Tuğçe Ellialti-Köse
Research Interests
Gender and Sexuality, Law and Society, Sociology of Law, Cultural Sociology, Violence against Women, Ethnography of the State, Political Sociology, Research Methods
Dissertation Title:
Reforming the Laws: Gender, State, and Cases of Sexual Violence in Turkey
Faculty Advisors:
Robin L. Leidner (co-chair), Emily C. Hannum (co-chair), Deborah A. Thomas (Anthropology), Fatma Muge Gocek (Sociology and Women’s Studies)
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Sherelle Ferguson
Post-doctoral Fellow at Temple University College of Education and Human Development
Research Interests
Education, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification, Social Capital and Social Networks, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title
Bridges and Barriers to Connection: Class, Race, and Student Engagement with Institutional Agents
Faculty Advisors
Annette Lareau, Hyunjoon Park, Camille Charles, Karolyn Tyson (UNC-Chapel Hill)
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Nora Gross
Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston College
Research Interests
Sociology of education; race and inequality; gender (masculinity); emotion; youth culture; violence; urban sociology; visual sociology; ethnographic, qualitative, and participatory methods; documentary film
Dissertation Title
Brothers in Grief: The Stages of Grieving for a School and its Students Following Three Shooting Deaths of Black Teenage Boys
Faculty Advisors
Camille Charles and Kathleen Hall (Co-Chairs), John Jackson
External dissertation committee members: Nikki Jones and Joseph Nelson
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Lauren Harris
PhD Candidate, Sociology 2016 Cohort
McNeil 254A
Photo credit: Marcus T. Wright
Research Interests
Family, family formation, gender, the life course, social stratification, work and gender, feminism and sociology of reproduction, qualitative research methods
Dissertation Title
Gray Dating: How Age and Gender Impact the Experiences of Singlehood and Partnering for Older Adults
Faculty Advisors
Jerry A. Jacobs, Frank F. Furstenberg, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Peter Francis Harvey
2014 Cohort PhD Candidate, NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow 2020
McNeil 313
Research Interests
Culture, education, social stratification, gender, race, social psychology, qualitative methods, religion
Faculty Advisors
Annette Lareau (Chair), Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Robin Leidner, Melissa Wilde, and Randall Collins
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Elizabeth Jacobs
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University
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McNeil 327
Research Interests
Immigration; Globalization; Race and Ethnicity; Work; Gender; Education; Stratification; Computational Methods; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title
Global Gatekeepers: How institutions regulate and constrain skilled migration flows
Faculty Advisors
Emilio Parrado, Chenoa Flippen, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Andrea Kauffman-Berry
McNeil 318
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Organization
Faculty Advisors
Emilio Parrado, Onoso Imoagene, Tukufu Zuberi
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Megan N. Reed
PhD Candidate
Research Interests
social demography, gender, family, marriage, the life course, social stratification, development, and India
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Blair Sackett
Doctoral Candidate in Sociology Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow 2022-2024, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
McNeil 342
Research Interests
Inequality and Social Stratification; International Migration; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Work and Organizations; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Development; Sociology of Culture; Qualitative Research Methods
Faculty Advisors
Annette Lareau (co-chair), Randall Collins (co-chair), Mauro Guillen, Chenoa Flippen
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Rebecca Anna Schut
Ph.D. Candidate, 2018 Cohort Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Health and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago
239 McNeil Building
Research Interests
Medical sociology; Structural determinants of health; Population studies; 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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Doron Shiffer-Sebba
2016 Cohort
McNeil 331
Research Interests
Stratification, Economic Sociology, Organizations, Urban Sociology, Computational Methods
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David Sorge
PhD Candidate, Sociology 2012 Cohort
McNeil 331
Research Interests
Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation; Social Movements; South Asia; Theory; Face-to-Face Interaction; Internal Conversation and Self-Formation
Faculty Advisors
Randall Collins, Guobin Yang, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Rutgers, Dept. of Anthropology)
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