UMass Amherst Sociology
Ph.Ds. on the Market
Dustin Avent-Holt
davent@soc.umass.edu
Dissertation Title: Organizing Economies: The Structuring of Neoliberalism in the U.S. Airline Industry
PhD Date (or Expected Date): May 2011
Advisor/Committee Members: Don Tomaskovic-Devey (Chair), Joya Misra, Robert Faulkner, Michelle Budig, Michael Ash (Economics)
Research/Teaching Interests:
Social Inequality, Class, Race, and Gender, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Work, Social Theory, Complex Organizations
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 2011
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: “History in the Present: Historical Consciousness and the Construction of Otherness in Dersim”
PhD Date (or Expected Date): 01/07/2011
Advisor/Committee Members: Joya Misra (Chair), Agustin Lao Montes, Don Tomaskovic-Devey, Robert Zussman, Barbara Cruikshank (Political Science)
Research/Teaching Interests: Political Sociology, Memory and Identity, Classical and Contemporary Theory, Ethnography, Feminist Theory and Methods
Yasser Munif
ymunif@soc.umass.edu
Dissertation Title: “French Postcolonial Nationalisms and Afro-French Subjectivities"
PhD Date (or Expected Date): Jan 2011
Advisor/Committee Members: Agustin Lao-Montes (Chair), Joya Misra, Millie Thayer, Henry Geddes (Communication)
Research/Teaching Interests: Urban Sociology, Sociological Theory, Critical Race Theory, Media Analysis, French Nationalism, Feminist Theory and Gender, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Race Relations, Race, Class and Gender, Social Inequality, World-Systems, Immigration, Postcolonial Studies
Jason Rodriquez
jrodriquez@ifh.rutgers.edu
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Dissertation Title: Reimbursement Comes From the Heart: The Organizational Structure of Emotions and Care-Work in Nursing Homes
PhD Date: September 2009
Advisor/Committee Members: Robert Zussman (Chair), Naomi Gerstel, Don Tomaskovic-Devey, Naomi Gerstel, Cynthia Jacelon (Nursing)
Research/Teaching Interests: Identity and the Self, Emotions, Medical Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Methodology.
Kristy A. Watkins
kristy@soc.umass.edu
Dissertation Title: “Defining Parenthood: The Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation in U.S. Child Custody Decisions, 2003-2009”
PhD Date (or Expected Date): May 2011
Advisor/Committee Members: Joya Misra (Chair), Naomi Gerstel, Miliann Kang (Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies)
Research/Teaching Interests: Family; Sexualities; Sex & Gender; Law & Society; Criminology; Qualitative & Mixed Methods; GLBTQ Studies; Race, Class, Gender; Introductory Sociology
