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People with a doctorate in sociology can apply their skills in a variety of jobs, inside and outside academia. The traditional career path for sociology PhDs involves a position on the faculty of a college or university, with a focus on research or teaching or both. But today, more and more sociologists are working in non-faculty jobs in university settings, in non-profit organizations and think tanks, in government agencies, and in industries (technology, corporate consulting, and more).
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- Thriving Outside Academia: Advice from Sociologists in Practice Settings , a webinar with panelists reflecting on how sociology serves them in their work, and offering tips for the job search.
- Preparing for Diverse Careers in Higher Education , a webinar that provides information on non-faculty positions at colleges and universities.
- Strategies for a Successful Postdoc , a webinar on postdoctoral research and teaching jobs and the transition to permanent academic employment.
- Academic Publishing , a 10-part video series on publishing academic articles and books.
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Offered each month during the academic year, the #ASAProSem offers presentations and discussions designed to uncover the hidden curriculum of academia for sociology graduate students and early career sociologists. Previous topics have included: publishing in peer-reviewed journals, negotiating a job offer, and navigating sexism and racism in grad school and beyond. Seminars are free for ASA members.
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(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2024 Dissertation Title: "This Isn’t Quite What I Expected:" Insecurity among Young College Graduates in the United States and Spain Dissertation Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan...
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(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: November 2024 (expected) Dissertation Title: Transnational Making and Remaking of Education: Private Supplementary Education in Korea and Korean America Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Waters (Co-Chair), Mario L. Small (Co-Chair...
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(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: November 2024 (expected) Dissertation Title: Developments in Aggregate Relational Data Dissertation Committee: Peter V. Marsden (Chair), Xiang Zhou, and Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan) Research/Teaching Interests...
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Holly Hummer
(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2024 Dissertation Title: Women Without Children: Cultural Perspectives on a Demographic Phenomenon Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan), and Paul Y. Chang Research...
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PhD Date : Dissertation Title : Imagining the State to Get Things Done: NGOs Dancing with an Authoritarian State in Interactions Areas of Research/Teaching : Political Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Organizations; Social Theory; Social Movements; Qualitative Research Methods; Ethnography; Civic Engagement and Volunteering; Non-Governmental Organizations; Chinese State and Society; International Migration; Sociology of Globalization Dissertation Committee : Nina Eliasoph (Chair), Paul Lichterman, Bin Xu, Lori Yue Email : [email protected]
Demetrius Murphy
PhD Date : May 2025 (Expected) Dissertation Title : Flourishing in LA: Making Place in an Anti-Black Metropolis Areas of Research/Teaching : Race and Ethnicity; Class and Status; Urban Sociology; Culture; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Elites; Mental Health; Flourishing and Well-being; Joy; Pleasure; The Good Life; Leisure; Freedom; Utopia; Political Sociology; Black Studies; Latin America Studies; The Americas Dissertation Committee : Jody Agius Vallejo (Chair), Hajar Yazdiha, Manuel Pastor, Robeson Taj Frazier, Mary Pattillo Email : [email protected]
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Sadie Dempsey
Credentials: Pronouns she/her
Date Ph.D. Expected
Spring 2025
Interest Areas
Political Sociology, Democracy, Social Movements, Social Inequality, Civil Society, Political Communication, Ethnography and Qualitative Methods
Mustafa Emirbayer
Dissertation Title
“Expanding Democracy: An Ethnography of Engaged Citizenship in Wisconsin”
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Sarah E. Farr
Urban Sociology; Economic Sociology; Housing and Property; Identity; Place; Inequality
Gay Seidman
Dissertation Committee Members
Gay Seidman, Katherine Curtis, Max Besbris, Jane Collins, Stephen Young
“The Politics of Homeownership: Property Relations, Distributive Struggles, and Group Formation”
Kristina Fullerton Rico
Credentials: Pronouns she/her/hers
August 2024
Migration/Transnationalism, Aging, Gender, Family, Race and Ethnicity
Jenna Nobles
Jenna Nobles, Myra Marx Ferree, Theodore P. Gerber, Katherine Jensen, Almita Miranda
“Aging Without a Safety Net: Unauthorized Immigrants in Later Life”
Julia Goodwin
December 2023
Population health and aging, quantitative social science and demography, quantitative data analysis and methodology
Mosi Adesina Ifatunji and Katherine Curtis
“Considering Measurement Bias in Cognition at the Intersection of Race and Gender”
Nona Maria Gronert
Summer 2023
Gender; Law and Society; Organizations; Social Movements; Sexual Violence
Myra Marx Ferree and Chaeyoon Lim
Joseph Conti, Eunsil Oh, Kate Walsh
“The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017”
Amy Jones Haug
Date ph.d. received.
