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Teng Ge

Doctoral Candidate (2017)

Interests:

Global Sociology, Culture, Work and Occupations, Qualitative Methods, Sports

Dissertation Title: The Price of Conformity: Cooperative Rivalry and Organizational Infighting in Chinese Professional Basketball Committee: Kimber...

Lauren Hagani

Doctoral Student (2023)

laurenhagani@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Crime, Gender, Social Change, Social Organizations

My research examines how punishment and health systems interact to contribute to the surveillance, regulation, and control of vulnerable populations. ...

Nicole Hart

Doctoral Student (2023); Neubauer Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar

nhart@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification, Urban Sociology

My interests mainly involve anti-Black racism and how that affects Black well-being, in several contexts. I focus on urban sociology, and have previou...

Reyna Hernandez

Doctoral Candidate (2019); American Bar Foundation Law & Social Science Doctoral Fellow

reynah@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Crime, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Change, Social Organizations, Urban Sociology, Law and Society

Theodora K. Hurley

Doctoral Candidate (2021); National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

tkhurley@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Health and Medicine, Gender and Sexuality, Qualitative Methodology, Social Studies of Knowledge, Family and Reproduction, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Theory

Theodora K. Hurley is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago. She works in the areas of gender and sexuality, health and medic...

Daniela Juarez

Doctoral Student (2022); Neubauer Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar

danielaj@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Education, Qualitative Methodology, Immigration

My research aims to understand the educational, political, and social inequalities that undocumented immigrants encounter in higher education institut...

Junsol Kim

Doctoral Student (2021)

junsol@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Computational Methods, Culture, Mathematical Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology

My research intersects computational social science, large language models (LLMs), social media, and social neuroscience. My recent work focuses on fi...

Can Mert Kökerer

Doctoral Student (2019)

kokererc@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Culture, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, Democracy

Can Mert Kökerer is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the historical manifestations and theoretical u...

Hyunku Kwon

Doctoral Candidate (2019)

hyunkukwon@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Computational Methods, Demography, Environmental Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Political Economy, Agriculture, Labor

Shiyang Lai

Doctoral Student (2024)

shiyanglai@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Computational Methods, Quantitative Methodology, Social Change, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory

Shiyang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Before this, he held a visiting fellow position at Northwester...

So Yoon Lee

Doctoral Candidate (2021)

slee45@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Culture, Gender, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Urban Sociology, Work/Occupations

I have a broad interest in the sociocultural implications of developmental neoliberalism in Asia. My empirical interests cover a rather wide spectrum,...

Eric Li

Doctoral Student (2022)

ericlhl@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Computational Methods, Culture, Mathematical Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Change