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Alexander Adames
Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
McNeil 313
Research Interests
Social stratification — Social mobility — Sociology of education — Racial and ethnic stratification
Social demography — Labor market inequality — Social Psychology
Dissertation Title
Heterogeneity in Black-White Economic Disparities in the United States
Faculty Advisors
Xi Song (Chair), Camille Z. Charles, Annette Lareau, and Hyunjoon Park
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Ellen Bryer
2018 Cohort
McNeil 318
Research Interests
Social Stratification; Higher Education; Student Debt; Transition to Adulthood; Social Class; Wealth Inequality
Dissertation Title
Navigating Credentials, Loans, and Value: Student Pathways to and Through Graduate Education
Faculty Advisors
Emily Hannum (chair), Jerry Jacobs, Hyunjoon Park, Lauren Russell
Read BioAshleigh Cartwright
2017 Cohort
McNeil 331Read Bio
Allison Dunatchik
2018 Cohort
McNeil 374
Research Interests
Gender; Families; Work; Social stratification; Social demography; Quantitative methods; Time use
Dissertation Title
The Production of Gender Inequality in Different-Sex Couples: A Life-Course Approach
Faculty Advisors
Xi Song (Chair), Jerry A. Jacobs, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Peter Francis Harvey
Postdoctoral Fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard
Research Interests
Culture, social inequality, education
Dissertation Title
Learning their Station: Socialization and Discrimination in Two Elementary Schools
Faculty Advisors
Annette Lareau (Chair), Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Robin Leidner, and Melissa Wilde
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Olivia Y. Hu
2019 Cohort
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity; Gender; Sexualities; Family; Assortative Mating; Culture; Social Psychology; Asian America
Dissertation Title
"Racializing Romance: A Comparative Analysis of East Asian Americans in Interracial/-Ethnic Relationships"
Faculty Advisors
Committee: Wendy Roth (Chair), Dorothy Roberts, Tukufu Zuberi, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, and Grace Kao (Yale University)
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Tessa Huttenlocher
2016 Cohort
McNeil 331
Research Interests
Organizations, social stratification, religion, education, the nonprofit sector, qualitative methods, comparative historical methods
Comprehensive Exams:
Social Stratification (Dr. Hyunjoon Park, Dr. Emily Hannum, Dr. Pilar Gonalons-Pons)
Sociology of Organizations (Dr. Benjamin Shestakofsky, Dr. Mary-Hunter McDonnell, Dr. Jerry Jacobs)
Dissertation Title
The Religious Origins of Educational Inequality: American Denominational Investment in Higher Education in the Early 20th Century
Faculty Advisors
Dr. Melissa Wilde (Chair)
Dr. David Grazian
Dr. Mary-Hunter McDonnell
Dr. Jerry A. Jacobs
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Austin Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University Society of Fellows, Department of Sociology
Research Interests
Race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; intersectionality; affect; Black feminist theory; qualitative methods; family; informal adoption; religion
Faculty Advisors
Camille Zubrinsky Charles (Chair), Melissa Wilde, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Yasmin Mertehikian
2018 Cohort
McNeil 374
Research Interests
Gender; Work; Labor Market; Domestic Work; Inequality; Social and Racial Stratification; Intersectionality; Social Demography; Developing Countries; Quantitative Research Methods; Qualitative Research Methods.
Dissertation Title
Three essays on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor market outcomes in Argentina
Faculty Advisors
Emilio Parrado (Chair), Jerry Jacobs, Chenoa Flippen, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Eugenio Paglino
Ph.D. Student in Sociology and Demography
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Blair Sackett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Research Interests
Social inequality; international migration; work and organizations; economic sociology; race and ethnicity; global and transnational sociology; sociology of development; sociology of culture; sociology of the family; qualitative research methods, ethnography
Faculty Advisors
Annette Lareau (co-chair), Randall Collins (co-chair), Mauro Guillen, Chenoa Flippen
Read BioDavid Sorge
PhD, Sociology
Research Interests
Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation; Social Movements; South Asia; Theory; Face-to-Face Interaction; Internal Conversation and Self-Formation
Dissertation Title
Three Essays in the Sociology of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, and Emotional Interventions in De-Escalation
Faculty Advisors
Randall Collins, Guobin Yang, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Rutgers, Dept. of Anthropology), Raheel Dhattiwala (Oxford)
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Jack Thornton
2019 Cohort
Dissertation Title
Generous: The Labor of Philanthropy in Higher Education
Faculty Advisors
David Grazian (chair), Jason Schnittker, Benjamin Shestakofsky
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