Graduate Assistants

Rasmieyh R Abdelnabi

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Globalization, Social Movements, Transnational Women's Movements, Arab Culture and Society, Gender and Feminist Studies

Sara Mohammed M Aftab

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: humanities, public sociology, political sociology, social movements, advocacy, transnational justice, reconciliation, cultural trauma, and collective memory in a post-conflict society. 

Hansel Alejandro Aguilar Avila

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: trasnationalism, crimmigration, unaccompanied minors, deported migrants, Northern Triangle, Honduras, youth, human rights, integration, re-integration, religion

Claire Anderson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: collective/social memory and policy making; post-conflict commemoration and remembrance; post-socialist Eastern Europe; Poland

Alexis Beard

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Courtney Bell

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: NAVIGATING INTIMACY: marriage, polyamory, sexuality, sex education, consent, women & gender studies; PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: sociology of education, qualitative research, mixed methods, documentary filmmaking, pop culture

Drew Bonner

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: food environments, food insecurity, food justice and nutrition education

Isabella F Burns

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: sociology of education, language in society, literacy, ESL students, disparities in education institutions

Kristopher Ray Cleland

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Food Security & Sovereignty, Deservingness, Qualitative Methods, Pedagogy, Critical Theory, and Applied & Public Sociology

Dhruv Deepak

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Lili Deveneau

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: human rights; gender; childhood studies; (in)equality; public health; mixed methods; critical sociology; public sociology; interprofessional collaboration

Mohamed Elgohari

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Political Sociology, Law, Democratization, Social Movements, Middle East, Egypt.

Fanni Farago

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: sociology of education, immigration, life course transitions, emotions, health, applied sociology, and mixed-methods research

Alexia Ferguson

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: Sociology: Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Human Rights, Civic Engagement

Arvind Geetha Christo

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Development, Development-induced Displacement, Conservation-induced Displacement, social movements, rural protests, indigeneity, and ethnography.

Pamela Ramirez Graves

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology

Debamita Guha

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Patrick Willette Healey

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Gender and sexuality; the role of political art in social movements and public sociology; qualitative and quantitative research methods; statistical analysis

Deepika Hooda

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Globalization, global tech labor, migration, digital culture, computational social science, and social movements.

Jill Howard

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Tharuna Kalaivanan

Graduate Professional Assistant

Sociology: Higher Education; Workplace; Culture; Social Stratification; Student Experiences; Lived Experiences; Race, Class, and Gender; Identity; Second-Generation Immigrants; First-Generation College Students; Asian Americans; Women; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Belonging; Educational Transitions; Qualitative Methods; Mixed-Methods; Applied Research; Evaluation.

Aleezay Khaliq

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Immigration, Social capital, Community engagement, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Belonging, Globalization.

Zahra Khan

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Women and gender issues, human rights, social and cultural change

Mohamed Mohamed

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Religion, Politics of the Middle East, Islamism, Religious Education, Religious Institutions

Junghyun Nam

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Social Movements, Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, protest, public space

Sarah Nidia Ochs

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

J Orisha

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Omer Pacal

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Social movements, political sociology, knowledge production, colonialism, anti-colonial struggles, and the Middle East

Juhee Park

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Social Movements, Memory Studies

Briana L Pocratsky

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Sociology: popular culture, youth, class, sociology of everyday life

Maia Punksungka

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of education; higher education; community college; lifelong learning; civic engagement; quantitative research methodology

Samantha Retrosi

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology

Sevil Suleymani

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Maria Valdovinos

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Policing, Corrections, Prisoner Reentry, Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Legal System, Evidence-Based Crime Policy

Emma Vetter

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Everyday Life; Digital Nomads; Social Media; Early Adulthood; Health Disparities; Housing; Popular Culture

Tom Gene Wells

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology

Kellie S. Wilkerson

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research, Globalization, Sociology of Education, Statistics/Quantitative Methodology

Margaret Zeddies

Graduate Lecturer

Sociology: Children and Youth, Cultural Sociology, Globalization, Humanitarian Aid, International Development, Public Sociology, Political Economy, Postcolonialism, Study Abroad