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PhD placements
| Name | PhD Year | Dissertation Title | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claire Daviss | How We Hire Who We Hire: The Effect of Hiring Structures on Gender and Race Biases | Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, ILR School, Cornell University | |
| Alisa Feldman | Nonmonogamy and the Stratification of Family Attitudes in the U.S. | Associate Research Director at the Anti-Defamation League | |
| Meghan Olivia Warner | Childbirth Choices: How Women Prepare For and Experience Birth | Lecturer - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) at Stanford University | |
| Kimya Loder | “Owning Our Power”: The Individual and Collective Politics of Black Transgender Women in the Southern United States | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Nima Dahir | Who is Black on the Block? Black Immigrants, Segregation, and Neighborhood Change | Assistant Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University | |
| Jan G. Voelkel | Megastudies for Social Change: Identifying the Most Promising Treatments for Changing Political Attitudes | Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Cornell University | |
| Hesu Yoon | The Social Construction of Neighborhood Desirability | Assistant Professor of Sociology, ENSAE-CREST École Polytechnique | |
| Emma Tsurkov | The Role of Sexual Harassment in Educational and Occupational Sex-Segregation | Director of Quantitative Research, Anti-Defamation League | |
| Tamkinat S. Rauf | The Inequalities of Well-being and Income | Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Livia Baer-Bositis | Push and Pull: Boundary formation and competition within a feminizing profession | Senior Analyst, Hart Research Associates | |
| Amy L. Johnson | From Deviance to Diagnosis: Cultural Meanings of Mental Health | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Lehigh University | |
| Kimberly Higuera | Migrating Money: The Social Status Repercussions of US-Mexico Remittances | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | |
| Julia L. Melin | Upskilled and Reskilled: How Gender Shapes Career Transitions in the New Economy | Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College | |
| Josh Leung-Gagné | Segregation and Inequality Across Neighborhoods, Classrooms, and Police Jurisdictions | Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University | |
| Rebecca Gleit | De Facto School Discipline and the Maintenance of Inequality | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Skidmore College | |
| Austin van Loon | Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Sociological Study of Meaning | Assistant Professor, Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management | |
| Sasha Shen Johfre | The Construction of Nature and Social Categories | Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington | |
| Beka Guluma | Ethnic Identity and Homeland Politics in the Oromo Diaspora | Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park | |
| Francine Stephens | Locating Legacies of Environmental Racism in Park-Going Behavior: A Study of Urban Nature, Race, and Spatial Interactions | Geospatial Data Scientist, Expedia | |
| Esha Chatterjee | College majors and Inequality in the Labor Market | Survey Researcher, IoES, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Catherine Sirois | Governing at the Margins: How the State Manages Children at the Junction of Dependent and Delinquent | Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania | |
| Christianne Corbett | Belonging at Work: The Role of Organizational Factors and Interpersonal Interactions in Maintaining Workplace Inequality | Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arkansas | |
| Tagart Cain Sobotka | Bad Doctors, Enablers, and the Powerless: The Opioid Crisis and the Construction of Blame | Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Scott Westenberger | Fashion Changes: The Role of the Audience in the Fashion Cycle | Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| Jasmine Hill | Misinformed: Mobility Knowledge as a Process of Racial Inequality | Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, University of California Los Angeles | |
| Jeff T. Sheng | Invisible Power: How the Internet and Online Ties Strengthen Social Movements | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan | |
| Anna Boch | How free is speech on campus, and how free should it be? Tolerance, political ideology and the United States | Research Scientist, Facebook, Inc. | |
| Katie Wullert | Learning on the Job Search: How Application Experiences Shape Labor Market Outcomes | Program Officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | |
| Chloe Grace Hart | The Hidden Costs of Sexual Harassment | Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Marlene Orozco | Modern Ethnic Entrepreneurship: A Pathway of Economic Mobility? | Associate Director Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative | |
| Amanda Mireles | The Constraints of Progress: College Feminization and the Value of the College Degree | Assistant Professor, University of California Merced | |
| Jared Furuta | Global Changes in the Structural Dimensions of National Education Systems: High Stakes Examinations, Tracking, and National Assessments, 1960-2010 | Quantitative UX Researcher, Meta | |
| James Y. Chu | The Organization of Status: Institutions and the Contingent Consequences of Hierarchy | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University | |
| Jacob Reidhead | Nomination Patronage and Party Splitting: Comparing Intraparty Politics in South Korea and Taiwan | Assistant Professor, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan | |
| Gabriel Z. Chiu | The Rise of Entrepreneurship in China: Individualization, Modernity, and Entrepreneurialism | Postdoc Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | |
| Ling Zhu | Balancing Political Control and Regional Development: Spatial Mobility in the Chinese Bureaucracy | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
| Jessica Santana | 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 | |
| Christof Brandtner | Cities in Action: City Climate Action, Civil Society, and the Organization of Cities | Assistant Professor of Social Innovation, Emlyon Business School; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation | |
| Emily Carian | Constructing Manhood: Men's Rights Activists and Feminist Men's Shared Meanings of Gender | Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Sociology, UC Irvine | |
| Molly King | Knowledge Inequality | Associate Professor of Sociology at Santa Clara University | |
| Sangjoon Lee | Workplace Participation, Empowerment, and Social Dynamics | Associate Research Fellow, Korea Labor Institute (South Korea) | |
| Juan Manuel Pedroza | Betwixt and Between | Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz | |
| Priya Fielding-Singh | The Inheritance of Health: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes Family Food Practices | Assistant Professor, University of Utah | |
