The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Graduate Students in Sociology

 
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Eleni Arzoglou
Sociology

Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology, Globalisation and the European Union


563 WJH 
617-496-3695

Asad L. Asad
Sociology

Crime, Law, and Deviance; Culture; Inequality; International Migration; Political Sociology; Public Policy; Urban Sociology


563 WJH 

Stefan Beljean
Sociology

Evaluation / Organizations, Occupations, and Work / Cultural Sociology / Science, Knowledge, and Technology / Theory


574 WJH 

Monica Clarice Bell
Sociology and Social Policy

urban and rural sociology; law and society; poverty; social welfare policy; family law; criminal law; race, gender, and class; qualitative methodology


563 WJH 

Aaron Benavidez
Sociology



511 WJH 

Jovonne J. Bickerstaff
Sociology

African American couples, relationship maintenance and intimacy, love industry, race class & gender, 1st generation French blacks, national identity & boundaires of belonging for 1st generation nationals, everyday anti-racism, qualitative methods


 

Deirdre Bloome
Sociology and Social Policy

Inequality, mobility, quantitative methods


436 WJH 

Shawna Bowden Vican
Sociology

organizations; labor markets; gender and work


528 WJH 
617-496-4917

Kreg Steven Brown
Sociology

Racial and ethnic inequality, work and employment, networks and social capital, social stratification, culture, racial and ethnic identity.


541 WJH 

Brielle Bryan
Sociology and Social Policy

Poverty, educational inequality, neighborhood effects, social mobility, and the transition into adulthood.


643 WJH 

Anmol Chaddha
Sociology and Social Policy

urban political economy, racial inequality, urban labor markets, urban economic development, political sociology


 

Curtis K. Chan
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

Occupations, organizations, and work; meaning at work; organizational culture; identity; qualitative research


609 WJH 

Matthew Clair
Sociology

Culture; Race, Gender, and Class; Education.


 

Geniece Crawford
Sociology

crime and delinquency; gender and identity formation; deliberative democracy; race and ethnic relations; crime; sociology of youth development (esp. at-risk/high-risk youth); sociology of education;


576 WJH 
617-496-3852

Caitlin Daniel
Sociology

Culture, family, education, migration.


543 WJH 

Katie Derzon
Sociology

Theories of Punishment, Mass Incarceration, Reentry, and Community Corrections.


WJH 609  

Nicole Deterding
Sociology and Social Policy

Sociology of education, stratification and social mobility, immigration, organizations, multi-method research design


536 WJH 

Katherine Drake
Sociology

Education, Social Class Inequality, Community Service, Asia


Mather House, Office 24
10 Copperthwaite St.
Cambridge, MA 02138  

Mazen Elfakhani
Sociology

Race and Financial Distress; Social Capital; Migration; Political and Economic Sociology; Religious Nonaffiliation; Sociology of Knowledge


563 WJH 
617-496-3695

Burak Eskici
Sociology

Economic development, Underdeveloped regions, Institutions and Culture, Quantitative methods, Statistics, Social networks, Economic sociology, Inequality, Mathematical sociology, Historical sociology, System dynamics, Agent-based modeling.


404 WJH 

Alexandra Feldberg
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

Diversity, gender, and knowledge management in organizations.


 

Vince Feng
Sociology

Economic Sociology, Culture and Inequality, and Comparative East Asian Societies (Regional and Historical)


 

Anny Fenton
Sociology

Sociology of Health, Inequality, Networks, Neighborhoods, Race, Demography, Discrimination, Immigration/Migration, and Education


611 WJH 

Evgeny Firsov
Sociology

ethnic networks, organizations, economic sociology, sociology of non-profits, sociology of financial institutions


576 WJH 
617-496-3852

Ethan Fosse
Sociology

Cultural Sociology; Social Inequality and Poverty; Politics; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Statistical Methods


522 WJH 
617.699.1857

Carl Gershenson
Sociology

Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Historical Methods, Quantitative Methods


564 WJH 

Sara Sternberg Greene
Sociology and Social Policy

Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Contracts, Tax, Heath Law, Law and Inequality, Law and Sociology


 
617-496-3846

Maocan Guo
Sociology

Comparative social stratification and mobility, labor market analysis and economic sociology, comparative political economy, social development, and quantitative methods


404 WJH 
617-495-9748

Gru Han
Sociology

Organizations & Work, Gender, Crime, Law & Deviance, and Urban Sociology.


