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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)

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David Laurence Ager

(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; Managing Director, Executive Education, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
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Lisa Albert

Lisa Albert

Faculty Assistant

Responsibilities: Faculty Assistant to Professors Michèle Lamont, Ya-Wen Lei, David Pedulla, and Robert Sampson.

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9AM - 5PM

484 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-495-6895
Tally Amir

Tally Amir

Israel Institute Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology

Dr. Tally Kritzman-Amir was an expert on immigration law, human rights, refugees, and humanitarian law. In the US, aside from Harvard Sociology, she...

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Weihua An

(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: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University... Read more about Weihua An

Asad L. Asad

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Reconsidering Immigrant Illegality: How Immigrants Perceive the Risk of Immigration Law and Enforcement
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Filiz Garip, Mario L. Small, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University (2017-2019); Assistant Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

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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Elena Ayala-Hurtado

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2024 (expected)

Dissertation Title: ‘This Isn’t Quite What I Expected:’ Insecurity among Young College Graduates in the United States and Spain.

Dissertation Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Bart Bonikowski, Christina Ciocca Eller, and Juan Díez Medrano

Research/Teaching Interests: work and occupations; economic life; higher education; cultural sociology; inequality; transition to adulthood; comparative sociology; qualitative methods; mixed methods