Elizabeth Alexander

• Dissertation: Colorblind Ideology, Racial Prejudice and Nonresponse in Social Surveys
• Position: Assistant Director of the National Scholarships and Fellowships Program; Emory University

Emily Pingel

• Dissertation: Primary Care and the Reproduction of Health Inequity in a Central São Paulo Neighborhood
• Position: Communications Specialist, Division of HIV / AIDS Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Dissertation: Gentrification, Aging in Place, and Social Networks
• Position: MD Student, Emory School of Medicine (Completion of Joint MD/PhD Program)

Katharine Tatum 

• Dissertation: Sexual Stigma, Minority Stress & Mental Health among Sexual Minority Women and Men across Asia and the Pacific
• Position: Behavioral Scientist / Scientific Data Analysis, Northrop Grumman, Contractor for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Outbreak Investivations Branch, Division of Disease Control and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ryan Gibson

• Dissertation: Closure Ideology among Asian Americans: Three Studies on Group Threat, Ideology, and Mental Illness
• Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow (Assistant Professor as of 2022-23), Sociology; University of New Hampshire

Jennifer Hayward

• Dissertation: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education through Hospitableness, Justice, Status, and Identity
• Position: Analytics Specialist; Delta Airlines

• Dissertation: Cigarette Smoking among White and Hispanic Adolescents: Immigrant Assimilation and the Social Causes of Delinquincy
• Position: Private Consultant

Stephanie Miedema

• Dissertation: Sexual Stigma, Minority Stress & Mental Health among Sexual Minority Women and Men across Asia and the Pacific
• Position: Behavioral Scientist, Division of Violence Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ju Hyun Park

• Dissertation: Gender adn Networks of Success: The Case of Classical and Film Composers
• Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology; Emory University

Allison Roberts

• Dissertation: Selling Health: The Role of Religion and Innovation in Healthcare
• Position: Statistical Research Specialist, Office of Informatics and Analytics; Tennessee Department of Health

Michael Vaughn

• Dissertation: Tops, Bottoms, and the Ghost of HIV: An Investigation of the Impact of Collective Memory on the Behavior-Group Identity Relationship among Gay Men
• Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, HIV Center, Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health; Columiba University

John Bernau

• Dissertation: Talk of Death: American Discourse in Three Spheres
• Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion; Emory University

Joon Chung

• Dissertation: Sleep: Studies in Sociology and Machine Learning
• Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Harvard University

• Dissertation: Dynamics and Geographical Diffusion in the Global Metal Music Network
• Position: Lead Consultant at SW Analytics

 Chris C. Martin

• Dissertation: Three Studies of Psychopathology and Distress among Privileged Groups
• Position: Visiting Asssitant Professor, Oglethorpe University

Marisela Martinez-Cola

• Dissertation: The Bricks Before Brown v. Board of Education: A Comparative, Historical Study of Race, Class, and Gender in Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican American School Desegregation Cases, 1885-1947
• Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology; Morehouse College

Jennifer L. Nelson

• Dissertation: Nonsymmetrical Effects of Racial Diversity on Organizational Minority Members: Evidence from the Teaching Profession
• Position: Assistant Professor, Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Daniel Semenza

• Dissertation: Delinquency and the Digital Domain: The Influence of Online Activities and Victimization Experiences on Offline Crime and Cyber Aggression among Adolescents
• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice; Rutgers University, Camden

Sara Ashlee Bledsoe

• Dissertation: Walk the Line: The Role of Legitimacy, Gender, and Race in the Cultural Consecration of the Country Music and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame
• Position: Researcher, Texas Department of State Health Services

Oliver Cowart

• Dissertation: Car Wars: Global Automakers, Entrepreneurial Governance, and the Elision of Labor
• Position: Teacher, Social Sciences and Writing; Mount Vernon School

Irem Tuncer-Ebeturk

• Dissertation: Constructing Global Social Problems: The Case of Child, Early, and Forced Marriage
• Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Unit Global Governance; WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Megan Smith

