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
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
Coming from a background in the humanities and social sciences, Larissa Buchholz has been a Ph.D. candidate at the sociology Department of Columbia University. Before specializing in sociology, Larissa also obtained a graduate degree in... more
My research interests center on economic sociology, organization, social networks, and sociological theory. My current research focuses on controlling and organizing patterns of interfirm ties of business groups under environmental uncertainty. I... 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
Anushree Dasgupta is a Master’s Sociology student. She obtained a B.A. in Communication from Santa Clara University with minors in Sociology and Ethnic Studies. Anushree did senior thesises on Third Cinema techniques used in Bangladeshi... 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
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
Hao (Helena) Ding is now a Master's Degree candidate in the department of Sociology. She earned her Bacherlor's Degree in English Language and Literature from Fudan University, China. Having a background in literature and communication,... more
Aurora Fredriksen's research interests include space and place, globalization, transnational humanitarianism and relief aid, social theory, and historical sociology. She is currently writing up her dissertation on the changing spatial... 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
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
Graduate Student Representative
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
I am a fifth year doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. My current research interests are the sociology of arts and culture, the reproduction of inequality, and cities. I utilize both spatial statistics and... 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
Elena Krumova is a sociologist with primary interests in
organizations, economic sociology, and social movements. At Columbia,
she has generated work on temporary forms of organization: the rise
and professionalization of... more
Joscha's current research examines the ways in which the local environment shapes social inequality mostly in education but also other areas. In this work, he looks at the ways in which peers in the school context, and student culture affects... 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
Kevin Loughran is an M.A. student in Sociology at Columbia University. Previously, he received an M.A. in American Studies from Columbia (2011) and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008). His... more
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
Sonia Mendoza received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in Human Biology, where she concentrated on community health and nutrition. She is interested in sociology of health inequalities, obesity, medicine, and food politics.... more
Anna Mitschele studies witch trials in Early Modern Scotland. Her research explains the emergence of witchcraft panics in the context of state making using both quantitative data and archival material. By looking at the temporal unfolding of... more
Dan's research and teaching interests center around the fields of historical sociology, science studies and social theory. He graduated in analytic philosophy from the University of Edinburgh before coming to Columbia in 2006 and developing... more
Xiaoyan (Joy) Ni is pursuing her M.A. degree under the mentorship of Prof. David Stark. Having professional experience at corporations/nonprofits and training at Columbia Business School, she looks forward to a career in marketing research. Joy... 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
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
Matthias Thiemann's dissertation investigates the struggle between banks, accountants and financial regulators over the proper demarcation of banking conglomerates regarding their exposure to securitization activities. Using 55 semi-structured... more
Christine Tran is a Master's candidate. Ms. Tran obtained her undergraduate degrees in English and Asian American Studies as well as her Master of Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her master's... 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
Devon Wade received his B.A. from Louisiana State University with honors in both Sociology/Criminology and in African & African American Studies in December of 2010. His current research and research interest are in the area of incarceration,... more
Anna Zamora is a sociologist with an interest in structural processes and their effects on citizens’ perception of immigration. After receiving her Master of Arts (2008), and Master of Philosophy (2009), she is currently writing her... more