574 WJH 
617-496-3695

Elizabeth Hansen
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

Organizations and identity


609  

Hope Harvey
Sociology and Social Policy

Poverty, Socioeconomic Mobility, Education, Social Policy.


 

Erin Henry
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

role of business in society, institutional and organizational change, economic development


Harvard Business School Cotting 300  

Nicole Arlette Hirsch
Sociology

Cultural sociology; antiracism and destigmatization; political art; general interest in race, ethnicity, and inequality.


 

Megan Holland
Sociology

education, race, gender, youth crime and deviance


 

Sabrina Huang
Sociology

organizations, culture, gender, development, economic sociology and China.


609 WJH 

David Hureau
Sociology and Social Policy

Violence, gangs, urban neighborhoods, social networks and micro-sociology


 

Jackelyn Hwang
Sociology and Social Policy

Urban Sociology, Social Policy, Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, and Education.


460 WJH 

Dong-Kyun Im
Sociology

Political Sociology, Cognitive Sociology, East Asian Societies (focusing on China), Distributive Justice Attitudes, Globalization and Political Economy.


 

Anthony Abraham Jack
Sociology

Race/Ethnicity, Culture, Family, Social Cognitive Theory, Urban Poverty, Gender, Educational Opportunity, Inequality, Public Policy


511 WJH 

Jiwook Jung
Sociology

Organization, Social network, Economic sociology, Methodology


532 WJH 
617-496-3443

Matthew Kaliner
Sociology

Community and urban sociology, neighborhood effects, housing markets, crime and criminology, social movements and political protest, political sociology, GIS and spatial analysis.


576 WJH 

Una Kim de Vitton
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

institutions, organizations, collective action, industrial governance, development, human capital formation


 

Barbara Kiviat
Sociology and Social Policy

Household finance and poverty, the economics of kin networks, the structure of low-wage work, the impact of public benefits programs on financial behavior, and the causes and consequences of volatility in the lives of the poor.


 

Carly Knight
Sociology

Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Historical Methodology


458 WJH 

Joseph Krupnick
Sociology

ethnography, inequality, religion, crime


 
617-496-3695

Anshul Kumar
Sociology

Global Health and Development, Marriage


568.5 

Dong Ju Lee
Sociology

Gender Inequality; Comparative Culture Studies; Social Institutions and Gender Relations; Labor Markets and Gendered Labor process; Population Control and Reproductive Rights; Work-family Conflicts, Feminist Movements; Sexuality


584 WJH 

Theodore S. Leenman

Empirical: Quantitative Methods and Social Theory
Substantive: Inequality, Sociology of Race, Sociology of Education, and Political Sociology


641 WJH 

Jeremy R. Levine
Sociology

Urban sociology, political sociology, race and ethnicity, networks, inequality, social policy.


458 WJH 

Christy Ley
Sociology

Cultural Sociology, Economic Sociology, Organizations, Gender, Qualitative Methods


 

Joyce Liu
Sociology

Cultural Sociology, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Arts, Comparative Organizational Analysis, Contemporary Chinese Society, Stratification.


563 WJH 

Charlotte Lloyd
Sociology

Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology, Reconciliation, Development, Natural Language Processing.


 

Danilo Mandic
Sociology

Comparative historical sociology; nationalism, post-Communist transitions, Balkan history, US foreign policy and social theory.


Center for European Studies, LL9 

Ryann Manning
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

Organizations, International Development, Africa, Latin America, Organizational Change, Innovation


643 WJH 

Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs
Sociology

Justice; Education (Meritocracy); Organizations; Migration, Racial and Ethnic Minorities


611 WJH 

Margot Moinester
Sociology

Health inequalities, community and urban sociology, and social network analysis.


 

Katherine Morris
Sociology

Urban Sociology; Neighborhood Effects; Social Networks and Support; Health Services, Behaviors, and Outcomes; Social Demography; Aging.


 

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika
Sociology

Ethnicity, Gender, Death and Bereavement, Economic and Cultural Sociology.


611 WJH 

Christopher Muller
Sociology

Slavery, incarceration, inequality, historical sociology, economic history.


436 WJH 

Eun Sil Oh
Sociology

Social Policy, Gender, Economic Sociology and Social Movement


584 WJH 

Uh Young Park
Sociology

Migration, Ethnic Relations, Family and Culture.