• Dissertation: Social Relationships of the Chronically Social Ill
• Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Sociology; University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Jared Bok

• Dissertation: Religious Organizations Crossing Boundaries: The Centrifugal Expansion of U.S. Based Mission Agencies
• Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology; University of Nevada, Reno

Natalie Delia Deckard

• Dissertation: The Carceral State, System Avoidance and Bare Life: The Effect of State Policy and Policing on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children 
• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology; University of Windsor

• Dissertation: The Wages of Parenthood: At the Intersection of Gender, Child Caregiving, and Sexual Orientation 
• Position: CoFounder; The Portland Grief House

Alison Heslin

• Dissertation: Three Meals Away: Crisis and Violence in the Global Food System 
• Position: Assistant Director, Commercial Real Estate Reseearch; Moody Analytics

• Dissertation: Capital Gains: A Bourdieusian Map of the United States
• Position: Founder and CEO; East African Technology Corporation

Carolyn Robbins

• Dissertation: Identifying and Intervening in the Health Lifestyles of African American Preadolescents and Their Parents 
• Position: Health Analyst; Health Resources and Services Administration

Fikresus Amahazion

• Dissertation: Human Rights, Epistemic Communities, and World Culture: The Diffusion of Legislation Against the Organ Trade
• Position: Researcher & Teacher; National College of Arts and Social Sciences Adi-Keih, Eritrea

Kate Cartwright

• Dissertation: Social Determinants of Health and Prevalence of Diabetes in Latino Immigrants
• Position: Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration; University of New Mexico

Tressie M. Cottom

• Dissertation: Becoming Real Colleges in the Financialized Era of U.S. Higher Education: The Expansion and Legitimation of For-Profit Colleges
• Position: Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Sciences; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jessica Grosholz

• Dissertation: Code of the Prison: Inmate Culture and Post-Prison Outcomes in the Era of Mass Incarceration
• Position: Associate Professor, Criminology; University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee 

Deena Isom

• Dissertation: Race, Racism, & Crime: An Empirical Assessment of African American Offending
• Position: Associate Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice and African American Studies Program; University of South Carolina

Anne Kronberg

• Dissertation: Modes of Job Entry and Career Outcomes: How Entering a Job via Hire or Promotion Affects Gender Earning and Disparities 
• Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology; University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Celeste Lee

• Dissertation: Portrait of Black Millennials' Understanding of Racial Dynamics in the 21st Century
• Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology; University of West Georgia

Yun Tai

• Dissertation: You Can't Always Get What You Want: Gatekeeping and Social Capital in the Live-Music Scenes of Atlanta and Taipei 
• Position: Assistant Professor, Communication; Tamkang University

Jin Won Chung

• Dissertation: Policy and Competition: The Development of the Cable Television Industry in the United States 
• Position: Instructor, Sociology; Catholic University of Korea

Margaret Hagerman

• Dissertation: White Kids and Race: An Ethnographic Study of White Racial Socialization, Privilege and the (Re)Production of Racial Ideology in Affluent Families 
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; Mississippi State University

Michelle Manno

• Dissertation: Full Court Press(ure): Negotiating Gender & Sexuality in Women's Collegiate Basketball
• Position: Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity Initiatives, Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity; University of Illinois Chicago

Sonal Nalkur

• Dissertation: Moving Newspapers Online: Newspaper Diversification and Visibility 1990-2010 
• Position: Lecture-Track Faculty, Sociology; Emory University

Christie Parris

• Dissertation: From Lobbying to Lockdowns: Tactical Choices among Environmental Justice Organizations
• Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology; Oberlin College & Conservatory

Kali-Ahset Amen Strayhorn

• Dissertation: Black Panama and Globalization in the Neoliberal Era, 1990-2012 
• Position: Assistant Research Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts; Johns Hopkins Unviersity

Lesley Watson

• Dissertation: Three Bases of Identity in Global Contex: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and National Identity among International Sojourners
• Position: Senior Research Scientist, Public Health Department; National Opinion Research Center (NORC)

