| Karen
Barkey:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1988 |
| Interests:
Comparative historical sociology; political sociology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Peter
Bearman:
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| Cole Professor of Social Science,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1985 |
| Interests:
Comparative and historical sociology, social networks, social theory. Is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Courtney
Bender:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Princeton,
1997 |
| Interests:
Cultural sociology; religion; theory |
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| Elizabeth
Bernstein:
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| Assistant Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
2001 |
| Interests:
Sexuality, gender, and late-capitalist transformations of intimacy; feminist theories of the state |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Marcia
J.
Carlson:
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| Associate Professor (Social Work),
Ph.D.,
Michigan |
| Interests:
Family structure and parenting, child and adolescent wellbeing, social policy, poverty and inequality, father involvement |
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| Yinon
Cohen:
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| Yosef Hayim Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies,
Ph.D.,
Stony Brook,
1983 |
| Interests:
Labor markets, Israel, international immigration, social stratification |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Jonathan
R.
Cole:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1969 |
| Interests:
Sociology of knowledge and science |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Thomas
DiPrete:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1978 |
| Interests:
Social stratification and mobility, work and labor markets, organizations, economic sociology, family, demography, quantitative methodology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Gil
Eyal:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
UCLA,
1997 |
| Interests:
Comparative historical sociology; knowledge theory |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Priscilla
P.
Ferguson:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1967 |
| Interests:
Cultural sociology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Dana
Fisher:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Wisconsin,
2001 |
| Interests:
Political sociology; environmental sociology; collective behavior and social movements |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Todd
Gitlin:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1977 |
| Interests:
Media, journalism, culture generally, American politics |
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| Shamus
Khan:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Wisconsin,
2008 |
| Interests:
Modernist Classical music, deliberative processes and the development of feminist sociological thought |
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| Peter
Levin:
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| Assistant Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Northwestern,
2004 |
| Interests:
Economic sociology, sex and gender, organizations and work, qualitative methodology, theory |
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| Bruce
G.
Link:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1980 |
| Interests:
Psychiatric epidemiology, sociology, homelessness |
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| Yao
Lu:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
UCLA,
2008 |
| Interests:
Social demography, social stratification, migration, sociology of health, education, quantitative methods |
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| Nicole
Marwell:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
2000 |
| Interests:
Latino studies, the Caribbean |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Denise
Milstein:
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| Core Lecturer,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
2007 |
| Interests:
Culture, historical sociology |
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| Debra
C.
Minkoff:
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| Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1991 |
| Interests:
Social movements, political sociology, organizational theory and research |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Aaron
Pallas:
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| Professor of Sociology and Education,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1984 |
| Interests:
Educational stratification and the sociology of the life course |
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| Jo
Phelan:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
State University of New York (Stonybrook),
1991 |
| Interests:
Social stigma, conceptions of mental illness, social inequalities in health and mortality |
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| Jonathan
Reider:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1978 |
| Interests:
Sociology of culture; race, pluralism and ethnicity in the United States; and politics and language |
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| Emmanuelle
Saada:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
2001 |
| Interests:
Historical sociology of colonization, law, citizenship and families |
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| Saskia
Sassen:
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| Robert Lynd Professor of Sociology,
Ph.D.,
Notre Dame,
1974 |
| Interests:
Globalization, urban sociology, sociology of transnational processes |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Michael
Schudson:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1976 |
| Interests:
History and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, Watergate, and cultural memory |
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| Carla
Shedd:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Northwestern,
2006 |
| Interests:
Crime and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law and society; social inequality; urban sociology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Allan
Silver:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Michigan,
1964 |
| Interests:
Historical sociology; political sociology; trust and moral order |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Michael
E.
Sobel:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Wisconsin (Madison),
1980 |
| Interests:
Sociological analysis, covariance structure analysis; logistic regression and probit models |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Seymour
Spilerman:
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| Professor of Sociology and Public Health,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1968 |
| Interests:
Structure of work careers in corporate settings, focusing on the ways that educational attainment, labor market experience, race and gender influence work career features |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| David
Stark:
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| Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1982 |
| Interests:
Economic sociology; sociology of innovation; democratization and organizational change in post socialist Eastern Europe; organizational innovation; co-evolution of collaborative organization and interactive technologies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Amy
Stuart Wells:
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| Associate Professor (Teachers College),
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1991 |
| Interests:
Educational policy issues pertaining to the politics of race and culture, including school desegregation, school choice, and detracking in racially mixed schools. |
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| Julien
Teitler:
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| Associate Professor of Social Work,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania,
1996 |
| Interests:
Family demography, social inequality and research methods; adolescent transitions, effects of parent behaviors on children, social inequality, family policy, welfare reform, research methods |
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| Ion
Bogdan
Vasi:
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| Assistant Professor (SIPA),
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
2005 |
| Interests:
Adoption and implementation of local programs to address global climate change, the development of the wind energy industry, and strategies for coping with tragedies of the commons |
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| Diane
Vaughan:
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| Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs,
Ph.D,
Ohio State,
1979 |
| Interests:
Deviance and social control; organizational analysis; science, knowledge, and technology |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Sudhir
Alladi
Venkatesh:
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| William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1997 |
| Interests:
Urban sociology; cultural sociology; criminology/delinquency |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Duncan
J.
Watts:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
1997 |
| Interests:
Social networks; mathematical sociology; collective behavior/social movements |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Christopher
Charles
Weiss:
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| Lecturer and Director, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania |
| Interests:
Sociology of education; adolescence; urban studies |
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| Harrison
White:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Princeton,
1960 |
| Interests:
Theory; cultural models |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Joshua
Whitford:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Wisconsin,
2003 |
| Interests:
Economic sociology, organizations, theory, political economy, comparative capitalisms, work and occupations, economic geography, local and regional economic development |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Guobin
Yang:
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| Associate Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
New York,
2000 |
| Interests:
Sociology of China; media sociology; social movements; social memory; voluntary associations |
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