Academic Outcomes
Isaac Ariail Reed ~ Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Professor of Sociology ~ University of Virginia
PhD ~ 2007 “Outline of an Interpretive Sociology: Meaning, Theory, and History in Social Analysis”
Previous Placement: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia
Previous Placement: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Honors and Awards:
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2008)
Junior Theorist Award, American Sociological Association Section on Theory (2014)
Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting, American Sociological Association (2015)
Lisa McCormick ~ Senior Lecturer in Sociology ~ University of Edinburgh, UK
PhD ~ 2009 “Playing to Win: A Cultural Sociology of the International Music Competition”
Previous Placement: Lecturer, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Previous Placement: Associate Professor, Haverford College
Honors and Awards:
SAGE prize in excellence and/or innovation for “Higher, Faster, Louder: Representations of the International Music Competition” Cultural Sociology, 3(1):5-30. 2010.
Ateş Altinordu ~ Assistant Professor ~ Sabanci University, Turkey
PhD ~ 2010 “The Rise and Transformation of Religious Politics: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparative Perspective”
Honors and Awards:
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2011)
Dominik Bartmanski ~ Assistant Professor ~ Humboldt University-Berlin, Germany
PhD ~ 2011 “How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-Communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989-2009”
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Previous Placement: European Social Fund Postdoctoral Fellow, Masaryk University
Honors and Awards:
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2012)
International Sociological Association (ISA) Junior Theorist Prize for, “How to become an iconic social thinker: the intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault,” European Journal of Social Theory 15(4), (2012)
Rui Gao ~ Assistant Professor ~ School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
PhD ~ 2011 “Eclipse and Memory: Public Representation of the War of Resistance in Maoist China and its Official Revision in Post-Mao Era”
Honors and Awards:
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2013)
John Addison Porter Prize, Yale University Graduate School (2011)
B. Nadya Jaworsky ~ Professor ~ Masaryk University, Czechia
PhD ~ 2011 “”It’s just not Main Street anymore!” Mapping out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway”
Previous Placement: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czechia
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czechia
Andrew Junker ~ Regional Director, Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR ~ Yale-China Association/The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PhD ~ 2012 “Sacred and Secular Protest in Chinese Diaspora: Falun Gong and the Chinese Democracy”
Previous Placement: Hong Kong Director, Yale-China Association, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Previous Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Valparaiso University
Previous Placement: Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows and Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
Honors and Awards:
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2014)
Matthew Norton ~ Associate Professor ~ University of Oregon
PhD ~ 2012 “Culture and Coercion: Piracy and State Power in the Early Modern English Empire”
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon
Honors and Awards:
Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article, Sociology of Culture Section, American Sociological Association (2015) for “Classification and Coercion: The Destruction of Piracy in theEnglish Maritime System.” American Journal of Sociology 119 (6).
Samuel Nelson ~ Assistant Professor ~ McGill University, Canada
PhD ~ 2013 “A Global Millennium: Empire and the Invention of Evangelicalism on the Margins of the Confessional State, 1688-1745”
Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Michael Yarbrough ~ Associate Professor ~ John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
PhD ~ 2013 “I Now Declare You: State Law and the Making of Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor of Law and Society, John Jay College, City University of New York
Previous Placement: Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, SA
Honors and Awards:
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2015)
Thomas Crosbie ~ Associate Professor ~ Centre for Joint Operations, Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark
PhD ~ 2014 “Democratic Oversight and Military Autonomy: The U.S. Army’s Management of American Journalism, 1939-2004”
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor, Military Operations, Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen DK
Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Research on Military Organization, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
Honors and Awards:
Army Research Institute Grant (co-PI Meredith Kleykamp) (2015)
Alison Gerber ~ Associate professor/Senior lecturer ~ Lund University, Sweden
PhD ~ 2014 “Art Work? Tradition, Rationalization, and the Valuation of Contemporary Artistic Practice”
Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University, SwedenPrevious Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University, Sweden
Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden
Joseph Klett ~ Lecturer ~ University of California, Berkeley
PhD ~ 2015 “The Social Life of Noise”
Previous Placement: Research Fellow, Institute for Research, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Previous Placement: Research Associate, Science and Justice Research Center, University of California-Santa Cruz
Previous Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sorcha Brophy ~ Assistant Professor ~ Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
PhD ~ 2015 “Making Morals: Standard-Setting in Organizations”
Previous Placement: Lecturer, Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
Previous Placement: Kenneth P. Dietrich Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy Malacarne ~ Associate Professor ~ Nevada State University
PhD ~ 2015 “Schooling as a Social Process: Creation and Consequence of Adolescent Society in American High Schools”
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor of Data Science, Nevada State College
Previous Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science, Mount Holyoke College
Jensen Sass ~ Postdoctoral Associate ~ Comparative Policy Analysis, University of Vienna, Austria
PhD ~ 2015 “Remaking Monsanto: Commodification as Corporate Strategy”
Previous Placement: Braithwaite Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
Previous Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Australia
Shai Dromi ~ Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology ~ Harvard University
PhD ~ 2016 “The Religious Origins of Transnational Relief: Calvinism, Humanitarianism, and the Genesis of Social Fields”
Previous Placement: College Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Sociology
Previous Placement: Lecturer, Harvard University, Department of Sociology
Honors and Awards:
Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2018)
Certificate of Excellence in Teaching - The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University (2018)
Best Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association Section on Global Transnational Sociology (2016)
Mira Debs ~ Lecturer, Department of Sociology ~ Yale University
PhD ~ 2016 “Diverse Parents, Desirable Schools: Public Montessori, Fit and Conflict in the Era of School Choice”
Previous Placement: Executive Director, Education Studies. Yale University
Isabel Jijón ~ Lecturer on Sociology ~ Harvard University
PhD ~ 2018 “The dignity of working children? Globalization and morality in debates over child labor.”
