Doctor of Philosophy

Laura Kremen Adler

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: From the Job's Worth to the Person's Price: Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and the Changing Understanding of Fair Pay
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Jason Beckfield, Peter V. Marsden, and David Pedulla
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management (effective Fall 2022)

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John Almandoz

(Organizational Behavior, March 2011)
Thesis Title: The Invisible Hand and the Good of Communities: The Influence of Institutional Logics on the Founding Teams of Local Banks
Committee: Christopher Marquis (Chair), Christopher Winship, Jeffrey Polzer, and Peter V. Marsden
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Managing People in Organizations, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain... Read more about John Almandoz

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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

Matthew Gerard Baggetta

(Sociology, June 2009)
Thesis Title: Civic Development in Apolitical Associations
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (chair), Christopher Winship, and Marshall Ganz
Initial Placement: Harvard College Fellow and Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, SPEA, Indiana University

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Lydia N. Bean

(Sociology, June 2009)
Thesis Title: The Politics of Evangelical Identity in the United States and Canada
Committee: Robert Sampson (chair), Jason Kaufman, Theda Skocpol, and Nancy Ammerman
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Baylor University
Current Position: Fellow, New America; Faculty Research Associate, University of Texas, Arlington

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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

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

Jovonne Juanita Bickerstaff

(Sociology, May 2015)
Thesis Title: Together, Close, Resilient: Essays on Emotion Work Among Black Couples
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, Christopher Winship, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Associate for the African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland-College Park
Current Position: Senior Program Officer of Higher Education Initiatives, American College of Learned Societies (ACLS), Washington, DC... Read more about Jovonne Juanita Bickerstaff

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jbickerstaff@acls.org

Allison Ruth Binns

(Sociology, November 2008)
Thesis Title: An Examination of the Effects of Organizational Justice on Work Behavior after Salary Negotiation and Arbitration
Committee: Peter V. Marsden (chair), Christopher Winship, Max Bazerman, and Lawrence Lucchino, Esq.
Initial Placement: Executive Development Program, Major League Baseball, New York, NY
Current Position: Executive Director, Morgan Stanley... Read more about Allison Ruth Binns

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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

Deirdre Bloome

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2014)
Thesis Title: Essays on Economic Mobility and Inequality in the United States
Committee: Bruce Western (Chair), Christopher Jencks, William Julius Wilson, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Assistant professor of Sociology/faculty associate at the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
Current Position: Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
... Read more about Deirdre Bloome

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Stacey Jean Bosick

(Sociology, June 2009)
Thesis Title: Crime and the Transition to Adulthood: A Person-Centered Analysis of At-Risk Boys Coming of Age in 1940s Boston, 1970s London, and 1990s Pittsburgh
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (chair), Mary C. Waters, and John H. Laub
Initial Placement/Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver ... Read more about Stacey Jean Bosick

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Jesse William Bradford

(Sociology & Social Policy, March 2009)
Thesis Title: American/Muslims: Reactive Solidarity, Identity Politics and Social Identity Formation in the Aftermath of September 11th
Committee: Mary C. Waters (chair), Christopher Winship, and Katherine S. Newman
Initial Placement: Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company, London
Current Position: Partner, McKinsey and Company
... Read more about Jesse William Bradford

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Kristina Paige Brant

(Sociology, November 2021)
Thesis Title: In the Epicenter: Surveilling, Supporting, and Punishing Families amid the Rural Opioid Crisis
Committee: Mario Luis Small (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, and William Julius Wilson
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Pennsylvania State University

kmb8133@psu.edu

Ahmmad Allan Brown

(Organizational Behavior, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Three Papers on Black Student Well-being in HWCUs: Social Capital, Belonging, and Identity
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Co-Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan (Co-Chair), and Alexandra Feldberg
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University (effective Fall 2022)

Department of Sociology