PhD Date: May 2025 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Imagining Inclusion: How Muslim Advocates Craft Public Images in U.S. Civic Life
Areas of Research/Teaching: Culture; Political Sociology; Sociology of Religion; Civic Inclusion; Qualitative Methods; Ethnography; American Muslims; Islam; Advocacy; Race and Ethnicity; Social Theory; Pragmatism
Dissertation Committee: Paul Lichterman (Chair), Nina Eliasoph, Hajar Yazdiha, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Cavan Concannon
Email: cantori@usc.edu
PhD Date: May 2025 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Imagining the State to Get Things Done: NGOs Dancing with an Authoritarian State in Interactions
Areas of Research/Teaching: Political Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Organizations; Social Theory; Social Movements; Qualitative Research Methods; Ethnography; Civic Engagement and Volunteering; Non-Governmental Organizations; Chinese State and Society; International Migration; Sociology of Globalization
Dissertation Committee: Nina Eliasoph (Chair), Paul Lichterman, Bin Xu, Lori Yue
Email: shangliu@usc.edu
PhD Date: May 2025 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Flourishing in LA: Making Place in an Anti-Black Metropolis
Areas of Research/Teaching: Race and Ethnicity; Class and Status; Urban Sociology; Culture; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Elites; Mental Health; Flourishing and Well-being; Joy; Pleasure; The Good Life; Leisure; Freedom; Utopia; Political Sociology; Black Studies; Latin America Studies; The Americas
Dissertation Committee: Jody Agius Vallejo (Chair), Hajar Yazdiha, Manuel Pastor, Robeson Taj Frazier, Mary Pattillo
Email: dmmurphy@usc.edu
