Students on the Job Market
Laura Backstrom (Email: labbacks@indiana.edu; Website: www.laurabackstrom.com)
Research and Teaching Interests: Gender & Sexuality, Social Problems, Deviance, Culture, Sociology of the Body, Health & Illness, Childhood & Adolescence, The Family, Social Interaction, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: "Constructing the Problem Child: Body Projects and Embodied Inequality in Anti-Obesity Discourse"
Dissertation Committtee: Timothy Hallett (Chair), Donna Eder, Peggy Thoits, and Martin Weinberg
Joseph DiGrazia (e-mail: jdigrazi@indiana.edu; website: josephdigrazia.com)
Christy L. Erving (email: cerving@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Gender and Health, Social Psychology
Dissertation Title: Physical-Psychiatric Comorbidity: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Theoretical Explanations of Racial Health Disparities
Dissertation Committee: Pamela B. Jackson (Chair), Patricia McManus, Eliza Pavalko, and Peggy Thoits
Kerry Greer (email: kergreer@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Poverty, Inequality, Organizations, Social Welfare, Nonprofits, Family, Gender, Immigration, Globalization, Social Change
Dissertation Title: “Social Service Agencies: An examination of participation, governance, and advocacy in Bloomington, Indiana”
Dissertation Committee: Robert Robinson (chair), Fabio Rojas, Donna Eder, Laura Cornell, and Andrew Libby
Amy Irby-Shasanmi (email: airby@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Sociology, Mental Health and Illness, Research Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Aging and the Life Course, Family, and Race, Class, and Gender
Dissertation Title: “The Well-being of Inter-Racial and Inter-Ethnic Couples: Discrimination, Family Disapproval, and Relationship Quality as Explanatory Mechanisms”
Dissertation Committee: Peggy A. Thoits (Chair), Pamela Braboy Jackson, Jane McLeod, and Patricia McManus
Kristin Jordan (email: jordankm@indiana.edu; website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~jordankm)
Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Education; Stratification and Inequality; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Survey Design and Methodology; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Race, Class, and Gender
Dissertation Title: "Beyond Aspirations and Admissions Decisions: The Causes and Consequences of Student College Choice”
Dissertation Committee: Pamela Barnhouse Walters (chair), Brian Powell, Jennifer Lee, Sylvia Martinez
Syndee Knight (email: sgknight@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Social Stratification, Crime and Deviance, Urban and Community Studies, Life Course, Research Methods, Mental Health/Illness
Dissertation Title: "From Here to Somewhere: Appalachian Migration and Social Mobility"
Dissertation Committee: Donna Eder (Chair), Arthur S. Alderson, Michelle Brown, Jane McLeod, and Eliza Pavalko
Jaime Kucinskas (email: jlkucins@indiana.edu; website: http://jaimekucinskas.com)
Research and Teaaching Interests: Religion, Social and Scientific Intellectual Movements, Globalization, Gender, Inequality, Comparative Sociology
Dissertation Title: “Re-envisioning Institutional Cultures from the Inside Out : A Comparative Analysis of the Emergence of Contemplative Practices and Philosophies in Science, Education, and the Business Sector.”
Dissertation Committee: Robert V. Robinson (Chair), Brian Steensland, Fabio Rojas, Timothy Hallett, Larry Isaac.
Ke Li (email: like2@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Law and Society Studies, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Gender, Social Theories, Criminology, Archival Research, Ethnography, Mixed Methods, China and East Asia
Dissertation Title: "Seeking Divorce in the Countryside: Marital Grievances, Dispute Resolution, and Gender Inequalities in Contemporary China"
Dissertation Committee: Ethan Michelson (Chair), Brian Steensland, Sara Friedman, Brian Powell
Emily Meanwell (email: emeanwel@indiana.edu; website: http://www.emilymeanwell.com)
Research and Teaching Interests: Education, culture, inequality, qualitative research methods, social theory
Dissertation Title: "From Compensation to Commensuration: Federal Education Policy and Inequality, 1965-2012"
Dissertation Committee: Timothy Hallett (chair), Pamela Barnhouse Walters, Brian Steensland, and Julia Lamber
Kathleen C. Oberlin (email: kcoberli@indiana.edu; website: http://kathleenoberlin.com)
Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Science, Social Movements, Place & Built Environment, Medical Sociology, Research Methods, Science, Technology & Society (STS), Religion & Science, Sociology of Culture, Public Sociology
Dissertation Title: “Mobilizing Epistemic Conflict: The Creation Museum and the Creationist Social Movement”
Dissertation Committee: Thomas F. Gieryn (chair), Bernice A. Pescosolido, Fabio Rojas, Brian S. Steensland
Shawna Rohrman (email: srohrman@indiana.edu; website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~srohrman/Home.html)
Research and Teaching Interests: Mental Health and Illness, Medical Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Life Course, Social Psychology, Quantitative Research Methods
Dissertation Title: "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Across the Transition to Adulthood"
Dissertation Committee: Jane McLeod (chair), Pamela Braboy Jackson, J. Scott Long, Eliza Pavalko, Peggy Thoits
Shawna N. Smith (email: sns3@indiana.edu; website: http://www.shawnasmith.net)
Research and Teaching Interests: Political sociology, organizations, comparative sociology, sociology of law, stratification, statistics & research methods
Dissertation Title: "Trajectories of equality: Fair employment in the US, Great Britain and Canada"
Dissertation Committee: Tim Bartley (co-chair), Clem Brooks (co-chair), Patricia McManus, Ethan Michelson, and Youngjoo Cha
