(Sociology & Social Policy, November 2023)
Thesis Title: The Art of Westernizing: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Public Art in Post-Soviet Lithuania
Committee: Mario L. Small (Chair, Columbia University), Orlando Patterson, Peggy Levitt...
(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2024)
Thesis Title: Risk Roulette: How Lawyers Make Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools Matter in Criminal Court
Committee: Sandra Susan Smith (Co-Chair), Ya-Wen Lei (Co-Chair), and Sarah Brayne (University of Texas at Austin)
Post...
(Sociology, May 2024)
Thesis Title: The Long Arc of a Nation: Memory Politics in Canada and the United States
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Ellis Monk, and Elke Winter (University of Ottawa)
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher with the...
(PhD in Organizational Behavior with a Secondary Field in Data Science, May 2024; MA in Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Essays on Breakthrough Emergence
Committee: Gary Pisano (Chair), Feng Zhu, and Peter V. Marsden
(Organizational Behavior, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Centralized Management in Democratic Governance – Essays on Organizing a System of Executive Branch Bureaucracies
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Bart Bonikowski (New York University), and Daniel...
(Sociology, May 2021)
Thesis Title: Climate Change and Inequality in the US: Sociological Analyses of Big Data
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Joscha Legewie, and James R. Elliott (Rice University)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor...
(Sociology, November 2020)
Thesis Title: Individual and Community Responses to Armed Conflict: The Case of the Mexican 'War on Organized Crime'
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Jocelyn Viterna
Initial Placement: Assistant...
Research Interests: Criminal justice policy, policing, quantitative methods
Nefara Riesch is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy. Her work examines policing and criminal legal system policy. Prior to her doctoral studies, Nefara worked in policy...
