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

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

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

Subfield: Ethnography, Social Interaction, Microsociology, Phenomenology, Urban Sociology

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

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, International Migration, Political Sociology

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

 I analyze diverse expressions of organized crime and social violence in the North America region. My current research uses computational methods such as machine learning for crime forecasting, and social network analysis to understand criminal networks.

Subfield: - Computational Sociology- Economic Sociology- Violence- Organized Crime

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology

Irene is currently studying the relationship between the medical training in the US and the ways in which medical students take actions against health inequities related to race, gender, and sexuality. Irene earned a B.A. in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a M.A. in Gender and Women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Internal grants from both institutions and a fellowship from the Fogarty Institute facilitated her previous research, which explores how class, gender, and ethnicity shape the experiences of teen pregnancy and home birth in Perú.

Subfield: Sociology of Medicine, Sociology of Gender, Ethnography, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice, Health Inequalities 

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

• Gaddis, S. Michael and Nicholas V. DiRago. “Housing Audit Studies in the Social Sciences.” Forthcoming in Essays on the Sociology of Housing, edited by B. J. McCabe and E. Rosen.
• Gaddis, S. Michael, Nicholas V. DiRago, and Raj Ghoshal. “Searching for a Roommate: A Correspondence Audit Examining Racial Discrimination among Millennials.” In preparation.
• DiRago, Nicholas V. “Land Banks and Inequality in Shrinking Cities: How Organizations Govern Abandoned Urban Neighborhoods in the Contemporary United States.” In preparation.

Subfield: community and urban sociology; inequality, poverty, and mobility; sociology of population; political sociology; organizations, occupations, and work

Subfield: International Migration, Political Sociology, Forced Migration, Refugee Resettlement, Organizations, Qualitative Methods

Subfield: Gender, Social Demography, Family

Subfield: political sociology, the anthropology of the state, social movements, historical sociology and contemporary social theory, Middle Eastern Studies

Subfield: Sociology of Expertise; Economic Sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Organizational Theory; Digital Methods.

Subfield: Science and technology studies, economic sociology, and cultural sociology. Computational and quantitative methods.  

Subfield: Science of Science, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Information (and Data) and Society, Technology, Institutions

Subfield: Development, political sociology, Latin America

Subfield: international migration, social stratification, education

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

Subfield: Comparative Historical Sociology, Organizations, Economic Sociology

Subfield: Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Stratification, Middle East & West Asia

Subfield: Race, Nationalism, Trauma, Collective Memory, Belonging, Identity Formation, Sikh Punjabis

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

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity; Social Movements; Qualitative Methods

Subfield: International Migration, Race and Ethnicity,  Environmental and Political Sociology, Political Economy, Organizations

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Social Interaction

Subfield: Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Ethnography; Mixed Methods; Public Policy

Description of Previous and Ongoing Research Projects

• The Formation of Cosmologies on Death and Dying in Gang Members (2017)
• The Construction of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project and Gentrification in the Crenshaw District (2017) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Karida Brown

• The Effectiveness of Homeless Court Programs in Los Angeles (2017-2018) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Yeheskel "Zeke" Hasenfeld, (Rest In Peace, Zeke)

• The Contributions of Joan Moore to the Development of Critical Gang Studies and Reflexive Research Methodology (2019) - Collaboration with Dr. Robert Weide

• Traumatic Loss and Social Reproductions of Urban Violence in L.A. (ongoing)
• Income Generation Strategies, Job Seeking and Employment for Gang Members in a Gentrifying Los Angeles (ongoing)

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

Subfield: International migration, Immigrant detention, Deportation, Gender, Medical Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Ethnography.

Subfield: Sociology of Medicine, Talk & Interaction in Medicine, Sociology of Diagnosis, Conversation Analysis, Mixed Methods

Subfield: Social Stratification and Mobility; Education; Race

Language and social interaction. Reciprocity and exchange behavior. Economic conversation analysis. Exposure, leaks, and sense making of contentious interactions.  Spanish conversation.  

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Language and Social Interaction, Linguistic Anthrpology, SociolinguisticsComprehensive exams: Conversation Analysis and Economic Sociology

Subfield: Political sociology, international migration, displacement, development, Southeast Asia, comparative ethnography and qualitative methods

Subfield: Settler Colonialism, Economy, Culture, Race, Comparative & Historical Sociology, and Ethnography 

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

Subfield: Social Stratification & Mobility; Education; Demography

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

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

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

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Women's Health, Knowledge, STS, Social Theory, Ethnography

Substantive Topics: Sociology of Celebrity, Intergroup Relations, Relationship Formation, Media Representation

Subfield: Computational Sociology, Social Networks, Social Theory, Critical Theory, Culture, Social Psychology, Race & Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods

Subfield: International Migration, Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Methods, Political Economy

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

Subfield: Social Stratification/Mobility; Education; Demography; Family 

Subfield: Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, the Middle East

Subfield: Computational methods; technology studies; gender

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

Subfield: Political sociology, urban sociology, ethnography, development, race and ethnicity, contemporary China