Ph.D. Students
2018 and Prior
Hannah Pullen-Blasnik
PhD Student
Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology
Kiran Samuel
PhD Student
Research Interests
Cultural Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Science, Knowledge, & Technology2025
Anzhi Chen
PhD Student
Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Computational Social Science, Quantitative Methodology, Chinese Society
Cailean Shelley
PhD Student
Research Interests
Inequality, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Education, Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Methodology
Teddy Zamborsky
PhD Student
Research Interests
Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Qualitative Methodology, Health & Population, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration2026
Uzma Chowdhury
PhD Student
Research Interests
Childhood, Biopolitics, Collective Violence, Historical Sociology, Gender & Sexuality, Family
Lily S. Johnson
PhD Student
Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Social Network Analysis, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Science, Knowledge, & Technology
Victor R. Tademy
PhD Student
Research Interests
Inequality, Urban Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Ethnography, Qualitative Methodology
Zihan Zhang
PhD Student
Research Interests
Political Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Qualitative Methodology, Chinese Society2024
Claire Maria Corsten
PhD Student
Research Interests
Qualitative Methodology, Inequality, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Science, Knowledge, & Technology
Yuhan Li
PhD Student
Research Interests
Inequality, Education, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Movements
Samuel Maves
PhD Student
Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Inequality, Education, Quantitative Methodology
Yanze Yu
PhD Student
Research Interests
Qualitative Methodology, Economic Sociology, Biopolitics, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Chinese Society2023
Cassie Cao
PhD Student
Research Interests
Inequality, Gender & Sexuality, Chinese Society, Cultural Sociology
Lena Gloeckler
PhD Student
Research Interests
Inequality, Work, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration
Robin Insignia Hart
PhD Student
Research Interests
Organizations, Education, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Network Analysis
Anika Rose Lanser
PhD Student
Research Interests
Education, Organizations, Social Movements, Inequality
Elizaveta Sheremet
PhD Student
Research Interests
Quantitative Methodology, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Education, Historical Sociology
Ashtan Grace Towles
PhD Student
Research Interests
Economic Sociology, Inequality, Political Sociology, Health & Population, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration2022
Taylor B. Alarcon
PhD Student
Research Interests
Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Inequality, Urban Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Computational Social Science
Ixchel Bosworth
PhD Student
Research Interests
Inequality, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Urban Sociology
Emily Mazo
PhD Student
Research Interests
Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Labor and Organizations, Social Movements
Alia Nahra
PhD Student
Research Interests
Gender & Sexuality, Inequality, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration
Katerine S. Perez
PhD Student
Research Interests
Quantitative Methodology, Inequality, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration2020
Jonathan Ben-Menachem
PhD Student
Research Interests
Quantitative Methodology, Inequality, Political Sociology, Criminalization
Ari B. Galper
PhD Student
Research Interests
Economic Sociology, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Organizations, Philosophy of Social Science
Ludovico Genovese
PhD Student
Research Interests
Quantitative Methodology, Inequality, Health & Population, Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Education
Jack LaViolette
PhD Student
Research Interests
Quantitative Methodology, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Social Network Analysis
Dian Sheng
PhD Student
Research Interests
Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Methodology
Anna Katharina Thieser
PhD Student
Research Interests
Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Science, Knowledge, & TechnologyPhD Alumni
Musa Al-Gharbi
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Symbolic Capitalism: Social Justice Discourse, Inequality and the Rise of a New Elite
Elizabeth Adetiba
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Between Science and the State: Xenophobic Anti-Blackness in the CDC’s Early AIDS Science
Joshua Aleksanyan
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
States, Selves, and Social Welfare: the American Therapeutic State in Comparative Perspective
Larry Au
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
The Global Emergence of a Scientific Field: Precision Medicine in China
Adrianna Bagnall Munson
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Managing Adulthood: Care and Autonomy for People with Developmental Disabilities
Martin Barnay
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Loneliness in Old Age: Elements for a Study in Sociology
Jordan J. Brensinger
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Producing Consumer “Identities”: Identity Theft and Insecurity in the Data Economy
Bailey Alexandra Brown
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Kinder Panic: Parent Decision-Making, School Choice and Neighborhood Life
Joanna Chae
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Space in Time: Three Essays on the Daytime Experience of Space by Race, Class, and Partisan Affiliation
Jiyeon Chang
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Reputation and Generalization in Social Context: Turnout Reporting and Intergroup Relations
Jonathan Hallegua Cleveland
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
