Job Market Candidates & Placements
2020-21 Job Market Candidates
Sarah Ahmed
Dissertation: Women’s Empowerment through Polio Eradication: Agency and Representation of Lady Health Workers in Pakistan
Areas of Interest: Global sociology, gender and development, south Asia, global health, agency and empowerment
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), John Foster, Kemi Balogun, Yvonne Braun (International Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
Kathryn Norton-Smith
Dissertation: “You’re Too Young for This Cancer”: An Intersectional Analysis of Off-time Illness
Areas of interest: Race and ethnicity, intersectionality, health and illness, sex and gender, medical sociology, body and embodiment, environmental sociology
Committee: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (Chair), Ellen Scott, Ryan Light, Jill Harrison, and Elizabeth Budd (Education)
Larissa Petrucci
Dissertation: Taylored Flexibility: Agile, Capitalism, and the Software Labor Process
Areas of Interest: Feminist Theory, Labor and Labor Movements, Political Economy, Work Economy and Organizations, and Qualitative Methods
Committee: Jill Ann Harrison (Chair), Eileen Otis, Ellen Scott, Anita Chari (Political Science)
2019-20 Placements
Allison Ford
- Initial Placement: Sonoma State University (Assistant Professor)
- Dissertation: Environmental Politics at the End of the World: Prepping as Environmental Practice
- Committee: Kari Marie Norgaard (chair), Ryan Light, Matt Norton, CJ Pascoe, Anita Chari (Political Science)
Andrea Herrera
- Initial Placement: TBA
- Dissertation: Alien Femininities: Transcending Gender through Drag in an Aesthetically Restrictive Culture
- Committee: CJ Pascoe (chair), Kemi Balogun, Tristan Bridges, and Priscilla Ovalle (Cinema Studies)
2018-19 Placements
Camila Alvarez
- Initial Placement: UC Merced (Assistant Professor)
- Dissertation: From Classical to Critical: Addressing Theoretical and Methodological Gaps within Environmental Justice Research
- Committee: Richard York (Chair), Clare Evans, Ellen Scott, Laura Pulido (Ethnic Studies)
Cassie Comley
- Initial Placement: California Department of Education
- Dissertation: “Surfing? That’s a White Boy Sport”: An Intersectional Analysis of Mexican Americans’ Experiences with Southern California Surf Culture
- Committee: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (Chair), Ken Lieberman, Michael Aguilera, Ocean Howell (History)
2017-18 Placements
J. M. (Jules) Bacon
- Initial Placement: Grinnell College (visiting assistant professor)
- Dissertation: Producing, Maintaining and Resisting Colonial Ecological Violence: Three Considerations of Settler Colonialism as Eco-Social Structure
- Committee: Kari Norgaard (Chair), Stephanie LeManager, Jill Harrison, Brian Klopotek (Ethnic Studies)
David Dominguez
- Dissertation: Tourism and Change in Costa Rica: Pura Vida, Power and Place in a Small Beach Community
- Committee: Richard York (Co-chair), John Foster (Co-chair), Jill Harrison, Yvonne Braun (International Studies)
Patrick Greiner
- Initial Placement: Vanderbilt University (Assistant Professor)
- Dissertation: Growth, Power and Time: Developing a Deeper Understanding of Anthropogenic Drivers of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from 1960-2015
- Committee: Richard York (Chair), Clare Evans, John Foster, Leigh Johnson (Geography)
Heather Marek
- Initial Placement: Oregon Court of Appeals
- Dissertation: Criminalizing Our Way to Racial Equality? An Empirical Look at Hate Crime Regulation
- Committee: Matthew Norton (Chair), Clare Evans, Stuart Chinn, Erik Girvan (Law)
Elizabeth Miller
- Initial Placement: Whittier College (adjunct instructor)
- Dissertation: Farming Without Farmers: Deskilling in Contract Broiler Farming
- Committee: Richard York (Chair), Eileen Otis, Jim Elliott, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)
Robert Molinar
- Initial Placement: University of Oregon (adjunct instructor)
- Dissertation: Self-Organization in Tiny Homes as a Response to Homelessness: Negotiating Autonomy and Transitional Living Inside a “Village” Community
- Committee: Jill Harrison (Co-chair), Matthew Norton (Co-chair), Greg McLauchlan, Naomi Zack (Philosophy)
Brian Ott
- Initial Placement: Truman State University
- Dissertation: Sense Work: Inequality and the Labor of Connoisseurship
- Committee: Eileen Otis (Chair), Jill Harrison, Jocelyn Hollander, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)
Tony Silva
- Initial Placement: Northwestern University (postdoc)
- Dissertation: Bud-Sex: Sexual Flexibility Among Rural White Straight Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Committee: CJ Pascoe (Chair), Raoul Lievanos, Kristen Barber, Peter Alilunas (Cinema Studies)
Evan Shenkin
- Initial Placement: Oregon State University (visiting instructor)
- Dissertation: Activism or Extractivism: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Bolivia
- Committee: Richard York (Chair), Galen Martin, Matthew Norton, Derrick Hindery (International Studies)
Lauren Stewart
- Initial Placement: University of Oregon (instructor)
- Dissertation: The Power of Pleasure: Heteronormativity and Homophobia in Heterosexual Sex
- Committee: Jocelyn Hollander (Co-chair), CJ Pascoe (Co-chair), Eileen Otis, Yvonne Braun (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Craig Van Pelt
- Initial Placement: Sandhills Community College (instructor)
