Job Market Candidates & Placements

2022-23 Job Market Candidates

Kindra De’Arman

Dissertation: The Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Social-Ecological Trap from Settler Colonial Logics in Modern State Operations

Fields: Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, Organizations, Bureau of Land Management, Qualitative Methods

Committee: Richard York (Chair), Kari Norgaard, Matthew Norton, Lauren Hallett (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)

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Natasha Erickson

Dissertation: Integrating Social and Neighborhood Contexts to Understand Low Birth Weight Inequalities

Fields: Health Inequalities, Medical Sociology, Environmental Health, Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative Approaches, Spatial Analysis

Committee: Aaron Gullickson (Co-chair), Clare Evans (Co-chair), Raoul Liévanos, and Josh Snodgrass (Anthropology)

Dawn Harfmann

Dissertation: The U.S. Energy Transition Movement(s): Building Bridges Across Place and Politics

Areas of Interest: Environmental sociology, environmental inequalities, political economy, sociology of place, political sociology, social movements, labor sociology, public sociology

Committee: Ryan Light (Co-chair); Richard York (Co-chair), Jill Ann Harrison, and Craig Kauffman (Political Science)

Andrew Labuza

Dissertation: Class Conflicts and Collaborations: An Examination of Political Action Committee Co-Donation Networks within the US House of Representatives from 1990 to 2018

Areas of Interest: Political sociology, social network analysis, sociological theory, Marxist sociology, labor & labor movements, comparative historical sociology

Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), John Bellamy Foster, Ryan Light, and Gordon Lafer (Labor & Education Research Center)

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Liudmila (Mila) Listrovaya

Dissertation: In a Dark, Dark Wood: Morality, Politics and Ecological Inaction in Russian Forests

Areas of Interest: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Politics, Media and Discourse, Russian Studies, Mixed Methods.

Committee: Matthew Norton (Chair), Richard York, Ryan Light, and Ryan Jobes (History)

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Kathryn Norton-Smith

Dissertation: “You’re Too Young for This Cancer”: An Intersectional Analysis of Off-time Illness

Areas of Interest: Race and ethnicity, intersectionality, health and illness, sex and gender, medical sociology, body and embodiment, environmental sociology

Committee: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (Chair), Ellen Scott, Ryan Light, Jill Harrison, and Elizabeth Budd (Education)

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2021-22 Placements

Michelle Alexander

Initial Placement: Academic and Career Advisor, University of Oregon College of Arts & Sciences
Dissertation: Roles of the Dice: Play and Community in Roleplay Practice
Committee: Ryan Light (Chair), Aaron Gullickson, Matthew Norton, CJ Pascoe, and Maxwell Foxman (Journalism and Communication)

Sarah Ahmed

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Pakistan
Dissertation: Women’s Empowerment through Polio Eradication: Agency and Representation of Lady Health Workers in Pakistan
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), John Foster, Kemi Balogun, Yvonne Braun (International Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

Mauricio Betancourt de la Parra

Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Oberlin College
Dissertation: Ecological Imperialism: A Holistic Analysis of the Guano Trade in 19th-century Peru
Areas of Interest: Environmental sociology, political economy, ecology, social theory, quantitative and comparative-historical approaches
Committee: John Bellamy Foster (Chair), Richard York, Matthew Norton, and Carlos Aguirre (History)

Diego Contreras-Medrano

Initial Placement: Research Analyst for the Migrant Education Program, Oregon Department of Education
Dissertation: The Harvest of Farmworkers Never Ends: Farm Labor Contractors and the Reproduction of Precarity in the Willamette Valley
Committee: Ellen Scott (Chair), Michael Aguilera, Jill Harrison, Daniel Tichenor, and Lynn Stephen (Anthropology)

Kenneth Hanson

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wyoming
Dissertation: The Silicone Self: An Ethnography of the Love & Sex Doll Community
Areas of Interest: Sexualities, digital sociology, social-psychology, gender, new media
Committee: C.J. Pascoe (chair), Ryan Light, Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun, and Colin Koopman (Philosophy)

Lola Loustaunau

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin
Dissertation: The hands that feed us: experiences of migrant women working in food processing
Committee: Ellen K. Scott (chair), Eileen Otis, Raoul Lievanos, and Laura Pulido (Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies)

Kirsten Vinyeta

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Utah State University
Dissertation: Ikpíkyav (To Fix Again): Drawing From Karuk World Renewal To Contest Settler Discourses Of Vulnerability
Committee: Kari Norgaard (Chair), Raoul Lievanos, Laura Pulido, Frank Lake, and Michelle Jacob (Education)

2020-21 Placements

Dimitra Cupo

Initial Placement: Pro-tem Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon
Dissertation: Politicizing Embodied Violence: Emerging and Diverging Frames of Self-Defense
Committee: Matthew Norton (chair), Oluwakemi Balogun, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Colin Koopman (Philosophy)

Larissa Petrucci

Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Scholar, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Taylored Flexibility: Agile, Capitalism, and the Software Labor Process
Committee: Jill Ann Harrison (Chair), Eileen Otis, Ellen Scott, Anita Chari (Political Science)

Mirranda Riley

Dissertation: Labor of Last Resort: Mothers Navigating Special Education in a Context of Resource Scarcity
Committee: Jocelyn Hollander (co-chair), Ellen Scott (co-chair), Jill Harrison, Elizabeth Wheeler (English)

Kathryn Warden

Initial Placement: Disability Rights Attorney, Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc.
Dissertation: A Misfits Perspective: The Lived Experiences of Mothers of Disabled Children
Committee: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (chair), Aaron Gullickson, Ellen Scott, Laura McIntyre (Special Education)

Ashley Woody

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, California State University Fullerton
Dissertation: Race, Space, and Resistance in America’s Whitest Big City
Committee: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (chair), Jiannbin Shiao, Raoul Lievanos, Lynn Fujiwara (Ethnic Studies)

2019-20 Placements

Allison Ford

Initial Placement: Sonoma State University (Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Environmental Politics at the End of the World: Prepping as Environmental Practice
Committee: Kari Marie Norgaard (chair), Ryan Light, Matt Norton, CJ Pascoe, Anita Chari (Political Science)

Andrea Herrera

Dissertation: Alien Femininities: Transcending Gender through Drag in an Aesthetically Restrictive Culture
Committee: CJ Pascoe (chair), Kemi Balogun, Tristan Bridges, and Priscilla Ovalle (Cinema Studies)

Dan Shtob

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
Dissertation: Resilience, Recovery, and Reality: Hurricanes, Housing, and the Human Cost of Disaster
Committee: Richard York (chair), Raoul Lievanos, Erin Moore (Architecture), Leigh Johnson (Geography)

2018-19 Placements

Camila Alvarez

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, UC Merced
Dissertation: From Classical to Critical: Addressing Theoretical and Methodological Gaps within Environmental Justice Research
Committee: Richard York (Chair), Clare Evans, Ellen Scott, Laura Pulido (Ethnic Studies)

Cassie Comley

Initial Placement: California Department of Education
Dissertation: “Surfing? That’s a White Boy Sport”: An Intersectional Analysis of Mexican Americans’ Experiences with Southern California Surf Culture
Committee: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (Chair), Ken Lieberman, Michael Aguilera, Ocean Howell (History)

2017-18 Placements

J. M. (Jules) Bacon

Initial Placement: Grinnell College (visiting assistant professor)
Dissertation: Producing, Maintaining and Resisting Colonial Ecological Violence: Three Considerations of Settler Colonialism as Eco-Social Structure
Committee: Kari Norgaard (Chair), Stephanie LeManager, Jill Harrison, Brian Klopotek (Ethnic Studies)

David Dominguez

Dissertation: Tourism and Change in Costa Rica: Pura Vida, Power and Place in a Small Beach Community
Committee: Richard York (Co-chair), John Foster (Co-chair), Jill Harrison, Yvonne Braun (International Studies)

Patrick Greiner

Initial Placement: Vanderbilt University (Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Growth, Power and Time: Developing a Deeper Understanding of Anthropogenic Drivers of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from 1960-2015
Committee: Richard York (Chair), Clare Evans, John Foster, Leigh Johnson (Geography)

Heather Marek

Initial Placement: Oregon Court of Appeals
Dissertation: Criminalizing Our Way to Racial Equality? An Empirical Look at Hate Crime Regulation
Committee: Matthew Norton (Chair), Clare Evans, Stuart Chinn, Erik Girvan (Law)

Elizabeth Miller

Initial Placement: Whittier College (adjunct instructor)
Dissertation: Farming Without Farmers: Deskilling in Contract Broiler Farming
Committee: Richard York (Chair), Eileen Otis, Jim Elliott, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)

Robert Molinar

Initial Placement: University of Oregon (adjunct instructor)
Dissertation: Self-Organization in Tiny Homes as a Response to Homelessness: Negotiating Autonomy and Transitional Living Inside a “Village” Community
Committee: Jill Harrison (Co-chair), Matthew Norton (Co-chair), Greg McLauchlan, Naomi Zack (Philosophy)

Brian Ott

Initial Placement: Truman State University
Dissertation: Sense Work: Inequality and the Labor of Connoisseurship
Committee: Eileen Otis (Chair), Jill Harrison, Jocelyn Hollander, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)

Tony Silva

Initial Placement: Northwestern University (postdoc)
Dissertation: Bud-Sex: Sexual Flexibility Among Rural White Straight Men Who Have Sex with Men
Committee: CJ Pascoe (Chair), Raoul Lievanos, Kristen Barber, Peter Alilunas (Cinema Studies)

Evan Shenkin

Initial Placement: Oregon State University (visiting instructor)
Dissertation: Activism or Extractivism: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Bolivia
Committee: Richard York (Chair), Galen Martin, Matthew Norton, Derrick Hindery (International Studies)

Lauren Stewart

Initial Placement: University of Oregon (instructor)
Dissertation: The Power of Pleasure: Heteronormativity and Homophobia in Heterosexual Sex
Committee: Jocelyn Hollander (Co-chair), CJ Pascoe (Co-chair), Eileen Otis, Yvonne Braun (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Craig Van Pelt

Initial Placement: Sandhills Community College (instructor)
Dissertation: Food Values and the Human Right to Food: A Sociological Analysis of Food Insecurity in Oregon
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Co-chair), Matthew Norton (Co-chair), Galen Martin, Greg McLauchlan, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)

Tongyu Wu

Initial Placement: Zhejiang University, China
Dissertation: Brogrammers, Tech Hobbyists, and Coding Peasants: Surveillance, Fun, and Productivity in High Tech
Committee: Eileen Otis (Chair), Aaron Gullickson, J Shiao, Andrew Nelson (Management)

2016-17 Placements

MeCherri Abedi-Amin

Initial Placement: Washington College (visiting assistant professor)
Dissertation: Bound by Blackness: African Migration, Black Identity, and Linked Fate in Post-Civil Rights America
Committee: Aaron Gullickson (Chair), Kemi Balogun, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Alai Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies)

Jordan Besek

Initial Placement: University of Buffalo
Dissertation: On the Historicity of Social and Ecological Change: From the Asian Carp Invasion to the Reversal of the Chicago River
Committee: Richard York (Chair), Jim Elliott, John Foster, Marsha Weisiger (History)

Martha Camargo

Initial Placement: University of Chicago Center for the Economics of Human Development, Research Data Administrator
Dissertation: Reinvigorating the Contact Hypothesis
Committee: Caleb Southworth (Chair), Aaron Gullickson, Richard York, Joseph Lowndes (Political Science)

Madhurima Das

Initial Placement: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Dissertation: Mothers Across Borders: A Transnational Analysis of Parenting Between Indian Mothers in Edison and Kolkata
Committee: Eileen Otis (Chair), Jill Harrison, Ellen Scott, Arafat Valiani (History)

Sierra Deutsch

Initial Placement: Dissertation Editor LLC
Dissertation: Western Conversation as an Accidental Vector for Capitalism: A Socioeconomic Cross-National Comparison of Irrawaddy Dolphin Conversation Projects
Committee: Richard York (Chair), Jocelyn Hollander, Jill Harrison, Lamia Karim (Anthropology)

Cade Jameson

Dissertation: Radical Conservation and the Politics of Planning: A Historical Study, 1917-1945
Committee: John Foster (Chair), Val Burris, Richard York, Joseph Fracchia (Honors College)

