Graduate Students

Charlotte Abel

Graduate Student

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Reproductive Justice, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Social Stratification, Ethnography, Qualitative Methodologies

Contact Information

Email: cmabel16@g.ucla.edu

Rohan Advani

Graduate Student

Subfield: Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Middle East and North Africa, Singapore

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Email: rohadvani@ucla.edu

Nada Ali Ramadan

Graduate Student

Subfield: Gender, Development, Labor and Employment, Politics, Social Movements, Middle East and North Africa

Contact Information

Email: nadarama@ucla.edu

Taylor Aquino

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods, Social Stratification and Mobility

Contact Information

Email: taquino7@g.ucla.edu
Office: Haines 228A

Prashasti Bhatnagar

Graduate Student

Race, Ethnicity, and Empire; Health Justice; Immigrant Justice; Law; Abolition; Movement Lawyering

Contact Information

Email: prashastib@g.ucla.edu

Natasha Bluth

Graduate Student

Subfield: Sociology of gender, political sociology, international migration, socialism and postsocialism, violence, comparative and historical sociology, ethnography

Contact Information

Email: nbluth@g.ucla.edu

Kai Bovik

Graduate Student

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Email: bovik@g.ucla.edu

Cesar Bowley Castillo

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology, Political Economy, Development in Latin America, Social Movements and Collective Behavior.

Contact Information

Email: cbowleycastillo@ucla.edu

Margot Brooks

Graduate Student

Subfield: Gender and Sexuality, Sociology of Law, Jurisprudence, Social Psychology

Contact Information

Email: mmbrooks@ucla.edu

Ada Campagna

Graduate Student

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Yvonne Carrillo

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity; Labor; Housing; Health; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility

Contact Information

Email: yvonnecarrillo@ucla.edu

Riley Ceperich

Graduate Student

Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Education, Comedy

Contact Information

Email: rileyceperich@g.ucla.edu

Dan Chai

Graduate Student

Subfield: International Migration, Race & Ethnicity, Asia/Asia America, Political & Global Sociology

Contact Information

Email: danchai@g.ucla.edu
Office: Haines A50

Andrew Chalfoun

Graduate Student

Subfields: Political Sociology, Organizations, Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, Conversation Analysis.

Contact Information

Email: achalfoun@g.ucla.edu
Office: A58F Haines Hall

Lillian Cheeks

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: lcheeks@g.ucla.edu

Christina Chica

Graduate Student

Gender & Sexuality | Race & Ethnicity | LGBTQ | Cultural Sociology | Urban Sociology | Institutions | Comparative & Historical Sociology | Oral History | Space & Community | Critical Geography | Global Cities | Theory

Contact Information

Email: cchica24@ucla.edu

Ahyeon Cho

Graduate Student

Subfield: Family, Gender, Motherhood, Racial/Ethnic Identity, Social Stratification, Social Demography

Contact Information

Email: choah[at]ucla.edu
Office: 289

Noureddine Chtaini

Graduate Student

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Alvin Chu

Graduate Student

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Email: alvingchu@g.ucla.edu

Jason Contino

PhD Student

Drug Use & Harm Reduction; Poverty Governance; Necro & Biopolitics; Medical Sociology; Science & Technology Studies; Labor

Contact Information

Email: jcontino@g.ucla.edu

Roxanne Corbeil

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology, Sociology of Development, International Migration, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, Mixed Methods

Contact Information

Email: roxannecorbeil@g.ucla.edu

Mike Courville

Graduate Student

Development and Societal Change, Rural Sociology, States and Institutions, Sociology of Culture and Knowledge, Political Economy

Contact Information

Email: mikedc@ucla.edu

Maureen Cowhey

Graduate Student

Subfields: Gender & Sexuality, Family, Social Stratification & Mobility, Work & Occupations, Public Policy, Mixed Methods

Contact Information

Email: mcowhey@g.ucla.edu

Catherine L. Crooke

Graduate Student

Subfield: Law & Society, Sociology of Law, Refugee & Asylum Law, International Migration, Forced Migration, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: ccrooke@g.ucla.edu

Evan Cui

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Economy, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Technology, Climate Change

Contact Information

Email: ecui@ucla.edu

Irene Del Mastro N.

Graduate Student

Subfield: Sociology of Medicine, Sociology of Gender, Ethnography, Health Inequalities

Contact Information

Email: idelmastro@ucla.edu

Raven Deverux

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Labor, Political Sociology.

Contact Information

Email: ravendev@g.ucla.edu

Leydy Diossa-Jimenez

Graduate Student

Subfield: International Migration, Political Sociology, Citizenship and Political Rights in Latin America, Comparative & Historical Sociology

Contact Information

Email: ldiossa@ucla.edu
Office: 103 Haines Hall

Yanji Du

Graduate Student

Subfield: Computational Sociology, Social Stratification and Inequality, International Migration

Contact Information

Email: duyanji@g.ucla.edu

Acton Jiashi Feng

Graduate Student

Subfield: Cultural sociology, family sociology, social stratification, gender, mixed methods.

