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On the Job Market (Grad Students and Alumni)

Graduate Students on the Market

Luca Badolato

Email: badolato.3@buckeyemail.osu.edu

CV:  Luca Badolato CV

Luca Badolato is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the Ohio State University, where he is also affiliated with the Institute for Population Research. His work highlights how social status characteristics and broader social contexts shape inequalities in reproductive experiences. In particular, he draws on reproductive rights and justice frameworks to illuminate the barriers that prevent individuals from achieving their reproductive aspirations. He also builds on insights from family sociology to investigate the relationship between demographic changes and family dynamics. As a social demographer, he approaches Demography as a broad field at the intersection of social and statistical sciences that offers clear lenses to illuminate fundamental aspects of the social world. Across his projects, he combines traditional and innovative data sources and methods, including computational, quantitative, and qualitative approaches, and bridges different streams of demographic and sociological theoretical research.

Rui Cao

Email: cao.1184@osu.edu

CV: Rui Cao CV

I am a trained sociologist and social demographer who studies gender, education, family, and health. My research is motivated by exploring the heterogeneity of gender practices across micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, and by how these dimensions align or come into conflict to shape individuals’ life chances. Building on this agenda, I examine how gender systems intersect with individual identities and broader social contexts to influence attitudes, decision-making, and well-being. My dissertation investigates how sexual orientation shapes women’s and men’s trajectories in STEM fields. In a recent sole-authored publication, I examined how children’s gender influences parental gender ideology across regions characterized by different levels of gender inequality. I also led a study on maternal sleep and intergenerational living that highlights racial-ethnic disparities. Additional collaborative projects explore the dynamics and consequences of family relationships. My work has appeared in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Journal of Family Issues, and Social Psychology Quarterly.

Huda Jabbar

Email: jabbar.9@.osu.edu

CV: Huda Jabbar CV

Huda Jabbar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research is broadly focused on family, immigration, demography, and gender. Her dissertation is focused on understanding how the immigration integration process in the U.S. effects immigrant sibling relationship quality. Additionally, her dissertation investigates the gendered dynamics within the division of familial labor among children of immigrants, focusing on Somali and Iraqi American families. She utilizes mixed methodologies within her research, including in-depth interviews and multilevel modeling. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Family Studies and has been presented at the American Sociological Association and the Population Association of America Conferences. Her research contributes to scholarship on immigrant incorporation, gendered labor, and family sociology.

Mehr Mumtaz

Email: mumtaz.4@osu.edu

CV: Mehr Mumtaz CV

Mehr Mumtaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the intersections between sociology of (im)migration, intersectionality, and inequality, focusing on how individuals’ migration processes and incorporation outcomes are shaped by the U.S. immigration system both inside and outside the U.S. Mehr’s dissertation project draws on rich qualitative data from recent Afghan migrants, and U.S. based immigration attorneys, to examine how migrants navigate the U.S. immigration system in the post-2021 context. Mehr pays close attention to the ways in which immigration policies and bureaucracies differentially affect and (re)produce intersecting gender, ethnic, and class related (in)equalities in migrants’ experiences with (im)mobility within their country of origin, transit, and destination.

Mehr’s dissertation project is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation’s Dissertation Grant, and the Mershon Center for International Security Research Grant at Ohio State University. Some of her research has been published in Sociological Quarterly, Socio-economic Review, and Population Research and Policy Review. Outside of Ohio State University, she has worked as a  research consultant at the West Coast Poverty Center at the University of Washington, Seattle. Additionally, in 2022 Mehr served as a Research Intern at the Migration Policy Institute, Washington D.C. Mehr uses both qualitative and quantitative data sources and methods to develop her research agenda centered around migration governance and its consequences for individuals navigating it.   

Advisors: Eric Schoon & Reanne Frank 

Dawson Vosburg

Email: vosburg.4@osu.edu

CV: Vosburg CV

Dawson P. R. Vosburg is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at The Ohio State University. His research is focused on religion and inequality, especially American Christians and economic inequality. His dissertation examines how the widespread Christian personal finance advice media apparatus shapes the attitudes of American Christians toward economic individualism and inequality. He explores the connections between religion and inequality with qualitative methods including in-depth interviews and content analysis. His work will soon appear in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and Teaching Sociology and has been presented at the American Sociological Association and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion conferences. 

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.