Students On the Market

Find information about current University of Minnesota sociology PhD candidates now or soon-to-be on the job market.

Daniel Cueto-Villalobos

Cueto-Villalobos CV
Advisor: Penny Edgell
Research Interests: Religion; Race/Ethnicity; Culture; Social Movements; Organizational Sociology; COVID-19;
Policing; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: The White Church and Post-2020 Racial Justice

Christine Delp

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Advisor: Penny Edgell
Research Interests: Media Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Digital Sociology; Sociology of Morality; Social Theory; Sociology of Knowledge; Media Industry Studies; Platform Studies; Representation; Documentary film
Dissertation Title: Documentary Disrupted: Ethics, Power, & the Symbolic Construction of Reality in the Streaming Era

Xiaowen Han

Han CV | Personal page
Advisor: Tom VanHeuvelen and Jeylan Mortimer
Research Interests: Life Course; Work and Occupations; Medical Sociology; Social Stratification and Mobility; Social Psychology; Quantitative Methodology
Dissertation Title: More Than Just a Paycheck: Life Course Inequality in Intrinsic Job Rewards, Income Mobility, and Health Disparities

Snigdha Kumar

Kumar CV
Advisor: Michael Goldman
Research Interests: Critical Political Economy; Political Sociology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Society and Technology; Platform Studies; Capitalism; Finance; Development; Social Theory; Qualitative Research Methods
Dissertation Title: In Data We Trust: Rebooting Finance as a Platform Industry

Tayler Nelson 

Christopher Robertson

Robertson CV | Personal page
Advisor: Michelle Phelps
Research Interests: Crime, Law, and Justice; Punishment;  Population Health; Race and Racism; Socio-Spatial Processes; Urban Sociology
Dissertation Title: Covenanted-Policing: Policing, Spatial Racism, and Health (In)Equity in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Nikoleta Sremac