Research Institution

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2015)
Thesis Title: Essays on Schools, Crime, and Punishment
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Christopher Jencks (Harvard Kennedy School), and Alexandra Killewald
Initial Placement: Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute...

(Sociology, June 2000)
Thesis Title: Preserving National Culture: The National Trust and the Framing of British National Heritage, 1895-2000
Committee: Stanley Lieberson (chair), Victoria Alexander, Mary C. Waters
Initial Placement: Research Associate...

(Sociology, June 2000)
Thesis Title: Protestant-Catholic-Buddhist: Korean-Americans and Religious Adaptation in Greater Boston
Committee: Mary Waters (chair), Peter V. Marsden, Diana Eck
Initial Placement: Post-doc in Sociology, Rice University
Current...

(Sociology, November 1999)
Thesis Title: Resistance, Confrontation, and Accommodation in Two Urban School Districts: Black-Led Reform Efforts in the 1960s and 1980s
Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Kenneth Andrews
Initial Placement: Post...

(Sociology, November 2002)
Thesis Title: Status Attainment Patterns of Latino and Asian Immigrant Students
Committee: Christopher Winship (chair), Orlando Patterson, George Borjas (Kennedy School of Government)
Current Position: Senior Social Scientist...

(Sociology and Social Policy, November 2005)
Thesis Title: Change and Continuity in African American Marital Disruption from Reconstruction to the Present
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Christopher Jencks, David Ellwood
Initial Placement: NICHD post...

(Sociology, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Risky Business: An Examination of Firm Location Decisions and Their Implications for Inner Cities
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Katherine Newman, Christopher Jencks
Current Position: Director, Social Sciences...

(Sociology & Social Policy, November 2007)
Thesis Title: Successful Childrearing in Diverse Neighborhood Environments: Understanding the Role of Secure, Stable Employment
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (chair), William Julius Wilson, Annemette Sorensen
Initia...

(Sociology, June 2008)
Thesis Title: Add Water and Oil, then Stir: The Incompatibility of Work and Family
Committee: Mary Brinton (chair), Annemette Sorensen, Kathryn Edin
Initial Placement: Labor Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives...

(Sociology, June 2008)
Thesis Title: Family Economic Insecurity in the United States
Committee: Christopher Jencks (chair), Theda Skocpol, William Julius Wilson, Katherine Newman
Initial Placement: American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow...