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 — Physical and mental health
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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Zohra Ansari-Thomas
2019 Cohort
Research Interests
Population Studies; Health and Aging; Care work; Families; Migration; Racial stratification
Dissertation Title
Three essays on migration, household formation, and family caregiving
Faculty Advisors
Chenoa Flippen (Chair), Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Emilio Parrado, Mikko Myrskylä
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Dylan Farrell-Bryan
2016 Cohort
McNeil 266
Research Interests
Immigration; Law and Society; Gender; Race and Ethnicity; Mixed-Methods
Faculty Advisors
Emilio Parrado (Chair), Amada Armenta (UCLA), Wendy Roth
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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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Elizabeth Jacobs
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1
18057 Rostock, Germany
Research Interests
Immigration; Globalization; Race and Ethnicity; Work; Labor Markets; 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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Sangsoo Lee
2016 Cohort
McNeil 312
Research Interests
Inequality, Family, Gender, Children & Youth, Health, Cross-National Study, and South Korea
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Austin Lee
2017 Cohort
McNeil 331
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Qualitative Methods, Black Feminist Theory, Affect Theory, Sociology of The Family
Dissertation Title
“I Come and Go as I Please”: Black Women, Parental Status, and the Captive Maternal
Faculty Advisors
Camille Zubrinsky Charles (Chair), Melissa Wilde, 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
Visiting Assistant Professor at Emory University
Research Interests
Demography, gender, family, health, inequality, aging/life course, development, mixed-methods, and India
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Rebecca Anna Schut
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Health and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago
Research Interests
Medical sociology; Social demography; 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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Mengyang Zhao
2017 Cohort
McNeil 331
Research Interests
Social movements, urban sociology, public opinion, social network analysis, mixed-method research
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