PhDs on the Market
Victoria Asbury-Kimmel
Asbury.Kimmel@nyu.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2023 Dissertation Title: Contemporary Contours of National Belonging: Experimental and Survey Approaches for Understanding the Structures of the American Hierarchy Dissertation Committee: Lawrence D. Bobo (Chair), Bart...
Elena Ayala-Hurtado
elenaa@princeton.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2024 Dissertation Title: "This Isn’t Quite What I Expected:" Insecurity Among Young College Graduates in the United States and Spain Dissertation Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan...
Minjin Chae
minjinchae@g.harvard.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2027 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Flexible Work, Durable Inequality: Gender, Race, and the Remaking of Workplace Advantage Dissertation Committee: David Pedulla (Chair), Daniel Schneider, and Alexandra A. Killewald...
Rachel Kim
rachelkim@g.harvard.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2027 (Expected) Dissertation Title: All Aboard: Managing Consensus and Commitment in the Moral Economy of Public Transportation Dissertation Committee: Ya-Wen Lei (Chair), Frank Dobbin, and Orlando Patterson Research/Teaching...
Kwan Kim
(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: November 2023 Dissertation Title: Institutional Barriers to the Diversification of Academic Workforce Dissertation Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan), and Peter V. Marsden Research...
Aleksei Opacic
aopacic@g.harvard.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Da te: May 2027 (Expected) Dissertation Title: College-to-Work(place) Linkages and the Returns to Education Dissertation Committee: Xiang Zhou (Chair), Christina Ciocca Eller, Christopher Winship, and Nathan Wilmers (MIT Sloan) Research...
Mari Sanchez
mjsanchez@g.harvard.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2027 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Non-White Meta Categories in the US and the UK: Unpacking the Language of Racial Difference and Justice Dissertation Committee: Michèle Lamont, Ellis Monk, Alexandra A. Killewald, Ali Meghji...
Kyle Waldman
kylewaldman@g.harvard.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2026 Dissertation Title: Making and Unmaking Latinos: Ethnoracial Construction Across State, Family, and Self Dissertation C ommittee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jody Agius Vallejo (University of Southern California), and...
Joseph Wallerstein
jwallerstein@g.harvard.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2024 Dissertation Title: Attributing Homelessness: The Contents, Patterning, and Power of Origin Stories in the Nonprofit Field Dissertation Committee: Mario L. Small (Chair, Columbia University), Forrest Stuart (Stanford...
Zehra Yildirim
fyildirim@g.harvard.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2027 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Infrastructures of Intimacy: Technology, Gender, and Family Formation in the Digital Era Dissertation Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald (University of Michigan), Ya...
Shira Zilberstein
shira.zilb@princeton.edu (Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2026 Dissertation Title: The Making of Ethical AI: Developing Machine Learning Solutions for Healthcare Dissertation Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Ya-Wen Lei, Kate Kellogg (MIT Sloan School of Management), and Angèle...
