On the Market Graduate Students

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

Xinxiang Chen

  • Advisor: David Knoke
  • Research interests: Economic Sociology, Institutions and Organizations, Political Sociology, State and Development, Inequality, Chinese and East Asian Political Economy, Social network Analysis, Quantitative Research Methods, Sociology of Education
  • Dissertation Title: State Intervention and Business Group Performance in China's Transition Economy

Sadie Pendaz

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

Chika Shinohara (Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, 2008-2009)

  • Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
  • Advisors: Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Jeffrey Broadbent
  • Research Interests: Career and Life Course in Globalization, Civil Society, International Comparisons
  • Dissertation Title: The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and Transformations of Attitudes toward Gender Roles in Japan since 1985

Trina Smith (Visiting Scholar at Saint Olaf College, 2008-09)

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

Eric Tranby

  • Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
  • Advisor: Robin Stryker and Scott Eliason
  • Research interests:Social Stratification and Inequality; Welfare State; Life Course; Comparative Sociology; Race, Class, and Gender; Quantitative Methodology and Statistics
  • Dissertation Title: Family Policies and Women's Employment Outcomes in the United States, (West) Germany, and Sweden: A Counterfactual Causal Analysis

Pamela Wald

  • Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
  • Advisor: Robin Stryker
  • Research Interests: Political Sociology; Social Policy and Social
    Welfare; Race, Gender, and Class; Cultural Sociology; Historical Sociology
  • Dissertation Title: Bringing Welfare State Theories to the States: How
    Ideas, Actors, and State Structures affect Welfare Reform Trajectories
    in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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