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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

Laura Adler's website

laura.adler@yale.edu

John Almandoz

(Organizational Behavior, March 2011)
Thesis Title: The Invisible Hand and the Good of Communities: The Influence of Institutional Logics on the Founding Teams of Local Banks
Committee: Christopher Marquis (Chair), Christopher Winship, Jeffrey Polzer, and Peter V. Marsden
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Managing People in Organizations, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain... Read more about John Almandoz

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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

asadasad@stanford.edu

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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Matthew Gerard Baggetta

(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: Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, SPEA, Indiana University

Matthew Baggetta's Website

Stefan Beljean

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: The Pressures of Status Reproduction: Upper-Middle-Class Youth and the Transition to Higher Education in Germany and the United States
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Jal Mehta, and Michael Sauder
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany
Current Position: https://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/stefan-beljean-eng/

stefan.beljean@mwi.uni-heidelberg.de

Monica Clarice Bell

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Essays on Policing, Legal Estrangement & Urban Marginality
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Robert J. Sampson, and Matthew Desmond (Princeton)
Initial Placement: Associate Professor, Yale Law School

monica.bell@yale.edu

Jimmy Biblarz

(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)
Current Position: Attorney, Munger, Tolles & Olson, and Lecturer in Law, UCLA School of Law

Jimmy Biblarz's website

biblarz@law.ucla.edu

Michael Peter Biggs

(Sociology, June 2000)
Thesis Title: The Rise and Decline of a Mass Movement: American Workers and the Strike Wave of 1886
Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Kenneth Andrews, Sven Beckert
Initial Placement: Lecturer in Sociology, Oxford University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College

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Sean Bock

(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
Current Position: Data Analytics Specialist, Abt Associates

Sean Bock's website

seandbock@gmail.com

Jesse William Bradford

(Sociology & Social Policy, March 2009)
Thesis Title: American/Muslims: Reactive Solidarity, Identity Politics and Social Identity Formation in the Aftermath of September 11th
Committee: Mary C. Waters (chair), Christopher Winship, and Katherine S. Newman
Initial Placement: Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company, London
Current Position: Partner, McKinsey and Company
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Kristina Paige Brant

(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 of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Pennsylvania State University

kmb8133@psu.edu

Ahmmad Allan Brown

(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: Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University

ahmmad.brown@northwestern.edu

Brielle Eileen Bryan

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Criminal Justice, Self-Sufficiency, and the Life Course: An Examination of Income, Support and Housing Trajectories After Incarceration and Conviction
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Robert J. Sampson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Rice University

briellebryan@rice.edu

Brianna Castro

(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)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Vanderbilt University
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Brianna Castro's website

briannacastro@g.harvard.edu

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