On The Market

The following Ph.D. candidates and recent graduates from the Brown University Department of Sociology are seeking positions in the field.

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    Research Interests

    Urban Sociology, Sociology of Development, Social Theory, Sociology of Terrorism, Race and Empire, Qualitative Methods

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    Sociologies of Race and Colonialism; Organizational Theory and Cultural Sociology; Du Boisian Sociology; Sociology of Eliteness, Faculty, and Meritocracy

    Dissertation Title

    Racializing Meritocracy: Ideas of Excellence and Exclusion in Faculty Diversity.

    Committee Members

    Jose Itzigsohn, Michael Kennedy, Daniel Hirschman, Laura López-Sanders

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    Stratification; Migration; Demography; Race/Ethnicity; Law and Society; Organizational Sociology

    Dissertation Title

    Employment Discrimination Against Immigrants.

    Committee Members

    Margot Jackson, Zhenchao Qian, Andrew Schrank, Laura Lopez-Sanders, Roberto Gonzales

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    Postcolonial Sociology, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Empire, Critical Security Studies, Ethnography, Social Theory, Middle East and South Asia

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    Environment; Climate Change Adaptation; Community Power

    Dissertation Title

    Insuring Inequality: The Role of FEMA in Unequal Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal New England

    Committee Members

    Andrew Schrank (Chair), Scott Frickel, J. Timmons Roberts, and Josh Pacewicz

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    Social Demography, Social Determinants of Health, Stratification, Migration, Gender, Public Policy

    Dissertation Title

    Internal Migration, Urban Living and the Health Penalty among Migrant Women in South Africa

    Committee Members

    Michael White (chair), Margot Jackson, Andrew Schrank, Stephen McGarvey (International Health Institute, Brown University), Carren Ginsburg (School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand)

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    Inequality & Stratification; Gender, Family, & Sexuality; Demography; Health; Race & Racism; Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methods

    Dissertation Title

    Intersecting Inequalities: The Social Organization of Family Life among Sexual Minorities

    Committee Members

    Zhenchao Qian (Chair), Margot Jackson, Emily Rauscher, Susan Short

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    Research Interests

    Revolutions and Social Movements; Comparative & Historical Sociology; Political & Cultural Sociology; Media & Globalization; Organizations; Latin America & the Middle East

    Dissertation Title

    Realizing Revolution: Nationalism, Freedom, and Utopia in Iran and Nicaragua, 1979-1999

    Committee Members

    Michael Kennedy (Chair), Jose Itzigsohn, Josh Pacewicz