Patricia Ann Banks

(Sociology, June 2006)
Thesis Title: Art, Identity, and the New Black Middle-Class: How Elite Blacks Construct their Identity Through the Consumption of Visual Art
Committee: Lawrence D. Bobo (chair), Michèle Lamont, and William Julius Wilson
Position: Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College

Andrew Clarkwest

(Sociology and Social Policy, November 2005)
Thesis Title: Change and Continuity in African American Marital Disruption from Reconstruction to the Present
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Christopher Jencks, David Ellwood
Initial Placement: NICHD post-doctoral fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan
Current Position: Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, New Jersey

Matissa Nicole Hollister

(Sociology and Social Policy, March 2006)
Thesis Title: Careers in a Changing Economy: Occupations and Intergenerational Mobility Among Two Cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys
Initial Placement: Assistant professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Won Yong (Jerry) Kim

(Organizational Behavior, June 2006)
Thesis Title: Network of Audiences: FDA Review Time and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990-2004
Committee: Peter V. Marsden (Chair), Joel Podolny, Daniel Carpenter, Lee Fleming
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Management Division, Columbia Business School

Elizabeth Lingo

(Organizational Behavior, November 2005)
Thesis Title: Negotiations and Lovesongs: A Theory of Nexus Work in Market-Based Cultural Industry Projects
Committee: Kathleen L. McGinn (Chair), Joel M. Podolny, Deborah M. Kolb, Siobhan O'Mahony
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Freda B. Lynn

(Sociology, March 2006)
Thesis Title: Quality Uncertainty and Professional Status: A Study of Mathematicians and Economists
Committee: Peter V. Marsden (Chair), Annemette Sørensen, Joel Podolny, and David Gibson
Initial Placement: Post-doctoral fellow, Michigan State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa city, Iowa

Wendy Roth

(Sociology & Social Policy, June 2006)
Thesis Title: Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Prudence Carter, Peggy Levitt, and Kathy Newman
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada

Natasha Kumar Warikoo

(Sociology, November 2005)
Thesis Title: The Cultural Worlds of Second Generation Teenagers in London and New York City
Committee: Mary C. Waters (chair), Michele Lamont, and Prudence Carter
Initial Placement: Lecturer in U.S. Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Department of Sociology

2005-06