Meet Our PhD Students

  • Jonas Adams
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Environmental Sociology; Urban Sociology; Law and Society; Political Ecology; Historical Sociology; Theory
  • Makaela Brass
    9/11/26
    Research Interests: Race/Ethnicity, Crime, Victimization, Human Trafficking, Black Feminisms, Sociology of Education
  • Staci Burns
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Crime, Law and Deviance; Drugs and Society; Sociology of Law; Inequality, Poverty and Mobility
  • Yu-An Chen
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Aging and the Life Course; Social Inequality and Mobility; Environmental Sociology; Quantitative Methods
  • Shiyue Cui
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: International Migration, Environmental Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Criminology, Gender and Family, Urban
  • Chandler Fairbanks
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Sexualities; Sex and Gender; Family; Methodology; Aging and the Life Course
  • Miranda Habrecht
    10/14/25
    Research Interests: Family, Dementia, Juvenile delinquency, Deviance
  • Sirat Kaur
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Criminology, Immigration, Health, Families, Quantitative Methods
  • Eileen Keh
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Family, Aging, Health, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, East Asia
  • Ting-Hui Lin
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Social Inequality; Political Sociology; Aging and the Life Course; Disability Studies
  • Tarley Mitchell
    10/14/25
    Research Interests: Crime, Law, and Deviance; Inequality, Poverty and Mobility; Social Psychology; Race, Gender and Class
  • Millicent Ngwu
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Sociology of Family, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Research Methods
  • Sophia Olsinski
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Community and Urban Sociology, Criminology, Adolescence, Social Inequality
  • Anupriya Pandey
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Theory, Ethnography
  • Surabhi Pant
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Classical and Contemporary Theory, Qualitative Methods, Gender and Development
  • Margaret Rex
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Family, Social Stratification
  • Tucker Reyes
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Criminology; Law and Society; Economic Sociology
  • Grace Sementilli
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology; Housing; Law and Society; Immigration; Organizations
  • Laura Sills
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Mental Health & Illness, Health Disparities & Inequality, Race, Culture, Cross-Cultural Analysis, Data Analytics and Visualization, Quantitative Methods
  • Devon Skufca
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Crime, Law, and Deviance; Race, Gender, Class; Neighborhoods
  • Derrick Tolliver
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Crime, Law and Social Policy; Social Inequality; Mixed Methods
  • Leila Tufekci
    9/13/25
    Research Interests: Sociology of Work, Labor, Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology
  • Srushti Upadhyay
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Labor, Gender and Work, Digital Work and Labor, Technology, Sex Work
  • Zhe Wang
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Family, Migration, Work
  • Evan Welch
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Labor; Political Economy; Group Processes; Organizational Sociology; Comparative-Historical Methods
  • Jeffery (Jeff) White
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Race, Class, and Gender; Sociology of Punishment and Social Control; Criminology; Social Inequality; Education; Urban Sociology; Political Sociology; Mass Incarceration; Prison Reentry; Social Stratification; Qualitative Methods; Mixed Method
  • Logan Phlox Wilder
    9/9/26
    Research Interests: Sex and Gender; Sexualities; Organizations, Occupations and Work; Crime, Law and Deviance; Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology