Graduate Students
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Aguilar-Champeau | agui0110@umn.edu | Race and ethnicity, diversity, video games and gaming |
| Isabel Arriagada |
arria014@umn.edu
Off-site |
Latin America, Law and Society, Economic Sociology, Theories of Punishment, Law, Crime, and Deviance
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| 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 |
| Sarah Catherine Billups | billu013@umn.edu Off-site |
Cultural Sociology, Gender, Family, Housing and Homeownership |
| Anna Bokun | bokun001@umn.edu | Labor Markets, Human Capital, Family Demography, Health, Social Stratification, Sociology of Finance |
| Morgan Brokob |
Gender and Sexuality, Politics, Social Movements, Globalization
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| Stacey Brumbaugh-Johnson | brum0078@umn.edu Off-site |
Sexuality, Family, Social Psychology, Intersectionality
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| Kriti Budhiraja | budhi006@umn.edu Off-site |
Sociology of Education, Political Economy, Urban Studies, Sociology of the State, Social Theory, India |
| Joshua Caffrey | caffr017@umn.edu Off-site |
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| Edgar Jesus 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 | |
| Daniel Cueto | cueto006@umn.edu | |
| Corey Culver | culve051@umn.edu | |
| Caitlin Curry |
curry192@umn.edu
Off-site |
Punishment, deviance, social control |
| Anna DalCortivo | Law, Crime & Punishment, Social Movements, Race and Inequality | |
| Christine Delp | delpx011@umn.edu | Culture, morality, religion |
| Hannah Dickens | dicke420@umn.edu | |
| Gunercindo Antoneo Espinoza | espin129@umn.edu | Critical race theory, law and society, social movements |
| Sarah Garcia | sgarcia@umn.edu | Population studies (demography); health, social stratification, and inequality; poverty; health disparities |
| Erez Garnai | garna029@umn.edu Off-site |
Sociology of law, law and policing, criminalization, alcohol as a public problem, alcohol laws |
| Laura Gilbertson | mand0049@umn.edu | Religion, race, social inequality, reproduction of privilege, parenting practices, American Evangelicalism |
| Lisa Gulya | guly0003@umn.edu | Gender, family and reproduction, life course |
| Amber Hamilton | hamil639@umn.edu |
Blackness in the United States, Black Feminism, Media Representation, Social Media
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| Xiaowen Han | han00208@umn.edu | |
| Brit Henderson |
hende650@umn.edu
Off-site |
Population studies and quantitative methods
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| Jessie Himmelstern | ||
| 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. |
| Ethan Johnson | joh07820@umn.edu | |
| Annie Jollymore | jolly039@umn.edu Off-site |
Critical race studies; citizenship; politics and governance; race, class, and gender |
| Mason Jones | jone4409@umn.edu Off-site |
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| Aras Koksal | koksa002@umn.edu Off-site |
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 | Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Transnational Justice, Collective Memory, Education, Sub-Sahara Africa |
| Ryan Larson | lars3965@umn.edu | Law, crime, and deviance, quantitative methodology and statistics, punishment, public opinion |
| Mark Lee | leex6611@umn.edu | Life course, demography, population health, quantitative methods |
| Mao Lee | lee02941@umn.edu | |
| Chris Levesque | leves026@umn.edu | Migration, Demography, Law and Society, Public Policy, Immigration Law |
| Francis Lyimo | lyimo002@umn.edu | Political and environmental sociology, especially understanding land and natural resource disputes in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Patrick Madden | madde229@umn.edu Off-site |
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| Jean Marie (DeOrnellas) Maier | deorn001@umn.edu | Higher education, sport, organizations, culture |
| Mahala Miller | mill8570@umn.edu | |
| Devika Narayan | naray116@umn.edu Off-site |
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 | Emotions; Gender, work and family; Health, medicalization and addiction |
| Allison Nobles | noble207@umn.edu | Gender, sexuality and violence |
| Alyssa Oursler | oursl003@unmn.edu | |
| Brieanna Petersen | watt0122@umn.edu |
Genocide and Mass Atrocities, 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 Off-site |
Crime, punishment, and victimization
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| Kobie Price | price829@umn.edu | |
| 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 |
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| Erika Sanborne | sanbo061@umn.edu | Religion, pedagogy (teaching), aging, race |
| Hannah Schwendeman | schwe782@umn.edu Off-site |
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| Michael Soto | sotox116@umn.edu |
Social Networks, Space, Place, and Identity, Colombia/Latin America, International development, Diversity and solidarity
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| Nikoleta Sremac | srema004@umn.edu | Gender; Collective Memory and Cultural Trauma; Social Movements and Political Sociology; Social Theory; Feminist Theory and Methods |
| Ryan Steel | steel158@umn.edu Off-site |
Inequality, religion, culture, discourse analysis, social class and race, political sociology, social power, power differential |
| Caitlin Taborda | tabor027@umn.edu | Gender and sexuality, sociology of health and illness, race, the body |
| Aisha Upton | upton042@umn.edu Off-site |
Race and gender, social movements, organizations, and civil society/civic participation |
| Mi'Chael Wright | wrig0990@umn.edu | |
| Marie Wu | mariewu@umn.edu Off-site |
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| Stephen Wulff | wulff039@umn.edu | Juvenile justice policy |