Job Market Candidates

	Maryam Alemzadeh Junior Research Fellow at Brandeis University Dissertation Title: Institutionalizing a Revolutionary Army: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, 1979-82 Research Interests: Comparative-Historical Sociology, Culture, State-building, Revolutionary Armies, Religion, Social Movements, the Middle East Dissertation Committee: Andreas Glaeser (chair), John Levi Martin, Charles Kurzman (UNC), Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Princeton) CV maryamalem@uchicago.edu
	Alexandra Brewer Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: The Deserving Pain: How Clinicians Arbitrate Credibility and Merit in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Work, Organizations, Occupations, Gender, Race, Class, Medical Education Dissertation Committee: Andrew Abbott (co-chair), Kristen Schilt (co-chair), Anna Mueller, Robert Vargas CV Website aebrewer@uchicago.edu
	Jerel Ezell Ph.D. Candidate Kreisman Fellow Dissertation Title: History or Histrionics: A Mixed Methods Examination of Planning, Power, and Penalty during the Flint Water Crisis Research Interests: Health and Medicine, Culture, Urban Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Change, Mixed Methods Dissertation Committee: Kristen Schilt (chair), Anna Mueller, Bruce Link (UC Riverside), Chris Muller (Berkeley) CV Website jerel@uchicago.edu
	Caterina Fugazzola MAPSS Postdoctoral Fellow Dissertation Title: What’s in a Name? Language, Culture, and Tongzhi Strategies for Social Change Research Interests: Social Movements, Gender and Sexuality, Transnational Sociology, Social Change, Culture, East Asia, Qualitative Methods Dissertation Committee: Elisabeth Clemens (chair), Kristen Schilt, Dingxin Zhao CV Website cfugazzola@uchicago.edu
	Nathaniel J. Gonzalez Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: Preventing Riots: Community Collaboration during Buddhist-Muslim Violence in Myanmar Research Interests: Political Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Violence Dissertation Committee: Kimberly Kay Hoang (chair), Marco Garrido, Elisabeth Clemens, Dan Slater (Michigan) CV Website njg@uchicago.edu
	Cayce C. Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University Book Title: Privacy, Poverty, and Punishment: How Surveillance in the Social Safety Net Penalizes Poor Black Mothers (under contract with University of California Press) Research Interests: Urban Poverty, Social Inequalities, Privacy and Surveillance, Health Dissertation Committee: Kristen Schilt (co-chair), Mario Small (co-chair, Harvard), Kimberly Kay Hoang, Forrest Stuart CV Website cayce.c.hughes@rice.edu
	Whitney Johnson Lecturer in the Social Sciences Dissertation Title: Learning to Listen: Knowledge of Value in Auditory Culture Research Interests: Culture, Theory, Gender, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methods Dissertation Committee: Karin Knorr Cetina (chair), Andrew Abbott, Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern) CV Website whitneyjohnson@uchicago.edu
	Nick Judd Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: Donors, Factions, Parties: Intraparty Conflict and Campaign Finance in American Democracy Research Interests: Computational Methods, Culture, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Change, Media Sociology Dissertation Committee: John Levi Martin (chair), Elisabeth Clemens, John Mark Hansen CV Website ncj@uchicago.edu
	Mishal Khan Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: Empire, Law, and Order Making after Abolition: A History of Three Laboring Figures in India Research Interests: Comparative/ Historical/Macro Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Social Change, South Asia, Sociology of Empire, Global Sociology Dissertation Committee: Elisabeth S. Clemens (chair), Marco Garrido, Johanna Ransmeier, Mitra Sharafi (Wisconsin) CV Website mishal@uchicago.edu
	Danya Lagos Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin Dissertation Title: Embodiment, Identity, and Gender Regimes in the United States: Findings From Population Surveys Research Interests: Sex and Gender, Demography, Survey Methodology, Health Dissertation Committee: Kristen Schilt (co-chair), Jenny Trinitapoli (co-chair), Bridget Gorman (Rice University), Anna Mueller CV Website danya@uchicago.edu
	Linzhuo Li Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: The Power of "Hot-styles": Fashion Production in Chinese Children's Apparel Market Research Interests: Cultural Markets, Production of Culture, Economic and Ideology Systems, Political Economy, Computational Methods for Content Analysis and Knowledge Generation Dissertation Committee: Dingxin Zhao (chair), Karin Knorr Cetina, Xi Song CV Website linzhuoli@uchicago.edu
	Joshua Gary Mausolf Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: Enter the Partisan Firm: How Affective Polarization Shapes Corporation and Career Research Interests: Computational Methods, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Organizations, Stratification, Work/Occupations Dissertation Committee: James Evans (chair), Elisabeth Clemens, Amanda Sharkey CV Website jmausolf@uchicago.edu
	Jane McCamant Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: The Role of Religion in Education for Democracy: the Case of Cold War Chicago and Roman Catholicism Research Interests: Comparative/ Historical/Macro Sociology, Culture, Qualitative Methodology, Sociology of Religion, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Work/Occupations Dissertation Committee: Andrew Abbott (chair), Andreas Glaeser, Jenny Trinitapoli, Michael Rossi CV Website jmcc@uchicago.edu
	Rick Moore Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University Dissertation Title: Atheists and Evangelicals: Creating the Category of Religion in American Life Research Interests: Culture, Cognition, Religion, Secularism, Research Methods and Active Learning Methodologies Dissertation Committee: John Levi Martin (chair), Andrew Abbott, Courtney Bender (Columbia), Omar McRoberts CV Website rickmoore@cornell.edu
	Alicia Riley Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Francisco Dissertation Title: The Social Production of Health Inequalities Across Local Contexts Research Interests: Population Health, Inequality and Stratification, Race and Racism, Social Policy, Demography, Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Quantitative Methods Dissertation Committee: Linda Waite (co-chair), John Levi Martin (co-chair), Diane Lauderdale CV Website arriley@uchicago.edu
	Christopher George Takacs Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: Cultural Capital Development Among Elite Undergraduates Research Interests: Higher Education, Culture, Social Capital, Inequality, Qualitative Methods Dissertation Committee: Andrew Abbott (chair), Edward Laumann, Kristen Schilt CV Website ctakacs@uchicago.edu
	Brian Tuohy Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA Dissertation Title: Mexican Chicago: Modes of Incorporation in a Mexican-American Network Research Interests: Immigration, Medical Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Urban Sociology Dissertation Committee: Richard Taub (co-chair), Omar McRoberts (co-chair), Kathleen Cagney, Marco Garrido CV Website btuohy@ucla.edu
	Jessica Carmen Villaseñor Ph.D. Candidate Dissertation Title: "Quiero Vivir en mi Fantasía": The Social World of Youth in Street Situations in Mexico City Research Interests: Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification, Urban Sociology Dissertation Committee: Omar McRoberts (co-chair), Marco Garrido (co-chair), Jenny Trinitapoli, Yanilda Gonzalez CV Website jcvillasenor@uchicago.edu