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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: The Empire’s New Walls: Sovereignty, 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 Göçek
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Urban Sociology, Space and Place, Political Economy, Nationalism, State Formation, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Africa and the Middle East, Comparative Historical Sociology, Sociology of the Media, Sociological Theory

Debra Hevenstone
(dhevenst@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Labor Market Inequality and Atypical Employment
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Yu Xie and Carl P. Simon
Areas of Interest: social stratification and inequality while methodologically I am interested in geostatistics, complex systems, and network anaylsis

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

Christina Mendoza
(mendozac@umich.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Crossing Borders: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work at the Texas-Mexico Divide
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Sonya O. Rose, Jayati Lal
Areas of Interest: Immigration, Women and Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Latina/o Studies, Border Studies, Qualitative Methods

Rachel Meyer
(meyer2@fas.harvard.edu)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Dissertation Title: Perpetual Struggle: Sources of Working-Class Identity and Activism in Collective Action
  Dissertation Summary
Dissertation Chair:  Howard Kimeldorf
Areas of Interest: Labor and Work, Social Class, Social Movements, Culture and Identity, Political Sociology, Class and Race, Labor Movements, Globalization, Qualitative Methods, Comparative and Historical Methods, Social Theory

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

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