亚色影库

Eitan Alimi, Ph.D. 2004

Eitan Alimi is an听Associate Professor of听Sociology at Hebrew University, located in Jerusalem, Israel. His research interests include social movements/contentious politics and conflict resolution.听 He has numerous publications on the topics of cultural dynamics of protest politics, processes of radicalization, political violence and terrorism, and media discourse and peace building鈥攁s they apply to single cases and across cases. Alimi won the Emerald鈥檚 Outstanding Article Award of Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change in 2012 for his article, co-authored with Liora Norwich, 鈥淟earning from Failures: Why and How Scale Shift failed to Launch鈥擡vidence from the Case of the Israeli-Arab Land Day鈥� (published in听Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change听in 2011) and an Outstanding Book in English on Israeli Politics Award in 2008 from the Israeli Political Science Association for his book听Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada: Political Opportunities, Framing Processes, and Contentious Politics听(Routledge 2010).

Will Attwood-Charles, Ph.D. 2018

Will is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Miami University in Ohio. His research has focused on efforts at organizational change and innovation as well as how people experience and understand the labor process. He is currently working on several studies exploring status dynamics in collaborative workplace environments, as well as dimensions of labor control on for-profit gig economy platforms. His research has been published in journals such as听Theory and Society,听Socio Economic Review, Poetics, Sociological Compass, and听Research in the Sociology of Work. He was the first visiting fellow at the newly established Weisenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, Germany.

Esteban Calvo, Ph.D. 2009

Esteban Calvo is an听Professor and Director at the Society and Health Research Center at the Universidad Mayor in Chile. He has also served as a consultant for the United Nations, the government of Chile, Harvard School of Public Health, and the Center for Retirement Research. He has numerous articles on the topics of aging and the life course, social epidemiology, public policy, subjective well-being, and quantitative methods.听 In 2009, he won the Retirement Research Foundation Laurence G. Branch Award from the Section on Gerontological Health of the American Association of Public Health, and in 2010, he won the Robert Dentler Award for Outstanding Student Achievement from the Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology of the American Sociological Association. Calvo鈥檚 work has been recognized in:听La Tercera,听U.S. News & World Report, Chicago Tribune, Business Week, CNN Chile,听and听CNN International.

Mehmet Cansoy, Ph.D. 2018

Mehmet is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fairfield University. His research, published in Socio-Economic Review, American Behavioral Scientist, and Theory and Society focuses on the relationship between technology and inequality, specifically the emergence of online platforms and the gig economy. His current work, with an interdisciplinary team, investigates the environmental impacts of the digital economy, using geolocation data and digital traces to estimate carbon emissions. He has also been working with many community partners in his work with the Center for Social Impact at Fairfield University, offering research expertise to organizations working on housing, food insecurity and gun violence in Connecticut.

Lindsey Carfagna, Ph.D. 2017

Lindsey (Luka) Carfagna, PhD, is the Executive Director of Learning Experience Strategy and Design in the Provost鈥檚 Office of Online Programs at Villanova University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology.听Her research on the "Pedagogy of Precarity"听examined the relationship between labor and learning among entrepreneurial young adults navigating a post-recession economy. She has also conducted collaborative research on the role of learning in the Connected Economy. After graduation, she continued to consult with the research network as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Dayton and remotely at the University of California, Irvine, while designing competency-based degree programs and piloting Thomas Edison State University's first Learning Experience (LX) design program.听Dr. Carfagna currently uses insights from her academic research to critically re-imagine how universities operationalize the provision of online learning experiences, specifically in how choices about marketing, technology, and infrastructure can affect pedagogy. At Villanova, she is building the University's first LX Design team as part of the University's strategic priority to reduce reliance on for-profit Online Program Managers. As an independent consultant and founder of Magis Learning, Dr. Carfagna supports mission-driven organizations in designing formative learning experiences and infrastructure. In addition, she served on the Board of Directors for a non-profit startup that links military spouses to remote employment skill-acquisition opportunities. Dr. Carfagna is also a certified Spiritual Director from the Shalem Institute and supports faith-based organizations in the design and facilitation of contemplative retreats.

Jared Del Rosso, Ph.D. 2012

Jared Del Rosso is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. His dissertation explored issues of culture and knowledge in recent U.S. political debates about detainee abuse, torture, and interrogation policy. He is particularly interested in the social processes by which political communities assign meaning to their own acts of violence and the suffering that it causes.

