Alexander Adames
2017 Cohort Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Pre-doctoral Fellow
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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Laurin Bixby
2019 Cohort
Research Interests
Disability, Medical Sociology, Health and Social Policy, Quantitative Methodology
Dissertation Title
Disability and the Reproduction of Socioeconomic Inequality
Faculty Advisors
Courtney E. Boen
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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
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Ashleigh 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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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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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
Blair Sackett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Research Interests
International migration; race, ethnicity, and immigration; poverty and inequality; work and organizations; global and transnational sociology; development; sociology of culture; qualitative research methods, ethnography
Faculty Advisors
Annette Lareau (co-chair), Randall Collins (co-chair), Mauro Guillen, Chenoa Flippen
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Rebecca Anna Schut
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Health and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago
Research Interests
Social demography; Medical sociology; Population health inequalities; Structural determinants of health; Inequalities in the structure and delivery of health care; Racial stratification; Immigrant incorporation
Dissertation Title
Inequalities in the Structure and Delivery of U.S. Health Care
Faculty Advisors
Chenoa Flippen (chair), Courtney Boen, Dorothy Roberts
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David 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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