(Organizational Behavior, June 2004) Thesis Title: Getting to Know You, Getting to Know all About You -- Or Not! How Boundaries, Belongingness, and Toxic Emotions Impede Interaction and and Coordination: A Study of Post-Acquisition Integration at a Software Firm Committee: Nitin Nohria (Chair), Leslie A. Perlow, Peter V. Marsden, Joseph L. Bower Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University Current Position:Senior Fellow; Senior Director, Executive Education, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
Israel Institute Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology
Research Interests: Refugee law and policy, immigration law and policy, international human rights, human rights in Israel, and clinical education.... Read more about Tally Amir
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(Sociology, November 2011) Thesis Title: Peer Effects on Adolescent Smoking and Social Network-Based Interventions Committee: Christopher Winship (Co-chair), Martin K. Whyte (Co-chair), and A. James O’Malley Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Statistics, Indiana University Current Position: Department of Sociology and Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University
Research Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations; Race and Immigration; Social Stratification; Discrimination; Inequality; Social Demography; Social Policy; Cultural Sociology; American Politics
(Sociology, June 2009) Thesis Title: Civic Development in Apolitical Associations Committee: Robert J. Sampson (chair), Christopher Winship, and Marshall Ganz Initial Placement: Harvard College Fellow and Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
(Sociology, May 2011) Thesis Title: Terrified: Fringe Movements, Emotions, and Islam, 2001-2008 Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Orlando Patterson, Jocelyn Viterna, Mary C. Waters, and William Julius Wilson Initial Placement: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy, University of Michigan (2011-2013); Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2013-2015) Current Position:Douglas and Ellen Lowey Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC
(Sociology, June 2006) Thesis Title: Art, Identity, and the New Black Middle-Class: How Elite Blacks Construct their Identity Through the Consumption of Visual Art Committee: Lawrence D. Bobo (chair), Michèle Lamont, and William Julius Wilson Position: Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College
