The Stanford Sociology Doctoral Program: Recent Graduates and Placement
Name |
PhD Year and Dissertation Title |
Current Placement |
| Gabriel Chiu |
2020 The Rise of Entrepreneurship in China: Individualization, Modernity, and Entrepreneurialism |
Postdoc Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School |
| James Chu |
2020 The Organization of Status: Institutions and the Contingent Consequences of Hierarchy |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University |
| Amanda Mireles |
2020 |
Assistant Professor, University of California Merced |
| Angel (Ling) Zhu |
2020 Achieving Political Control and Regional Development: Spatial Mobility in the Chinese Bureaucracy |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Christof Brandtner |
2019 Cities in Action: City Climate Action, Civil Society, and the Organization of Cities |
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation |
| Emily Carian |
2019 Constructing Manhood: Men's Rights Activists and Feminist Men's Shared Meanings of Gender |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino |
| Molly King |
2019 Knowledge Inequality |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Santa Clara University |
| Sangjoon Lee |
2019 Workplace Participation, Empowerment, and Social Dynamics |
Associate Research Fellow, Korea Labor Institute (South Korea) |
| Jessica Santana |
2019 Embracing Failure: How Failure Rhetoric and the Peer Network Influence Entrepreneurial Success |
Assistant Professor in Technology Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Engineering |
| Diana Dakhlallah |
2018 Where the Action Is: A Conceptual and Experimental Evaluation of Measurement, Dynamics, and Reputational Incentives in Corrupt Transactions |
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal |
| Priya Fielding-Singh |
2018 The Inheritance of Health: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes Family Food Practices |
Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Medicine, Stanford University |
| Angela Lu |
2018 Bringing the Organization Back In: Personnel Mobility and Career Lines in Large Bureaucratic Systems |
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong's Business School |
| Juan Pedroza |
2018 Betwixt and Between |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Sandra Nakagawa |
2017 Gender Identity Shapes Preferences for Health and Environmental Behaviors |
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Council on Science and Technology |
| Katharina Roesler |
2017 Police Professionalism and Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates: An Examination of Police Discrimination, Discretion, and Diversity |
Data Scientist, Quora |
| Bogdan State |
2017 Sociological Methods in the Digital Age: Research in Computational Sociology |
Data Scientist, Facebook |
| Alison Wynn |
2017 When Best Practices Fall Short: Gender Equality Initiatives in Organizations |
Postdoctoral Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford |
| Lauren Benditt |
2016 Government Bureaucrats in a Postmodern World: Expectations, Identity, and Attacks |
Research Analyst, YouGov |
| Koji Chávez |
2016 How Employers Hire (Women, Immigrants, and the Educationally Elite): Meritocracy, Egalitarianism, and Cultural Fit in the Silicon Valley |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Adam Horowitz |
2016 Authenticity's Genome: Heredity, Conversion, and the Adaptability of Ethnoracial Membership |
Data Scientist, Facebook |
| Beth Red Bird |
2016 The New Economic Institutionalism of Occupations |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University |
| Ariela Schachter |
2016 Can't We All Just Get Along? Native Born Americans' Perspectives on Race and Immigration |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in Saint Louis |
| Kate Weisshaar |
2016 From 'Opt Out' to 'Blocked Out': The Negative Consequences of Intermittent Employment |
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Natassia Rodríguez |
2016 Rags to Riches? Social Origin-Based Stratification Among Early Career College Graduates |
Education Research Analyst at RTI International |
| Swethaa Ballakrishnen |
2015 Women in Black: The Unlikely Case of Gender-Neutral Professional Success in Indian Law Firms |
Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine |
| Marion Coddou |
2015 Faithful Citizenship: The Impact of Institutional Practices on Faith-Based Organizing for Immigrant Rights |
Researcher, Stanford Institutional Research and Decision Support, Stanford University |
| Tristan Ivory |
2015 "We Came in Search of Greener Pastures": Social and Economic Outcomes of Sub-Saharan Africans in Urban Japan |
Assistant Professor, Cornell University's ILR School
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| Karen Powroznik |
2015 In the Name of Health: The Social Consequences of Cultural Assumptions about Health and Illness |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Thinking Matters, Stanford University |
| Nandini Roy |
2015 The Ties that Bind: Non-Profit Networks and Neighborhood Collective Action in San Francisco |
Analyst, Apple, Inc. |
| Rachel Wright |
2015 Can Nonprofits Lead a Movement for Economic Justice? |
Director of Research, Sacred Heart Community Service |
| LaToya Baldwin Clark |
2014 Race, Parenting, and Special Education |
Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Patrick Bergemann |
2014 Systems of Mass Denunciation |
Assistant Professor, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago |
| Jamillah Bowman Williams |
2014 Status Processes and Organizational Inequality: The Social Psychology of Inclusion |
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School |
| Susan Fisk |
2014 Risky Spaces, Gendered Places: How Interesting Beliefs about Gender and Risk Reinforce and Recreate Gender Inequality |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Kent State University, Ohio |
| Beste Esra Burak Ho |
2014 Is the Sky the Limit? Three Papers Examining American Attitudes Towards Extremely High Pay |
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
| Lindsay Owens |
2014 The Many Meanings of Debt |
Economic Policy Advisor in the office of Senator Elizabeth Warren, Washington D.C. |
| Kathryne Young |
2014 Everyone Knows the Game: Identity and Legal Consciousness in the Hawaiian Cockfight |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| John Chandler Johnson |
