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Dissertation Title: Whither Pragmatism? A Critical Realist Reconstruction of Dewey's Naturalist Humanism PhD Date: June 2025 (expected) 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 Dissertation Title: Fighting for a City’s Soul: Accomplishing Community in Divided Times PhD Date: May 2025 (expected) Dissertation Committee: Jonathan Wynn (Chair), Kathryne M. Young, Janice Irvine, and Japonica Brown-Saracino (Boston University) Areas of Expertise: Community and Urban Sociology; Culture; Politics; Self and Identity; Sociological Theory; Ethnography, Qualitative, and Visual Methods Dissertation Title: Who's Your Farmer?: The Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Agriculture PhD Date: 2023 Advisor/Committee Members: Millie Thayer (chair), Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Ofer Sharone, and Maggie Gray (Political Science and International Relations, Adelphi University) Research/Teaching Interests: Commodification and Consumption; Cultural Sociology; Food and Farming; Public Sociology; Queer Theory; Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality; Social Change and Social Movements; Visual Sociology Dissertation Title: Haunting Silences: Du Boisian Reflections on the Development of American Sociology PhD Date: May 2025 (expected) Dissertation Committee: Moon-Kie Jung (Chair), Fareen Parvez, Whitney Battle-Baptiste Research/Teaching Interests: Social Theory, Race, Empire, Knowledge, Slavery, Religion, Social Movements |