Graduate Alumni
Graduate Alumni
2018 PhDs
Emily Ruehs
Dissertation Title:
Clandestine Youth: Unaccompanied Minors, Securitization and Humanitarianism in the U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsAreas of Specializations: migration, childhood/youth, teaching sociology, human rights, gender
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
Paige Sweet
Dissertation Title:
Trauma, Domestic Violence, and Hybrid MedicalizationAreas of specialization: Gender/Sexuality, Sociology of Health/Illness, Sociological Theory, Science Studies, Body/Embodiment, Domestic Violence
2009-2017 PhDs
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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”
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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”
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Courtney Carter
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and African American Studies, Mississippi State University
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”
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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
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
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”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.” -
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” -
Zachary Neal
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
Dissertation Title: “Trajectories of the Distinctive Metropolis in the Twentieth Century”
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