2016-17

Asad L. Asad

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Reconsidering Immigrant Illegality: How Immigrants Perceive the Risk of Immigration Law and Enforcement
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Filiz Garip, Mario L. Small, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University (2017-2019); Assistant Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

asadasad@stanford.edu

Curtis Kwinyen Chan

(Organizational Behavior, May 2017)
Thesis Title: A Double-Edged Sword of Organizational Culture: The Emergence of Unanticipated Consequences to Managerial Cultural Efforts
Committee: Michel Anteby (Co-Chair), Leslie A. Perlow (Co-Chair), Frank Dobbin, and Christopher Winship
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and Organization, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

curtis.chan@bc.edu

Caitlin Daniel

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Economic and Cultural Influences on Parents’ Food Decisions
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Christopher Wildeman, Kathryn Edin, and Mark C. Pachucki
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nutrition Policy Institute/Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley

Vince Feng

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: A Sociocultural Paradigm for Pricing: How Status, Cognitive Authority, and Professional Culture Qualify Market Values
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Peter V. Marsden, and Christopher Marquis
Current Position: Co-founder and Managing Director, Arete Capital Partners Limited, Hong Kong, China

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

David Myers Hureau

(Sociology & Social Policy, November 2016)
Thesis Title: Essays Exploring Urban Violence
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Co-Chair), Bruce Western (Co-Chair), and Matthew Desmond
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of NY

dhureau@albany.edu

Theodore S. Leenman

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Reconceiving Risk: Relational Understandings of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis and the Down-Low
Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Michèle Lamont, and Tey Meadow
Initial Placement: Harvard College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Current Position: Research Associate at Harder+Company Community Research, San Francisco, CA

tleenman@harderco.com

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

Jonathan Mijs's website

mijs@bu.edu

Kristin L. Perkins

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Household Instability during Childhood and Young Adult Outcomes
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Bruce Western
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (2017-19)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University

kristin.perkins@georgetown.edu

Jessica Danielle Tollette

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Noticeably Invisible: Race, Intergroup Relations, and Immigrant Integration in Madrid
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Lawrence D. Bobo, and Filiz Garip
First Placement: Academic Director of the Bachelor in Behavior and Social Sciences, IE University, Spain
Current Position: Senior Specialist for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Executive Office, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Washington, DC

jtollette@poverty-action.org

Phoenix Chi Wang

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Discretion, Cognition, and Embodiment in Process: Days and Nights with 911 Dispatchers
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Co-Chair), Bart Bonikowski (Co-Chair), Matthew Desmond, and Jeffrey J. Sallaz (Arizona)
Current Position: Congressional Staff, Representative Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL 24th), Washington, DC

Holly Wood

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Courting Trouble: A Qualitative Examination of Sexual Inequality in Partnering Practice
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Christopher Jencks, Kathryn Edin, and Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Yun Zhou

(Sociology, May 2017)
Thesis Title: Birds of a Feather: Patterns, Heuristics, and Constraints of Cross-Boundary Marriage Sorting
Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Martin K. Whyte
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Population Studies, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

Yun Zhou's website

zhouyun@umich.edu

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