2022-2023 Job Market Candidates
Career Outcomes and Trajectories of Recent Graduates
2021-2022
2020-2021
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Suzanne Petrusic | Srebrenica as Discourse: An Ethnography of Power | Mohammed Bamyeh | Director - Research, Gartner |
Candice Robinson | For the Movement: An Ethnography of the National Urban League, the Black Middle Class, and Black Movement Communities | Suzanne Staggenborg | Assistant Professor Of Sociology, University of North Carolina Wilmington (Tenure track) |
Caitlin Schroering | The Global Economy, Resource Conflicts, and Transnational Social Movements: Dimensions of Resistance to Water Privatization | Jackie Smith, Suzanne Staggenborg | Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Tenure track) |
2019-2020
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Benjamin Case | When Yelling Isn't Good Enough: Riots and Non-Nonviolent Civil Resistance | John Markoff | Resistance Studies Affiliate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Alana Fields | “Coaching Boys Into Men”: Exploring Implementation, Evaluation, and Content of a Gender-Transformative Violence Prevention Program | Lisa Brush | Post-Doctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh |
Corinne Ogrodnik | Contentious Coalitions, Movement Divisions, and Strategic Action Fields. Factors Motivating and Unlikely Alliance of Environmental Organizations and Gas Companies. | Suzanne Staggenborg | Managing Director, Maitri Holdings, LLC |
2018-2019
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Hatem Hassan | Discipline, Criminality, and Post-Revolutionary Governance in Contemporary Cairo: The Social Construction of the Thug | Mohammed Bamyeh | Education Researcher for BloomBoard |
Samantha Plummer | Three Essays on Poverty, Social Services, and Advice-Giving | Lisa Brush | Post-Doctoral Reseacher at Columbia University |
2017-2018
2016-2017
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Mehr Latif | Re-Envisioning Kinship and the State in Pakistan | Kathleen Blee and Mohammed Bamyeh | Postdoctoral Associate at University of Pittsburgh |
Mohammad Golam Nabi Mozumder | The Body, Subjectivity, and Sociality: Fakir Lalon Shah and His Followers in Contemporary Bangladesh | Mohammed Bamyeh | Research Associate at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies |
Jeffrey Tienes | Keeping it "Real": Making a Career in Pittsburgh's Rap Music Scene | Lisa Brush | Visiting Instructor at Clarion University of Pennsylvania |
2015-2016
2014-2015
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Daniel Nunez | Violence and the State in Postwar Guatemala | John Markoff | Researcher at Dialogos |
Maria Dillard | Measuring the Social-Ecological Resilience of Coastal and Small Island Communities to Inform Policy, Planning, and Practice | John Marx and Suzanne Staggenborg | Acting Director of Disaster and Failure Studies at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
Xi Zhang | The Effects of Internal Migration on Regional Inequality in China: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis | Vijai Singh | Assistant Director of Data Science, Institutional Research and Decision Support at the University of California |
Nichole Bayliss | Where You Live Does Matter: The Impact of Racial Residential Segregation on Racial Disparities in Cancer Incidence and Morality in Northeastern and Southern US Counties, 2005-2009 | John Marx and Suzanne Staggenborg | Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for Psychology at Chatham University |
2013-2014
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Kimberly Creasap | Sweden Ends Here? Social Movement Scenes and the Right to the City | Kathleen Blee | Director in the Office of Gender and Sexuality at Denison University |
Jane Walsh | Our Struggles Are Not the Same, but They Converge: Farmworkers, Allies, and the Fair Food Movement | John Markoff | Assistant Professor of Sociology at Clarion University of Pennsylvania |
Amy McDowell | Rebellious Religion: Christian Hardcore and Muslim 'Taqwacore' Punk Rock | Kathleen Blee | Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Mississippi |
2012-2013
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Selman Yilmaz | State, Politics, and Religion: Effects of Political and Social Change on the Relationship between State and Religion in Turkey, 2002-2012 | Mohammed Bamyeh | Assistant Professor at Ankara University |
Kelsy Burke | God, Sex, and the Internet: The Faithful, Virtual, and Sexual Lives of Contemporary Evangelicial Christians | Kathleen Blee | Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
2011-2012
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Piotr Konieczny | The Impact of Modern Information and Communication Technologies on Social Movements | John Markoff | Associate Professor of Informational Sociology at the University of Hanyang |
Veronica Szabo | Youth and Politics in Communist Romania, 1980-1989 | John Markoff | Licensed Realtor at RE/MAX Select Realty |
Yolanda Hernandez | Narratives of Identity and Motherhood among Latin American Migrant Women | Mohammed Bamyeh | Professor at Universidad Loyola Andalucia |
Kathleen Bulger Gray | Negotiating Race Talk: How Whites Hide Racial Privilege and Structural Inequality | Kathleen Blee | Assistant Academic Dean at St. Francis College |
Jared Coopersmith | Scientific Controversies, Boundary Disputes, and Mobilization: The Intelligent Design Movement Network | Pat Doriean and Akiko Hashimoto | Senior Statistician at Mathematica Policy Research |
2010-2011
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Amy Kubichek | The Effects of Economic Development, Urbanization, Women’s Rights Programs, Women’s Microcredit Programs, and Women’s Market-Oriented Programs on Gender Inequality in India | Lisa Brush | Research Associate at the Lewis Center for Church Leadership of Wesley Theological Seminary |
Kai Heidemann | Giving Voice to Language: Basque Language Activism and the Politics of Education Reform in France, 1969-1994 | Akiko Hashimoto | Assistant Professor at Maastricht University |
2009-2010
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Sambriddhi Kharel | The Dialectics of Identity and Resistance among Dalits in Nepal | Cecilia Green | Board of Directors, Samarpan Academy, Institute of Crisis Management Studies (Nepal) |
2008-2009
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Margaret Kerr | Autism Spectrum Disorders and Vaccines: The Making of a Health Social Movement | John Marx and John Markoff | Author and Instructor, Robert Morris University |
Maria Jose Alvarez-Rivadulla | Contentious Urbanization from Below: Land Squatting in Montevideo, Uruguay | John Markoff | Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad de los Andes |
Melissa Swauger | Whatever Her Little Heart Desires: How Class and Race Influence Adolescent Girls Perceptions of the Future | Kathleen Blee | Associate Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
2007-2008
Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
Monica Solinas Saunders | Adolescent Antisocial Behavior and Adult Intimate Partner Violence | Phyllis Coontz | Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Indiana University Northwest |
Lisa Huebner-Ruchti | Professional Intimacy: An Ethnography of Care in Hospital Nursing | Kathleen Blee | Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at West Chester University |
2006-2007