Liberal Arts

Jonathan Mijs

Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Institutions as Inferential Spaces: How People Learn About Inequality
Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Lawrence D. Bobo, and Devah Pager
Initial Placement: Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in Ethnicity, Race, and Equity, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston University... Read more about Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs

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Christopher Michael Muller

(Sociology, November 2014)
Thesis Title: Historical Origins of Racial Inequality in Incarceration in the United States
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Christopher Winship, Orlando Patterson, and Robert J. Sampson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
 

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Eunsil Oh

Eunsil Oh

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Defining Female Achievement: Gender, Class, and Work in Contemporary Korea
Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Paul Y. Chang, and Jocelyn Viterna
Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Sociology Department, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Social Development Studies, Yonsei University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology of Contemporary Korea, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 Leadership Studies and Sociology, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond

Kimberly Elizabeth Pernell

(Sociology, May 2016)
Thesis Title: The Causes of the Divergent Development of Banking Regulation in the U.S., Canada, and Spain
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Jason Beckfield, and David Scharfstein (Harvard Business School)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Economic Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, the University of Texas at Austin (effective fall 2022)

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

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