Gianluca De Fazio

• Dissertation: Political Radicalization in the Making: The Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland, 1968-1972
• Position: Associate Professor, Justice Studies; James Madison University

Selina Gallo-Cruz

• Dissertation: Have Repertoire, Will Travel: INGOs and the Globalization of Nonviolence
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology; College of the Holy Cross

Kevin Greene

• Dissertation: The Complex Relationship Between Race, Gender, and Smoking Behavior
• Position: Regional Public Health Analyst; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Matthew Mathias

• Dissertation: Individual Sacrality, Human Rights, and Abolition of the Death Penalty
• Position: Software Engineer; Google

Adria Welcher

• Dissertation: Chasing the Dream: How Black Middle Class Parents Make Educational Decisions for Their Children 
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; Morehouse College

Jill Daugherty

• Dissertation: The Influence of Procreative Consciousness and Procreative Responsibility
• Position: Senior Service Fellow, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Christina Steidl

• Dissertation: Intersectionality, Institutions, & Inequality: STEM Majors and Status Competition Processes in the U.S. Higher Education System
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; University of Alabama in Huntsville

Laura Braden

• Dissertation: The Persistence of Memory: The Consecration of Artists in the US Field of Modern Art
• Position: Assistant Professor, Arts & Culture Studies; Erasmus University Rotterdam

David Brewington

• Dissertation: International Associations at the Nexus of Globalization, Religion, and Human Rights
• Position: Enterprise Data Analytics Manager; Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Sarah Friedman

• Dissertation: Still a "Stalled Revolution"? Young Adults' Work/Family Plans and Experiences 
• Position: Lecturer, Sociology; Georgia State University

Caddie Putnam Rankin

• Dissertation: Giving Back in a Profit-Driven World: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mutual Fund Industry
• Position: Associate Professor, Business Management; Washington College

Anna Rubtsova

• Dissertation: How to Feed a Baby: Global Processes and Individual Choices 
• Position: Research Assistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health; Emory University

Melissa Scardaville

• Dissertation: A Voice In The Room: The Evolution of Economic and Aesthetic Legitimacies of Daytime Soap Operas in the United States, 1930-2009
• Position: Senior Researcher & Qualitative Methodologist; American Institutes for Research

Heather Scheuerman

• Dissertation: Evening the Score: Factors Affecting Criminal Responses to Injustice
• Position: Associate Professor, Justice Studies; James Madison University

Rachel Askew

• Dissertation: Decisions, Decisions: How Professional Affiliation Shapes Mental Health Trainees' Clinical Judgments and Approach to Care 
• Initial Position: Postdoctoral Fellow; Psychiatry; University of California, San Diego

Leslie Brody

• Dissertation: On Behalf of Another: Exploring Social Value Orientation and Responses to Social Injustice 
• Position: Program Manager; Google

Monique Carry

• Dissertation: "In Spite of It All": Resilience, Sexual Identity Acceptance, and Disclosure among Black and Latina Same-Sex Attracted Women 
• Position: Senior Communications Advisor, Global HIV Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Alison Faupel

• Dissertation: The Transformation of the U.S. Feminist Movement, 1910-2005 
• Position: Analytical Methodologist; United States Federal Government

Kendralin Freeman

• Dissertation: Poverty, Inequality, and Children's Early Cognitive Skills
• Position: Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology; Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Kristin Gordon

• Dissertation: The Policy Behind the Problem: How Educational Reform Impacts the Teaching Environment 
• Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, School of History and Sociology; Georgia Tech

Heather Jamerson

• Dissertation: Wine Tastes: The Role of Service Workers and Consumers in Cultural Production 
• Position: Social Impact Consultant; Innovate Memphis

Diogo Pinheiro

• Dissertation: Risky Business: The Social Construction of Country Risk Ratings
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; University of North Georgia

Vaughn Schmutz

• Dissertation: Social Change and Musical Classification Systems: The US, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, 1955-2005
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Sylvia Turner

