DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
"Geopolitical Entanglements, and the Macro-Historical Evolution of Filters of the Subaltern State"
"Foundations of American History: Minority Representation and Portrayals of National Identity in K-12 U.S. State Social Studies Standards"
DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED
"Shaping Subjectivities and Articulating Solidarity in Revolutionary Cuba" (2024)
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder (2024- )
"Constructing Victimhood and the Historical Memory of Violence in Colombia's Open-Ended Civil War, 1958 - Present" (2024)
Research Development Associate, Washington University (2024- )
"Mass Clientelism: Urban Growth and the Dialectic of Nation-Building in 20th Century Latin America" (2023, co-chaired with George Steinmetz)
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto (2024- )
Meagan Elliott
"Imagined Boundaries: Discordant Narratives of Place and Displacement in Contemporary Detroit" (2018, co-chaired with Geneviève Zubrzycki)
President and CEO, Belle Isle Conservancy
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES SERVED ON
"The Regulatory Politics of Home-Based Moneymaking After the American Family Wage" (2023, Greta Krippner chair)
Postdoctoral Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2023-5)
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley (2025- )
Tiffany Chuang May
"From Millennial Sleaze to Old World Charm: The Politics of Place Branding in Creative City Singapore" (2023, Fatma Müge Göçek chair)
Lecturer, National University of Singapore College
Ian Bratcher
"Ideological Others and National Identifications in Contemporary Poland" (2021, Geneviève Zubrzycki chair)
Staff Therapist, The Mel Bornstein Clinic for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Drew Foster
"Being Sick Online: Exchanges of Medical Knowledge on the Internet" (2017, Geneviève Zubrzycki chair)
Senior UX Researcher, Meta
"'Order, Authority, Nation': Neo-Socialism and the Fascist Destiny of an Anti-Fascist Discourse" (2016, George Steinmetz chair)
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
Alison Joersz
"What's Wrong with Haiti? Politics, Development, and Discourse in Port-au-Prince" (2016, Anthropology, Stuart Kirsch and Michael Lempert co-chairs)
"Architectures of the People: Material and Cultural Politics of Housing in São Paulo, 1950-1995" (2016, George Steinmetz chair)
Professor of Social Sciences, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP)
"The Transformative Capacity of Commemorating Violent Pasts: Exploring Local Commemoration of the 'Mississippi Burning' Murders" (2015, Margaret Somers chair)
Associate Professor of Sociology, Furman University
"Ruling Culture: Tomb Raiders, State Power, and the Struggle for Italian Antiquities" (2014, Geneviève Zubrzycki chair)
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
"Social Mediation and Social Analysis: The Discourse of Marginality in a Theater of War" (2011, Anthropology, Bruce Mannheim chair)
Lecturer, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru