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Sarah Brauner-Otto
(sbrauner@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Health Services, Schools, and Childbearing Beliefs and Behaviors
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Bill Axinn
Areas of Interest: Demography, Family, Research Methods, Aging, Causal Inference

Andy Clarno
(aclarno@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Imperial Cities: Neo-liberalization and the constitution of urban space in post-apartheid South Africa and post-Oslo Palestine/Israel
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  George Steinmetz and Fatma Müge Goçek
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Urban Sociology, Space and Place, Political Sociology, Nationalism, State Formation, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Africa and the Middle East, Comparative Historical Sociology, Sociology of the Media, Sociological Theory

Claire Laurier Decoteau
(cdecotea@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  George Steinmetz
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Social Theory, Political Economy, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Medical Sociology, Post-Colonial Studies, Sociology of Africa, Qualitative Methodologies

Zaire Dinzey Flores
(zaire@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Fighting Crime, Constructing Segregation: Housing Policy and the Symbolic Badges of Puerto Rican Urban Neighborhoods
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Al Young, Jr.; Mary Corcoran
Areas of Interest: Urban & Community Sociology, Urban Planning, Race & Ethnic Relations, Space & Place, Qualitative & Quantitative Methods, Social Policy, Criminology, African Diaspora, Latin America & Caribbean

David S. Dobbie
(ddobbie@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: More Than the Sum of Their Parts? Labor-Community Coalitions and Working Class Movement-Building in the Rust Belt
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Michael Reisch and Howard Kimeldorf
Areas of Interest:

Anne Fleischer
(ahbowers@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: The Creation and Performance of Classification Schemes: Rating Systems in United States Broker-Dealers 1992-1999
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Gautam Ahuja (co-chair), Mark Mizruchi (co-chair)
Areas of Interest: Sociology, Organizations, Work & Labor Markets

Jung-hwa Ha
(jhha@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Determinants and Consequences of Changing Social Support following Late-Life Widowhood
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  James House and Berit Ingersoll-Dayton
Areas of Interest: Aging and the Life Course, Social Support, Intergenerational Relationships, Health, Social Demography

Burcak Keskin Kozat
(bkeskin@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Negotiating Modernity through Foreign Assistance: Turkey's Marshall Plan (1948-1952) Re-interpreted
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  F. Muge Gocek
Areas of Interest: Political Sociology; Social Theory; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociology of Gender; Sociology of Religion; Nation, Nationalism, and State Formation; History, Politics, and Society of Turkey, the United States, the European Union, and the Middle East

Darcy Leach
(leachd@bc.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: The Way is the Goal: Ideology and the Practice of Collectivist Democracy in German New Social Movements
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Howard Kimeldorf
Areas of Interest: Social Movements, Political Sociology, Social Change, Social Theory, Social Psychology, Organizational Studies, Comparative Historical Sociology, and Qualitative Methods

Susan M. Lee-Rife
(susanml@umich.edu)

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Dissertation Title: Three papers on the influence of trauma and disruption on South African young people
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  David Featherman and Pamela Smock
Areas of Interest:

Tasleem Juana Padamsee
(tjpadams@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Infusing Health into the Welfare State: AIDS Policy-Making in the United States and the United Kingdom
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Renee Anspach and Julia Adams
Areas of Interest: Medical Sociology, Political Sociology, Gender and Sexuality, Health Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative and Historical Methods

Brienna Perelli-Harris
(bperelli@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Social Change and Behavior: Family Formation in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Barbara Anderson and William Axinn
Areas of Interest: Demography, Marriage and the Family, Fertility, Central and Eastern Europe, Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology

Carla Pfeffer
(cpfeffer@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: “(Trans)Formative Relationships: What We Can Learn About Identities, Bodies and Work from the Women Partners of Transgender and Transsexual Men”
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Karin Martin and Esther Newton
Areas of Interest:

Besnik Pula
(bpula@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Weak State and Weak Society: Peasant Resistance and the Construction of a Bureaucratic Field in Albania, 1919-1945
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  George Steinmetz
Areas of Interest: Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Empire, Colonialism, and Nationalism, Qualitative Methods