On the Market

Duke University Sociology Ph.D.s on the Job Market
2011-2012

Michelle M.Christian, Ph.D. (expected Dec 2011)

Dissertation: "It's so Pura Vida": the Tourism Global Value Chain and Ethnoracial Stratification in Costa Rica.

Committee: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (co-chair), Gary Gereffi (co-chair), Linda Burton, Mary Hovspian, and Gilbert Merkx

Areas of Interest:

Globalization and Development - Global Value Chain Analysis and Global Production Network Analysis
Race and Ethnicity - United States and Latin America
Gender
Labor - Global South
Qualitative Methodology - Global South Field Research

Sarah Mayorga, Ph.D. (expected May 2012)

Dissertation: Examining Interracial Conduct in an Integrated Neighborhood

Committee: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (chair), Kim Blankenship, Linda Burton, S. Philip Morgan, Emilio Parrado

Areas of Interest:

Lane Destro, Ph.D. (expected May 2012)

Dissertation:“Up the Down Escalator? How Rural Low-Income Families Experience Work, Poverty and Immobility”

Committee: David Brady (co-chair), Linda Burton (co-chair), Christina Gibson-Davis, Angela O’Rand

Areas of Interest:

Patti Thomas, Current position: NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Dissertation:“Social Engagement, Limitations, and Mortality in Late Life”

Committee: Linda George (chair), Kenneth Land, Angela O'Rand, Nan Lin, and Deborah Gold

Areas of Interest:

Joonkoo Lee Ph.D. (June 2011) Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University

Dissertation: “Animating Globalization and Development: The South Korean Animation Industry in Historical‐Comparative Perspective”

Committee: Gary Gereffi (chair), David Brady, Bai Gao, Suzanne Shanahan, Edward Tiryakian

Areas of Interest: