Department of Sociology

Ph.D. Students

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Ph.D. Students

  • Jonathon Acosta

    Jonathon Acosta

    Graduate Student
    jonathon_acosta@brown.edu
    Research Interests Social Stratification, Segregation, Race, Class, Ethnicity
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University, B.A. Brown University
  • Maria Arievitch

    Maria Arievitch

    Graduate Student
    maria_arievitch@brown.edu
    Research Interests Political Economy, Development, Labor Markets, Financial Crisis, Organized Labor & Social Movements, US Party Politics
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University, B.A. New York University
  • Hilary Barker

    Hilary Barker

    Graduate Student
    hilary_barker@brown.edu
    Research Interests Gender, Work, Family, Demography, Inequality, Division of Labor
    Degree(s) B.A. Brigham Young University Utah, M.S. Brigham Young University Utah
  • Samantha Brady

    Samantha Brady

    Graduate Student
    samantha_brady1@brown.edu
    Research Interests Demography, Life Course, Gerontology, Work, Family, Health
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; MPA Indiana University; B.S. Cornell University
  • Macy Brammer

    Macy Brammer

    Graduate Student
    macy_brammer@brown.edu
    Research Interests Education, Family, Gender, Race, Class, Inequality and Stratification, Mixed Methods
    Degree(s) B.A. Sociology and Economics, Indiana University
  • Jonathon Briones

    Jonathon Briones

    Graduate Student
    jonathon_briones@brown.edu
    Research Interests Sociology of Education, Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods, Stratification, Demography
    Degree(s) B.S.A Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin
  • Ailish Burns

    Ailish Burns

    Graduate Student
    ailish_burns@brown.edu
    Research Interests Health, Inequality, Demography, Organizations, Science & Technology Studies
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Xinyan (Joyce) Cao

    Xinyan (Joyce) Cao

    Graduate Student
    xinyan_cao1@brown.edu
    Research Interests Education, Social Stratification and Inequality, Demography
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Rui Carvalho

    Rui Carvalho

    Graduate Student
    rui_carvalho@brown.edu
    Research Interests Community Studies, Global and Transnational Sociology, International Migration, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Social Theory, Urban Sociology
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.Sc. New University of Lisbon
  • Jasper Cattell

    Jasper Cattell

    Graduate Student
    jasper_cattell@brown.edu
    Research Interests Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Social Movements, Labor and Environmental Movements, Historical Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; M.S. London School of Economics and Political Science; B.A. Simon Fraser University
  • Alejandra Cueto Piazza

    Alejandra Cueto Piazza

    Graduate Student
    alejandra_irene_cueto_piazza@brown.edu
    Research Interests Sociology of Development, Science, Knowledge, and Technology, Labor, and Sociology of Culture
    Degree(s) M.A. Columbia University, B.A. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru
  • David Curtiss

    David Curtiss

    Graduate Student
    david_curtiss@brown.edu
    Research Interests Africa and the African diaspora, Sociology of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational Sociology, Development, Organizations, Solidarity
    Degree(s) B.A. American University
  • Gustavo de Almeida

    Gustavo de Almeida

    Graduate Student
    gustavo@brown.edu
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University
  • Rocky Douglas

    Raquel Douglas

    Graduate Student
    rocky_douglas@brown.edu
    Research Interests Race and Spirituality, Black Women's Subjectivity, Being Human
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University, B.A. Williams College
  • Katie Duarte

    Katie Duarte

    Graduate Student
    katie_duarte@brown.edu
    Research Interests Race and Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality, Cultural Sociology, Immigration, Qualitative Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. Vassar College
  • Ester Fanelli

    Ester Fanelli

    Graduate Student
    ester_fanelli@brown.edu
    Research Interests Gender and Family, Sociology of Culture and Religion, Development
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; M.S. Bocconi University; B.A. Bocconi University
  • Henry Fletcher

    Henry Fletcher

    Graduate Student
    henry_fletcher@brown.edu
    Research Interests Right-wing social movements, Populism, Nationalism, Climate change skepticism
    Degree(s) B.A. McGill University
  • Laird Gallagher

    Laird Gallagher

    Graduate Student
    laird_gallagher@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Culture, Political Economy, Theory, Organizations, Technology
    Degree(s) M.S. Hunter College, B.A. Wesleyan University
  • Diana Gandara

    Diana Gandara

    Graduate Student
    diana_gandara@brown.edu
    Research Interests Education, Immigration, Social Mobility
    Degree(s) B.A. Harvard College
  • Sarah Hodgman

    Sarah Hodgman

    Graduate Student
    sarah_hodgman@brown.edu
    Research Interests Education, Social Policy, Social Inequality, Stratification, and Mobility, Demography, Quantitative Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. University of Michigan
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    Lawrenzo Howell

    Graduate Student
    lawrenzo_howell@brown.edu
    Research Interests Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Equity in Education, History of Education
    Degree(s) M.A. Stanford University; B.A. University of Notre Dame
  • Hsu Huang

    Hsu Huang

    Graduate Student
    hsu_huang@brown.edu
    Research Interests Comparative Sociology, Organizational, Economic, Political, Science, Technology, and Knowledge, East Asia, Post-Soviet republics
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; M.Sc. King's College London; B.A. Renmin University of China
  • Yifei Huang

    Yifei (Zachk) Huang

    Graduate Students
    yifei_huang1@brown.edu
    Research Interests Inequality, Public Opinions, Family, Gender, Social Demography, Quantitative Methods, Computational Methods
    Degree(s) B.A. Sociology, Peking University
  • Nabila Islam

    Nabila Islam

    Graduate Student
    nabila_islam@brown.edu
    Research Interests Carcerality and Abolition, Anti-Muslim Racism and Islamophobia, Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity, and Nation, Global and Transnational Sociology, Social Theory
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University, M.A. McGill University, B.A. York University
  • Quentin Jenkins

    Quentin Jenkins

    Graduate Student
    quentin_jenkins@brown.edu
    Research Interests (Anti)Blackness in education, Juvenile Delinquency, Black Homeschooling, Crime and Violence
    Degree(s) B.A. Pitzer College
  • Yingyue Jiang

    Yingyue Jiang

    Graduate Student
    yingyue_jiang@brown.edu
    Research Interests Gender, Family, Health and Wellness, Demography, Social Policy
    Degree(s) M.S. Social Policy and Data Analytics, University of Pennsylvania
  • Sagen Kidane

    Sagen Kidane

    Graduate Student
    sagen_kidane@brown.edu
    Research Interests Race and Ethnicity, Education, Social Inequality, Punishment, Social Policy
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. University of Maryland, College Park
  • Daniel Kitson

    Daniel Kitson

    Graduate Student
    daniel_kitson@brown.edu
    Research Interests Climate Change, Science, Knowledge, and Technology, Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Organizations
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. University of Chicago
  • Sujung Lee

    Sujung Lee

    Graduate Student
    sujung_lee@brown.edu
    Research Interests Gender, Education, Health, Family, Demography
    Degree(s) M.A. in Sociology, Yonsei University: B.A. in American Culture and Sociology, Sogang University
  • Ang Li

    Ang Li

    Graduate Student
    ang_li3@brown.edu
    Research Interests Economic Sociology, Sociology of Development, Organizations, Occupations and Work, Quantitative Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Colorado State University; B.A. University of California, Berkeley
  • Zixi Li

    Zixi (Valerie) Li

    Graduate Student
    zixi_li1@brown.edu
    Research Interests Stratification, Labor Markets, Gender, Demography, Marriage and Family, Education, Quantitative & Computational Methodology
    Degree(s) B.A. New York University
  • Yitong Liu

    Yitong Liu

    Graduate Student
    yitong_liu@brown.edu
    Research Interests Transnational Sociology, Global Development and Investment, Urban Sociology, Ethnography, Computational Sociology
    Degree(s) B.A. Boston College
  • Neha Lund

    Neha Lund

    Graduate Student
    neha_lund@brown.edu
    Research Interests Racial Formation, International Migration, Empire & Colonialism, Theory
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. Wellesley College
  • Jordan Mosby

