On the Market Graduate Students

Below you will find information about current UMN Ph.D. candidates now on the job market.

Ryan Alaniz

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Ronald Aminzade
Research Interests: Qualitative Methods, Community Development, Disasters, Organizations
Dissertation Title: A Tale of Two Cities: Long-term Community Development in Post-Disaster Locales

Arturo Baiocchi

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen
Research Interests: Mental Health and Vulnerable Populations, Race Relations, Life Course and Health Disparities
Dissertation Title: Aging out of Care: Former Foster Youth and the New Culture of Mental Health

Kelly Chermack

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: David Knoke
Research Interests: Qualitative Methods, Organization Studies, Organizational Change and Innovation, Economic Sociology
Dissertation Title: Opposing Innovation: Managerial Resistance in a Corporate Retail Firm

Yu-Ju Chien

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Joachim Savelsberg
Research Interests: Sociology of Knowledge, Sociological Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Sociology, Organization Studies, Animal and Human Relationships, Globalization, and Gender Studies
Dissertation Title: Constructing Scientific Knowledge and Policies on Avian Influenza: International Organizations and Global Authoritative Knowledge

Maureen Clark

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Penny Edgell
Research Interests: Race/Ethnicity, Culture, Qualitative Methods, Urban Sociology
Dissertation Title: The Social Construction of Urban American Indian Teen Identity in Minneapolis, MN

Keith Cunnien

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Joseph Gerteis
Research Interests: Democracy, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Inequality, Family, Work, Efficacy, and Decision-Making
Dissertation Title: The Meaning of Everyday Democracy in Civic, Family, and Work Spheres: A Mixed Methods Study

Minzee Kim

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisors: Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Research Interests: Globalization; Sociology of Law; Gender; Children and Youth; Work and Occupations; Human Rights; Education; Quantitative Research Methods
Dissertation Title: The Quality of Women’s Employment Around the Globe: Evidence from 94 Countries from 1985 to 2004

Heather McLaughlin

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Christopher Uggen
Research Interests: gender and sexuality, work and occupations, law, youth and adolescence, life course, mental health, sport, and family
Dissertation Title: Playing Like a Boy: Gender, High School Sport Participation, and Early Career Success

Timothy Ortyl

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Kathleen Hull
Research Interests: Research Interests: Families, Sex and Gender, Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification, Social Movements
Dissertation Title: Social Marginalization and Patterns of Family Formation

Christopher J Pappas

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Joachim Savelsberg
Research Interests: Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Sexualities, Knowledge, Theory, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: How Hip Hop Became White: Race and Culture in the Twin Cities Hip Hop Scene

Sadie Pendaz

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisors: Elizabeth Heger Boyle and Douglas Hartmann
Research Interests: Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Identity Formation, Civil Law and Social Policy, Social Theory, Culture
Dissertation Title: Cultural Boundaries and African Americans' View towards African Immigrant Entitlements

Raphi Rechitsky

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Ronald Aminzade
Research Interests: Sociology of Migration, Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Global Migration, Governance, and Social Exclusion in the Borderlands: The Case of Asylum Seekers in Ukraine

Jon Smajda

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Joseph Gerteis
Research Interests: Technology and Society, Social Movements, Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Social
Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology of Science
Dissertation Title: Moral Code: Politics and Identity in the Free and Open Source Software Movement

Jesse Wozniak

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Christopher Uggen
Research Interests: Policing, Criminology, State Power, Political Sociology, Marxist Theory
Dissertation Title: (re)Creating the Iraqi Police Force: A Study of Policing as State Power