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Ana Andjelic 
Ana Andjelic is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the New
School in New York and is writing her dissertation on digital branding. Her
project explores how digital media transform the role of brands in managing
relations between consumers and the products/services they use. To research
this question, Ana focused on how digital marketing agencies design for
exchanges of information between products and consumers. She has conducted
field research in the New York-based digital marketing firms Razorfish and
HUGE,Inc. Ana's paper, 'Transformations in the Media Industry: Customization
and Branding as Strategic Choices for Media Firms' was recently published in
Management and Innovation in the Media Industry edited by Cinzia Dal Zotto
and Hans van Kranenburg, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.
José Atria
José Tomás Atria is a phd student in the Sociology Department at
Columbia University. He is interested in mathematical and analytical
sociology, and in the application of this approaches to the study of
institutions and political action in a comparative perspective. His
current work explores the way in which institutions can be represented
as formal systems of rules, and in the application of these models to
characterize collective actors in different social contexts, including
games, sports, markets, electoral politics and, in general, any
process of institutional change. He is also interested in agent-based
simulation, the application of natural language processing tools for
data collection and social network analysis. He obtained his BA in
sociology at Universidad de Chile in 2004, and has worked as a
consultant and data analyst for several private and public
organizations.
Philipp Brandt Katherine Brown
Katherine is a third-year Ph.D. student in Communications at Columbia.s School of Journalism. Her research interests lie at the intersection of global and domestic public opinion, media, and U.S. foreign policy. Professionally, Katherine has worked at the National Security Council under the Clinton and Bush Administrations and, from 2003-2004, spent a year advising on communications and public events at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Through her roles with the NGOs Operation Smile and The Asia Foundation, she has worked throughout Asia, most recently advising on media-related issues in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. She is a New Ideas Fund Fellow, Truman National Security Fellow, and holds the 2009 Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing from Columbia.s Journalism School. Katherine has a B.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University and an M.A. in Communications from Columbia University.
Mathijs de Vaan  Mathijs de Vaan is a PhD candidate in sociology at Columbia University. He is interested in creative teams and studies how the social and cognitive histories of team members result in innovative and commercially succesful products. By employing large datasets and by creating new methodologies to study these data he aims to to provide a detailed analysis of the origins of creativity in teams.
His prior research entailed a PhD project at the department of economic geography, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research dealt with the dynamics of interfirm networks and its effect on the rise and fall of the firm population in the global video game industry. In the project he answers questions on how firms within an industry are connected, how these connections come into place and how they affect competitive outcomes. He will defend his thesis in January 2012. In 2006, prior to his enrollment in the PhD program in economic geography, he graduated from Utrecht University with a MSc. in Economics. During this program he was a visiting student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Tom Glaisyer 
Tom Glaisyer is a third year student in interdisciplinary PhD. program in
Communications at the Graduate School of Journalism. His research interests
lie at the nexus of social media, international affairs, communities, and
social change. He is currently working his on a research project looking at
the role of social media and public diplomacy and beginning his dissertation
research. Prior to beginning the PhD Tom worked in Washington DC
facilitating the development of collaborative policy networks. Prior to
this he worked as a management consultant and project manager in the private
sector an in the UK, where he was born, Eastern and Western Europe and the
United States in a wide range of industries. He holds a Masters in
International Affairs from The School of International Affairs at Columbia
and a BEng and BCom in Manufacturing Engineering and Economics from the
University of Birmingham (England).
Lucas Graves
Lucas Graves is a doctoral student in Communications at Columbia
University. Lucas's research interests lie at the intersection of
media technology, political communications, and news; his dissertation
research uses network analysis to study structural changes in the
current-affairs ecosystem. Lucas also holds a Preceptor Fellowship,
teaching "Contemporary Civilization" as part of Columbia's Core
Curriculum. As both reporter and analyst Lucas has covered media and
technology for more than a decade on behalf of various publications
and research firms; his work appears often in Wired Magazine. He
received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago
and an M.S. from Columbia's School of Journalism.