Race and Ethnicity; Ethnography; Theory; Sociology of Law and Public Health
Jane Collins
Pamela Oliver, John Eason, Alice Goffman, Bianca Baldridge
“Diversity as the Modern Racial Incorporation Strategy and the Unseen Burden of Diversity-Work”
Jungmyung Kim
Organizations, Work and Occupations, Cultural Sociology, Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, Methods
Robert Freeland
“Police Resistance to Institutional Changes through Complexity: A Study of Occupational Identity Maintenance”
Taylor Laemmli
Class; Culture; Work; Consumption; Social Theory
“Class Keeping: The Professional Production of Elite Status”
Alex Mikulas
Credentials: Pronouns he/him
Date Ph.D. Completed
Social Demography; Urban and Community Sociology; Spatial sociology and analysis; place; housing; racial inequity
Katherine Curtis; Post-doctoral fellow advisor Dr. Liz Roberto, Rice Sociology
Katherine Curtis (Chair), Max Besbris, Malia Jones, Mosi Ifatunji, and Keith Woodward
“Foreclosure and the Dynamics of Residential Racial Structure: Racial-Spatial Change in US Housing Markets from the Pre- to Post- Foreclosure Crisis Eras, 1990 to 2020”
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Masoud Movahed
Spring 2023
Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Comparative Historical Sociology
Erik Olin Wright, Ivan Ermakoff, Jane Collins
Dissertation Committee Members:
Ivan Ermakoff (Chair), Jane Collins, Joel Rogers, Christine Schwartz, Tim Smeeding, Gøsta Esping-Andersen
“Varieties of Capitalism, Income Inequality, and Mobility”
Nathan Seltzer
Demography; Social Stratification; Labor Markets; Population Health; and Computational Methods
“The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization”
Julia T. Thomas
Sociology of Law and Punishment, Criminology, Racial Inequality, Stratification, Historical Sociology
Michael Massoglia
“Capital Punishment and the Legacy of Lynching”
Grace E. Venechuk (née Finnigan-Fox)
Spring 2024
Demography, sociology of the life course, work and health, population aging, health disparities and policy, epigenetics
Michal Engelman
“Implications of Contemporary Work Quality for Disparities in Healthy Aging”
Benny Witkovsky
Credentials: Pronouns he/him/his
Political Sociology; Community and Urban Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Polarization; Urban Governance
“Fig Leave and Fortress: Nonpartisan Politics in a Polarized Time”
Matthew J. Zinsli
Summer 2024
Sociology of Economic Change and Development; Science and Technology Studies; Agro-foods Studies; Environmental Sociology; Qualitative Methods
Gay Seidman & Samer Alatout
“Terroir technopolitics: The dynamics of geographical indication legitimization in the Global South”
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I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. I received my PhD in Sociology from New York University in 2021. My research has been published in American Sociological Review, Social Science & Medicine, and Sociological Forum . My work has been cited in media outlets such as New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Wired. My writing has been featured on sociology sites such as Contexts and The Society Pages . My articles have received the American Sociological Association (ASA) Body and Embodiment Section Best Graduate Student Paper award and an honorable mention for Best Article from ASA Sociology of Population section. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. I am currently working on my book project, Gaming Health: How Doctors and Patients Weigh Risk and Chance at Fertility Clinics. In this book, based on my dissertation research which included observations of hundreds of doctor-patient consults at three fertility clinics as well as interviews with over a hundred patients and doctors, I argue that presenting medical choices as a game of chance allows medical providers to thread the needle of maintaining their medical authority with patients who are also paying customers and makes it possible for patients to take part in medical decision making within the bounds set up by their providers. More information can be found on my website: elizacbrown.com
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I am a sociologist of masculinities and forced migration in the contemporary Arab world. My research follows the everyday lives of a group of young Syrian men from the urban outskirts of Damascus as they work to build and sustain lives in Lebanon’s central Beqaa valley. I use life-history interviews and ethnographic methods to explore how forced migration and exile reconfigure their gendered definitions of self and morality, experiences of agency, and orientations towards the future.
My writing has been published in Ethnography , Humanity , Contexts , and the edited volume Refugees as City-Makers . My research has received fellowship funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Max Weber Stiftung, and the NYU Gallatin Urban Democracy Lab.
Teaching and mentoring are central elements of my academic identity. I currently teach multiple courses at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, where I also designed the research tutorial for a community-based learning fellowship that supports urban social justice organizations in New York City. In 2022, I received the NYU Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in the Social Sciences.
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My research agenda contributes to sociological understandings of race/ethnicity, work and organizations, and health. It is motivated by novel and enduring questions in sociology: How do people create collective meaning in institutional settings? How do these meanings inform action? What role does meaning-making play in facilitating or inhibiting racial inequality? Motivated by these questions, I have studied a range of sites and populations, from an ethnoracially diverse community health organization to a bottle and can redemption center frequented by unhoused workers. I use a range of methods to explore these concerns, from immersive organizational ethnography and in-depth interviewing to quantitative analyses of secondary data. By investigating taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of race, work, and identity, my work aims to strengthen theoretical and institutional approaches to combating inequality. My research is published in Genealogy , Demography , and the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography . I have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. I’ve also taught or led discussion sections throughout my time in graduate school. In 2022, I received the Outstanding Teaching Award from NYU’s college of Arts and Sciences.
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José G. Soto-Márquez is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an Urban Democracy Lab Doctoral Fellow at New York University. He researches and teaches on the topics of migration, race/ethnicity, gender, theory, cities, work, inequality, health, and the family. His dissertation focuses on one of Europe’s so-called “lost generations” and draws on two years of ethnographic observations of and 135 in-depth interviews with young and high-skilled Spanish immigrants, who left Spain after the 2008 global financial crisis. His doctoral work explores Spanish immigrants’ divergent and gendered social mobility, assimilation/integration, and ethnoracial identification across New York City, Buenos Aires, and London.
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Area(s) of Interest: Migration, globalization, culture, sensation/embodiment, food
Advisor: Carrillo
Emma Brandt
Area(s) of Interest: Culture and Knowledge; Media and Technology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology; Nations and Nationalism; Post-Socialist Studies; Ethnography and Qualitative Methods
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Area(s) of Interest: Sociology of Immigration (Especially Undocumented Immigration); Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Law
Area(s) of Interest: Chinese Middle Class, Culture, Mathematical sociology, Mobility
Advisor: Mahoney
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Area(s) of Interest: Education; Inequality; Culture; Organizations
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Area(s) of Interest: Comparative Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Development; Global and Transnational Sociology; Health, Science and Medicine; Israel/Palestine
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CHALEM BOLTON - Liberal State Governments and the Inequality-Generating Process, 1998-2017
Committee: Greta Krippner (Co-chair) Robert Manduca (Co-chair) Charles Shipan Fabian Pfeffer (Sociology)
I am a political and economic sociology and a social demographer. I use longitudinal methods to study how developments in political systems, employment relations, and household structures affect economic inequality and insecurity in the United States. In one set of projects I examine American state governments’ impact on economic inequality. State governments have become increasingly important to distributive politics since the mid-1990s, when partisan polarization caused gridlock in the federal government but concentrated the parties’ power in states. In a solo-authored paper that recently received a revise and resubmit decision from the Socio-Economic Review, I assess what political dynamics account for reductions of household inequality in liberal states. Most studies attribute these reductions to policies that improve workers’ bargaining power. I show they result instead from increases in labor force participation, especially among women, that likely result from policies that reduce work-family conflicts. In a separate paper in development, I assess the federal government’s role in producing inequality between state governments. The federal government supports state revenues, but I find it does not meaningfully target resources to poor state governments. Poorer states have therefore maintained higher levels of tax effort than middle- and high-income states in most years since the 1960s. I develop and test several hypotheses to explain why rich states are able to benefit more from federal support, relative to their need, than poor ones.
I examine workers’ experiences of employment loss in a second line of research. Employment relations theory describes workers’ experiences as becoming more volatile over the past several decades, but data issues have rendered empirical research on employment loss inconclusive. In a solo-authored paper currently under review, I make use of the short-term panel structure of the monthly Current Population Survey to construct a new measure of employment loss. Against expectations, I find the prevalence of employment loss has declined substantially since the late 1970s. I use time-series and decomposition methods to assess possible explanations. I find the decline is not the result of changes in the macroeconomy, multiple job-holding, or nonstandard employment. Instead, it has resulted largely from the aging and increased educational attainment of the labor force. These findings contribute to literature that argues the labor market has become more stagnant rather than volatile, benefitting incumbents but providing few opportunities to outsiders.
My website ( chalembolton.org ) contains my CV as well as more information on my research and teaching.
DAVIS DAUMLER - The Temporal Dynamics of Social Stratification
- Alexandra Killewald (co-chair)
- Fabian Pfeffer (co-chair)
- Deirdre Bloome
- Greta Krippner
- Davon Norris
More information: Website CV
About the candidate: Davis Daumler is a sociologist who studies wealth, poverty, and families—in order to understand the process by which societies become economically and racially stratified. His research is embedded in several literatures, including: (1) stratification and social mobility; (2) economic sociology; (3) racial/ethnic inequality; and (4) demographic and quantitative methods.
Dissertation summary: Daumler’s dissertation investigates large and meaningful questions about how the wealth and poverty dynamics of American families reinforce population-level inequalities. At its core, Daumler’s dissertation is motivated by the desire to understand how the temporality of life experiences contributes to new and existing forms of social stratification. It is not just what happens to you that matters, but when something occurs and how long it lasts. Daumler’s central argument is that differences in temporality—over the life course and across historical time—are fundamental in explaining how certain instances of inequality can become rigidly stratified. Each paper of the dissertation addresses a different facet of this theoretical argument, exploring how the temporal dynamics of families accumulate into generational inequalities.
In his first paper, Daumler investigates why an exposure to early-childhood disadvantage leads to worse socioeconomic outcomes than later-childhood disadvantage. The study's findings challenge the dominant explanation in the social sciences, which holds that the effects of disadvantage are uniquely harmful for young children at early stages of development. Instead, Daumler presents evidence for an alternate explanation, demonstrating that children who are exposed to poverty at younger ages tend to be the same children who experience poverty for a longer share of childhood. This phenomenon—which Daumler refers to as the cumulative dimension of timing—is evident in the case of poverty, but it can apply to any empirical context in which scholars find that timing differences are correlated with cumulative exposure. For this paper, Daumler was awarded the 2023 Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section.
Extending his research on the historical and life-course dynamics of American families, Daumler's second dissertation paper establishes how the temporality of disadvantage reinforces racial/ethnic inequalities across generations. His findings identify an important and understudied component of the stratification process. The third dissertation paper examines the effects of historical shifts in marital timing on family wealth. Daumler argues that the deinstitutionalization of marriage contributed to reduced rates of wealth accumulation among recent cohorts. The final paper of Daumler's dissertation investigates how restructuring of the American economy, characterized by asset price inflation and wage stagnation, affected wealth dynamics for everyday American families.
ELLY FIELD - Linked Fates: How the Policy Link Between Schools and Neighborhoods Shapes Racial Segregation Dynamics
Committee: Elizabeth Bruch (Chair) Jeffrey Morenoff (Sociology & Public Policy) Fabian Pfeffer (Sociology) Robert Manduca (Sociology) Joffre Swait (Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management)
I am a quantitative sociologist and demographer studying racial and economic inequality. I completed my PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2024 and I will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University Population Studies and Training Center in August 2024.
My research agenda focuses on two major areas. First, I study how the structural link between schools and neighborhoods created by school district policies shapes racial segregation dynamics. In a first-authored paper which has received a revise and resubmit decision at the American Journal of Sociology , I propose and test a general theory of how schools and neighborhoods experience racial composition change, termed “coupled tipping.” My dissertation expands this work to trace the individual-, neighborhood-, and school district-level processes that shape these dynamics of change. Through an original stated choice survey experiment, I show how parents’ preferences for schools and neighborhoods are deeply intertwined and explore how these interrelated preferences will shape residential and school segregation based on parents’ decisions. This chapter has received a revise and resubmit decision at Social Forces. In the rest of my dissertation, I use a novel data set capturing school and neighborhood racial compositions across time, I examine how school district choice policies, urban geographies, and race shape the dynamics of school and neighborhood change.
My second research area focuses on poverty and material hardship. My sole-authored paper, published in Demography , captures how the unmet needs of poverty, or material hardship, harm women’s ability to consistently use reliable methods of contraception. In a co-authored working paper, I examine how the decline of unions has combined with deindustrialization and the rise of the service industry to increase workers’ risk of earning poverty-level wages.
