Meet Our Graduate Students
PhD students
| Name | Areas of Study | |
| Daniel Bagnell | bagnall@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Labor |
| Christopher Bosley | cmbosley@buffalo.edu | Occupations and Work, Mental Health, Emotions, Social Psychology |
| 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 |
| Hsiao-Wen Chiang | hsiaowen@buffalo.edu | Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology |
| 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 |
| Kristen Connolly | klconnol@buffalo.edu | Drugs and Addiction, Crime and the Law, Inequality |
| Shiyue Cui | shiyuecu@buffalo.edu | Sociology of Law, Social Policy, Work and Labor |
| Willis Danielson | willisda@buffalo.edu | Urbanization; Infrastructures; Sustainability |
| 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 |
| Francisco Figueroa | fafiguer@buffalo.edu | Racial and Economic Residential Segregation, Law and Social Policy, Social Structure and Personality, Self and Self-Concept |
| Gregory Hall | gmhall@buffalo.edu | Criminology, Urban Sociology, Community, Housing Inequality, Inequality and Stratification, Culture |
| Rui Huang | rhuang27@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology |
| 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 | Family studies; Gender inequality; 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 | Critical Race Theory, Law, Mass Incarceration and Policing |
| 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 |
| apandey8@buffalo.edu | Theory, Culture and Environment, Inequality, Qualitative methods | |
| Surabhi Pant | spant2@buffalo.edu | Gender, Sexuality and Body Politics, Queer Politics and Social Movements |
| 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 | Sociology of Gender, Sexuality, Criminology |
| Siqi Wang | swang36@buffalo.edu | Inequality in Health, Cultural Participation |
| Zhe Wang | zwang86@buffalo.edu | Urban Sociology, Culture, Family |
| Miranda Workman | mkworkma@buffalo.edu | Animals & Society, Environment, Family, Theory |
| Zhe (Rachel) Zhang | Zzhang67@buffalo.edu | Urban sociology; Gender studies; Quantitative methods |
MA Students
| Name | Areas of Study | |
| Theresa Beyer | trbeyer@buffalo.edu | Environmental sociology; Social inequalities |
| Greg Buell | gmbuell@buffalo.edu | Political sociology; Military sociology |
| Spencer Cameron-Presley | sacamero@buffalo.edu | Life course sociology; Early childhood socialization |
| Jeremy Carr | jjcarr@buffalo.edu | Criminology; Incarceration policy reform; Criminal justice & punishment; Deviance & recidivism |
| Jean Carroll | jeancarr@buffalo.edu | Race; Gender; Class; Social policy |
| Yaolin (Miranda) Chen | yaolinch@buffalo.edu | Urban sociology; Food studies; Participatory community planning |
| Gianna Galasso | gmgalass@buffalo.edu | Families; Crime; Behavior |
| Willow Greene | willowgr@buffalo.edu | Labor; Gender; Race |
| Tunazzina Kaijar | tunazzin@buffalo.edu | Race; Class; Family; Health |
| Tora Rodriguez | torarodr@buffalo.edu | Gender and Sexuality; Sociology of Emotions; Immigration; Colonialism, Bodies, and Policy; Latinx Studies |
| Allen Tabor | emmettta@buffalo.edu | Criminology; Life Course Sociology; Substance Use & Addiction Studies; Sociology of Law |
| Chelsey Wilbern | clwilber@buffalo.edu | Criminology; Criminal justice; Social inequalities |