Students

Dissertations completed

Robert Jansen
“Populist Mobilization: Peru in Historical and Comparative Perspective” (2009)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows (from September 2009)

Peter Stamatov

"The Religious Origins of Modern Long-Distance Humanitarianism: England, 1780-1880, in Comparative Perspective" (2006)

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Yale University

Jon Fox

"Nationhood without Nationalism: Being National in Everyday Life" (2004)

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, U.K.

Joel Andreas

"Dismantling and rebuilding class: The failure of the communist experiment in China" (2003)

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Mara Loveman

"Nation-state building, 'race,' and the production of official statistics: Brazil in comparative perspective" (2001)

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin

Shigeki Sato

"The politics of nationhood in Germany and Japan" (1998)

Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University, Japan

Dissertations in progress

Stela Krasteva

“Neo-Protestantism and Marginalized Roma Communities in Post-Socialist Bulgaria”

Jaeeun Kim

“Transborder National Membership Politics in Korea”

Justin Lee

“The Social Origins and Development of Psychotherapy Integration”

Kristin Surak
“Tea Ceremony, Nation, and Gender in Modern Japan”

Alexander Kolev
“The Interplay of International Pressures and Domestic Factors in the Accommodation of the Post-Communist Ethnic Conflicts in Bulgaria, Estonia, Macedonia and Kazakhstan”

Susanne Chan
“Fields of Economic Transformation in Rural South China: An Ethnographic Study in Three Villages”