Alina Arseniev-Koehler
Areas of Specialization: Computational social science; Cultural sociology theory; Natural language processing (NLP) methods; Stigma, social categorization, and bias; Media; Health
Dissertation Title: Measuring and modeling cultural meaning in language
Advisors: Jacob Foster, Omar Lizardo, Jessica Collett, and Morteza Dehghani
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Abraham Calderon
Areas of Specialization: Race and Ethnicity, Leftist Movements, Social Inequality, Social Change, International Migration
Dissertation Title: Cultural Struggle Along the Radical Flank: interrogating contemporary socialist organizing in the United States
Advisors: Vilma Ortiz (UCLA), Dylan Rodriguez (UCR), Marcus Hunter (UCLA), Aliza Luft (UCLA)
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Molly Fee
Website: https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/molly-fee
Areas of Specialization: International Migration, Political Sociology, Forced Migration, Refugee Resettlement
Dissertation Title: Resettling Refugees: Social Rights and Incorporation in San Diego, CA and Boise, ID
Advisors: Waldinger (chair), Kligman, Walker, and David FitzGerald (external member)
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Zach Griffen
Website: zachgriffen.com
Areas of Specialization: Economic Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge, Science, and Expertise; Cultural Sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology; Social Policy; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Health; Society and Genetics
Dissertation Title: Economizing the Social, or Socializing Economics? Economic Expertise and Social Policy in Education and Healthcare
Advisors: Aaron Panofsky (co-chair), Hannah Landecker (co-chair), Stefan Timmermans, Theodore M. Porter (History), Elizabeth Popp Berman (Organizational Studies, University of Michigan)
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Joel Herrera
Areas of Specialization: Political Sociology, Development, Comparative-historical Sociology
Dissertation Title: State Building and Drug Trafficking in Post-revolutionary Mexico
Advisor: Cesar Ayala
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Harleen Kaur
Website: kaurharleen.com
Areas of Specialization: Racism, Nationalism, Empire, Religion, Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Memory, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Crossroads of Belonging, Safety, and Sovereignty: Sikh Punjabi Negotiations of Statecraft and Racecraft from Colonial Punjab to Imperial United States
Advisors: Karida Brown (Chair), Marcus Anthony Hunter, Cecilia Menjívar, Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo, & Rupa Marya
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Andrew N. Le
Areas of Specialization: International Migration, Political and Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Work, Organizations, Religion, and Comparative Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Exit: Contemporary Vietnamese Labor Migration
Advisors: Waldinger (chair), Brubaker, Kligman, Walker and George Dutton
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Amanda McArthur
Areas of Specialization: Medical Sociology, Talk & Interaction in Medicine, Sociology of Diagnosis, Conversation Analysis, Mixed Methods
Dissertation Title: Resisting the Diagnosis: Medical Authority and the Problem of Legitimacy in US Primary Care
Advisors: Heritage (Chair), Stivers, Timmermans, Bird (RAND Health)
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Kyle Nelson
Website: https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/kyle-nelson
Areas of Specialization: Urban Sociology, Law and Society, Eviction and Housing Policy, and Ethnographic Methods.
Dissertation Title: Litigating the Housing Crisis: Legal Assistance and the Institutional Life of Eviction in Los Angeles
Advisors: Rebecca Jean Emigh (co-chair), Stefan Timmermans (co-chair), Marcus Anthony Hunter, and Michael C. Lens (Urban Planning)
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Tala Oszkay
Areas of Specialization: Social Movements, Organizations, Local Politics and Policymaking, Economic Development, Mixed Methods Personal Website
Dissertation Title: Contentions with Sharing: The Local Structures and Politics of a Developing Short-Term Rental Market
Advisors: Edward T. Walker (Chair), Rebecca J. Emigh, Jacob Foster, Paavo Monkkonen (Urban Planning and Public Policy)
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Pei Palmgren
Website: https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/pei-palmgren
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, international migration, development, global and transnational sociology, Southeast Asia, comparative ethnography and qualitative methods
Dissertation Title: Remaking regimes of labor migration: global production, regional development, and guestwork governance in Thailand
Advisors: Ching Kwan Lee (Chair), Roger Waldinger, Ruben Hernandez-Leon, Eric Sheppard (UCLA Geography)