Affiliated Academic Appointees

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Heba Alex
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

halex@uchicago.edu
Enrique Alvear
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow

ealvearm@uchicago.edu

Interests: Crime and punishment, policing, U.S. empire and colonialism, globalization, social theory, science and technology, urban marginality, ethnography, and Latin America
Maurice Anyawie
Postdoctoral Scholar

manyawie@uchicago.edu

Interests: Fertility, formal demography, immigration, marriage, child mortality, and family sociology
Elizabeth S. Avent
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Center for Health and Social Sciences (CHESS), and NORC

eavent@uchicago.edu

Interests: Elder abuse, late-life intimate partner violence, caregiving, dementia and cognitive impairment, and adverse childhood experiences
Maurice Bokanga
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

mbokanga@uchicago.edu
Jason Bonham
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences

jpbonham@uchicago.edu
Chad Broughton
Instructional Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division

ceb@uchicago.edu
Maximilian Cuddy
Earl S. Johnson Instructor in Sociology, MAPSS

mcuddy@uchicago.edu

Interests: Race, education, urban sociology
Henry K. Dambanemuya
Assistant Instructional Professor, Masters in Computational Social Science (MACSS)

hdambane@uchicago.edu

Interests: Computer science, communication, global affairs, collective intelligence problems in complex systems
Cameron Day
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

camkday23@uchicago.edu
Pranathi Diwakar
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

pranathi@uchicago.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago
Hongbo Fang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and Knowledge Lab

hongbofang@uchicago.edu

Interests: Computational social science, innovation, evolution of online communities and social media activities, the societal impact of large language models
Caterina Fugazzola
Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in the the Global Studies Program

cfugazzola@uchicago.edu

Interests: Social movements, gender and sexuality, transnational sociology, social change, culture, East Asia, qualitative methods
Laura Fürsich
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mansueto Institute and Department of Sociology

fursich@uchicago.edu

Interests: Social mechanisms in spatial contexts, urban planning, social networks, social influence, residential segregation
Teng Ge
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

tengge@uchicago.edu
Karlyn Gorski
Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

gorski@uchicago.edu

Interests: High schools, ethnography, adolescent development, public policy, sociology of education
april graham-jackson
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation

algjackson@uchicago.edu

Interests: Geographic development, racial capitalism, sub/urban migration, music and sound, Black identity, Chicago Metropolitan Area
Marshall Jean
Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology, M.A. Program in the Social Sciences

marshalljean@uchicago.edu

Interests: Education, urban sociology, social inequality, public policy, data science, quantitative methods, causal inference, hierarchical linear modeling
Hong Jin Jo
Teaching Fellow

hongjin@uchicago.edu

Interests: Sociology of education, social change, historical sociology, and globalization
Austin Kozlowski
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

akozlo@uchicago.edu

Interests: Computational sociology, sociology of culture, political sociology, science and knowledge
Nadav Kunievsky
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and Knowledge Lab

nadavkunievsky@uchicago.edu

Interests: Information environments, labor market disparities, theoretical and empirical economics
Ningzi Li
Postdoctoral Scholar, Data Science Institute

ningzi@uchicago.edu

Interests: Economic sociology, organizational theory, strategic management, computational social science
Jiajie (Jerry) Luo
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and Knowledge Lab

jerryluo8@uchicago.edu

Interests: Mathematics, socially motivated applications and problems, topological data analysis, complex social systems
Nisarg Mehta
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

nmm2121@uchicago.edu
Sabrina Nardin
Assistant Instructional Professor, Masters in Computational Social Science (MACSS)

nardin@uchicago.edu

Interests: Cultural and political processes
Brianne Painia
Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology, M.A. Program in the Social Sciences

bpainia@uchicago.edu

Interests: Gender, race, religion and spiritual identity
Xiangyi (Tami) Ren
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

xren9@uchicago.edu
Hanock Spitzer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and Center for Spatial Data Science (CSDS)

haspitzer@uchicago.edu
Connor Strobel
Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor

strobel@uchicago.edu

Interests: Contested identities, sexuality, gender, sociology of law, health, social movements, sociological theory
Alexandra Tate
Research Director, Section of Hospital Medicine

atate@bsd.uchicago.edu

Interests: decision-making, doctor-patient interactions and relationships, end-of-life care
Grace Venechuk
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences

gvenechuk@uchicago.edu
Haitong Xu
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

xuhaitong@uchicago.edu

Interests: Computational methods, culture, economic sociology, globalization, social theory