Recent Placements
Academic Appointments
Name | Grad Year | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
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Sefika Kumral | 2018 | Democracy and Violence: Social Origins of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey | Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, William & Mary |
Anna Rhodes | 2017 | Bridging the Opportunity Divide: How Poor Families Navigate Suburban Communities and Schools | Assistant Professor, Rice University |
Erik Westlund | 2016 | The Origins and Implications of Postsecondary Academic Mismatch | Visiting Professor, University of Iowa |
Sol Espinoza | 2015 | 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 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Catholic University |
Burak Gurel | 2015 | The Role of Labor Mobilization in the Divergence of the Rural Economies of China and India (1950-1990) | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey) |
Yao Li | 2015 | Informal Norms and Protest Space: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests | Lecturer, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas |
Mike Reese | 2015 | Changing Course: The Influence of Social Position and Social Networks on College Faculty's Adoption of Educational Innovations | Director, Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University |
Rachel Core | 2014 | The Fall and Rise of Tuberculosis: A Study of How Institutional Change Affected Health Outcomes in Shanghai, 1972-2013 | Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology at Stetson University |
Sahan Savas Karatasli | 2014 | Financialization, Hegemonic Transitions and Nationalism: State-Seeking Nationalist Movements in the Longue Durée | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University |
Robert Nathenson | 2014 | Children of Mexican Immigrants’ Academic Achievement and Socio-Emotional Development in Traditional and Non-Traditional U.S. Destinations: Legislation, Schools, and Neighborhoods | Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania |
Daniel Pasciuti | 2014 | Political Economy and Urban Development: Why Hegemonic Regimes are also Urban Systems | Assistant Professor, Georgia State University |
Laila Bushra | 2013 | Globalization and the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Pakistan | Assistant Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan |
Elizabeth Dayton | 2013 | First in My Family: Family Relationships and Educational Mobility | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford School of Education and Center for Education Policy Analysis |
Felipe Amin Filomeno | 2013 | The Social Bases of Intellectual Property Regimes: Biotechnology in South American Soy Bean Agriculture | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
Kevan Harris | 2013 | The Martyrs Welfare State: Politics and Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran | Assistant Professor, UCLA |
Benjamin Scully | 2013 | Development in the Age of Wagelessness: Labor, Livelihoods and Decline of Work in South Africa | Assistant Professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa |
Erdem Yoruk | 2013 | The Politics of the Turkish Welfare System Transformation in the Neoliberal Era: Welfare as Mobilization and Containment | Assistant Professor Koc University in Turkey |
Shaohua Zhan | 2013 | A Second Industrious Revolution: Examining Contemporary Rural Development in China through the Lens of the 18th Century | Assistant Professor, Nanyan Technological University, Singapore |
Yin Yue | 2012 | Attained Social Position and Personality Among Rural Migrants to Urban China | Assistant Professor in the School of Public Economics & Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
Mindelyn Buford II | 2011 | Outside of the Gateway, Just off the Beltway: Nigerian and Ghanaian Immigrants in the United States | Assistant Professor, Northeastern University |
Peter Rosenblatt | 2011 | The Renaissance Comes to the Projects: Public Housing, Urban Redevelopment, and Racial Inequality in Baltimore | Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago |
Research Positions
Name | Grad Year | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
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Nazish Zafar | 2016 | Synergy between Government and Small Business | NUS Enterprise & INSEADERS |
Matt Messell | 2016 | Profiles in Resilience | Social Security Administration |
Sika Koudou | 2015 | Who Can I be the Best Parent to? An Analysis of US Race Relations through the Lens of International Adoption | Social Science Research Analyst, Social Security Administration |
Siri Warkentien | 2015 | Racial School Segregation and the Transition to College | Advanced Quantitative Education Researcher at RTI International in their Center for Equity and Evaluation |
Wei-ting Chen | 2015 | Private Dinners, Public Families: Low-Income Mothers’ Accounts of Family Foodwork | Banyan Communications |
Barbara Condliffe | 2015 | Summer Learning in the City: How Schools, Families, and Neighborhoods Influence Urban Elementary School Students’ Opportunities and Achievements | MDRC |
Christian Villenas | 2014 | Explaining the Disability Gap in Access to Postsecondary Education: The Role of Social Factors | Advocates for Children of New York |
Astra Bonini | 2012 | Raw Material Wealth and Economic Mobility: A World-Historical Perspective | Research Specialist, United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report Office |