{"id":3265,"date":"2023-04-05T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/soci\/?page_id=3265"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:31:59","slug":"phds-on-the-job-market","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/soci\/phds-on-the-job-market\/","title":{"rendered":"PhDs on the Job Market"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Kritika Pandey\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2027 (expected)<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title<\/strong>: Culture(s) of Activism: Investigating Domestic Worker Organizing in India and the US.<\/p>\n

Areas of Research\/Teaching<\/strong>: Gender and Migration, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology, Labor Movements, Qualitative Methods, Feminist Ethnography, Global and Transnational Sociology<\/p>\n

Dissertation Committee<\/strong>: Hajar Yazdiha (co-chair, USC), Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as, (co-chair, Princeton), Nina Eliasoph and Manuel Pastor<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> kpandey@usc.edu<\/p>\n

Recent publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pandey, Kritika. 2026. Between hostile worlds and connected lives: Navigating contentions in domestic worker organizing. Economy and Society<\/em>, 55<\/em>(2), 254\u2013276. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03085147.2026.2631332<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pandey, Kritika. 2024. Book Review of Aid and the Help: International Development and Transnational Extraction of Care By Dinah Hannaford, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press<\/em>. Medical Anthropology Quarterly<\/em>, 38<\/em>(1), 115\u2013116. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/maq.12826<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sabio, Gianne Sheena, Kritika Pandey<\/strong>, and Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as. 2022. Global Care Chains. In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, Second Edition<\/em> (pp. 172\u2013183). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003194316-21<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pandey, Kritika<\/strong>*, Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as* and Gianne Sheena Sabio*. Essential and Expendable: Migrant Domestic Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Behavioral Scientist<\/em>, 65(10): 1287-1301. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00027642211000396<\/a><\/p>\n

*This article was an equal coauthorship<\/p>\n

Works in Progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2012 \u201cTactical Solidarities in Precarious Labor: Navigating Caste, Gender and Class Hierarchies in Paid Domestic Work in India\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2012 \u201cContradictory Positionalities: Power, Privilege and Marginality in Transnational Feminist Ethnography\u201d<\/p>\n

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PhD Date:<\/strong> May 2027 (Expected)<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title:<\/strong> Making Methane Flow: Compression and the Governance of Unruly Publics, Materials, and Futures along the Mountain Valley Pipeline<\/p>\n

Areas of Research\/Teaching:<\/strong> Political Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Sociology, Qualitative Methods<\/p>\n

Dissertation Committee:<\/strong> Andrew Lakoff (chair), Nina Eliasoph, Dan Lainer-Vos, Christina Dunbar-Hester
\nEmail: davisms@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Works in Progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCompression: Knowing Integrity, Governing Risk along the Mountain Valley Pipeline\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSensing Windows: Temporal Bounds of Pipeline Monitoring\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Arnab Chakraborty\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2027 (Expected)<\/p>\n

Dissertation Title<\/strong>: A Moral Economy of Dignity: How Workers in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century Mobilize for a Future Beyond Precarity<\/p>\n

Areas of Research\/Teaching<\/strong>: Sociology of Culture; Economic Sociology; Labor and Labor Movements; Organizational Theory; Political Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods; Ethnography; Precarious Work; Moral Economy; Dignity at Work; Solidarity Formation<\/p>\n

Dissertation Committee<\/strong>: Paul Lichterman (Chair), Nina Eliasoph, Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as, Lyn Spillman<\/p>\n

Email<\/strong>: arnab@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent Publications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Chakraborty, Arnab. 2026. \u201cCombating Tokenism: Highlighting the Role of Power in Making Inclusion Meaningful\u201d. Qualitative Sociology<\/em>. 49: 375\u2013396.\u00a0( https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11133-025-09628-7<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Chakraborty, Arnab and Paul Lichterman. 2022. \u201cEthnographic Approaches to the Study of Political Participation\u201d. Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. New York: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Work in Progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chakraborty, Arnab. \u201cConstructing Dignity Claims: How Precarious Workers Mobilize by Utilizing Legal Knowledge and Ideas about Craftsmanship\u201d (Ready for Submission)<\/p>\n

