2021-2022 Job Candidates

 

CANDIDATE EMAIL DISSERTATION TITLE DISSERTATION COMMITTEE

Vanessa Delgado

vdelgad1@uci.edu

Brokering in Latinx Families: How Adult Children of Immigrants Facilitate Integration for their Parents Dr. Rubén Rumbaut (chair), Dr. Kristin Turney, Dr. Nina Bandelj, and Dr. Stephen Lee

Sara Villalta

svillalt@uci.edu

"Masked Intersectional Inequalities in Adolescent Friendship Networks: Skin Color Measurement, Phenotypic Homophily, & Discerned Impacts on Academic Achievement"

Dissertation Chair: Dr. David R. Schaefer, Committee Members: Dr. Rachel E. Goldberg, Dr. Andrew Penner, Dr. Susan K. Brown

Langou Lian

langoul@uci.edu

 Intimate Relations: Is There a Gender Revolution in China?

Dissertation Chair: Dr. Wang Feng and Dr. Rachel Goldberg

Committee Members: Dr. Wang Feng, Dr. Rachel Goldberg, Dr. Catherine Bolzendahl

Aaron Tester

atester@uci.edu

Extending the State: Administrative Decentralization and Democratic Governance Around the World, 1970 – 2015 Evan Schofer (Chair), Nina Bandelj, David John Frank, Francesca Polletta

Jessica Kang

jessick9@uci.edu

How Asian American Women Leaders Work in Community Organizations and Foster Asian American Political Participation

Dissertation Chair: Ann Hironaka, Committee Members: Judy Wu and Linda Trinh Vo

Steven Schmidt

steven.schmidt@uci.edu

Social Ties and the Search for Rental Housing

Kristin Turney (chair), Nina Bandelj, Victoria Basolo, Rocío Rosales, and David Schaefer 

Thoa Khuu

nvkhuu@uci.edu

Immigrant Integration Through a Relational Lens

Dissertation Chairs: Frank D. Bean and Susan K. Brown
Committee Members: David Schaefer, Rachel E. Goldberg, Emily Penner

Scott Renshaw

srenshaw@uci.edu

 

 

Selena Livas

livass@uci.edu

Beyond Ratification: Understanding International Environmental Agreements

Co-Chairs are Professor Carter Butts and Professor David Frank, committee members: David Shaefer, Evan Schofer, and Maritza Salazar Campo

Nathan Redman

jnredman@uci.edu

Title [working]: Preparing for Uncertain Times: Knowledge, Rationality, and Action in the Apocalypse Francesca Polletta (Chair), Stan Bailey, Ann Hironaka, Sabrina Strings, Valerie Olson
Martin Jacinto

mjacint1@uci.edu

The Impact of the 2008-2009 Global Economic Crisis on Inequality and Development: A Network Analysis of International Trade Networks Dissertation chair: Dr. Katherine Faust Dissertation committee: Drs. David A. Smith, David Schaefer, Matthew C Mahutga (UC Riverside)
Stephanie Jones

jonessd@uci.edu

“Somebody Blew up Oakland”: Displacement as a Praxis of Dispossession Ann Hironaka, Damien Sojoyner, Dylan Rodriguez, Stan Bailey, and Yang Su
Edward Watson

watsonel@uci.edu

Diversity or Gentrification: Middle-Class Parents at Working-Class Schools  
Steven A. Mejia

samejia1@uci.edu

“The Effects of Global Economic and Cultural Integration on the Environment”  Evan Schofer (Co-Chair), Ann Hironaka (Co-Chair), and David J. Frank.