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Robert Allen Manduca

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Social Structure, Space, and the Dynamics of Income Inequality
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Mario Luis Small, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Robert Manduca's website

rmanduca@umich.edu

Ryann Manning

(Organizational Behavior, November 2017)
Thesis Title: Organizing for Resilience: Mobilization by Sierra Leonean Diaspora Communities in Response to the 2014-2015 Ebola Crisis
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Co-Chair), Kathleen L. McGinn (Co-Chair), Julie Battilana, and Jocelyn Viterna
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

ryann.manning@rotman.utoronto.ca

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

Jonathan Mijs's website

mijs@bu.edu

Margot C. Moinester

(Sociology, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Growth and Inequality in American Immigration Enforcement
Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), Mary C. Waters (Co-Chair), and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis

Margot Moinester's website

mmoinester@wustl.edu

Katherine Ann Morris

(Sociology, May 2019)
Thesis Title: More than a Helping Hand: Personal Network Structure and Functional, Cognitive, and Emotional Health
Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Lisa Berkman
Initial Placement: Research Scientist, Demography and Survey Science team, Facebook

Katherine Morris's website

katherinemorris@fb.com

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika

(Sociology, March 2019)
Thesis Title: Adversity, Ambivalence, and Mental Health: The Emotional Costs of Severe Deprivation
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Matthew Desmond, and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley; Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (effective Fall 2024)

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika's website

empondo@berkeley.edu

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

muller@fas.harvard.edu

Roland Neil

(Sociology, November 2021)
Thesis Title: The Ecological Sources of Racial Inequities in Proactive Policing
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Christopher Winship, Joscha Legewie, and Anthony Braga
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Penn Injury Science Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Associate Behavioral/Social Scientist at RAND Corporation

rneil@rand.org

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

http://scholar.harvard.edu/eunsiloh

eoh26@wisc.edu

Jasmine Nicole Olivier

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Reimagining Public Safety: Transformations in Collective Efficacy and Community Control in Boston Public Housing
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Robert J. Sampson, Monica C. Bell (Yale Law School), and Rod K. Brunson (University of Maryland)
Initial Placement:Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

jasmine.n.olivier@gmail.com

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

boyunpark@berkeley.edu

Kristin L. Perkins

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Household Instability during Childhood and Young Adult Outcomes
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Bruce Western
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (2017-19)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University

kristin.perkins@georgetown.edu

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)

Cresa L. Pugh

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022)
Thesis Title: ‘Guardians of Beautiful Things’?: The Politics of Postcolonial Cultural Theft, Refusal, and Repair
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College), and Zine Magubane (Boston College)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, The New School, New York, New York
... Read more about Cresa L. Pugh

Cresa Pugh's website

pughc@newschool.edu

Tamara Pavasović Trošt

(Sociology, May 2012)
Thesis Title: Dealing with the Past: History and Identity in Serbia and Croatia
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Christopher Winship, Jocelyn Viterna, and Veljko Vujacic (Oberlin College)
Initial Placement: Visiting Professor, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria
Current Position: Assistant Professor, International Economics and Business, School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana

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