More broadly, his research and teaching interests are in cultural sociology, the sociology of knowledge, social control, state violence, and qualitative methods. His work has appeared in听Social Problems,听Symbolic Interaction, and听Sexualities.听 Rosso is the author of 鈥淭he Textual Mediation of Official Denial: Congress, Abu Ghraib, and the Construction of an Isolated Incident,鈥� which received the Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Social Problems Theory Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2009.

Lauren Diamond-Brown, Ph.D. 2017

Lauren Diamond-Brown, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Potsdam. She researches, writes, and teaches about topics such as reproduction, medical sociology, gender and feminist studies, human services, and qualitative methods. Her research on decision-making in childbirth has been featured in publications such as听Social Science and Medicine听and听Advances in Medical Sociology.听Lauren is a reproductive justice advocate and is doing applied research to improve perinatal health in her local community. She strives to be a transformative educator through empowering students and incorporating service-learning, research, and activism in her courses. She is an all season outdoor enthusiast and balances her work life having fun with family and friends.

Danielle Egan, Ph.D. 2000

Danielle Egan is the Dean of Faculty and the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College. Her recent book听Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of Girls and Sexualization听(Polity Press, 2013) was named book of the week by the Times Higher Education Supplement, and has been reviewed and/or featured in听The Guardian听and听The Australian. She also authored听Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love: The Relationships between Exotic Dancers and their Regulars听(Macmillan, 2006); and co-authored听Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity听(Palgrave-Macmillan 2010). Danielle has written numerous other publications on the topics of gender, youth, sexuality, and popular culture, and her work has been featured on B亚色影库 Radio 4 and on NPR鈥檚 Good Parenting Radio.

Jared Fitzgerald, Ph.D. 2019

Jared is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. He is interested in understanding pathways to sustainability that improve both human and ecological wellbeing. Using advanced quantitative methods, his current research projects investigate the relationships between working time, inequality and sustainability broadly defined. His research has been published in journals such as听Social Forces,听Socius,听Sustainability听and听Environmental Sociology. In addition to his research interests, Dr. Fitzgerald is also committed to teaching high quality and engaging courses. Depending on the course, his primary goals as an educator are to introduce students to the value of sociological inquiry and to encourage students to engage critically with the world around them to better understand the causes and consequences of environmental degradation.

Michelle Gawerc, Ph.D. 2010

Michelle I. Gawerc is an听Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of听Prefiguring Peace: Israeli-Palestinian Peace-building Partnerships听(Rowman and Littlefield, 2010), a study of peacebuilding among Israeli and Palestinian youths. Gawerc has also published several articles including: 鈥淧eacebuilding: Theoretical and Concrete Perspectives鈥� in听Peace and Change: A Peace Journal听and 鈥淭he Al-Aksa Intifada: Revealing the Chasm鈥� (with Alan Dowty) in听Middle East Review of International Affairs. She is the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including a United States-Israel Educational Foundation Fulbright Fellowship, a Graduate Research Fellowship from Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation, and a United Nations Memorial Fellowship Award from the American Sociological Association's Peace War and Social Conflict Section. Gawerc鈥檚 intellectual work has been driven by her dedication to peace, justice, and understanding. 听In the last fifteen years, she has been involved as a facilitator in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue with teachers and high school students in Israel-Palestine, in German-Polish-Jewish dialogue with young adults in Osweicim (Auschwitz), Poland, and in diversity dialogues with university and secondary school students in the United States.

Autumn Green, Ph.D. 2013

Autumn Rose Green is a Research Scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, where she directs the Higher Education Access for Parenting Students Research Initiative. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Urban Institute, where she works with the Income and Benefits Policy Center and the Building America's Workforce Initiative. Her research and advocacy focus on college access and success for low-income, first-generation, and non-traditional students, especially student parents.听 Her forthcoming book, Surviving, Striving and Thriving: Low-Income Mothers in Higher Education (co-authored with fellow 亚色影库 sociology PhD Amanda Freeman) documents the experiences of low-income mothers pursuing higher education in ten states, situating their experiences within the systems and policy contexts that they must navigate to succeed in college. In her earlier life, Dr. Green was a young mother of two, working her way from GED to PhD. She has since earned a subsequent Master鈥檚 Degree in Education from Lesley University in 2018 for her work on the Two-Generation Classroom.

Maheen Haider, Ph.D. 2021

Dr. Maheen Haider is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand the issues of citizenship and belonging from Muslim immigrant perspectives. She examines the contemporary contexts of Hig