• Dissertation: Thy Kingdom Come: the Intersection between King Cotton and Immigration Policy
• Position: Director, TRIO Student Support Services Program; Maryville College

Krysia Waldron

• Dissertation: The Emergence of Pre-Professional Identity
• Position: Leadership Coach and Organizational Psychologist; Private Practice

Jacob Bucher

• Dissertation: The Camouflage Collar: Examining the Causes of Crime Among the Military 
• Position: Founding Dean, College of Applied Social Sciences; Dominican University

Carrie Coward Bucher

• Dissertation: You Are What You Hear: The Relationship Among Race, Class, Gender, and Musical Taste 
• Position: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice; Elmhurst University

Charity Crabtree Van Dyck

• Dissertation: Boundary Work and Legitimating Claims Among Acupuncturists and Physicians
• Position: Administrative Coordinator; Durham Center for Senior Life

Shelley Keith

• Dissertation: Self-Complexity and Crime: Extending General Strain Theory
• Position: Associate Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice; University of Memphis

Barret Michalec

• Dissertation: Learning to Cure but Learning to Care? Empathy in Preclinical Medical Education
• Position: Associate Professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and Director, Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice; Arizona State University

Aristide Sechanidice

• Dissertation: To Look Like a Modern Ruler: Diffusion of Fashion among State Elites
• Position: Professor, Sociology; Tri-County Technical College

Beth Tarasawa

• Dissertation: Fight or Flight? Immigration, Status Competition, and Language Assistance Resources in Metropolitan Atlanta
• Position: Executive Vice President, Research; Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA)

Sherod Thaxton

• Dissertation: The Social Geometry of Death: Social Structure and Capital Punishment in Georgia, 1993-2000 
• Position: Professor; School of Law, and Faculty Director, David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy; University of California Los Angeles

Franziska Bieri

• Dissertation: From Conflict Diamonds to the Kimberly Process: How NGOs Reshaped a Global Industry
• Position: Faculty; University of Maryland Global Campus and Indiana Institute of Technology

Tomeka Davis

• Dissertation: Laissez Faire Education Policy: Organization and Equity in School Choice
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; Georgia State University

Michael Elliott

• Dissertation: A Cult of the Individual for a Global Society: The Development and Worldwide Expansion of Human Rights Ideology
• Position: Professor; Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice; Towson University

Nikki Khanna

• Dissertation: Living Life in Black and White: Identity Formation and Negotiation among Black-White Biracial Americans 
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; University of Vermont

Velina Petrova

• Dissertation: The Marshall Plan is Dead, Long Live Foreign Aid: The Shape of Foreign Assistance for Development after WWII
• Position: Knowledge for Impact Director; Oxfam International

Ashby Walker

• Dissertation: Creating Gateways to the Home Circle: Food, Gender, and Domesticity in American Magazines 
• Position: Assistant Professor, Health Services Research, Management & Policy, and Director for Health Equity Initiatives, UF Diabetes Institute; University of Florida

Anne Borden

• Dissertation: Making Money, Saving Souls: The Emergence and Evolution of Christian Bookstores in the United States
• Position: Senior Instructor and Sociology Faculty; Western Governors University

Belisa González

• Dissertation: Increasing Collaboration or Conflict: The Role of Shared Status in Cross-Racial Organizing between African American and Mexican American Women in Georgia
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology and Director, Center for the Study of Culture Race and Ethnicity; Ithaca College

Cynthia Hinton

• Dissertation: The Effects of Social Forces on Professionalization: Case Studies of Genetic Counselors and Sickle Cell Counselors
• Position: Researcher, Division of Laboratory Sciences; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Kathleen Liddle

• Dissertation: A Shop of Our Own: Feminist Bookstores in North America 
• Position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Sociology; University of Toronto at Scarborough

Natasha Morgan Ganem

• Dissertation: The Role of Negative Emotion in General Strain Theory
• Location: Founder and Principal Consultant; Lion Leadership

