Graduate Students
Marta Ascherio
Graduate student
Education: M.Sc., University of Vermont
Interests: political sociology, immigration, crime
Riad Azar
Graduate student
riadazar@utexas.edu |
3.214D
Education: MSc Political Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Interests: political, economic, and historical sociology, organized crime, illicit politics
Nino Bariola
Graduate student
nbariola@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.214D
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: economic sociology, sociology of culture, political sociology, work and organizations, inequality, food, ethnography
Carlos Beck
Graduate student
Education: M.S. Sociology, Texas A&M University
Interests: epidemic/pandemic, public health governance, biopolitics, governmentality, STS, social theory
Monica Bhatia
Graduate student
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, Northeastern University
Interests: Gender, Environmental Sociology, Intentional Communities
Lindsay Bing
Graduate student
Education: MSc, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Interests: criminal justice system, surveillance, inequality, race and racism, population health
Isabel McLoughlin Brooks
Graduate student
imcloughlin@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.662A
Education: M.C.R.P., Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Interests: Demography, Fertility, Religion, Religiosity, Emotion, Violent Conflict, Climate Change
Kathleen Broussard
Graduate student; PRC Graduate Trainee
rkbroussard@prc.utexas.edu |
RLP 2.620B
Education: M.A., University of Chicago
Interests: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Fertility, Gender, Demography, Social Policy
Kristen Burke
Graduate Student
kristenlburke@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.620B
Education: B.A. Political Science, University of Florida
Interests: Fertility, Reproductive Health
Caitlin Carroll
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: gender and violence; sexual violence; gender and sexuality; feminist criminology
Hyungmin Cha
PRC Graduate Research Trainee
hyungmin.cha@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.406A
Education: B.A Sociology; M.A Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea
Interests: Health Disparities, Aging & the Life Course, Family, Gender.
Monica Clodius
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Columbia University
Interests: Wealth Inequality, Financial Institutions, Technology
Alison Coffey
Graduate student
alisoncoffey@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.214C - Urban Ethnography Lab
Interests: political sociology, community and urban sociology, climate change, property, risk, social movements
Andrew Cutrone
Graduate student
Education: M.A, University at Albany, SUNY
Interests: Black Studies, Black feminism, critical theory
Kevin Dahaghi
Graduate student
kdahaghi@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor. Cubicle 7
Education: B.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Interests: Criminology; Demography; Organizations; Political Sociology; Sociology of Law
KJ Davidson-Turner
Graduate student
Education: B.A. Neuroscience, Middlebury College
Interests: Health Disparities, Biosociology/Biodemography, Inequality
Faith Deckard
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Social Inequality; Debt; Criminal Justice Contact; Social Networks; Health Disparities
Alex Diamond
Graduate student
akdiamond@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor-Desk 21
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Peace Studies, Social Movements, Globalization, Latin America, Political Sociology, Violence, Ethnography.
Guillermo Dominguez Garcia
Graduate student
guillermo.dominguez@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd floor Cube #37
Education: B.A. Economics and Philosophy, Kalamazoo College
Alicia Duncombe
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Texas Austin
Interests: education; wealth; bankruptcy; education-to-work linkage
Michelle Eilers
Graduate student
meilers@prc.utexas.edu |
RLP 2.620B
Education: MSc., The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Interests: Reproductive health; sexual behavior; demography; life course
Ilana Friedman
Graduate student
Education: J.D., M.A., Saint Louis University School of Law
Interests: Crime, Law and Deviance; Policing, Ethnography; Qualitative methods; Sociology of Law; Race and Ethnicity, American Legal History
Michael Garcia
Doctoral Student, PRC Graduate Research Trainee
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Social Relationships, Health and Well-Being, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Demography
Upasana Garnaik
Graduate student
ugarnaik@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor, Cubicle 6
Education: LL.M., Duke University School of Law
Interests: Family, Gender, Sociology of Law, Social Movements
Jess Goldstein-Kral
Graduate student
jgoldsteinkral@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.214B
Education: M.A. Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Gender, Sexuality, Intimate Relationships, Mixed Methods, Queer Methods
Katherine Hill
Graduate student
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Social Inequality, Work and Organizations, Digital Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods
Alexander Holt
Graduate student
Education: B.A. Sociology, Wake Forest University
Interests: Race & Ethnicity, Collective Trauma, Black Feminist Thought, Racialized Health Disparities, Culture, Black Studies
Jaime Feng-Yuan Hsu
Graudate Student, PRC Graduate Research Trainee
Education: M.A., Columbia University
Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Urban Sociology, Ethnography, Mixed Methods
Rachel Karen
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Brown University
Interests: Economic sociology, status reproduction, public policy, stratification
Daniel Krasnicki
Graduate Student
dkrasnicki17@protonmail.com |
RLP Third Floor-Desk 34
Education: B.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Social Movements, Surveillance, Political Sociology, Ethnography, and Social Theory
Molly Kudym
Graduate student
molly.kudym@utexas.edu |
RLP collaboratorium 3
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: sociology of education, educational stratification and social mobility, teacher training, social psychology, and teacher-student interactions
Karen H. Lee
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Race and Ethnicity | Inequality | Immigration
Sumin Lee
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Seoul
Interests: Political Sociology, Social Capital, Social Psychology, and Quantitative Methods
Eldad J. Levy
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Interests: Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Violence and Conflict, Latin America, Neoliberalism.
Chen Liang
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Humbolt Universität zu Berlin
Interests: Political Sociology, Critical Race Theory, International Migration
Emily Lybbert
PRC Graduate Research Trainee
emily.lybbert@utexas.edu |
RLP 3, Cubicle #1
Education: B.A., Brigham Young University
Interests: Education, Demography, Social Inequality, Sport
Shannon Malone Gonzalez
Doctoral Candidate
Education: M.S., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Crime, Law, and Deviance; Race, Gender, and Class; Community and Urban Sociology; Police Violence; Black Feminist Theory and Epistemologies; Mixed Methods
Alejandro M. Marquez
Graduate student
Education: M.A., MGPS, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Labor, Emotions, Immigration, Social Theory
Vrinda Marwah
Graduate student
Education: MA, London School of Economics and Political Science
Interests: Reproductive health and technologies, Gender and labor, Surrogacy, Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Methodology, Contemporary India, Social Movements, State
Kimberly McErlean
Graduate student
Education: B.S., Cornell University
Interests: Family formation and dissolution, family demography, marriage, unions
Andrew Messamore
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Chicago
Interests: Civil Society, Cities and Community, Organizations, Social Networks, Quantitative Methods
Maria Carolina Mota Pereira Aragao
Graduate student
Education: MSc, Universidade de Brasilia
Interests: Gender, work and family policies; race and ethnicity; Brazil and Latin America
Annie Murphy
Graduate student
a.murphy771@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor, Cubicle 13
Education: B.A. Sociology and History, Amherst College
Elizabeth Nimmons
Graduate student
eanimmons@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.306, #29
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: international migration, globalization, political sociology, ethnography
Jamie O'Quinn
Graduate student
Education: M.A., San Francisco State University
Interests: Sexualities; Gender; Critical race, feminist, and queer theories; Qualitative methodologies; Public sociology
Águeda Ortega
Graduate student
