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
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
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
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
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
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