Current Sociology PhD Students

Serena L Abdallah

Sociology

Sara Mohammed M Aftab

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

Aziza Ahmed

Sociology: race, epistemology, gender studies, organizational theory, DEIA, critical race theory

Courtney Bell

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

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

Isabella F Burns

Sociology: sociology of education, language in society, literacy, restorative justice

Alyssa Cazier

Sociology: inequity, gender, race, class, queer studies, feminist theory, institutional and organizational culture, community engaged research, systems change.

Anand Panamthottam Cherian

Sociology: Migration Spaces, South Asia

Kristopher R. Cleland

Sociology: Higher Education; Environmental Sustainability; AI's Impact on Education and Sustainability; Food Insecurity, Sovereignty, & Waste; Qualitative Methods; Pedagogy; Critical Theory; and Evaluation

Dhruv Deepak

Sociology: Democratizing technology, data relations, digital globalization, community-owned data & digital infrastructure, digital sociology.

Animesh Dev

Sociology: Socio-spatial processes, borders formation, design anthropology, interdisciplinary research & pedagogy, qualitative methods, global south, India, United States

Lili Deveneau

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

Omnia Elgendy

Sociology

Fanni Farago

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

Arvind Geetha Christo

Sociology: Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Social Movements, Dalit politics, and Ethnography.

Eirini Giannaraki

Sociology: Sociology: Globalization, forced migration, mixed methods research, refugee integration

Pamela Ramirez Graves

Sociology

Debamita Guha

Sociology: Gender and sexuality studies, Activism, Urban spaces, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Development, Qualitative research methods.

Yang Hai

Sociology: Urban Sociology, Culture, Social Objects, Inequity, China, Community-based Research

Umida Hashimova

Sociology: International migration, Central Asia, soft power, mixed-method research

Deepika Hooda

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

Jason P Houser

Sociology

Jeba Humayra

Sociology: Political Sociology of Human Rights, Human Rights and Political Violence, Dissent and Repression, Internet Governance and Human Rights, Digital Authoritarianism, and Contemporary South Asian Politics.

Tharuna Kalaivanan

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

Judith Lewetchou

Sociology: Globalization; Development-induced Displacements, Global South; Livelihoods improvement

Ifran Hossain Mollah

Sociology: Human Rights and Social Justice

Elizabeth Newman

Sociology: Digital Humanities, ideology, power

J Orisha

Sociology

Omer Pacal

Sociology: Area(s) of Interest: Market formation, Peasants and Politics, State and Violence, and Political Movements in the Middle East

Juhee Park

Sociology: Social Movements, Research Methods

Maia Punksungka

Sociology: Higher education; higher education administration; academic affairs; community college; college transfer partnership; institutional belonging; advanced quantitative methods; mixed methods

Karthik Ramanujam

Sociology: Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology

Maxwell David Rollins

Sociology: Roots of Nationalism, Sub-state Self-determination Movements, the Nature of the State, Himalayan Societies

Golzar Salih

Sociology: Keen focus on gender-based violence, women’s rights and roles in the Middle East.

Christian Rafael Suero

Sociology: Sociology of education, well-being, labor, race, and class.

Emma (Vetter) Taylor

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

Sara Undeutsch

Sociology: Collectivism, community development, community building, affordable housing, community engaged (participatory) research, social movements, public and applied sociology, policy

Kayla Valdivieso

Blake Vullo

Sociology: Transnational Social Movements, Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Sustainable Development, Social Policy, Feminist Methodologies, and Land Use

Tom G. Wells

Sociology: Political sociology, social movements, historical and comparative sociology, culture, stratification and inequality, social theory, charisma

Margaret Zeddies

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

Julissa Zelaya Barrera

Sociology