graduate students
Fabien Accominotti is a PhD candidate at the department, and a Lazarsfeld Fellow at the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences. Having completed a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 2010, he is now... more
Ifeoma is a PhD student and a Paul F. Lazersfeld Fellow. Her undergraduate studies were completed at UC Davis where she was a McNair Scholar. She also holds a law degree and prior to her graduate studies at Columbia University, Ifeoma... more
I'm drawn to questions of work, of how different people engage in their work and how they define themselves in it. My dissertation connects the history of film censorship and distribution policy with the culture of production, connecting the... more
Noah Arjomand received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, with a certificate in Near Eastern Studies. He is interested in political sociology, and particularly in... more
José Tomás Atria received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Universidad de Chile in 2004. His undergraduate thesis, written under the supervision of professor Omar Aguilar, dealt with the theoretical and methodological problems... more
Sociology
Adrianna Bagnall received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Seattle Pacific. She also received a minor in Psychology where she cultivated an interest in the sociological implications of illness. During her undergraduate career she worked... more
Philipp Brandt received a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Social Sciences (a combination of sociology, political sciences, economics and mass communications) from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. In his bachelor’s thesis, Philipp... more
Christina is a PhD student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. Her research focuses on stratification, inequality, and social mobility, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between postsecondary... more
Jared Conrad-Bradshaw obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, where he concentrated in Religious Studies. His undergraduate thesis looked at changing bias in the construction of analytic categories, using prayer... more
Sociology
My main focus of interest lies in comparative sociology with an emphasis on the study of political and religious institutions. Exercising my sense of consciousness, I am currently working on a Thesis that compares church-state relations in the... more
Mathijs is a Ph.D. student in sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. His research explores the relation between social interaction and variety and diversity in cultural fields, such as music and game production. He... more
Graduate Student Representative
Nate Dern obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 2007, where he studied social anthropology and the study of religion and earned a Spanish language certificate. His senior thesis was based on seven weeks of ethnographic field work at a... more
Pierre-Christian Fink is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He is primarily interested in the study of financial regulation. Pierre majored in economics at the University of Tuebingen and earned his Master... more
Magdalena Gil Ureta obtained her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Linguistics at P. Universidad Catolica de Chile. She also holds a certification in negotiation and conflict resolution from the same university. Before coming to Columbia,... more
Graduate Student Representative
Ryan Hagen's research concerns how organizations perceive and respond to risk from natural and socially produced hazards. He obtained his undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from New York University, where his work focused... more
Sang Won Han is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. His research interests include social networks, collective action, economic sociology, organization theory, computational simulation, and... more
Sociomedical Sciences and Sociology
Jessica is pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences (public health and sociology). Her research interests include: HIV/AIDS (particularly engagement in care), fundamental causes of health inequalities, internalized stigma, historical trauma,... more
James obtained his undergraduate degree at the George Washington University, where he majored in Political Science with a minor in African American Studies and Sociology. As a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, James' research interests include... more
Elyakim Kislev holds a master's degree in public policy and another master's degree in counseling, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After graduating, he served as a faculty member at the Mandel Leadership Institute. In... more
Tolga Kobas received his BA and MA degrees from Sabanci University (Istanbul). He is currently a PhD candidate and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld fellow at the department.
His work focuses on the changing social and political conditions at the... more
Sociomedical Sciences
Rebecca A. Kruger is pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences with a
concentration in Sociology at Columbia University. Ms. Kruger is a
Fellow in the NIH pre-doctoral training program in Gender, Sexuality,
and Health. Her... more
Luciana is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. Her research interests include Political Sociology, Social Policy and Inequality/Stratification.
She holds a B.A. in Economics from Puc-Rio and... more
Byungkyu Lee is a PhD student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. His research interests include social networks, medical sociology, political sociology, and social psychology based on experiments and counter-... more
Sociology
Jonathan Lin received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from CUNY Brooklyn College with a minor in history. His undergraduate studies focused on Immigration, education, and labor, with an emphasis on East Asian communities in New York. His... more
I am currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. I received a Bachelor's degree in Law at National Taiwan University, a Mater's degree in Law and a Doctoral degree in Law (J.S.D.) at the University of... more
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Kinga Makovi is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University (2010 cohort). Her interests include social networks and quantitative methods and simulation techniques in social sciences. Kinga's current project is an... more
Steven Mandis is a Ph.D. student and an honorary Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He is focused on economic sociology, organizational innovation and entrepreneurship. In addition, he is an adjunct... more
Allison Mann obtained undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. After practicing law for several years, she returned to school to study sociology and quantitative methods. Her work deals with education,... more
Rosemary McGunnigle earned a BA in Latin American & Latino Studies from Dickinson College in 2001. As an undergraduate, she researched migration, work, ethnic/labor relations and rural/urban poverty in Adams County, Pennsylvania; Santiago de... more
Olivia Nicol's primary interests are financial industries, risk and calculation, and qualitative methods. At present her main line of inquiry focuses on the economic crisis. Her dissertation focuses on attribution of responsibility for the... more
Pilar Opazo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Columbia University. Her research interests include Organizational and Economic Sociology, Innovation Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Network Analysis and Qualitative Methods... more
Onur Ozgode is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at Columbia University. His research and teaching center on sociology of economic government and expertise, sociology of economic and financial catastrophes, and sociology and history... more
Iva Petkova is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and is with the Management Division at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on new digital branding platforms andtools in online fashion retail... more
Management consulting, internationalization strategy, technology and organizational change, fashion, digital technology, digital branding
Sociomedical Sciences
Ronna is pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences with a concentration in Sociology. She is a Fellow in the NIH pre-doctoral training program in Gender, Sexuality, and Health. Her research interests include medical sociology and sociologies... more
Joan H. Robinson is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her interests include interactions of women's studies, law, political economy, economic sociology, organizations, and science, technology,... more
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Sarah Sachs is currently in the second year of her PhD coursework and is doing research on captive trade in eighteenth and nineteenth century borderlands. Sarah's primary research interests are historical sociology, organizations, economic... more
Eun, a post-MPhil PhD candidate in the sociology department, received her B.A. (magna cum laude) from Korea University in 2004 and studied at Korea University and University of Queensland for her M.A. Her research interests are in the fields of... more
Melissa’s research interests include race & ethnicity (with a focus on Afro-descendents in Latin America), stratification, spatial and urban sociology, social movements, and sexual labor. Prior to embarking on her Columbia big adventure... more
Sociomedical Sciences
Emily is interested in the influence of biomedical knowledge on social categories of human difference. Previously, she earned an MPH from the department of Sociomedical Sciences, with a thesis critically examining the use of the concept of... more
Devon Wade is a doctoral student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the department of sociology at Columbia University. Devon’s substantive research areas of interests are race and ethnicity, social inequality, crime, stigma & perception,... more
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Ari Ezra Waldman is a PhD candidate in the department and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2002 and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2005. His research interests include law and... more
Sociomedical Sciences
Brooke S. West is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, pursuing a joint degree in Sociology and Public Health. At the broadest level, Brooke's research focuses on the social determinants of health, primarily... more
Sheri completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University, Columbia College, where she studied architecture and cultural anthropology and fell in love with the Core Curriculum. After working for Robert A. M. Stern Architects for a number of... more
