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

Anna DalCortivo

DalCortivo CV
Advisor: Christopher Uggen
Research Interests: Law and Society; Crime and Punishment; Social Movements and Urban Governance; Race, Class and Gender; Sociological Theory; Qualitative Methods; Community-Engaged Research
Dissertation Title: "The Peoples’ Way:” Relational Infrastructure, Community Governance, and Policing Alternatives at George Floyd Square

Mason Jones

Jones CV
Advisors: Teresa Swartz and Douglas Hartmann
Research Interests: Youth, Parenting, and Families; Race and Racism; Social Psychology; Sociology of Emotions; Sport Studies
Dissertation Title: Building Bonds in Black Stepfamilies in and Around Youth Sports

Aras Köksal

Koksal CV
Advisor: Michael Goldman and Teresa Gowan
Research Interests: Political Sociology; Social Movements; Sociology of Education; Cultural Sociology; Urban Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Social Theory
Dissertation Title: Populism and the Cultural Politics of Meritocracy in Turkey

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

Nikoleta Sremac