Research Interests: Incarceration; crime; punishment and sentencing; inequality and stratification; urban sociology; social networks; family; mixed methods
(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
(Organizational Behavior, June 2005) Thesis Title: When Strangers Dance: Social Capital and the Gender Earnings Gap in Elite Workers Committee: Barbara Reskin (Chair), Robin J. Ely, Rakesh Khurana, George P. Baker Current Position:Assistant Teaching Professor, Manning School of Business, Lowell, MA
(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
Dr. Yael Berda is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Hebrew University. She was an Academy Scholar, the Harvard Academy for International & Regional Studies, WCFIA from 2014-2017. ... Read more about Yael Berda
Research Interests: Stratification and Inequality; Discrimination; Urban Poverty; Social Mobility; Demography; and Sociology of Law... Read more about Jimmy Biblarz
(Sociology, June 2000) Thesis Title: The Rise and Decline of a Mass Movement: American Workers and the Strike Wave of 1886 Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Kenneth Andrews, Sven Beckert Initial Placement: Lecturer in Sociology, Oxford University Current Position: Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College
