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Our Graduate Students

Crystal Adams
Medical Sociology; Health Policy; Mental Health and Illness; Environmental Sociology

Sinem Adar
Urban Sociology; Political Sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology with a particular interest in Urban/National Citizenship; Civil Society; Nationalism

Tatiana Andia Rey
Political Economy of Development; Trade & Development; Health & Medical Sociology; IPRs and Access to Health

Marcelo Bohrt Seeghers
Ethnic and Social Inequality; Political Sociology; Latin America

Aisalkyn Botoeva
Economic Sociology; Organizational Sociology; Political Economy of Development; Central Asia

Todd Arthur Bridges
Economic Sociology; Organizational Sociology; Sociology of Law; Mixed Methods Research; Social Network Analysis; Regulation & Social Control

SooJung Choi
Organizational Sociology; Cumulative Inequality

David Ciplet
Global Political Economy; Development; Environmental Sociology; Climate Change Policy; Environmental Justice

Orly Clerge
Migration and Immigration; Urban Sociology; Social Demography; Qualitative Methods; Sociology of Education; Race and Ethic Relations

Alissa Cordner
Environmental Sociology; Medical Sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Social Psychology; Children and Families; Stratification and Inequality

Jennifer Costanza
Development; Political Economy; Democratization; Latin America and the Caribbean

Joshua Eubank
Development, Labor, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Ethnography

Christopher Gibson
Political Sociology; Social Movements; Sociology of Development and Inequality; Comparative-Historical Analysis; Political Economy; Urban Sociology; Public Health; Social Policy; Brazil; India; Indonesia; Latin America

Rachel Goldberg
Family; Gender; Social Demography; Population Health, including HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health; Life Course; Data Collection; Advanced Statistical Methods; Qualitative Methods

Diana Graizbord
Political Economy of Development; Inequality; Globalization; Environment; Rural Livelihoods; Food and Agriculture

Leah Greenblum
Urban Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Health

Weeam Hammoudeh
Nuptiality and Fertility Patterns; Family Formation, Gender & Health; Quality of Life; Health Inequalities

Moshi Herman
Social Demography; International Political Economy; Global Development Theory; Global Health; The Life Course;  Measures of Development; Africa’s Engagement with International Financial Institutions; Global Inequalities; Quantitative Methods; Comparative Methods; Africa

Esther Hernandez-Medina
Democracy and Citizen Participation; Latin America and the Caribbean; Public Policy; Globalization; Feminism and Gender; Gender and Development; Social Movements; Global Cities in Latin America

Sukriti Issar
Urban Sociology; Welfare State; Economic Sociology; Development; Spatial Analysis; Qualitative and Historical Methods

Yara Jarallah
Marriage Patterns; Family Formation; Migration and Refugees; Population; Health; Gender

Tania Jenkins
Medical Sociology; Legal Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge

Karida Johnson
Inequality, Organizations

Meghan Kallman
Organizations; Development; Ethnicity

Peter Klein
Development; Land Rights and Conflict; Civil Society and Civic Engagement; Environment; Brazil

Amy Kracker Selzer
Democracy and Civil Society; Political Sociology; Spatial Social Science

Juyoung Lee
Development; Political Sociology; Ethnicity

Mercedes Lyson
Medical Sociology; Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities; Development; Global Food Systems; Environmental Sociology

Shruti Majumdar
Political Economy of Development, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology and Ethnography

Jamie McPike
Gender; Development; Health; Urban Sociology; Demography; India 

Erica Mullen
Immigration and Migration, Immigrant Incorporation, Race and Ethnic Relations, Urban Sociology, and Demography

Margaret Mulcahy
Environmental Justice, Environmental Health, Food Movements

Ben Onyango
Social Demography and Health; Urban Sociology; Development; Sub-Saharan Africa

Oi-ying (Irene) Pang
Development; Comparitive-Historical Sociology

Omar Pereyra
Urban Sociology; Social Stratification and Inequality; Sociology of Culture; Political Economy

Mim Plavin-Masterman
Organizational Sociology; Urban Sociology

Heather Randell
Environmental Sociology; Health; Migration; Social Demography; Brazil

Michael Rodriguez
Cultural sociology; sociology of knowledge, panethnicity; Latina/o identity formation; the political science of state categorization and enumeration; racial domination and empire; and the sociology of intellectuals

Gayatri Singh
Social Inequality; Urban Sociology; Social Demography; Theories of Development

Jing Song
Family and Gender; Political Economy of Development; Market Transition in China

Inku Subedi
Gender; Migration; Demography of the Life Course; Transition to Adulthood in Developing Countries; South Asia; Sub Saharan Africa; Sexual and Reproductive Health

Dikshya Thapa
Culture and Economic Development; Feminism and Empowerment; Political Economy of Trade; Politics of Globalization; South Asia

Daniela Villacrés
International Development; Governance and Civil Society; Community-Driven Development; International Migration; Remittances; Diasporas/Transnationalism; Latin America

Trina Vithayathil
Social Demography; Urban Sociology; Political & Economic Development

Xu, Hongwei
Organizations, Spatial Analysis

Myung Ji Yang
Political Sociology; Comparative Historical Methods; Civil Society and Democracy; Development; East Asia

Weiwei Zhang
Measurements of Assessing Out-Migrations; Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health; Successful Aging

Mujun Zhou
Political Sociology; Development; Civil Society in Urban China