Contact Information

Email: actonfeng96@ucla.edu

Valentina Floegel

Graduate Student

Subfield: International Migration, Immigrant Organizations, Latin America, South-South Migration, Immigrant Access to Rights

Contact Information

Email: vfloegel@g.ucla.edu
Office: 253B Haines Hall

Hilary Flowers

Graduate Student

Subfield: Gender, Social Demography, Family

Contact Information

Email: hflowers@g.ucla.edu
Office: A56 Haines Hall

Sage Frock

Graduate Student

Subfields: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology, Ethnography

Contact Information

Email: sfrock@g.ucla.edu

Sima Ghaddar

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology, Social Movements and State Building, Middle East Politics, Qualitative Methods, Ethnography

Contact Information

Email: simasghaddar@g.ucla.edu
Office: A83 Haines Hall

Deja Goodwin

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Social Psychology, Family.

Contact Information

Email: dmgoodwin@g.ucla.edu
Office: A56 Haines Hall

Ariel Hart

Graduate Student

Subfield: Medical Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Social Movements; Critical Race Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Black Feminist Thought

Contact Information

Email: anhart@mednet.ucla.edu

Arlo Hatcher

Graduate Student

Subfields: Urban Sociology, Social Movements, Comparative Historical Sociology

Contact Information

Email: ajhatcher@ucla.edu

Johanna Hernández-Pérez

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Tourism, Caribbean Studies

Contact Information

Email: j.hernandezperez@ucla.edu

MJ Hill

Graduate Student

Subfield: Gender, social categorization, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology

Contact Information

Email: amjhill@ucla.edu

Nathan Hoffmann

Graduate Student

Subfields: international migration, education, sexuality, quantitative methods

Contact Information

Email: nathanihoff@g.ucla.edu

Bowei Hu

Ph.D. Candidate

Subfield: Organizations, Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: boweihu@ucla.edu

Jessica Huerta

Ph.D. Candidate

Subfield: Gender, Family, Organizational Analysis, Military and Veterans, Content Analysis, Visual Analysis, Marketing and Media, Social Media, Conversation Analysis, Survey Research

Contact Information

Email: jhuerta@ucla.edu

Leah Jacobson

Graduate Student

Subfield: Organizations, Urban Sociology, Computational Methods, Stratification

Contact Information

Email: lcjacobson@ucla.edu

Nanum Jeon

Ph.D. Candidate

Subfield: Social Stratification & Inequality, Social Demography, Statistics & Data Science, and U.S. & East Asia

Contact Information

Email: njeon@ucla.edu
Office: Haines 228

Claire Yujie Ji

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Collective Memory; Violence, Trauma, and Stigma; Gender, Family, and Community; Colonialism; Socialism

Contact Information

Email: cy.ji@ucla.edu
Office: Haines A58B

Isaac Jilbert

Graduate Student

Subfield: Comparative Historical Sociology, Organizations, Economic Sociology

Contact Information

Email: ijilber1@ucla.edu

Sara Johnsen

Graduate Student

Subfield: Sociology of the family, Women's health, Social safety net policies, Demographic and qualitative methods

Contact Information

Email: sjohnsen@ucla.edu
Office: 105 Haines Hall

Hanna Jun

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: hannajun@ucla.edu

Rebecca Kaufman

Graduate Student

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Mental Illness, Suicide, Ethnography

Contact Information

Email: rkaufmanr@g.ucla.edu

Kait Keane (Cunnigham)

Graduate Student

Subfield: Social Network Analysis, Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, Ethnography, Political Polarization

Contact Information

Email: kcunningham1891@ucla.edu

Aya Konishi

Graduate Student

Subfield: Computational Social Science; Urban Sociology

Contact Information

Email: akonishi@ucla.edu

Sera Kwon

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity; Social Movements; Qualitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: seraskwon@g.ucla.edu

Gregory Kyle

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: gregious@g.ucla.edu

Kristin Tianqi Liao

Graduate Student

Subfield: Demography, Social Stratification and Inequality, Immigrants in the US, Quantitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: ktliao@g.ucla.edu
Office: 228 Haines Hall

Madison Liao

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: madisoncliao@g.ucla.edu

Hugo Po-Chien Lin

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: pclin@ucla.edu

Anne Lin

Graduate Student

Subfield: Culture and cognition, sociology of science, sociology of knowledge, social network analysis

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Marina Lopez

Graduate Student

Subfield: International Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Ethnography

Contact Information

Email: mlopez2@g.ucla.edu

Summer Lopez Colorado

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race, gender, and class; Latina/x sociology; Education; Inequality/Mobility; Disability in Society; Legal Violence

Contact Information

Email: slopezcolorado@g.ucla.edu

Keaton Lund

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: keatonlund@g.ucla.edu

Sam Lutzker

Graduate Student

Subfield: Urban Sociology, Housing and Homelessness, Race and Ethnicity, Ethnographic and Mixed Methods, Community-Engaged Research, Public Policy.

Contact Information

Email: sal2176@ucla.edu
Office: A52 Haines Hall

Andrew Malmuth

PhD Candidate

Subfield: Sociology of Climate Change, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Environmental Justice, Qualitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: dmalmuth@ucla.edu

Jorge D. Mancillas

Graduate Student

Subfield: Critical Gang Studies; Material Scarcity; Social Violence; Hyper-Incarceration; Ethnography; Theory

Contact Information

Email: jdmancillas@ucla.edu
Office: 111 Haines Hall

Michelle Marinello

Graduate Student

Subfields: Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Organizations

Contact Information

Email: mmarinello@g.ucla.edu

Lor Martin

Graduate Student

Conversation Analysis, Food Talk

Contact Information

Email: lor@ucla.edu
Office: Haines A81

Brianna McKenna

Graduate Student

Subfields: Law; Health and medicine; Conversation analysis; Computational methods

Contact Information

Email: brmckenna@ucla.edu

Pharren Miller

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Ethnography, Education, Black Girlhood Studies, Black Feminisms, Carcerality, Abolition

Contact Information

Email: pharrenmiller@ucla.edu

Luiza Monetti

Graduate Student

Subfields: political sociology, democracy, nationalism, violence, sociology of gender, ethnography, comparative historical methods

Contact Information

Email: lmonetti@ucla.edu
Office: Haines A81

Amanda Morris

Graduate Student

Conversation Analysis, Sociology of Technology, Interpersonal Communication, Mixed Methods

Contact Information

Email: amandamorris@g.ucla.edu

Joseph Murphy

Graduate Student

Subfield: Social Stratification and Mobility; Education; Race

Contact Information

Email: jcmurph@g.ucla.edu

Nina Naffziger

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: ninanaffziger@g.ucla.edu

Dasom Nah Gonzalez

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: dng0@g.ucla.edu

Sebastian Preising

Graduate Student

Subfields: Computational Sociology, Political Sociology, Digital Humanities, Political Communication

Contact Information

Email: spreising@g.ucla.edu

Joselyne Quiroz

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: joselyne@ucla.edu

Alexis Rae

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology; War & Armed Conflict; Elections; Gender

Contact Information

Email: acoopersmith@ucla.edu

Vivek Ramakrishnan

Graduate Student

Subfield: Computational Sociology, Economic Sociology, Labor, Work, Technology

Contact Information

Email: vivekr@ucla.edu

Monica Ramsy

Graduate Student

Subfield: Sociology of law; gender and sexuality; social movements; ethnography; carcerality; race and ethnicity

Contact Information

Email: mgramsy@ucla.edu

Mallory Rees

Graduate Student

Subfield: Gender and Work, Sexual Harassment, Medical Sociology

Contact Information

Email: mer294@g.ucla.edu

Caroline Reilly

Graduate Student

Subfield: Comparative-Historical; Race & Ethnicity; Gender; Inequality; Distribution, Maintenance, and Protection of Power

Contact Information

Email: cvreilly20@ucla.edu

Isabella Rivera Volquez

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: iriverav@g.ucla.edu

Sam Robbins

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Ethnography, Taiwan and East Asia

Contact Information

Email: samrobbins97@g.ucla.edu

Qiaoyan Li Rosenberg

PhD Candidate

International Migration; Globalization; Economic Sociology; Labor Migration from China and Southeast Asia; Human Rights; Japan's Immigration Policies; Qualitative Methods.

Contact Information

Email: qdrosenberg@ucla.edu

Joelle Rosenberg

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Violence and War; Conflict-related Sexual Violence; Political Sociology; Organizational Sociology; Comparative-Historical Sociology

Contact Information

Email: joellerosenberg@g.ucla.edu

Shiva Rouhani

Graduate Student

Subfield: Social Stratification & Mobility; Education; Demography

Contact Information

Email: shivarouhani@ucla.edu

Hunter Sagaskie

Graduate Student

Subfield: Ethnography, Medical Sociology, Historical Sociology, Sociology of Science, Indigenous Methodology, Trauma

Contact Information

Email: hsagaskie@ucla.edu

Carla Salazar Gonzalez

Graduate Student

Subfield: Social stratification, race and ethnicity, social demography, international migration

Contact Information

Email: carlas@ucla.edu
Office: A58C Haines Hall

Nida Sanglimsuwan

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race & ethnicity, international migration, second-generation Asian diaspora, identity and culture

Contact Information

Email: nidas@ucla.edu

Durana Saydee

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: duranasaydee@ucla.edu

Will Schupmann

Graduate Student

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Mixed Methods

Contact Information

Email: wschupmann@ucla.edu

Jihyun Shim

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Culture, Sociology of the Arts, Gender & Sexuality, Organizations

Contact Information

Email: shimj@ucla.edu
Office: 261B Haines Hall

Anthony Shu

Graduate Student

Subfield: Cultural Sociology, Consumption, Environmental Sociology, Ethnography, Mixed-Methods Research, Food Studies

Contact Information

Email: afshu@g.ucla.edu

Antwann Michael Simpkins

Graduate Student

Subfield: Carcerality; Social Justice & Movements; Black Feminist Thought; Race and Ethnicity; Law and Society; Critical Race Theory; Gender; Urban and Suburban Sociology; Historical Sociology

Methods Specialization: Archival Ethnography; Geographic Information Systems

Contact Information

Email: antwanns@ucla.edu
Office: A56 Haines Hall

Katherine Smock

Graduate Student

Subfield: Urban sociology, organizations, housing, local governance, qualitative methods

Contact Information

Email: ksmock@ucla.edu
Office: 111 Haines Hall

Nick Tinoco

Graduate Student

Subfield: Environmental Sociology, Climate Mobilities, Disasters, Displacement, Qualitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: natinoco@ucla.edu

Natalia Toledo Melendez

Graduate Student

Subfields: Sociology of health and medicine, cultural sociology, social inequality, mixed methods, evaluation science

Contact Information

Email: ntoledom@ucla.edu

Michael Tran

Graduate Student

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Media, Culture

Contact Information

Email: mtran2@ucla.edu

Victoria Tran

Graduate Student

Subfield: Urban Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification and Inequality, Community Policing, Neighborhood Change

Contact Information

Email: vlt6cp@ucla.edu

Jennifer Uribe

Graduate Student

Subfield: Decolonial Feminisms, Black Feminisms, Latinx Feminisms, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Qualitative methods including art analysis and discourse analysis, Public Policy, Archival Methodology including historical processing and tracing, the Caribbean and Latin America, Spanish Language Interpretation and Translation

Contact Information

Email: jenniferuribe@g.ucla.edu

Ana Vieytez

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Email: amv23@g.ucla.edu

Grace Vu

Graduate Student

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Email: gracevu@g.ucla.edu

Joseph Kaplan Weinger

Ph.D. Candidate

Political sociology, comparative-historical sociology

Contact Information

Email: jweinger@ucla.edu
Office: Haines Hall A58D

Gilad Wenig

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political sociology, economic sociology

Contact Information

Email: gwenig@ucla.edu

Christina Wilmot

Graduate Student

Subfield: Computational methods; technology studies; sociology of knowledge; sociology of science

Contact Information

Email: cwilmot@ucla.edu
Office: Haines A58-C

Sandy Xu

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Development, Socialist and Post-Socialist States, Welfare, Labor, Disability

Contact Information

Email: sandyxu@ucla.edu

Ashelee Yang

Graduate Student

Subfield: International Migration; Ethnography; Interactional Dynamics; Sociology of Religion; Race & Ethnicity; Chinese American Community; East Asia; Medical Sociology.

Contact Information

Email: asheleeyang@g.ucla.edu
Office: A56 Haines Hall

Hsiu-yu Yang

Graduate Student

Subfield: Sociology of Family, Social Demography, Fertility, Gender, Reproductive Health

Contact Information

Email: hsiuyu@ucla.edu

Yiran Yu

Graduate Student

International Migration; Globalization & Technology; Labor & Skills; Qualitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: yiranyu@g.ucla.edu

Mona Zahir

Graduate Student

Subfield: Mixed Methods, Organizations, Knowledge, Economic Sociology, Science & Technology Studies, Food Policy

Contact Information

Email: zahirmona@g.ucla.edu

Stephanie Zhang

Graduate Student

Subfields: Science and Technology Studies, Computational Sociology, Urban Sociology

Contact Information

Email: szhang19@g.ucla.edu

Kaiting Zhou

Graduate Student

Subfield: Aging and Life Course, Technology, Culture, Ethnography, Mixed Methods, Temporality

Contact Information

Email: kaitingzhou13@g.ucla.edu
Office: A56 Haines Hall

Shibing Zhou

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political Economy, Science and Technology Studies, Quantitative and Computational Methods

Contact Information

Email: zshibing@g.ucla.edu

Andrea Zhu

Graduate Student

Subfield: Political sociology, economic sociology, infrastructure, development, qualitative methods

Contact Information

Email: andreazhu@g.ucla.edu