PhDs on the market
Get to know our candidates who are completing their PhD in Development Sociology and preparing to enter the job market.
Research focus: the multiple, and competing, intersections of D/development, sovereignty, and non-state configurations of power in the Horn of Africa.
Research Focus: The expectations and roles of daughters and parents of daughters, in the context of cultural norms and fertility decline within the political economy of development
Research focus: The intersection of agricultural development and climate change resilience in Malawi
Research Focus: labor relations in the shrimp processing industries of Thailand and Bangladesh.
Get to know our recent PhD graduates
Explore some of our recent graduates who have entered the professional world to learn more about their experience, research focus, publications and more.
Assistant Professor in Sociology and Integrative Conservation at William and Mary
Research Focus: commodification of water, the social construction of drinking water behavior, the impact of interpersonal and institutional trust on behavior, and the social landscape of flood risk
Lecturer, Department of Global Development, Cornell University
Lecturer, John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell University