Meet Our PhD Students

  • Jonas Adams
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Historical and Cultural Sociology, Theory
  • Makaela Brass
    9/5/25
    Research Interests: Race/Ethnicity, Crime, Victimization, Human Trafficking, Black Feminisms, Sociology of Education
  • Gabriela Ceja Morales
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Tourism
  • Yu-An Chen
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Health Disparities, Medical Sociology, Aging and Life Course, Social Inequality, Environmental Sociology, Quantitative Method
  • Shiyue Cui
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: International Migration, Environmental Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Criminology, Gender and Family, Urban
  • Kathleen D'Alfonso
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Teaching and Learning; Life course; Deviance; Quantitative Methods
  • Zachary Evans
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Political Economy, Urban/Spatial Sociology, Media, Public Policy
  • Chandler Fairbanks
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Sexuality, Gender, Family, Health & Well-being, Research Methods
  • Francisco Figueroa
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Qualitative Methods, Racial Residential Segregation, Urban Sociology
  • Miranda Habrecht
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Family, Dementia, Juvenile delinquency, Deviance
  • Rui Huang
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Population Health, Medical Sociology, Demography, Quantitative Methods, Chronic Pain
  • Sirat Kaur
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Criminology, Immigration, Law, Health, Gender, Quantitative Methods
  • Byung Soo Lee
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Sociology of Family, Aging and the Life Course, Immigration, Gender, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Education
  • Ting-Hui Lin
    9/5/25
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Social Inequality, Political Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Disability Studies
  • Tarley Mitchell
    8/26/25
    Research Interests: Crime, Law, and Deviance; Inequality, Poverty and Mobility; Social Psychology; Race, Gender and Class
  • Hannah Nario-Lopez
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Punishment, Contemporary Social Issues
  • Millicent Ngwu
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Sociology of Family, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Research Methods
  • Sophia Olsinski
    9/5/25
    Research Interests: Community and Urban Sociology, Criminology, Adolescence, Social Inequality
  • Anupriya Pandey
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Theory, Ethnography
  • Surabhi Pant
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Classical and Contemporary Theory, Qualitative Methods, Gender and Development
  • Logan Phlox Williams
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Sexualities, Sex and Gender, Labor
  • Margaret Rex
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Family, Social Stratification
  • Nicholas Tucker Reyes
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Law & Society, Inequality, Economic Sociology, Criminology
  • Grace Sementilli
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Neighborhoods, Segregation, Housing, Immigration, Crime
  • Laura Sills
    8/25/25
    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
  • Leila Tufekci
    9/13/25
    Research Interests: Sociology of Work, Labor, Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology
  • Zhe Wang
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Social Theory, Urban Sociology, Cultural Sociology
  • Jeffery White
    8/26/25
    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
  • Chang (Rita) Yu
    8/25/25
    Research Interests: Aging and life course, social demography, cognitive health, chronic pain, data harmonization, causal inference, large language model (LLM) and scoping review method