Postdoctoral Fellow

Luisa L. Heredia

(Sociology, June 2008)
Thesis Title: Faith in Action: The Catholic Church and the Immigrant Rights Movement, 1980-2007
Committee: Mary C. Waters (chair), William Julius Wilson, and Jennifer Hochschild
Initial Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California Riverside; Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Latino Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Current Position: The Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York

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Nicole Arlette Hirsch

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Advocacy and Anti-Racism: How Institutions Shape Organizational Responses to Racially Biased Policing in France and the United States
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Lawrence D. Bobo, Tamara Kay, Patrick Simon, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society & Social Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology Department, the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII), University of Southern California

nicole.a.hirsch@gmail.com

Simone Ispa-Landa

(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: The Wealth of Our Neighbors: School Racial Integration as a Gendered Process
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Robert J. Sampson, William Julius Wilson, and Christopher Winship
Initial Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy and Sociology, Northwestern University

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Anshul Kumar

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Innovating in Education: NGO Interventions in New Delhi Government Schools
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Katherine Merseth, and Orlando Patterson
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator, Harvard University
Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Health Professions Education program at MGH Institute of Health Professions

akumar@mghihp.edu

Dong-Ju Lee

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Treaties, Networks, and the Institutionalization of Reproductive Policies in the World, 1919-2014
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: University Tutor, Macquarie University
Current Position: Research fellow at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) at UNSW Business School

dong-ju.lee@mq.edu.au

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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Jundai Liu

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Communal Organization and Civic Solidarity: Political Participation in Guarding Rural Collective Land Rights in Contemporary China
Committee: Martin K. Whyte (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, and Elizabeth J. Perry
Initial Placement: Research Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School (2018-19)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan

ljundai@umich.edu

Charlotte Lloyd

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Managing Indigeneity, Cultivating Citizens: Reconciliation Action Plans in Australian Organizations
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Michèle Lamont
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program and coordinator of the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion for 2019-2020, Weatherhead Center for International Studies, Harvard University
Current Position: Senior Analyst, Abt Associates, Inc.

Charlotte J. Lloyd's website

charlottelloyd@abtassoc.com

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: Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of Iowa, Iowa city, Iowa
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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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Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Institutions as Inferential Spaces: How People Learn About Inequality
Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Lawrence D. Bobo, and Devah Pager
Initial Placement: Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in Ethnicity, Race, and Equity, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston University... Read more about Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs

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mijs@bu.edu

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika

(Sociology, March 2019)
Thesis Title: Adversity, Ambivalence, and Mental Health: The Emotional Costs of Severe Deprivation
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Matthew Desmond, and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley; Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (effective Fall 2024)

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika's website

empondo@berkeley.edu

Christopher Michael Muller

(Sociology, November 2014)
Thesis Title: Historical Origins of Racial Inequality in Incarceration in the United States
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Christopher Winship, Orlando Patterson, and Robert J. Sampson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

muller@fas.harvard.edu

Eun Mi Mun

(Sociology, November 2011)
Thesis Title: The Organizational Reproduction of Gender Inequality: The Equal Employment Opportunity Law and Women’s Employment in Japan, 1986-2009
Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Frank Dobbin, and Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Robert E. Keiter 1957 Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign... Read more about Eun Mi Mun

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Roland Neil

(Sociology, November 2021)
Thesis Title: The Ecological Sources of Racial Inequities in Proactive Policing
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Christopher Winship, Joscha Legewie, and Anthony Braga
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Penn Injury Science Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Associate Behavioral/Social Scientist at RAND Corporation

rneil@rand.org

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