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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

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

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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

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Christopher Andrew Bail

(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Terrified: Fringe Movements, Emotions, and Islam, 2001-2008
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Orlando Patterson, Jocelyn Viterna, Mary C. Waters, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy, University of Michigan (2011-2013); Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2013-2015)
Current Position: Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science, Duke University, Durham, NC... Read more about Christopher Andrew Bail

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Shyon Baumann

(Sociology, June 2001)
Thesis Title: From Entertainment to Art: The Social History of Film in the United States
Committee: Stanley Lieberson (Chair), Peter V. Marsden, Gwendolyn Dordick, Aage B. Sørensen
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Current Position: Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Mississauga
... Read more about Shyon Baumann

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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

Marya Hill-Popper Besharov

(Organizational Behavior, June 2008)
Thesis Title: Mission Goes Corporate: Employee Behavior in a Mission-Driven Business
Committee: Peter V. Marsden (chair), J. Richard Hackman, Kathleen L. McGinn
Current Placement: Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University... Read more about Marya Hill-Popper Besharov

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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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Yanhua Z. Bird

(Organizational Behavior, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Social Evaluation Dynamics in Global Platform Markets
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Ya-Wen Lei, Michael W. Toffel, and Christopher Marquis (Cornell University
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

ybird@bu.edu

Irene Bloemraad

(Sociology, June 2003)
Thesis Title: Achieving Full Citizenship: An Institutional Approach to the Political Incorporation of Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada
Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Lawrence D. Bobo, Jeffrey Reitz
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley
Current Position: Professor, Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley
... Read more about Irene Bloemraad

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Deirdre Bloome

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2014)
Thesis Title: Essays on Economic Mobility and Inequality in the United States
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Christopher Jencks, William Julius Wilson, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Assistant professor of Sociology/faculty associate at the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
Current Position: Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
... Read more about Deirdre Bloome

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Stacey Jean Bosick

(Sociology, June 2009)
Thesis Title: Crime and the Transition to Adulthood: A Person-Centered Analysis of At-Risk Boys Coming of Age in 1940s Boston, 1970s London, and 1990s Pittsburgh
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (chair), Mary C. Waters, and John H. Laub
Initial Placement/Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver ... Read more about Stacey Jean Bosick

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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

Department of Sociology

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