E-Mail: k_acacio AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2010 (Expected)

Dissertation Title:

" Getting Nurses Here: Migration Industry and the Business of Connecting Philippine-Educated Nurses with United States Employers"

Dissertation Committee:

Neil Fligstein (Chair), Irene Bloemraad, Trond Petersen and Catherine Ceniza Choy (Ethnic Studies)

Areas of Interest:

International Migration, Economic Sociology, Organizations, Health Care and Migration, Research Methods, Qualitative Research

E-Mail: ruha9 AT ucla.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2008

Dissertation Title:

"Culturing Consent: Science & Democracy in the Stem Cell State"

Dissertation Committee:

Troy Duster (chair), Charis Thompson, Loic Wacquant

Areas of Interest:

Race-Ethnicity, Gender, Science, Medicine, Globalization, Postcoloniality, Contemporary Theory, Qualitative Methods

E-Mail: jjf AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2009

Dissertation Title:

"Institutions and Collective Mobilization in Mature Welfare States: Public Pension Reform in Affluent Democracies, 1980-2000"

Dissertation Committee:

Neil Fligstein (Chair, Sociology), John Lie (Sociology), Trond Petersen (Sociology), Dylan Riley (Sociology) and Nicholas Ziegler (Political Science)

Areas of Interest:

Political sociology, stratification, institutional theory, social theory

E-Mail: keyvank AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/kkashkooli/
PhD Date: May 2010 (Expected)

Dissertation Title:

"The Making of a Modern Market: eBay.com"

Dissertation Committee:

Neil Fligstein (chair), Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, James Lincoln (Haas School of Business)

Areas of Interest:

Economic Sociology, Organizations, Technology, Globalization, Environmental Justice, Social Theory, Qualitative & Quantitative Methods

E-Mail: basak AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2008 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"Institutional Origins of the Informal Economy: A Comparative Analysis"

Dissertation Committee:

Neil Fligstein (chair), Peter Evans, Ann Swidler, Nicholas Ziegler (political science)

Areas of Interest:

Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory

E-Mail: amathur AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: December 2008

Dissertation Title:

"Welfare Reform, Education and Inequality: A Closer Look at Public Assistance Recipients in California Community Colleges"

Dissertation Committee:

Mike Hout(Chair), Henry Brady(GSPP and Political Science), Sandra Smith

Areas of Interest:

Welfare Reform, Higher Education, Poverty and Inequality, Work-Family Balance, Healthcare

E-Mail: mayrl AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2010 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

" Secularization in American and Australian Education, 1830-2000"

Dissertation Committee:

Margaret Weir (chair), Marion Fourcade, Philip Gorski (Yale University), David Hollinger (History)

Areas of Interest:

Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Classical and Contemporary Theory, Qualitative Methods

E-Mail: paget AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2010 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"Socialist Possibilities: The State and Small Farmers in Venezuela's Agrarian Reform"

Dissertation Committee:

Laura Enriquez (chair), Michael Burawoy, Richard Norgaard (Energy and Resources Group)

Areas of Interest:

Political Sociology, Development, Rural Sociology, Latin America

E-Mail: squinn AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Website: http://www.sarahquinnsociology.com/
PhD Date: May 2010 (Expected)

Dissertation Title:

"American Securitization: Finance, Technology, and the Politics of Debt"

Dissertation Committee:

Neil Fligstein (Chair), Marion Fourcade, Heather Haveman, and Dwight Jaffee (Haas School of Business)

Areas of Interest:

Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Sociological Theory

E-Mail: csolari AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2010 (Expected)

Dissertation Title:

"Exile vs. Exodus: Nationalism and Gendered Migration from Ukraine to Italy and California"

Dissertation Committee:

Michael Burawoy (chair), Raka Ray, Irene Bloemraad, Victoria Bonnell, Yuri Slezkine (History)

Areas of Interest:

gender, migration and global cities, work and globalization, race/ethnicity and immigrant integration, culture, nationalism, and post-soviet transition, classical and contemporary theory, qualitative methodology

E-Mail: sarahs AT demog.berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Website: http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~sarahs
PhD Date: May 2009 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"Genocide and Fertility: How Mass Violence Shaped Women's Reproductive Trajectories in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda"

Dissertation Committee:

Peter Evans (co-chair), Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (co-chair), Claude Fischer, Ron Lee (Demography and Economics)

Areas of Interest:

global development, war and genocide, sub-Saharan Africa, fertility and reproductive choice, quantitative methods, the demography of human rights violations

E-Mail: vallee AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2008 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"Pharmaceuticalizing American Childhood: Accounting for French and American differences in Ritalin Usage"

Dissertation Committee:

Neil Fligstein (chair), Arlie Hochschild, Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, Lorraine Midanik (Social Welfare)

Areas of Interest:

Medical Sociology, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Consumption, Soc. of Professions, Soc. of Family, Qualitative Methods, Comparative Methods, Social theory

E-Mail: anavilla AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2009 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"The Mothering Tug-of-War: Independence & Connection in an Age of Insecurity"

Dissertation Committee:

Arlie Hochschild (chair), Ann Swidler, Barrie Thorne, Dacher Keltner (Psychology)

Areas of Interest:

Family, Social Theory, Culture, Gender, Qualitative Methods

E-Mail: lkwang77 AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/lesliekimwang/home
PhD Date: May 2010 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"Children on the Margins: The Global Politics of Orphanage Care in Contemporary China"

Dissertation Committee:

Barrie Thorne (co-chair), Tom Gold (co-chair), Claude Fischer, Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, You-Tien Hsing (Geography)

Areas of Interest:

Globalization and Transnationalism, Children and Youth, Gender, Culture, Asian America, Qualitative Methods, Chinese Society

E-Mail: a_wetterberg AT hotmail.com
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2009 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"Catching Codes: The Institutionalization of Labor Self-Regulation in the Global Apparel Industry"

Dissertation Committee:

Peter Evans (co-chair), Neil Fligstein (co-chair), and Dara O'Rourke (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)

Areas of Interest:

Global governance, labor, institutional theory, social movements, state-society relations, development

E-Mail: younkin AT berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
PhD Date: May 2009 (expected)

Dissertation Title:

"A Healthy Business: The evolution of the U.S. market for prescription drugs"

Dissertation Committee:

Neil Fligstein (Chair), Heather Haveman, Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, Steve Shortell (Public Health)

Areas of Interest:

Economic Sociology, Organizations, Medical Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methods