(Organizational Behavior, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Social Evaluation Dynamics in Global Platform Markets
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Ya-Wen Lei, Michael W. Toffel, and Christopher Marquis (Cornell University
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

(Organizational Behavior, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Environment of Developing Markets: Three Studies about Entrepreneurship in Togo
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Metin Sengul, Rembrand M. Koning, and Peter V. Marsden
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

(Sociology & Social Policy, March 2020)
Thesis Title: Tribal Lands, Tribal Men, and Tribal Responsibilities: World Renewal Fathers with Criminal Records and Their Perceptions of Work and Fatherhood On- and Off-Reservation
Committee: William Julius Wilson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, Mario Luis Small, and Megan Comfort (RTI)
Initial Placement: Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2020-21); Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Managing Indigeneity, Cultivating Citizens: Reconciliation Action Plans in Australian Organizations
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Michèle Lamont
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program and coordinator of the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion for 2019-2020, Weatherhead Center for International Studies, Harvard University
Current Position: Senior Analyst, Abt Associates, Inc.

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Social Structure, Space, and the Dynamics of Income Inequality
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Mario Luis Small, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2020)
Thesis Title: Contextual Selection and Intergenerational Reproduction
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Christopher Jencks
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar/Mansueto Fellow, Department of Sociology & Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Price Center for Social Innovation, University of Southern California

(Sociology, November 2019)
Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Associations of Education with Health by Demographic, Genetic, and School Characteristics
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, and Alexandra A. Killewald
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Population Studies, Brown University

(Sociology, May 2021)
Thesis Title: In Loco Parentis?: The Boundary Work of Campus Police
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Robert J. Sampson, and Joscha Legewie
Initial Position: Presidential Management Fellow/Grant Management Specialist with the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice

(Sociology, March 2021)
Thesis Title: The Gender Wealth Gap in the United States
Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Chair), Mary C. Brinton, and Jason Beckfield
Initial Position: Research Scientist, Demography and Survey Sciences, Facebook/Meta

... Read more about Angela Lee

(Sociology, November 2020)
Thesis Title: Individual and Community Responses to Armed Conflict: The Case of the Mexican 'War on Organized Crime'
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Alexandra A. Killewald, and Jocelyn Viterna
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine

(Sociology, May 2021)
Thesis Title: Climate Change and Inequality in the US: Sociological Analyses of Big Data
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jason Beckfield, Joscha Legewie, and James R. Elliott (Rice University)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia in Vancouver

(Sociology, November 2020)
Thesis Title: The Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Three Studies on Networks, Diversity, and Integration
Committee: Jason Beckfield (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Peter V. Marsden, Alexandra A. Killewald, and Filiz Garip
Initial Placement: Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center, Cornell University
Current Position: Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago (effective Fall 2022)

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: From the Job's Worth to the Person's Price: Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and the Changing Understanding of Fair Pay
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Michèle Lamont, Jason Beckfield, Peter V. Marsden, and David Pedulla
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management

(Organizational Behavior, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Three Papers on Black Student Well-being in HWCUs: Social Capital, Belonging, and Identity
Committee: Frank Dobbin (Co-Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan (Co-Chair), and Alexandra Feldberg
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Thinking Gender: The Cognitive Dimension of Household Labor
Committee: Alexandra A. Killewald (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Michèle Lamont, and Kathleen Gerson (New York University)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison... Read more about Allison P. Daminger

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Reimagining Public Safety: Transformations in Collective Efficacy and Community Control in Boston Public Housing
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Robert J. Sampson, Monica C. Bell (Yale Law School), and Rod K. Brunson (University of Maryland)
Initial Placement:Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022)
Thesis Title: ‘Guardians of Beautiful Things’?: The Politics of Postcolonial Cultural Theft, Refusal, and Repair
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Co-Chair), Jocelyn Viterna (Co-Chair), Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College), and Zine Magubane (Boston College)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, The New School, New York, New York
... Read more about Cresa L. Pugh

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Towards a Landscape of Rental Housing Ownership: Legal and Spatial Characteristics of Residential Landlords in the United States
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), Matthew Desmond (Princeton University), and Mario Luis Small (Columbia University)
Position: Associate, Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: A Theory of Institutional Emergence
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), Orlando Patterson, and Sven Beckert (Department of History, Harvard University)
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Precarious Mobility: Trying and Failing to Get Ahead in the 21st Century
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, and Mario Luis Small (Columbia University)
Initial Placement: Harvard College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (effective Fall 2022)

(Sociology, May 2022)
Thesis Title: Education, Inequality, and Intensive Parenting in China
Committee: Orlando Patterson (Chair), Christopher Winship, Ya-Wen Lei, and Elizabeth Perry (Department of Government, Harvard University)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China... Read more about Fangsheng Zhu

(Sociology, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Contemporary Contours of National Belonging: Experimental and Survey Approaches for Understanding the Structures of the American Hierarchy
Committee: Lawrence D. Bobo (Chair), Bart Bonikowski (New York University), Michèle Lamont, and Mary C. Waters
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, New York University Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (September 2023–August 2025)
... Read more about Victoria S. Asbury-Kimmel

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Intangible Factors: Social Capital, Social Networks, and America's Second Reconstruction
Committee: Mario L. Small (Chair), Martha Minow (Harvard Law School), and Bart Bonikowski (New York University)
Current Position: Attorney, Munger, Tolles & Olson, and Lecturer in Law, UCLA School of Law

(Sociology, March 2023)
Thesis Title: The Social Effects of Climate Change – Adapting to Climate Change in Daily Life
Committee: Mary C. Waters (Chair), Jocelyn Viterna, Diane Davis (Harvard Graduate School of Design), and Beth Fussell (Brown University)
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Vanderbilt University
... Read more about Brianna Castro

(Sociology, May 2023)

Thesis Title: Feeding the Need: Charitable Food-Providing Organizations and Gaps in the Social Safety Net

Committee: Theda Skocpol (Chair), Christina Ciocca Eller, Mario Luis Small (Columbia University), and Margaret Weir (Brown University)

Initial Placement: Turpanjian Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California (July 2023–July 2024); Provost Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California (August 2024–July 2026); Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Southern California (effective July 2026)
... Read more about Leah E. Gose

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2023)
Thesis Title: The Worldbuilders: Pedagogy, Practice, and Politics in Black Power-era Independent Schools
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Jarvis Givens, Mario Luis Small (Columbia University)
Research/Teaching Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Education, Qualitative Methods, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Social Policy, Archival Methods, Gender and Sexuality
Current Position: Self employed, Racial Justice Strategist and Coach-Consultant, New Haven, Connecticut

(Organizational Behavior, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Centralized Management in Democratic Governance – Essays on Organizing a System of Executive Branch Bureaucracies
Committee: Julie Battilana (Chair), Bart Bonikowski (New York University), and Daniel Carpenter
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Leadership and Governance, School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

... Read more about Elliot Stoller

(Sociology, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Race, Place, and the Politics of Urban Austerity in Michigan, 1970s-2010s
Committee: Mario Luis Small (Chair, Columbia University), Robert J. Sampson, and Thomas Sugrue (New York University)
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, and Assistant Professor in Sociology and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

(Sociology & Social Policy, May 2023)
Thesis Title: Distributing Representation: Nonprofit, Private, and Pro Bono Attorneys' Legal Advocacy for Immigrant Clients
Committee: Jocelyn Viterna (Chair), Mary C. Waters, and Christina Ciocca Eller
Initial Placement:  Research Scientist, Justice Practice Area, RTI International... Read more about Lilly Yu