Graduate Students
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Aguilar-Champeau | agui0110@umn.edu | Race and ethnicity, diversity, video games and gaming |
| Tanja Andic | andic004@umn.edu Off-site |
Education, Migration, Labor Repro-duction, Post-Socialist States, Balkan Youth, Sociology of Consumption, Discourse & Rhetoric, Ethnographic Methods, Inequality, and Welfare. |
| Isabel Arriagada | arria014@umn.edu |
Latin America, Law and Society, Economic Sociology, Theories of Punishment, Law, Crime, and Deviance
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| Amy August | augus170@umn.edu | Education, parenting, childhood, and families, youth extracurricular activities, sports |
| Jackie Austin | austi241@umn.edu | Demography, mental health, suicide, disability studies, life course, inequality |
| De Andre Beadle | beadl030@umn.edu | Law, Crime & Punishment, Life Course, Gender, Race & Class, Health disparities, Critical Race Theory |
| Anna Bokun | bokun001@umn.edu | Economic Sociology, Income Inequality, Labor Markets, Demography, Fertility, Family, Health, Social Policy, Sociology of Finance |
| Stacey Brumbaugh-Johnson | brum0078@umn.edu Off-site |
Sexuality, Family, Social Psychology, Intersectionality
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| Kriti Budhiraja | budhi006@umn.edu | Sociology of Education, Political Economy, Urban Studies, Sociology of the State, Social Theory, India |
| Edgar Campos | campo145@umn.edu |
Culture, Political Sociology/Nationalism, Latin America, Sociology of Sport, Media, Historical Sociology
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| Brooke Chambers | chamb443@umn.edu | |
| Corey Culver | culve051@umn.edu | |
| Caitlin Curry | curry192@umn.edu | Punishment, deviance, social control |
| Christine Delp | delpx011@umn.edu | Culture, morality, religion |
| Jean Marie (DeOrnellas) Maier | deorn001@umn.edu | |
| Gunercindo Antoneo Espinoza | espin129@umn.edu | Critical race theory, law and society, social movements |
| Carolyn Fraker | frake011@umn.edu Off-site |
Poverty and inequality, family, and qualitative methods |
| Jacqui Frost | frost166@umn.edu | Cultural sociology, religion and nonreligion, identity and community, civic engagement, gender and mixed methods |
| Sarah Garcia | sgarcia@umn.edu | Population studies (demography); health, social stratification, and inequality; poverty; health disparities |
| Erez Garnai | garna029@umn.edu | Sociology of law, law and policing, criminalization, alcohol as a public problem, alcohol laws |
| Laura Gilbertson | mand0049@umn.edu | |
| Lisa Gulya | guly0003@umn.edu | Gender, family and reproduction, life course |
| Matthew Gunther | gunth031@umn.edu | Agri-food studies, environmental justice, immigration, cultural sociology, neo-agrarianism and community |
| Amber Hamilton | hamil639@umn.edu |
Blackness in the United States, Black Feminism, Media Representation, Social Media
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| Brit Henderson |
hende650@umn.edu
Off-site |
Population studies and quantitative methods
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| Erin Hoekstra | hoek0057@umn.edu Off-site |
Immigration, health, social movements, gender, race, border studies, critical criminology, and environmental justice |
| Veronica Horowitz | horow035@umn.edu | Punishment, gender, sentencing and corrections, drugs and society |
| Liqi (Kevin) Huang |
huan0635@umn.edu
Off-site |
Social psychology of identity, impact of Internet on minority identity formation; race and masculinity, LGBT; experiments |
| Aimzhan Iztayeva | iztay001@umn.edu | Gender, work, family, fatherhood |
| Monica Jarvi | sara0028@umn.edu | Theories of environmental privilege and the interaction between capitalism, colonialism and the environment through the pursuit of research in food studies and the effectiveness of hunger relief approaches. |
| Anthony Jimenez |
jimen033@umn.edu
Off-site |
Health Disparities, U.S.-Mexico Border, Critical Race Studies, Immigration, Citizenship, Biopolitics, Transnationalism, Urban Sociology |
| Ethan Johnson | joh07820@umn.edu | |
| Annie Jollymore | jolly039@umn.edu Off-site |
Critical race studies; citizenship; politics and governance; race, class, and gender |
| Yagmur Karakaya | karak014@umn.edu | Collective Memory, Nostalgia, Mass Atrocities and Genocide, Cosmo-politanism and Globalization, Popular Culture, Qualitative Methods, Turkey |