My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Graduate Fellowship, and the American Sociological Association/NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
More information and my CV are available on my website: www.ellymfield.com
JANE FUREY – Second Chances or Growing Gaps? Education in Adulthood and Inequality over the Life Course
Committee: Elizabeth Armstrong (Co-chair) Deidre Bloome (Co-chair) Fabian Pfeffer Kevin Stange (Public Policy) Gongjun Xu (Statistics)
Jane Furey is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Michigan, where she is also pursuing a master’s degree in Statistics. Her research uses innovative quantitative methods and multiple data sources to explore how education attained at different stages in the life course reduces, expands, or maintains economic and racial inequality in the United States. Jane’s research has been supported by the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Predoctoral Traineeship.
Jane’s dissertation focuses on how educational upgrading – i.e., education attained after age 25 –reshapes inequality over the life course. Across three papers, she examines the extent to which educational upgrading reduces, expands, or maintains racial and economic inequality in the United States. In one paper, she analyzes educational upgrading in the context of racialized education careers. By developing a racialized education careers framework, Jane connects inequalities established at different points in the life course to show that educational upgrading largely maintains economic inequality between Black and White people in one cohort. Jane’s other two dissertation papers utilize an educational careers framework to examine the relationship between upgrading and educational inequality across several cohorts and dimensions of inequality. She uses newly collected life history data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the NLSY1979 and 1997 cohorts to examine how educational careers have shifted among individuals born from the 1930s through the 1980s. She also examines how educational inequalities by gender and by social class evolve over the life course across multiple cohorts.
In addition to her dissertation, Jane’s research agenda includes several collaborative and independent projects that examine education policy, racial inequality, and social mobility in the United States. Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review , Research on Social Stratification and Mobility , Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and the Journal for Research on Educational Effectiveness .
ERIN ICE – Becoming Mom’s Nurse: The Making of the Family Caregiver
Committee: Sarah Burgard (Co-chair) Alexandra Murphy (Co-chair) Roi Livne Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Erin’s empirical research spans the subfields of medical sociology, demography, sociology of the family, inequality, and gender. In her dissertation, she studies the demographic, institutional, and interpersonal foundations of modern caregiving. Across her research projects, she combines expertise in demographic and ethnographic methodological traditions to provide a fuller understanding of the complexities of an aging society.
Today’s caregiving for aging and disabled adults is uniquely complex, caught in the throes of increasingly intensive medical care, a move to push care back into the home, and an aging population with complex families. Erin’s research shows how these shifts are reshaping everyday life by crafting new social identities, forms of organizing family life, and axes of inequality. Her research highlights the demographic and institutional roots of caregiving: care demands are shaped by the demography of aging and fertility as well as the shifting organization of health care. In her first paper, published in Social Forces , she pushes the literature to consider how women’s caregiving burden is shaped not only by negotiations between partners within a household, but also by population-level distributions of caregiving demands. This paper received the Dorothy Thomas Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the PAA. She builds on these findings in her dissertation, which examines the broader social reorganization of care emerging with ongoing demographic and medical system changes. Erin completed a three-year ethnographic case study of caregiving after a stroke and combines this rich data with nationally-representative survey data on older adults with various health conditions. She shows how shifts in the health care system are creating more intensive forms of caregiving and describes the emerging tensions that are reorganizing family life and potentially creating a new caregiving life course phase. Erin’s research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation, and several institutes at the University of Michigan.
In addition to her research on caregiving, she has published at the intersection of health, aging, and gender, creatively combining demographic and qualitative methods. Her collaborative research based in the U.S. and South Africa has been published in Gender & Society , The American Journal of Epidemiology , and Population and Development Review .
CHELLE JONES – Jigsaw Migration: How Mixed Status LGBTQ Families (Re)Assemble their Fragmented Citizenship
Committee: Jaeeun Kim (Co-Chair) Barbara Anderson (Co-Chair) Erin Cech (Sociology) Fatma Müge Göçek (Sociology) Gayle Rubin (Anthropology)
Interest Areas: sexuality, sex/gender, migration, urban sociology Methodologies: ethnographic and qualitative interview
Chelle Jones (they/them) studies gender and sexuality and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan with certificates in LGBTQ Studies and in Teaching. Jones expects to graduate in April 2025. Jones’ research agenda focuses on how the intersection of gender and sexuality with other statuses such as national origin, class, and race influences the life trajectories of LGBTQ migrants in South Korea. Much of the literature on queer migration has attempted to isolate the effects of sexuality on migration in order to theorize how migration processes affect LGBTQ people. However, this approach obscures important insights offered by an intersectional perspective attentive to sexuality, gender, race, class, and national origin. Jones’ dissertation examines how trans, gender nonconforming, and lesbian, bisexual and queer women (LBTQ) skilled labor migrants in South Korea negotiate different social and policy regimes governing sexual minority and migrant’s rights, as they pursue employment and/or maintain mixed citizenship relationships abroad.
