Meet Our Graduate Students
PhD students
| Name | Areas of Interest | |
| Jonas Adams | jonasada@buffalo.edu | Urban Sociology; Neighborhood Change; Race and Ethnic Relations; Social Inequalities |
| Daniel Bagnall | bagnall@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Labor |
| Christopher Bosley | cmbosley@buffalo.edu | Medical Sociology, Sociology of Work, Healthcare Workforce, Quantitative Methods |
| Gabriela Ceja Morales | gcejamor@buffalo.edu | Sociology of Work, Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Tourism |
| 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 and Racism, Social Inequality, Gentrification, Housing, Public Policy |
| Shiyue Cui | shiyuecu@buffalo.edu | Sociology of Law, Social Policy, Work and Labor |
| Kathleen D'Alfonso | krdalfon@buffalo.edu | Health, Policy, Aging, Race/Ethnicity, Families |
| 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 | 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 |
| Hanna Nario-Lopez | hnariolo@buffalo.edu | Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Justice, Contemporary Social Issues |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Tucker Reyes | ntreyes@buffalo.edu | Economic Sociology, Law & Society, Inequality, Historical Sociology, Sociology of Education |
| Julia Schoonover | jjschoon@buffalo.edu | Human Rights, Immigration, Law & Social Policy |
| Grace Sementilli | gracesem@buffalo.edu | Urban Housing instability, Eviction, Landlord/Tenant Relations, Residential Segregation, Immigration, Race |
| Youlhee Seo | youlhees@buffalo.edu | Adolescence, Socialization, Lifecourse |
| 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, Quantitative Methods |
Master's students
| Name | Areas of Interest | |
| Stephen Brown | sjbrown5@buffalo.edu | Environmental Sociology, Environmental Justice, Urban Sociology, Historical Sociology, Sociology of Immigration |
| Miranda Farthing | mrfarthi@buffalo.edu | Violent serial offenders, Childhood effects on crime, the Macdonald Triad |
| Yuhang Li | yli298@buffalo.edu | Theory; Historical Sociology; Economic Sociology |
| Dominic Nappo | dlnappo@buffalo.edu | Gender and Sexuality; Bioethics |
| Joshi Preksha | pjoshi8@buffalo.edu | Gender, Work, Religion, Science |
| Gillian Skidmore | glskidmo@buffalo.edu | Environmental Sociology; Animal Studies |