Current Sociology Scholars
received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Harvard University in 2011. His primary interests include social movements, social policies, and collective identity. He is currently completing a book manuscript about how social movement organizations shape the representation of Islam in the American public sphere. As a scholar, he plans to study social movements working to transform public understandings of Autism. After completing the program he will assume a position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
is an urban sociologist who grew up in Philadelphia. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in that city, her dissertation provides an ethnographic account of the heavily policed ghetto that emerged as the US continues a War on Drugs and imprisons poor Black men on a massive scale. With Mitchell Duneier, Alice recently completed a history and sociology of the ghetto from early modern Europe to the present. She currently lives in Detroit, where she is studying a number of health problems facing the residents of a collapsing city.
received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011. Her primary research interests include: comparative frameworks of race in the Americas, how immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean adapt to the US racial system, the impact of immigration on the US racial system, and the experiences of faculty of color and women in academia. Dr. Joseph conducted her dissertation research in Governador Valadares, Brazil where she examined how US migration influenced Brazilian return migrants’ perceptions of race in the US and Brazil. Her current project integrates immigration and health policy by exploring how documentation status influences the health outcomes and healthcare access of Latino immigrants in the Boston metropolitan area. After program completion, she will begin an Assistant Professor of Sociology position at Stony Brook University.
received an M.Ed. in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2001, an M.A. in Social Sciences and Education from Stanford University in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford in June, 2011. Her primary research interests are in the fields of immigration, inequality, social policy, and race and ethnic relations. Her current research includes a study of immigrant integration in regions undergoing rapid demographic change, an analysis of the processes and mechanisms that influence the transition from a two-group (i.e., black and white) to a three group (i.e., black-white-Latino) racial system, and an investigation of economic competition and race and gender dynamics before and after the Great Recession. After completing the Program, she will assume a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
received a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2010. Ray’s research interests include social psychology, race and ethnic relations, and race-class-gender. His work addresses three key areas: the determinants and consequences of self-evaluated social class, men’s treatment of women, and how racial stratification structures social life. Ray is the editor of Race and Ethnic Relations in the 21st Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy. He is currently working on a project examining racial differences in barriers and incentives to physical activity. Ray has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Ford Foundation. After completing the Program, he will assume a position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
holds a Ph.D. is sociology from Northwestern University and is currently on leave from the University of Iowa, where he is an associate professor in the Sociology Department. His research interests include quantification, organizational evaluation, and status. He is currently completing a project that explores the effects of public rankings on higher education. Ongoing research includes a study of how children’s hospitals use rankings, awards, and certifications to establish organizational identity and an investigation of how physician groups respond to patient experience surveys.
