Tom Corcoran defended his second comps exam, centered on racial capitalism, environmental racism, and urban development.
Paul Erb defended his dissertation, "Whither Pragmatism? A Critical Realist Reconstruction of Dewey's 'Naturalistic Humanism.'"
Grazi Valentim Figueredo defended her comprehensive exam, "The Chain of (Mis)Information: Temporary Migrant Caregivers' Experiences with the Massachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights."
Venus Green has been awarded the Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship in the Anthropology and Sociology Department at Williams College.
Peter Kent-Stoll is a co-winner of the Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Comparative Historical Sociology for his 2024 Social Problems article, "Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Relocation Program, 1952-1972."
Yifan Li defended his MA comp, "How Do Household Separation and Dispersion Affect the Well-Being of Left-Behind Parents in Rural China."
Eliana Mercedes defended her comps/MA thesis, "Reconceptualizing Freedom: Analyzing Enslaved Women's Resistance through Everyday Resistance Theory, Marronage, and Fugitivity in 18th-century Santo Domingo."
Esther Moraes was awarded the 2025 American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship, and her first comp was published, "Why the Global Gag Rule Failed in India: The Legacy of Postcolonial Population Control in Reproductive Governance," in Studies in Comparative International Development.
Katie Reynolds defended her dissertation prospectus, "A Snapshot of Access: A Multi-level Analysis of Inequality in Food and Transportation Systems."
Joanna Riccitelli defended her second comps exam on the Sociology of Sociology.
Tiamba Wilkerson defended her dissertation prospectus, "The Richmond Negro: Neoliberalism, Labor Market Gentrification, and the Loss of Home."