UMass Amherst Sociology
Ph.Ds. on the Market
Anna Curtis
annac@soc.umass.edu
Dissertation Title: “In the Heart of the Beast: Masculinity and Fathering on the Inside.”
PhD Date (or Expected Date): May 2012
Advisor/Committee Members: Joya Misra (Chair), Andrew Papachristos, Tim Black (Sociology, University of Hartford), Kristin Bumiller (Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies, Amherst College)
Research and Teaching Interests: Crime, Law, & Deviance; Penology/Corrections; Social Control; Gender and Society; Law and Society; Writing; Ethnography; Qualitative Methodology, Reproduction and Technology
Ozlem Goner
ogoner@soc.umass.edu
Dissertation Title: “A Social History of the Turkish State: Consciouness, Identity and Movements of Outsiderness in Dersim" PhD Date (or Expected Date): September 2012
Advisor/Committee Members: Joya Misra (Chair), Agustin Lao Montes,Robert Zussman, Don Tomaskovic-Devey, Barbara Cruikshank (Political Science)
Research/Teaching Interests: Political Sociology, Comparative and historical Scoiology,, Classical and Contemporary Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Sociology of Culture and Environment, Qualitative Methods and Ethnography, Feminist Theory and Methods
Shawn Trivette
shawn.trivette@gmail.com
Dissertation Title: "Farm to Fork: Understanding Locally-Based Farm-to-Vendor Relationships"
Advisor/Committee Members: Joya Misra (chair), Jennifer Lundquist, Ryan Acton, Leslie King (Smith College), Krista Harper (Anthropology)
Research and Teaching Interests: Environmental Sociology; Agriculture and Food Systems; Sociology of Food; Sexuality; Queer Theory; Social Network Analysis; Symbolic Interaction; Qualitative Methods; Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
