Alexander Adames
Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
McNeil 313
Research Interests
Social Stratification - Wealth - Social Mobility - Sociology of Education
Racial Stratification - Labor Market Outcomes - Social Demography
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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Ashleigh Cartwright
2017 Cohort
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Shaquilla Harrigan
2018 Cohort
McNeil 327
Research Interests
African Youth Development, Digital Economy, Organizations, Occupations, and Work, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Development
Dissertation Title
Young, Gifted, and African: How Kenyan Young People Navigate the Global Digital Economy
Faculty Advisors
Tukufu Zuberi (chair), Emily Hannum, Ben Shestakofsky, Mary-Hunter McDonnell (Wharton School of Management, UPenn), Krystal Strong (Rutgers University School of Education
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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
Gender; Family; Race and Ethnicity; Assortative Mating; Sexualities; Masculinities; Intersectionality; Culture; Social Inequality; Asian America; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title
"Racializing Romance: A Comparative Analysis of East Asian Americans in Interracial and Interethnic Relationships"
Faculty Advisors
Committee: Wendy Roth (Chair), Dorothy Roberts, Tukufu Zuberi, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, and Grace Kao (Yale University)
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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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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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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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Jack Thornton
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr College
Dissertation Title
Generous: The Labor of Philanthropy in Higher Education
Faculty Advisors
David Grazian (chair), Jason Schnittker, Benjamin Shestakofsky
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Elena G. van Stee
2019 Cohort visiting scholar, Harvard University (2023-2025)
Research Interests
Families, culture, social stratification, economic sociology, higher education, young adults, morality, religion, qualitative methods
Dissertation Title
Still Launching? Moral Understandings of Financial (In)Dependence in Young Adulthood
Faculty Advisors
Hyunjoon Park (Co-chair)
Wendy Roth (Co-chair)
Emily Hannum
Michèle Lamont (Harvard)
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