Jones shows that persistent cisheteronormativity in both migration and family reunification policies constrains LBTQ families unable to achieve full legal recognition even after they marry legally in one country. Jones argues that Korea proves to be a desirable destination for LBTQ migrants because its skilled labor recruitment policies make it accessible, whereas cisheteronormative and socioeconomic discrimination, or strict immigration limits make other desired destinations with better legal protections for LGBTQ people inaccessible. Compared to ‘LGBTQ-friendly’ destinations in the West, Korea’s comparatively low bar for ‘skilled’ labor migration enables college educated LBTQ people to stay together even without legal recognition and accumulate resources to settle in their desired destinations in the future.
Jones won Fulbright and other grants to spend 16 months studying South Korea’s queer communities. Jones has published in International Migration Review , the Journal of Lesbian Studies , and is under review at Gender and Society .
GIOVANNI ROMAN-TORRES – Placing the American Dream: Latino geographic dispersion, socioeconomic well-being, and belonging across the American Landscape
Committee: Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald, University of Michigan (Sociology, Co-chair) Lauren Duquette-Rury, Wayne State University (Sociology, Co-chair) Alexandra Murphy, University of Michigan (Sociology) Fabiana Silva, University of Michigan (Public Policy) Fabian Pfeffer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Müchen (Sociology)
I am a multi-method sociologist, and my research engages broadly with ethno-racial stratification, immigration, and urban/regional dynamics. My research interests lie on how these areas intersect with the experiences of Latino and Latino immigrants in the United States. My dissertation, Placing the American Dream: Latino geographic dispersion, socioeconomic well-being, and belonging across the American Landscape , is guided by the overarching question: how important is place for the socioeconomic well-being and incorporation of Latino immigrants?
My dissertation encompasses three projects. Using U.S. Census data, the first project focuses on the spatial dispersion for recently arrived Latinos across the United States and how immigrant destinations have changed over time. There are two contributions from this project. First, changes for recent Latino immigrant destinations not only vary across destination types, but also vary by Latino subgroups, suggesting new Latino diasporas than previously examined. Second, I find that the spatial dispersion of recent Latino immigrants has stalled since the 2008 recession and continued stalling at the start of rising anti-immigration legislations across the United States in 2010. My second project uses U.S. Census data and state legislation data to investigates how restrictive immigration legislations across the United States affects the socioeconomic well-being of Latino immigrants. Specifically, I demonstrate how sub-national policies, especially across the U.S. South, has complex effects on the socioeconomic well-being of Latinos, with effects varying by demographic characteristics such as citizenship status, country of origin, and years spent in the country. My third project interrogates how Latino immigrants establish a sense of belonging in geographies with historically Black and White majority populations in Southeastern Tennessee. Using interview and observational data, I argue that placemaking, ethno-racial identity formation, and engagement with local institutions are interwoven in the degree to which Latino immigrants form a sense of belonging in their communities.