From Alfred Schutz to Machine Learning: Temporal Orientation, Meaning and Social Action
Estela B. Diaz
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Parents and the Priceless Child in Elite Early Childhood Admissions
Samuel Thomas Donahue
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Essays on Identification, Classification, and Exclusion
Benjamin Elbers
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Understanding Segregation Change: Methods and Applications
Berenike Firestone
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
The Social Reproduction of Support for the Far Right
Brittany Nicole Fox-Williams
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Trust Matters: Race, Relationships, and Achievement in NYC Public Schools
Daria Franklin
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Field under Constraint: Soviet Literary Journals and Autonomy in Soviet Literary Life
Zheng Fu
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Relational Power: Legal Authority and Particularized Power in Authoritarian China
Joss Greene
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Politics of Violence
Kathleen Ann Griesbach
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Positional Uncertainty: Contingent Workers Seeking a Place in Unstable Times
Katy Habr
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
The Social Distance: Outsourcing, Industrialization, and Surplus Populations in the Post Lockdown 2020’s
Ryan Hagen
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
The Constant Metropolis: Disaster Risk Managers and the Production of Stability in New York City
Sang Won Han
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
The Mechanisms of Elite Political Polarization in America
LeShae Henderson
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Bound Becomings: Essays on Race, Indigeneity, and Life-Making in Prison
Anna P. Hidalgo
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Surfing Desire: Transnational Romance and Fantasies in Máncora, Peru
Mark Anthony Hoffman
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Cultural Consumption and Political Thought After the American Revolution
Tiffany Joyce Huang
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Private College Consultants, Race, Class, and Inequality in College Admissions
Timothy Ittner
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Managing Marginality: Jails, Health, and Inequality
Julian Jürgenmeyer
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Legitimation Trials. The Limits of Liberal Government and the Federal Reserve's Quest for Embedded Autonomy
Katharine N. Khanna
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Men’s Support for Gender Equality in the Era of the Stalled Revolution
Francisco Lara-Garcia
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Local Context and the Integration of Mexicans in Albuquerque and Tucson
Moran Levy
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Trial and Error: The Invention of Cancer Chemotherapy 1950-1980
Yarden Mariuma
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Accountants, Smugglers, Tricksters and Princes: Cultural and Network Brokerage in 1821 Balkans
Greer Mellon
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Local Control and Educational Inequality: Three Longitudinal, Quantitative Studies of School District Governance in the United States
Lisa Lucile Owens
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Notes on the use of Surveillance in Public Housing
Nicholas Aaron Pang
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
The Creation of American Personal Bankruptcy, 1880-1955
Sandra Veronica Portocarrero
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Another Brick in the Wall: Three Essays on Diversity and Inequality in Organizations
Erela Portugaly
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
"Okay, well, everyone else has babies. Why shouldn't I?" How women with mental illness make reproductive decisions
Dialika Sall
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
(Re)Defining Blackness: Race, Ethnicity and the Children of African Immigrants
Bonnie Siegler
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Framing Racial Equity in U.S. School Districts
Joonwoo Son
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Cross-Border Investment in Forms: National Income Accounting and the Making of Reliable Government in Postwar Japan
Mireia Triguero Roura
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Colorblind Ethnocentrism: Racialized imagined communities in Western Europe and the United States
Asya Tsaturyan
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Strategic Traditionalism and Fragmented Modernities in Non-Democratic Contexts
Anthony Urena
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
From Risk to Reality: Race, Sexuality, and Disease in an Age of Uncertainty
Dominic T Walker
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
The Ivory Road to the Ivy League: Narrative Sense-Making of Students of Color in Elite Schools
Charlotte Wang
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Filling the Hollow of Ethnic Identity: Emotion and the (Re)production of Chineseness
Monika Yadav
PhD Student
Dissertation / Thesis Title
Navigating Contested Claims: Discernment, Skepticism, and the Social Organization of Evaluation
M.A. Students
2026
Yingzhi Chen
Master's Student
Research Interests
Gender & Sexuality, Family, Social Inequality, Education, Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Methodology
Tariq I Dixon
Master's Student
Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Network Analysis, Organizations
Yu Guo
Master's Student
Research Interests
Race, Ethnicity, & Migration, Science, Knowledge, & Technology, Inequality, Gender & Sexuality
Xinrui He
Master's Student
Research Interests
Digital Media, Inequality and Stratification, Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Methodology
Stephen Edward Odom
Master's Student
Research Interests
Cultural Sociology, Inequality, Science, Knowledge, & Technology
Yutong Wu
Master's Student