(Sociology) Ph.D. Date: May 2023 (Expected) Dissertation Title: Transnational Making and Remaking of Education: Private Supplementary Education in Korea and Korean America Dissertation Committee: Mary C. Waters (Co-Chair), Mario Luis Small (Co-Chair; Columbia University), Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College), and Paul Y. Chang Research/Teaching Interests: Race, ethnicity, and immigration; education; Asia and Asian America; transnational processes; qualitative methods... Read more about Eun Se Baik
(Sociology, May 2011) Thesis Title: Terrified: Fringe Movements, Emotions, and Islam, 2001-2008 Committee: Michèle Lamont (Chair), Orlando Patterson, Jocelyn Viterna, Mary C. Waters, and William Julius Wilson Initial Placement: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy, University of Michigan (2011-2013); Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2013-2015) Current Position:Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science, Duke University, Durham, NC... Read more about Christopher Andrew Bail
(Sociology, June 2006) Thesis Title: Art, Identity, and the New Black Middle-Class: How Elite Blacks Construct their Identity Through the Consumption of Visual Art Committee: Lawrence D. Bobo (chair), Michèle Lamont, and William Julius Wilson Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College... Read more about Patricia Ann Banks
(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, 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/
(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
Research Interests: Stratification and Inequality; Discrimination; Urban Poverty; Social Mobility; Demography; and Sociology of Law... Read more about Jimmy Biblarz
