Recent Graduates from the Ph.D Program
2009-10
Keith Bentele
Rising Earnings Inequality in the United States: Determinants, Divergent Paths, and State Experiences. Committee: Kenworthy (Chair), Ragin, Schwartzman. University of Massachusetts, Assistant Professor.
Jamie Dolan
"Do Good Things for the Fish": Organizaitonal Innovation in Tribal Governance. Committee: Cornell (Chair), Galaskiewicz, Ragin. Carroll College, Assistant Professor.
Beth Duckles
The Green Building Industry in California: From Ideals to Buildings. Committee: Galaskiewicz (Chair), Ragin, Grant. Bucknell University, Assistant Professor.
Jeff Larson
Why Change? Organizational Adaptation and Stability in a Social Movement Field. Committee: Galaskiewicz (Chair), Soule, Breiger (Co-Chair), Beyerlein. Towson University, Assistant Professor.
Monika Ulrich
How Low-Income Fathers Prioritize Children, Define Responsibility, and Negotiate State Surveillance. Committee: Roth (Chair), Grant, Fernandez. Arkansas State University, Assistant Professor.
2008-09
Laura Auf der Heide
Feeling Good in Spite of Failure: Understanding Race-Based Differences in Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem. Committee: Walker (Chair), Molm, Leahey. Post-Doc at Cornell University.
Tiffiny Guidry
Affect and Structuring of Language Use in Ethnic Subcultures: A Study of Louisiana Cajuns. Committee: Breiger (Chair), Smith-Lovin, Ragin, Medonza-Denton. Delta State University, Assistant Professor.
Yi Han
Institutional Logics, Extended Rationality, and the Effects of Military Background of Business Leaders. Committee: Bergesen (Chair), Galaskiewicz, Breiger. Peking University, Assistant Professor.
Olga Mayorova
Social Capital and Institutional Transition: Regional Context for Network Use in Job Search in Russia, 1985-2001. Committee: Breiger (Co-Chair), Zavisca (Co-Chair), Gerber, Leahey. Post-Doc at the University of Arizona.
Rachael Neal
Working Together: Government Contractors Building Democracy Abroad. Committee: Galaskiewicz (Chair), Milward, Schwartzman, Ragin. Coe College, Assistant Professor.
James Roebuck
Sounds of Distinction: Analyzing Socioacoustics to Map the Combinatorial Logic of Status and Class. Committee: Ragin (Chair), Breiger. Research Specialist at the University of Arizona.
2007-08
Matthew Brashears
Picking and Choosing, Accepting and Changing: The Effects of Selection and Harmonization on Network Structure and Content. Committee: Breiger (Co-Chair), McPherson (Co-Chair), Molm, Russell. Cornell University, Assistant Professor
Brian Hewlett
Spiritual but Not Religious Being: Exploring Structural Antecedents for the Paring of Spiritual and Non-Religious Identities across National Boundaries. Committee: Chaves (Co-Chair), Ragin (Co-Chair), Grant.
George Hobor
Post-Industrial Pathways: The Economic Re-Organization of the Urban Rust Belt. Committee: Schwartzman (Co-Chair), Galaskiewicz (Co-Chair), Ragin. Center for Urban Research and Public Policy Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 year Post-doc.
Samantha Kwan
Contested Meanings about Body, Health, and Weight: Frame Resonance, Stategies of Action, and The Uses of Culture. Committee: Bergesen (Co-Chair), Roth (Co-Chair), Chaves. University of Houston, Assistant Professor.
Nancy Martin
Small Groups in Big Churches. Committee: Chaves (Co-Chair), Breiger (Co-Chair), Leahey California State University Long Beach, Assistant Professor.
Steven Nelson
Offender Crime Perspectives: A Study in Affect Control Theory. Committee: Molm (Co-Chair), McPherson (Co-Chair), Beyerlein, Smith-Lovin. Clemson University, Assistant Professor.
Rebecca Sager
The "Purpose Driven" Policy? Explaining State-Level Variation in the Faith-Based Initiative Committee: Chaves (chair), Galaskiewicz, Milward. Loyola Marymount University, Assistant Professor.Christine Sheikh
Religious and Ethnic Variation Among Second-Generation Muslim Americans Committee: Chaves (Co-Chair), Grant (Co-Chair), Fernandez University of Denver, Assistant Professor.
Bill Tsitsos
The Interaction of Race & Theological Orientation in Congregation Social Service Provision. Committee: Chaves (Chair), Ragin, Grant. Towson University, Assistant Professor.
2006-2007
Jessica Collett
Third Party Intervention and Relationship Outcomes: Extending Social Exchange Theory Through the Incorporation of Intermediaries Committee: Molm (chair), Chaves, Walker University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor.
David Brubaker
Change and Conflict in Congregations: Exploring the Relationship Between Size Transitions and Conflict Intensity in Religious Congregations. Committee: Chaves (chair), Galaskiewicz, Ragin. Conflict Studies at Eastern Mennonite University, Assistant Professor.
Omar Lizardo
Globalization, World Culture and the Sociology of Taste: Patterns of Cultural Choice in Cross-National Perspective. Committee: Breiger (chair), Leahey, Healy. University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor.
Mary Nell Trautner
Screening, Sorting, and Selecting in Complex Personal Injury Cases: How Lawyers Mediate Access to the Civil Justice System. Committee: Breiger (Chair), Grant, MacCorquodale. State University of New York at Buffalo, Assistant Professor.
2005-2006
Gordon Abra
Structural Change In Exchange Relations. Committee: Molm (chair), Breiger, Smith-Lovin. California State University Long Beach, Full-time Lecturer.
