On The Market

The following Ph.D. candidates and recent graduates from the Brown University Department of Sociology are seeking positions in the field.

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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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    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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    Race and Ethnicity; Migration; Urban Sociology; Social Movements

    Dissertation Title

    Wards of Action: Fantasy and Social Change in Newark, New Jersey

    Committee Members

    José Itzigsohn (chair), Laura López-Sanders, Josh Pacewicz

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    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