Students On the Market

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

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: "The Gilded Age of Documentary": Ethics, Power, & the Symbolic Construction of Reality in the Streaming Era

Xiaowen Han

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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

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Advisor: Michael Goldman
Research Interests: Economic sociology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology; Digital Society; Social Theory, Qualitative Research Methods
Dissertation Title: In Data We Trust: Rebooting Finance as a Platform Industry

Tayler Nelson 

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Advisors: Teresa Gowan and Kathleen Hull
Research Interests: Sex & Gender, Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Emotions, Embodiment, Qualitative Methods 
Dissertation Title: Bad at Love: Constructing ‘Healthy’ Relationships through Sex and Love Addiction Recovery
 

Christopher Robertson

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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

Erika Sanborne

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Advisor: Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Research Interests: Population Health and Demography, Subjective Wellbeing, Critical Disability Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Data Science
Dissertation Title: Leave No One Behind: Disability, Well-being, and National Policy

Nikoleta Sremac

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Advisors: Joachim Savelsberg and Alejandro Baer
Research Interests: Political Sociology and Social Movements; Race, Class, and Gender; Collective Memory and Cultural Trauma; Human Rights; Peace, War, and Social Conflict; Genocide and Mass Violence. 
Dissertation Title: History in Whose Hands? Gendering Collective Memory of the Yugoslav Wars in Serbia