Previous Placement: Fox Fellowship, Yale University
Honors and Awards:
21st Century Dissertation Prize, to a distinguished sociology dissertation that contributes to public policy or the public interest. Yale University (2018)
Mildred Priest Frank Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Sociology, Yale University (2011)
Elisabeth Becker ~ Assistant Professor and Freigeist Fellow ~ Max Weber Institute for Sociology at Heidelberg University, Germany
PhD ~ 2018 ”Unsettled Islam: A Comparative Study of European Capital City Mosques”
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin
Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Associate, Religion and Its Publics, University of Virginia & Luce Foundation
Todd Madigan ~ Assistant Professor of Sociology ~ Coastal Carolina University
PhD ~ 2019 “The Rules of Meaning Making: Toward a Theory of Cultural Syntax”
Previous Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Coastal Carolina University
Previous Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Till Hilmar ~ Postdoctoral Researcher ~ Department of Sociology, Vienna University, Austria
PhD ~ 2019 ”History is Other People: Relational Change, Memory and Market Justice in post-1989 East Germany and the Czech Republic”
Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany
Dicky Yangzom ~ Lecturer ~ New York University
PhD ~ 2020 ”Curating the Self: Second-Hand Fashion and New York City”
Non-Academic Outcomes
Tanya Goodman ~ Owner/Publisher of Chapel Lane Media, South Africa
PhD ~ 2004 “Setting the Stage for a “new” South Africa: A Cultural Approach to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission”
Previous Placement: Independent Researcher, Multimedia project: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Martin de Santos ~ Co-Founder and Director of Tipitap
PhD ~ 2007 “Public Numbers and Fact-Totems: Country Risk and the Cultural Life of Statistics in Argentina 2001”
Previous Placement: CEO, Product & Strategy @Handouts: Simple classroom worklow(Link is external) • Co-Founder
Caroline Gray ~ Investigator and Qualitative Lead Methodologist, Center for Innovation to Implementation, U. S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs
PhD ~ 2010 “Disfigured Forms: Surgical Alterations of the Body”
Previous Placement: Senior Qualitative Research Associate, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Previous Placement: Associate Service Fellow, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Elizabeth Breese ~ Vice President of Product Marketing, LINQ
PhD ~ 2012 “Interpreting the News: A Cultural Sociology of Journalistic Discourses in the United States”
Previous Placement: Marketing Director, Panorama Education, Boston
Previous Placement: Senior Content and Digital Marketing Strategist, Crimson Hexagon, Boston
Sarah Egan ~ Eurofins
PhD ~ 2012 “Hounded Out: Performative Success and Political Failure in the English Pro-hunting Movement”
Previous Placement: Learning Content Manager - GoConqr, Ireland
Inge Schmidt
PhD ~ 2012 “When Good Ballots Go Bad: Voting ritual (and its failure) in the United States”
Yasushi Tanaka-Gútiez
PhD ~ 2014 “Towards a New Cultural Sociology of Mass Mobilizations: A Comparative Analysis of Occupy Wall Street”
Carolyn Ly-Donovan ~ Consultant, Factor.AI, New York, NY
PhD ~ 2015 “Meaning and Merit in American Municipal Firefighting”
Previous Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Augustana University
Jin Su Joo ~ Vice-President, Strategy and Social Science, Throughline Strategy, Inc., Toronto, Canada
PhD ~ 2016 “The Cultural Logic of Heritage Redevelopment Mega-Projects: The Distillery District in Toronto and Cheonggyecheon in Seoul”
Previous Placement: Strategist, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Fresh Squeezed Ideas
Andrew C. Cohen ~ Strategy Director, MONKS
PhD ~ 2017 “Advertising as Cultural Production”
Previous Placement: Jr. Strategist, Phenomenon(Link is external)