John W Kaiser

John W Kaiser is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, awarded in August 2015, with a dissertation titled Patterns of Care, Status Differentiation, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Hospital Nursing, supervised by Raka Ray, Barrie Thorne, and Evelyn Nakano Glenn. His research focuses on empathy/disempathy, solidarity/division, consciousness, social psychology, and intersections of race, class, gender, and ability through feminist and social theory frameworks, employing qualitative methods.

Education: PhD in Sociology, UC Berkeley (2015).

Research interests include the sociological analysis of inequality, healthcare dynamics, and the structural dimensions of social identity. No listed scientific awards or grants are noted. Contact: UC Berkeley Sociology Department, 410 Social Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-1980; Tel: (510) 642-4766.