Research Interests: Organizational Change, Leadership, Innovation, Institutions, Organizations, Nonmarket Strategy, Networks
Joa Alexander is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the...
Research Interests: Political Sociology; Comparative; East Asia; Mixed Methods
Yoojung Lee is a doctoral student in Sociology. Her research explores how identity-based perceptions interact with broader institutional, economic, and cultural dynamics to...
(Sociology, June 2009)
Thesis Title: Rural-Urban Cleavages in Perceptions of Inequality in Contemporary China
Committee: Martin K. Whyte (chair), Christopher Winship, and Christopher Jencks
Initial Placement: Assistant professor, Sociology & Anthropology...
(Sociology, June 2001)
Thesis Title: Women on the Move: Globalization, State Policies, and Labor Migration in Asia
Committee: Ezra Vogel (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Barbara Reskin
Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Comparative...
Research Interests: Culture, ethnicity/race/nation, migration, class, inequality, Asia and Asian America, qualitative methods.
Jane Choi is a PhD student in Sociology. In her research, she examines what is taken to constitute "authentic" ethnic, racial...
Research Interests: Gender inequality; labor markets and employment (Europe, East Asia, United States); social demography; mixed methods; economic sociology; Japanese society.
Professor Mary Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at...
(Sociology, May 2011)
Thesis Title: Global Institutionalization of Human Rights: The Effects of State Institutions and Domestic Politics
Committee: Jason Beckfield and Peter V. Marsden (Co-chairs), and Martin K. Whyte
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor...
(Sociology, June 2004)
Thesis Title: The Little Shops of Lhasa: Migrant Businesses and the Formation of Markets in a Transitional Economy
Committee: Martin K. Whyte (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Ezra F. Vogel, Libby Schweber
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral...
(Sociology, November 2010)
Thesis Title: A Modern Religion?: The State, The People, and the Remaking of Buddhism in Urban China Today
Committee: Martin K. Whyte (Chair), Christopher Winship, and Nancy T. Ammerman (Boston University)
Initial Placement: Harv...
