Graduate Alumni

Dissertation Title:

Permanent Austerity Public Finance: a 40 Year Case Study of Public Finance Policy in Chicago, IL.

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Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy

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“School Consolidation in the Unequal City: Race and Class Politics, Changing the Status Quo in Urban Education and Rethinking Racial Justice”

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Maximilian Cuddy is currently the Earl S. Johnson Instructor in Sociology in the MA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) at the University of Chicago. This is a three-year position that focuses on teaching and advising MAPSS graduate students. Along with teaching and advising, Maximilian will be working on transforming his dissertation into a book manuscript and continuing to publish academic articles

Dissertation Title: Not Yet Here: Reexamining Queerness and Identity in Contemporary Social Movement Work

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Post-Doctoral Fellowship, “Trans+ People in Canadian Prisons” project at the University of Victoria, Chair in Trans Studies Program in Canada

Dissertation Title: “Haitians are Everywhere and Nowhere: Race, Place, and Identity Formation among Chicago Haitians”

Job Placement: Analyst, Government Accountability Office

Dissertation Title: “Shifting Notions of Life and the Illusion of Choice: Neoliberalism or Neofascism in Italy ”

Job Placement: Assistant Professor, ESIC Madrid University

Dissertation Title:

Surviving Cancer in Rural America: The Role of Women’s Households, Social Networks, and Communities in Coping with
Cancer

Job Placement: Post Doc, University of Arkansas

Dissertation Title:

“Freed Without Freedom: Citizenship and Surveillance for People on Pre-Trial Release”

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National Science Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow at Brown University

Dissertation:

Enabling Ambiguity: How Impact Investors Balance Social and Financial Returns in Practice

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Independent Contractor

Dissertation:

Bad Jobs or ‘Badass’ Jobs? Fishing Guides, Self-Employment, and Service Work in the New Economy

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Marquette University

Dissertation:

Latina Community-Engaged Artists in Chicago: Practices, (Il)legibility, and Third Spaces

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Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University

Dissertation Topic:

Core Curriculum Movement in Teaching Sociology

Job Placement: Director of Academics, Summer Discovery

Dissertation:

Mothering in a Polluted, Developing China: Class, Risk perception, and Environmentalist Motherhood

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Assistant Professor, Monmouth College

Dissertation:

Bi+ People’s Experiences in the Post-Gay Era

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Assistant Professor, Indiana State University

Dissertation Topic: Form Salience Among Cooperative Firms

Job Placement: Research Associate, Center on Sustainability, Berlin, Germany

Dissertation Topic: Cultural Logics, Social Structure, and Unmarrieds’ Resistance in US

Job Placement: Adjunct, University of Indiana at South Bend

Dissertation Topic: Economic and cultural determinants of gender wage inequality

Job Placement: Assistant Professor, North Texas

Dissertation Topic: Rural Queer and Trans* Women

Job Placement: Visiting Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder

Dissertation Title: Race, religion, and community needs

Job Placement: Adjunct, Domincan University

Dissertation Title: 
Trauma, Domestic Violence, and Hybrid Medicalization

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Assistant Professor, Michigan

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

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Visiting Assistant Professor at Salisbury University

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“Mediated Sexualities and the ‘Dating Apocalypse’: Gender, Race, and Sexual Identity on Hookup Apps”

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Associate Project Manager, Guaranteed Rate

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

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Assistant Professor, Elmhurst College

Dissertation title: “Identity and Audience in Social Media”

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

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

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President & Chief Executive Officer, Center for Community Progress

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

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Artificial Intelligence Senior Researcher, Deep Labs

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

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Research Analyst, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority

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

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Aarhus University School of Management

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

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Assistant Professor, Carthage College

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

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Director of Talent Acquisition, DePaul University

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

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Researcher, Claymen Center at Stanford

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

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Senior Research Associate, RSG

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

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Director of Evaluation and Research, SGA Youth and Family Services

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

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Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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

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Senior UX Research at Ipsos (2022-present)
Associate Professor of Sociology (with tenure) at St. Louis College of Pharmacy (2015-2022)

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

Job Placement: Oakton Community College

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

Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Drexel

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

Job Placement: Manager, Health, Education, and Social Programs, ICF International

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

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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University

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

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

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

Job Placement: Research Associate at Pew Research Center, Religion and Public Life

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

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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northeastern Illinois University

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

Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northeastern Illinois University

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

Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

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

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

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

Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico

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

Job Placement: Assist Prof, African American Studies & Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Mosi’s CVs

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

Job Placement: Sociology Instructor, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL

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

Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University

Professor, Sociology, Purdue University Northwest

Dr. Scipes CV

Dr. Scipes’s Publications

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