Ph.D.s on the Job Market

Information about our Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s who are now on the academic job market.

PhDs on the Market

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Elena Ayala-Hurtado

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2024 (expected)

Dissertation Title: ‘This Isn’t Quite What I Expected:’ Insecurity among Young College Graduates in the United States and Spain.

Dissertation Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Bart Bonikowski, Christina Ciocca Eller, and Juan Díez Medrano

Research/Teaching Interests: work and occupations; economic life; higher education; cultural sociology; inequality; transition to adulthood; comparative sociology; qualitative methods; mixed methods

Eun Se Baik

Eun Se Baik

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2024 (expected)
Dissertation Title: Transnational Making and Remaking of Education: Private Supplementary Education in Korea and Korean America
Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Waters (Co-Chair), Mario L. Small (Co-Chair; Columbia University), Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College), and Paul Y. Chang
Research/Teaching Interests: International migration; Asia and Asian America; education; transnational processes; qualitative methods... Read more about Eun Se Baik

Nicolette Bardele

Nicolette Bardele

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2024 (expected)
Dissertation Title: The Spatial and Temporal Context of Probation and Parole
Dissertation Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Bruce Western (Columbia University), and Christopher Winship
Research/Teaching Interests: criminal justice; rural and urban sociology; inequality; qualitative methods; quantitative methods

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Maleah Fekete

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2024 (expected)
Dissertation Title: Making Meaning in Contexts of Despair: An Investigation of Stress Management and Close Relationships in Areas Affected by Deaths of Despair
Dissertation Committee: Peter V. Marsden (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Brea Perry, and Mario L. Small
Research/Teaching Interests: sociology of gender, the sociology of health, theory, cultural sociology, and social networks
... Read more about Maleah Fekete

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Ohjae Gowen

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2024 (expected)
Dissertation Title: Men's Household Labor and the Making of Gender Inequality at Home
Dissertation Topic: parenthood, household labor, gender inequality, work-family intersection
Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Co-Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), David S. Pedulla, and Xiang Zhou
Research/Teaching Interests: family, social demography, gender, work and occupations, social stratification, quantitative methods... Read more about Ohjae Gowen

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