Jeremiah Coldsmith
Dissertation title: "From Class Structure to Class Identification"
Dissertation chair: Don Grant
Research/Teaching interests: Class Formation and Class Relations, Inequality, Social Networks, Social Psychology, Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Social Science Methods, and Social Statistics
Jason Crockett
Dissertation title: "Narratives of Racial Sexual Preference"
Dissertation co-chairs: Stephen Russell & Erin Leahey
Research/Teaching interests: Sexualities and Gender, Social Movements, Communities, Culture and Religion, Knowledge/Science, Race/Ethnicity, Methods, Theory
Olga Mayorova
Dissertation title: "Social Capital and Institutional Transition: Regional Context of Network Use in Job Search in Russia"
Dissertation co-chairs: Ron Breiger & Jane Zavisca
Research/Teaching interests: Social Networks, Stratification, Labor Markets, Gender, Organizations
Claude Rubinson
Dissertation title: "The Production of Style: Aesthetic and Ideological Diversity in the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1875-1914"
Dissertation chair: Charles Ragin
Research/Teaching interests: Globalization and Comparative Political-Economy; Arts, Technology, and Culture; Social Stratification; Research Methods
Stephan Scholz
Dissertation title: "Global Civil Society, Sustainable Development, and Mitigation of Human Induced Climate Change"
Dissertation chair: Charles Ragin
Research/Teaching interests: Environmental Sociology, World Systems, Networks