Van C. Tran

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Rethinking Culture and Structure: Race, Class and Assimilation in Multi-Ethnic America
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Christopher Winship, William Julius Wilson, and Orlando Patterson
Initial Placement: Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania (2011-2013)
Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director for the Center for Urban Research, The Graduate Center, CUNY... Read more about Van C. Tran

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Catherine Joan Turco

(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Motherhood, Inc.: Cultural and Organizational Dynamics in the Commercialization of Personal Life
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, Jocelyn Viterna, and Ezra W. Zuckerman (MIT)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge MA
Current Position: Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor in MIT's Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management group as well as its program in Economic Sociology

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Dian Yang

(Sociology, November 2010)
Thesis Title: Modernizing Chinese Firms: Financial Market and the Shareholder-oriented Corporate Governance Reform of Large Chinese Corporations
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Martin K. Whyte, and Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Staff, Sociological Research, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Min Zhou

(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Global Institutionalization of Human Rights: The Effects of State Institutions and Domestic Politics
Committee: Jason Beckfield and Peter V. Marsden (Co-chairs), and Martin K. Whyte
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Current Placement: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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