Graduate Assistants

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  • Sara Mohammed M Aftab

    Sara Mohammed M Aftab

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Mubarak O Alabi

    Mubarak O Alabi

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

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  • Courtney Bell

    Courtney Bell

    Graduate Research 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

    Drew Bonner

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Ruth Ann Brenton

    Ruth Ann Brenton

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology

  • Mandy Brothers

    Mandy Brothers

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology

  • Isabella F Burns

    Isabella F Burns

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

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  • Alyssa Cazier

    Alyssa Cazier

    Graduate Professional Assistant

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

  • Anand Panamthottam Cherian

    Anand Panamthottam Cherian

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology: Migration Spaces, South Asia

  • Kristopher R. Cleland

    Kristopher R. Cleland

    Graduate Lecturer

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

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  • Dhruv Deepak

    Dhruv Deepak

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Animesh Dev

    Animesh Dev

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

  • Lili Deveneau

    Lili Deveneau

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

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  • Fanni Farago

    Fanni Farago

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Claire Arianna Fick

    Claire Arianna Fick

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Mortuary Practices of Amazonia

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  • Arvind Geetha Christo

    Arvind Geetha Christo

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Pamela Ramirez Graves

    Pamela Ramirez Graves

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Sociology

  • Debamita Guha

    Debamita Guha

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

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  • Yang Hai

    Yang Hai

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Kimberly M Hargrave

    Kimberly M Hargrave

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Health & Violence, Mortuary Archaeology, Osteoimmunology

  • Umida Hashimova

    Umida Hashimova

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Patrick Willette Healey

    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

  • Emily Rebecca Helman

    Emily Rebecca Helman

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Ancient DNA; Bioarchaeology; Mortuary Archaeology; Biological Anthropology; Paleopathology; Forensic Anthropology

  • Aimee N Holland

    Aimee N Holland

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, ethics, personhood, social justice

  • Deepika Hooda

    Deepika Hooda

    Graduate Lecturer

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

  • Jeba Humayra

    Jeba Humayra

    Graduate Research Assistant

    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.

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  • Maegan Jankowski

    Maegan Jankowski

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Mortuary Archaeology, Andean Archaeology, Social Identity, Intersectionality, Embodiment, Stress, Trauma, Activity Patterns, Structural Violence

  • Nylah S Jordan

    Nylah S Jordan

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology

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  • Tharuna Kalaivanan

    Tharuna Kalaivanan

    Graduate Research Assistant

    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.

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  • Mikayla Miller

    Mikayla Miller

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Osteology, Dental Anthropology, Developmental Stress

  • Jennifer Mitchell

    Jennifer Mitchell

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: human evolutionary biology, life history studies, human growth and development, human-environment interactions

  • Ifran Hossain Mollah

    Ifran Hossain Mollah

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology: Human Rights and Social Justice

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  • Omer Pacal

    Omer Pacal

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

  • Juhee Park

    Juhee Park

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology: Social Movements, Research Methods

  • Maia Punksungka

    Maia Punksungka

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

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  • Sharon Qiu

    Sharon Qiu

    Graduate Lecturer

    Governance, Informal Sector, Shortage, Socialism, Time and Space, Cuba, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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  • Karthik Ramanujam

    Karthik Ramanujam

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology: Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology

  • Maxwell David Rollins

    Maxwell David Rollins

    Graduate Lecturer

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

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  • Livia B Santos

    Livia B Santos

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, developmental stress, resilience theory, diet, phenotypic plasticity, peopling of the americas (Brazil), hunter-gatherers, marginalization, colonialism.

  • Emily Schopmeyer

    Emily Schopmeyer

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology

  • Celeste Schultheiss

    Celeste Schultheiss

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Biological Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Mortuary Practices, Human Growth and Development, Paleopathology, Dental Anthropology, Life History Approach, Resilience Theory

  • Audrey Elizabeth Smith

    Audrey Elizabeth Smith

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Ancient Maya Societies, Forensic Anthropology, Laboratory Methods, Ancient Women & Gender, MMIP Initiative, Ethics in Biological Anthropology, Institutional Repatriation

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  • Emma (Vetter) Taylor

    Emma (Vetter) Taylor

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

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  • Kayla Valdivieso

    Kayla Valdivieso

    Graduate Research Assistant

  • Maria Valdovinos

    Maria Valdovinos

    Graduate Lecturer

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

  • Layla Villanueva

    Layla Villanueva

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Anthropology: Socio-cultural anthropology, language acquisition, heritage and identity, border lands, agricultural communities

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  • Tom G. Wells

    Tom G. Wells

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

  • Kellie S. Wilkerson

    Kellie S. Wilkerson

    Graduate Research Assistant

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

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  • Margaret Zeddies

    Margaret Zeddies

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

  • Julissa Zelaya Barrera

    Julissa Zelaya Barrera

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology