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Our Graduate Students

Sinem Adar
Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, and Urban Sociology (with a particular focus on nationalism and nation-state building, incorporation of religious and ethnic minorities, conflict and co-existence in urban spaces, welfare provision, Middle East, and the Balkans)

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

Karida Brown
Inequality, Organizations

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

Orly Clerge
Social Stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Migration/Immigration, Urban Sociology, Social Demography, Qualitative Methods, Ethnography, Middle Class Minorities

Alissa Cordner
Environmental Sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Environmental Justice; Social Movements; Urban Sociology; Medical Sociology.

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

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

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

Ricarda Hammer
Development, Political Economy, Urban Sociology, Latin America

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

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

Meghan Kallman
Organizations; Development; Ethnicity

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

Juyoung Lee
Development; Political Sociology; Ethnicity

Johnnie Anne Lotesta
Political Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Political Economy

Mercedes Lyson
Sociology of Health and the Body, Politics of Obesity, Urban Sociology, Agri-Food Studies, Health Inequality, Social Capital, Qualitative Methods

Patrick Mayne
Medical Sociology; Urban Sociology; Migration

Kathryn McCune
Health, Gender, Social Demography, Life Course

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

Michael Warren Murphy
Global Political Economy; Environment; Development; Theory

Aaron Niznik
Environmental Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Movements; Economic Sociology; Urban Sociology; Theory

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

Irene Pang
Development, citizenship, dynamics of capitalism, comparative research, China, India

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

Mim Plavin-Masterman
Organizational Sociology; Urban Sociology

Apollonya Porcelli
Environmental Sociology, Latin America, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Ethnicity

Meredith Pustell
Medical Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Psychology, Social Movements

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

Ayalu Reda
Population Studies and Health: Reproductive Demography, Adolescent Health, HIV/AIDS and other infections having a population level impact, Family Planning and Contraception, Adolescent Transition to Adulthood

Michael Rodriguez
Cultural Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge; Ethnicity and Race; Political Sociology; Pan-Latino Identities

Yibing Shen
Development, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Citizenship, Globalization

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

Dana Smiles
Gender; Demography; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Social Determinants of Health; Transition to Adulthood; Education

Kimberly Stephens
Organizational Sociology; Law 

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

Amy Teller
Environmental Sociology; Population and Environment; Food and Agriculture; Climate and Development

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

Yashas Vaidya
Social Demography; Urban Sociology; Political Economy of Development

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

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

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