Meet Our PhD Students

Name Email Areas of Interest
Jonas Adams jonasada@buffalo.edu
Urban and Community Studies, Environmental Sociology, Critical Theory, Inequalities, Historical Sociology
Daniel Bagnall bagnall@buffalo.edu Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Labor
Makaela Brass makaelab@buffalo.edu
Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Culture, Social Inequalities, Anti-Human Trafficking, Human Rights, Black Feminism, Qualitative Research Methods
Christopher Bosley cmbosley@buffalo.edu Medical Sociology, Sociology of Work and Organizations, Survey Methods, High Stress Occupations
Gabriela Ceja Morales gcejamor@buffalo.edu Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Tourism
Yu-An Chen ychen286@buffalo.edu Health Disparities, Medical Sociology, Aging and Life Course, Social Inequality, Environmental Sociology, Quantitative Methods
Michael Cimasi mccimasi@buffalo.edu Law & Society, Higher Education, Organizations and Institutions, Urban Sociology & Medical Gentrification
Shiyue Cui shiyuecu@buffalo.edu Sociology of Law, Social Policy, Work and Labor
Kathleen D'Alfonso krdalfon@buffalo.edu Health, Policy, Crime, Race/Ethnicity, Families, Aging
Ayesha Datta ayeshada@buffalo.edu  Internal and global migration, statelessness, markers of identity, gender, informal sectors of work, refugee livelihood, unpaid care work
Zachary Evans zacharye@buffalo.edu Public Policy, Political Economy, Media, Urban Economics, Political Demography
Chandler Fairbanks cnfairba@buffalo.edu Family, Gender and Sexuality, Health & Well-being, Methods
Francisco Figueroa fafiguer@buffalo.edu Medical Sociology, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Qualitative Methods, Racial Residential Segregation, Urban Sociology
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

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 Medical Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Social Inequality, Disability Studies
Natalia Marte nmarte@buffalo.edu Sociology of Law, Criminology, Critical Race Theory, Policing and Prisons, Social Inequality
Hannah Nario-Lopez hnariolo@buffalo.edu
Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Justice, Contemporary Social Issues
Millicent Ngwu mongwu@buffalo.edu
Medical Sociology, Mental Health, Sociology of Family, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Research Methods
Laura Obernesser lauraobe@buffalo.edu 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
Oluwafisayo Ogundoro osogundo@buffalo.edu Gender, Work, Childcare, Family, Social Policy

Anupriya Pandey

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
Nicholas Tucker Reyes ntreyes@buffalo.edu
Economic Sociology, Law & Society, Inequality, Historical Sociology, Sociology of Education
Grace Sementilli gracesem@buffalo.edu
Urban Housing instability, Eviction, Landlord/Tenant Relations, Residential Segregation, Immigration, Race
Youlhee Seo youlhees@buffalo.edu Adolescence, Socialization, Lifecourse
Laura Sills
laurasil@buffalo.edu
Medical Sociology, Mental Health & Illness, Health Disparities & Inequality, Race, Culture, Cross-Cultural Analysis, Data Analytics and Visualization, Quantitative Methods
Srushti Upadhyay srushtiu@buffalo.edu Gender, Sexuality, and the Body;  Sex Work; Digital Work and Labor; Digital Cultural Production
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, Environmental Sociology, Rural Sociology
Chang (Rita) Yu cyu33@buffalo.edu
Medical Sociology, Health and Aging, Health Inequality, Mental Health, Poverty Alleviation
Zhe (Rachel) Zhang Zzhang67@buffalo.edu Urban Sociology, Criminology, Health, Family, Quantitative Methods