Students
To email any of the students below, please add @uchicago.edu to their address prefix.
Istvan Adorjan, 2007
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory
Email: iadorjan
Mary Akchurin, 2007
Interests: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Urban Sociology, International Development
Email: mma
Len Albright, 2003
Interests: Urban Sociology, Social Change, Suburbs, Affordable Housing, Ethnographic Methodology
Master's: Exploring Meaning and History in Abandoned Buildings: An Ethnographic Study
Email: albriglx
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~albriglx
Kimberly Austin, 2004
Interests: Education, Social Change, Work/Occupations, Social Organization/Formal/Complex
Email: kaustin
Master's: Paid Service Programs as Institutional Supports in the School to Work Transition
Michael Bare, 2004
Interests: Social Theory, Culture, Stratification, Work/Occupations
Email: mbare
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mbare
Master's: "The Peculiar Place of the Body in Talcott Parsons's Action Theory"
Katie Bennett, 2003
Interests: Education, Work/Occupations, Social Organization/Formal/Complex
Master's: Teacher Retention in an Alternative Teacher Training Program (In Progress)
Email: kbennett
Eileen Bevis, 2004
Interests: Culture, Social Theory, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Morality
Email: ebevis
Michael Bishop, 2004
Interests: Education, Methodology/Mathematical Sociology, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Culture, Evolution
Email: bishop
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~bishop/
Jessica Borja, 2008
Interests: Gender, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification, Work/Occupations, Urban Sociology
Email: jzborja
Kelly Brown, 2005
Interests: Political Sociology, Social Organization/Formal/Complex
Email: klb
Website: http://www.viewpint-consulting.com
Elizabeth Campbell, 1995
Interests: Gender, Health and Medicine, Urban Sociology, Social Change
Email: 891823
Master's: The North End Teen Clinic: The Production of Sexuality
Paola Castaño, 2005
Interests: Social Theory, Culture, Sociology of Knowledge, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Violence and Conflict.
Email: pcastano
Master's: "The Violentologists": Intellectuals and the Study of Violence in Colombia.
Alex Chandler, 2001
Interests: Health and Medicine, Urban Sociology, Culture, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology
Email: ajc
Jen-Hao Chen, 2008
Interests: Stratification, Family, Demography, Methodology/Mathematical Sociology, Social Psychology
Email: jenhao
Derwin Cheng, 2007
Interests: Culture, Knowledge, Values, Morality, Emotions, Social and Political Theory
Email: derwin
Brian Cody, 2006
Interests: Political Sociology, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Social Theory
Email: briancody
Michael Corey, 2007
Interests: Family, Work/Occupations, Demography, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Comparative Methodology and Public Sociology
Email: mcorey
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mcorey/
Erica Coslor, 2002
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Urban Sociology, Social Theory, Science and Technology Studies
Email: ecoslor
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ecoslor
Nicholas P. Dempsey, 1999
Interests: Culture, Social Theory, Work/Occupations, Stratification, Symbolic Interaction
Master's: Television Use and Communication in Families of Adolescents
Email: npdempse
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~npdempse/
Jan Doering, 2008
Interests: Culture, Social Theory, Stratification, Urban Sociology
Email: jdoering
Gordon Douglas, 2006
Interests: Urban Sociology, Culture, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Social Change, Social Theory
Email: gdouglas
Master's: The Impact of Social Norms on Growth Machine Development: Local Culture and the Development Process in an Identity-Conscious Community
Jessica Feldman, 2005
Interests: Urban Sociology, Education, Consumption
Email: jessicaf
David Ferguson, 2002
Interests: Urban Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of the South, Sociology of Knowledge
Email: dferg
Master's: Shifting Visibility: Golden Age Sociology of the South Revised
Mariana Gatzeva, 1999
Interests: Development/Modernization, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Microfinance
Email: mngatzev
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mngatzev/
Jamiliyah Gilliam, 2002
Interests: Urban Sociology, Education, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Juvenile Crime
Master's: Criminology
Email: niambi
Laura Goodrich, 2008
Interests: Development/Modernization, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Gender
Email: lgoodrich
Elizabeth Gray, 2007
Interests: Social Theory, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Culture, Sexuality
Email: lizzykate
Christopher Graziul, 3rd
Interests: Methodology/Mathematical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Political Sociology
Email: graziul
Wendy Greyeyes, 2005
Interests: Development/Modernization, Education, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Political Sociology
Email: greyeyes
Jennifer Hanis-Martin, 2001
Interests: Family, Gender, Work/Occupations, Education, sport and leisure
Email: jhanis
