{"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":"2025-10-31T09:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:07:22","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 Valentina Cantori<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2026 (Expected)
\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
\nEmail<\/strong>: cantori@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Ruiyi Li<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2026 (Expected)
\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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\n Kritika Pandey<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2026 (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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\n Thalia Tom<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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PhD Date<\/strong>: May 2026 (Expected)
\nDissertation Title<\/strong>: Stratification at the Starting Gate: Investigating Heterogeneous <\/span>Neighborhood Effects on School Readiness by Race\/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Neighborhood Trajectory
\nAreas of Research\/Teaching<\/strong>: Urban Sociology; Sociology of Education; Social Stratification; Health; Race\/Ethnicity; Quantitative Methods<\/span>
\nDissertation Committee<\/strong>: Ann Owens (co-chair, UCLA), Dan Schrage (co-chair, USC), <\/span>Manuel Pastor, and Jennifer Ailshire
\nEmail<\/strong>: thaliato@usc.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Recent Publications<\/strong>:
\nKye, Samuel H. and Thalia Tom. 2025. “What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach<\/a>.” Social Science Research, volume 133.<\/p>\n

Brazil, Noli, Jennifer Candipan, Brian Levy, and Thalia Tom. 2025. \u201cBeyond the Residential Neighborhood: A Scoping Review of Research on Urban Neighborhood Networks<\/a>.\u201d Social Science & Medicine 372(117945).<\/span><\/p>\n

Owens, Ann, and Thalia Tom. 2024. \u201cIntersecting Inequalities: Racial\/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Math Achievement and School Contexts in California<\/a>.\u201d Social Problems 71(3): 720-747.<\/p>\n

Friedman, Samantha, and Thalia Tom. 2023. \u201cResidential Segregation by Education in the U.S.: 2016-2020<\/a>.\u201d in Recent Trends in Demographic Data, edited by Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue. IntechOpen.<\/p>\n

DiRago, Nicholas, Meiying Li, Thalia Tom, Will Schupmann, Yvonne Carrillo, Colleen M. Carey, and Michael S. Gaddis. 2022. \u201cCOVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and the Reproduction of Urban Spatial Inequality: Disparities Within Large U.S. Cities in March and April 2021 by Racial\/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition<\/a>.\u201d Journal of Urban Health 99:191-207.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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