On the Market
Swati Birla
Dissertation Title: The past is a foreign country: the politics of colonial re-territorialization in 20th century India Research/Teaching Interests: Colonialism and Colonial Legacies; Global and Transnational Sociology; Caste and Race; Ethnographies of Violence; Critical Criminology |
Armanthia Duncan
Dissertation Title: Wooden Nickels: Afropessimism, Symbolic Organizations, and Contaminated Communities Research/Teaching Interests: Sociology of Race; Racial Inequality; Afropessimism; Environmental Justice; Criminology; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociology of Health; Mixed Methods Research |
JooHee Han
Dissertation Title: The Military and Incarceration: Hidden Mechanisms of Racial Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market, 1980-2010 Research/Teaching Interests: Labor Market Inequality; Social Stratification and Mobility; International Migration; Crime and Mass Incarceration; The Military; Life Course; Cumulative (Dis)Advantage; Work and Occupations; Organizations; Research Methods; Statistics |
Yalcin Ozkan
Dissertation Title: Righting a Death on the Job: The Politics of Fatal Work Accident Lawsuits in Turkey Research/Teaching Interests: Economic Sociology; Law and Society; Culture; Political Sociology; Theory; Morality; Gender, Immigration and Work; Qualitative Methods |
Juyeon Park
Dissertation Title: Raising Global Elites from a Distance: Transnational Parenting of South Korean Students Research/Teaching Interests: Family; Gender; Migration; Stratification/Inequality; Higher Education; Sociology of Culture; East Asian Studies; Qualitative Research Methods |
Rachel Rybaczuk
Dissertation Title: Who's Your Farmer?: The Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Agriculture 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 |
Timothy Sacco
Dissertation Title: Shaping Future Scientists: Student Labor and Training in the Knowledge Economy Research/Teaching Interests: Science and Technology; Organizations; Work; Social Networks; Culture; Inequality |
Safi Shams
Dissertation Title: Economic Rent in the Fissured Economy: The Embeddedness of Contractual Relations Between Firms Research/Teaching Interests: Theory; Organizations and Inequality; Sociology of Work; Culture; Historical Sociology; Business History; Political Economy |
Ryan Turner
Dissertation Title: Vegan Food for Thought: The Moral and Cultural Strategies of the Animal Movement Research/Teaching Interests: Sociology of Culture; Symbolic Interactionism; Human-Animal Relations; Sociology of Morality |