| Karen
Barkey:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1988 |
| Interests:
Comparative historical sociology; political sociology, historical methods |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Peter
Bearman:
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| Cole Professor of Social Science,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1985 |
| Interests:
Social networks, comparative historical sociology, theory, adolescent health |
| 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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| Yinon
Cohen:
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| Yosef Hayim Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies,
Ph.D.,
Stony Brook,
1983 |
| Interests:
International migration, social stratification, labor markets |
| 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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| Herbert
J.
Gans:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania,
1957 |
| Interests:
Poverty and antipoverty policy; ethnicity; news media and mass media; equality |
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| Todd
Gitlin:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1977 |
| Interests:
Mass communication/public opinion, cultural sociology, theory |
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| Isil
Inaltong:
|
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| Core Lecturer,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
2008 |
| Interests:
Cultural sociology, urban sociology, qualitative methods |
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| Shamus
Khan:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Wisconsin,
2008 |
| Interests:
Culture, theory, elites, education, gender, and deliberative politics |
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| Bruce
Kogut:
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| Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ehtics,
Ph.D.,
MIT,
1983 |
| Interests:
International direct investment, technology policy, privatization, economic sociology, and political economy |
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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:
Medical sociology, mental health, statistics |
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| Eugene
Litwak:
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| Professor Emeritus,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1958 |
| Interests:
Focuses on how various types of groups impact health,identifying which causes of death are best prevented by certain groups like families, professional and formal organizations. |
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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:
Urban sociology, community, latina/o sociology |
| 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:
Causal inference, social statistics |
| 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:
Stratification, social violence, mathematical sociology |
| 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 |
| 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:
Adolescent transitions, social inequality, family policy |
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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:
Sociology of organizations, sociology of culture, deviance and social control, field methods, research design, and 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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| Christopher
Charles
Weiss:
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| Lecturer and Director, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania |
| Interests:
Influence of schools and schooling on adolescents |
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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:
contemporary Chinese culture and society, voluntary associations, new media, popular protests |
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