Daniel Burridge
(CV ; email: dpb36@pitt.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology; Latin American and Central American studies; Democracy; Revolutions; Social Theory; Violence and Crime; Global and International Studies; Community Studies; Qualitative Methods and Ethnography
Dissertation Title: Twilight of the Vanguard: Movement-State Negotiations and the Reinvention of Leftist Politics in Post-Revolutionary Central America
Advisor: John Markoff
John Cuda
(CV; email: jrc87@pitt.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Knowledge, Environmental Sociology
Dissertation Title: Re-Enchanting Culture: Identity Transformation, Embodiment, and Prefigurative Religious Practices in New Spiritualities
Advisor: Mohammed Bamyeh
Mehr Latif
(CV; email: mehr.latif@gmail.com)
Research Interests: Development of the Nation-State; Public Sphere; Civic Engagement; Civic Associations; Nonprofits; Political Sociology; Social Theory; Ethnography; Cultural Sociology; and Sociology of Emotions
Teaching Interests: Global Society; Civil Society and Non-Profits; Social Theory; and Research Methods
Dissertation Title: Re-envisioning Kinship and the State in Pakistan
Advisor: Kathleen Blee
Hillary Lazar
(CV; email: hillarylazar@gmail.com)
Research Interests: Social Movements; Revolutions; Political Emotions; Anarchism and Prefiguration; Gender Theory; Power and Inequality; Deviance and Social Control; World-Systems; Historical Sociology; Qualitative Methodology; Public Sociology; and Popular Education
Dissertation Title: A New World in Our Hearts: Evaluating Outcomes and Personal Transformation in Prefigurative Movements
Advisor: John Markoff
Joshua McDermott
CV; email: jlm417@pitt.edu
Research and Teaching Interests: Informal Labor, Globalization, Stratification, Urban Sociology, Gentrification, Social Movements, Labor Movements, International Political Economy, Political Sociology, Race, Postcolonialism, West Africa, Mexico
Dissertation Title: Labor Uprisings in West Africa: Informal Workers and Socialist Politics in Post-War Sierra Leone
Advisor: Mohammed Bamyeh
Jeff Tienes
(CV; email: jtienes@clarion.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Culture; Race; Class; and Gender; Social Research Methods; Ethnographic Methods; Masculinities; Sociology of Hip-Hop; Popular Culture; Media Studies; and Micro-Interactionism
Dissertation Title: Keeping it “Real”: Making a Career in Pittsburgh’s Rap Music Scene
Advisor: Lisa D. Brush