On the Market Graduate Students

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

Erika Busse

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisors: Elizabeth Heger Boyle and Douglas Hartmann
Research Interests: International Migration, Family, Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Feminist Studies, Latino Studies, and Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Threads in the Transnational Family Fabric: Peruvian Women's and Men's Roles in Interweaving Gender and Ethnicity

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

Eric Dahlin

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: David Knoke
Research Interests: Complex Organizations, Globalization, Political Sociology, Social Policy, Inequality, Research Methods, Social Networks
Dissertation Title: Demystifying the Stages of Innovation in the U.S. Biotechnology Industry

Dalhia Mani

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: David Knoke
Research Interests: Organizational Sociology, Economic Sociology, Network Theory and Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods
Dissertation Title: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees: The Consequences of Nestedness and Cohesive Clustering for Firm Performance

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

Trina Smith (Click to go to Dr. Smith's personal website)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisor: Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Research Interests: Gender, Globalization, Health and Medicine, Law, Family, Stratification, Social Movements, Communities and Cities, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Reproductive Discourses: International Organizations and Questions of Representation (successfully defended August 2008)

Eric Tranby

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Advisors: Erin Kelly, Robin Stryker, and Scott Eliason
Research Interests:Social Inequality and Stratification; Welfare State and Social Policy; Race, Class, and Gender; Life Course; Organizations and Work; Comparative Sociology; Research Methods; Quantitative Methodology
Dissertation Title: Welfare States or Labor Markets?: Family Policy and Women's Employment Outcomes in 14 Advanced Capitalist Democracies from 1960 to 1999