Graduate Students On The Market
Student
Areas of Specialization
Dissertation Title
Chair
Joshua Bloom
joshuabloom@ucla.edu
Social Movements, Race, Labor, Methodology.
Pathways of Insurgency: Black Liberation Struggle and the Second Reconstruction in the United States, 1945-1975.
Mann and Roy
Patti Donze
pattidonze@gmail.com
Gender, Culture, Media, Theory, Sexuality, Law
Pop Stars and Gender: The Relation of Representation, Promotion, and Listener Preferences to Artist Success
Rossman
Jennifer Flashman
jennifer.flashman@yale.edu
Social Stratification, Education, Social Networks, Social Demography, Quantitative Methods
You’ve Got a Friend: Adolescent Friendship Preferences, Dynamics, and Implications for Future Stratification
Mare
Nazgol Ghandnoosh
nanoosh@ucla.edu
Crime and Punishment, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods
Challenging Mass Incarceration: How Prisoners, their Families, and Advocates Confront Prolonged Punishment
Timmermans
Noah Grand
ngrand@ucla.edu
noahgrand@gmail.com
Culture, Political Sociology, Organization,
Quantitative Methods, Media Interaction, Social Networks
The Emergence of Newsworthiness: Organizational and Interactional Foundations for Inclusion, Exclusion and Inequality in Political News
Clayman
Kjerstin Gruys
Kjerstin@ucla.edu
Sociology of Gender; Social Inequality; Work and Occupations; Sociology of the Body; Aesthetic Labor; Qualitative Research Methods; Public Sociology
Properly Attired, Hired or Fired: Aesthetic Labor, Workplace Discrimination and Social Inequality
Saguy
Wesley Hiers
whiers@ucla.edu
whiers@gmail.com
Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism
Political Institutions and Racial Closure: The U.S. in Comparative Perspective, 1600s to 1900s
Wimmer
Elizabeth Joniak
ejoniak@gmail.com
Ethnography, Deviance, Social Control, Interaction, Self and Society, Identity, Criminology, Medical Sociology
“On the Street” and “Of the Street”: The Daily Lives of Unhoused Youth in Hollywood
Emerson
Tara McKay
tara.mckay@gmail.com
Medical Sociology, Sexualities, Organizations, Africa
Competition, Cooperation and Coercion: The Making of Global Health Policy
Timmermans
Noriko Milman
nori.milman@gmail.com
Sociology of Education, Race and Ethnicity, Childhood and Youth, Social Psychology, Qualitative Methods
'Pay Attention!': How Teachers and Students Construct Attentiveness in First Grade Classrooms
Phillips
Sarah Schlabach
sarahhoefke@gmail.com
Family Demography, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification
Understanding the Multiracial Family
Sweeney, Ortiz and Moore
Anup Sheth
aasheth@ucla.edu
Urban Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods
Naming LA: Immigration and the Politics of Recognition
Katz
Sylvia Zamora
sylviaz@ucla.edu
Comparative Race and Ethnicity Immigration, Sociology of Latin America, Gender, Qualitative Methods
Transnational Racialization: How Migration Shapes Mexicans' Conceptions of Race in Sending and Receiving Societies
Ortiz