agueortega@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor, Cubicle 16
Education: B.A. Sociology & Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University
Interests: Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Latin America, Neoliberalism
Rui Jie Peng
Graduate student
ruijie.peng@utexas.edu |
RLP 3.306
Education: MA, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology
Lilla Pivnick
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Health, Medical Sociology, Children and Youth, Education, Work and Occupations
Beth Prosnitz
Graduate student
Education: MA, The New School
Interests: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Citizenship, Gender
Holly Querin
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Davidson College
Interests: Nationalism, Racialization, Whiteness, Feminist Theory
Syed Raza
Graduate student
syedraza@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor — Cubicle 38
Education: MPH, Columbia University
Interests: Theory; Comparative Historical Analysis; Global Ethnography; Political Economy; Biotechnoscience and Pharmaceutical
Katie Kaufman Rogers
Doctoral Candidate
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Gender & Sexuality · Race · Work & Organizations · Crime, Law, & Deviance · Feminist Ethnography
Daniela Rosales Mendez
Graduate student
Education: B.A., The University of Tulsa
Interests: queer theory, queer of color critique, identity, meaning, race, gender, migration, fat, embodiment
Randi Saunders
Doctoral Student
randi.saunders@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.622L
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: population health, stress/trauma, family formation, social relationships, emotion work, social neuroscience, coping behaviors
Dominique Scott
Doctoral Student, Student Minority Liaison
Interests: race, gender, class, labor, black feminist thought
Patrick Sheehan
PhD Candidate
Interests: work, unemployment, aging, expertise, organizations, cultural sociology
Shan Siddiqui
Graduate student
Education: MOT, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Interests: Race and ethnicity, Immigration, Islamophobia, Population Health Disparities, Medical Sociology
Bradley Silberzahn
Graduate student
Education: M.A. Sociology, West Virginia University
Interests: Policing; The Criminal Justice System; Ethnography; People Who Inject Drugs; People Who Sell Sex; Harm Reduction: Social Determinants of Health
Ilya Slavinski
Graduate student
Education: M.S., London School of Economics
Interests: Crime, Law, and Deviance, Political Sociology, Punishment and Society, Inequality
Matthew Snidal
Graduate student
mattsnidal@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.406B
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Education, School Discipline, STEM Coursetaking
Haley Stritzel
Graduate student
haley-stritzel@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.406A
Education: B.A., University of Tulsa
Interests: Family demography, quantitative methods, social stratification, social policy, neighborhood effects, adolescent and child health
Kara Takasaki
Doctoral Candidate
Education: M.A., The University of Chicago
Interests: Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Work and Family, Social Welfare Policy, Asian America
Sercan Tas
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Sociology, Boğaziçi University
Interests: Political sociology, political economy, political ecology, urban sociology, rural sociology, social welfare
Felipe Vargas
Doctoral Student
varrio@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor | Cubicle # 11
Education: MSc, Indiana University - Bloomington
Interests: race | ethnicity | immigration
Kristopher Velasco
Graduate student
krisvelasco@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor | #33
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Social Movements, Political Sociology, Transnationalism, Globalization, Sexualities, Quantitative Methods
Carolyn Waldrep
Graduate student
Education: Juris Doctor, University of North Carolina
Interests: Gender
Yiwen Wang
Graduate student
yiwenwang@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.406G
Education: M.A., Renmin University of China
Interests: Family and Marriage, Gender, Health, Life course, Migration, Race and Ethnicity.
Inbar Weiss
Graduate student
inbar.weiss@utexas.edu |
RLP 3rd Floor. Cube 22
Education: M.A, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Interests: Demography, Formal Demography, Historical Demography, Family, Migration
Brooke Whitfield
Graduate student
Education: BA, Duke University
Interests: Sexual and reproductive health, healthcare access, demography, incarceration, sex education, rural health
Kathryn Wiley
Graduate student
Education: MA, University of California- Berkeley
Interests: Wealth Inequality, the Black Middle Class, Social Ties, the Racial Wealth Gap
Mike Yarbrough
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Columbia University
Interests: Education, criminology, incarceration & reentry
Maro Youssef
Graduate student
Education: M.A., The George Washington University
Interests: Political Sociology; Ethnography; Gender; Democracy; North Africa and the Middle East
Amy Zhang
Graduate student
amyzhang@utexas.edu |
RLP 2.622L
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: social relationships/social networks, health, race, gender, masculinities
