Academic Outcomes
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PhD ~ 2007 “Outline of an Interpretive Sociology: Meaning, Theory, and History in Social Analysis” |
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| PhD ~ 2009 “Playing to Win: A Cultural Sociology of the International Music Competition” Current 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. |
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| PhD ~ 2010 “The Rise and Transformation of Religious Politics: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparative Perspective” Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University, Turkey Honors and Awards: Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2011) |
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| PhD ~ 2011 “How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-Communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989-2009” Current 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) |
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| PhD ~ 2011 “Eclipse and Memory: Public Representation of the War of Resistance in Maoist China and its Official Revision in Post-Mao Era” Current Placement: Assistant Professor, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University Honors and Awards: Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2013) John Addison Porter Prize, Yale University Graduate School (2011) |
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| PhD ~ 2011 “”It’s just not Main Street anymore!” Mapping out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway” Current Placement: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Previous Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
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| PhD ~ 2012 “Sacred and Secular Protest in Chinese Diaspora: Falun Gong and the Chinese Democracy” Current 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) |
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| PhD ~ 2012 “Culture and Coercion: Piracy and State Power in the Early Modern English Empire” Current 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). |
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| PhD ~ 2013 “A Global Millennium: Empire and the Invention of Evangelicalism on the Margins of the Confessional State, 1688-1745” Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McGill University, Canada Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity |
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| PhD ~ 2013 “I Now Declare You: State Law and the Making of Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa” Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Law and Society, John Jay College, City University of New York Current Placement: Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, SA Honors and Awards: Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Yale University (2015) |
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| PhD ~ 2014 “Democratic Oversight and Military Autonomy: The U.S. Army’s Management of American Journalism, 1939-2004” Current 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) |
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| PhD ~ 2014 “Art Work? Tradition, Rationalization, and the Valuation of Contemporary Artistic Practice” Current Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University, Sweden Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden |
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| PhD ~ 2015 “The Social Life of Noise” Current 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 |
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| PhD ~ 2015 “Meaning and Merit in American Municipal Firefighting” Current Placement: Organizational Social Scientist, Vega Factor, New York, NY Previous Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Augustana University |
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| PhD ~ 2015 “Making Morals: Standard-Setting in Organizations” Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Previous Placement: Lecturer, Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago Previous Placement: Kenneth P. Dietrich Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh |
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| PhD ~ 2015 “Schooling as a Social Process: Creation and Consequence of Adolescent Society in American High Schools” Current Placement: Assistant Professor of Data Science, Nevada State College Previous Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science, Mount Holyoke College |
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| PhD ~ 2015 “Remaking Monsanto: Commodification as Corporate Strategy” Current Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Australia |
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PhD ~ 2016 “The Religious Origins of Transnational Relief: Calvinism, Humanitarianism, and the Genesis of Social Fields” |
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| PhD ~ 2016 “Diverse Parents, Desirable Schools: Public Montessori, Fit and Conflict in the Era of School Choice” Current Placement: Executive Director, Education Studies. Yale University |
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| PhD ~ 2018 “The dignity of working children? Globalization and morality in debates over child labor.” Current 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) |
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| PhD ~ 2018 ”Unsettled Islam: A Comparative Study of European Capital City Mosques” Current Placement: Freigeist Fellow at the Max Weber Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg, Germany (Assistant Professor level) Previous Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin Previous Placement: Postdoctoral Associate, Religion and Its Publics, University of Virginia & Luce Foundation |
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| PhD ~ 2019 “The Rules of Meaning Making: Toward a Theory of Cultural Syntax” Current Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
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| PhD ~ 2019 ”History is Other People: Relational Change, Memory and Market Justice in post-1989 East Germany and the Czech Republic” Current Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany |
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| PhD ~ 2020 ”Curating the Self: Second-Hand Fashion and New York City” Current Placement: Lecturer, New York University |
Non-Academic Outcomes
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Tanya Goodman |
PhD ~ 2004 “Setting the Stage for a “new” South Africa: A Cultural Approach to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission” Current Placement: Owner/Publisher of Chapel Lane Media, South Africa Previous Placement: Independent Researcher, Multimedia project: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
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Martin de Santos |
PhD ~ 2007 “Public Numbers and Fact-Totems: Country Risk and the Cultural Life of Statistics in Argentina 2001” Current Placement: CEO, Product & Strategy @Handouts: Simple classroom worklow • Co-Founder |
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Caroline Gray |
PhD ~ 2010 “Disfigured Forms: Surgical Alterations of the Body” |
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PhD ~ 2012 “Interpreting the News: A Cultural Sociology of Journalistic Discourses in the United States” |
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Sarah Egan |
PhD ~ 2012 “Hounded Out: Performative Success and Political Failure in the English Pro-hunting Movement” Current Placement: Learning Content Manager - GoConqr, Ireland |
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Inge Schmidt |
PhD ~ 2012 “When Good Ballots Go Bad: Voting ritual (and its failure) in the United States” |
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Yasushi Tanaka-Gútiez |
PhD ~ 2014 “Towards a New Cultural Sociology of Mass Mobilizations: A Comparative Analysis of Occupy Wall Street” |
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Jin Su Joo |
PhD ~ 2016 “The Cultural Logic of Heritage Redevelopment Mega-Projects: The Distillery District in Toronto and Cheonggyecheon in Seoul” Current Placement: Strategist, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Fresh Squeezed Ideas |
| PhD ~ 2017 “Advertising as Cultural Production” Current Placement: Jr. Strategist, Phenomenon |