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.
Sarah Brothers, PhD 2021, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Pennsylvania State University
Tony Cheng, PhD 2021, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology, University of California - Irvine
Navin Kumar, PhD 2021, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of Medicine
Thomas Lyttleton, PhD 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, Copenhagen Business School
Philip McHarris, PhD 2021, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University
Huseyin Rasit, PhD 2021, Associate Professor of Sociology, Ritsumeikan University
Margaret Traeger, PhD 2021, Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, Notre Dame
Roger Baumann, PhD 2020, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hope College
Esther Chan, PhD 2020, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Denise Lim, PhD 2020, Postdoctoral Fellow, African Collections Project, Stanford University
Mustafa Yavas, PhD 2020, Postdoctoral Associate, Social Sciences Division, NYU-Abu Dhabi
Inkwan Chung, PhD 2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sociology, Soongsil University, South Korea
Till Hilmar, PhD 2019, Academic Researcher, Bremen University
Javed Jaghai, PhD 2019, Data Scientist, Fraym
Nicholas Occhiuto, PhD 2019, Assistant Professor of Management, Emlyon Business School
Candas Pinar, PhD 2019, Assistant Professor of Sociology, St. Michael’s College
Celene Reynolds, PhD 2019, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Hirokazu Shirado, PhD 2019, Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth Becker, PhD 2018, Freigeist Fellow and Assistant Professor, Max Weber Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg
Isabel Jijon, PhD 2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Fox Fellowships
William McMillan, PhD 2018, Market Researcher, Haynes and Co, Houston
Michael Sierra-Arevalo, PhD 2018, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin
Sara Bastomski, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Sorcha Brophy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Seongsoo Choi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University
Thomas Crosbie, PhD, Associate Professor, Royal Danish Defence College
Jonathan Endelman, PhD, Financing Management Group, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Alison Gerber, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Lund University
Jeff Guhin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Matthew Lawrence, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, PhD, Dean and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law
Kristin Plys, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Elizabeth Roberto, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Yingyao Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Xiaohong Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Michael Yarbrough, PhD, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Shai Dromi, PhD, Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University