The following Ph.D. candidates and recent graduates from the Brown University Department of Sociology are seeking positions in the field.
On The Market
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Research Interests
Social Stratification; Segregation; Race; Class; Ethnicity
Committee Members
Andrew Schrank (chair), Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, David Lindstrom, Josh Pacewicz
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Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Sociology of Development, Social Theory, Sociology of Terrorism, Race and Empire, Qualitative Methods
Committee Members
Nitsan Chorev (chair), Patrick Heller, Josh Pacewicz
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Research Interests
Sociology of race and culture (elites); Coloniality of gender and sexuality (LGBTQIA+ Sikhs); Du Boisian Sociology
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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Research Interests
Postcolonial Sociology, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Empire, Critical Security Studies, Ethnography, Social Theory, Middle East and South Asia
Committee Members
José Itzigsohn (chair), Paget Henry, Michael Kennedy, Josh Pacewicz, Julian Go (University of Chicago), Wazhmah Osman (Temple Univ.)
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Research Interests
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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Research Interests
Political, economic, and historical sociology, social inequality, labor, the Middle East and North Africa, qualitative and archival methods
Committee Members
Nitsan Chorev (chair), Patrick Heller, Josh Pacewicz, Jennifer Johnson (History), Charlie Kurzman (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
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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