| Diana Dakhlallah | 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 | |
| Angela Lu | Bringing the Organization Back in: Personnel Mobility and Career Lines in Large Bureaucratic Systems | Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong's Business School | |
| Sandra Nakagawa | Gender Identity Shapes Preferences for Health and Environmental Behaviors | Postdoctoral Scholar, California Council on Science and Technology | |
| Katharina Roesler | Police Professionalism and Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates: An Examination of Police Discrimination, Discretion, and Diversity | Data Scientist, Square, Inc. | |
| Bogdan State | Sociological Methods in the Digital Age: Research in Computational Sociology | Data Scientist, Facebook | |
| Alison Wynn | When Best Practices Fall Short: Gender Equality Initiatives in Organizations | Senior Research Scholar, VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford | |
| Kate Weisshaar | From 'Opt Out' to 'Blocked Out': The Negative Consequences of Intermittent Employment | Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University | |
| Natassia Rodriguez | Rags to Riches? Social Origin-Based Stratification Among Early Career College Graduates | Education Research Analyst at RTI International | |
| Beth Red Bird | The New Economic Institutionalism of Occupations | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University | |
| Adam Horowitz | Authenticity's Genome: Heredity, Conversion, and the Adaptability of Ethnoracial Membership | Data Scientist, Facebook | |
| Koji Chavez | 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 | |
| Lauren Benditt | Government Bureaucrats in a Postmodern World: Expectations, Identity, and Attacks | Research Analyst, YouGov | |
| Ariela Schacter | Can't We All Just Get Along? Native Born Americans' Perspectives on Race and Immigration | Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis | |
| Swethaa Ballakrishnen | Women in Black: The Unlikely Case of Gender-Neutral Professional Success in Indian Law Firms | Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law | |
| Marion Coddou | Faithful Citizenship: The Impact of Institutional Practices on Faith-Based Organizing for Immigrants | Researcher, Stanford Institutional Research & Decision Support | |
| Tristan Ivory | "We Came in Search of Greener Pastures": Social and Economic Outcomes of Sub-Saharan Africans in Urban Japan | Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University | |
| Karen Powroznik | In the Name of Health: The Social Consequences of Cultural Assumptions about Health and Illness | Research Director, Meta Inc. | |
| Nandini Roy | The Ties that Bind: Non-Profit Networks and Neighborhood Collective Action in San Francisco | Analyst, Apple Inc. | |
| Rachel Wright | Can Nonprofits Lead a Movement for Economic Justice? | Director of Research, Sacred Heart Community Service | |
| Susan Fisk | Risky Spaces, Gendered Places: How Interesting Beliefs about Gender and Risk Reinforce and Recreate Gender Inequality | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Kent State University, Ohio | |
| Kathryne Young | Everyone Knows the Game: Identity and Legal Consciousness in the Hawaiian Cockfight | Law Professor at George Washington University | |
| Lindsay Owens | The Many Meanings of Debt | Economic Policy Advisor in the office of Senator Elizabeth Warren, Washington DC | |
| Beste Esra Burak Ho | 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 | |
| Patrick Bergemann | Systems of Mass Denunciation | Associate Professor of Organization and Management at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine | |
| LaToya Baldwin Clark | Race, Parenting and Special Education | Professor of Law at UCLA | |
| Jamillah Bowman Williams | Status Processes and Organizational Inequality: The Social Psychology of Inclusion | Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School | |
| John Chandler Johnson | Structuration, Knowledge Coordinating, and Profit: Modeling a Microsociological Theory of Disequilibrium Market Dynamics | Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway | |
| Sara Jordan-Bloch | Mattering to Teachers: A Social Psychological Approach to the Teacher-Student Relationship | Senior Research Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University | |
| Krystale Littlejohn | Women Navigating Fertility Goals and Multiracials Navigating Partnership: Three Papers Examining Inequality in the Family Domain | Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon | |
| Traci Tucker | Explaining the Unexpected: Sense-Making and the Perpetuation of Gender Stereotypes | User Experience Researcher, Facebook, Inc. | |
| Dan Wang | 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 | The Payoff to Skill and the Evolution of Earnings Inequalities | Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina | |
| Ling Yang | The Chinese Export Toy Industry in a Time of Crises, 2008 - 2010: Transnational Labor Certification, Subcontracting Strategies, and State-business Relationship | Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China | |
| Kaisa Elina Snellman | Battles in Boardrooms: Diffusion of the Shareholder Rhetoric and Practices in Finland, 1990-2005 | Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD, Paris | |
| Alicia Darnell Simmons | Race Cues in the News, Racial Attitudes, and the Politics of Criminal Justice Punitiveness | Associate Professor of Sociology, Colgate University, New York | |
| Amanda J. Sharkey | 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 | |
| Emily Ryo | Becoming Illegal: Rationality and Morality of Undocumented Immigrants | Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Southern California Law School | |
| Ivaylo Petev | Essays on the Social Stratification of Consumption in Postwar United States and France | Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France | |
| Stephen Charles Nuñez | The Moral Economy of Debt: Race, Ethnicity and Perceptions of Fairness in Credit Markets for the Poor | Research Associate II, MDRC, New York | |
| Elizabeth Aura McClintock | Race, Class, Age and Appearance: Matching, Exchange, and Other Properties of Dating and Marriage Markets | Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana | |
| Alex Makarevich | 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 | |
| Laura Lopez-Sanders | Is Brown the New Black? Mediated Latino Incorporation in New Immigrant Destinations | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown University | |
| Manwai Ku | When Does Gender Matter? Gender Segregation in the Professions of Medicine, Teaching and Law | Research Program Manager, Apple Inc. | |
| Sarah Katherine Harkness | Consequences of Rewards: The Creation, Perpetuation, and Erosion of Social Inequality | Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of Iowa | |
| Kendra Bischoff | Negotiating Disparate Social Contexts: Evidence from an Inter-District School Desegregation Program | Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University |