Students on the Job Market
Christopher Todd Beer (e-mail: ctbeer@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Globalization, Social Movements, Civil Society, Environmental Sociology, Climate Change, Sub-Sahara Africa, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Dissertation Title: "The Influence of Transnational Actors on Kenyan Environmental NGOs"
Dissertation Committee: Tim Bartley (chair), Art Alderson, Ho-fung Hung, Ethan Michelson and Lauren Morris-MacLean
Judson Everitt (e-mail: jeveritt@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Education; Socialization; Organizations and Institutions; Sociology of Work and Occupations; Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Sex and Gender; Research Methods; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Dissertation Title: "Preparing for the Work of Teaching: Professional Socialization and the Construction of Work Perspectives among Pre-Service Teachers" (Defended June 2009)
Dissertation Committee: William A. Corsaro, Pamela Barnhouse Walters, Maurice Garnier, and Bradley A. U. Levinson.
Eric Anthony Grollman (email: egrollma@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Sexualities, Race/Class/Gender, Sex and Gender, Race and Ethnicity, and Research Methods
Dissertation Title: "The Continuing Significance of Discrimination: Multiple Forms of Perceived Discrimination and Health"
Dissertation Committee: Brian Powell (Chair), Peggy A. Thoits, Eliza K. Pavalko, and Pamela Braboy Jackson
Nikole Hotchkiss (email: hotchkissn@kenyon.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Theory, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, Law and Society, and Cross-National Sociology
Dissertation Title: “Taking Aim: A Comparative Study of Target Groups and the Formation of Contemporary Counterterrorism Policy in France and the United States.” (Defended June 2009)
Dissertation Committee: Clem Brooks (chair), Brian Steensland, Robert V. Robinson, and Maurice Garnier
Sibyl Kleiner (email: sibyl@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Family and Work, Social Psychology, Health and Well-Being, Cross-National Research, Sexuality, Research Methods, Life Course, Gender
Dissertation Title: "Time Across Borders: Perceptions of Temporal Pressure in Cross-National Context."
Dissertation Committee: Eliza K. Pavalko (chair), William Corsaro, Erick Janssen, Patricia McManus, and Brian Powell
Ann McCranie (email: amccrani@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Mental Health and Illness, Medical Sociology, Social Networks, Organizations, Social Movements
Dissertation Title: "The Institutionalization of Hope? A Sociological View of the Recovery Movement in Mental Health Services"
Dissertation Committee: Bernice Pescosolido (chair), Tim Hallett, Fabio Rojas, Eric Wright
Shelley L. Nelson (email: shenelso@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, Race, Gender and Class, Sociology of Family, Aging and the Life Course, Statistics, Research Methods, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Dissertation Title: "Deciding What Comes Next: Social Capital and Changing Postsecondary Plans"
Dissertation Committee: Robert V. Robinson (Chair), Jennifer C. Lee, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and Brian Powell
Oren Pizmony-Levy (email: opizmony@indiana.edu; website: http://www.orenpizmonylevy.com)
Research and Teaching Interests: Education / Comparative Education, Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sexuality / LGBT Studies, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, and Social Networks
Dissertation Title: "Testing for All: The Emergence and Development of International Assessments of Students’ Achievements 1958-2008"
Dissertation Committee: Brian Powell (Co-Chair), Margaret Sutton (Co-Chair), Art Alderson, Heidi Ross, and Pamela B. Walters
Melissa Quintela (email: mrtechsan@yahoo.com)
Research and Teaching Interests: Children and Youth, Immigration, Sociology of Education, Research Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Mental Health, Social Psychology, Life Course and Social Justice
Dissertation Title: "The Power of Youth in an Emerging Latino Community."
Dissertation Committee: Donna Eder (Chair), William Corsaro, Jennifer Lee and José Rosario
Maren Scull (email: mscull@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Deviance, Social Psychology, Sexualities, Gender, Sociology of the Body, Qualitative Methods, Emotions, Race and Ethnicity
Dissertation Title: “Male Strippers: Their Experiences and Self-Conceptions”
Dissertation Committee: William A. Corsaro (co-chair), Martin S. Weinberg (co-chair), Peter Adler, and Colin J. Williams
Christi Smith (email: cms@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Education, Political Sociology, Race & Ethnicity, Historical Comparative Methods
Dissertation Title: "From Radical Reconstruction to Jim Crow: Education, Nation-Building, and the Making of a New Racial Order"
Dissertation Committee: Pam Walters and Brian Steensland (co-Chairs) Nicola Beisel (Northwestern) and Clem Brooks
Jessica Sprague-Jones (email: jespragu@indiana.edu)
Research and Teaching Interests: Political Sociology, Gender, Welfare State and Public Policy, Globalization, Sociology of the Family, Comparative Sociology, Attitudes toward Immigrants and Minorities, and Research Methods
Dissertation Title: "The Magic Bullet: The Expansion and Diffusion of Family Policy in Europe"
Dissertation Committee: Patricia McManus (Chair), Arthur Alderson, Clem Brooks, and Jennifer Glass
