PhDs on the Market
The Sociology Department is proud of our excellent Ph.D. candidates on the academic market this year. If you have any questions, feel free to contact our job candidates, faculty members, or our Graduate Coordinator.
Dissertation Title: "Just Sanctions?: U.S. Human Rights Policy toward China, 1989-2008"
PhD Date: December 2010
Advisor/Committee Members: Richard Madsen (Chair), John H. Evans, John Skrentny, Susan Shirk (Political Science), Daniel Hallin (Communications)
Research and Teaching interests: Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology, Globalization, Sociology of Policymaking, Social Problems, Social Deviance, Law and Society, Human Rights, Race and Ethnicity, Chinese Society, Qualitative Methods
Michael S Evans
Dissertation Title: “Mad Scientists and False Prophets? Religion and Science in American Public Life”
PhD Date: March 2012
Advisor/Committee Members: John H. Evans (Chair), Steven Epstein (Northwestern), Martha Lampland, Joel Robbins (Anthropology), Robert Westman (History)
Research and Teaching Interests: Public Sphere, Politics, Culture, Science and Technology Studies, Religion, Theory, Qualitative Methods, Economy and Society
See http://www.michaelsevans.com for additional information.
Brian Lindseth
Dissertation Title: "From Radioactive Fallout to Environmental Critique: Eugene Odum and the Politics of Ecology"
PhD Date (expected): Fall 2012
Advisor/Committee Members: Charles Thorpe (Chair), Steve Epstein (Northwestern), Andrew Lakoff (USC), Chandra Mukerji (Communication), Naomi Oreskes (History)
Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Science and Technology, Sociology of the Environment, Social Movements
Dissertation Title: The Role of Religion and Ethnicity in an Arab American Ethnic Economy.
PhD Date: Spring 2012
Committee Members: Isaac Martin (Chair), Akos Rona-Tas, Tomás R. Jiménez (Stanford), Yen Le Espiritu (Ethnic Studies), Hasan Kayali (History)
Research and Teaching Interests--Economic Sociology, Entrepreneurship, Religion, Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Networks, Urban Sociology
Devon Smith
Dissertation Title: “Through the Lens of Gender: Ideology and Practice in the Same-Sex Marriage Movement and Countermovement”
PhD Date: November 2008
Advisor/Committee Members: Steve Epstein (Chair, Northwestern), Rebecca Klatch, Jeffrey Haydu, Nayan Shah (History), David Serlin (Communication)
Research and Teaching Interests: Gender, sexuality, Marriage and Family, Social Movements
Eric Van Rite
Dissertation Title:"The Challenge of Patient Safety and the Remaking of the Medical Profession"
PhD Date: June 2011
Advisor/Committee Members: Jeffrey M. Haydu (Chair), Charles Thorpe, Steve Epstein (Northwestern), Andrew Lakoff (USC), Edwin Hutchins (Cognitive Science)
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Sociology, Law and Society, Sociological Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Risk
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