Ph.D. Program Alumni

Musa Al-Gharbi

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Symbolic Capitalism: Social Justice Discourse, Inequality and the Rise of a New Elite

Elizabeth Adetiba

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Between Science and the State: Xenophobic Anti-Blackness in the CDC’s Early AIDS Science

Joshua Aleksanyan

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

States, Selves, and Social Welfare: the American Therapeutic State in Comparative Perspective

Larry Au

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

The Global Emergence of a Scientific Field: Precision Medicine in China

Adrianna Bagnall Munson

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Managing Adulthood: Care and Autonomy for People with Developmental Disabilities

Martin Barnay

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Loneliness in Old Age: Elements for a Study in Sociology

Jordan J. Brensinger

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Producing Consumer “Identities”: Identity Theft and Insecurity in the Data Economy

Bailey Alexandra Brown

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Kinder Panic: Parent Decision-Making, School Choice and Neighborhood Life

Joanna Chae

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Space in Time: Three Essays on the Daytime Experience of Space by Race, Class, and Partisan Affiliation

Jiyeon Chang

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Reputation and Generalization in Social Context: Turnout Reporting and Intergroup Relations

Jonathan Hallegua Cleveland

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

From Alfred Schutz to Machine Learning: Temporal Orientation, Meaning and Social Action

Estela B. Diaz

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Parents and the Priceless Child in Elite Early Childhood Admissions

Samuel Thomas Donahue

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Essays on Identification, Classification, and Exclusion

Benjamin Elbers

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Understanding Segregation Change: Methods and Applications

Berenike Firestone

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

The Social Reproduction of Support for the Far Right

Daria Franklin

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Field under Constraint: Soviet Literary Journals and Autonomy in Soviet Literary Life

Zheng Fu

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Relational Power: Legal Authority and Particularized Power in Authoritarian China

Joss Greene

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Politics of Violence

Kathleen Ann Griesbach

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Positional Uncertainty: Contingent Workers Seeking a Place in Unstable Times

Sang Won Han

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

The Mechanisms of Elite Political Polarization in America

LeShae Henderson

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Bound Becomings: Essays on Race, Indigeneity, and Life-Making in Prison

Anna P. Hidalgo

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Surfing Desire: Transnational Romance and Fantasies in Máncora, Peru

Mark Anthony Hoffman

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Cultural Consumption and Political Thought After the American Revolution

Tiffany Joyce Huang

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Private College Consultants, Race, Class, and Inequality in College Admissions

Timothy Ittner

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Managing Marginality: Jails, Health, and Inequality

Julian Jürgenmeyer

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Legitimation Trials. The Limits of Liberal Government and the Federal Reserve's Quest for Embedded Autonomy

Katharine N. Khanna

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Men’s Support for Gender Equality in the Era of the Stalled Revolution

Francisco Lara-Garcia

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Local Context and the Integration of Mexicans in Albuquerque and Tucson

Moran Levy

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Trial and Error: The Invention of Cancer Chemotherapy 1950-1980

Yarden Mariuma

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Accountants, Smugglers, Tricksters and Princes: Cultural and Network Brokerage in 1821 Balkans

Greer Mellon

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Local Control and Educational Inequality: Three Longitudinal, Quantitative Studies of School District Governance in the United States

Lisa Lucile Owens

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Notes on the use of Surveillance in Public Housing

Nicholas Aaron Pang

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

The Creation of American Personal Bankruptcy, 1880-1955

Sandra Veronica Portocarrero

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Another Brick in the Wall: Three Essays on Diversity and Inequality in Organizations

Erela Portugaly

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

"Okay, well, everyone else has babies. Why shouldn't I?" How women with mental illness make reproductive decisions

Dialika Sall

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

(Re)Defining Blackness: Race, Ethnicity and the Children of African Immigrants

Bonnie Siegler

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Framing Racial Equity in U.S. School Districts

Joonwoo Son

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Cross-Border Investment in Forms: National Income Accounting and the Making of Reliable Government in Postwar Japan

Mireia Triguero Roura

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Colorblind Ethnocentrism: Racialized imagined communities in Western Europe and the United States

Asya Tsaturyan

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Strategic Traditionalism and Fragmented Modernities in Non-Democratic Contexts

Anthony Urena

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

From Risk to Reality: Race, Sexuality, and Disease in an Age of Uncertainty

Dominic T Walker

PhD Student

Dissertation / Thesis Title

The Ivory Road to the Ivy League: Narrative Sense-Making of Students of Color in Elite Schools