Meet Our PhD Students

  • Jonas Adams
    8/16/24
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Historical and Cultural Sociology
  • Daniel Bagnall
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Neighborhoods and Health, Urban Sociology, Life Course
  • Makaela Brass
    8/25/24
    Research Interests: Race/Ethnicity, Crime, Human Trafficking, Black Feminisms
  • Gabriela Ceja Morales
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Tourism
  • Yu-An Chen
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Health Disparities, Medical Sociology, Aging and Life Course, Social Inequality, Environmental Sociology, Quantitative Method
  • Shiyue Cui
    9/6/24
    Research Interests: International Migration, Environmental Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Criminology, Gender and Family, Urban
  • Dan Cummings
    8/2/24
    Research Interests: Social Class, Work and Organizations, Labor and Labor Movements, Political Economy
  • Kathleen D'Alfonso
    8/21/24
    Research Interests: Aging and Life Course, Medical Sociology
  • Zachary Evans
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Political Economy, Urban/Spatial Sociology, Media, Public Policy
  • Chandler Fairbanks
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Family, Gender and Sexuality, Health and Well-being, Methods
  • Francisco Figueroa
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Qualitative Methods, Racial Residential Segregation, Urban Sociology
  • Asli Guler
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Gender, Family, Inequality, Organizations, Environmental Sociology
  • Rui Huang
    10/16/24
    Recent courses taught: SOC 378: Social Inequality and Health
  • Sirat Kaur
    8/20/24
    Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Immigration, Political Sociology, Law and Society, Stratification and Inequality, Cultural Sociology
  • Eileen Keh
    10/6/24
    Research Interests: Family, Aging, Health, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, East Asia
  • Byung Soo Lee
    10/16/24
    Research Interests: Sociology of Family, Aging and the Life Course, Immigration, Gender, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Education
  • Ting-Hui Lin
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Aging and the life course, Social inequality, Disability studies
  • Natalia Marte
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Sociology of Law, Criminology, Critical Race Theory, Policing and Prisons, Social Inequality
  • Hannah Nario-Lopez
    8/2/24
    Research Interests: Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Punishment, Contemporary Social Issues
  • Millicent Ngwu
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Sociology of Family, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Research Methods
  • Laura Obernesser
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Family, Families and Inequality, Family Roles, Rural Families, Aging and the life course, Transition to adulthood, Intimate Relationships, Kinship ties, Generations and Society, Stress, Agency, Qualitative Methods
  • Sophia Olsinski
    8/25/24
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Neighborhoods, Crime, Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Society and Law
  • Anupriya Pandey
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Theory, Culture and Environment, Inequality, Qualitative Methods
  • Surabhi Pant
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Classical and Contemporary Theory, Qualitative Methods, Gender and Development
  • Logan Phlox
    10/10/24
    Research Interests: Sexualities, Sex and Gender, Body and Embodiment, Labor
  • Margaret Rex
    9/25/24
    Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Family, Social Stratification
  • Nicholas Tucker Reyes
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Law & Society, Inequality, Economic Sociology, Historical Sociology
  • Grace Sementilli
    8/6/24
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Neighborhoods, Segregation, Housing, Immigration, Crime
  • Laura Sills
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Mental Health & Illness, Health Disparities & Inequality, Race, Culture, Cross-Cultural Analysis, Data Analytics and Visualization, Quantitative Methods
  • Srushti Upadhyay
    9/14/24
    Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Labor, Gender and Work, Digital Work and Labor, Technology, Sex Work
  • Zhe Wang
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Social Theory, Urban Sociology, Cultural Sociology
  • Chang (Rita) Yu
    7/25/24
    Research Interests: Medical sociology, health and aging, health inequality, mental health, poverty alleviation
  • Zhe (Rachel) Zhang
    10/16/24
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Criminology, Health, Quantitative Methods