Graduate Students on the Market

MJ Hill

amjhill@ucla.edu

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)

Nanum Jeon

njeon@g.ucla.edu

Areas of Specialization: Social Stratification, Life Course, Gender and Family, Welfare States, Causal Inference, Computational Social Science

Dissertation Title: Exploring Employment Patterns, Family Disruption, and Gender Inequality

Committee: Jennie E. Brand (Chair), Ian Lundberg, Natasha Quadlin, Wei-hsin Yu, and Xiaowu Dai (Statistics and Data Science)

Anthony James Williams

antwilliams@g.ucla.edu

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.