Meet Our Graduate Students
PhD students
| Name | Areas of Interest | |
| Daniel Bagnell | bagnall@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Labor |
| Christopher Bosley | cmbosley@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology, Occupations and Work, Research Methods |
| Gabriela Ceja Morales | gcejamor@buffalo.edu | Sociology of work and industry; Labor markets; Corporate impact; Social inequality; Environmental justice |
| Yu-An Chen | ychen286@buffalo.edu | Health Disparities, Medical Sociology, Food, Environmental Sociology, Quantitative Methods |
| Michael Cimasi | mccimasi@buffalo.edu | Law & Society, Higher Education, Organizations and Institutions, Urban Sociology & Medical Gentrification |
| J Coley | jcoley@buffalo.edu | Race, Residential Segregation, Gentrification |
| Shiyue Cui | shiyuecu@buffalo.edu | Sociology of Law, Social Policy, Work and Labor |
| Kathleen D'Alfonso | krdalfon@buffalo.edu | Gerontology, Life Course, Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Inequality, Latino Paradox, Cumulative Disadvantage |
| Ayesha Datta | ayeshada@buffalo.edu | Internal and global migration, statelessness, markers of identity, gender, informal sectors of work, refugee livelihood, unpaid care work |
| Sara DiPasquale | saradipa@buffalo.edu | Inequalities among marginalized identities, specifically gender and sexuality; language patterns |
| Zachary Evans | zacharye@buffalo.edu | Public Policy, Political Economy, Media, Urban Economics, Political Demography |
| Chandler Fairbanks | cnfairba@buffalo.edu | Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity, Childhood, Media, Qualitative Methods |
| Francisco Figueroa | fafiguer@buffalo.edu | Racial and Economic Residential Segregation, Law and Social Policy, Social Structure and Personality, Self and Self-Concept |
| Asli Guler | asligule@buffalo.edu | Gender, Family, Inequality, Organizations, Environmental Sociology |
| Rui Huang | rhuang27@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology; Illness and inequality; Pain; Life Course, Quantitative Methods |
| Emily Jauch | emilyjau@buffalo.edu | Gender; Sex and sexuality; The body; Reproductive politics; Health; Qualitative methods |
| Eileen Keh | eileenke@buffalo.edu | Family, Aging, Health, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, East Asia |
| Byung Soo Lee | byungsoo@buffalo.edu | Sociology of Family, Immigration, Inequality, Life Course, and Sociology of Education |
| Jiaying Lin | Jlin328@buffalo.edu | Law & Society; Life Course; Chinese Studies |
| Ting-Hui Lin | Tlin53@buffalo.edu | Social policy; Social welfare; Disability studies; Aging and the life course; Inequality; Qualitative Methods |
| Wei Luo | wluo3@buffalo.edu | Quantitative Research Methods, Sociology of Health |
| Natalia Marte | nmarte@buffalo.edu | Sociology of Law, Criminology, Critical Race Theory, Policing and Prisons, Social Inequality |
| Matthew McLeskey | mhmclesk@buffalo.edu | Urban sociology; Social & sociological theory; Law & society; Qualitative methods; Poverty & inequalities; Environmental sociology; Social problems; Cultural sociology |
| Laura Obernesser | lauraobe@buffalo.edu | Family and family inequalities; Aging, gender, and the life course; Health and wellbeing, Generations and society; Kinship relationships and care work; Qualitative methods |
| Oluwafisayo Ogundoro | osogundo@buffalo.edu | Gender, Work, Childcare, Family, Social Policy |
| apandey8@buffalo.edu | Theory, Culture and Environment, Inequality, Qualitative methods | |
| Surabhi Pant | spant2@buffalo.edu | Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Classical and Contemporary Theory, Qualitative Methods, Gender and Development |
| Margaret Rex | mrex@buffalo.edu | Political Sociology, Political Extremism and Anti-governmentality, Social Stratification |
| Julia Schoonover | jjschoon@buffalo.edu | Human Rights, Immigration, Law & Social Policy |
| Jennifer Schweitzer | jjschwei@buffalo.edu | Gender, Social Inequalities, Criminology, Social Policy, Law |
| Youlhee Seo | youlhees@buffalo.edu | Adolescence, Socialization, Lifecourse |
| Srushti Upadhyay | srushtiu@buffalo.edu | Sex and sexuality; The body; Sociology of Gender; Criminology |
| Siqi Wang | swang36@buffalo.edu | Inequality in Health, Cultural Participation |
| Zhe Wang | zwang86@buffalo.edu | Urban Sociology, Culture, Family |
| Ayrlia Welch | ayrliawe@buffalo.edu | Occupations and Work, Aging, Life Course, Family, and Sociology of Higher Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
| Michelle Williams | mw233@buffalo.edu | Work and labor, gender and sexuality, the working class, rural sociology |
| Zhe (Rachel) Zhang | Zzhang67@buffalo.edu | Urban sociology; Gender studies; Quantitative methods |
MA / MS Students
| Name | Areas of Interest | |
| Aissata Barry | aissatab@buffalo.edu | |
| Stephen Brown | sjbrown5@buffalo.edu | Environmental Sociology, Happiness, Poverty, Occupations and Work, Technology, Social Inequality |
| Jeremy Carr | jjcarr@buffalo.edu | Criminology; Incarceration policy reform; Criminal justice & punishment; Deviance & recidivism |
| Miranda Farthing | mrfarthi@buffalo.edu | Violent serial offenders, Childhood effects on crime, the Macdonald Triad |
| Gianna Galasso | gmgalass@buffalo.edu | Families; Crime; Behavior |
| Celina Gregory | celinagr@buffalo.edu | Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Law, Criminology |
| Yuhang Li | yli298@buffalo.edu | Theory; Historical Sociology; Economic Sociology |
| Dominic Nappo | dlnappo@buffalo.edu | Gender and Sexuality; Bioethics |
| Ashlyn Oaks | ashlynoa@buffalo.edu | Sociology of Law, Inequalities, Social Policy, Social Psychology |
| Tora Rodriguez | torarodr@buffalo.edu | Gender and Sexuality; Sociology of Emotions; Immigration; Colonialism, Bodies, and Policy; Latinx Studies |
| Grace Sementilli | gracesem@buffalo.edu | Urban sociology, wealth disparities, housing discrimination, sociology of families |
| Gillian Skidmore | glskidmo@buffalo.edu | Environmental Sociology; Animal Studies |
| Allen Tabor | emmettta@buffalo.edu | |
| Chang (Rita) Yu | cyu33@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology; Poverty; Social Inequality; Rural Issues in China |