Hawley Johnson
 Hawley Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in communications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her research interests include nationalism and journalism’s role in democratization processes, post-conflict reconstruction, and in transitional societies. From 2000-2004 she was the Associate Director of the Media and Conflict Resolution Program at New York University's Department of Journalism where she managed a series of grants from the U.S. Department of State to improve reporting on human rights and diversity issues in Southeastern Europe. In Cooperation with COI she is currently working on a study which will analyze the capacity of local media development NGOs in Southeastern Europe to become self-sustaining through organizational innovation and the formation of local and transnational networks. Her dissertation research explores the impact of media development policies in the former Yugoslavia. She received a B.A. cum laude from the American University School of International Service, an M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs and a Harriman Certificate from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
Elena Krumova
Elena Krumova is a PhD candidate in the sociology department at
Columbia University. Her research interests include organizational
learning and innovation, forms of governance, social networks
theory, globalization, and local development. Currently, she is
focusing on projects as a new form of organizing collaborative work
both within and across formal organizations. She would like to
further expand this research into a comparative study of regional
development projects in Eastern Europe. Elena received an MBA
degree from City University of New York and a BA in economics from
the American University in Bulgaria.
Kinga Makovi Rosemary McGunnigle 
Rosemary McGunnigle is a second year Ph.D. student in sociology at
Columbia University. Her current research explores immigrant business
owners, social network ties and political action in suburban
immigration gateways. As an undergraduate, Rosemary did research on
migration, work, ethnic and labor relations and rural/urban poverty in
Adams County, Pennsylvania; Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican
Republic; and Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. Upon receiving a B.A. in
Latin American and Latino Studies from Dickinson College in 2001,
Rosemary was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research German youth,
xenophobia and national identity in Leipzig, Germany in 2001/2002.
Before beginning graduate study, she studied digital filmmaking at the
NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Olivia Nicol
Olivia Nicol is a PhD candidate in sociology at Columbia University. Financial industries,
risk and calculation, and network theory are her primary interests. At present her main
line of inquiry focuses on the mortgage crisis. She studies the valuation of assets in a
context of uncertainty and the question of responsibility in the crisis. Her previous
research focused on the selection criteria of layoffs.
Her broad educational and professional curriculum gives her a grasp of current economic
and social issues. She received three MAs in different fields: one in public administration
from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, one in business administration from the HEC
school of Management, and one in economy and management from La Sorbonne. She worked as a
consultant in organization and strategy for two years in Paris.
Maria Pilar Opazo
Pilar Opazo is a first year Ph.D. student in Sociology at Columbia University. Her research interests include
organizations as communicational systems, inequality and social stratification, especially in labor markets.
Based on Niklas Luhmann's theory, with Dr. Dario Rodriguez she co-authored the books "Communication of the
Organizations" in 2007 and "Negotiation: competing or collaborating?" in 2006. Before coming to Columbia,
Pilar coordinated the Research Center at Infocap, an NGO that provides labor training to the working poor in Chile.
Iva Petkova
Dane Pflueger 
   
Magdalena Gil Ureta is a first year Ph.D. student in Sociology at Columbia University and a Fulbright Scholar. Her primary interests are sustainability, globalization, risk and calculation, justification and the attribution of responsibility in a global, risky and complex context. Also, she focuses in the new forms of Inequality and Exclusion. Before coming to Columbia, Magdalena worked for two years as researcher and advisor to Latin-American companies on issues related to sustainability and community relations. She is Affiliate Professor at P. Universidad Católica de Chile where she teaches a seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Philipp Brandt is a first year student in the sociology PhD program at Columbia University. His current research focuses on the auto industry and small and medium sized manufacturing companies in the US. Philipp is primarily interested in the characteristics and effects of relations connecting economic actors. Before coming to Columbia, Philipp received a combined degree from the international Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, in sociology, economics, political sciences and mass communication.
Kinga Makovi is a first year PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her interests include social networks, sociology of education, quantitative methods and simulation techniques in social sciences. Kinga's current project is an empirical analysis of the co-dynamics of status formation and academic achievement in high school classes. She holds an MS in mathematical economics from Corvinus University in Budapest (2010). 
Iva Petkova is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Sociology at Columbia. Her
research interests focus on learning and innovation, strategic management, social
networks and global development. Her previous work has been in analyzing the changing
practices of global firms in primary commodities to advance a more relational framework
for the analysis of the global economy. Her current focus is on managing the innovative
portions of supply relationships, value chain transformation and strategy under
uncertainty. Iva holds an MA in International Economic Relations from the University of
National and World Economy in Bulgaria and an MSc in International Business with the
School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her work
has appeared in the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE).
Dane Pflueger is a PhD student in the Department of Accounting and a Research Student in the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests include the concept, measurement, and management of Quality, and social and environmental sustainability in the healthcare sector. His PhD thesis studies the way in which Quality is understood and operationalized in the UK and US health sectors from both a historical and ethnographic perspective. Dane has a public administration background, and holds a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the LSE, and BA in political science from Vassar College.