- Dissertation: Food Values and the Human Right to Food: A Sociological Analysis of Food Insecurity in Oregon
- Committee: Michael Dreiling (Co-chair), Matthew Norton (Co-chair), Galen Martin, Greg McLauchlan, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)
Tongyu Wu
- Initial Placement: Zhejiang University, China
- Dissertation: Brogrammers, Tech Hobbyists, and Coding Peasants: Surveillance, Fun, and Productivity in High Tech
- Committee: Eileen Otis (Chair), Aaron Gullickson, J Shiao, Andrew Nelson (Management)
2016-17 Placements
MeCherri Abedi-Amin
- Initial Placement: Washington College (visiting assistant professor)
- Dissertation: Bound by Blackness: African Migration, Black Identity, and Linked Fate in Post-Civil Rights America
- Committee: Aaron Gullickson (Chair), Kemi Balogun, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Alai Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies)
Jordan Besek
- Initial Placement: University of Buffalo
- Dissertation: On the Historicity of Social and Ecological Change: From the Asian Carp Invasion to the Reversal of the Chicago River
- Committee: Richard York (Chair), Jim Elliott, John Foster, Marsha Weisiger (History)
Martha Camargo
- Initial Placement: University of Chicago Center for the Economics of Human Development, Research Data Administrator
- Dissertation: Reinvigorating the Contact Hypothesis
- Committee: Caleb Southworth (Chair), Aaron Gullickson, Richard York, Joseph Lowndes (Political Science)
Madhurima Das
- Initial Placement: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Dissertation: Mothers Across Borders: A Transnational Analysis of Parenting Between Indian Mothers in Edison and Kolkata
- Committee: Eileen Otis (Chair), Jill Harrison, Ellen Scott, Arafat Valiani (History)
Sierra Deutsch
- Initial Placement: Dissertation Editor LLC
- Dissertation: Western Conversation as an Accidental Vector for Capitalism: A Socioeconomic Cross-National Comparison of Irrawaddy Dolphin Conversation Projects
- Committee: Richard York (Chair), Jocelyn Hollander, Jill Harrison, Lamia Karim (Anthropology)
Cade Jameson
- Dissertation: Radical Conservation and the Politics of Planning: A Historical Study, 1917-1945
- Committee: John Foster (Chair), Val Burris, Richard York, Joseph Fracchia (Honors College)
Shih-Chi Lin
- Initial Placement: Formosan Association for Public Affairs
- Dissertation: Producing, Maintaining and Resisting Colonial Ecological Violence: Three Considerations of Settler Colonialism as Eco-Social Structure
- Committee: Aaron Gullickson (Chair), Matthew Norton, Richard York, William Terry (Political Science)
David Martin
- Initial Placement: Aquinas College
- Dissertation: User ID/entity: Examining the Role of Online Interactions in Black Racial Identity Formation
- Committee: J Shiao (Chair), CJ Pascoe, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Gordon Hall (Psychology)
Mitchell Monsour
- Dissertation: Together and Alone: Intimacy and Alienation in the Age of Competitive Individualism
- Committee: Greg McLaughlan (Chair), Jill Harrison, Richard York, Patricia Curtain (Journalism)
Uyen (Cindy) Nguyen
- Initial Placement: Northwestern University, Admissions and Marketing for the Master of Science in Analytics Program
- Dissertation: Vietnamese American Racialization and Ethnic Organizations
- Committee: J Shiao (Chair), Aaron Gullickson, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Gordon Hall (Psychology)
Intan Suwandi
- Dissertation: Back to Production: Labor-Value Commodity Chains and the Imperialist World Economy
- Committee: John Foster (Chair), Val Burris, Richard York, Daniel Buck (Geography)
2015-16 Placements
Tracy DeHaan
- Initial Placement: San Jose State University
- Dissertation: Dying to Succeed: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Online News Reports About Affluent Teen Suicide Clusters
- Committee: Robert O’Brien (Chair), CJ Pascoe, Jean Stockard, Autumn Shafer (Journalism)
Julius McGee
- Initial Placement: Portland State University
- Dissertation: The Paradox of Green Commodities
- Committee: Richard York (Chair), John Foster, Ryan Light, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)
2014-15 Placements
Matthew Clement
- Initial Placement: Grinnell College (visiting assistant professor)
- Dissertation: Local Growth and Land Use Intensification: A Sociological Study of Urbanization and Environmental Change
- Committee: Jim Elliott (Chair), John Foster, Richard York, Rebecca Lewis (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)
Matthew Friesen
- Initial Placement: Bluffton University
- Dissertation: Parsing the Palate: A mixed Methods Analysis of the US Food Advocacy Movement
- Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Ryan Light, Kari Norgaard, Yvonne Braun (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Jeffrey Gunn
- Initial Placement: Whittier College
- Dissertation: Pipelines of Influence: The Fossil Fuels Industry, Climate Change, and the Policy Planning Network
- Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Ryan Light, Kari Norgaard, Yvonne Braun (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Christopher Hardnack
- Initial Placement: Colorado Mesa University
- Dissertation: Framing Neoliberalism: The Counter-hegemonic Framing of the Global Justice, Antiwar, and Immigrant Rights Movements
- Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), John Foster, Greg McLauchlan, Daniel HoSang (Political Science)