ph.d. students
Sociology
Knox Hall 616
Kate Khanna is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. She is a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia and a National Science Foundation (NSF) GRFP Fellow. Her research interests include social inequality, gender,... 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 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 that the... more
Ph.D. Student
Sociology
616
Larry Au is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University with broad interests in political sociology, historical sociology, sociology of science, and Chinese society. He is currently working on a project that... more
Sociology
608
Adrianna Bagnall studied Special Education, Psychology, and Sociology in her undergradute education at Seattle Pacific University where she cultivated an interest in disability policy. She completed her masters' degree in Sociology at Columbia... more
Historical Sociology, Disability Policy, Expertise
Sociology
Jordan Brensinger is a Ph.D. student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow. His work touches on the intersections of areas like inequality, culture, education, and boundaries. He is currently completing two research projects. The first, based on a year-... more
Bailey Brown is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow and Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. Her research interests include race, education, social networks and stratification/inequality.
Bailey... more
Graduate Student Representative
Christina is a PhD candidate 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
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
Sociology
Estela Bernice Diaz is a doctoral student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. She is also a National Science Foundation (NSF) GRFP Fellow, and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Her current research interests include gender and... more
Zoltán Dujisin is a PhD candidate and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow. He has a degree in Political Science from the Technical University of Lisbon (2005), having then obtained an MA in Nationalism Studies from Central European... more
Pierre-Christian Fink is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He is interested in state–economy interactions, in particular their mediation through law. His substantive interests are financial regulation... more
Brittany Fox-Williams is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. Brittany's research interests include Children and Youth, Education, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality, and Public Policy. Her... more
Terrell Frazier is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. He is also a 2016 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar. His research interests include political sociology, social... more
Sociology
Joss Greene is a PhD student in Sociology, a Dean's Diversity Fellow, and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. His interests center around crime and punishment, classification, and gender. His current research... more
Sociology
Kathleen Griesbach is a PhD student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University with interests in labor, migration, borders, race and ethnicity, and inequality.
Kathleen holds a B.A. in English and Latin... more
Ryan Hagen is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His primary interest is how organizations encounter non-market risk. He also conducted an historical project on how the political structure of the post-... 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
Sociology
Knox Hall 709
Anna is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. She is a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia, a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, a National Science Foundation (NSF) GRFP Fellow, and a Mellon Mays... more
Sociology
Mark Hoffman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His interests include networks, time, historical sociology and economic sociology. He holds a BA from NYU Abu Dhabi. more
Sociology
Knox Hall 608
Tiffany J. Huang is a PhD student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University.
Prior to undertaking doctoral studies, Tiffany worked at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO... 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 Ottoman... more
Sociology
Knox 506
Francisco Lara-García (also Lara García) is a PHD Student in the Sociology Department. Prior to coming to Columbia, he received a Master's in Urban Planning from Harvard University and a B.A. in Political Science, Sociology and... more
Luciana is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. Her research interests include Inequality/Stratification, Political Sociology, Social Policy and Science, Knowledge and Technology.
She holds a... more
Byungkyu Lee is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Columbia University. His research interests include social networks, organizations, political sociology, sociology of health and illness, social psychology, and social genomics. He received his BA... more
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
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
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
Sociology
Tuesday 2 pm - 4 pm
Knox Hall 612
Warren McKinney is a PhD candidate and Paul F. Lazarfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His research and teaching center on matters of race and ethnicity with a particular focus on political economy in West... more
Race & Ethnicity, Cultural Sociology, Political Sociology
Lisa is a 4th year Ph.D. student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University.
Lisa holds both a J.D. and an LL.M., and is a member of the Massachusetts state bar. Prior to beginning her Ph.D., Lisa worked at... more
Sandra Portocarrero is ( in the process of becoming) an organizational sociologist. She is a Provost Diversity Fellow, a Paul Lasarzfeld Fellow, a 2015 PD Soros Fellow, and a National Science Foundation (NSF) GRFP Fellow. Her research interests... more
Sociology
Joan is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia. Her primary research interests include interactions of law, technology, and gender. All of her research speaks to the broader question, how do non-human apparatuses... more
Graduate Student
Sociology
Sarah Sachs is a PhD student in sociology, researching the production of classification systems within organizational contexts. Specifically, Sarah is interested in structures of collective knowledge, including classification systems, indexing... more
Dialika Sall is a Ph.D student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. Her research interests include racial and ethnic inequality, education, urban poverty and immigration. She's currently... more
Anthony is a PhD student in Sociology and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University. His research interests include Health Inequality, Risk, and Gender & Sexuality. His work focuses on the role of risk perceptions in the persistence... 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 are urban sociology, crime & deviance, social mobility and racial & ethnic... more
