Kyunghwan Lee
PhD Date: Spring 2024 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Making the Economy through the National Income
Areas of Research/Teaching: Economic Sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociological Theory; Science Knowledge and Technology; Political Sociology
Dissertation Committee: Andrew Lakoff (Chair), Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Kyung Moon Hwang
Email: kyunghwl@usc.edu
Yael Findler
PhD Date: July 2024 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Organizational Speech Projects in A Discursive Field of Suffering: The Case of Israeli Non-Profits
Areas of Research/Teaching: Cultural Sociology; Collective Action; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Movements; Therapeutic Culture/Discourse; Organizations; Sociological Theory; Introduction to Sociology; Jewish-Israeli Society; Political Sociology; Trauma; Gender
Dissertation Committee: Nina Eliasoph (Chair), Paul Lichterman, Michael Messner, Gelya Frank
Email: findler@usc.edu
Shang Liu
PhD Date: July 2024 (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
Oded Marom
PhD Date: July 2024 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Political Polarization, Community Organizing, and Modes of Civic Engagement: How Local Context Facilitates Political Extremism Among American Libertarians
Areas of Research/Teaching: Sociology of Culture; Political Sociology; Sociological Theory; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Group Processes; Radical Politics; Civic Organization; Sociology of Science and Technology; Introduction to Sociology
Dissertation Committee: Nina Eliasoph (Chair), Iddo Tavory, Hajar Yazdiha, Ann Crigler
Email: omarom@usc.edu