David Laurence Ager

(Organizational Behavior, June 2004)
Thesis Title: Getting to Know You, Getting to Know all About You -- Or Not! How Boundaries, Belongingness, and Toxic Emotions Impede Interaction and and Coordination: A Study of Post-Acquisition Integration at a Software Firm
Committee: Nitin Nohria (Chair), Leslie A. Perlow, Peter V. Marsden, Joseph L. Bower
Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Current Position: Senior Fellow; Managing Director, Executive Education, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
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Katherine Kang-Ning Chen

(Sociology, June 2004)
Thesis Title: The Burning Man Organization Grows Up: Blending Bureaucratic and Alternative Structures
Committee: Peter V. Marsden (chair), J. Richard Hackman, David John Frank
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Derek Bok Teaching Center, Harvard University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The City College of New York

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Xiaojiang Hu

(Sociology, June 2004)
Thesis Title: The Little Shops of Lhasa: Migrant Businesses and the Formation of Markets in a Transitional Economy
Committee: Martin K. Whyte (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Ezra F. Vogel, Libby Schweber
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California-Berkeley
Current Position: Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University
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Peter Constantine Moskos

(Sociology, June 2004)
Thesis Title: Police in the 'Hood': Drug Laws, Police Discretion, and Arresting African-Americans
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), John Van Maanen, Christopher Winship
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
Current Position: Professor, Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
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Gesemia Nelson

(Sociology, June 2004)
Thesis Title: Buffers Against Uncertainty: Material Hardship and Poverty
Committee: Katherine Newman (chair), Peter V. Marsden, Mariko Chang, Christopher Jencks
Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, Metropolitan State University of Denver

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Lisa Haueisen Rohrer

(Organizational Behavior, November 2004)
Thesis Title: Mergers in Professional Service Firms: A Large-Scale Analysis of How Law Firm Mergers Shape Attorney Careers and the Use and Retention of Human Capital
Committee: George P. Baker, III (Chair), Rakesh Khurana, Peter V. Marsden, Ashish Nanda
Initial Placement: Senior Vice President, Sterling Research Group
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Daniyal Mohammad Zuberi

(Sociology & Social Policy, June 2004)
Thesis Title: Differences Matter: The Impact of Social Policy on the Working Poor in Canada and the U.S.
Committee: Katherine Newman (chair), Mary C. Waters, William Julius Wilson, and Jeffrey Reitz
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Current Position: Professor of Social Policy, Joint Appointment, School of Public Policy & Governance, RBC Chair in Applied Social Work Research, University of Toronto
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Department of Sociology

2003-04