Susan Alexandra Dumais

(Sociology, June 2002)
Thesis Title: The Educational Pathways of White Working-Class Students
Committee: Stanley Lieberson (chair), Mariko Chang, Peter V. Marsden, Burton Singer, Aage Sørensen
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, Lehman College, Bronx, NY
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Paula Ann Frederick

(Sociology, June 2002)
Thesis Title: Sexing the Nation: State Regulation of Prostitution and Homosexuality in Britain and the Netherlands in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Mary C. Waters, David John Frank
Current Position: INSPIRE Fellow, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University; Lecturer, Department of Sociology,Tufts University

Angela Ann Gonzales

(Sociology, June 2002)
Thesis Title: American Indian Identity Matters: The Politics of Identity and the Political Economy of Ethnic Boundaries
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Lawrence D. Bobo, David John Frank, Duane Champagne (UCLA)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Cornell University
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Elizabeth Hollis Gorman

(Sociology, November 2001)
Thesis Title: Gender and Organizational Selection Decisions: Evidence from Law Firms
Committee: Peter V. Marsden and Barbara Reskin (co-chairs), David John Frank
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
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Martine Haas

(Organizational Behavior, June 2002)
Thesis Title: Acting on What Others Know: Distributed Knowledge and Team Performance
Committee: J. Richard Hackman (Chair), Nitin Nohria, Morten Hansen, Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Cornell University, Assistant Professor
Current Position: Associate Professor, Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania
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Ziad Wael Munson

(Sociology, March 2002)
Thesis Title: Becoming an Activist: Believers, Sympathizers, and Mobilization in the American Pro-Life Movement
Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Kenneth Andrews, Katherine Newman, Robert Wuthnow
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

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Julia Sass Rubin

(Organizational Behavior, June 2002)
Thesis Title: Organizations on the Institutional Cusp: The Origins and Behaviors of Community Development Venture Capital Funds
Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Louis Barnes, Jeffrey Bradach, M. Ventresca
Initial Placement: Brown University, Taubman Center, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University
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Ruth Naomi Turley

(Sociology, November 2001)
Thesis Title: Neighborhood Effects on Children: Mechanisms, Interactions, and Relative Deprivation
Committee: Christopher Jencks (Chair), Katherine Newman, Christopher Winship
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Current Position: Professor, Department of Sociology, Rice University

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Noam Wasserman

(Organizational Behavior, June 2002)
Thesis Title: Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur: Characteristics and Dynamics Within Venture Capital Firms
Committee: Nitin Nohria (chair), George Baker, Paul Gompers, Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Current Position: Jorge Paulo and Susanna Lemann Chair in Entrepreneurship, Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship and Founding Director, Founder Central, Marshall School, University of Southern California

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Department of Sociology

2001-02