2020-2021 Job Market Candidates
Career Outcomes and Trajectories of Recent Graduates
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
| Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
| Gabriel Chouhy | Education Experts, Intellectual Movements, Left Parties: Three Essays on Neoliberal Politics in Chile and Beyond | Lisa Brush and John Markoff | Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies at Tulane University |
| Elizabeth Yates | Institutionalization Without Deradicalization: Political Culture and the Evolution of the Tea Party Movement | Kathleen Blee | Junior Researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland |
| Suzanna Eddyono | Re-Envisioning Kinship and the State in Pakistan | Mohammed Bamyeh | Faculty of Social and Political Sciences in the Department of Social Development and Welfare at Gadjah Mada University |
| John Cuda | Re-Enchanting Culture: Identity Transformation, Embodiment, and Prefigurative Religious Practices within Contemporary Spiritualities | Mohammed Bamyeh | Assistant Professor at Lincoln University |
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
| Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
| Sharon Quinsaat | Mobilizations for Homeland Regime Change and the Making of the Filipino Diaspora | Suzanne Staggenborg | Assistant Professor at Grinnell College |
| Ervin Dyer | Two Paths Forward: An Ethnographic Study of Somali Bantu Refugees Living in a Northeastern City Public Housing Community | Waverly Duck and Akiko Hashimoto | Senior editor, Pitt Magazine |
| Marie Skoczylas | Anarchism and Prefigurative Politics in the Occupy Movement: A Study of Occupied Space, Horizontal Structure, and Anarchist Theory in Practice | Kathleen Blee | Data Scientist at Highmark Health |
| Carolyn Zook | Military Experience and the Shaping of Nationalism in the US Armed Forces | Mohammed Bamyeh and Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum | Associate Director, Center for Community and Global Health at Lewis & Clark College |
| Yven Destin | Immigrant Coverage in the American Diaspora: Representing Haitians in the Miami Media, 1979-2010 | Kathleen Blee and Akiko Hashimoto | Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Cincinnati-Clermont |
| DaShanne Stokes | How an Entity Becomes a State: Tibet, Taiwan, Palestine, and the Quest for Recognition | Mohammed Bamyeh | Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst |
2014-2015
| Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
| Daniel Nunez | Violence and the State in Postwar Guatemala | John Markoff | Researcher at the Universidad Rafael Landivar |
| 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 |
| 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
| Name | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Current Position |
| Christine Anthou Alex | 21st Century Participation in Two US Greek Orthodox Churches | Kathleen Blee | |
| Ashley Currier | The Visibility of Sexual Minority Movement Organizations in South Africa and Namibia | Kathleen Blee | Associate Professor and Department Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati |
| Hyung Sam Park | A Longitudinal Analysis of the Environmental Movement Sector's Litigation Network in the United States 1970-2001 | Patrick Doriean | Associate Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Central Florida |
| Dana Reinke Willmer | Assessing Place Character in Response to Wal-Mart | Kathleen Blee | Human Factors Branch Chief at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Connie Oxford | Gender-Based Persecution in Asylum Law and Policy in the United States | Kathleen Blee | Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the State University of New York Plattsburgh |