Department of Sociology

International Faculty Member, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Education: B.A. Sociology and Education (UCLA); M.A. Education, culture and society (University of Pennsylvania); Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Goettingen

Dissertation: “A Global Millennium: Empire and the Invention of Evangelicalism on the Margins of the Confessional State, 1688-1745.”

Education: B.A. Sociology, honors, University of Chicago; M.A. Sociology, Yale University; Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University

Assistant Professor of Law & Society, Department of Political Science, John Jay College, City University of New York

Dissertation: “Homemaking: Marriage Law Reform and the Construction of Family in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

Education: A.B., Sociology, University of Chicago; M.A., M.Phil., Sociology, Yale University; J.D., Yale Law School; Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University

Abd el-Kader Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia

Dissertation: “Moral Technology: Science, Religion, and Right Action in in Evangelical and Sunni Schools”

Education: Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University (2013)

Senior Content and Digital Marketing Strategist, Crimson Hexagon, Boston, MA

Dissertation: “Interpreting the News: A Cultural Sociology of Journalistic Discourses in the United States”

Education: B.A., Wellesley College (2006); M.A., Yale University (2008); M.Phil., Yale University (2010); Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University (2012)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Dissertation: “Hounded out: Performative success and institutional failure in the pro-hunting movement”

Education: B. Soc. Sc., M. Soc. Sc., National University of Ireland (UCD), M.A. Sociology, Yale University; Ph.D., Yale University, expected 2012.

Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago

Dissertation: “Religious and Secular Protest in the Chinese Diaspora: Falun Gong and the Chinese Democracy Movement”

Education: M.A., M. Phil., Sociology (Yale University); B.A. East Asian Studies (Wesleyan University); M.A. Religious Studies (Indiana University)

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas Tech University

Dissertation: “Schools Make Teachers: The Case of Teach For America and Teacher Training”

Education: B.A. Sociology and Classical Studies (University of Pennsylvania); M.Ed. (University of Pennsylvania); M.A. Sociology (Yale University); M.Phil (Yale University); Ph.D. Sociology, Yale University

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon

Dissertation: “The Syntax of Power: Classification and Coercion in the Early Modern English Maritime System”

Education: B.A. Philosophy (Villanova University); M.A. Conflict Resolution (Bradford University); Ph.D. Yale University (2012)

Assistant Professor, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Dissertation: “Eclipse and Memory: Public Representation of the War of Resistance in Maoist China and its Official Revision in the Post-Mao Era”

Education: Ph.D. Yale University (2011)

Assistant Professor, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Dissertation: “It’s Just Not Main Street Anymore…!” Mapping out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway

Education: M.A., M.Phil - Yale University; Ph.D. Sociology - Yale University (2011).

Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Medicine

Dissertation: “Analyzing and Measuring Social Exclusion in the United States.”

Education: B.A. Economics, University of Chicago, M.A. Sociology and Economics, Yale University, Ph.D. Sociology 2011, Yale University.