SaSR Alumni 2010

Pieter Baay
Thesis: ‘Ex-Imprisoned Homicide Offenders: Once Bitten, Twice Shy?’ The Effect of the Length of Imprisonment on Recidivism for Homicide Offenders.
First occupation: PhD student ICS, Utrecht University

Linda Bakker
Thesis: Social Trust in Urban Neighbourhoods: The Effect of Relative Ethnic Group Position
First occupation: Researcher Population and Integration, Regioplan Amsterdam

Gerben Bekker
Thesis: Attitudes and the Time Spent on Housework for Men and Women in Single, Cohabiting and Married Households
First occupation: Working on a project for the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW)
Current occupation: PhD student Wageningen University

Andreea Coca
Thesis: Naming in the Netherlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Individual, Regional and Temporal Variation in Given Names
First occupation: Market Research in Bucharest, Romania

Georgi Dragolov
Thesis: The Legitimation of Income Inequality in Transitional Societies, 1987-1999
First occupation: PhD position, BIGSSS Bremen, Germany

Maria Fleischmann
Thesis: Are Ex-Prisoners Worse Off? The Impact of Incarceration on Employment and Earnings in the Netherlands
First occupation: PhD student, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Marlies Frenk
Thesis: Open Networks, Open Minds: How the Structure and Composition of A Network Relate to Open-Mindedness of its Members

Vincenz Frey
Thesis: Network and Information Effects in the Emergence of Efficient Conventions: Theory and Experimental Findings
First occupation: PhD at ICS, Utrecht University

Tim Immerzeel
Thesis: Religion as Reassurance? Testing the Insecurity Theory in 29 European Countries
First occupation: PhD at ICS, Utrecht University

Júlia Mikolai
Thesis:  Is There a Perfect Time to Have a Baby? The Effect of the Timing of the First Child on Work-Family Balance in the Netherlands
First occupation: European Doctoral School of Demography, Lund, Sweden

Nynke van Miltenburg
Thesis: Bounded Rationality in Social Dilemmas: Limits of Iterated Reasoning in Repeated Trust Games with Opportunities for Network Control
First occupation: PhD at ICS, Utrecht University

Eileen Monsma
Thesis: Partners in Cybercrime. An Online Cybercrime Forum Evaluated from A Social Network Perspective
First occupation: Researcher at the Netherlands Police Agency

Gerard Nieuwenhuis
Thesis:  “A bad Neighbour is as Great A Plague as A Good One is a Great Blessing” – On Negative Relationships Between Neighbours
First occupation: PhD student Social Geography, Utrecht University

Dirk Pelt
Thesis: Incumbency and Responsibility in Multi-Party Government: Effects on Voter Support in the Netherlands

Tanveer Reza Rouf
Thesis: A Comparison of Effects of Personal and Occupational Networks on Overall and Domain Specific Happiness

Katrin Vanessa Schwanitz
Thesis: Levels of Co-Residence Across European Regions

Sanne Smith
Thesis: Irreconcilable Differences? Ethnic Intermarriage and Divorce in the Netherlands, 1995 – 2008
First occupation: PhD at ICS, Utrecht University

Milena Tsvetkova
Thesis: Egalitarian Networks from Asymmetric Relations: Coordination on Reciprocity in a Social Game of Hawk-Dove
Winner of the best SaSR student Award 2010
Graduate School Valedictorian 2010
First occupation: Phd student Sociology, Cornell University

Sarah-Katharina Westphal
Thesis: Household Arrangements and Social Networks: The Influence of Household Size and Composition on Personal Relationships
First occupation: PhD student ICS, Utrecht University

Vera Wiedemann
Thesis: The Consequences of Monetary Rewards and Punishment on Cooperation and Cohesion in Repeated Public Good Games
First occupation: PhD student, Wageningen University