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
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