Shih-Chi Lin

Initial Placement: Formosan Association for Public Affairs
Dissertation: Producing, Maintaining and Resisting Colonial Ecological Violence: Three Considerations of Settler Colonialism as Eco-Social Structure
Committee: Aaron Gullickson (Chair), Matthew Norton, Richard York, William Terry (Political Science)

David Martin

Initial Placement: Aquinas College
Dissertation: User ID/entity: Examining the Role of Online Interactions in Black Racial Identity Formation
Committee: J Shiao (Chair), CJ Pascoe, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Gordon Hall (Psychology)

Mitchell Monsour

Dissertation: Together and Alone: Intimacy and Alienation in the Age of Competitive Individualism
Committee: Greg McLaughlan (Chair), Jill Harrison, Richard York, Patricia Curtain (Journalism)

Uyen (Cindy) Nguyen

Initial Placement: Northwestern University, Admissions and Marketing for the Master of Science in Analytics Program
Dissertation: Vietnamese American Racialization and Ethnic Organizations
Committee: J Shiao (Chair), Aaron Gullickson, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Gordon Hall (Psychology)

Intan Suwandi

Dissertation: Back to Production: Labor-Value Commodity Chains and the Imperialist World Economy
Committee: John Foster (Chair), Val Burris, Richard York, Daniel Buck (Geography)

2015-16 Placements

Tracy DeHaan

Initial Placement: San Jose State University
Dissertation: Dying to Succeed: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Online News Reports About Affluent Teen Suicide Clusters
Committee: Robert O’Brien (Chair), CJ Pascoe, Jean Stockard, Autumn Shafer (Journalism)

Julius McGee

Initial Placement: Portland State University
Dissertation: The Paradox of Green Commodities
Committee: Richard York (Chair), John Foster, Ryan Light, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)

2014-15 Placements

Matthew Clement

Initial Placement: Grinnell College (visiting assistant professor)
Dissertation: Local Growth and Land Use Intensification: A Sociological Study of Urbanization and Environmental Change
Committee: Jim Elliott (Chair), John Foster, Richard York, Rebecca Lewis (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

Matthew Friesen

Initial Placement: Bluffton University
Dissertation: Parsing the Palate: A mixed Methods Analysis of the US Food Advocacy Movement
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Ryan Light, Kari Norgaard, Yvonne Braun (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Jeffrey Gunn

Initial Placement: Whittier College
Dissertation: Pipelines of Influence: The Fossil Fuels Industry, Climate Change, and the Policy Planning Network
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Ryan Light, Kari Norgaard, Yvonne Braun (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Christopher Hardnack

Initial Placement: Colorado Mesa University
Dissertation: Framing Neoliberalism: The Counter-hegemonic Framing of the Global Justice, Antiwar, and Immigrant Rights Movements
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), John Foster, Greg McLauchlan, Daniel HoSang (Political Science)

2013-14 Placements:

Miriam Abelson

Initial Placement: Portland State University (Assistant Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Dissertation: Men in Context: Transmasculinities and Transgender Experiences in Three US Regions
Committee: Jocelyn Hollander (Co-chair), Ellen Scott (Co-chair), CJ Pascoe, Lynn Fujiwara, Elizabeth Reis (WGS)

Christina Ergas

Initial Placement: University of Tennessee (Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Barriers to Urban Sustainability
Committee: Richard York (Chair), Jim Elliott, Kari Norgaard, Stephen Wooten (International Studies)

Kathleen Rodgers

Initial Placement: Coe College (Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Leaving the Game: Status and Identity in the Role Exit of Professional Football Players
Committee: Jocelyn Hollander (Chair), Aliya Saperstein, Ellen Scott, Brian Klopotek (Ethnic Studies)

William Wishart

Initial Placement: Creighton University (Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Underdeveloping Appalachia: Toward an Environmental Sociology of Extractive Economies
Committee: John Foster (Chair), Michael Dreiling, Richard York, Joseph Fracchia (Honors College)

2012-13 Placements:

Seth Crawford

Initial Placement: Oregon State University
Dissertation: The Political Economy of Medical Marijuana
Committee: Caleb Southworth (Chair), Jim Elliott, Richard York, Joe Stone (Economics)

Matthew Eddy

Initial Placement: Minot State University (Assistant Professor)
Dissertation: Recalibrating Conceptualizations of “Cultures of Peace”: A Cross-National Study of Nonviolent Attitudes
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Greg McLauchlan, Ellen Scott, Dan Tichenor (Political Science)

Ryan Jamil Jonna

Dissertation: Toward a Political-Economic Sociology of Unemployment: Renewing the Classical Reserve Army Perspective
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Ryan Light, Kari Norgaard, Yvonne Braun (WGS)

Kwang-Hyung Park

Dissertation: After the Crossroads: Neo-liberal Globalization, Democratic Transition, and Progressive Urban Community Activism in South Korea
Committee: J Shiao (Chair), Mia Tuan, Ellen Scott, Ellen Herman (Education Studies)

2011-12 Placements:

Keith Appleby

Initial Placement: Oregon Social Research Lab
Dissertation: Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in America: An Age-Period Cohort Analysis
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Bob O’Brien, Eileen Otis, Frances White (Anthropology)

Nathan Erickson

Initial Placement: Doane College
Dissertation: “It’s a Neo-liberal World, We’re All Just Living In It”: The Effects of Capitalist Ideology on Ex-Offenders and the Organizations that Work with Them
Committee: Greg McLauchlan (Chair), Joan Acker, Jim Elliott, Michael Hames-Garcia (Ethnic Studies)

Hannah Holleman

Initial Placement: Amherst College
Dissertation: Energy Justice and Foundations for a Sustainable Sociology of Energy
Committee: John Foster (Chair), Jill Harrison, Richard York, Joseph Fracchia (Honors College)

Ann Shirley Leymon

Dissertation: Fighting for a Fair Economy? The Response of Labor Unions to Economic Crisis
Committee: Caleb Southworth (Chair), Michael Dreiling, Ellen Scott, Dan Tichenor (Political Science)

Elizabeth Rienzi

Dissertation: A Part Yet Apart: Exploring Racial and Ethnic Identity Formation for Korean Transracial Adoptees Raised in the US Midwest
Committee: J Shiao (Co-chair), Mia Tuan (Co-chair), Ellen Scott, Ellen Herman (History)

Wesley Shirley

Initial Placement: Lane Community College
Dissertation: When Activism is Terrorism: Special Interest Politics and State Repression of the Animal Rights Movement
Committee: Greg McLauchlan (Chair), Michael Dreiling, Richard York, Dan Tichenor (Political Science)

2010-2011 Placements:

Sarah Cribbs

Initial Placement: Georgetown College
Dissertation: Rooted in the Past, Blind to the Present: Health Care Administrator’s Perceived Role and Response to Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in a New-Settlement Community
Committee: Mia Tuan (Co-chair), Jocelyn Hollander (Co-chair), Aliya Saperstein, Susan Hardwick (Geography)

2009-10 Placements:

Shannon Bell

Initial Placement: University of Kentucky
Dissertation: Fighting King Coal: The Barriers to Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement Participation in Central Appalachia
Committee: Yvonne Braun (Chair), Ellen Scott, Richard York, Carol Silverman (Anthropology)

Mark Leymon

Initial Placement: Illinois State University
Dissertation: “Fixed” Sentencing: The Effects of Imprisonment Rates Over Time
Committee: Bob O’Brien (Chair), Jean Stockard, Jim Elliott, Hill Walker (Special Education)

Nicholas Lougee

Dissertation: Who Rocks the Boat? Environmental Organizations in the US: The Effects of Identities, Strategies, and Resources on Oppositionality of Political Advocacy
Committee: Michael Dreiling (Chair), Yvonne Braun, Greg McLauchlan, Frank David (Honors College)

Ryanne Pilgeram

Initial Placement: University of Idaho
Dissertation: Constructing Sustainable Agriculture at a Northwest Farmer’s Market: Understanding the Performance of Sustainability
Committee: Ellen Scott (Co-chair), Jocelyn Hollander (Co-chair), Yvonne Braun, Mary Wood (English)

Lara Skinner

Dissertation: Is it Just Sustainability? The Political-Economy of Urban Sustainability, Economic Development, and Social Justice
Committee: Greg McLauchlan (Chair), Yvonne Braun, Linda Fuller, Michael Brussel (History)

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