Graduate Students on the Market
MJ Hill
Website: https://www.mjhill.net/
Areas of Specialization: Gender; social categories; qualitative methods; sociology of knowledge; social interaction; ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA)
Dissertation Title: “Knowing Gender, Making Gender: Gendered meaning-making and the production of social order”
Advisors: Steven Clayman (chair), John Heritage, Jeff Guhin, Kevin A. Whitehead (UC Santa Barbara), S Crawley (U of South Florida)
Nathan I. Hoffmann
Website: https://nathanhoffmann.com/
Areas of Specialization: International migration, education, sexuality, and quantitative methods
Dissertation Title: Essays on Young Migrants’ Academic Achievement
Advisors: Roger Waldinger (chair), Jennie Brand, Chad Hazlett, Andrés Villarreal
Anthony James Williams
Areas of Specialization: Race, racism, and ethnicity; prisons and punishment; urban sociology; qualitative methods
Dissertation Title: Us & Them: How California State Prisons Justify Solitary Confinement
Advisors: Marcus Anthony Hunter (chair), Cecilia Menjivar, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and Karida Brown
Bowei Hu
Email: boweihu@g.ucla.edu
Website: https://boweihu.com/
Areas of Specialization: Organizations, stratification, economic sociology, and quantitative methods
Dissertation Title: Households in the Red: How Banking Organizations Drive Their Debt
Advisors: Jennie Brand (co-chair), Olav Sorenson (co-chair), David Brady, Kevan Harris, and Edward Walker
Luis Manuel Olguin
Email: lmolguin@g.ucla.edu
Website: http://www.lmolguin.com
Areas of Specialization: Language and Social Interaction, Conversation Analysis, Economic Sociology, Informality, Exchange, Corruption, Latin America
Dissertation Title: A Pragmatics of Corruption: A Conversation-Analytic Approach to Obfuscatory Relational Work in Peru’s “CNM Audios” Scandal
Advisors: Steven E. Clayman (Chair), Tanya Stivers, Gabriel Rossman, Chase W. Raymond (UC Boulder), David Gibson (University of Notre Dame)
Andrew Chalfoun
Email: achalfoun@g.ucla.edu
Website: https://www.andrewchalfoun.com
Areas of Specialization: Organizations, Religion, Social Interaction, Movements, Social Theory.
Dissertation Title: Acting Outward While Looking Inward: Southern Baptist Missionaries Since the Conservative Resurgence
Advisors: Stefan Timmermans (chair), Omar Lizardo, Melani McAlister, Edward Walker.
