Candidates on the Academic Market
Mary Barr
Mary earned her Ph.D. in 2008. Her dissertation “Black and White Together: Constructing Integration while establishing de facto Segregation” uses Evanston, Illinois as a case study to examine how social categories of race, class and gender are constructed and reproduced under the guise of racial integration. Her research and teaching interests include racial formation processes in the US, community studies, educational inequality, qualitative methodologies (historical and ethnographic), and 20th century African American history.
Education: Mary graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in sociology.
Mary is currently a lecturer in African American Studies at Yale University.
Juho Härkönen
Juho Härkönen is Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University. He is broadly interested in the link between families and socio-economic inequalities. In his doctoral dissertation (European University Institute, defended in November 2007), he analyzed the simultaneous joblessness of both partners of a couple (dual joblessness) in thirteen European countries. He has also worked on divorce risk factors from a cross-national and cross-cohort perspective. At CIQLE, his research includes examination of sibling resemblance and differences in socioeconomic attainment, and analysis of the effects of prenatal and infant health on educational attainment and mobility. CIQLE Bio Page.
Ben Herzog
Dissertation topic: “The Loss of Citizenship.”
Research interests: Ph.D. Candidate. Areas of interest include: Political Sociology, Citizenship, Historical Sociology, Immigration, and refugees. My dissertation research is a comparative study of the revocation of citizenship in Israel, Canada and the US.
Stripping away citizenship, and all the rights coupled with it, is usually associated with despotic and totalitarian regimes. The imagery of mass expulsion of once-integral members of the community is coupled with oppressive historical moments and regimes. In this thesis, I show that the revocation of citizenship does not occur only in extreme situations; it is a permanent mechanism even in democratic immigration states. Although related, those practices are not simply products of undemocratic moments, but are institutionalized within the legal systems of the three states investigated – Canada, the United States and Israel. This research would answer why, when and how democratic immigration states revoke citizenship from their subjects. My underlying hypothesis is that loss of citizenship processes are articulated in relation to the conception of citizenship and nationhood in any particular country.
The study covers a period between the end of the 19th century until today – a period in which most debates regarding the loss of citizenship have occurred. Citizenship laws can be seen as text written by the political elite that represents their desired boundaries of the community they govern. By investigating the legislative debates and decisions in Israel, Canada and the US, I will be able to observe, compare and assess the conception of citizenship in each country and its changes across time. This description is the foundation of the next step of my analysis, in which I locate the justifications for the implemented (and suggested) policies regarding the revocation of citizenship. My hypothesis is that the specific articulation of citizenship is contextual to war and globalization processes rather than overarching stable and coherent perception of citizenship and nationhood.
Education: (B.A. Sociology and Political Science - Tel Aviv University; M.A. Sociology, with distinction - Tel Aviv University; M.A. and M.Phil. Sociology - Yale University).