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Allison P. Daminger

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Thinking Gender: The Cognitive Dimension of Household Labor
Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Michèle Lamont, and Kathleen Gerson (New York University)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison... Read more about Allison P. Daminger

Allison Daminger's website

allison.daminger@gmail.com

Katie Miyagi Derzon

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Collateral Consequences: How Increased Incarceration Rates Transform Parenting and Partnership in Low-income Boston Neighborhoods
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Mary C. Waters, and Kathryn Edin (Princeton)
Initial Placement: Resident Dean of First-Year Students, Ivy Yard, Harvard College

ivy-yard-dean@fas.harvard.edu

Alicia DeSantola

(Organizational Behavior, May 2019)
Thesis Title: The Dynamics of New Venture Development: Scaling and Entrepreneurial Teams
Committee: Ranjay Gulati (Chair), Frank Dobbin, Rory McDonald, and Laura Huang
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business... Read more about Alicia DeSantola

aliciads@uw.edu

Stefan Dimitriadis

(Organizational Behavior, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Environment of Developing Markets: Three Studies about Entrepreneurship in Togo
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Metin Sengul, Rembrand M. Koning, and Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Stefan Dimitriadis's website

stefan.dimitriadis@rotman.utoronto.ca

Mazen Elfakhani

(Sociology, November 2017)
Thesis Title: The Emergence of the On-Demand Economy and its Significance for Workers
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Orlando Patterson, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Associate at McKinsey & Company, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Alexandra Feldberg

(Organizational Behavior, May 2019)
Thesis Title: Butchers, Bakers, and Barcharts: Gender and Knowledge in a Grocery Chain
Committee: Kathleen L. McGinn (Chair), Michael L. Tushman, Frank Dobbin, and Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School

Alexandra Feldberg's website

afeldberg@hbs.edu

Anny Tazio Fenton

(Sociology, May 2019)
Thesis Title: Sex and the Pediatrician’s Office: Using the HPV Vaccine to Explore How Sexuality Shapes Healthcare Experiences and Medical Decision Making
Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Tey Meadow
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland, ME
Current Position: Clinical Research Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Anny Fenton's website

annyt_fenton@dfci.harvard.edu

Crystal Marie Fleming

(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Antillean Migrants in Metropolitan France (1980-2010)
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Orlando Patterson, Christopher Winship, and Mary Lewis (History)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Sociology and Africana Studies, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University... Read more about Crystal Marie Fleming

Crystal Marie Flemings' Website

Kelley Ty Fong

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Essays on Child Protective Services Reporting
Committee: Bruce Western (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

kelley.fong@uci.edu

Katherine N. Gan

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2010)
Thesis Title: Women’s Hiring in Context: Structural Opportunities for Discretionary Hiring
Committee: Christopher Winship (chair), Frank Dobbin, and Kathryn Edin
Initial Placement: Senior Analyst (2010-12) and Associate/Scientist (2012-17), Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD
Current Position: Senior Social Scientist, The Lab @ DC, Washington, DC

... Read more about Katherine N. Gan

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Carl E. Gershenson

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: The Social and Political Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1787-1861
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Daniel Carpenter
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
Current Position: Professional Specialist, Eviction Lab, Princeton University

Carl Gershenson's website

carleg@princeton.edu

Nina Gheihman

(Sociology, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Veganized: How Cultural Entrepreneurs Transformed a Fringe Movement
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Vanina Leschziner (University of Toronto)
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sustainable Food Initiative at University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Visiting Scholar in the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School; author of How It All Vegan: The Inside Story of Icons, Informers, and Innovators Who Changed Food Forever (forthcoming in 2022, Bloomsbury Publishing USA)

Nina Gheihman's website

ninagheihman@berkeley.edu

Leroy Gonsalves

(Organizational Behavior, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Contentious Practices and Reputational Threat
Committee: Julie Battilana (Co-Chair), Frank Dobbin (Co-Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and András Tilcsik (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

lgons@bu.edu

Corina Graif

(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Mobility in Isolation: Neighborhood Effects, Spatial Embeddedness, and Inequality in the Migration Pathways of the Urban Poor
Committee: Robert Sampson (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Christopher Winship, Peter Marsden, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2011-2013)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, and Research Associate, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University... Read more about Corina Graif

Corina Graif's Website

Department of Sociology