Graduate Assistants

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  • Sara Mohammed M Aftab

    Sara Mohammed M Aftab

    Graduate Research Assistant

    humanities, public sociology, political sociology, social movements, advocacy, transnational justice, reconciliation, cultural trauma, and collective memory in a post-conflict society. 

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  • Courtney Bell

    Courtney Bell

    Graduate Research Assistant

    NAVIGATING INTIMACY: marriage, polyamory, sexuality, sex education, consent, women & gender studies; PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY: sociology of education, qualitative research, mixed methods, documentary filmmaking, pop culture

  • Drew Bonner

    Drew Bonner

    Graduate Research Assistant

    food environments, food insecurity, food justice and nutrition education

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  • Lili Deveneau

    Lili Deveneau

    Graduate Research Assistant

    human rights; gender; childhood studies; (in)equality; public health; mixed methods; critical sociology; public sociology; interprofessional collaboration

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  • Fanni Farago

    Fanni Farago

    Graduate Research Assistant

    sociology of education, immigration, life course transitions, emotions, health, applied sociology, and mixed-methods research

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  • Arvind Geetha Christo

    Arvind Geetha Christo

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Social Movements, Dalit politics, and Ethnography.

  • Debamita Guha

    Debamita Guha

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Gender and sexuality studies, Activism, Urban spaces, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Development, Qualitative research methods.

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  • Deepika Hooda

    Deepika Hooda

    Graduate Lecturer

    Globalization, global tech labor, migration, digital culture, computational social science, and social movements.

  • Jeba Humayra

    Jeba Humayra

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Political Sociology of Human Rights, Human Rights and Political Violence, Dissent and Repression, Internet Governance and Human Rights, Digital Authoritarianism, and Contemporary South Asian Politics.

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  • Omer Pacal

    Omer Pacal

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Area(s) of Interest: Market formation, Peasants and Politics, State and Violence, and Political Movements in the Middle East

  • Maia Punksungka

    Maia Punksungka

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Higher education; higher education administration; academic affairs; community college; college transfer partnership; institutional belonging; advanced quantitative methods; mixed methods

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  • Karthik Ramanujam

    Karthik Ramanujam

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology

  • Maxwell David Rollins

    Maxwell David Rollins

    Graduate Lecturer

    Roots of Nationalism, Sub-state Self-determination Movements, the Nature of the State, Himalayan Societies

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  • Emma (Vetter) Taylor

    Emma (Vetter) Taylor

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Sociology of Everyday Life; Digital Nomads; Social Media; Early Adulthood; Health Disparities; Housing; Popular Culture

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  • Maria Valdovinos

    Maria Valdovinos

    Graduate Lecturer

    Policing, Corrections, Prisoner Reentry, Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Legal System, Evidence-Based Crime Policy

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  • Kellie S. Wilkerson

    Kellie S. Wilkerson

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research, Globalization, Sociology of Education, Statistics/Quantitative Methodology