Ph.D. Students on the 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)

Ben Fields

Research Interests: Social Psychology, Sociology of Education, Law and Social Policy, Institutions and Organizations, Sociology of Gender

Dissertation Title: Commitment, Self-Actualization, and Identity: Organizational, Institutional, and Social Psychological Factors in Workplace Burnout

Committee: Amy Kroska (co-chair), Steven Brint (co-chair), Jan Stets, Kate Sweeny (psychology)

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)

Joel Winegar

Research Interests: Sociological and Social Theory, Religion, Evolutionary Sociology, Education, Institutions, Science and Technology Studies, Social Psychology

Dissertation Title: Dealing With Formal and Informal Threats to Positive and Negative Academic Freedom In Higher Education: Some Professors’ Experiences Addressing Controversial Social and Political Topics in the Classroom

Committee: Dr. Steven Brint (Chair, Sociology and Public Policy), Dr. Jan Stets (Sociology), Dr. John Laursen (Political Science)