Graduate Degrees Awarded
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
2025-26
Matthew Brooke
mbrooke@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Political sociology, historical sociology, social movements, political parties, media. Matthew Brooke is a Doctoral candidate in Sociology. Matthew's dissertation investigates why the Republican Party and right-wing media have become...
Nino José Cricco Doldan
ncricco@g.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: Immigration, Inequality and Stratification, Family, Labor Markets, Social Demography, Quantitative Methods Nino José Cricco is a PhD student in Sociology. His research interests include immigration, economic inequality, and family...
Shira Zilberstein
szilberstein@fas.harvard.eduDoctoral Student in Sociology
Research Interests: culture, organizations, science and technology studies, political-economy, theory, qualitative and mixed methods Shira Zilberstein is a PhD candidate in sociology at Harvard University and a fellow in the Science and Technology Studies...
2024-25
Eun Se Baik
eunsebaik@snu.ac.kr (Sociology, November 2024) Thesis Title: Transnational Making and Remaking of Education: Education of Immigrant Koreans, Transnationally Mobile Koreans, and Non-migrant Koreans in Korea and the U.S. Committee: Mary C. Waters (Co-Chair), Mario L. Small (Co...
Derick Baum
derick_baum@brown.edu (Sociology, November 2024) Thesis Title: Developments in Aggregate Relational Data Committee: Peter V. Marsden (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan), and Xiang Zhou Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brown University (2024...
Jenna Cook
(Sociology, May 2025; JD, Yale Law School, 2024) Thesis Title: Theorizing Pathways to Family Formation: Birth, Adoption, and Infant Abandonment under China’s One-Child Policy Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Ellis Monk, and Ya-Wen Lei Current Position...
Aaron Berman Fernandez
aaronfernandez@g.harvard.edu (Sociology, May 2025) Thesis Title: Patterns of Place: Housing Supply, Racial Segregation, and the Suburbanization of Immigration Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair, University of Michigan), Robert J. Sampson (Co-Chair), and David S. Pedulla
Ohjae Gowen
ohjaegowen@smu.edu.sg (Sociology, November 2024) Thesis Title: Fathers’ Household Labor and the Making of Gender Inequality Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Co-Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair, University of Michigan), David S. Pedulla, and Xiang Zhou Initial Placement...
In Jeong Hwang
ihwang@g.harvard.edu (Sociology, May 2025) Thesis Title: Consequences of Unpaid Labor: Evidence from the U.S. Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair, University of Michigan), Daniel Schneider (Co-Chair), and David S. Pedulla Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Human...
Alexandra Mitukiewicz
amitukiewicz@g.harvard.edu (Sociology & Social Policy, May 2025) Thesis Title: Job Loss and Work Among Older Workers Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair, University of Michigan), David S. Pedulla (Co-Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Nicole Maestas
Lauren Taylor
taylorl@g.harvard.edu (Sociology and Social Policy, May 2025) Thesis Title: Consumer Credit from Theory to Practice: Financial Responses to a Precarious Economy Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair, University of Michigan), Jason Beckfield (Co-Chair), and Mario L. Small...
2023-24
Elena Ayala-Hurtado
elenaa@princeton.edu (Sociology, May 2024) Thesis Title: 'This Isn't Quite What I Expected': Insecurity among Young College Graduates in the United States and Spain Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan), Bart Bonikowski (New York...
Nicolette Bardele
nab31@psu.edu (Sociology, May 2024) Thesis Title: The Spatial and Temporal Context of Probation and Parole Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Bruce Western (Columbia University), and Christopher Winship Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, Criminal Justice...
Maleah Fekete
mafekete@iu.edu (Sociology, May 2024) Thesis Title: Meaning-making in Contexts of Despair Committee: Peter V. Marsden (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Brea L. Perry (Indiana University), and Mario L. Small (Columbia University) Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Irsay...
Mark Griffith
(Sociology, May 2024) Thesis Title: Consensual Non-monogamy as a Practice, Stigma, and Social Movement Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair, University of Michigan), and Mark Hatzenbuehler Initial Placement: SPAN...
Holly Hummer
(Sociology, May 2024) Thesis Title: Women Without Children: Cultural Perspectives on a Demographic Phenomenon Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan), and Paul Y. Chang Current Position: Visiting Scholar at the...
Kwan Woo Kim
(Sociology, November 2023) Thesis Title: Institutional Barriers to the Diversification of Academic Workforce Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan), and Peter V. Marsden Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, The...
Dominika Kinga Randle
(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
Derek Robey
djrobey@syr.edu (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...
Cierra B. Robson
(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)...
Andreja Siliunas
zks2ar@virginia.edu (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...
Amy Tsang
(Sociology, November 2023) Thesis Title: Becoming Part of the City? Place Identity and Inter-group Boundaries in Urbanizing China Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Martin K. Whyte, and Ya-Wen Lei
Joseph Wallerstein
jwallerstein@g.harvard.edu (Sociology, May 2024) Thesis Title: Attributing Homelessness: The Contents, Patterning, and Power of Origin Stories in the Nonprofit Field Committee: Mario L. Small (Chair, Columbia University), Forrest Stuart (Stanford University), and Adaner Usmani...
