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 Inequality; Poverty; Families; Organizations; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title
The Ecological Patterning and Effects of Child Care Markets.
Committee Members
Josh Pacewicz (chair), Mark Suchman, Margot Jackson
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Research Interests
Urban Sociology; Political Sociology; Political Economy of Development and Globalization; Comparative-Historical Methods; Brazil; South Africa
Dissertation Title
Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing Johannesburg and São Paulo, 1985-2016.
Committee Members
Patrick Heller (chair), Nitsan Chorev, Peter Evans (UC-Berkeley), John Logan
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Research Interests
Education; Social Stratification; Race and Ethnicity; Urban Sociology; Organizations; Public Policy; Political Sociology
Dissertation Title
School Discipline: The Imperatives, Implementation Processes, and Unintended Consequences of Reform.
Committee Members
Margot Jackson (Chair), Josh Pacewicz, Zhenchao Qian
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Research Interests
Empire and Colonialism; Global and Transnational Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Knowledge and Expertise; Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Historical and Ethnographic Methods
Dissertation Title
The Right to Have Rights: Race-Making, Liberalism and the British West Indies.
Committee Members
José Itzigsohn (chair), Michael Kennedy, Nitsan Chorev, Anthony Bogues, Julian Go
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Research Interests
Political Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge & Expertise; Comparative Historical Sociology; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title
Rightward in the Rustbelt: How Conservatives Remade the GOP, 1947-2012.
Committee Members
Josh Pacewicz (Co-Chair), Nitsan Chorev (Co-Chair), José Itzigsohn, Cedric de Leon
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Research Interests
Urban Sociology; Gentrification; Community Development and Nonprofits; Environment & Society; Social Movements; Qualitative and Historical Methods; Spatial Analysis
Dissertation Title
Historical Development and the Community Gardening Movements in Austin, TX and Boston, MA.
Committee Members
Hilary Silver (Chair), Scott Frickel, Josh Pacewicz
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Research Interests
Asian Americans; Social Construction of Knowledge; Race and Ethnicity; W.E.B. Du Bois; Du Boisian Sociology; Sociological Theories of Race; Quantitative Methods; Inequality; Housing
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Research Interests
Environmental Sociology; Latin America; Fisheries; Sociology of Knowledge and Science; Social Movements
Dissertation Title
An upwelling of expertise: The collapse of the Peruvian anchoveta fishery and the rise of grassroots science, 1973-2000.
Committee Members
Scott Frickel (Chair), Nitsan Chorev, Michael Kennedy, José Carlos Orihuela (Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)), David Hess (Vanderbilt University)