PhDs on the Job Market

Elizabeth Bogumil

Research Interests: Resource Networks, Social Capital, Community Organizations, Community Health & Well-Being, Qualitative Research Methods, Arts-Based Research Methods, Policy, Aging, Program/Project Evaluation

Dissertation Title: Mutual Aid & Social Support in the Time of COVID-19: An (anti) Organizational Ethnography

Committee: Dr. Richard Carpiano (Chair, Public Policy & Sociology), Dr. Wei Zhao (Sociology), and Dr. Randol Contreras (Media & Cultural Studies)

Bernabe Rodriguez

Research Interests: Race and racism, ethnicity, feminist theory, masculinity studies, class stratification, queer studies, and popular culture

Dissertation Title: Nerds, Cosplay, and Comic-Con: Hegemonic Masculinity and Popular Culture

Committee: Dr. Alfredo Mirandé (Chair, Sociology), Dr. Randol Contreras (Media and Cultural Studies), Dr. Bruce Link (Sociology and School of Public Policy), Dr. Juliet McMullin (UCI Family Medicine)

Alexander Scott

Research Interests: Political-economy, political sociology, race and class inequality, critical social theory, authoritarianism, social mobilization and movements, and contemporary Latin America.

Dissertation Title: The Crisis of Neoliberalism and Far-right, Authoritarian Politics in Southern California

Committee: Dr. Ellen Reese (Co-Chair, UCR Society, Environment, and Health Equity & Labor Studies), Dr. Alfonso Gonzales-Toribio (Co-Chair, UCR Ethnic Studies & Latin American Studies), Dr. Christopher Chase Dunn (UCR Sociology), and Dr. Lorenzo Fusaro (Economics at la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in México City)

Megan Webb

Research Interests: Drug use and stigma; drug use and identity; drugs and moral panics; social constructionism; deviance; qualitative methods

Dissertation Title: Understanding Drug Court: Narrative Identity Theory and Experiences in a Drug Treatment Court

Committee: Dr. Tanya Nieri (Chair, Sociology), Dr. Sharon Oselin (Sociology), Dr. Randol Contreras (Media and Cultural Studies)