Graduate Students on the Job Market

Research Interests
Social Hierarchies, Race, Organizational Behavior, Policing, Intersectionality
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:
Geographic and Historical Variation in Labor Market Structures: Consequences for Career Earnings Mobility and Inequality
Dissertation Committee:
Neil Fligstein (chair), David Card, Heather Haveman, Daniel Schneider
margaret_eby@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
medical sociology, comparative historical sociology, bioethics, pedagogy, labor
Dissertation Title:
From Quackery to Emergency:
Expertise and the Making of Eugenics
Dissertation Committee:
Christopher Muller, Armando Lara-Millán, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Osagie Obasogie (Public Health)
Research Interests
immigration, life course and aging, race and ethnicity, family, education, and Latinx sociology
Dissertation Title:
Becoming Invisible: Aging and Stratification for Older Immigrants in the United States and Mexico
Dissertation Committee:
Irene Bloemraad (co-chair)
Cybelle Fox (co-chair)
Lisa García Bedolla (Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division)
G. Cristina Mora
Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School)
kristin.george@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Politics, Media, Racism, Theory, Digital Studies
Dissertation Title:
The 1619 Panic
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy, Marion Fourcade, Kim Voss, Rodney Benson (NYU), Wendy Brown (Political Science)
Research Interests
Social policy, health and medicine, family, race and gender, maternal and child welfare
Dissertation Title:
Punitive Protection: The Transformation of Child Welfare and Perinatal Regulation
Dissertation Committee:
Cybelle Fox (Chair), Calvin Morrill (Sociology and Law), Ann Swidler, Raka Ray, Jill Duerr Berrick (Social Work)
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
mardones_antonia@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
International migration, race and ethnicity, national identities, state-building, ethnographic methods, Latin America.
Dissertation Title:
Who is Afrodescendant? Classification Struggles and Legal Recognition in Argentina and Chile
Dissertation Committee:
Mara Loveman (chair), Irene Bloemraad, Tianna Paschel, David Cook-Martin, Calvin Morrill
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Racial Attitudes, Quantitative Methods, Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Gender
Dissertation Title:
The Social Roots of Implicit Racial Bias
Dissertation Committee:
Sandra Susan Smith (co-chair, Harvard Kennedy School)
David J. Harding (co-chair)
Cybelle Fox
Jack Glaser (Goldman School of Public Policy)
Research Interests
Gender, Law and Society, Medical Sociology, Social Movement
Dissertation Title:
The making of agentic vulnerability: The legal and medical construction of rape victims' injuries in South Korea
Dissertation Committee:
John Lie, Kim Voss (Co-chairs), Yan Long, Cihan Tugal, and Laura Nelson (Gender and Women’s Studies)
Research Interests
social theory, political sociology, law/legal professionals, punishment and inequality, race and ethnicity, work, global/transnational sociology, Latin America
Dissertation Title:
Public Defenders At Work: Challenging & Legitimizing State Violence in Brazil’s Penal Courts
Dissertation Committee:
Loïc Wacquant (Chair), Mara Loveman, Jonathan Simon (Law)
kiran_stallone@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Gender, Political Sociology
Dissertation Title:
Love in War? The Strategic Use of Intimacy in Armed Conflict
Research Interests
Sociology of Work, Organizational Theory, Computational Text Analysis, Quantitative Methods
Dissertation Title:
Relational Evaluations: How Frontline Foodservice and Retail Workers Use Workplace Relationships to Evaluate Their Jobs
Dissertation Committee:
Kim Voss (Chair), Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School), Neil Fligstein, David Bamman (Information School)
luistenorio94@gmail.com
Research Interests
International Migration; Latinx Sociology; Social Policy; Gender and Sexuality; Work; Law & Society
Dissertation Title:
The Promise, Progress, and Pitfalls of Lawful Permanent Residency
Dissertation Committee:
Irene Bloemraad, Cybelle Fox, Kim Voss, Lisa García-Bedolla
Research Interests
Global & Transnational Sociology, Sociology of Statistics, Sociology of Expertise, Public Policy and Sociology of Corruption.
Dissertation Title:
Manufacturing Corruption: A Genealogy of the Corruption Perception Index
Dissertation Committee:
Marion Fourcade (Chair), Mara Loveman, Laura Enriquez