Graduate Assistants
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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.
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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
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Drew Bonner
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: food environments, food insecurity, food justice and nutrition education
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Isabella F Burns
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sociology: sociology of education, language in society, literacy, restorative justice
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Alyssa Cazier
Graduate Professional Assistant
Sociology: inequity, gender, race, class, queer studies, feminist theory, institutional and organizational culture, community engaged research, systems change.
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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
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: Democratizing technology, data relations, digital globalization, community-owned data & digital infrastructure, digital sociology.
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Animesh Dev
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sociology: Socio-spatial processes, borders formation, design anthropology, interdisciplinary research & pedagogy, qualitative methods, global south, India, United States
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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
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: sociology of education, immigration, life course transitions, emotions, health, applied sociology, and mixed-methods research
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Arvind Geetha Christo
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Social Movements, Dalit politics, and Ethnography.
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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
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: Urban Sociology, Culture, Social Objects, Inequity, China, Community-based Research
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Umida Hashimova
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: International migration, Central Asia, soft power, mixed-method research
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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
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Deepika Hooda
Graduate Lecturer
Sociology: Globalization, global tech labor, migration, digital culture, computational social science, and social movements.
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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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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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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
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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
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology
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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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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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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
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sociology: Political sociology, social movements, historical and comparative sociology, culture, stratification and inequality, social theory, charisma
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Kellie S. Wilkerson
Graduate Research Assistant
Sociology: Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research, Globalization, Sociology of Education, Statistics/Quantitative Methodology
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Margaret Zeddies
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sociology: Children and Youth, Cultural Sociology, Globalization, Humanitarian Aid, International Development, Public Sociology, Political Economy, Postcolonialism, Study Abroad
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