Students
To email any of the students below, please add @uchicago.edu to their address prefix.
Len Albright, 2003
Interests: Urban Sociology, Culture, Social Change, Place and
Collective Memory
Email: albriglx
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~albriglx
Kimberly Austin, 2004
Interests: Education, Social Change, Stratification, Urban
Sociology
Email: kaustin
Michael Bare, 2004
Interests: Social Theory, Culture, Stratification, Social
Organization/Formal/Complex
Email: mbarev
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, Social Organization/Formal/Complex,
Methodology/Mathematical Sociology, Social Theory
Email: bishop
Paola Castano, 2005
Interests: Social Theory, Political Sociology
Email: pcastano
Alex Chandler, 2001
Interests: Health and Medicine, Urban Sociology, Culture,
Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology
Email: ajc
Erica Coslor, 2002
Master's: Producing & Consuming: Interlinked Consumption and
Production Patterns in Informal Arts and Entertainment Scenes
Interests: Economic Sociology/Globalization, Urban Sociology, Cultural
Policy
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/
John Eason, 2002
Master's: Small Town Running the Big: Examining the Growth of the
Prison in Rural America
Interests: Urban Sociology, Social Organization/Formal/Complex,
Stratification, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
Email: eason
Jessica Feldman, 2005
Interests: Urban Sociology, Education, Methodology/Mathematical
Sociology
Email: jessicaf
Jamiliyah Gilliam, 2002
Interests: Urban Sociology, Education, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations,
Juvenile Crime
Master's: Criminology
Email: niambi
Wendy Greyeyes, 2005
Interests: Development/Modernization, Education, Economic
Sociology/Globalization, Political Sociology
Email: greyeyes
Jennifer Hanis, 2001
Interests: Gender, Family, Work/Occupations, Social Theory,
Sport
Master's: Working Mothers' Commitment to Family While On the
Clock
Interests: Health and Medicine, Demography, Stratification, Chinese
society
Email: jhanis
Yanni Hao, 2001
Interests: Health and Medicine, Demography, Stratification, Chinese
society
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
Melissa Howe, 2000
Interests: Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Culture, Immigrant
Acculturation/Assimilation; Muslim Communities in the West; Ethnography &
Survey Methods
Master's: Representations of Women's Roles in a British Muslim
Community (MPhil, Cambridge University)
Email: melissa-howe
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, 2000
Interests: Culture, Political Sociology, Nationalism, Food and
Diet
Master's: Media and Governance Study (Keio University, 1999)
Email: aiko
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
Master's: The Propensity to Live Alone Revisited: Evidence from 1977
to 1998.
Email: muhchung
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/
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
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
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
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
Cherese Ruffin, 2003
Interests: Family, Gender, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Urban
Sociology
Email: cruffin
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
Elizabeth Jefferis Terrien, 2002
Interests: Corporate Organizations, Race and Ethnicity, Political
Sociology, Social Change, and Animals in Human Society
Master's: The Corporate Cult: How Corporations Gain Commitment at the
Expense of Families
Email: eej75
Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~eej75/
Xiaoli Tian, 2003
Interests: Health and Medicine, Comparative/Historical/Macro
Sociology, Political Sociology, sociology of knowledge
Email: xltian
Alicia VandeVusse, 2004
Interests: Gender, Health and Medicine, Urban Sociology, Education,
Stratification, Development/Modernization, Economic
Sociology/Globalization
Email: ajv
Danielle Wallace, 2002
Interests: Urban Sociology, Health and Medicine, Demography,
Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Crime
Master's: Ignoring the Individual: Contemporary Theories of Collective
Efficacy and Social Disorder
Email: dwallace
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
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
(Joseph) Xiaotian Zhang, 2000
Interests: Stratification, Economic Sociology/Globalization,
Methodology/Mathematical Sociology, Chinese Society
Email: jxzhang
