Allison Wigen & Caoyifu Zhou defend their dissertations

Two of our PhD students successfully defended their dissertations this past month: Allison Wigen’s Art at Work: Labor and Cultural Production in the Wake of Change on March 30th in the CISS conference room and Caoyifu Zhou’s Equal Quality, Unequal Success? Social Influence, Identity, and Dual Cumulative Advantage in a Controlled Music Streaming Experiment on March 25th in the Sociology library. Pictures below from their respective defenses.

Congrats Allison and CZ!

Allison Wigen (center) with her committee (L to R) Jane Pryma, Michel Anteby, Japonica Brown-Saracino, and Nazli Kibria. Hannah Wohl (UCSB) appears above on the screen.
Allison (holding flowers) with her advisor Nazli Kibria
CZ (center) with his dissertation committee (L to R) Chris Chao Su (BU, Emerging Media Studies, Deborah Carr, Jonathan Mijs, and CZ’s advisor Neha Gondal