541 WJH 
617-496-3476

Kristin Perkins
Sociology and Social Policy

Inequality, urban sociology


460 WJH 

Kim Pernell-Gallagher
Sociology

Organizations, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Workplace Inequality


528 WJH 

Cassi L. Pittman
Sociology and Social Policy

Racial Inequality, Race and Ethnic Relations, Consumption, Economic Sociology, Social Networks


pittman.101@osu.edu  
614-688-1368

Faaiza Rashid
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

Organizational learning and innovation, knowledge integration, strategy, designing high performance teams


 

Jacqueline Rivers
Sociology and
Afro-American Studies

Research that contributes to the understanding and amelioration of black academic underachievement, with a focus on culture, family, and schools.


643 WJH 
617-496-3852

Cassandra Robertson
Sociology

Gender, development, education and inequality.


643 WJH 

Eva Rosen
Sociology and Social Policy

Ethnographic methods, neighborhood effects, housing, urban sociology, cultural sociology, gender, migration, and crime and re-entry.


536 WJH 
617-466-9226

Rupert Russell
Sociology

Motion Picture and Television Production; Media & Politics; Conservative & Progressive Movements; Theory


522 William James Hall 

Jasmin Sandelson
Sociology

Qualitative methods; culture; theory; race, class and gender


641 WJH 

Alvaro Santana-Acuña
Sociology

Cultural sociology, theory, historical sociology and sociology of knowledge.


Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138  

Daniel Schrage
Sociology

Labor market discrimination; Racial inequality; Spatial dimensions of inequality; Quantitative methods


528 WJH 
617-495-4917

Tracey Shollenberger
Sociology and Social Policy

Juvenile and criminal justice, public education, inequality, research methods


563 WJH 

Jessica T. Simes
Sociology

Incarceration, Inequality, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Immigration/Migration, Urban Sociology, and Social Policy


HKS 417-Taubman 

Ben Snyder
Sociology

Political and economic sociology, race, networks and quantitative methods.


404 WJH 

Benjamin Sosnaud
Sociology

Health inequalities, poverty, political sociology and political institutions


609 WJH 

Vaughn Tan
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

Organizations, small groups, group process, ambiguity, innovation, adaptation


Cotting 324C
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA 02163

William James Hall 563
33 Kirkland St
Cambridge, MA 02138  

Chana Teeger
Sociology

Race and Ethnic Relations, Education, Social Theory, Research Design, Qualitative Methods, Collective Memory and Commemoration, Culture, Political Sociology, Conflict and Societal Transformations, Crime


511 WJH 

Jessica Tollette
Sociology

Race, Ethnicity, Migration and Immigration, Intergroup Relations, Qualitative Methods


643 WJH 

Beth Truesdale
Sociology

Organizations, Urban Sociology, Stratification, Social Policy, and Social Movements


611 WJH 

Alba N. Villamil
Sociology

Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Culture, Collective Behavior and Social Movements, and Social Psychology


543 WJH 

Chi Wang
Sociology

China, Inequality, Stratification, and Social Movements.


484 WJH 

Nathan Wilmers
Sociology

Economic sociology; labor markets; corporate governance; sociology of the welfare state; social theory.


 

Alix Winter
Sociology and Social Policy

Neighborhood effects on social and economic outcomes of well-being and social stratification in urban settings.


 

Holly Michelle Wood
Sociology

Inequality and stratification, housing and social policy, social mobility, wealth and poverty, culture, social theory, political sociology, qualitative research methods, cartographic and spatial analytical methods


643 WJH 

Tom Wooten
Sociology

Urban Sociology; Education; Race; Disasters.


 

Daniel Wu
Sociology and Social Policy

Cities, Innovation, Social movements, Organizational Learning, Social Networks, Analytical Sociology, Methods that combine qualitative and computational approaches


563 WJH 

Hsin-Chao Wu
Sociology

Cultural changes and continuity in the course of economic development, and local culture under state regulation


541 WJH 
617-496-3852

LeTian Zhang
Sociology

social networks, stratification, methodology, economic sociology, mathematical sociology


568 WJH 

Pavel Zhelyazkov
Sociology and
Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior, network analysis.


 

Yun Zhou
Sociology

Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Theory; Inequality and Stratification; Development; Education; Comparative and Historical Sociology; East Asian Societies (China and Japan)


543 WJH 

Queenie Zhu
Sociology and Social Policy

Urban Sociology, Social Policy, Stratification and Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, and Education.


79 JFK Street, Taubman 469 Cambridge, MA 02138  

Xiaolin Zhuo
Sociology

Social networks, organizations, and quantitative sociology.