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Meg Lovejoy
Date of PhD: February 2012
Research/Teaching Interests: Sociology of Gender; Sexualities; Girl's and Women's Health/Well-Being; Inequalities; Life Course Studies; Feminist Theory; Qualitative Methods, Sociology of the Body, Intersections of Work and Family Life.
Dissertation Title: Is Hooking Up Empowering for College Women? A Feminist Gramscian Perspective.
Dissertation Committee: Karen Hansen(Chair), Carmen Sirianni, Janet Giele, Gail Dines
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Thomas Pineros Shields
Expected date of PhD: Spring 2013
Research/Teaching Interests: Contentious politics and social movements; Immigration Policy; Youth civic engagement; Public Sociology and participatory action research (PAR); Experiential pedagogies (i.e. -internships, service-learning)
Dissertation Title: Undocumented and Unafraid: The Emergence of Undocumented Immigrant Students as Political Actors
Dissertation Committee: David Cunningham(Chair), Tara Brown, Wendy Cadge, Ann Mische and Carmen Sirianni.
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Jill M. Smith
Expected date of PhD: Spring/Summer 2013
Research and Teaching Interests:
Sociology of Education
Stratification/Mobility
Sociology of Culture
Social Theory
Dissertation Title: The Role of Independent Educational Consultants in the College Application Process Dissertation Committee:
Wendy Cadge, Dissertation Committee Chair
David Cunningham
Laura Miller
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Ken Chih-Yan Sun
Date of PhD: August, 2011
Research and Teaching Interests:
International Migration; Sociology of Families; Aging and Life Course Studies; Asian and Asian American Studies; Sociology of Gender, Race and Class
Dissertation Title: Aging Across Borders: Older Taiwanese Immigrants and Returnees
Dissertation Committee:
Karen V. Hansen (chair), Wendy Cadge, Sara Shostak, Mary Waters (Harvard University), Nazli Kibria (Boston University)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica
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Hannah Thomas
Date of PhD: August 2012
Research/Teaching Interests: Social Movements; Urban Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods; Wealth and Inequality; Social Stratification; Economic Sociology; Social Policy; Housing Policy.
Dissertation Title: "Not for the Faint of Heart": Risk Shift in Foreclosure Sales in Boston.
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Shapiro (Chair), Laura Miller, David Cunningham, Janet Boguslaw, Guy Stuart.
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Miranda R. Waggoner
Date of PhD: August, 2011
Research and Teaching Interests: Medical Sociology; Sociology of Science and Technology; Sociology of Gender; Sociology of the Body; Sociology of Reproduction; Maternal and Child Health; Qualitative Research Methods
Dissertation Title: Expanding the Reproductive Body: The Emergence of Preconception Care, 1980-2010
Dissertation Committee:
Peter Conrad (chair), Karen V. Hansen, Lorraine V. Klerman (in memoriam), Susan Parish, Sara Shostak, Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong (Princeton University)
Current Position: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University
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