Graduate Students on the Job Market
Research Interests
Work, Political Sociology, Social Policy, Social Stratification and Inequality, Methods
Dissertation Title:
The Two Faces of the New Welfare Capitalism
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (co-chair), Cybelle Fox (co-chair), Kim Voss
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
phathi@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Demography, gender, social inequality, health, medical sociology, environment, global studies, quantitative methods, qualitative methods
Dissertation Title:
The demographic implications of stillbirth’s neglect in the global measurement of fertility and mortality
Dissertation Committee:
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (co-chair), Raka Ray (co-chair), Dennis Feehan, Mara Loveman
Research Interests
Economic Sociology, Technology, Organizations, Culture, Theory
Dissertation Title:
Time and Money Well Spent? The Moral Economy of Platform Work
Dissertation Committee:
Heather Haveman (co-chair), Calvin Morrill (co-chair), Marion Fourcade
Research Interests
Politics, Media, Theory
Dissertation Title:
The Politics of Historical Production: Bourdieu, Hall, and Du Bois on the 1619 Project
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (chair), Kim Voss, Marion Fourcade, 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)
Research Interests
economic sociology, organizations, science and technology studies
Dissertation Title:
The Power of 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
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
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
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)
emily_ruppel@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Medical Sociology, Labor, Gender/Sexuality, Theory
Dissertation Title:
Capitalizing on Disability: Labor Process and Governance in Disability Employment Programs
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Burawoy (chair), Kim Voss, Armando Lara-Millán, Leslie Salzinger, and Linda Blum
Research Interests
Gender, Political Sociology
Dissertation Title:
Love in War? The Strategic Use of Intimacy in Armed Conflict
luistenorio@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Immigration; Race & Ethnicity; Law & Society; Gender and Sexuality; Social Policy
Dissertation Title:
Legalization Matters: The Progress and Pitfalls of Permanent Residency for Formerly Undocumented Immigrants
Dissertation Committee:
Irene Bloemraad, Cybelle Fox, Kim Voss, Lisa García-Bedolla