Graduate Students on the Job Market
Research Interests
Family demography, gender, social reproduction, 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
ghaleb@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
environmental stewardship, knowledge, nonhuman/multispecies relations, political ecology
Dissertation Title:
The Good Fire Resurgence: Living with Fire and Building Climate Resilience in California
Dissertation Committee:
Cihan Tugal (chair); Daniel Aldana Cohen; Carolyn Smith (Anthropology)
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
diegoca@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Political and Comparative-Historical Sociology, Political Economy, Class and Race, Latin America, East Asia
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)
kristin.george@berkeley.edu
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
jannahuang@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Economic Sociology, Institutional Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Organizational Culture
Dissertation Title:
Making Climate Count: The Construction and Consequences of Climate Metrics for Corporate Climate Governance
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
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
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
Migration, Citizenship, Race & Ethnicity, Nationalism, Latin America
Dissertation Title:
“De Aquí y De Allá”: Young Return Migrants' (Re)Integration in Mexico
Dissertation Committee:
Cristina Mora & Cybelle Fox (Co-Chairs), Tianna Paschel, Cal Morrill, Irene Bloemraad
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)