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Mikhail Balaev

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In my doctoral research I analyze the democratic development of the former Soviet states. Using constructed panel data set I apply pooled time-series regression to analyze how international trade, militarization, and trade with Russia affect democracy in the former Soviet states.

  • Economic Sociology
  • Political Sociology
  • Democratization
  • Former U.S.S.R.
  • Quantitative Methods

Khaya Clark

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Khaya Clark received her B.A. in Sociology in 1996 from the University of Oregon. Clark received her M.A. in Sociology in 1999 from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Khaya is a Research Scientist at the Oregon Center for Applied Science.

  • Race and ethnic relations
  • Young children's racial attitudes
  • Antiracist education
  • Feminist theory
  • Aocial psychology

Timothy Haney

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Timothy J. Haney is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. His dissertation focuses on the labor market activity and barriers to employment of urban women living in poor neighborhoods of four U.S. cities. Haney's single-authored paper “Broken Windows and Self-Esteem: Subjective Understandings of Neighborhood Poverty and Disorder” appeared in the September 2007 issue of Social Science Research. He also has publications, both coauthored and sole-authored, published or forthcoming in Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, Teaching Sociology, and several edited volumes. Additionally, he has empirical papers currently under review by Social Problems and The Sociological Quarterly. Haney received his Master's degree in 2005 from Tulane University in New Orleans and his B.A. in 2003 from Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin. He resided in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
  • Stratification (race, class)
  • Poverty
  • Urban Sociology
  • Labor Markets and Employment
  • Post-Katrina New Orleans
  • Quantitative methods
  • Teaching sociology.

Stefano Longo

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Stefano B. Longo is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon. His research interests include political economy and the environment with a focus on the global food system.  He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation which examines the political economy of the Sicilian bluefin tuna fishery.
 

Brandon Olszewksi

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Broadly speaking, I am a social psychologist interested in how organizations and organizational change affect individual participants, social groups, and policy. My dissertation examines the relationship between the politics of high school change, or the degree to which change is democratically instituted, and the changes teachers experience regarding their workload and work environments.
  • Organizations, occupations and work
  • Social psychology
  • Sociology of education
  • Sociology of culture
  • Qualitative and quantitative methods

Lora Vess

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