2006-07

Felix Veit Elwert

(Sociology, March 2007)
Thesis Title: Cohabitation, Divorce, and the Trial Marriage Hypothesis
Committee: Christopher Winship, Nicholas A. Christakis, Martin K. Whyte
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Current Position: Romnes Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

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Cybelle Fox

(Sociology & Social Policy, June 2007)
Thesis Title: The Boundaries of Social Citizenship: Race, Immigration and the American Welfare State, 1900-1950
Committee: Lawrence Bobo, William Julius Wilson, Jennifer Hochschild, Theda Skocpol
Initial Placement: Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Post-Doctoral Fellow (2007-2009)
Current Position: Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley

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Jason Gabler

(Sociology, March 2007)
Thesis Title: From Captains Courageous to Captain Underpants: Children's Books as a Cultural Field in the Twentieth Century
Committee: Jason Kaufman (chair), Martin K. Whyte, Maria Tatar (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Initial Placement: Digital Producer, Minnesota Public Radio, and Writer (fiction and freelance journalism)... Read more about Jason Gabler

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June Kim Han

(Sociology, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Becoming South Asian: An Examination of Identity, Intergroup Relations, and Responses to 9/11
Committee: Mary C. Waters (chair), William Julius Wilson, Vivian Louie, Nazli Kibria

Suk ki Kong

(Sociology, March 2007)
Thesis Title: Transnational Mobilization to Empower Local Activism: A Comparison of the Korean Human Rights and Environmental Movements
Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Kenneth Andy Andrews, Sanjeev Khagram
Initial Placement: Senior Research Fellow, The Center for Social Sciences, Seoul National University. Lecturer, Department of Sociology & Graduate School of International Studies, SNU

Chaeyoon Lim

(Sociology, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Networks, Mobilization, and Citizen Participation in Politics
Committee: Peter V. Marsden (chair), Jason Kaufman, Marshall Ganz, Kenneth T. Andrews
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Current Position: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Alexandra Marin

(Sociology, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Social Capital as Process: The Network Sources of Latent, Available, and Accessed Job Information
Committee: Peter V. Marsden (chair), David R. Gibson, Robert M. Fernandez
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto ... Read more about Alexandra Marin

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Helen B. Marrow

(Sociology & Social Policy, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jennifer L. Hochschild, William J. Wilson
Initial Placement: Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

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Shelley McDonough Kimelberg

(Sociology, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Risky Business: An Examination of Firm Location Decisions and Their Implications for Inner Cities
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Katherine Newman, Christopher Jencks
Current Position: Director, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Program, University of Buffalo

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Jal Mehta

(Sociology & Social Policy, November 2006)
Thesis Title: The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001: Ideas and the Rise of Accountability Politics
Committee: Christopher Jencks (chair), Theda Skocpol, Christopher Winship, Jennifer Hochschild
Initial Placement: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Post Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Paul Myers

(Organizational Behavior, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Strategic and Operational Autonomy in the Governance of Multiparty Ventures
Committee: Rosabeth Moss Kanter (chair), Robin J. Ely, Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Management, Simmons School of Management, Simmons College
Current Position: Business Educator and Senior Lecturer, Simmons University School of Business

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Katharina Pick

(Organizational Behavior, June 2007)
Thesis Title: Around the Boardroom Table: Interactional Aspects of Governance
Committee: Jay W. Lorsch (chair), Peter V. Marsden, Joshua D.
Margolis, Jeffrey T. Polzer
First Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard business School
Current Position: Associate Professor, Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University

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Lin Tao

(Sociology, March 2007)
Thesis Title: Working Together: How Self-Interests, Intrinsic Values, and Interpersonal Attachments Shape Norms in Non-Profit Organizations
Committee: Christopher Winship (chair), Peter V. Marsden, Robert Gibbons
First Placement: Assistant Professor in Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, Peking University

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