PhD Students

Name Research Areas
Lourdes Aguas
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Norm development/diffusion, Ecuador, environmental justice, rights of nature, consultation/deliberation
Ngozichukwuka Jacob Agwu 
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Health & Environment Disparities 
Osama Ali
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Immigration, Race & Ethnicity
Iris Aleida Pinzon Arteaga
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Cultural sociology, collective memory and practices of memorialization, Violence in Latin-America, Subjectivities and power, Psychosocial Studies. 
Tyler Bellick
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Crime, criminal justice policy, urban sociology
Ian Callahan
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Sexuality, digital media, narratives, identity, qualitative research
Xuemei Cao
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Immigration, Aging and Health, Family, Gender, Networks, Qualitative Methods
Mairead Carr
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Race, Gender, School Choice 
Chin-Han Chan
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Crime and deviance, health disparities, families, social capital, and quantitative methods
Wei-Chia Samantha Chao
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Gender and Sports, Intersectionality, LGBTQ+, Queer Asian American Women
Fanling Cheng
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Immigration, Culture, Computational Methods
Pei-Chen Cheng
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Gender Study, Sociology of Culture, Gender and Politics, Care Work 
Jiwon Choi
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Urban Sociology and Community, International Migration, Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Wendie N. Choudary
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Community and Urban Sociology, Immigration, Housing, Population and Society, Health
Tsveta Dobreva
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Immigration, race and ethnicity, inequality, urban sociology and mixed methods
Shichao Du
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Families, Social Networks, Health, Migration, Culture
Sena Eksi
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Migration/Immigration, Identity, Family, Culture, Education
Lindsey Dale Elliott
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Criminology, Sociology of Law, Media and Crime
Libin Fan
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Deviance, Children and Youth, Education
Chunxu Fang
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 Health Disparity, Families, Social Stratification, Social Mobility
Kimberly Gan
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Transnationalism, Families, Immigration/Migration, Race and Ethnicity
Soojin Han
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Population Health, Statistics and Methods, Gender Inequality and demographic outcomes
Dan He
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Criminology; social deviance; criminal justice; urban sociology

Yeeun (Grace) Hong
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Im/migration; Race and Ethnicity; Gender and Sexuality; Political Sociology; Social Movement; Qualitative Methods
Jianheng Huang
(Frank Wong)
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Criminology (corporate crime, deviance, and green criminology), precarity, and East Asian Studies
Ola Kalu
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urban sociology and inequality, education, and demography
Suzanne M. Kawola
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Gender and labor; care work; work-family conflict 
Hohyun Kim
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Social Demography, Aging, Fertility, Family, Community, Life course
Heeyoung Lee
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Health Outcomes and Behaviors; Gender and Sexuality; Adolescence; Social Deviance; Life-course; Quantitative Method
Ji-won Lee 이지원 李志遠
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Political Economy, Social Inequality, Social Mobility, Development, Asia and Asia America, Case Study Methods
Yuna Lee
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(Im)migration, Crime and Deviance, Race, and Urban Sociology
Han Liu
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Stratification/Mobility, Demography, Population Health, Quantitative Methodology
Qing Tingting Liu
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Migration and Immigration, Globalization, Nationalism, Transnationalism, Intersectionality, Culture.
Yi Lu
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Migration, Families, Children, Race/Class/Gender 
Sarah McCarthy
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Urban Sociology, Housing, Health Disparities
Adriana Rahajeng Mintarsih
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Gender, family, and migration
Kendall Nagi
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Media, culture, language
Samuel Ocasio Jr
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Race & Ethnicity, Latinos/as in the U.S. & Caribbean, Political Sociology, Class, Religion, Intersectionality, Ethnic/Pan-ethnic Identity, Social Movements
Alexander Perry
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Gender, sexuality, sociology of sport, qualitative/mixed-methods
Radhika Prasad
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Social determinants of health, social contexts, children and youth development
Myia Samuels
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Migration/Immigration, Transnationalism, Gender, Families, Political Sociology
Jeewoo Shin
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Immigration, families, race/ethnicity
Jungmin Shin
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Workplace Inequalities, Work and Family, Labor Migrations, Quantitative Methods 
Peter (Sage) Shirey
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Autism and Neurodiversity, Sociology of Work, Qualitative Methods, Cultural Sociology 
Bonnie J Siry-Bove 
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Qualitative methods, healthcare, mental health, emotion work, gender 
Yen-Jung Tseng
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Gender and Sexuality, Social Movements, Education
Gennaro Valdez
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Urbanism, Environmentalism, Social Movements
Fan Wang
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Cultural Sociology, Organizations and Work, The Sociology of Time, Theory
Jane Jia-Yin Wang
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Cultural sociology, gender, migration, transnationalism, body politics 
Dandan Zhao
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Aging, health, family, intergenerational relationship
Yimang Zhou
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Comparative-Historical Sociology; Economic Sociology; the Sociology of Population