Master's: Working Women's Committment to Family While "On the Clock"
Yanni Hao, 2001
Interests: Methodology/Mathematical Sociology, Demography, Health and Medicine, Family, Aging/Gerontology, Epidemiology
Email: yanni
E. C. Hedberg, 2002
Interests: Family, Health and Medicine, Demography, Education
Master's:Saturation and Status Effects on Social Capital Benefits: Elucidating the Conceptualization and Methodology of Social Capital, With an Example from Family Data
Email: ech
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ech
Sylvie Honig, 2002
Interests: Family, Urban Sociology, Life Course; Transition to Adulthood; Human Development
Email: shonig
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~shonig
Master's: Tight-Knit?: Urban Social Ties in a Young Women’s Knitting Group
Melissa Howe, 2000
Interests: , Immigration, Assimilation (esp. Acculturation), Gender, Family, Muslim American Communities, Qualitative & Survey Methods
Email: mkenney
Master's: Representations of Women's Roles in a British Muslim Community (MPhil, Cambridge University)
Daniel Huebner, 2006
Interests: Social Theory, Culture, Social Psychology
Email: huebner
Sanja Jagesic, 2008
Interests: Education, Stratification, Methodology/Mathematical Sociology
Email: sjagesic
Lesley Kandaras, 2003
Interests: Political Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Education, Development/Modernization, American Indian/Indigenous Peoples Studies
Master's: Constructing and Challenging Political Boundaries: Translocal Politics and Indigenous Self-Determination
Email: kandaras
Kavita Kapadia, 2001
Interests: Education, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Work/Occupations, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
Master's: Considering the Role of Dispositions in Effective Urban Classroom Teaching: Evaluating the Validity of Haberman's 'Star Teacher' Protocol
Email: kkapadia
Zack Kertcher, 2003
Interests: Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Work/Occupations, Social Theory, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Social Networks
Email: kertcher
Melissa Kew, 2002
Interests: Gender, Health and Medicine, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sexuality
Email: mkew
Aiko Kojima Hibino, 2000
Interests: Culture, Political Sociology, Food and Diet, Nationalism
Email: aiko
Master's: Media and Governance Study (Keio University, 1999)
Naeyun Lee, 2005
Interests: Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Family, Stratification, Urban Sociology
Email: naeyun
Greg Liegel, 2003
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Urban Sociology, Work/Occupations, Migration
Email: liegel
Muh-Chung Lin, 2002
Interests: Family, Demography, Stratification, Health and Medicine
Email: muhchung
Master's: The Propensity to Live Alone Revisited: Evidence from 1977 to 1998.
Sida Liu, 2002
Interests: Work/Occupations, Political Sociology, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Social Change, Law and Society
Email: sidaliu
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~sidaliu/
David Lubin, 2003
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Urban Sociology, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
Email: dlubin
Website: www.davidlubin.com
Master's: Culture and Economic Power by the Ivory Tower: An Empirical, Theoretical, and Multivariate Analysis of the Impact of Colleges and Universities on their Host Communities
Sheldon Lyke, 1999
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Gender, Political Sociology, Social Change, law
Email: sblyke
Website: http://www.sheldonlyke.com
Pau Mari-Klose, 2000
Interests: Political Sociology, Stratification, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Transitions to Adulthood
Master's: Sociology
Email: pau
Maria Medvedeva, 2002
Interests: International Migration, Immigrant Acculturation/Assimilation, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
Master's: Social Capital and Individual Freedom in a Russian Jewish Immigrant Community
Email: masha
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~masha/
Marcelle Medford-Lee, 2005
Interests: Urban Sociology, Immigration
Email: mandisa
Maria Medvedeva, 2002
Interests: , International Migration, Immigrant Acculturation/Assimilation, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
Email: masha
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~masha/
Master's: Social Capital and Individual Freedom in a Russian Jewish Immigrant Community
Daniel Menchik, 2003
Interests: Health and Medicine, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Social Theory, Education, Information Technology
Master's: Putting knowledge into organizational context(s): How physician networks manage research findings
Email: mench
Website: http://menchik.com/
Ben Merriman, 2008
Interests: Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Social Theory, Virtue and Character, Animals
Email: merriman
Sanyu Mojola, 2001
Interests: African/Asian Population Analysis, Development, Education, Gender, Globalization/Transnational Processes, Social Epidemiology (HIV/AIDS, women’s health), Life course (adolescence/transition to adulthood)
Master's: Situating the Kenyan Fertility Transition: Fertility Rates and Social Change in East Africa
Email: samojola
Rick Moore, 2008
Interests: Culture, Religion
Email: rickmoore
