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BERKELEY CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES RESEARCHERS
PRE-DOCTORAL (Ph.D. DISSERTATION) RESEARCHERS
With year(s) of CWF fellowship, current position and e-mail address.
Pre-doctoral Cohort, September 1997 - August 1998
Lisa Epstein. Awarded Ph.D. from the Haas Graduate School of Business,
May 2000.
Dissertation Title: "Telecommuting and the Effects of Work and Family."
April Gilbert (renewed
for 1999-2000). Awarded Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Haas Graduate
School of Business, May 2001.
Dissertation Title: "Work Absorption: Causes Among Highly Educated Workers
and Consequences for Their Families."
Assistant Professor, MBA Program, Mills College.
agilbert@mills.edu
Will Rountree. Awarded
Ph.D. in Sociology, December 2000.
Dissertation Title: "Contracting Intimacy: The Transformation of Property
and Parenting in Familial Relations."
Employed in the legal field in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Rudd. Awarded Ph.D. in Sociology,
December 1999 .
Dissertation Title: "Coping with Capitalism: Gender and the Transformation
of Work-family Conflicts in Former East Germany."
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life,University
of Michigan.
erudd@isr.umich.edu
Sally Woodhouse.
Awarded Ph.D. in Economics, December 2001.
Dissertation Title: "The Relationship Between Childcare Costs, Maternal
Employment, and Children’s Test Scores."
Employed at Cornerstone Research, a litigation consulting firm in Boston, MA.
Sheba George. Awarded
Ph.D. in Sociology, May 2001.
Dissertation title: "When Women Come First: Gender and Class and Transnational
Ties among Indian Immigrants in the United States."
Blanche Grosswald.
Awarded Ph.D. in Social Welfare, December 2000.
Dissertation title: "Effects of Transit Shift Work on Family Relationships."
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, 2001.
bgrosswa@rci.rutgers.edu
Scott North. Awarded
Ph.D. in Sociology, May 2002.
Dissertation Title: "Work and Parenthood Under Advanced Capitalism: Contemporary
Fatherhood in Japan and America."
Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Human
Sciences at Osaka University in Japan.
north@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp
Pre-doctoral Cohort: September 1999 - August 2000
Christopher Davidson (renewed for
2000-2001). Awarded Ph.D. in Sociology, May 2001.
Dissertation Title: "Three Dimensional Families: Religion and Social Life
Among American Jewish Teenagers and Their Parents."
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Office of Faculty Equity Assistance, University of
California, Berkeley.
dritaly@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Brian Duff, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science [degree anticipated, 2003]. Dissertation Title: "The Tragedy of Birth: Procreation in Modern Political Theory."
Pre-Doctoral Cohort: September 2000 - August 2001
Catherine T. Albiston. Awarded Ph.D.
in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, May 2001.
Dissertation Title: "The Institutional Context of Civil Rights: Mobilizing
the Family and Medical Leave Act in the Courts and in the Workplace."
Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
cralbiston@facstaff.wisc.edu
Lindy Fursman (renewed for 2001-2002). Awarded
Ph.D. in Sociology, May 2002.
Dissertation Title: "Expecting Labor: Pregnant Women in the Corporate Workplace."
Employed in a government social policy analysis and research job in New Zealand.
lindyfursman@yahoo.com
Allison Pugh, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology [renewed
2001-2002; degree anticipated, 2003].
Dissertation Title: "Making Maternal Meaning: Mothering, Consumption and
Care."
pugh@socrates.berkeley.edu
Pre-Doctoral Cohort: September 2001-August 2002
Alesia Montgomery. Awarded Ph.D. in Sociology, Dec. 2002.
Dissertation Title: "Help Wanted: Family, Friends and Community as ‘Reserve
Labor’ in Silicon Valley."
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Center on the Everyday Lives of Families, UCLA.
amontgom@ucla.edu
Caroline Hinkle, Ph.D. candidate, History [degree
anticipated, 2003].
Dissertation Title: "The History of Advice to Parents Regarding Child Discipline."
chinkle@socrates.berkeley.edu
Anna Korteweg, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley
[degree anticipated: 2003].
Dissertation Title: "Needs Interpretation and the Construction of Gendered
Citizenship."
korteweg@socrates.berkeley.edu
Cheri Jo Pascoe, Ph.D. candidate, Sociology [degree
anticipated, 2003].
Dissertation Title: "Negotiating Masculinities: Teenage Boys in an Unsettled
Gender Regime."
cjpascoe@socrates.berkeley.edu
Natasha Schull, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology [degree
anticipated, 2003].
Dissertation Title: "Living with the Machine: An Ethnography of Gambling
Addiction in Las Vegas."
schull@sscl.berkeley.edu
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