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
Daniel Núñez
(CV; email: dan25@pitt.edu; dng2781@gmail.com
Research and Teaching Interests: Cultural and Political Sociology, Globalization, Crime, Violence, Social Theory, Law and Society, Latin America, Ethnic and Race Relations, Human Rights
Dissertation Title: Violence and the State in Postwar Guatemala
Advisor: John Markoff
Personal Webste: https://dnunezg.wordpress.com/
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