The doctoral program in sociology prepares students for careers in research and teaching. While most of our graduates teach in colleges and universities, others hold research appointments in government agencies, medical and mental health centers, consulting firms, or other non-profit or research settings.
Class of 2019
Class of 2018
Current Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Religion and Politics, University of Virginia
Dissertation: “Unsettled Islam: Virtuous Contention in European Mosques.”
Current Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
Dissertation: “The priceless Child on the global Periphery: or How Bolivia Changed it’s Child Labor Laws.”
Current Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Dissertation: “The Entrepreneurial Organizaiton of Finance: The Emergence of Family Banking in Southwest China, 1900-1950.”
Current Placement: Humility and Conviction in Public Life Residential Fellow, UCONN
Dissertation: “Cosmopolitan Calvinists: Global Religion in a Secular Age.”
Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Dissertation: “Police, Culture, Peception, and Practice in the Three U.S. Cities.”
Current Placement: Adjunct Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York
Dissertation: “Secularization Spaced Out: Religious Logistics and the New England Wilderness.”
Current Placement: Adjunct Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York
Dissertation: “Fields of Cultural Contention: Nationalism, Religion, and Constitutional Change in Nepal.”
Class of 2017
Current Placement: Research Associate, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Dissertation: “The Causes and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence and Urban Neighborhoods.”
Current Placement: Director, Education Studies, Yale University
Current Placement: Community Resilience Building Program Organizer, Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area.
Dissertation: “The imperial Citizenship Project: Constitutional Ottomanism in the Nineteenth Century.”
Dissertation: “Religious Exclusivists Taking Inclusive Action: Theorizing Exclusivist Practice in Muslim-Christian Relations.”
Current Placement: Chancellor’s Professor Law/Faculty Affiliate with African American Studies and Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Dissertation: “The Trauma of Till and Trayvon”
Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Dissertation: “Anticolonial Labor Movements and the Postcolonial Totalitarian State: Indian Coffee House from Independence to Emergency, 1947-1977”
Class of 2016
Sorcha Brophy, Ph.D.
Current Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Dissertation: “Making Morals: Standard-Setting in Organizations”
Shai Dromi, Ph.D. Current Placement: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Dissertation: “The Religious Origins of Transnational Relief: Calvinism, Humanitarianism, and the Genesis of Social Fields.”
Current Placement: Visiting Lecturer, Mount Holyoke Colege
Dissertation: “Schooling as a Social Process: Creation and Consequence of Adolescent Society in American High Schools.”
Jensen Sass, Ph.D.
Current Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra
Dissertation: “Remaking Monsanto: Commodification as Corporate Strategy”
Current Placement: Associate Strategist, Fresh Squeezed Ideas, Toronto
Dissertation: “The Cultural Logic of Heritage Redevelopment Mega-Projects: The Distillery District in Toronto and Cheonggyecheon in Seoul.”
Gulay Turkmen-Dervisoglu, Ph.D.
Current Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Göttingen, Germany
Dissertation: “United in Religion, Divided by Ethnicity? Why Islam Fails as A Supranational Identity in Turkey”
Yingyao Wang, Ph.D.
Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Initial Placement: Watson Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Dissertation: “The Gradual Revolution: Economic Ideas, Organizational Trajectories and Policy Elites in Contemporary China (1979-2014)”