Recent Placements
Rachel Core
Dissertation Title: The Fall and Rise of Tuberculosis: A Study of How Institutional Change Affected Health Outcomes in Shanghai, 1972-2013
Job Placement(s): Post Doc at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
Laila Bushra
Dissertation Title: Globalization and the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Pakistan
Job Placement(s): Teaching position at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan
Benjamin Scully
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
Shaohua Zhan
Dissertation Title: A Second Industrious Revolution: Examining Contemporary Rural Development in China through the Lens of the 18th Century
Job Placement(s): Assistant Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Erdem Yoruk
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
Elizabeth Dayton
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
Kevan Harris
Dissertation Title: The Martyrs Welfare State: Politics and Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Job Placement(s): Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University
Felipe Amin Filomeno
Dissertation Title: The Social Bases of Intellectual Property Regimes: Biotechnology in South American Soy Bean Agriculture
Job Placement(s): Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Yin Yue
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.
Astra Bonini
Dissertation Title: Raw Material Wealth and Economic Mobility: A World-Historical Perspective
Job Placement(s): United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report Office; Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Columbia University
Peter Rosenblatt
Dissertation Title:
The Renaissance Comes to the Projects: Public Housing, Urban Redevelopment, and Racial Inequality in Baltimore
Job Placement(s): Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University; Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Mindelyn Buford II
Dissertation Title: Outside of the Gateway, Just off the Beltway: Nigerian and Ghanaian Immigrants in the United States
Job Placement(s): Northeastern University
Kwang-Sig Lee
Dissertation Title: Higher Education, 1965-2005: Global Convergence?
Job Placement(s): Korean Branch of Cegedim Strategic Data
Nicole Aschoff
Dissertation Title: Globalization and Capital Mobility in the Automobile Industry
Job Placement(s): Boston University
Caitlin Cross-Barnet
Dissertation Title: Redefining Relationships: Non-Marriage-Based Cohabitations among Low-Income, Urban Mothers.
Job Placement(s): Franklin and Marshall College
Lakshmi Jayaram
Dissertation Title: Social Reproduction Reconsidered: A Critique of Bourdieu’s Concept of Habitus Based on Mothering Urban Youth
Job Placement(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Jake Lowinger
Dissertation Title: Economic Reform and the “Double Movement” in Yugoslavia: An Analysis of Labor Unrest and Ethno-Nationalism in the 1980s
Job Placement(s): Yeshiva University
Corey Patterson
Dissertation Title: The Paradox of Agricultural Market Reform: Foreign Aid and the Rise of Subsistence Production in Moldova, 1991-2008
Job Placement(s): International Evaluator of US and British Foreign Assistance Programs in Asia and Africa
Suzumi Yasutake
Dissertation Title: Sibling Configuration and the Timing of First Marriage in Japan.
Job Placement(s): Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lu Zhang
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): Temple University
Joseph Gasper
Dissertation Title: Do Delinquency And Drug Use Lead To Dropping Out Of High School?
Job Placement(s): Westat
Amy Holmes
Dissertation Title: Contentious Allies: Social Unrest And The American Military Presence In Turkey And Germany 1945-2005
Job Placement(s): American University, Cairo
Cagla Ozgur
Dissertation Title: Economic Decision-Making In Turkey: Financialization And The Experts
Job Placement(s): Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Travis Gosa
Dissertation Title: Oppositional Culture, Hip-Hop, and the Schooling of Black Youth
Job Placement(s): Williams College; Cornell University
Bedelia Richards
Dissertation Title: West Indian Roots & American Branches: Ethnicity, School Context & Academic Engagement Among African-Caribbean Students
Job Placement(s): University of Richmond