2013 Structuration, Knowledge Coordinating, and Profit: Modeling a Microsociological Theory of Disequilibrium Market Dynamics |
Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway |
| Sara Jordan-Bloch | 2013
Mattering to Teachers: A Social Psychological Approach to the Teacher-Student Relationship |
Senior Research Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University |
| Krystale Littlejohn |
2013 Women Navigating Fertility Goals and Multiracials Navigating Parntership: Three Papers Examining Inequality in the Family Domain |
Associate Professor of Sociology, Occidental College, California |
| Traci Tucker |
2013 Explaining the Unexpected: Sense-Making and the Perpetuation of Gender Stereotypes |
User Experience Researcher, Facebook, Inc. |
| Dan Wang |
2013 Reversing the Brain Drain: Skilled Return Migration and the Global Movement of Expert Knowledge |
David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, New York |
| Yujia Liu |
2012 The Payoff to Skill and the Evolution of Earnings Inequalities |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina |
| Ling Yang |
2012 A Tale of Two Clusters: How Chinese Subcontractor Networks Respond to Global Crises; Organizing Political Protests against Transnational Governance: The Politics of a Transnational Labor Certification Program in the Chinese Export Toy Industry; The Changing State-business Relation after China's 2008 Labor Laws |
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China |
| Kendra Bischoff |
2011 Negotiating Disparate Social Contexts: Evidence from an Inter-District School Desegregation Program |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, New York |
| Sarah Katherine Harkness |
2011 Consequences of Rewards: The Creation, Perpetuation, and Erosion of Social Inequality |
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Iowa |
| Manwai Ku |
2011 When Does Gender Matter? Gender Segregation in the Professions of Medicine, Teaching and Law |
Research Program Manager, Apple Inc. |
| Laura López-Sanders |
2011 Is Brown the New Black?: Mediated Latino Incorporation in New Immigrant Destinations |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown University |
| Alex Makarevich |
2011 Interorganizational Ties and Organizational Outcomes: Essays on the Role of Network Ties and Ecological Factors in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry, 1961-2002 |
Associate Professor of Management, College of Business and Economics, California State University East Bay
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| Elizabeth Aura McClintock |
2011 Race, Class, Age, and Appearance: Matching, Exchange, and Other Properties of Dating and Marriage Markets |
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana |
| Stephen Charles Nuñez |
2011 The Moral Economy of Debt: Race, Ethnicity and Perceptions of Fairness in Credit Markets for the Poor |
Research Associate II, MDRC, New York |
| Ivaylo Petev |
2011 Essays on the Social Stratification of Consumption in Postwar United States and France |
Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris France |
| Emily Ryo |
2011 Becoming Illegal: Rationality and Morality of Undocumented Immigrants |
Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Southern California Law School |
| Amanda J. Sharkey |
2011 Sieves and Lenses: Essays on the Role of Categories in Social Valuation |
Associate Professor of Organizations and Strategy, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago |
| Alicia Darnell Simmons |
2011 Race Cues in the News, Racial Attitudes, and the Politics of Criminal Justice Punitiveness |
Associate Professor of Sociology, Colgate University, New York |
| Kaisa Elina Snellman |
2011 Battles in Boardrooms: Diffusion of the Shareholder Rhetoric and Practices in Finland, 1990-2005 |
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD, Paris |
| Brandy Aven |
2010 Intra-organizational Diffusion of Innovations and Sentiments: An Analysis of Enron |
Associate Professor of Organizational Theory, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, Pennsylvania |
| Kristen Backor |
2010 Anger in the Workplace: Effects of Gender and Frequency in Context |
Associate Director, Center of Market Research Excellence, C1 Consulting |
| Joon Nak Choi |
2010 Information Advantage in a Global Economy |
Assistant Professor of Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer |
2010 Essays on Gender, Marriage, and Inequality |
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Portland State University, Oregon |
| Xiaobin He |
2010 Property Transformation, Marketization and Wealth Inequality in Urban China, 1988, 1995, and 2002 |
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University |
| Jung-eun Lee |
2010 Dynamics of Interorganizational Collaboration: Social Movements During Korea's Transition to Democracy |
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Victor Thompson |
2010 Racial Contours: Theorizing Racial Identities through Variation in Responses amoung the Multiracial Population |
Associate Professor, Rider University |
| Colin Beck |
2009 Ideological Roots of Waves of Revolution |
Associate Professor of Sociology, Pomona College, California |
| MariaElena González |
2009 Organizational Expansion and Change in the Roman Catholic Church: 1950-2000 |
Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced |
| Reuben Thomas |
2009 Geographic Mobility and Homophily |
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico |
| Frank L. Samson |
2008 Race and the Limits of American Meritocracy |
Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty at the Institute for Reseach on Labor and Employment, UCLA |
| Denis Trapido |
2008 Competition as Stimulus and Obstacle to Economic Cooperation and Positive Ties |
Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, UW Bothell School of Business |
| Chunlei Wang |
2008 Social Networks, Competition, and Institutionalization: An Integrated Perspective on Social Influence in Innovation Diffusion |
Associate Professor, Department of Organization and Management, College of Business, San Jose State University |
| Paul Y. Chang |
2007 Protest and Repression in South Korea (1970-1979): Developing a Dialectical Understanding of Social Movements |
Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, Massachusetts |
