Brandon Alston
Area(s) of Interest: Sociology of Culture, Surveillance, Crime and Law, Race, Gender, Class, Sexualities, Urban Neighborhoods, Digital Technologies, Qualitative Methods, and Inequalities.
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Melike Arslan (Ph.D. 2021)
Area(s) of Interest: Comparative and International Political Economy; Economic Sociology; Socio-Legal Studies; Organizational Behavior; Institutions and Economic Development; Experts and Professionals
Erica Banks
Area(s) of Interest: Criminology; Race, Gender, and Class; Race and Ethnicity; Sex and Gender; Inequality and Stratification; Law and Society; Qualitative Methodology
Advisor: Pattillo
Joshua Basseches (Ph.D. 2020)
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Public Policy (especially energy and climate policy); Social Movements and Interest Groups; Legislative Process and Procedures; U.S. State Politics; Sociology of Law; Comparative-Historical Sociology
Laura Carrillo
Area(s) of Interest: Social Stratification/Inequality, Urban Issues, Education, and Race/Ethnicity
Advisor: Pattillo
Miri Eliyahu
Area(s) of Interest: Research Methods, Organizations, Inequality and Stratification and Cultural Sociology
Advisor: Carruthers
Angel Escamilla Garcia
Area(s) of Interest: Latin America, Central America, Mayan Studies, migration, race, childhood, ethnography and Sociology of Law
Mallory Fallin
Area(s) of Interest: Science and technology, Race, Medical sociology, Sociology of knowledge
Advisor: Epstein
Jun Fang (Ph.D. 2021)
Area(s) of Interest: Culture, Creativity, Globalization, Organizations, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methods, China
Emily Handsman
Area(s) of Interest: Education; Culture; Inequality; Race, Class, Gender; Methods; Social Policy
Advisor: Pattillo
Kory Johnson
Area(s) of Interest: Comparative-Historical Sociology; Inequality, Poverty and Mobility; Latin America; Political Sociology; Quantitative and Mixed-Methods; Race, Gender and Class; Social Policy
Gabriela Kirk
Area(s) of Interest: Sociology of Punishment, Cultural Sociology, Surveillance, Crime and Law, Urban Sociology, Science and Technology Studies
Advisor: Pattillo
Jeremy Kuperberg
Area(s) of Interest: Collective Memory, Peace, War, and Social Conflict, Cultural Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Global and Transnational Sociology
Advisor: Fine
Marie Laperriere
Area(s) of Interest: Criminal Justice; Public Policy; Law and Society; Race, Class, and Gender; Gender and Sexuality; Gender-Based Violence
Advisor: Orloff
Tina Law
Area(s) of Interest: Urban Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Contentious Politics, Computational Methods, Text as Data
Advisor: Papachristos
Lantian Li
Area(s) of Interest: Political Economy of Development, Global Health and Biomedicine, Welfare State and Social Policy, Comparative and Historical Analysis, Law and Society, Asia
Advisor: Carruthers
Anna McKean
Area(s) of Interest: Social Movements, Corporate Sociopolitical Activism, Stakeholder Theory
Advisor: Chen
Anna Michelson
Area(s) of Interest: Culture, Sexualities, Gender, Inequalities, Work and Organizations, Education
Advisor: Griswold
Antonio Nanni
Area(s) of Interest: Computational Social Sciences, Quantitative methods, Natural Language Processing, Sociological Theory, Science and Technology, Italian Fascism
Advisor: Quillian
Mariana Oliver
Area(s) of Interest: policing; surveillance; Fourth Amendment; local government
Advisor: Quillian
Sonia Planson
Area(s) of Interest: Immigration, Race, Ethnicity; Citizenship and Identity; Culture; Education
Advisor: Pattillo
Rahardhika Utama
Area(s) of Interest: Sociology of Development; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Ethnography; Global and Transnational Sociology; Inequality; Politics of Culture; Southeast Asia
Advisor: Prasad