Graduate Program Alumni

Terry Boychuck is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. His first book, The Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada, grew out of his dissertation research at Princeton and came off the press in June of 1999. Terry has taken a sabbatical leave from Macalester for the 1999-2000 academic year. He has rejoined our department as a visiting fellow to conduct research on the historical transformation of public financing and regulation of nonprofit orgnanizations in the United States.

Bethany Bryson is assistant professor of sociology at The University of Virginia where she is revising her (Jan 2000) dissertation, Conflict and Cohesion: Why the Canon Wars Did Not Disintegrate English Literature, for publication. A native of Virginia, Bethany reports that she loves working at UVA, where an exciting collection of scholars in the sociology of culture is emerging--right in her own back yard.

Matthew Chew is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy at the University of Hong Kong. His dissertation ("International Cultural Influence and Problems of Knowledge Production in Cultural Peripheries: The Case of Modern Chinese and Japanese Philosophy") was successfully defended in September 1997.

Tim Clydesdale *94 is associate professor and chairperson of the sociology & anthropology department of The College of New Jersey. He is currently working on two projects: the first is a grant project investigating U.S. minorities and the process of becoming a lawyer, and the second is a book on the post-high school life transitions of American youth. Previous work has appeared in Social Forces and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He resides in Ewing, NJ with his wife of 10 years, Dawn, and two children: Jonah (4) and Grace (1). e-mail

Timothy J. Dowd. received his PhD in 1996 and is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. Tim's research and teaching deal with cultural sociology, mass media, sociology of music, organizational sociology, and economic sociology. His publications -- which include some in collaboration with Frank Dobbin -- are found in such journals as American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Administrative Science Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Poetics, and Comparative Social Research, as well as a number of edited volumes. He has also edited special issues for journals, including "Explorations in the Sociology of Music" for Poetics. While at Emory, Tim has won teaching awards from the department and college.

John Evans is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA. For the past two years he has also been a postdoctoral scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at Yale University. He will be teaching courses in sociology of culture and the sociology of religion beginning in the Fall of 2000. He is revising his dissertation for publication, tentatively titled Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Bioethics 1959-1995. He is writing a number of papers from the dissertation and associated data, editing a book with Robert Wuthnow on mainline Protestantism, and beginning new projects on commodification and health care. jhevans@ucla.edu

Ed Freeland Ed Freeland is the Associate Director of the Princeton Survey Research Center and a Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson Shool of Public and International Affairs. Ed teaches a graduate and undergraduate course in Survey Research Methods, manages the Center's telephone interviewing facility, and advises faculty and students who are conducting survey research projects. Prior to his return to academic life at Princeton, Ed was a Senior Research Director in the Social and Policy Research group at Response Analysis in Princeton, NJ, where he was responsible for development of new projects in the areas of social welfare and health policy. He joined Response Analysis in 1996 after working as a Survey Director at Mathematica Policy Research from 1992-1996. From 1989-1992, he worked on the New York City Housing Vacancy Survey for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in New York City. Ed currently resides in Lawrenceville, NJ with his wife Janine and their three children Patricia, Victoria, and Edward. Email

Bai Gao, received his Ph.D in January 1994, is now an associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Duke University. His first book, Economic Ideology and the Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997 and received the 1998 Hiromi Arisawa Award for the Best Books in Japanese studies from the Association of American University Presses. His second book, Japan's Economic Dilemma: the Institutions of Prosperity and Stagnation, will be published by Cambridge Univeristy Press in 2001. He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, Hongqiu Yang, also a Princeton sociology alumna, his son, Michael, and daughter, Julia.

Jeff Hass A.B. Chemistry Harvard 1989; MA '93, Princeton. Jeff received his PhD in 1998 and after much teaching experience landed a tenured position at the University of Reading in the UK, where he acts as Head of Undergraduate Studies and the resident expert on economic sociology. Information on Jeff and the department can be found at http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/lw/Sociol/publish/main,htm. He is currently working on his book, To the Undiscovered Country (about the Russian market transition), rewriting several articles, and starting up new research projects. Jeff is also immensely enjoying the company of his new-born son, Mitchell Kenneth.

