Candidates on the Academic Market
Mary Barr
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellow at Pomona College, Claremont, California.
Dissertation topic: “Black and White Together: Constructing Integration While Establishing de facto Segregation.”
Education: Summa Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. in Sociology.
Mary earned her Ph.D. in 2008. She is currently an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellow at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her areas of specialization include educational inequalities, community studies, qualitative methodologies (historical and ethnographic), and 20th Century African American history (with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement). In 2010, Mary’s dissertation, “Black and White Together: Constructing Integration while establishing de facto Segregation,” won the Marvin B. Sussman prize from the Yale Department of Sociology. She is currently revising her manuscript for publication with the University of Chicago Press.
Dominik Bartmanski
Dominik Bartmanski is interested in social theory and cultural sociology. His primary areas of interest are social hermeneutics, epistemology, political philosophy of liberalism, and social change. He has also focused on the issues related to various aspects of the European integration.
Education: M.A. Political Science, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Double M.A. Degree in Sociology and European Studies, Jagiellonian University and the University of Exeter, UK.
Ronald Kramer
Research Interests: Ronald Kramer received his Ph.D. in 2009. His dissertation, “A Social History of Graffiti Writing in New York City, 1990 – 2005,” focused on (a) how graffiti writers reinvented their practice throughout the 1990s and (b) the role that official opposition to graffiti plays within a new urban context dominated by neoliberal principles. His current research continues on this trajectory by exploring the multifaceted relationship between neoliberalism and the reconfiguring of cities as spaces of exchange-value.
His publications include:
Kramer, R. (2011/Forthcoming). “Political Elites, ‘Broken Windows,’ and the Commodification of Urban Space.” Critical Criminology.
Kramer, R. (2010). “Painting with Permission: Legal Graffiti in New York City,” Ethnography 11(2): 235-253.
Kramer, R. (2010). “Moral Panics and Urban Growth Machines: Official Reactions to Graffiti in New York City, 1990-2005.” Qualitative Sociology 33(3): 297-311.
Education: B.A with Honors, Sociology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (2001); M.A, Sociology, Yale University (2004); M. Phil, Sociology, Yale University (2006); Ph.D, Sociology, Yale University (2009).