My dissertation project has been funded internally by the University of Michigan and the Population Studies Center/National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Graduate Fellowship, as well as the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, The Russell Sage Foundation, and The American Sociological Association/NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. More information on my ongoing work is available on my website: giovannifromantorres.com
SHOSHANA SHAPIRO – Place, Space, and Flyover States: The Geography of Poverty and the Nonprofit Social Safety Net in America
Sarah Burgard (Co-chair) Luke Shaefer (Co-chair) Natasha Pilkauskas Scott Allard (University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy)
Research Interests: Sociology of poverty, sociology of inequality, human services programs, rural sociology, social determinants of health
Shoshana Shapiro researches poverty, inequality, and the social safety net as a National Poverty Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her National Poverty Fellowship placement is in the Office of Community Services (OCS) in the Administration for Children and Families. Shapiro’s research agenda focuses on the geography of poverty and access to the human services safety net. Using quantitative analysis of national administrative data, Shapiro finds that rural, Black, Hispanic, and Latino communities are intersectionally underserved by the nonprofit human services safety net after controlling for other possible covariates. Although the effect is explained by geographic factors, county-level poverty is also associated with lower rates of nonprofit human services expenditures. Another line of research uses a mixed-methods research design to gather information about possible human services deserts. This project will create the first systematic study of human services deserts. Shapiro’s dissertation findings show that the distribution of nonprofit human services is largely wrong: nationally, services to address poverty are going disproportionately to the wealthiest counties and regions, while communities of color, rural counties, and poor counties are underserved. This research on the sociology of inequality illustrates how market-based social safety nets worsen macrospatial inequality. A third line of research for Shapiro’s postdoctoral placement focuses on how OCS programs serve vulnerable populations, including Americans experiencing poverty, rural Americans, and Americans of color. This line of research applies her broader research agenda to federal antipoverty human services programs, including the Community Services Block Grant, which funds over 1000 Community Action Agencies nationwide. This research informs policy and programmatic decisions in the federal human services safety net.
Shapiro’s work has been published in Social Service Review , the American Journal of Public Health (with collaborators from the U-M Policies for Action Research Hub), and the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health (with collaborators from the U-M Center for Improving Patient and Population Health). She has received grants in support of this research from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, the National Science Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
MIRA VALE – Data Values: Moral Entrepreneurship in Digital Health
Committee: Jason Owen-Smith (Chair) Roi Livne Renée Anspach Greta Krippner Mark Ackerman (School of Information)
Research Interests: Medical sociology, economic sociology, science and technology studies, mental health, morality, ethnography
Website: miradvale.com
Mira Vale studies how organizations and social institutions adapt in the face of technological change. Her research analyzes how the introduction of new technologies transforms professional authority, influences inequality, and provokes moral dilemmas.
Mira’s dissertation and book project examines the use of large-scale digitally sensed behavioral data for healthcare and research. Despite concerns about privacy, the marketization of personal data, and algorithmic bias, digital behavioral data remains largely unregulated. Mira’s dissertation draws on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to explore how digital health researchers tackle moral questions in the absence of clear social or legal prescriptions. Amidst calls for an “ethics of AI,” her dissertation offers an empirical investigation into how powerful social actors are already building the moral infrastructure for digital healthcare. This project contributes to scholarship on how moral ideas are adjudicated amidst uncertainty and how digital technology transforms expertise and affects social inequality.
Mira’s work has been published in Social Science & Medicine , Socius , and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior , among other venues. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the American Sociological Association (ASA), and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. She has received awards from three sections of the ASA.
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Social Stratification - Wealth - Social Mobility - Sociology of Education
Racial Stratification - Labor Market Outcomes - Social Demography
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Heterogeneity in Black-White Economic Disparities in the United States
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Peter Francis Harvey
Postdoctoral Fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard
Culture, social inequality, education
Learning their Station: Socialization and Discrimination in Two Elementary Schools
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2019 Cohort 2024-25 CSERI Turner-Schulman Graduate Fellow
Race and Ethnicity; Gender; Sexualities; Family; Assortative Mating; Culture; Social Psychology; Immigration; Asian America; Qualitative Methods
"Racializing Romance: A Comparative Analysis of East Asian Americans in Interracial and Interethnic Relationships"
Committee: Wendy Roth (Chair), Dorothy Roberts, Tukufu Zuberi, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, and Grace Kao (Yale University)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University Society of Fellows, Department of Sociology
Race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; intersectionality; affect; Black feminist theory; qualitative methods; family; informal adoption; religion
Camille Zubrinsky Charles (Chair), Melissa Wilde, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
Blair Sackett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Social inequality; international migration; work and organizations; economic sociology; race and ethnicity; global and transnational sociology; sociology of development; sociology of culture; sociology of the family; qualitative research methods, ethnography
Annette Lareau (co-chair), Randall Collins (co-chair), Mauro Guillen, Chenoa Flippen
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Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation; Social Movements; South Asia; Theory; Face-to-Face Interaction; Internal Conversation and Self-Formation
Three Essays in the Sociology of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, and Emotional Interventions in De-Escalation
Randall Collins, Guobin Yang, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Rutgers, Dept. of Anthropology), Raheel Dhattiwala (Oxford)
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr College
Generous: The Labor of Philanthropy in Higher Education
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2019 Cohort visiting Harvard University 2023-2025
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People with a doctorate in sociology can apply their skills in a variety of jobs, inside and outside academia. The traditional career path for sociology PhDs involves a position on the faculty of a college or university, with a focus on research or teaching or both. But today, more and more sociologists are working in non-faculty jobs in ...