Kieran Healy B.A. University College Cork, Ireland; M.A. University College, Cork, Ireland. Kieran defended his dissertation in April 2001 and is now assistant professor of sociology at the University of Arizona. His dissertation is a study of exchange in human blood and organs in Europe and the United States. Some of the work from this project has appeared in Theory and Society (August 1999) and the American Journal of Sociology (May 2000). He has also published papers in comparative political sociology and social theory.

Jason Kaufman A.B. Harvard College, 1993. While at Princeton, Jason has been a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a junior member of the Princeton Society of Fellows. His thesis, "Sometimes Civil Society," examines the impact of new communications technologies on 19th century American urban politics. He has also written on national political culture and the new institutionalism (Theory and Society); AIDS/HIV preventive policy and the history of the United States Public Health Service (Journal of Policy History); civic associationalism and municipal finance in late 19th century American cities (under review); humanities computing and the future of cultural studies (Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture Section of the ASA); cultural capital and self-presentational acumen in American educational gatekeeping (two papers under review); American Exceptionalism and the Knights of Labor; and the political potential of rap/hip-hop. Jason will be joining fellow Princeton-alum Libby Schweber as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Email

Erin Kelly is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota where she continues her research on law and organizations, gender, and family. She is currently revising her dissertation (Corporate Family Policies in U.S. Organizations, 1965-1997, defended June 2000), conducting new interviews on the implementation of family policies in the workplace, and continuing her collaborations with Frank Dobbin and Sandra Kalev. Email

Usic Kim Usic has just received his Ph.D (June 1999) and has returned to Korea to teach.

Matt Lawson has begun a tenure track appointment at The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State), which is listed as a USNWR "Best Buy" for the Northeast and which aspires to be the nation's #1 "Public Ivy" (taking Princeton U's former name may be part of the strategy). He will be assisting department alumnus Tim Clydesdale in instituting a new, interdisciplinary Cultural Studies major, which will be housed and adminstered by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, which Clydesdale chairs. The required core courses for the major will also be taught by deparment faculty. Email

William Lehrman: Karen, whom I married in 1998, and I moved to Tampa in July 2001. I had spent the previous five years in Perth, Australia, four of them teaching at the Univ. of Western Australia. Perth is a fantastic, far, faraway place but one with limited job opportunities. Currently I am a visiting asst. prof. in the dept. of management at the univ. of south florida. I am teaching about organizations and international management. also now looking for something to follow on with after this academic year finishes. But the really big news is that our daughter, Ava Marie Elisabeth, was born to us on Nov. 27, 2001. She is the most wonderful gift we could ever imagine and brings the greatest joy to her parents. My local e-mail address is wlehrman@coba.usf.edu, if anybody in this area, please drop me a line.

Valery Mamedaliev was a Project Manager for the Excess Casualty of the American Home Company at AIG (1996 - 1999), then Director of Technology for Kemper Employers Group (1999-2001), and currently an Area Manager at Kemper Technology Services (NorthEast) (2001 -). Email

Michael Moody has been appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Email

Becky Pettit Becky is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research and teaching interests are in sociology of the family, social demography, inequality, and the sociology of art and culture. She was awarded the Ph.D in October 1999 entitled "Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor." FAX: 206-543-2516.

Matthew Price, '94. As well as being a Research Fellow at the Ormond Center , Matt is also Associate Director of the Duke Pastoral Leadership Project, a four year national clergy study funded by the Lilly Endowment and based at the Ormond Center of the Duke University Divinity School. Email

Abigail C. Saguy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Professor Saguy has published her work in several journals including Law and Society Review, The Communication Review, European Journal of Women's Studies, and Comparative Social Research. In What is Sexual Harassment? (forthcoming, University of California Press), she examines how sexual harassment has been defined in the United States and France, drawing on legal texts, media coverage, and over sixty interviews with American and French activists, lawyers, and human resource managers. Email

John Schmalzbauer was awarded the Ph.D. this June 1997. The title of his dissertation is "Living Between Athens and Jerusalem: Catholics and Evangelicals in the Culture-Producing Professions. He held a position as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is now an Assistant Professor at the College of Holy Cross. Email

Libby Schweber is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University with interests in comparative and historical methods; history of the social sciences; sociology of disciplines, professions, knowledge and science; and cultural studies.

