Our graduate students go on to hold academic appointments and research positions at various institutions. Below is a sample of recent placements.

Academic Appointments

Name	Grad Year	Dissertation Title	Job Placement
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	HCRC Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
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	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
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