Students on the Job Market

Alexander Adames

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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Laurin Bixby

2019 Cohort

Research Interests

Disability, Population Health, Health and Social Policy, Quantitative Methodology, Medical Sociology

Dissertation Title

Disability and the Reproduction of Inequality

Faculty Advisors

Courtney E. Boen (chair), Jason Schnittker, Michelle Putnam (Simmons University)

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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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Allison Dunatchik

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

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

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

Eugenio Paglino

Ph.D. Student in Sociology and Demography

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Blair Sackett

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

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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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Raka Sen

Raka Sen

2017 Cohort

Research Interests

Climate change, labor, gender, rural, social resilience, cities, neighborhoods and disaster sociology

Faculty Advisors

David Grazian, Chenoa Flippen, Nikhil Anand, Benjamin Shestakofsky, & Daniel Aldana Cohen. 

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David Sorge

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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