The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Sociology Ph.D.s on the Job Market

This page is designed to provide information about our Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s who are now on the academic job market.

Matthew Baggetta
Ph.D. Date: June 2009 (expected)
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Civic Development in Apolitical Associations"
Areas of Teaching/Research: Civic associations, civic engagement, social capital, social movements, research design and methods, political sociology, environmental justice and policy, organizations, media.
See Curriculum Vita or email: baggetta@fas.harvard.edu

Stacey J. Bosick
Ph.D. Date: June 2009 (expected)
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Crime and the Transition to Adulthood: A Person-Centered Analysis of At-Risk Boys Coming to Age in 1940s Boston, 1970s London and 1990s Pittsburgh "
Areas of Teaching/Research: Crime, inequality, gender, life course
See Curriculum Vita or email: bosick@wjh.harvard.edu

Sarah Halpern-Meekin
Ph.D. Date: June 2009 (expected)
Dissertation Title/Topic: "A Relationship Legacy: The Intergenerational Transmission of Marriage and Divorce"
Areas of Teaching/Research: Families, adolescence, welfare and social policy, inequality.
See Curriculum Vita or email: shalpern@fas.harvard.edu

Chunping Han
Ph.D. Date: March 2009 (expected)
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Rural-Urban Cleavages in Perceptions of Inequality in Contemporary China"
Areas of Teaching/Research: Inequality and stratification, comparative sociology, sociology of development, institutions, organizations, sociology of education, research methods, transitional societies, China.
See Curriculum Vita or email: han4@fas.harvard.edu

Helen Marrow
Ph.D. Date: June 2007
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South"
Areas of Teaching/Research: Immigration, race and ethnicity, research methods (social science, qualitative), inequality and social policy, Latinos in the U.S.
See Curriculum Vita or email: marrow@wjh.harvard.edu

Lauren A. Rivera
Ph.D. Date: June 2009 (expected)
Dissertation Title/Topic: "Hiring and Inequality in Elite Professions"
Areas of Teaching/Research:Culture, organizations, inequality, gender,
qualitative methods, contemporary theory, comparative research.
See Curriculum Vita or email: larivera@fas.harvard.edu

 

 

Updated: September 8, 2008