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2018 PhDs

Emily Ruehs

Dissertation Title:
Clandestine Youth: Unaccompanied Minors, Securitization and Humanitarianism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Areas of Specializations: migration, childhood/youth, teaching sociology, human rights, gender

Emily Ruehs’s CV

Ryan Sporer

Dissertation Title:
“The Politics of Circumvention: The Off-Grid Eco-Housing Movement of Earthships”

Areas of specialization: Environmental Sociology, Social Movements and Political Sociology, and Science, Technology and Society

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Salisbury University

Ryan Sporer’s CV

Paige Sweet

Dissertation Title:
Trauma, Domestic Violence, and Hybrid Medicalization

Areas of specialization: Gender/Sexuality, Sociology of Health/Illness, Sociological Theory, Science Studies, Body/Embodiment, Domestic Violence

Paige Sweet’s CV

2009-2017 PhDs

: Jonathan Stringfield

Dissertation title: “Identity and Audience in Social Media”

Current position: Head of Global Business Marketing, Measurement, and Insights at Activision Blizzard Media

Akilah Watkins-Butler

Dissertation Title: “Marriage on the Black Market: Contextual Influences of African American Marriage Markets”

Ray Sin

Dissertation Title: “The Emergence and Persistence of Gender Ambivalence: A Latent Class Analysis from 1977 to 2014”

Caleb Schaffner

Dissertation Title: “Paths Out of Religion: A Cartography of Atheism”

Tunde Cserpes

Dissertation Title: “From Relationship Asymmetry to Market: Spatial and Organizational Dynamics in Beer Wholesaling”

Bradley Zopf

Dissertation Title: “What it Means to be Brown: The Racial Lives of Egyptians in the United States”
: Jessica Cook

Dissertation Title: “Beyond Just the Job: Chicago Worker Centers Contesting Exclusion, Organizing for Full Citizenship Rights”

Melissa Abad

Dissertation Title: “Juggling Logics: How Nonprofit Staff Construct an Organizational Field in a New Immigrant Destination”

Jerome Hendricks

Senior Research Analyst, RSG

Dissertation Title: “Vinyl Revival: Processes of Qualification and Change in Intermediate Markets”

Anna Colaner

Director of Evaluation and Research, SGA Youth & Family Services

Dissertation Title: “Sociodemographic Disparities in Market Change and Programmatic Mission under Preschool for All: A Case Study of Illinois”
: Courtney Carter

Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dissertation Title: “The Institutionalization of Diversity at an HBCU and its Implications for Racialized School Mission”

Danielle Giffort

Assistant Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy

Dissertation Title: “The Rip Van Winkle Science: The Decline and Revival of Psychedelic Drug Research”

Julio Capeles-Delgado

Dissertation Title: “Latino parental Engagement in a New Immigrant Destination”

Kelly Underman

Dissertation Title: “A Feel for the Clinic: Affect, Embodiment, and Simulation in the Pelvic Exam”
: Kristin Abner

Manager, Health, Education, and Social Programs, ICF International

Dissertation Title: “Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare Intervention:
Contextual and Individual Inequalities”

Rachel Allison

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University

Dissertation Title: “Gender and the Organization of Women’s Professional Soccer.”

Amy Brainer

Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Dissertation Title: “Lesbian, gay and queer kinship in Taiwan: Generational changes and continuities”

Kiana Cox

Research Associate, Religion and Public Life

Pew Research Center

Dissertation Title: “Visible But Out of Place: Black Woman and Gender in Assessments of African American Inequality”
: Juan Martinez

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northeastern Illinois University

Dissertation Title: “The Suburban Village”: White Ethnics, Latinos, and Neighborhood Relations.

Yan Xing

Research Specialist, University of Illinois at Chicago, Family Medicine

Dissertation Title: “Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Enterprises: Insights from Corporate Website Self-Reporting”
: Pallavi Banerjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

Dissertation Title: “Constructing Dependence: Visa Regimes and Gendered Migration in Indian Transnational Professional Families.”

Xiao Lu

Assistant Professor, College of Sociology and Ethnology, Minzu University in Beijing

Dissertation Title: “Social Structure of the Chinese Academic Labor Market in a Changing Environment.”
: Georgiann Davis

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dissertation title: “Gender Players and Gender Prisoners: When Intersex Activism, Medical Authority, and Terminology Collide”

Georgiann’s website

Mosi Ifatunji

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill

Dissertation Title: “Are Black Immigrants A Model Minority? Race, Ethnicity and Social Inequality in the United States.”

Mosi’s CV
: Sonia Oliva

Sociology Instructor, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL

Dissertation Title: “What’s race got to do with it? The School Politics of Black and Latino Racial Tensions”

Sonia’s CV
: Zachary Neal

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University

Dissertation Title: “Trajectories of the Distinctive Metropolis in the Twentieth Century”
: Kim Scipes

Professor, Sociology, Purdue University Northwest

Dr. Scipes’s Website