Matt Bakker

Research and Teaching Interests: International Migration; Globalization and Transnationalism; Political Sociology; Economic Sociology; Contemporary Theory; Race and Ethnicity; Qualitative Methods; Community and Urban Sociology

Dissertation title: Neoliberal Coalitions and Migrating Subjects: An Examination of the Remittances-to-Development Agenda in North America

Dissertation Committee: Michael Peter Smith (Chair); Fred Block; Luis Eduardo Guarnizo

Kimberly Ebert

Research and Teaching Interests: Immigrants and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Urban and Community, Social Movements, Demography, Quantitative Methods, Logic of Inquiry (Research Methods)

Dissertation Title: The Changing Politics of Immigration and Race: Racial-Political Organizing from Civil Rights to the “Post-Racial” Era.

Dissertation Committee: Mary R. Jackman (Co-chair), Dina G. Okamoto (Co-chair), Tyrone A. Forman, Bruce D. Haynes.

Lori Freedman

Research and Teaching Interest: Medical Sociology, Social Welfare, Research Methods (Qualitative), Sociology of Work/Professions, Social Psychology.

Dissertation Title: "Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care."

Dissertation Committee: Carole Joffe (Chair), Drew Halfmann, and Sharon Kaufman (UCSF).

Melanie Toshiye Jones

Research and Teaching Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Education, Social Class, Immigrant and Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Children, Youth, and Families, Social Inequality and Stratification, Social Research Methods, Qualitative Methods.

Dissertation Title: "Class and College Knowledge: How Black Youth Navigate College Options."

Dissertation Committee: Mary Jackman (Co-chair), Dina Okamoto (Co-chair), Bruce Haynes, Eric Grodsky (University of Minnesota), Patricia Gandara (University of California, Los Angeles)

Joan S.M. Meyers

Research and Teaching Interests: Inequality; organizations; race and ethnicity; sex and gender; sexualities; work, occupations, and professions;  historical/comparative and ethnographic methods; cooperative and active learning.

Dissertation Title: “Working Democracies: Power and Inequality in Two Employee-Owned Companies.”

Dissertation Committee: Vicki Smith (chair), Fred Block, Ming-cheng Lo, and Miriam Wells.

Robert Moorehead

Research and Teaching Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Community and Urban Sociology, Migration and Immigration, Qualitative Methods, Transnationalism, Japan

Dissertation Title: "You Can't Go Home Again: Japanese Peruvian Immigrants' Struggle for Belonging and Identity in the Ancestral Homeland"

Dissertation Committee: Lyn Lofland (chair), Bruce Haynes, John Lie (University of California, Berkeley), Ayumi Takenaka (Bryn Mawr University)

Marian Negoita

Research and Teaching Interests: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Social Theory, Development, the State, Post-Communist Societies, Globalization, Professions, Quantitative Analysis.

Dissertation Title: "Rebuilding the State in Post-Communist Romania Networks, Competition, and Regulation."

Dissertation Committee: Fred Block (chair), David Kyle, Drew Halfmann and Jack Goldstone (George Mason University).

Sanghamitra Niyogi

Research and Teaching Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Sociology, Immigrant and Racial/Ethnic Minorities, International Migration, Asian Americans, Social Inequality and Stratification, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods.

Dissertation Title: "Crafting Identities: Sub-national Ethnicity and Ethnic Incorporation of Asian Indians in the S.F. Bay Area"

Dissertation Committee: Bruce Haynes (Chair), Laura Grindstaff, Sunanina Maira

Sarah M. Ovink

Research and Teaching Interests: Sociology of Education, Race/Ethnicity, Class and Gender, Racial/Ethnic Minorities, Stratification/Mobility, Immigration, Children and Youth

Dissertation Title:"Mexican-American Postsecondary Pathways: Investigating the College Attendance Gender Gap"

Dissertation Committee: Dina Okamoto (chair), Vicki Smith, Eric Grodsky (University of Minnesota), Claude Fischer (University of California, Berkeley)

Yifei Zhu

Research and Teaching Interests: Social Stratification; Gender Inequality; Family; Social Demography; Social Psychology; Contemporary Chinese Society; Quantitative methods.

Dissertation Title: "Globalization and Value Change in China: Historical Trends and Contextual Effects on Gender, Marriage, Family and Sexual Values."

Committee: Xiaoling Shu (Co-chair), Diane Felmlee (Co-chair), Mary Jackman