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Below are our current graduate students and recent alumni actively seeking employment:

Paul Erb

Dissertation Title: Whither Pragmatism? A Critical Realist Reconstruction of Dewey's Naturalist Humanism

PhD Date: June 2025 

Dissertation Committee: Cedric de Leon (Chair), Mark Pachucki, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Amel Ahmed (Political Science)

Research/Teaching Interests: Theory, History of Sociology, Philosophy of Social Science, Sociology of Knowledge, Methods, Environmental Sociology, Political Economy of the World-System


Nathan Meyers

Dissertation Title: Revenge of the Private Sector: Union Decline, Privatization, and the Restructuring of the American Economy

PhD Date: September 2025

Dissertation Committee: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (co-chair), Jasmine Kerrissey (co-chair), Joya Misra, Kevin Young (Economics)

Research/Teaching Interests: Political Economy; Organizational Inequality; Work and Labor Movements; Class, Race, and Gender Inequalities; Public Administration; Institutional Change; Complex Organizations; Social Movements; Deviance; Emergency Weather Events and Response; Privatization; Financialization; Quantitative Analysis