Tyler Woods
(Sociology, May 2024) Thesis Title: Dignity, Job Quality, and Mobility in the U.S. Service Sector Committee: Daniel Schneider (Chair), David S. Pedulla, and Mary C. Waters Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for...
Julie Yen
(Organizational Behavior, May 2024) Thesis Title: Workers and the Pursuit of Social Objectives in Organizations Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Daniel Schneider Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and...
2022-23
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)...
Jimmy Biblarz
biblarz@law.ucla.edu (Sociology & Social Policy, May 2023) Thesis Title: Intangible Factors: Social Capital, Social Networks, and America's Second Reconstruction Committee: Mario L. Small (Chair), Martha Minow (Harvard Law School), and Bart Bonikowski (New York University)...
Sean Bock
seandbock@gmail.com (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 Former Position: Data...
Brianna Castro
briannacastro@g.harvard.edu (Sociology, March 2023) Thesis Title: The Social Effects of Climate Change – Adapting to Climate Change in Daily Life Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, Diane Davis (Harvard Graduate School of Design), and Beth Fussell (Brown University)...
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...
Sinn Won Han
swhan@hku.hk (Sociology, November 2022) Thesis Title: The Normative Foundations of Postindustrial Fertility Variation Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Joscha Legewie Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Associate, Jeb E. Brooks School of...
Abigail Mariam
abigailmariam@g.harvard.edu (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...
Elliot Stoller
eistoller@sog.unc.edu (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...
Mo Torres
motorres@umich.edu (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...
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...
2021-22
Laura Kremen Adler
laura.adler@yale.edu (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...
Kristina Paige Brant
kmb8133@psu.edu (Sociology, November 2021) Thesis Title: In the Epicenter: Surveilling, Supporting, and Punishing Families amid the Rural Opioid Crisis Committee: Mario Luis Small (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, and William Julius Wilson Initial Placement: Assistant Professor...
Ahmmad Allan Brown
ahmmad.brown@northwestern.edu (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...
Alexandra Marie Ciomek
aciomek@uchicago.edu (Sociology, November 2021) Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Gang Membership, Social Networks, and Crime Committee : Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Peter V. Marsden, and Anthony Braga Initial Placement: Institute Postdoctoral Fellow &...
Allison P. Daminger
allison.daminger@gmail.com (Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022) Thesis Title: Thinking Gender: The Cognitive Dimension of Household Labor Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Michèle Lamont, and Kathleen Gerson (New York University) Initial...
Roland Neil
rneil@rand.org (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...
Jasmine Nicole Olivier
jasmine.n.olivier@gmail.com (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...
Bo Yun Park
boyunpark@berkeley.edu (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...
Cresa L. Pugh
pughc@newschool.edu (Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022) Thesis Title: ‘Guardians of Beautiful Things’?: The Politics of Postcolonial Cultural Theft, Refusal, and Repair Committee: Orlando Patterson (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College)...
Nathan James Robinson
nathan@currentaffairs.org (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...
Adam Silver Travis
Adam_Travis@abtassoc.com (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...
Zachary Robert Wehrwein
zwehrwein@bwh.harvard.edu (Sociology, May 2022) Thesis Title: A Theory of Institutional Emergence Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Orlando Patterson, and Sven Beckert (Department of History, Harvard University) Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Tom Wooten
twooten@fas.harvard.edu (Sociology, May 2022) Thesis Title: Precarious Mobility: Trying and Failing to Get Ahead in the 21st Century Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, and Mario Luis Small (Columbia University) Initial Placement: Harvard College Fellow...
Fangsheng Zhu
fz70@duke.edu (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...
Xiaolin Zhuo
jolynn.zhuo@gmail.com (Sociology, November 2021) Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Responses to Norm Violation: An Exit-Voice Framework Committee: Christopher Winship (Co-Chair), Mario Luis Small (Co-Chair, Columbia University), and Bart Bonikowski (New York University) Initial...
2020-21
Hanna Katz
hanna.katz11@gmail.com (Sociology, May 2021) Thesis Title: In Loco Parentis?: The Boundary Work of Campus Police Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Robert J. Sampson, and Joscha Legewie Initial Position: Presidential Management Fellow/Grant Management...
Angela Lee
angelawlee1@gmail.com (Sociology, March 2021) Thesis Title: The Gender Wealth Gap in the United States Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, and Jason Beckfield Initial Position: Research Scientist, Demography and Survey Sciences, Facebook/Meta I am a UX...
Miguel Quintana-Navarrete
miguelrq@uci.edu (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...
Ethan J. Raker
ethan.raker@ubc.ca (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...
Linda Zhao
lz499@cornell.edu (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...