| Aras Koksal | koksa002@umn.edu | Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Knowledge, Higher Education, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods |
| Snigdha Kumar | kumar238@umn.edu | Labor Studies, Political Economy, History of Capitalism, Social Theory, India, Marxist Theory |
| Jillian LaBranche | labra032@umn.edu | |
| Ryan Larson | lars3965@umn.edu | Law, crime, and deviance, quantitative methodology and statistics, punishment, public opinion |
| Mark Lee | leex6611@umn.edu | |
| Chris Levesque | leves026@umn.edu | |
| Francis Lyimo | lyimo002@umn.edu Off-site |
Political and environmental sociology, especially understanding land and natural resource disputes in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Rahsaan Mahadeo | maha0134@umn.edu | Critical race studies, life course, social inequality, immigration, citizenship and deportation |
| Alex Manning | manni224@umn.edu | Critical race studies, parenting, youth, social reproduction of inequality, sports |
| Suzy Maves McElrath | mave0013@umn.edu | Crime, law, knowledge, gender, human rights, genocide, transitional justice, peace-building |
| Mahala Miller | mill8570@umn.edu | |
| Jessica Molina | molin119@umn.edu Off-site |
Law, crime, and deviance, mixed-methods research. Latino(a) youth and school discipline. |
| Becky Maung | step0310@umn.edu | Intersection of class politics, capitalism, and environmental/ecological politics |
| Devika Narayan | naray116@umn.edu | Digital sociology, global political economy, sociology of work and labor, platform economies, economic sociology, social inequality, labor studies, information-technology, global and transnational sociology, urban studies, development studies, social theory. |
| Tayler Nelson | nels9559@umn.edu | |
| Allison Nobles | noble207@umn.edu | Gender, sexuality and violence |
| Brieanna Petersen | watt0122@umn.edu |
Genocide and Mass Attrocities, Cultural Trauma, Social Memory Studies
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| Mark Pharris | pharr004@umn.edu | American political culture and civil society in general, and specifically the American direct democracy movement and its historical origins. |
| Miray Philips | phili191@umn.edu Off-site |
Genocide and mass atrocities, gendered and sexual violence, Middle East and North Africa. |
| Victoria Piehowski | pieho001@umn.edu | Punishment, sociology of law, poverty governance, feminist policy, economy, discourse, qualitative methods |
| Amber Joy Powell | powel489@umn.edu |
Crime, punishment, and victimization
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| Neeraj Rajasekar | rajas011@umn.edu | Intersection of culture and race relations particularly as manifest in popular music and video and consumed through social media |
| Chris Robertson | robe1930@umn.edu | Social Class and Race, Policing, Punishment, Black Middle Class |
| Nir Rotem | rotem002@umn.edu Off-site |
Sociology of Development, Humanitarian aid, Globalization, Central Asian studies
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| Anuradha Sajjanhar | sajja017@umn.edu Off-site |
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| jim saliba | salib002@umn.edu | Political influences on educational equity |
| Michael Soto | sotox116@umn.edu |
Social Networks, Space, Place, and Identity, Colombia/Latin America, International development, Diversity and solidarity
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| Emily Springer | spri0075@umn.edu Off-site |
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| Ryan Steel | steel158@umn.edu | Inequality, religion, culture, discourse analysis, social class and race, political sociology, social power, power differential |
| Evan Stewart | stewa777@umn.edu | Political culture, public opinion, and religion and secularism across a wide range of institutional and community contexts |
| Rob Stewart | stewa640@umn.edu | Law, crime, and deviance; punishment; collateral consequences |
| Caitlin Taborda-Whitt | tabor027@umn.edu | Gender and sexuality, sociology of health and illness, race, the body |
| Aisha Upton | upton042@umn.edu | Race and gender, social movements, organizations, and civil society/civic participation |
| Marie Wu | mariewu@umn.edu Off-site |
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| Stephen Wulff | wulff039@umn.edu | Juvenile justice policy |
| Annika Yates | yates104@umn.edu |