Students on the Job Market 2025-26

Gabriela Ceja Morales.

Gabriela Ceja Morales

Email: gcejamor@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “The Production of Eco-Chic Tourism: Green Enclavization, Racialized Occupational Segregation and the Paradoxes of Tourism Expansion in the Mexican Caribbean”
Committee: Jordan Fox (Chair), Erin Hatton, Robert Adelman
Research Areas: Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Tourism

Shiyue.

Shiyue Cui

Email: shiyuecu@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “Making It Work Here”: Mixed Methods Research about Refugee Employment, Family Dynamics, and Gender Roles”
Committee: Robert Adelman (chair), Kristen Schultz Lee, Yige Dong, Wooksoo Kim
Research Areas: International Migration, Environmental Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Criminology, Gender and Family, Urban

Kathleen D'Alfonso.

Kathleen D'Alfonso

Email: krdalfon@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “Health Insurance Across the Transition to Adulthood”
Committee: Ashley Barr (Chair), Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, Debi Street
Research Areas: Medical Sociology; Teaching and Learning; Life course; Deviance; Quantitative Methods
CV: Kathleen D'Alfonso's CV

Chandler Fairbanks.

Chandler Fairbanks

Email: cnfairba@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “Overlooked: Understanding Bisexuality in the Context of Family and Romantic Relationships”
Committee: Ashley Barr (Chair), Mary Nell Trautner, Kristen Schultz Lee
Research Areas: Sexuality, Gender, Family, Health & Well-being, Research Methods
CV: Chandler Fairbanks' CV

Rui (Zoe) Huang.

Rui (Zoe) Huang

Email: rhuang27@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger? Understanding the impacts of early-life experiences on later-life pain”
Committee: Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk (Chair), Ashley B. Barr, Kristen Schultz Lee, Zachery Zimmer
Research Areas: Population Health, Medical Sociology, Demography, Quantitative Methods, Chronic Pain
CV: Zoe Huang's CV

Byung Soo Lee.

Byung Soo Lee

Emailbyungsoo@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “The Perceived Meaning of Eldercare among the Sandwich Generation of Adult Koreans and Korean Immigrants in the United States”
Committee: Kristen Schultz Lee (chair), Robert Adelman, Debra Street
Research Areas: Sociology of Family, Aging and the Life Course, Immigration, Gender, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Education
CV: Byung Soo Lee CV

Ting-Hui Lin.

Ting-Hui Lin

Email: tlin53@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “How Area-Level Social Vulnerability, Political Leanings, and Governmental Healthcare Initiatives Shaped Adult Covid-19 Vaccination Rates in the U.S.”
Committee: Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk (chair), Ashley Barr, Debra Street
Research Areas: Medical Sociology, Social Inequality, Political Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Disability Studies

CVTing-Hui Lin CV

Anupriya Pandey.

Anupriya Pandey

Emailapandey8@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: "Critical Caste Ecologies: How Toxic Agrochemicals and Green Technologies Co-Produce Infrastructures of Caste"
Committee: Jordan Fox (Chair), Erin Hatton, Lourdes Vera, Malini Ranganathan
Research Areas: Environmental Sociology, Theory, Ethnography
CV: Anupriya Pandey's CV

Maggie Rex.

Maggie Rex

Email: mrex@buffalo.edu
Dissertation: “Bound to Fail: Understanding the Experiences and Limitations of Kin Navigating Rightwing Extremism of Adult Loved Ones”
Committee: Mary Nell Trautner (chair), Ashley Barr, Erin Hatton, Allison Dwyer Emory
Research Areas: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Family, Social Stratification

Rita Yu.

Chang (Rita) Yu

Emailcyu33@buffalo.edu 
Dissertation: "Understanding Cognitive Aging in China: Cognitive Measures, Life Course Factors, and Historical Contexts"
Committee: Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk (Chair), Ashley B. Barr, Kristen Schultz Lee
Research Areas: Aging and life course, social demography, cognitive health, chronic pain, data harmonization, causal inference, large language model (LLM) and scoping review method
CV: Rita Yu's CV