Andrew P. Davis
- Dissertation Title: "The Social Structure of Conflict : Network Embeddedness and Isolation Across Levels of Analysis"
- Dissertation Committee: Ron Brieger (Chair), Joe Galaskiewicz, Dan Martinez, Jessica Maves-Braithwaite
- Research and Teaching Interests: Global & International Crime, Sexual Violence, Political Sociology, War & Social Conflict, Organizational Sociology, Computational Sociology, Quantitative Methods
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: How Prison Labor Systems Reproduce Inequality"
- Dissertation Committee: Jeff Sallaz (Chair), Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Schwartzman, Jennifer Carlson, Phillip Goodman
- Research and Teaching Interests: Punishment and Incarceration, Work, Culture, Inequality, Economic Sociology
Meltem Odabas
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- Dissertation Title: Novelty in Cultural Tastes: A Social Network Perspective
- Dissertation Committee: Ronald L. Breiger (Chair); Erin Leahey (Member); Charles Seguin (Member)
- Research and Teaching Interests: Social Networks; Computational Social Science; Social Movements and Collective Action; Sociology of Culture; Economic Sociology; Organizations
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
- 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
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