Lauren Rauscher

• Dissertation: Work Makes Life Sweet?: Employment and Mental Health among Black, White, and Mexican-American Women
• Position: Senior Advisor, Institutional Relations; American Heart Association

Kathryn Sweeney

• Dissertation: Negotiating Power: Power, Race and Gender Ideology in Same-Race and Interracial Marriages
• Position: Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences; Purdue University Northwest

Amy Fasula

• Dissertation: Keeping the Girls "Safe" and Powerless: The Sexual Double Standard and African American Girls' Sexual Risk 
• Position: Behavioral Scientist, Division of Reproductive Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Michelle Manasse

• Dissertation: Problems in a Problem-Solving Court? Overcoming Operational Obstacles in a Mental Health Court: An Organization Analysis
• Position: Professor, Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice; Towson University

Stuart Hysom

• Dissertation: An Experimental Test of the Theory of Reward Expectations
• Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology; Texas A&M

Stuart Hysom passed away in 2011.

Maria Amado

• Dissertation: The Strength of Strong Ties: Mexican Origin Immigrants in the Atlanta Labor Market 
• Location: Lincoln Financial Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; Guilford College

Thomas Loya

• Dissertation: Global Prodemocracy Movements
• Position: Director and Lead Consultant; Thomas Loya Consulting Ltd

Leslie Martin

• Dissertation: Who are the People in Your Neighborhood? Mobilizing in Response to Gentrification in Atlanta 
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology; Mary Washington College

Vincent Carter

• Dissertation: Existence and Persistence: The Effects of Institutional Characteristics on Persistence and Graduate Rates at Four-Year Colleges and Universities 
• Position: Assistant Director for Evaluation and Survey Research, Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness; Emory University

Alma Idiart

• Dissertation: Neo-Liberal Experiments, State Reform, and Social Policy in the 1980s and the 1990s: The Cases of Argentina and Chile 
• Position: Assistant Researcher; National Research Council (CONICIT), Gino Germani Institute in IIGG/UBA Argentina

Cesar Rebellon

• Dissertation: Status Acquisition and Delinquency: A Theoretical Foundation and Longitudinal Test
• Position: Professor, Criminology, Law and Society; George Mason University

Linda Beer

• Dissertation: Income Inequality and Transnational Corporate Penetration: A Cross-National Analysis, 1975-1995 
• Position: Epidemiologist, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Surveillance and Epidemiology; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Nicola Dawkins-Lyn

• Dissertation: Responses to Partner Abuse: Modeling the Paths to Substance Abuse, Suicide Attempts, and Retaliative Partner Violence
• Position: Vice President and Senior Partner for Social Marketing; ICF International

Joanne Kaufman

• Dissertation: Understanding Race and Violence: Why Life Experiences Matter
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; University at Albany-SUNY

Caitlin Killian

• Dissertation: Cultural Choices and Identity Negotiation of Muslim Maghrebin Women in France
• Position: Professor, Sociology; Drew University

Kristin Marsh

• Dissertation: Compromised Revolution: A Political Economic Explanation of Negotiation
• Position: Professor, Sociology and Anthropology; University of Mary Washington

Mamamelela Matlhako

• Dissertation: The Effects of Education on Economic Growth in Southern Africa: The Cases of Botswana, South Africa, and Swaziland, 1970-1994 (2001).
• Position: Director of Post-Graduate Studies; University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa 

Lisa Meyer

• Dissertation: International Trade Liberalization and Gender Relations in Labor Markets: A Cross-National Analysis, 1970-1998
• Position: Associate Professor, Sociology; SUNY Geneseo

William Winders

• Dissertation: Welcome to the Free Market: Class Bases of U.S. Agricultural Policy, 1938-1996 
• Location: Professor, School of History and Sociology; Georgia Tech

Tang Nah Ng

Dissertation: The Democratic Transition Model Revisited: World Bank, Debt, Democracy, and Welfare Effort in Neo-Liberal Context