Sociology Ph.D.s on the Job Market
The following Ph.D. candidates and recent graduates from the Brown University Department of Sociology are seeking positions in the field
Rachel Goldberg
Ph.D. expected 2012
Rachel's CV 
Research Interests:
Family; Gender; Social Demography; Population Health, including HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health; Life Course; Data Collection; Advanced Statistical Methods; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation
Family Turbulence and the Transition to Adulthood in Kenya and South Africa
Committee Members:
Susan Short (Chair), Dennis Hogan, Nancy Luke
Moshi Optat Herman
Ph.D. expected 2012
Moshi's CV
Research Interests:
Social Demography; International Political Economy; Global Development Theory; Global Health; The Life Course; Measures of Development; Africa’s Engagement with International Financial Institutions; Global Inequalities; Quantitative Methods; Comparative Methods; Africa
Dissertation
Political-economic Origins of Demographic Trends: Liberalization and Public Health Inequalities in Southeast Africa, 1985-2005
Committee Members:
David Lindstrom (Chair), Nitsan Chorev, Nancy Luke, and Patrick Heller
Esther Hernández-Medina
Ph.D. expected 2012
Esther's CV
Research Interests:
Democracy and Citizen Participation, Latin America and the Caribbean,
Public Policy, Globalization,
Feminism and Gender, Gender and Development,
Social Movements, Global Cities in Latin America
Dissertation
Synergy, Mediation, or Exclusion? Citizen Participation in Mexico City's Urban
Policy
Committee Members:
Patrick Heller (Chair),
Hilary Silver,
John Logan
Sukriti Issar
Ph.D. expected 2012
Sukriti's CV
Research Interests:
Urban sociology, Welfare State and Social Policy, Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Development, Spatial Methods, Qualitative and Historical Methods, United States, India
Dissertion
Building Markets: Ideas, Interests and Institutional Transformation in Mumbai, 1880-2010
Committee Members:
John Logan (Chair), Nitsan Chorev, Patrick Heller, Ashutosh Varshney (Pol. Sc.)
Amy Kracker Selzer
Ph.D. expected 2012
Amy's CV
Research Interests:
Political Sociology, International Development, Globalization, Urban Sociology, Civil Society, Spatial Methods
Dissertation
Enhancing Capabilities or Delivering Inequality? Contestation and Service Delivery in Urban South Africa
Committee Members:
Patrick Heller (Chair), Nitsan Chorev, John Logan
Shruti Majumdar
Ph.D. expected 2012
Shruti's CV
Research Interests:
Political Economy of Development, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology and Ethnography
Dissertation
Differentiated Citizenships and Civic Engagements in Calcutta, India
Committee Members:
Patrick Heller (Chair), Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Nitsan Chorev, Ashutosh Varshney
Myungji Yang
Ph.D. expected 2012
Myungji's CV
Research Interests:
Political Sociology; Comparative Historical Methods; Civil Society and Democracy; Development; East Asia
Dissertion
The Making of the Urban Middle Class in South Korea and China: Nationalism, Modernity, and New Identities
Committee Members:
Patrick Heller (Chair), Melani Cammett, John Logan, James Mahoney