Graduate Assistants

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  • Serena Abdallah-Robbins

    Serena Abdallah-Robbins

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology: Video Games, Psychoanalysis, Trauma, Transnational Social Movements, Marxism

  • Benjamin Kwaku Adjei

    Benjamin Kwaku Adjei

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology

  • 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

    Sociology

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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

  • Isabella F Burns

    Isabella F Burns

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology: Sociology of education; school discipline and governance; restorative justice in K–12 institutions; racial inequality and racialized organizations; educational policy and organizational change; quantitative program evaluation.

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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

  • Houda Khalifa Chograni

    Houda Khalifa Chograni

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology

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  • Animesh Dev

    Animesh Dev

    Graduate Research 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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  • Arvind Geetha Christo

    Arvind Geetha Christo

    Graduate Lecturer

    Sociology: Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Kerala Model of Development, Dalit Politics, Development Sociology, Social Movements, and Ethnography.

  • Pamela Ramirez Graves

    Pamela Ramirez Graves

    Graduate Lecturer

    Sociology

  • Debamita Guha

    Debamita Guha

    Graduate Professional Assistant

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

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  • Yang Hai

    Yang Hai

    Graduate Lecturer

    Sociology: Asian American, Identity-making, Culture

  • 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; theorizing institutional DEI interventions; qualitative and quantitative research methods; statistical analysis

  • 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, Sociology of Human Rights, social movements; (de-)democratization; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and society; Bangladesh

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  • Lorena Orozco Mcelwain

    Lorena Orozco Mcelwain

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology: multilingual data collection, second language acquisition, children's political socialization, change management, performance management, crisis communications, civil rights and inequities

  • Ifran Hossain Mollah

    Ifran Hossain Mollah

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology: Human Rights, Social Justice, and Constitution

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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

  • Michael Prentice-Glasgow

    Michael Prentice-Glasgow

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology

  • 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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  • 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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  • Kayla Valdivieso

    Kayla Valdivieso

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sociology: religion, sex education, sexual behavior, first sexual experiences, sociology of emotions, sexual and reproductive health

  • Maria Valdovinos

    Maria Valdovinos

    Graduate Lecturer

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

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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 Research Assistant

    Sociology

  • Ruizhe Zhang

    Ruizhe Zhang

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology