Jurgita Abromaviciute
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- Dissertation title: "Deconstructing Bias: How Partnership Status Modifies the Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Bonus"
- Dissertation committee: Erin Leahey (Chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Social Psychology, Theory, Gender, Social Networks
Eliza Benites-Gambirazio
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- Dissertation Title: "Selling without looking like it. The production of a residential housing market through the study of real estate agents"
- Dissertation Committee: Jane Zavisca (Chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Economic Sociology, Work and Organizations, Culture, Stratification, Housing
Eric Bjorklund
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- Dissertation Title: "Like a Fire Bell in the Night: The Socio-Political Consequences of Economic Insecurity amongst White Working Class Men "
- Dissertation Committee: Joseph Galaskiewicz (Chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Stratification/Inequality, Political Economy, Political Sociology, and Quantitative Methods
Michael Gibson-Light
- Dissertation Title: "Capital & Punishment: Inmate Labor in the Contemporary American Prison"
- Dissertation Committee: Jeff Sallaz (Chair), Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Schwartzman, Jennifer Carlson, Phillip Goodman
- Research and Teaching Interests: Criminology, Punishment, Work, Culture, Economic Sociology, Race
David McBee
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- Dissertation Title: "The Research Problem of Research Obstacles: Social Networks and Problem-Solving in Biopharmaceutical R&D"
- Dissertation Committee: Erin Leahey
- Research and Teaching Interests: Organizations, Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Networks
Laureen O'Brien
- Dissertation Title: "Organizational Emergence and the Rise of Vendor Management"
- Dissertation Committee: Erin Leahey (co-chair), Joseph Broschak (co-chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Organizations, occupations, and work; labor markets; inequality; gender/race/class; qualitative and quantitative methods
Sosuke Okada
- Dissertation Title: Testing the Intrinsic Benefit Model of Cultural Signaling
- Dissertation Committee: Joseph Galaskiewicz (chair, Linda Molm, Ronald Breiger, Tamar Kugler
- Research and Teaching Interests: Social Psychology, Group Processes, Social Networks, Organizations, Research Methodologies
Jessica Pfaffendorf
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- Dissertation Title: "The Double Disadvantage: A Theory of Status-Stigma Intensification and Moral Expectations in Employment.”
- Dissertation Committee: Robin Stryker (Chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Social Psychology, Culture, Stratification and Inequality, Gender, Deviance, Qualitative Methods, Experimental Methods
Kyle Puetz
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- Dissertation Title: “Social Capital after Deepwater Horizon: A Multi-Method Analysis of Network Resources, Structure, and Change Following an Environmental Disaster.”
- Dissertation Committee: Ron Breiger (Co-Chair), Brian Mayer (Co-Chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Culture, Environment, Knowledge, Organizations, Social Networks, Theory
Heidi Reynolds-Stenson
- Dissertation Title: "Building a Wall of Resistance: The Consequences of Activist's Repression-Management Strategies"
- Dissertation Committee: Jennifer Earl (chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Social Movements, Policing, Law, Deviance, Culture
Misty Ring-Ramirez
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- Dissertation Title: "An Interorganizational Network Analysis of the Social Movement Sector in New York, 1960-1995"
- Dissertation Committee: Jennifer Earl (Co-Chair), Joseph Galaskiewicz (Co-Chair)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Organizations, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Social Network Analysis, Research Methods and Statistics
Amanda Schutz
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- Dissertation Title: "Congregation Among the Least Religious: The Process and Meaning of Organizing Around Non-Belief"
- Dissertation Committee: Jane Zavisca
- Research and Teaching Interests: Religion and Secularism, Inequality, identity, Boundaries, Social Movements, Informal organizations and Communities, Deviance, Morality
