Graduate Degrees Awarded

Doctor of Philosophy

Stefan Beljean

Stefan Beljean

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: The Pressures of Status Reproduction: Upper-Middle-Class Youth and the Transition to Higher Education in Germany and the United States
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Jal Mehta, and Michael Sauder
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany
Current Position: https://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/stefan-beljean-eng/
Kelley Ty Fong

Kelley Ty Fong

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Essays on Child Protective Services Reporting
Committee: Bruce Western (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Blythe George

Blythe Katelyn George

(Sociology & Social Policy, March 2020)
Thesis Title: Tribal Lands, Tribal Men, and Tribal Responsibilities: World Renewal Fathers with Criminal Records and Their Perceptions of Work and Fatherhood On- and Off-Reservation
Committee: William Julius Wilson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Mario Luis Small, and Megan Comfort (RTI)
Initial Placement: Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2020-21); Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced

Nina Gheihman

Nina Gheihman

(Sociology, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Veganized: How Cultural Entrepreneurs Transformed a Fringe Movement
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Vanina Leschziner (University of Toronto)
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sustainable Food Initiative at University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Visiting Scholar in the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School; author of How It All Vegan: The Inside Story of Icons, Informers, and Innovators Who Changed Food Forever (forthcoming in 2022, Bloomsbury Publishing USA)
Gru Han

Gru Han

(Sociology, March 2020)
Thesis Title: Government Regulation and Economic Globalization: The Diffusion of Antitrust Law and Merger Control and Its Influence on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Bart Bonikowski
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Charles F. Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University
Charlotte Lloyd

Charlotte Lloyd

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Managing Indigeneity, Cultivating Citizens: Reconciliation Action Plans in Australian Organizations
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Michèle Lamont
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program and coordinator of the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion for 2019-2020, Weatherhead Center for International Studies, Harvard University
Current Position: Senior Analyst, Abt Associates, Inc.

Jared Schachner

Jared Nathan Schachner

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Contextual Selection and Intergenerational Reproduction
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Christopher Jencks
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar/Mansueto Fellow, Department of Sociology & Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Price Center for Social Innovation, University of Southern California

Alix Winter

Alix Soffen Winter

(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. Killewald
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University
Current Position: Chief Data Scientist, Racial Profiling and Biased Policing Investigations Unit, New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board 
Linda Zhao

Linda Zhao

(Sociology, November 2020)
Thesis Title: The Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Three Studies on Networks, Diversity, and Integration
Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Peter V. Marsden, Alexandra A. Killewald, and Filiz Garip
Initial Placement: Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center, Cornell University
Current Position: Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago (effective Fall 2022)

Laura Adler

Laura Kremen Adler

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: From the Job's Worth to the Person's Price: Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and the Changing Understanding of Fair Pay
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Jason Beckfield, Peter V. Marsden, and David Pedulla
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management (effective Fall 2022)

Ahmmad Brown

Ahmmad Allan Brown

(Organizational Behavior, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Three Papers on Black Student Well-being in HWCUs: Social Capital, Belonging, and Identity
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Co-Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan (Co-Chair), and Alexandra Feldberg
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University (effective Fall 2022)

Roland Neil

Roland Neil

(Sociology, November 2021)
Thesis Title: The Ecological Sources of Racial Inequities in Proactive Policing
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Christopher Winship, Joscha Legewie, and Anthony Braga
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Penn Injury Science Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: 
Associate Behavioral/Social Scientist at RAND Corporation.
Jasmine Olivier

Jasmine Nicole Olivier

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Reimagining Public Safety: Transformations in Collective Efficacy and Community Control in Boston Public Housing
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Robert J. Sampson, Monica C. Bell (Yale Law School), and Rod K. Brunson (University of Maryland)
Initial Placement: Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago (effective Fall 2022)

Bo Yun Park

Bo Yun Park

(Sociology, November 2021)
Thesis Title: Is (S)He Presidential? The Changing Scripts of Political Leadership, 1995-2020
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, Bart Bonikowski (New York University), and Jennifer Hochschild (Department of Government, Harvard University)
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, Social Science Data Lab (D-Lab), University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Leadership Studies, University of Richmond (effective Fall 2022)
Nathan James Robinson

Nathan James Robinson

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Hostile Territory: Mobilizing Resources and Finding Opportunities in the Contemporary U.S. Democratic Socialist Movement
Committee: Lawrence D. Bobo (Co-Chair), Bart Bonikowski (Co-Chair, New York University), and Christopher Winship
Position: Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Current Affairs (2015-present)
Adam Silver Travis

Adam Silver Travis

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Towards a Landscape of Rental Housing Ownership: Legal and Spatial Characteristics of Residential Landlords in the United States
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Matthew Desmond (Princeton University), and Mario Luis Small (Columbia University)
Position: Associate, Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA

Fangsheng Zhu

Fangsheng Zhu

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Education, Inequality, and Intensive Parenting in China
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Christopher Winship, Ya-Wen Lei, and Elizabeth Perry (Department of Government, Harvard University)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China... Read more about Fangsheng Zhu

Victoria Asbury

Victoria S. Asbury-Kimmel

(Sociology, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Contemporary Contours of National Belonging: Experimental and Survey Approaches for Understanding the Structures of the American Hierarchy
Committee: Lawrence D. Bobo (Chair), Bart Bonikowski (New York University), Michèle Lamont, and Mary C. Waters
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, New York University Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (September 2023–August 2025)
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Sean Bock

Sean Bock

(Sociology, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Rethinking Polarization: A Multilevel Approach to the Study of Mass Political Disagreement
Committee: Bart Bonikowski (Chair, New York University), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Jason Beckfield
Current Position: Data Analytics Specialist, Abt Associates
Leah Gose

Leah E. Gose

(Sociology, May 2023)

Thesis Title: Feeding the Need: Charitable Food-Providing Organizations and Gaps in the Social Safety Net

Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Christina Ciocca Eller, Mario Luis Small (Columbia University), and Margaret Weir (Brown University)

Initial Placement: Turpanjian Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California (July 2023–July 2024); Provost Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California (August 2024–July 2026); Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Southern California (effective July 2026)
... Read more about Leah E. Gose

Abigail Mariam

Abigail Mariam

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2023)
Thesis Title: The Worldbuilders: Pedagogy, Practice, and Politics in Black Power-era Independent Schools
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Jarvis Givens, Mario Luis Small (Columbia University)
Research/Teaching Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Education, Qualitative Methods, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Social Policy, Archival Methods, Gender and Sexuality

Elliot Stoller

Elliot Stoller

(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 Carpenter
Initial Placement: 
Assistant Professor of Leadership and Governance, School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (effective December 2023)

... Read more about Elliot Stoller

Mo Torres

Mo Torres

(Sociology, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Race, Place, and the Politics of Urban Austerity in Michigan, 1970s-2010s
Committee: Mario Luis Small (Chair, Columbia University), Robert J. Sampson, and Thomas Sugrue (New York University)
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, and Assistant Professor in Sociology and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Lilly Yu

Lilly Yu

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Distributing Representation: Nonprofit, Private, and Pro Bono Attorneys' Legal Advocacy for Immigrant Clients
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Mary C. Waters, and Christina Ciocca Eller
Initial Placement:  Research Scientist, Justice Practice Area, RTI International... Read more about Lilly Yu