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

Contact Information

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 Sanjay Bhatnagar

Graduate Student

Race, Ethnicity, and Empire; Health and Healing Justice; Immigrant Justice; Law; Abolition; South Asia and South Asian Diaspora

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

Contact Information

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

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology, Death and dying, Patient-doctor communication

Contact Information

Email: ahc29@g.ucla.edu

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

Contact Information

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, War and Violence, Post-Conflict State-Building, Gender and Family

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 Liao

PhD Candidate

Subfield: Demography, Social Stratification and Inequality, Immigrant Integration, Quantitative Methods

Contact Information

Email: ktliao@g.ucla.edu

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

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

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

Subfield: Sociology of the Family, Gender and Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Domestic Violence, Experimental Methods

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

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, Public Policy, Archival Methodology, 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

Contact Information

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

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