perspective
Job Placement(s): Research Specialist, United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report Office