Graduate Students on the Job Market
Research Interests
Family demography, gender, race and ethnicity, economic sociology, quantitative methods, historical methods
Dissertation Title:
Family Formation and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940
Dissertation Committee:
Christopher Muller (co-chair, Harvard), Danya Lagos (co-chair), David Harding, Leslie Salzinger
audrey.augenbraum@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Political sociology, historical sociology, US deportation state
Dissertation Title:
Incarceration and release: The rise of supervision in US immigration control, 1907 to 1952
Dissertation Committee:
Cybelle Fox (chair), Mara Loveman, Christopher Muller, Hidetaka Hirota
Research Interests
Political and Comparative-Historical Sociology, Political Economy, Development, Class Analysis, Latin America, East Asia
Dissertation Title:
Slavery, Class Structure and Social Mobility in the Spanish Caribbean: A Comparative-Historical Study
Dissertation Committee:
John Lie, Mara Loveman, Laura Enríquez, Trevor Jackson
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
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
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)
Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Racial and Ethnicity, Political Economy, Social Movements, Gender, Theory
Dissertation Title:
Against All Odds: Black Nonprofits, Gentrification, and the Politics of Liberation in Modern Atlanta
Dissertation Committee:
Tianna Pashel, Kim Voss, Courtney Desiree Morris
tshaseloff@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Economic Sociology, Organizations, Political Economy, Sociology of Technology, Sociology of Finance
Dissertation Title:
Disrupting Finance Capitalism: The 2008 Financial Crisis, Silicon Valley, and the Remaking of Wall Street
Dissertation Committee:
Neil Fligstein (Chair), Marion Fourcade, Steven Vogel (Political Science)
Research Interests
Punishment, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Law and Society, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title:
Contesting the Court: Reform, Retrenchment, and Racial Politics in Criminal Court Activism
Dissertation Committee:
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz (chair), Loïc Wacquant, Catherine Albiston
Research Interests
Organizational Theory, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge/Expertise, Nonmarket Strategy, Climate Politics
Dissertation Title:
Making Climate Count: The Construction and Consequences of Sustainability Metrics in Corporate Climate Governance
Dissertation Committee:
Neil Fligstein (chair), Marion Fourcade, Shawn Kim (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
jlepe@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Law and society, punishment, bureaucracy, race and inequality, ethnography and qualitative methods
Dissertation Title:
Undermining Progressive Juvenile Justice Reform: How the Best-Intentioned Public Policies Fail
Dissertation Committee:
Cybelle Fox (chair), David J. Harding, and Catherine R. Albiston
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
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)
Research Interests
Migration, Citizenship, Race & Ethnicity, Latin America, Youth
Dissertation Title:
“De Aquí y De Allá”: Young Return Migrants' (Re)Integration in Mexico
Dissertation Committee:
Cristina Mora & Cybelle Fox (Co-Chairs), Tianna Paschel, and Cal Morrill
wrathje@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
AI and society, computational social science, science and technology studies (STS), digital sociology, culture, historical and comparative sociology
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