Diya Bose

diya.bose@gmail.com
Areas of Specialization: Sex, Gender, Sexuality, Law, Ethnography, Global South
Dissertation Title: Contesting the Third Gender Category in India 
Advisors: Ortiz

Rebecca DiBennardo 

redibennardo@ucla.edu or https://www.rebeccaadibennardo.com/
Areas of Specialization: Sexualities, Gender, Criminology, Law & Policy
Dissertation Title: From Pervert to Predator: Law, Medicine, Media, and the Construction of Contemporary Sexual Deviance
Advisor: Saguy 

Molly Fee

 mfee@ucla.edu; https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/molly-fee

Areas of Specialization: International Migration, Political Sociology, Forced Migration, Refugee Resettlement

Dissertation Title: Resettling Refugees: Social Rights and Incorporation in San Diego, CA and Boise, ID

Advisors: Waldinger (chair), Kligman, Walker, and David FitzGerald (external member)

Chiara Galli

cgalli@ucla.edu; www.gallichiara.com
Areas of Specialization: International Migration, Sociology of Law, Children and Youth Studies, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Refugee Children or Immigrant Teenagers? The Precarious Rights and Belonging of Central American Unaccompanied Minors in the United States. 
Advisors: Waldinger, Hernandez-Leon, Menjivar, Timmermans, Susan Terrio (external member) 

Jay Johnson

jamesgjohnson@ucla.edu or https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/jay-johnson
Areas of Specialization: International Migration, Political Sociology, Forced Migration Studies, Cities, South Africa
Dissertation Title: State Borders in Urban Spaces: Legal and Political Contention over Refugee Reception Offices (RROs) in Post-Apartheid South African Cities
Advisors: Roger Waldinger; Edward Walker; Tendayi Achiume; Andrew Apter

Andrew N. Le
Andrewnle@ucla.edu
Areas of Specialization: International Migration, Political and Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Work, Organizations, Religion, and Comparative Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Exit: Contemporary Vietnamese Labor Migration
Advisors: Waldinger (chair), Brubaker, Kligman, Walker and George Dutton

-Yewon Andrea Lee

yewon.lee@ucla.edu or https://sites.google.com/site/yewonandrealee/
Areas of Specialization: Political Sociology; Labor Sociology and Sociology of Work; Social Movements and Social Change; Urban Sociology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Global South; Social Theory; Urban Ethnography; Comparative History; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Precarious Workers in the Speculative City: The Untold Gentrification Story of Tenant Shopkeepers' Displacement and Resistance in Seoul 
Advisors: Ayala, Hunter, Bargheer, Chun 

Amanda McArthur

ammcarth@ucla.edu

               Areas of specialization: Medical Sociology, Talk & Interaction in Medicine, Sociology of Diagnosis, Conversation Analysis, Mixed Methods

      Dissertation title: Resisting the Diagnosis: Medical Authority and the Problem of Legitimacy in US Primary Care

                      Advisors: Heritage (Chair), Stivers, Timmermans, Bird (RAND Health)

-Sung S. Park

sungspark@gmail.com or www.sungspark.org
Areas of Specialization: Family, Demography, Immigration, Race, Social Stratification, Aging, Life Course.
Dissertation Title: Living Arrangements Throughout Life: The Experiences of Diverse American Families
Advisor: Seltzer

Jacob Thomas

j.thomas@ucla.edu
Areas of Specialization: International Migration and Travel, Social Stratification/Inequality/Mobility, Sociology of Law, Comparative Migration Policy and Law, Comparative Race/Ethnicity/Nationalism, Survey Research Design and Mixed Methods, Contemporary Chinese Societies and U.S.-China Relations

Dissertation Title: The Denied, the Deterred, and the Disenchanted: Why a Variety of Potential Emigrants Never Immigrated

Advisors: Zhou, Brand, Agadjanian, Peters (Political Science)

-Ariana Valle