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~rickmoore/
Abigail Ocobock, 2007
Interests: Family, Gender, Social Change
Email: aocobock
Josh Pacewicz, Political Sociology, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Social Theory, Voting Behavior, Ethnography
Master's: Making Room for Hippies like "Us": How the Counterculture Changed the World Without Really Trying
Email: pacewicz
Website: http:/home.uchicago.edu/~pacewicz/
Michal Pagis, 2002
Interests: Culture, Social Theory, Self; Religion
Master's: 'Who else could be one's refuge?' Vipassana meditation and the search for individuality
Email: mpagis
Genevieve Pham-Kanter, 2001
Interests: Stratification, Economic Sociology/Globalization
Email: g_phamkanter
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbtp2/
Lauren Pilgrim, 2001
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Work/Occupations, Stratification, Aging and Life Course
Email: pilgrim
Phil Redman, 2007
Interests: Gender, Education, Urban Sociology
Email: philredman
Xuefei Ren, 2001
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Urban Sociology, Methodology/Mathematical Sociology, Sociology of Built Enviornment
Master's: Urban Space and Social Networks in China
Email: ren
Paki Reid-Brossard, 2003
Interests: Social Theory
Email: paki
Master's: Social Action, Social Structure, and Social Mechanisms: From Causal to Constitutive Relationships in Specifying the Operation of Factors or Forces
Cherese Ruffin, 2003
Interests: Family, Violence against women and children, Black feminist theory, Qualitative methods
Email: cruffin
Master's: The Media Giveth and the Media Taketh Away: Reconceptualizing the media’s influence on Minority Females’ Perceptions of Rape
Rafael Santana, 2003
Interests: Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, International Migration; Immigrant Transnationalism; Sociology of Emotions; Latino Sociology
Email: santana
Master's: The Emergent Effects of Ethnicity: Contextualizing Institutional Attachment among Latino Students
David Schalliol, 2002
Interests: Stratification, Urban Sociology, Education, Social Theory, Visual Sociology
Master's: Just north of the Calumet River: A study of dereliction and place
Email: dcs
Website: http://www.davidschalliol.com
Jae-Mahn Shim, 2006
Interests: Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Health and Medicine, Stratification, Social Organization/Formal/Complex, (Post)Coloniality and World Polity/Culture
Email: jmshim
Master's: Participatory Planning and Community Empowerment (2004, Seoul National University)
Suzanne Smith, 2006
Interests: Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Political Sociology, Culture
Email: smithsm
Michaela Soyer , 2006
Interests: Social Change, Health and Medicine, Social Theory
Email: msoyer
Christopher Takacs, 2007
Interests: Social Theory, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Education, Culture
Email: ctakacs
Website: www.christakacs.com
Elizabeth Terrien, 2002
Interests: Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Culture, Political Sociology, Social Change, Human Animal Interaction
Email: eej75
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~eej75
Master's: The Corporate Cult: How Corporations Gain Commitment at the Expense of Families
Xiaoli Tian, 2003
Interests: Health and Medicine, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Political Sociology, sociology of knowledge
Email: xltian
Gawin Tsai, 2006
Interests: Social Organization/Formal/Complex, Work/Occupations, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Gender
Craig Tutterow, 2008
Interests: Work/Occupations, Social Change, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Culture, Accountancy
Email: craigtutterow
Alicia VandeVusse, 2004
Interests: Health and Medicine, Gender, Family, Sexuality
Email: ajv
Master's: A Baby Story as a Source of Information about Birth: The Messages and Their Implications
Danielle Wallace, 2002
Interests: , Criminology, Urban Sociology, Health Studies, Demography
Email: dwallace
Website: http://home. uchicago.edu/~dwallace
Bijan Warner, 2006
Interests: Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Development/Modernization, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Social Theory
Email: bijan
Liza Weinstein, 2001
Interests: Urban Sociology, Economic Sociology/Globalization, Political Sociology, Development/Modernization
Master's: For the Empowerment of Whom? Defining Harlem's Social and Physical Space in the Context of Empowerment Zone Development
Email: lizaw
Jolyon Wurr (aka Ticer-Wurr), 1991
Interests: Urban Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Culture, Stratification
Master's: Passing the Torch: Neighborhood Racial Succession
Email: jswurr
Jin Xu, 2003
Interests: Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Change, Social Organization/Formal/Complex
Email: xujin
Tal Yifat, 2006
Interests: Culture, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Social Theory, Evolution of the Modern Self; Childrearing
Email: tal
Erin York, 2000
Interests: Political Sociology, Stratification, Health and Medicine, Sociology of Law
Master's: The Torments of Jury Secrecy: The 1955 Chicago Jury Project Scandal
Email: eyork
Yang Zhang, 2008
Interests: Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Methodology/Mathematical Sociology
Email: yangzhang