James (Jamie) Bowie
Innovation, Imitation, Legitimacy and Deviance in the Design Graphical Trademarks in the United States, 1884-2003. Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Croissant. Northern Arizona University, Researcher.
Melissa S. Fry
Aging and Behavioral Health: Power and Accountability in Outsourced Public Policy Implementation Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Clemens, Chaves, Milward. Auburn University, Assistant Professor.
Martin Hughes
Processes of Legitimation: The University of Phoenix and Its Institutional Environments . Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Clemens, Fernandez Indiana. University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor.
Brayden King
Constructing Perceptions of Value: Corporate Acquisitions Communications Industries, 1997-2002 Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Soule. Brigham Young University, Assistant Professor.
Kristi Clark Miller
The Adoptive Identity: Stigma and Social Interaction. Committee: Walker (chair), Smith-Lovin (co-chair), Molm, Roth Montana State University, Adjunct Lecturer
Kathleen (Kate) O'Neil
Contexts of Exchange and The Pricing of Art Committee: Breiger (chair), Galaskiewicz, Healy, Ragin. Denison University, Assistant Professor.
David Schaefer
Resource Variation in Social Exchange Networks: The Effects of Duplicability and Transferability on the Use of Power . Committee: Molm (Chair), Breiger, McPherson, Galaskiewicz. Arizona State University, Assistant Professor.
John Sonnett
Representing the Earth: Global Climate Issues in Popular, Political, Scientific, Business, Industry, and Environmentalist News; A New Old Sociology of Knowledge. Committee: Ragin (chair), Breiger, Croissant. University of Mississippi, Assistant Professor.
2004-2005
Lisa Martinez
Latino Political Patricipation: Internal Diversity and External Constraints. Committee: Breiger (chair), Schwartzman, Soule, Garcia. Northeastern University, Assistant Professor.
Michael Mulcahy
Regulating Labor: The Formation and Effects of a World Labor Regime in the 20th Century. Committee: Schwartzman (chair), Ragin, Soule. Grant University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor.
2003-2004
Timothy Bartley
Certifying Forests and Factories: The Emergence of Private Systems for Regulating Labor and Environmental Conditions. Committee: Breiger (chair), Clemens, Ragin, Schneiberg, Healy. Indiana University, Assistant Professor.
Irenee Beattie
Tracking Women's Transition to Adulthood: High School Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and the Early Life Course Outcomes of Schooling. Committee: Shockey (chair), Arum, England, Soule. Washington State University, Assistant Professor.
Elizabeth Borland
Growth, Decay, and Change: Organizations In The Contemporary Women's Movement In Buenos Aires, Argentina Committee: Soule (Chair), Ragin, Galaskiewicz, Stillerman, Saba. The College of New Jersey, Assistant Professor.
Bradley Koch
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: The Interaction of Institutional Logics and Organizational Forms. Committee: Galaskiewicz (chair), Breiger, Schwartzman, Clemens.
Jason Clark Miller
Framing Juveniles: Negotiation and Process in the Handling of Juvenile Court Cases. Committee: Smith-Lovin (chair), Soule, Snow, Morrill Montana State University, Assistant Professor.
Wade Roberts
Civilizing States of Development: Nongovernmental Organizations and the State in the Developing World. Committee: Ragin (chair), Schwartzman, Clemens, Gerber. Colorado College, Assistant Professor.
Sandra Marie Way
For Their Own Good? The Effects of School Discipline and Disorder on Student Behavior and Academic Achievement. Committee: Breiger (chair), Arum, Shockey, Morrill. New Mexico State University, Assistant Professor.
2002-2003
Rick Don Axelson
Toward Theory--Based Approaches For Analyzing And Enhancing Postsecondary Student Success Committee: Fernandez (chair), Bergesen, Grant, Leahey, Brown. Riverside Community College, Assistant Professor.
Michelle L. Companion
Embracing Autonomy: The Impact of Socio-Cultural And Political Factors On Tribal Health Care Management Levels. Committee: Cornell (chair), Soule, Shockey. University of Colorado, Assistant Professor.
Richard Hutchinson
Local Social Movements: A Case Study of Their Character, Operations and Persistence . Committee: Snow/Soule (co-chairs), Grant, McPherson. Louisiana Tech University, Assistant Professor.
Jenny Irons
Defending Order, Defending Boundaries: The Political Management of Race During the Civil Rights Movement. Committee: Soule (chair), Clemens, Cornell, Healy. Hamilton College, Assistant Professor.
Mark A. Konty
Values, Deviance And Conformity: Measuring Values With The Factoral Survey Method. Committee: Smith-Lovin (chair), Molm, Breiger, Polakowski. Washington State University, Assistant Professor.
Richard Pitt
Domestic Capital, Portative Capital, Gender Capital: The Effects of Independent Living and Family of Destination on Men's Household Labor Participation. Committee: Smith-Lovin (chair), McPherson, Walker, Roth, Shockey. Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor.
2001-2002
Saylor Breckenridge
Organizational Change in the Arizona Funeral Home Industry, 1968-1999: Density, Concentration and Vital Rates in a Measured Resource Space. Committee: Clemens (chair), Breiger, Shockey. Wake Forest University (North Carolina), Assistant Professor.
Jennifer Earl
The Banner Versus the Baton: Explaining Protest Policing in the U.S., 1960-1975. Committee: Soule (chair), Clemens, Morrill, Breiger. University of California-Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor.
Kristie Taylor
Constitutional Alcohol Prohibition in the United States: Power, Profit and Politics. Committee: Schwartzman (chair), Clemens, Healy. Senior Research Analyst with a Washington, D.C. consulting firm.