2019-20

Stefan Beljean

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: The Pressures of Status Reproduction: Upper-Middle-Class Youth and the Transition to Higher Education in Germany and the United States
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Jal Mehta, and Michael Sauder
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany
Current Position: https://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/stefan-beljean-eng/

stefan.beljean@mwi.uni-heidelberg.de

Yanhua Z. Bird

(Organizational Behavior, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Social Evaluation Dynamics in Global Platform Markets
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Ya-Wen Lei, Michael W. Toffel, and Christopher Marquis (Cornell University
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

ybird@bu.edu

Stefan Dimitriadis

(Organizational Behavior, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Environment of Developing Markets: Three Studies about Entrepreneurship in Togo
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Metin Sengul, Rembrand M. Koning, and Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Stefan Dimitriadis's website

stefan.dimitriadis@rotman.utoronto.ca

Kelley Ty Fong

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Essays on Child Protective Services Reporting
Committee: Bruce Western (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Blythe Katelyn George

(Sociology & Social Policy, March 2020)
Thesis Title: Tribal Lands, Tribal Men, and Tribal Responsibilities: World Renewal Fathers with Criminal Records and Their Perceptions of Work and Fatherhood On- and Off-Reservation
Committee: William Julius Wilson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Mario Luis Small, and Megan Comfort (RTI)
Initial Placement: Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2020-21); Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced (effective fall 2021)

Nina Gheihman

(Sociology, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Veganized: How Cultural Entrepreneurs Transformed a Fringe Movement
Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Vanina Leschziner (University of Toronto)
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sustainable Food Initiative at University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Visiting Scholar in the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School; author of How It All Vegan: The Inside Story of Icons, Informers, and Innovators Who Changed Food Forever (forthcoming in 2022, Bloomsbury Publishing USA)

Nina Gheihman's website

ninagheihman@berkeley.edu

Leroy Gonsalves

(Organizational Behavior, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Contentious Practices and Reputational Threat
Committee: Julie Battilana (Co-Chair), Frank Dobbin (Co-Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and András Tilcsik (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

lgons@bu.edu

Gru Han

(Sociology, March 2020)
Thesis Title: Government Regulation and Economic Globalization: The Diffusion of Antitrust Law and Merger Control and Its Influence on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Bart Bonikowski

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

Robert Allen Manduca

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Social Structure, Space, and the Dynamics of Income Inequality
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Mario Luis Small, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Robert Manduca's website

rmanduca@umich.edu

Margot C. Moinester

(Sociology, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Growth and Inequality in American Immigration Enforcement
Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), Mary C. Waters (Co-Chair), and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis

Margot Moinester's website

mmoinester@wustl.edu

Jared Nathan Schachner

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Contextual Selection and Intergenerational Reproduction
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Christopher Jencks
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar/Mansueto Fellow, Department of Sociology & Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago

jschachner@uchicago.edu

Alix Soffen Winter

(Sociology & Social Policy, November 2019)
Thesis Title: How Social Adversity and Opioid Prescription Intersect with the Criminal Justice System and Recent Mortality in the United States
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A. Killewald
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), Columbia University

Alix Winter's website

aw2257@columbia.edu

Meghan L. Zacher

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Associations of Education with Health by Demographic, Genetic, and School Characteristics
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A. Killewald
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Population Studies, Brown University

meghan_zacher@brown.edu

Department of Sociology