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