Graduate Students on the Job Market
Research Interests
Family demography, gender, social reproduction, quantitative methods, historical methods
Dissertation Title:
Relational Inequality: Paid and Unpaid Reproductive Labor in the US from 1900 to 1940
Dissertation Committee:
Christopher Muller (co-chair, Harvard), Danya Lagos (co-chair), David Harding, Leslie Salzinger
ghaleb@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Religion and spirituality, political sociology, revolutions, Middle East and North Africa
pwinicki@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Labor, race and ethnicity, carceral systems, immigration, political and social movements, inequality
Dissertation Title:
The Power of Organizing: Immigrant, Formerly Incarcerated, and Temp Workers on Strike
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (Chair), Laura Enríquez, Cybelle Fox, Chris Muller, Tianna Paschel, and Leslie Salzinger
Research Interests
Racial Inequality, Criminal Legal Systems, Policing, Gun Violence, Social & Feminist Theory
Dissertation Title:
Redefining Risk to Reclaim Wellbeing: Examining Individual, Relational, and Collective Consequences of Racial Inequities in Policing
Dissertation Committee:
Drs. David Harding and Christopher Muller (Co-Chairs), Dr. Tianna Paschel, Dr. Erin Kerrison
Research Interests
Labor Markets, Work, Social Stratification and Inequality, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methods
Dissertation Title:
Intragenerational Mobility and Inequality in Local Labor Markets
Dissertation Committee:
Neil Fligstein (chair), David Card, Heather Haveman, Daniel Schneider
Research Interests
law and punishment, bureaucracy, urban politics, methods
Dissertation Title:
Making Community Count: Violence Prevention and the Delegated Penal State
Research Interests
medical sociology, comparative historical sociology, bioethics, pedagogy, labor
Dissertation Title:
From Quackery to Emergency:
Expertise and the Making of Eugenics
Expertise and the Making of Eugenics
Dissertation Committee:
Christopher Muller, Armando Lara-Millán, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Osagie Obasogie (Public Health)
kristin.george@berkeley.edu
matthew_grumbach@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Comparative-Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Theory, Visual Culture
Dissertation Title:
Fascism in the Expanded Field: Cultural Policy and State Patronage in Italy, Spain, and Argentina, 1922-1975
Dissertation Committee:
Dylan Riley (chair), Cihan Tuğal, Mara Loveman, Mia Fuller
Research Interests
Organizations, Climate Change, Economic Sociology, Science and Technology Studies
Dissertation Title:
Greenhoused Organizations: The Construction and Consequences of Climate Metrics for Climate Action
Dissertation Committee:
Neil Fligstein (chair), Marion Fourcade, Panos Patatoukas (Haas School of Business)
ajaeger@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Political sociology, economic sociology, environment, theory
Research Interests
Work, Culture, Technology, Economic Sociology, Organizations, Theory
Dissertation Title:
Time and Money Well Spent? The Moral Economy of Platform Work
Dissertation Committee:
Heather Haveman and Calvin Morrill (co-chairs), Marion Fourcade
Research Interests
economic sociology, organizations, science and technology studies
Dissertation Title:
Worker Voice: Responding to Social and Technological Change in the Workplace
Dissertation Committee:
Heather Haveman, Neil Fligstein, Mathijs de Vaan
louisely@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Race, ethnicity, gender, immigration, sexuality, and aging
Dissertation Title:
“Racializing Desire: Race Making Among Intermarried Asian and White American Spouses”
Dissertation Committee:
Cybelle Fox (co-chair), Raka Ray (co-chair), G. Cristina Mora, and Leslie Salzinger
nmejia@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Immigration, Health, Inequality, Mexico
dosmani@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
political sociology, historical sociology, culture, social networks, racial-ethnic formation, gender
Dissertation Title:
Ties of Blood, Ties of Honey: The Historic Movement to End Honor Violence in Kosovo
(1990 - 1992)
(1990 - 1992)
Research Interests
Inequality, Education, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Affect and Emotion, Economic Sociology
Dissertation Title:
Mobility Ideologies: Precarity and Meaning-Making in the College-for-All Generation
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (chair), Marion Fourcade, Tianna Paschel, Tolani Britton (School of Education)
kellyquinn@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Economic sociology, work, and labor markets
Research Interests
(sub)urban sociology, racial-spatial inequality, policing, and prisons
Dissertation Title:
Big House on the Block: Race, Space, and the Carceral Transformation of the Urban Landscape
Dissertation Committee:
Cybelle Fox (chair), David Harding, Brandi Summers (Columbia University), and Jonathan Simon
Research Interests
Political economy, historical sociology, the state, theory, society and space, urban sociology
Dissertation Title:
Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862
Dissertation Committee:
Mara Loveman (chair), John Lie, and Eric Schickler (Political Science)
Research Interests
political sociology, social movements, collective behavior, social psychology, political strategy, sociology of religion, class, populism
Dissertation Title:
Quiet in the Land No More: Accounting for Mennonites' Outlier Mobilization in the Gaza Solidarity Movement
Dissertation Committee:
Cihan Tuğal (chair), Marion Fourcade, Kim Voss, Francesca Polletta (UC Irvine), Daniel Boyarin (Rhetoric)