Tyler Baldor
Ph.D. Candidate
McNeil 254A
Research Interests
Urban sociology, sexualities, gender, social inequality, social interaction
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Kennan Cepa
2015 Cohort
McNeil 254B
Research Interests
Higher education, family, transition to adulthood, children and youth, social stratification
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Tuğçe Ellialti-Köse
2008 Cohort
McNeil 327
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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Jeylan Erman
2015 Cohort
McNeil 342
Research Interests
Demography, migration and adaptation, reproductive change, Europe
Dissertation Title
Three Essays on Migration and Family Change
Faculty Advisors
Chenoa Flippen (Chair), Irma T. Elo and Jere R. Behrman
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Adira Fierro-Villa
2014 Cohort
Research Interests
Sociology of education, family and social stratification, and Latin American Studies
Faculty Advisors
Hyunjoon Park, Emily Hannum, Grace Kao
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Nora Gross
Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston College 2014 Cohort
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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Peter Francis Harvey
2014 Cohort PhD Candidate, NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow 2020, Photo credit Livia Garofalo
McNeil 313
Research Interests
Culture, education, gender, race, social stratification
Faculty Advisors
Annette Lareau (Chair), Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Robin Leidner, Melissa Wilde, and Randall Collins
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Alexander D. Hoppe
2013 Cohort
McNeil 353
Research Interests
Work, Organizations, and Management
Economic Sociology
Social Psychology and Microsociology
Creative Industries
Sociological Theory
Globalization
Strategy
Dissertation Title
The Social Life of Fashion: Organizational Routines and Industrial Upgrading in the Apparel Industry
Faculty Advisors
Randall Collins (Supervisor), Mauro Guillén (Chair), Robin Leidner, David Grazian
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Elizabeth Jacobs
Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
eljacobs@sas.upenn.edu2158987665
McNeil 327
Research Interests
Immigration; Globalization; Race and Ethnicity; Work; Gender; Stratification; Methodology
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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Sonita Moss
2013 Cohort
McNeil 374
Research Interests
Social movements, cultural production, urban inequality
Faculty Advisors
Dorothy Roberts, Melissa Wilde
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Andrea Kauffman-Berry
2009 Cohort
McNeil 318
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Organization
Faculty Advisors
Emilio Parrado, Onoso Imoagene, Tukufu Zuberi
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haley pilgrim
2015 Cohort
McNeil 327
Research Interests
Race/ethnicity; Social stratification; Identity formation and performance; Inter-ethnic group relations
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Megan N. Reed
2015 Cohort
Research Interests
Social Demography, Gender, Family, Marriage, the Life Course, and Social Stratification
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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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