{"id":14167,"date":"2026-04-22T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/?p=14167"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:00:34","slug":"allison-wigen-caoyifu-zhou-defend-their-dissertations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/2026\/04\/22\/allison-wigen-caoyifu-zhou-defend-their-dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"Allison Wigen &#038; Caoyifu Zhou defend their dissertations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of our PhD students successfully defended their dissertations this past month: Allison Wigen&#8217;s <em>Art at Work: Labor and Cultural Production in the Wake of Change <\/em>on March 30th in the CISS conference room and Caoyifu Zhou&#8217;s <em>Equal Quality, Unequal Success? Social Influence, Identity, and Dual Cumulative Advantage in a Controlled Music Streaming Experiment <\/em>on March 25th in the Sociology library. Pictures below from their respective defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats Allison and CZ!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14168\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" class=\"wp-image-14168 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_0711.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14169\" style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/IMG_1971-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"434\" class=\"wp-image-14169 \" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison (holding flowers) with her advisor Nazli Kibria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14171\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/CZdefense-1-002-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"wp-image-14171 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/CZdefense-1-002-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/CZdefense-1-002-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/CZdefense-1-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2026\/04\/CZdefense-1-002.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CZ (center) with his dissertation committee (L to R) Chris Chao Su (BU, Emerging Media Studies, Deborah Carr, Jonathan Mijs, and CZ&#8217;s advisor Neha Gondal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of our PhD students successfully defended their dissertations this past month: Allison Wigen&#8217;s Art at Work: Labor and Cultural Production in the Wake of Change on March 30th in the CISS conference room and Caoyifu Zhou&#8217;s Equal Quality, Unequal Success? Social Influence, Identity, and Dual Cumulative Advantage in a Controlled Music Streaming Experiment on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3975,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14177,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions\/14177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}