Sociology Ph.D. Placements

 

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Joshua Mason
University of California, Merced
PhD, 2026

 

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Yao Lu
Princeton University
PhD, 2026

 

Smiling woman with glasses, shoulder-length hair, gray top, blurred outdoor background

Karla Rodriguez Beltran 
UC Davis School of Law
PhD, 2025

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Eli Alston-Stepnitz
UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center 
PhD, 2025

 

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Angelita Repetto
Michigan State University
PhD, 2025

 

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Alan Haynes Stein
Creighton University
PhD, 2024

 

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Paola Langer
Princeton University
PhD, 2024

 

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Konrad Franco
CA Department of Social Services
PhD, 2023

 

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Yiwan Ye
University of Michigan, Dearborn
PhD, 2023

 

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Courtney Caviness
University of California, Davis
PhD, 2022

 

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Jared Joseph
Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project
PhD, 2022

 

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Savannah Hunter
UC Berkeley Labor Center
PhD, 2022

 

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Jesse Kolber
City College of San Francisco
PhD, 2022

 

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Jessica Gold
Northeastern University
PhD, 2021

 

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Sean Arseo
Pivot Learning
PhD, 2021

 

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Beth Hart
EdInsightsCenter
PhD, 2021

 

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Dustin Mabry
User Experience Research
PhD, 2021

 

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Rachel Nickens
Whitman College
PhD, 2020

 

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Bridget Sparks
AES Clean Energy
PhD, 2020

 

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Kristin McCarty
Child Welfare Services, CA
PhD, 2020

 

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Ashlyn Jaeger
Stanford University
PhD, 2020

 

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Zeke Baker
Sonoma State University
PhD, 2019

 

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Amara Miller
California State University, East Bay
PhD, 2019

 

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Chris Caldeira
Freelance Editor, Writer
PhD, 2019

 

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Jennifer Spencer
Google
PhD, 2019

 

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Sam Haraway
UX Researcher
PhD, 2018

 

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Joshua Hayes
Spotify
PhD, 2018

 

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Krysti Ryan
College Transition Collaborative
PhD, 2018

 

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Robin Savinar
Google
PhD, 2018

 

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Jennifer TyreeHageman
University of Birmingham 
PhD, 2018

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Angela Carter
Council on Criminal Justice & Behavioral Health
PhD, 2017

 

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Valerie Feldman
Rosov Consulting Professional Services
PhD, 2017

 

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Phyllis Jeffrey
California Workforce Development Board
PhD, 2017

 

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Ethan Evans
California State University
PhD, 2016

 

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Brian Halpin
University of California, Davis
PhD, 2016

 

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Jo Hale
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2016

 

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Emerald Nguyen
National Institues of Health
PhD, 2016

 

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Joanna Rullo
Freelance Researcher
PhD, 2016

Directory of Dissertations

These dissertation abstracts that doctoral students submitted to dissertation committees reflect the diversity of scholarly inquiry in the Department of Sociology Graduate Program. All faculty are from UC Davis unless otherwise noted