NEWS

November 2007 | Vol. 2, No. 1

Congratulations to our 2007 Ph.D. recipients

Traci R. Burch | Ph.D. in Government & Social Policy, 2007

Traci Burch, shown here with committee members Sidney Verba, Jennifer Hochschild (Chair), and Gary King, was awarded Harvard University's Robert Noxon Toppan prize for the best essay or dissertation upon a subject of political science for her
dissertation “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy.” Traci is now Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Cybelle Fox | Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007

Cybelle Fox is a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology. For the two-year RWJ fellowship period, Cybelle will investigate the role of race and immigration in the politics of American health policy provision, before officially joining the Sociology Department in July 2009. Cybelle is shown here with dissertation committee members William Julius Wilson, Lawrence Bobo, Theda Skocpol, and (not shown) Jennifer Hochschild following the defense of her dissertation, "The Boundaries of Social Citizenship: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State, 1900-1950."

Helen B. Marrow | Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007.

Helen B. Marrow celebrated the defense of her dissertation, "Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South," with committee members William Julius Wilson, Mary Waters (Chair), and Jennifer Hochschild (not shown) in May 2007. Helen is currently a Lecturer in the Harvard Sociology Department and in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.

Patrick Sharkey | Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007
Patrick Sharkey is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University and an Affiliate faculty member in NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Policy. For the 2007-2009 period, Pat will be a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University. Pat is shown here with dissertation committee members William Julius Wilson, Robert Sampson (Chair), and Christopher Winship, who toasted the defense of Pat's dissertation, "The Enduring Inequality of Race and Place: Racial Inequality in the Neighborhood Environment over the Life Course and across Generations."

Vesla M. Weaver | Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy, 2007

Vesla M. Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, with a joint appointment in the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Vesla is shown here with dissertation committee members Jennifer Hochschild (Chair) and Theda Skocpol following the defense of her dissertation, Frontlash: Race and the Politics of Punishment." Michael Dawson (University of Chicago) also served on Vesla's committee.

Christopher Wimer | Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007

Christopher Wimer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford University Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. Chris, shown here with dissertation committee members William Julius Wilson and Robert Sampson (Chair), defended his dissertation entitled, "Successful Childrearing in Diverse Neighborhood Environments: Understanding the Role of Secure, Stable Employment." Annemette Sorensen (Stanford University) also served on Chris's committee.