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Eric Johnson

E-mail:  ebj2001@columbia.edu

Curriculum Vitae:  pdf

Ph.D. Date:  May 2008

Dissertation Title:  Meaning Through Movement: Institutional Rules and Patterns of Pastor Mobility in Presbyterian (PCUSA) and United Methodist (UMC) Congregations

Dissertation Committee:  Peter Bearman (Chair), Harrison White, Mark Chaves, Debra Minkoff

Areas of Interest:  Religious organization, economic sociology, organizational theory


Paolo Parigi

E-mail:  ppp25@columbia.edu

Website: http://www.columbia.edu/~ppp25/home.html

Ph.D. Date: December 2007 (Historical Sociology)

Dissertation Title:  The Social Production of Miracles During the Counter Reformation

Dissertation Committee:  Peter Bearman (chair), Harrison White, Duncan Watts, Roberto Rusconi

Areas of Interest:  Historical sociology, organizations, methods


Randa Serhan

E-mail:  rbs146@columbia.edu

Curriculum Vitae:  pdf  Papers here:  1

Ph.D. Date:  May 2008

Dissertation Title:  Suspended Community: An Ethnographic Study of Palestinian-Americans in Metropolitan New York

Dissertation Committee:  Charles Tilly (chair), Herbert Gans, Gil Eyal, Rashid Khalidi, Lila Abu-Lughod

Areas of Interest:  Ethnicity, second generation immigrants, citizenship and nationalism, trust networks, community building 


Dan Lainer-Vos

E-mail:  dv2018@columbia.edu

Website: http://www.columbia.edu/~dv2018

Ph.D. Date:  May 2008

Dissertation Title: Nationalism in Action: The Weaving of Irish and Jewish Transatlantic National Networks 

Dissertation Committee:  Gil Eyal (chair), Peter Bearman, David Stark, Timothy Mitchell, Nadia Abu El Haj

Areas of interest: Nationalism, social movement theory, social theory, historical comparative methods, network theory, economic sociology, science and technology studies
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