Graduate Students
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Samantha Agarwal
BA, The Ohio State University
Research Interests: Agrarian political economy, labor movements, historical capitalism, India
Rishi Awatramani
BA, Vassar College
Research Interests: Global political economy, labor and social movements in the U.S. and India, historic and contemporary capitalism, national liberation
Joseph Boselovic
MA, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Schooling, inequality, mobility
Rachel Butler
MA, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Social dynamics and networks in low-income communities
Jochebed Cadet
BA, University of Maryland College Park
Research Interests: Social inequality, social policy, education, urban sociology
Alvin Camba
MA, Binghamton University
Research Interests: Global political economy, environmental history, political sociology, capitalism and global China in Southeast Asia
Elayne Cardoso de Morais
BA, University of Campinas
Research Interests: Brazil, political instability & mass media, neoliberalism & inequality, and democracy & development
Valentina Dallona
MA, University College London
Research Interests: Austerity and the rise of the far right, historic and contemporary capitalism, labor and social movements
Yige Dong
MA, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Socialist experiences, international development, welfare institutions and gender
Stephanie D’Souza
BA, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Interests: Inequality in the education system and labor market, transition to adulthood low income youth in the U.S.
Zhicao Fang
MA, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Political and comparative-historical sociology, global political economy, state-society relations in China
Robert Francis
MA, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Poverty, social policy, rural communities, religion, nonprofit organizations
Conrad Jacober
BA, Kenyon College
Research Interests: Financialization, inequality, injustice, and exploitation
Ricado Jacobs
BA, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Research Interests: World historical capitalism, labor studies, social movements
Christine Jang
MA, Columbia University
Research Interests: Urban sociology, education, housing, racial and ethnic inequality
Minhyoung Kang
MA, Seoul National University
Research Interests: Globalization, inequality, labor movements
Manaswini Karthik
MA, SOAS University of London
Research Interests: Dispossession, labour, agrarian change, capital accumulation
Holly Koogler
MA, Stanford University
Research Interests: Immigrant students and their role in achievement as defined by school completion and standardized test scores
Jiwon Lee
MA, Hanyang University
Research Interests: Social stratification, social demography, sociology of education, and race/ethnicity/immigration
Sebastian Link
BA & MA, Universidad de Chile
Research Interests: Chile, theory, markets, neoliberalism, labor movements
Tiantian Liu
BA, University of Michigan
Research Interests: Local political institutions, rural economy and market
Mingtang Liu
MA, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Research Interests: China, social forces, world systems
Anne-Marie Livingstone
MA, McGill University, Montreal
Research Interests: Race, inequality, poverty, social policy and the state
Shirley Lung
MA, Georgetown University
Research Interests: Race, ethnicity, immigration, education, social stratification
Rhiannon Miller
MA, Columbia University
Research Interests: Class mobility and social stratification
Charlie Mitchell
BA., Trinity University
Research Interests: Education, racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps, political and social justice
Kiara Nerenberg
BA, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Education, family, neighborhoods
Corey Payne
BA, Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: economic development, political economy, social unrest, labor struggles, global governance, historical capitalism
Sonal Sharma
MA, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Research Interests: Sociological theory, research methods and labor
Durgesh Solanki
MA, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Research Interests: Development, inequality, stratification, informal labor, social movements
Elizabeth Talbert
MPP, University of Michigan
Research Interests: Gender, social inequality, education
Daniel Thompson
BA, Purdue University
Research Interests: Comparative political economy, inequality, labor markets, panel data analysis, comparative-historical methods
Yifeng Wan
BA, Zhejiang University
Research Interests: Sociological theory, research methods, stratification and mobility, social inequality, demographic processes and social networks
Xingyun Wu
MA, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Education, migration, demography, methodology, comparative studies
Allison Young
BA, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Social inequality, poverty, family, education, housing
Xiao Yu
MA, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Sociology of education, internal and international migration, gender, social inequality, quantitative methods