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
Climate Change; Environmental Sociology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Postcolonialism; Knowledge and Expertise; Critical Development; Policy- and Decision-Making
Dissertation Title
Confronting Global Crisis or Business as Usual: Competing Frames in the Making of Climate Adaptation.
Committee Members
J. Timmons Roberts (Chair), Nitsan Chorev, Patrick Heller, Dan Hirschman, Pinar Batur (Vassar College)
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Research Interests
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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Research Interests
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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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
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
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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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