Current Graduate Students
Current graduate students are listed below alphabetical order by last name in the cohort they entered the department.
2024-2025 Cohort
Iretiayo Rebecca Akinjo
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research interests: Rural/Agricultural sociology, Leveraging AI for Social Behavior
Analysis and predictive modeling in rural communities.
Sophie Burns
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests:gender inequality, sexuality, sexual behavior, stigma, social
psychology, qualitative methods and media research.
Myrissa Eisworth
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Heather Rackin
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Sexual violence, Intersectionality, Public
Policy, Cultural Sociology, Mixed Methods
Marine Harutyunan
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research interests: Sociology of Education, Criminology.
Rita Kagaju
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research interests: Sociology of Culture, Conflict theory, Collective Memory, Cultural
and Intergenerational Trauma.
Su Min Park
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research interests: Social inequality, mental health, gender, intersectionality, social
movement, stratification, immigration, culture, stigma and prejudice, historical sociology.
Mollie Schloss
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research interests: Internet Socialization, Sociological Theory & Qualitative Methods.
Claire Thomas
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research interests: Gender; Family; Mental Health; Media; Substance Use.
Carine Villasanti
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: communities, environmental sociology, and collaboration.
2023-2024 Cohort
Judith Amegbe
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Technology, Deviance, Social Networks, and Health
Hanieh Lashkarbolouki
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Rick Weil
Research Interests: gender stereotypes, gender and religion, democracy, patriarchy
in the middle east.
Xinying (Nunnally) Zou
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Spatial Analysis, Health, Social Network
2022-2023 Cohort
Naduni Jayasnghe
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley and Heather Rackin
Research Interests: Public policy, sociology of disaster, development, economic sociology,
and social capital
KayLynn Larrison
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity, inequality, quantitative methods
Muhammad Saifuddin
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests: Religious and rural education, immigration, Bangladeshi Diaspora
2021-2022 Cohort
Windsor Adcox
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Criminology; criminal violence; juvenile crime; rehabilitation
Nana Osei Asiamah
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Social Networks; technology; mental health
Isaac Carson
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Corrections; juvenile delinquency; public policy; capital punishment
Zara Houser
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Reproductive health; reproductive justice; race/ethnicity; gender
Heath McNeese
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests: Environmental sociology; environmental justice; inequalities; social movements;
social change
Arijita Pal
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Social policy; human rights; child rights; agriculture; economic development
Shinjini Roy
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Childhood; parenting; digital technologies; urban spaces; South Asian studies
CV
Xiaoxu Yang
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Sociology of education; life course; social stratification
CV
Seunghwan Yoo
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Heather Rackin
Research Interests: Social Demography, Marriage & Fertility, Digital Media, Narrative & Public Discourse,
Social Inequality.
2020-2021 Cohort
Katie Cali
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Religion; criminology; race; assisted suicide; death penalty
Jamila Freightman
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Rural sociology; arrested mobility; race; wealth inequality; economic development.
Yoon Jung Jeong
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Gender; media; online culture; activism, masculinities
Savannah Mattox
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Race & Ethnicity, Interracial Relationships, Interracial Families, Gender & Sexualities
Samantha Ramey
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Rick Weil
Research Interests: Children & adolescence; mental health; Internet communications
Harleen Sandhu
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Sociology of religion; military sociology; subaltern studies; gender studies; culture;
community & urban sociology; public policy
Katherine Seals
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:
Research Interests: Criminology; environmental design; perception of crime; crime & health
Shriya Thakkar
Email: [email protected]
Advisor:Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests:Gender; migration; development; urban slums; media; South Asia
Jonathan Yevuyibor
Email: [email protected]Advisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr
Research Interests: Urban sluma; media; environmental justice; urban sociology; health & development
2019-2020 Cohort
Rebecca Bock
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Rhiannon A. Kroeger
Research Interests: Family demography; mental health; fertility; quantitative methods
Rebecca's CV
Jazmin Robinson-Smith
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity; gender/sexuality; media; criminology; Black studies;
romantic relationships
2018-2019 Cohort
Dominique Dillard
Email: [email protected]
Advisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests:Black sexuality; sexual violence; slavery; race
Dominique's CV
Rob Matchett
Email: [email protected]Advisor: Dana Berkowitz
Research Interests: Gender & sexuality; health, self & identity; LGBT Studies; qualitative research
Rob's CV
2017-2018 Cohort
2015-2016 Cohort
Ashley Maryland
Email: [email protected]Advisor: Lori Martin
Research Interests: Race, crime, policing
Ashley's CV