Our graduate students go on to hold academic appointments and research positions at various institutions. This is a sample of recent placements. Read more about our program in the graduate section.
Academic Appointments
| Name | Grad Year | Dissertation Title | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rishi Awatramani | 2024 | Structures of Articulation: Race and Class Politics in Chicago’s Postindustrial Periphery, 1966-2023 | Post-Doctoral Position at the Equity Research Institute at USC |
| Joseph Boselovic | 2024 | Barriers and Pathways to Educational Opportunity for Low-Income Famiies: Qualitative Evidencce from an Experimental Intervention | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, William & Mary School of Education |
| Jochebed Cadet | 2024 | The Role of Emotion in Help-Seeking Behaviors Among First-Generation College Students | Triage Specialist, Johns Hopkins University |
| Zhicao Fang | 2024 | Bringing the Military Back In: Military Academy in Latecomer States | Assistant Professor, School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China |
| Tian Liu | 2024 | Enclosure with Chinese Characteristics: Agrarian Capitalism and Uneven Development in Rural China | Lecturer in Global Political Economy, University of Manchester |
| Sonal Sharma | 2024 | A Tale of Two Articulations: Examining Divergent Outcomes of Domestic Workers’ Movements in India and South Africa | Assistant Professor, Tufts University |
| Samantha Agarwal | 2023 | Dalit Defection to the BJP in Communist-Ruled Kerala: Caste and the Limits of Redistribution without Recognitin | Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Service, American University |
| Rhiannon Miller | 2023 | Educational Hypogamy in Cohabitation and the Transition to Marriage | Assistant Professor, Provicence College |
| Jiwon Lee | 2023 | Social, Demographic, and Political Change in America | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell University |
| Corey Payne | 2023 | Making Endless War: Neoliberal War-Making and the Social Transformation of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex | Initial: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Current: Assistant Professor University of Richmond |
| Shirley Lung | 2022 | Hyphenated Identities: Taiwanese Churches and Transitional Taiwanese Identity Formation | Initial: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Colorado Springs Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Criminology, University of Denver |
| Alvin Camba | 2021 | The Strong Leader Trap: The Unintended Consequences of China’s Global Investment Strategy | Assistant Professor, University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies |
| Xiao Yu | 2021 | Responding to the Demand Side? Delayed Postgraduate Pursuit and the Labor Market Earnings among College-Educated Natives and Immigrants | Initial: Data Resource Analyst, Michigan State University Current: Assistant Professor, Maternal Health Equity Lab, Michigan State |
| Minhyoung Kang | 2021 | Precarious Work, Labor Force Dualism, and Labor Movements in South Korea | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yonsei University, Seoul Korea |
| Smriti Upadhyay | 2021 | Organized Labor and the Politics of Hindu Right-wing Hegemony | Initial: American University in Cairo Current: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College |
| Ricado Jacobs | 2020 | The Agrarianization of Urban Space in South Africa: Historicizing the Insurgent Present | Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara |
| Christine Jang | 2020 | Managing Disinvestment: Race, Neighborhood, and Real Estate in Baltimore | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton |
| Allison Young | 2020 | Making it Count: Resources, High School Context, and the Life Course in Students’ College Decision Making | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University |
| Yige Dong | 2019 | From Mill Town to iPhone City: Gender, Labor, and the Politics of Care in An Industrializing China (1949-2017) | Suzanne Wilson Barnett Chair of Contemporary China Studies, University of Puget Sound |
| Robert Francis | 2019 | Left Behind? Working-Class Men in Rural America | Assistant Professor, Whitworth University |
| Elizabeth Talbert | 2018 | Balancing the Three-Legged Stool: Sustainable Childrearing Routines, Family, and Work in Two American Cities | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University |
| Anne-Marie Livingstone | 2018 | Racial Politics and Social Policy in Urban Canada | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center at Harvard |
| Phil Garboden | 2018 | Dear Landlord: How the Ownership and Management of Rental Properties Matter for Tenants, Neighborhoods, and the Cities | Initial: HCRC Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Current: Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, University of Chicago |
| Sefika Kumral | 2018 | Democracy and Violence: Social Origins of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey | Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, William & Mary |
| Lingli Huang | 2017 | Between Food Security and Profitability: A Multilevel Analysis of the Agricultural Water Crisis in China | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nanyang Center for Public Administration at Nanyang Technological University |
| 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 | Initial: Visiting Professor, University of Iowa Current: Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health |
| 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 | Initial: Lecturer, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas Current: Assistant Professor, Florida State University |
| Mike Reese | 2015 | Changing Course: The Influence of Social Position and Social Networks on College Faculty’s Adoption of Educational Innovations | Director, Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, 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, Nanyang 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yifeng Wan | 2024 | Modern Divorce under Patriarchy: Family, Law and Gender Inequality in Chinese Courts | |
| Rachel Butler | 2023 | Making the Call: Race, Poverty, and Police Utilization During Domestic Conflict | |
| Kiara Nerenberg | 2022 | Out-of-Zone Enrollment and the Informal School-Choice Market in Baltimore City | Statistician, National Center for Education Statistics |
| Charlie Mitchell | 2020 | Modeling the Human Capital Development of Young Poor Children | Maryland Department of Education |
| Stephanie D’Souza | 2019 | Effects of Family and School Institutions on Child Outcomes from Early Childhood through Elementary School | Researcher, American Institutes for Research |
| Daniel Thompson | 2019 | Employment, Wage Growth and Inequality in Rich Democracies in the Post-Golden Age Era | Statistician, US Census Bureau |
| Julie Lee | 2017 | Too Much, Too Fast: The Trials & Triumphs of Poor Urban Youths in the Transition to Adulthood | |
| Han Soo Woo | 2017 | Black-White Difference in Performance Discounting: Academic Self-concept and Achievement and Student-Teacher Racial Mismatch in the Classroom in U.S. Elementary and Middle Schools | Biostatistician, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| 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 | Research Associate, 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 |