2017-18

Monica Clarice Bell

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Essays on Policing, Legal Estrangement & Urban Marginality
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Robert J. Sampson, and Matthew Desmond (Princeton)
Initial Placement: Associate Professor, Yale Law School

monica.bell@yale.edu

Brielle Eileen Bryan

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Criminal Justice, Self-Sufficiency, and the Life Course: An Examination of Income, Support and Housing Trajectories After Incarceration and Conviction
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Robert J. Sampson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Rice University

briellebryan@rice.edu

Matthew Kevin Clair

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Privilege and Punishment: Unequal Experiences of Criminal Justice
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Co-Chair), Devah Pager (Co-Chair), Lawrence D. Bobo, Bart Bonikowski, and Bruce Western
Initial Placement: Quattrone Center Research Fellow, the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment at Stanford Law School

mclair@stanford.edu

Katie Miyagi Derzon

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Collateral Consequences: How Increased Incarceration Rates Transform Parenting and Partnership in Low-income Boston Neighborhoods
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Mary C. Waters, and Kathryn Edin (Princeton)
Initial Placement: Resident Dean of First-Year Students, Ivy Yard, Harvard College

ivy-yard-dean@fas.harvard.edu

Mazen Elfakhani

(Sociology, November 2017)
Thesis Title: The Emergence of the On-Demand Economy and its Significance for Workers
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Orlando Patterson, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Associate at McKinsey & Company, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Carl E. Gershenson

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: The Social and Political Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1787-1861
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Daniel Carpenter
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
Current Position: Professional Specialist, Eviction Lab, Princeton University

Carl Gershenson's website

carleg@princeton.edu

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

Christy Ley

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Ambiguous Ideals: Expertise and Morality in an Innovation Supercluster
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Frank Dobbin, and Robin Ely (Harvard Business School)
Initial Placement: Senior Social Science Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Current Position: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Advisor at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

leyc@gao.gov

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

Ryann Manning

(Organizational Behavior, November 2017)
Thesis Title: Organizing for Resilience: Mobilization by Sierra Leonean Diaspora Communities in Response to the 2014-2015 Ebola Crisis
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Co-Chair), Kathleen L. McGinn (Co-Chair), Julie Battilana, and Jocelyn Viterna
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

ryann.manning@rotman.utoronto.ca

Eunsil Oh

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Defining Female Achievement: Gender, Class, and Work in Contemporary Korea
Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Paul Y. Chang, and Jocelyn Viterna
Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Sociology Department, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Social Development Studies, Yonsei University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology of Contemporary Korea, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

http://scholar.harvard.edu/eunsiloh

eoh26@wisc.edu

Cassandra Lyn Robertson

(Sociology, May 2018)
Thesis Title: Health, Race, and the Spatial Distribution of Opportunity in America
Committee: Christopher Jencks (Chair), Bruce Western, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell Population Center, Cornell University
Current Position: Senior Fellow, the New Practice Lab, New America

Cassandra Robertson's website

cassandralrobertson@gmail.com; robertson@newamerica.org

Daniel Schrage

(Sociology, November 2017)
Thesis Title: Racial Inequality and the Spatial Organization of Employers in the U.S.
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Christopher Winship, and Devah Pager
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California

dschrage@usc.edu

Beth Truesdale

(Sociology, November 2017)
Thesis Title: For Richer and Poorer: Disentangling the Association between Income Inequality and Health
Committee: Christopher Jencks (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A. Killewald
Initial Placement: Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow, the Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University

truesdale@hsph.harvard.edu

Department of Sociology