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.

Pre-doctoral Cohort: September 1998 - August 1999
Julio Cammarota - (renewed for 1999-2000).  Awarded Ph.D. in Education, May 2001 .
Dissertation title, "First Jobs: The Experiences and Perceptions of Work for Latino Youth."
Research Associate, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona.
juliocamm@yahoo.com

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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