Brian Steensland is an assistant professor of Sociology at Indiana University in Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2002 and his fields of interest are politics, culture, and religion in late 20th century America. He is currently revising his dissertation manuscript, The Failed Welfare Revolution, which examines the rise and fall of guaranteed income policies as a strategy to reform the American welfare system in the 1960s and 1970s. His article (with co-authors) on classifying religious groups in America (Social Forces 2000) won the 2001 "Best Article" award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion section. With Paul DiMaggio he is collecting data for a second project on cultural conflict over contentious moral issues in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s, and he hopes to launch a project on religious pluralism in the near future. (Posted: September 2002)

Hiromi Taniguchi defended her dissertation entitled "U.S. Men's and Women's Wage Attainment, 1968-1988" in July 1997. Hiromi will begin her position as an assistant professor of sociology at University of Louisville in Fall 2000. Her areas are sociology of work and family, life course, and stratification. Email

Steven J. Tepper is Associate Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. He earned a doctorate in sociology from Princeton University in 2001 and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1996. He served for five years as the executive director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Bicentennial Observance from 1989 to 1994. He is author of The Chronicles of the Bicentennial Observance (UNC, 1998). In addition, he has served as a consultant to numerous cultural institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the Canadian Confederation Center for the Arts and various foundations. His research interests have focused on community conflict over art and culture, arts participation and fiction reading in America, and associationalism and civic participation. He is currently working on a book that examines conflicts over art, education and history in 75 American cities. Steven resides in Hopewell, New Jersey with his wife Dana and daughter Sally.

Ryoko (Kato) Tsuneyoshi is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo in Japan. Her email: tsuney@educhan.p.u-tokyo.ac.jp She received her Ph.D. in 1990. Her research focus is on the comparative analysis of socialization processes accross societies, and her recent work in English is titled, The Japanese Model of Schooling: Comparisons with the United States, RoutledgeFalmer, 2001.

Jack Veugelers (PhD 1995) is now Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include voluntary associations, immigration politics, and right-wing extremism. He is currently carrying out a cross-national study of far-right parties in Western Europe, as well as research in France on the politics of European repatriates from colonial Algeria who belong to voluntary associations. Jack teaches classical and contemporary theory, and in 2001 he won an Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Toronto.

Maureen Waller wrote her dissertation on the interpretations of fatherhood by unmarried parents with poverty-level incomes. She is a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. She is a sociologist with research interests in poverty, the family, culture, and social policy. Her research draws on information from qualitative interviews and from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to investigate factors associated with stable romantic and parenting relationships among unmarried parents. Her previous work used qualitative methods to examine how unmarried parents with children receiving welfare interpret the responsibilities of fathers to their children and reconcile informal practices of support with the requirements of the welfare and child support systems. She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Dayton and an M.A and Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. Email

Gray Wheeler B.A. University of Virginia, 1990; M.A. Princeton, 1992. Ph.D Princeton, 1997. As of January 2001 Gray is an Associate in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. He works with media companies planning restructurings, equity offerings, or acquisitions. You can e-mail him at Gray.Wheeler@msdw.com.

Brad Wilcox B.A. University of Virginia, 1992; M.A. Princeton University, 1997; Ph.D Princeton University, June 2001. W. Bradford Wilcox will be a nonresidential research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of Religion at Yale University (2001-2002). In the fall of 2002, he joins fellow Princeton alum Bethany Bryson at the Sociology Department of the University of Virginia. As of August, 2001 he will reside in Charlottesville, Virginia. He can be reached at wbwilcox@princeton.edu.

Hongqiu Yang got her Ph.D in 1998. She is now Statistician III at Duke Clinical Research Institute of the Duke Medical Center. Her e-mail address is hongqiu_yang@yahoo.com.

Hongxin Zhao passed her dissertation orals in June 1997 and now holds a Post Doc at Columbia University Teacher's College, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Her disseration title is, "Children of Teenage Mothers: What Determines Their Resilience." Email