Ph.D.s on the Market[ Aarushi Bhandari | Helana Darwin | Andrew Hargrove | Nicholas Rogers ] |
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Aarushi Bhandari is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Stony Brook University. Aarushi’s dissertation “Mobile Phone Distribution and Global Food Security” was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (NSF DDRI) grant for the 2019-2020 academic year. Her dissertation features three distinct empirical studies addressing contemporary phenomena in international development. More specifically, these cross-national quantitative studies evaluate the rising salience of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within development policy discourse. In the 20 years between 1995 to 2015, the average number of mobile phones within developing countries increased from a few hundred thousand to about 40 million. In this time period, development policymakers led by the United Nations have broadly expanded ICTs for development initiatives, suggesting these technologies can uplift developing populations from poverty and food insecurity. Aarushi’s dissertation formally evaluates these claims for empirical merit, addressing limitations like the gender digital divide, and exploitative core-periphery dynamics. The first study from her dissertation “Gender Inequality in Mobile Technology Access: The Role of Economic and Social Development” was published in Information, Communication and Society in 2019. Aarushi has also previously published on topics of gender and global food security in Sociological Quarterly and Sociology Compass. Aarushi is a first-generation immigrant from Nepal and has lived in the U.S. since 2009.
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Bhandari, A. and Burroway, R. 2018 . “Hungry for Equality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Women’s Legal Rights and Hunger in Developing Countries.” The Sociological Quarterly 1-25
Bhandari, A. 2017. "Women's Status and Global food security: An overview."
Sociology Compass 11-5. Selected Publications in Progress: Bhandari, A. “ICT for Development? Latent growth curve models connecting ICTs, women’s status and global food security” Bhandari, A. “The Uneven Spread of ICTs Between Rich and Poor Nations: A Cross-National Investigation of Contributing Factors” Burroway, R. &
Bhandari, A. “Women’s Property Rights and Change in HIV/AIDS Over Time: A Cross-National Analysis
of Incidence Rates, 1990-2009.”
Courses Taught: Sociology of Technology, Summer 2017, Spring 2019 Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2018 Media and Society, Summer 2018, Winter 2019, Summer 2019 Research Methods, Spring 2019 Selected Qualitative Course Evaluations from Aarushi's students "Professor Bhandari is a fantastic teacher. She cares about her students and it shows. She knows how to make even stats enjoyable to learn. She's keeps her students engaged in the material and makes sure we understand what she's teaching not just memorize for the test." "The professor was very fun, relatable, and refreshing, and made boring content engaging" "I enjoyed the passion that the professor had for the material. It really showed through the lectures and got a lot of students involved in class conversations." |
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Helana Darwin is an award-winning sociologist of gender, whose research focuses on the regulatory impact of the gender binary system. Helana has turned to a wide range of subcultures, both online and offline, in order to theorize gender inequality. Helana’s research on the privileged position of omnivorousness within craft beer culture recently won the Graduate Student Paper Award through the Consumer and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association. Her insightful research on gender in craft beer culture has attracted a considerable amount of attention from academics and non-academics alike, inspiring interview invitations from a variety of popular press outlets. Helana has also proposed a paradigm shift in the sociology of gender and religion, through her article “Redoing Gender, Redoing Religion,” published by Gender & Society. This research theorizes egalitarian social change within patriarchal religious traditions, by centering the experiences of gender-transgressive religious practitioners. The Association for the Sociology of Religion recognized "Redoing Gender, Redoing Religion" through the McNamara Award, as the most outstanding article by a graduate student in 2018. Helana’s current research analyzes the social experiences of non-binary people (those who identify as neither man nor woman), identifying obstacles that they encounter in their daily lives, along with strategies they have devised in order to achieve social recognition. Based on a virtual ethnography of a social media site and a follow up series of in-depth interviews with 47 non-binary people from across the globe, this research illuminates the limitations and harmful effects of the gender binary system. Helana earned the competitive Joyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award from Stony Brook University for this research. Helana is on the job market and in pursuit of a book contract.
Darwin, H. 2018. “Redoing Gender, Redoing Religion.”
Gender & Society 32(3): 348-370. Darwin, H. 2018. “Omnivorous Masculinity: Gender Capital and Cultural Legitimacy in
Craft Beer culture.”
Social Currents 5(3): 301-316. Darwin, H. 2017. “Doing Gender Beyond the Binary: a virtual ethnography.” Symbolic Interaction 40(3): 317-334. Darwin, H. 2017. "The Pariah Femininity Hierarchy: Comparing White Women’s Body Hair and Fat Stigmas in the United States." Gender, Place & Culture 24(1): 135-146. Darwin, H. 2016. “Jewish Women’s Kippot: meanings and motives.” Contemporary Jewry 37(1): 81-97. Selected Publications in Review and in Progress: Darwin, H. and Amara Miller. "The Body Positive Movement: Feminist Progress?" (R&R,
Feminist Media Studies) Darwin, H. Lahkpreet Kaur, and Nazreen Bacchus. "
Pious Pariahs: The Gendered Politics of Religious Visibility" (Manuscript in Progress) |
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Andrew Hargrove is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department at Stony Brook University, whose research focuses on the nexus between water scarcity and water access and the conflict inherent in solving these issues simultaneously. Andrew focuses on the international aid, policy, and academic debates concerning water access, water scarcity, and international development, health, and the environment. He has expertise in many quantitative and statistical methodologies. His published articles with Rebekah Burroway at Social Science and Medicine and Sociology of Development utilize skills in geospatial analysis and multilevel modeling to understand child malnutrition and immunizations in Nigeria. His current works in progress include a network analysis of the academic water network, a multilevel analysis of the determinants of access to water and sanitation, a content analysis of 42,000+ water sector loans, and a longitudinal analysis of renewable internal freshwater resources.
Hargrove, Andrew. 2019. "Economic and Social Determinants of Access to Water and Sanitation: A Cross-National,
Multilevel Analysis of Well-being in Developing Nations."
Sociological Inquiry Burroway, Rebekah, and Andrew Hargrove. 2018. "It Takes a Village: Individual- and Community-Level Effects of Women’s Education on Child Malnutrition in Nigeria." Sociology of Development 4(2): 145-168. Under Review and Submitted Works: Hargrove, Andrew, Mais Qandeel, and Jamie M. Sommer. Under Review. "The Global Governance for Climate Justice: A Cross-National Analysis of CO2 Emissions." Global Transitions.
Hargrove, Andrew, and Jamie M. Sommer. Under Review. “Global Environmentalism in the World-System:
Cross-National Trends in Renewable Freshwater Resources (1967-2007).”
Social Sciences. Rogers, Nick, Andrew Hargrove, and Jason J. Jones. Under Review. “The End of “Innocence”? Three New Measures of Political Issue Alignment Among the General American Public.” PLOS One. |
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Nick primarily studies political polarization, with special emphasis on ideology formation and the American culture divide. He also researches in the realms of gender, and food. His peer reviewed research has been published in The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Psychology of Popular Media Culture, and The Journal of Gerontology. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and Arkansas Life Magazine. In addition to his research work at Stony Brook University, he currently teaching a course in social science methodology at New York University's Center for Global Affairs. Prior to entering his Ph.D. program, Nick was a trial lawyer in his home state of Arkansas. He lives in Brooklyn with his dog Faulkner.
Rogers, Nick 2017. "How Wrestling Explains Alex Jones and Donald Trump. "The New York
Times, April 25, 2017.
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