Tina Park has successfully defended her dissertation entitled: "Reconstructing the Sociological Imaginary: Applying Du Boisian Social Theories of Race and Racial Colonial Capitalism".

Jennifer Bouek has successfully defended her dissertation entitled: "Invisible Woman: The Child Care System in the Reproduction of Disadvantage." 

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Meg Caven has successfully defended her dissertation, "School Discipline: The Imperatives, Implementation Processes, and Unintended Consequences of Reform."

Amy Teller has successfully defended her dissertation, "Chocolate Futures: How Eco-Civic Engagement is Remaking Past Monoculture on Brazil's Cocoa Coast."

Johnnie Anne Lotesta has successfully defended her dissertation, "Rightward in the Rustbelt: How Conservatives Remade the GOP, 1947-2012."

Ph.D. Candidate Tina Park was one of the two Brown graduate students achieving the Academic Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan Community Award for this year.

Ph.D. Candidate Syeda Masood is cited discussing the power of books in a segregated, conservative society.

Professor John Logan has been awarded a new 5-year grant from NIH ($2.1 million) to support research with confidential census data on residential mobility and neighborhood change since 2000.  He is working on this project with Hongwei Xu (Brown PhD, now Associate Professor at Queens College) and Charles Zhang (Former S4 postdoc, now Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater).

Juho Korhonen has successfully defended his dissertation, "Empire, Democracy, State, and Nation: Sociological Occlusions of the German and Russian Empires."