Postdocs, Visiting Scholars and Fellows

We are delighted to welcome to our sociology community a group of scholars who will be with us during the 2011-12 academic year.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Ori Schwarz is a Fulbright post-doctoral fellow, currently working on the project "The Sonic Habitus: sonic difference and sensitivities and their contribution to the delineation of symbolic boundaries". The project explores discourses on 'loud' social groups, moral judgements of sounds and noises, and differences in sonic sensitivities and habits, in order to understand their constitutve role in boundary work. His other topics of research are the sociology of ICTs such as digital photography (the topic of his dissertation) and social networking sites; the sociology of culture (in particular, techniques of cultural consumption and their role in emotional management); and social theory. Email: ori.schwarz@gmail.com.

Jennifer Silva (Ph.D. 2010, University of Virginia) is a ASA/NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology working on the research project "Consequences of the Great Recession for the Economic Insecurity of American Families" under the direction of Professor Bruce Western. Harvard is one of six universities participating in this research project funded by the National Science Foundation. While at Harvard Jennifer will also work on writing a book based on her dissertation research, which examines how working-class youth navigate the transition to adulthood in an unstable and risky service economy. During the spring 2012 term she will offer a junor tutorial on "Coming of Age in the Twenty-first Century". Email: jsilva@wjh.harvard.edu.

Visiting Scholars

Emi S. Kataoka, Visiting Scholar in Sociology is Professor of Sociology at Komazawa University in Japan. Her general research interests are in sociology of culture, sociology of education, inequality, and gender.  Specifically, she is interested in symbolic boundaries, cultural capital, and class strategies regarding parental school choice in Japan and the U.S. Email: eskataoka-forester@nifty.com.

Camille Hamidi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lyon University. Her general research interests are in voluntary associations and civil society, collective action of migrants, political socialization and politicization, ethnicity and politics. While in Harvard, she will be working on a project on the way ordinary people make sense of politics in everyday life, and how they use everyday ethnic categorizations in order to do so. More precisely, she's analyzing how ethnic, classist and territorial categorizations and identifications interact in that process, in French urban deprived areas.She will be in residence at CES for the fall 2011 term. E-mail : camillehamidi@hotmail.com.

Nicolas Dodier is a sociologist, Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). His work has focused on risk, technology, work and medicine. He is closely associated with the rise of “pragmatic” sociology in France.  His publications include : L’expertise médicale (1993), Les hommes et les machines (1995), Leçons politiques de l’épidémie de sida (2003). Has also published in journals such as : (in french) Annales ; Revue française de sociologie ; Politix ; (in english) Science in Context ;  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry ;  Science, Technology and Human Values ;  Sociology of Health and Illness. He is currently developing a research program on redressing situations of violence. He will be in residence at the Center for European Studies at Harvard from September 2011 to August 2012. Email : dodier@ehess.fr.

Anders Ryom Villadsen is Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Management at Aarhus University, Denmark. He will be a Visiting Scholar in Sociology for the spring 2012 term. His main research interest concerns how and to which degree environmental pressures for change are adopted and spread among organizations. During his visit he will be working on a project that investigates drivers of European integration in the financial sector. The project in particular explores differences in banks’ compliance with EU directives. Email:avilladsen@econ.au.dk

Visiting Fellows

Julien Billion is a Fellow in Sociology from EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and a Fulbright laureate. His PhD dissertation explores the life courses of homeless youth in France and the United States. His fieldwork is based on observations and interviews in the streets, organizations,and train stations in Paris and New York. Email: julien.billion@gmail.com.

Mathieu Hauchecorne (Lille 2 University, France) is a visiting Fellow in Sociology and a Sachs Fellow. His research interests center on the sociology of elites, the sociology of ideas and political sociology. His PhD dissertation is a sociological study of the reception of American theories of distributive justice within French academia and politics. While here during the fall semester 2011, he will further his previous research in order to contribute to a broader sociological study of scientific exchanges between France and the US. He will focus in particular on the transatlantic circulation of American political philosophy, American and French public economics, and French structuralism. Email: mhauchecorne@gmail.com.

Marie-Laure Mallet is a Visiting Fellow in Sociology and a PhD candidate at the Sorbonne University, Paris, where she also teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in her discipline. Her general area of interest is minority groups and race relations in the United States. Her doctoral research specifically focuses on a comparative analysis of Hispanic political participation in Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. At Harvard, she will continue her doctoral research as well as work on several papers. Email: mlauremallet@gmail.com.

Rachel Meyer (Ph.D. 2008, University of Michigan) is a Fellow in Sociology.  Her research is focused on social movements, social class, labor and work, political sociology, globalization, culture and identity, and social theory.  Her current research examines how distinct forms of collective action differentially transform working-class consciousness and subjectivity, as well as trends in working-class mobilization as responses to the contemporary political economic context.  In addition, Meyer is co-authoring a manuscript on the conceptualization of events in the social sciences and is beginning a project on the relevance of social media to social movements.  Meyer is also involved in research with colleagues at the University of Michigan on the extent and sources of ethical consumption with respect to sweatshops and workers’ rights.   Email: meyer2@fas.harvard.edu.

Updated: October 24, 2011