Chakraborty, Arnab. \u201cBringing the Worker Back into Discussions of Future of Work: A Moral Economy of Dignity\u201d (Ready for Submission)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Raquel Delerme\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date:<\/strong> May 2027 (Expected)
\nDissertation Title:<\/strong> Set Ablaze: Racialized and Gendered Labor Processes of California’s Incarcerated Women Firefighters
\nAreas of Research\/Teaching: Race-Gender-Class, Punishment and Incarceration, Environmental Sociology, Qualitative Methods
\nDissertation Committee:<\/strong> Jennifer Hook (co-chair) Hajar Yazdiha (co-chair), Manuel Pastor, Camille Gear-Rich
\nEmail:<\/strong> delerme@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent Publications:
\n<\/b>Delerme, Raquel. 2025. “‘It\u2019s Heartbreaking. It\u2019s Expensive. It\u2019s Hard’: How the Carceral Care Economy Harms Black and Latine Mothers.” Gender & Society, 0<\/i>(0). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/08912432251331534<\/a><\/p>\n

Friedman, Brittany and Raquel Delerme.<\/b>\u00a02025. \u201cWe study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to \u2018contain\u2019 people of color and immigrants.\u201d The Conversation.<\/i><\/p>\n

Manuscripts Under Review:<\/b><\/div>\n

Michael Sierra-Ar\u00e9valo, Jos\u00e9 J. Alcocer, Lauren Brown, Raquel Delerme<\/b>, Benjamin A.T. Graham, Harry G. Muttram, Jackson Trager, and Nicholas Weller \u201cPolice as Policymakers: How Experiences with Policy Implementation Shape Policy Representation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Works in Progress:<\/b><\/div>\n

– “On Drugs: How Clinical and Carceral Logics Converge to (Mis)manage Addiction Among Incarcerated Women”<\/p>\n

– \u201cMaking a Worker: Amenability to Penal Labor through News Media Coverage of Incarcerated Women Firefighters, 1977-2025\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Valentina Cantori<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2026
\nDissertation Title<\/strong>: Imagining Inclusion: How Muslim Advocates Craft Public Images in U.S. Civic Life
\nAreas of Research\/Teaching<\/strong>: Culture; Political Sociology; Sociology of Religion; Civic Inclusion; Qualitative Methods; Ethnography; American Muslims; Islam; Advocacy; Race and Ethnicity; Social Theory; Pragmatism
\nDissertation Committee<\/strong>: Paul Lichterman (Chair), Nina Eliasoph, Hajar Yazdiha, Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as, Cavan Concannon
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2026
\nDissertation Title<\/strong>: Global Elites Made in China: How do Wealthy Chinese Families Navigate Foreign College Education?<\/span>
\nAreas of Research\/Teaching<\/strong>: Sociology of Culture; Social Stratification; Transnational and Global Education; Contemporary China; Transnational Asia\/Asian America; Economic Sociology; Organizational Theory; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods<\/span>
\nDissertation Committee<\/strong>: Ann Owens (co-chair, UCLA), Dan Schrage (co-chair, USC), Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (Internal member outside of department, USC Price), Laura Miller (External member, Brandeis)<\/span>
\nEmail<\/strong>: ruiyili@usc.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Work in Progress:
\n<\/strong>Li, Ruiyi. \u201cHow do organizational characteristics shape grassroots organizations\u2019 survival strategies in China?\u201d (Under Review)<\/span><\/p>\n

Li, Ruiyi. \u201cAssistive Parenting: How Chinese Elite Families Prepare for Studying Abroad?\u201d (Ready for submission)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2027 (Expected)
\nDissertation Title<\/strong>: Culture(s) of Activism: Investigating Domestic Worker Organizing in India and the US.<\/span>
\nAreas of Research\/Teaching<\/strong>: Gender and Migration; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Political Sociology; Labor Movements; Qualitative Methods; Feminist Ethnography; Global and Transnational Sociology<\/span>
\nDissertation Committee<\/strong>: Hajar Yazdiha (co-chair, USC), Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as, (co-chair, Princeton), Nina Eliasoph, Manuel Pastor, and Eliz Sanasarian<\/span>
\nEmail<\/strong>: kpandey@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Recent Publications<\/strong>:
\nPandey, Kritika. 2025. \u201cCaught between hostile worlds and connected lives: everyday inequalities, fraught intimacies and the fight for domestic worker rights\u201d. (Under review at Economy and Society)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pandey, Kritika. 2023. \u201cAid and the Help: International Development and Transnational Extraction of Care<\/a>\u201d (By Hannaford, Dinah), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Med. Anthropology Quarterly.<\/p>\n

2022 \u201cCare Chain.\u201d with Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as and Gianne Sheena Sabio, in Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Refugee Studies. Eds. Anna Triandafyllidou. Routledge.<\/p>\n

Pandey, Kritika*, Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as* and Gianne Sheena Sabio*. 2021. “Essential and Expendable: Migrant Domestic Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a>.” American Behavioral Scientist, 65(10): 1287-1301. (*This article was an equal coauthorship)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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