Department of Sociology

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Dissertation topic: “Religious Politics: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparative Perspective.”

Education: B.A., M.A. Sociology, Yale University (2002); Ph.D., Yale University (2010)

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.

Visiting Assistant Professor in Social Sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi

Dissertation Topic: “Ethnicity and Mortality in Russia: Socialism, Breakdown, and Russia’s Return to the Growth Trajectory”

Education: M.P.H., Global Health, Yale University (2005); M.Phil., Sociology, Yale University (2007); Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University (2010)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Dissertation Topic: “Hounded out: Performative success and institutional failure in the pro-hunting movement”

Research interests: Sarah’s interests include cultural and political sociology, and particularly the study of social movements. Her dissertation research examines the cultural conflicts surrounding foxhunting and its prohibition in England.

Education: (B. Soc. Sc., M. Soc. Sc., National University of Ireland (UCD), M.A. Sociology, Yale University).

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Dissertation Topic: “A Sociology of Safari: Techné and Travel in Tanzania.”

Education: B.A., High Honors in the Biological Sciences, Smith College (1999); M.E.S., Environmental Science, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University (2002); M.A., Sociology, Yale University (2004); M.Phil., Sociology, Yale University (2005); Ph.D., Sociology, Yale University (2009).

(2010-2011) Pierre Keller Post-Doctoral Fellow in Transatlantic Relations; Jackson Institute for Global Affairs / The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

Dissertation Title: “The Loss of Citizenship: The Regulation of Loyalty in Immigration Countries.”

Education: B.A. Sociology and Political Science - Tel Aviv University (2000); M.A. Sociology, with distinction - Tel Aviv University (2003); M.A. Sociology - Yale University (2004); M.Phil. Sociology - Yale University (2007); Ph.D. Sociology - Yale University (2009).

Assistant Professor, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Dissertation Title: “It’s Just Not Main Street Anymore…!” Mapping out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway

Education: M.A., M.Phil - Yale University (2009); Ph.D. Sociology - Yale University (2011).

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Haverford College, Haverford, PA

Dissertation topic: “De-fusing the Elements of Musical Performance: A Cultural Sociology of the International Music Competition.”

Education: B.A. Sociology, summa cum laude, and B.Mus. Cello Performance, summa cum laude (Rice University); M.Phil. Music Performance & Interpretation (University of Oxford); M.A. and M.Phil. Sociology (Yale University)

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon

Dissertation topic: “The Syntax of Power: Classification and Coercion in the Early Modern English Maritime System”

Education: B.A. Philosophy (Villanova University); M.A. Conflict Resolution (Bradford University)

Assistant Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Public Economics and Administration. (2010)

Dissertation topic: “Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Transitional Economics.”

Education: B.A. Finance (Xi’an Jiaotong University); M.Sc. Economics (University of Oslo)

Research Fellow, Children's Hospital Boston

Dissertation topic: “The World Health Organization and the Dynamics of International Disease Control: Exit, Voice, and Trojan Loyalty,”

Education: B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Chemistry and American History, University of Pennsylvania (2001); MPhil, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Cambridge University (2002); MD, PhD (Distinguished), Sociology, Yale University (2010).

Akademischer Rat (lecturer), Universität Konstanz

Dissertation topic: “Nature + Nurture = Love? Biological and sociological approaches to the study of parental favoritism and differential parental investment.”

Education: M.Phil. Sociology, Yale University, 2008; M.A. Sociology, Yale University, 2006; Diplom Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2003; Erasmus Exchange Semester, Lunds Universitet, 2000

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Hong Kong (2009)

Dissertation topic: “Commercializing Culture in the Global City: Spatial Practices and Symbolic Boundaries of Contemporary Art in Beijing”

Education: B.A. Wellesley College; M.Phil., Ph.D. Yale University

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Medicine

Dissertation topic: “Analyzing and Measuring Social Exclusion in the United States.”

Education: B.A. Economics, with honors (University of Chicago), M.A. Sociology, Yale University, M.A. Economics, Yale University.