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PhD Date: May 2025 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Flourishing in LA: Making Place in an Anti-Black Metropolis. Areas of Research/Teaching: Race and Ethnicity; Class and Status; Urban Sociology; Culture; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Elites; Mental Health; Flourishing and Well-being; Joy; Pleasure; The Good Life; Leisure; Freedom; Utopia ...
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PhD Student. José G. Soto-Márquez is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an Urban Democracy Lab Doctoral Fellow at New York University. He researches and teaches on the topics of migration, race/ethnicity, gender, theory, cities, work, inequality, health, and the family. His dissertation focuses on one of Europe's so-called "lost ...
Sociology PhDs on the Job Market. Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley. Area (s) of Interest: Migration, globalization, culture, sensation/embodiment, food. Advisor: Carrillo. [email protected]. Emma Brandt. Area (s) of Interest: Culture and Knowledge; Media and Technology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology ...
Email [email protected] Research Areas Computational Social Science Cultural Sociology Economic Sociology Social Psychology Theory Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Medical Sociology
His teaching and mentoring of both undergraduate and graduate students is informed by the ten years he spent engaged in social work at non-profit organizations providing services to homeless and otherwise marginalized communities, including five years as a Director at Sacred Heart Community Service.
Current PhD Students on the Job Market. Keitaro Okura is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Yale University. He studies social inequality and stratification with a substantive focus on immigration, race/ethnicity, and education. His research draws primarily from survey data and experiments. Keitaro's research agenda examines social and ...
Jane Furey is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Michigan, where she is also pursuing a master's degree in Statistics. Her research uses innovative quantitative methods and multiple data sources to explore how education attained at different stages in the life course reduces, expands, or maintains economic and ...
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Research Interests. Social inequality; international migration; work and organizations; economic sociology; race and ethnicity; global and transnational sociology; sociology of development; sociology of culture; sociology of the family; qualitative research methods, ethnography.
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Jul 11, 2024 at 12:44pm. On the job. Discussion and advice about job related matters. Moderator: Moderator. 38. 211. Please recommend good books on Sociology of disability. by Curious1234. May 24, 2024 at 4:19am.
While many require the PhD, they're also interested in a candidate having experience in student affairs, management experience, and experience with diversity programming. So just having a sociology PhD, even if you focus on diversity in your research, may not make you qualified for such positions, at least not starting off.
what are the job prospects (meaning, wanting to become a university professor) for people who pursue a PhD in sociology in North America? Asking for a friend.
Job Market Candidates Immersed in MIT Sloan's distinctive culture, upcoming graduates are poised to innovate in management research and education.
If you are interested in social sciences in a more classic way (politics, sociology, anthropology, economics) then finding a more applied job is your real challenge now, whether a phd is required or not will depend on the job but outside academia it won't. If you are interested in sociology, maybe public policies is a good place to start.
Assistant Professor of Sociology. The Department of Sociology at Duke University in Durham, NC invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2025. We seek scholars who have an outstanding research program and the ability to teach in our undergraduate and graduate programs.
Graduate Students on the Job Market. Click here to see a list of current Graduate Students searching for positions. Start of Twitter timeline. Skip Twitter timeline ... Email: [email protected] Phone: (919) 962-1007 Fax: (919) 962-7568 *Though the Sociology Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will ...
The Department of Economics, University of Toronto is pleased to announce that it has eight PhD candidates and two postdoctoral researchers on the job market for 2023-2024. All of them are exceptional researchers who use state-of-the-art methodologies to generate evidence-based policy alternatives.
First of all, Russian PhD programs are notorious for having a lot of distractions (BS classes, candidacy examinations in Philosophy and English, semiannual performance reports, physically mailing your dissertation prospectus to like 50 different places and so on).
The top concerns include lack of work experience (24%), lack of job opportunities in their field (22%), competition with other graduates (22%), and uncertainty about the job market. (19%). Survey ...
STEM majors lead the pack. Pay often more than doubles after 10 years. You don't need a graduate degree. For high school seniors and undecided college majors considering what they want to do for ...
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