Postdoctoral Fellow

(Sociology, May 2026)
Thesis Title: The Making of Ethical AI: Developing Machine Learning Solutions for Healthcare
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Ya-Wen Lei, Kate Kellogg (MIT Sloan School of Management), and Angèle Christin (Stanford University)
Initial...

(Sociology & Social Policy, November 2019)
Thesis Title: How Social Adversity and Opioid Prescription Intersect with the Criminal Justice System and Recent Mortality in the United States
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A...

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Associations of Education with Health by Demographic, Genetic, and School Characteristics
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A. Killewald
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral...

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Health, Race, and the Spatial Distribution of Opportunity in America
Committee: Christopher Jencks (Chair), Bruce Western, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell Population Center...

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Defining Female Achievement: Gender, Class, and Work in Contemporary Korea
Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Paul Y. Chang, and Jocelyn Viterna
Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Sociology...

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Communal Organization and Civic Solidarity: Political Participation in Guarding Rural Collective Land Rights in Contemporary China
Committee: Martin K. Whyte (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, and Elizabeth J. Perry
Initial...

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Treaties, Networks, and the Institutionalization of Reproductive Policies in the World, 1919-2014 
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: University Tutor, Macquarie...

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Innovating in Education: NGO Interventions in New Delhi Government Schools
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Katherine Merseth, and Orlando Patterson
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Health...

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: The Social and Political Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1787-1861
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Daniel Carpenter
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of...

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Privilege and Punishment: Unequal Experiences of Criminal Justice
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Co-Chair), Devah Pager (Co-Chair), Lawrence D. Bobo, Bart Bonikowski, and Bruce Western
Initial Placement: Quattrone Center...