These profiles highlight soon-to-be graduates of the PhD program who are entering the job market. Please contact the students individually for more information.
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Samantha Agarwal
BA, The Ohio State University
Thesis Title: "Hindu Nationalism on Hostile Terrain: Explaining Rising Dalit Support for the BJP in Kerala, India"
Main Adviser: Michael Levien
Fields: International development, race and ethnicity, and political sociology
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Rishi Awatramani
BA, Vassar College
Thesis Title: "Race-Class Articulation: Latino Working-Class Politics in a Deindustrialized Chicago Neighborhood"
Main Adviser: Beverly Silver
Fields: Political Sociology, Sociology of Race, Labor and Labor Movements, Social Movements, Historical Capitalism, Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Economy
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Zhicao Fang
MA, University of Chicago
Thesis Title: "Bringing the Military Back In: Military and State-Building in Kuomintang China, 1924-1937"
Main Adviser: Ho-fung Hung
Fields: Sociology of Military and the State, Political Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology
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Rhiannon Miller
MA, Columbia University
Thesis Title: "Educational Hypogamy in Cohabitation and the Transition to Marriage"
Main Adviser: Andrew Cherlin
Fields: Family demography, gender, inequality, computational social science
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Corey Payne
BA, Johns Hopkins University
Thesis Title: "Making Endless War: Neoliberal War-Making and the Social Transformation of the US Military-Industrial Complex"
Main Adviser: Beverly Silver
Fields: Global and Transnational Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Sociology of Labor and Labor Movements, World-Systems Analysis
