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Alicia DeSantola

Alicia DeSantola

(Organizational Behavior)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Ahead of the Curve? The Influence of Early Joiners with Entrepreneurial Experience on New Venture Scaling
Dissertation Committee: Ranjay Gulati (Chair), Frank Dobbin, Laura Huang, and Rory McDonald
Research Interests: New firm development, entrepreneurial teams, scaling, organizational change, entrepreneurial strategy
Teaching Interests: Entrepreneurial management, organizational behavior, and strategy... Read more about Alicia DeSantola
adesantola@hbs.edu
Stefan Dimitriadis

Stefan Dimitriadis

(Organizational Behavior)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Entrepreneurial social capital acquisition in emerging markets: A field experiment in Togo
Dissertation Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Metin Sengul, Rembrand Koning, and Peter V. Marsden
Research/Teaching Interests: Organization strategy, entrepreneurship, social networks, framing processes, institutions, social movements, emerging and developing markets

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sdimitriadis@hbs.edu
Alexandra Feldberg

Alexandra Feldberg

(Organizational Behavior)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Butchers, bakers, and barcharts: How codified knowledge affects gender differences in performance and relationships
Dissertation Committee: Kathleen L. McGinn (Chair), Michael L. Tushman, Frank Dobbin, and Peter V. Marsden
Research/Teaching Interests: Gender in organizations; Knowledge; Discrimination; Technology; Careers; Field research

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afeldberg@hbs.edu
Anny Fenton

Anny Tazio Fenton

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Sex and the Pediatrician’s Office: Using the HPV Vaccine to Explore How Sexuality Shapes Health Care Practices and Parents’ Health Care Decision
Dissertation Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Tey Meadow
Research/Teaching Interests: Medical Sociology, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Families, Inequality, Science & Technology Studies, Culture, Healthcare, Social Policy, Mixed Methods

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afenton@fas.harvard.edu
Blythe George

Blythe George

(Sociology & Social Policy)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: “Jobbing It” On & Off-Reservation: How Tribal Fathers with Criminal Records Find Work
Dissertation Committee: William Julius Wilson (Chair), Mario L. Small, Alexandra A. Killewald, and Megan Comfort
Research/Teaching Interests: Tribal communities; Unemployment; Prisoner Reentry; Concentrated Disadvantage; Rural Poverty; Neighborhood Effects; Qualitative Methods; Database Creation & Management; Social Policy; Urban Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; Contemporary Theory

... Read more about Blythe George
blythegeorge@fas.harvard.edu; blythe.k.george@gmail.com
Barbara Kiviat

Barbara Kiviat

(Sociology & Social Policy)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Prediction and the Moral Order: Contesting Fairness in Consumer Data Capitalism
Dissertation Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Mario L. Small
Research/Teaching Interests: Economic sociology; stratification; public policy and regulation; credit and debt; sociology of morality; sociology of quantification; qualitative methods... Read more about Barbara Kiviat

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barbarakiviat@fas.harvard.edu
Charlotte Lloyd

Charlotte J. Lloyd

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Managing Indigeneity, Cultivating Citizens: “Reconciliation Action Plans” in Australian Organizations
Dissertation Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Michèle Lamont
Research Interests: Citizenship, reconciliation and transitional justice, recognition, diversity and multiculturalism in workplaces and organizations, transnational development, intimacy and sex work, text mining and analytics, mixed methods
Teaching Interests: Research methods, computational social science (big data), cultural and political sociology, sociology of human rights development, sociology of gender and intimacy, sociology of organizations and work

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charlottelloyd@fas.harvard.edu 
Eunsil Oh

Eunsil Oh

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2018
Dissertation Title: Defining Female Achievement: Gender, Class, and Work in Contemporary Korea
Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra Killewald, Paul Y. Chang, and Jocelyn Viterna
Research/Teaching Interests: Gender, social class, work and family, policy, demographic change, qualitative and mixed methods, social psychology, East Asia... Read more about Eunsil Oh

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426 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street. Cambridge, MA 02138
eunsiloh@fas.harvard.edu
Kristin L. Perkins

Kristin L. Perkins

(Sociology & Social Policy)
Ph.D. Date: May 2017 
Dissertation Title: Household Instability During Childhood and Young Adult Outcomes
Dissertation Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Kathryn Edin, Alexandra A. Killewald, and Bruce Western
Research/Teaching Interests: Inequality, social stratification, urban sociology, family sociology, poverty, social policy, quantitative methods
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
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kristin_perkins@harvard.edu
Jasmin Sandelson

Jasmin Sandelson

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Looking Out: Peers, Support and Success in a Poor Neighborhood
Dissertation Committee: Matthew Desmond (Co-chair), Michèle Lamont (Co-chair), and Mary C. Waters
Research/Teaching Interests: Poverty, cultural sociology, social stratification, urban sociology, social media, gender & sexuality, adolescence, qualitative methods
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jasminsandelson@fas.harvard.edu
Alix Winter

Alix Winter

(Sociology & Social Policy)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: The Criminal Justice Consequences of Opioid Prescription
Dissertation Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A. Killewald
Research/Teaching Interests: Inequality and social stratification, the criminal justice system, social determinants of health, race and ethnicity, social policy, poverty, quantitative and qualitative methods
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awinter@fas.harvard.edu
Meghan Zacher

Meghan Zacher

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2019 (Expected)
Dissertation Topic: Heterogeneous Associations of Education with Health by Demographic, Genetic, and School Characteristics
Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A. Killewald
Research/Teaching Interests: Health disparities, health behaviors, education, stratification, social policy, sociogenomics, quantitative methods

meghan.zacher@gmail.com
Yun Zhou

Yun Zhou

(Sociology)
Ph.D. Date: May 2017
Dissertation Title: Birds of a Feather: Patterns, Heuristics, and Constraints of Cross-Boundary Marriage Sorting
Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Brinton (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Martin K. Whyte
Research/Teaching Interests: Agent-based computational demography, family, fertility, reproductive rights, union formation, inequality and stratification, quantitative and mixed-methods
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University... Read more about Yun Zhou
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yun_zhou@brown.edu