Graduate Student Minors and Affiliates

Erika Abbott (SOC)
Research interests: family, poverty, public policy, inequality, qualitative and mixed methods

Iman Alsmadi (SOC)
Research interests: crimmigration, incarceration, reentry media narratives, inequality

Boris Barron (Physics)
Research interests: segregation and inequality

Isha Bhatnagar (DSOC)
Research interests: gender, families, aging, population and development, focus on South Asia

Ezgi Bilgin (Human Development)
Research interests: autobiographical memory, collective memory, social media and memory

Daphne Blakey (PAM)
Research interests: poverty, incarceration

Andres Castano (CRP)
Research interests: Regional Labor markets, internal and international migration, education, and health

Alexandra Cooperstock (SOC)
Research interests: poverty, social and economic mobility, education

Karina Edouard (Anthropology)
Research interests: immigration, intergenerational trauma, health equity, parenting, Afro-Caribbean diasporic communities

Nan Feng (SOC)
Research interests: social network analysis, sociology of health, quantitative methodology, economic sociology

Maria-Jose (Majo) Flor-Agreda (SOC)
Research interests: inequality, economic sociology and organizations, gender

Kathryn Foster (DEVSOC)
Research interests: Migration and environmental justice

Ari Decter-Frain (PAM)
Research interests: health, economic insecurity, employment insecurity, income inequality

Gwyneth Frederick (DNS)
Research interests: Community food systems, Health equity, nutrition environment

Sierra Hicks (SYSEN)
Research interests: participatory modeling, power dynamics, ethics, inequity, Indigenous communities, and data sovereignty

Lydia Homandberg (SOC & PAM)
Research interests: computational demography, health disparities

Megan Hyland (PAM)
Research interests: health policy, health care systems, aging

Emily Jackson (GOV)
Research interests: reproductive politics, abortion, family planning, public opinion, gender, Latin America

Sang-O Kim (CRP)
Research interests: aging society, mobility of care

Hyo Joo Lee (SOC)
Research interests: Parental investment, gender inequality in the labor market

Hao Liang (SOC)
Research interests: immigration, residential segregation, sequence analysis and methodology

Mengwei Lin (Dyson)
Research interests: labor economics, urban economics, public finance

Yuqi Lu (SOC)
Research interests: inequality studies, stratification

Daniel Maggio (Applied Economics and Management)
Research interests: child and maternal health, nutrition, family planning, economic development

Yoselinda Mendoza (SOC)
Research interests: inequality, civic participation, immigration, education, housing, race and ethnicity, qualitative and mixed methods

Meaghan Mingo (SOC)
Research interests: race, racial discrimination, policing, incarceration, education, health disparities, inequality and stratification, qualitative and mixed methods

Duke Mwedzi (GDEV, Development Studies)
Research interests: education, human capital, Southern Africa

Giulia Olivero (PAM)
Research interests: Family, immigration, education

Kira Olsen-Medina (SOC)
Research interests: immigration, public policy, education, inequality and stratification

Tatiana Padilla (PAM)
Research interests: migration and social issues, labor exportation and brain drain, movement across non-traditional borders

Alvaro Padilla Pozo (SOC)
Research interests: health inequality, urban sociology, human mobility, climate change

Gina Park (CRP)
Research interests: environmental impact, freight transportation

Camille Portier (SOC)
Research interests: inequality, health and aging, demography, quantitative methods

Bharathy Premachandra (Communication)
Research interests: inequity, education, health, interventions, meta-science

Cody Reed (SOC)
Research interests: social stratification

Benjamin Rosche (SOC)
Research interests: Quantitative methods for the social sciences (especially causal inference with multilevel, spatial, network, and textual data) ++social inequality/stratification++ family demography

Katharine Sadowski (PAM)
Research interests: social policy

Adrienne Scott (Government)
Research interests: American politics, comparative social welfare policy, poverty, inequality, race and ethnic politics, women and politics, federalism

Yongxin Shang (PAM)
Research interests: family demography, health inequalities, population aging

Jenna Shelton (PAM)
Research interests: child welfare & family policy, child poverty, housing and homelessness, juvenile justice, education

Dana Smith (AEM)
Research interests: migration and immigration, labor and development economics, inequality

Remy Stewart (SOC)
Research interests: inequality, poverty, basic needs

Laura Sullivan (PAM)
Research interests: poverty and inequality, spatial demography, urban policy

Ryan Thomas (CRP)
Research interests: Land use planning; regional collaboration; smart cities

Yiran Wang (MPA)
Research interests: Social policy, sociology in health, aging, gender, inequality, organizational sociology

Yuxin Wang (MPA)
Research interests: Economics of immigration, labor economics, public finance

Meredith Welch (PAM)
Research interests: poverty, social policy, education, the labor market

Yaling Xu (ECON)
Research interests: labor economics, health economics, higher education, gender gap

Xuewen (Shelley) Yan (SOC)
Research interests: social stratification, cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, theory

Katherine Zaslavsky (SOC)
Research interests: Race and ethnicity

Haowen Zheng (SOC)
Research interests: stratification, demography