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On the Job Market (Grad Students and Alumni)

Graduate Students on the Market

Anneliese Ward

Email: ward.1602@osu.edu

CV: Anneliese Ward CV

Anneliese is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University. Her research agenda centers on the way penal outcomes are shaped by both individual-level characteristics and macro-level contextual factors. Her dissertation, funded in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and an Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship, examines the way individuals' "releasability" from correctional facilities is constructed via the interaction of their demographic traits, charge type, and external contextual characteristics. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Social Problems, Socius, and Mobilization. Through mixed-methods approaches, she hopes to deconstruct the complex relationship between overarching cultural narratives surrounding crime and punishment, individual-level perceptions of the “releasable” versus the “unreleasable,” and concrete criminal-legal outcomes.

Tori Coan (they/she)

Email: coan.17@osu.edu

CV: Tori Coan CV 

Bio: I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University. My research interests include the sociology of care work; race, class, and gender inequality; disability; and political economy. I am seeking applied research and policy-oriented positions in non-profit, research/think tank, and government organizations.

My quantitative research skills include proficiency in R and STATA and experience with statistical modeling techniques such as longitudinal data analyses and multi-level modeling. My research and data skills are complimented by my applied research and legislative experience. Prior to beginning my PhD, I worked as a Legislative Director in the Maryland General Assembly; working to pass progressive tax legislation, paid family and medical leave insurance, and childcare subsidies. In 2023, I interned for the Center for Economic and Policy Research; co-authoring multiple policy reports related to universal basic income, paid family and medical leave, and the need for improved federal data collection on paid and unpaid caregiving.

Dissertation Title: Debts of Care - Unpaid Caregiving and Unsecured Debt among U.S. Adults 55+ 

Advisor: Rachel Dwyer

Jacob Kepes

Email: kepes.8@osu.edu

Kepes CV (PDF) 
Research and Teaching Interests: I am a PhD candidate in Sociology seeking to use my research expertise, proficiency with statistical software (R, Stata, and Python), and experience with qualitative methods (interviews and ethnography) in a non-academic role. My research areas include spatial analysis, housing, urban sociology, public health, race, and crime.

Dissertation Title: Flipping a Floodplain: A Case Study of Gentrification in Columbus, Ohio

Advisors: Townsand Price-Spratlen and Christopher Browning

Alex Kempler

Email: kempler.4@osu.edu

Website: Alex Kempler

Alex Kempler (she/they) is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at The Ohio State University. She is broadly interested in urban and community sociology, social movements, and housing sociology. Her research examines how community members, such as housing insecure, unhoused individuals, and activists, mobilize for housing rights. Her dissertation will explore the resurgence of encampments on the West Coast, focusing specifically on the “Stop the Sweeps Movement” in Los Angeles and Seattle. Other work looks at housing rights and policy more broadly, examining topics like the evolution of eviction policy during the COVID-19 pandemic and housing policy changes related to the Violence Against Women Act.