Information about our Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s who are now on the academic job market.

PhDs on the Market

Kristina Brant

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Families in the Opioid Era: An Investigation of Parental Addiction and Kinship Care in Central Appalachia
Dissertation Committee: Mario Luis Small (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, and William Julius Wilson
Research/Teaching Interests: Criminal justice, ethnographic methods, families, rural communities, social inequality, social policy, social support

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kbrant@fas.harvard.edu

Allison Daminger

(Sociology & Social Policy)
Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Gender and Class in the Cognitive Dimension
Dissertation Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Michèle Lamont, and Kathleen Gerson
Research/Teaching Interests: Gender, Marriage and Family, Inequality, Sociology of Culture, Qualitative Methods

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daminger@g.harvard.edu

Gru Han

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: March 2020
Dissertation Title: Government Regulation and Economic Globalization: The Diffusion of Antitrust Law and Merger Control and Its Influence on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Dissertation Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Bart Bonikowski
Research/Teaching Interests: Organizations, Corporate Governance, Economic Sociology, Institutionalism, Sociology of Finance, Globalization

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gruhan33@gmail.com

Hanna Katz

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: In Loco Parentis?: The Boundary Work of Campus Police
Dissertation Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Robert J. Sampson, and Joscha Legewie
Research/Teaching Interests: Crime and criminal justice; policing; sociological theory (classical and critical); youth/adolescents; cultural sociology; race/ethnicity; higher education; qualitative and quantitative methods

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hkatz@g.harvard.edu

Roland Neil

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: The Ecological Sources of Police Behavior
Dissertation Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Christopher Winship, and Anthony Braga
Research Interests: Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice, Racial and Ethnic Stratification, Discrimination, Urban Sociology, the Life Course, Quantitative Methods

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neil@g.harvard.edu

Ethan Raker

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2021 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Climate Change and Inequality in the US: Sociological Analyses of "Big Data"
Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Joscha Legewie, and James R. Elliott (Rice University)
Research Interests: Inequality, Health, Neighborhoods, Environment, Disasters, and Social Demography

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eraker@g.harvard.edu

Department of Sociology

Ph.D.s on the Job Market