    Jordan Mosby

    Graduate Student
    jordan_mosby@brown.edu
    Research Interests Race, Migration, Inequality, The New Great Migration, The Black Middle-Class
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. Morehouse College
  • Karla Munoz

    Karla Munoz

    Graduate Student
    luz_munoz@brown.edu
    Research Interests Immigration, Social Stratification and Inequality, Education, Critical Theory, Mixed Methods
    Degree(s) B.A. Amherst College
  • Salma Mutwafy

    Salma Mutwafy

    Graduate Student, Successful Defense: May 28, 2024
    salma_mutwafy@brown.edu
    Research Interests Sociology of Development, Demography, Critical Theory
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University
  • Chinyere Odim

    Chinyere Odim

    Graduate Student
    chinyere_odim@brown.edu
    Research Interests Culture, Race, Class, and Gender, Sociology of Elites, Sociology of Education, DuBoisian Sociology, Qualitative Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. University of California, Berkeley, M.S. University of Pennsylvania, B.A. Swarthmore College
  • Carilee Osborne

    Carilee Osborne

    Graduate Student
    carilee_osborne@brown.edu
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University
  • Aditi Priya

    Aditi Priya

    Graduate Student
    aditi_priya@brown.edu
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; M.A. Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; B.A. Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi
  • Archana Ramanujam

    Archana Ramanujam

    Graduate Student
    archana_ramanujam@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental Sociology, Global and Transnational Sociology, DuBoisian Sociology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Development
    Degree(s) M.Sc. University of Amsterdam
  • Clark Randall

    Clark Randall

    Graduate Student
    clark_randall@brown.edu
    Research Interests Fiscal sociology, Historical Sociology, Segregation, Municipal finance, Debt, Urban planning, Marxism
    Degree(s) M.A. Washington University in St. Louis; B.A. Washington University in St. Louis
  • Billie Sams

    Billie Sams

    Graduate Student
    billie_sams@brown.edu
    Research Interests Cultural and historical sociology, DuBoisian theory, Critical and decolonial theory, Settler colonialism, Decolonial and Community-based methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.A. University of California - San Diego
  • Bhumi Shah

    Bhumi Shah

    Graduate Student
    bhumi_shah@brown.edu
    Research Interests Health, Stratification, Inequality, Social Demography, Public Policy, Quantitative Methods
    Degree(s) B.S. The College of New Jersey
  • Sonakshi Sharma

    Sonakshi Sharma

    Graduate Student
    sonakshi_sharma@brown.edu
    Research Interests Mobilization, Governance, Democratization, Public bureaucracies, Gender
    Degree(s) M.S. London School of Economics and Political Science; B.A. Shiv Nadar University
  • Patrick Shaw

    Patrick Shaw

    Graduate Student
    patrick_shaw@brown.edu
    Research Interests Demography, International Development, Education, Labor, and Social Mobility, Environmental Sociology, Quantitative Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; M.S. University of Texas, San Antonio; B.S. University of Texas
  • Chandni Shyam

    Chandni Shyam

    Graduate Student
    chandni_shyam@brown.edu
    Research Interests Political Sociology, Bureaucracy, Organizations, States, Public Health, Mixed Methods
    Degree(s) M.S. Utrecht University; M.A. Pondicherry University; B.A. Bharathiar University
  • Suvina Singal

    Suvina Singal

    Graduate Student
    suvina_singal@brown.edu
    Research Interests Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Technology & Data, Data Protection & Privacy, Policy
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; M.A. Peking University; M.A. Sciences Po, Paris; B.A. Delhi University
  • Subadevan

    Subadevan

    Graduate Student
    subadevanm@brown.edu
    Research Interests Global Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity, Social Inequality, Environmental Justice, Political Economy of Development, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods, Computational Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.S.S. Singapore Management University
  • Jonathan Tollefson

    Jonathan Tollefson

    Graduate Student
    jonathan_tollefson@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental Sociology, Urban Sociology, Spacial Analysis, Computational Sociology, Science, Knowledge, and Technology
    Degree(s) M.S. University of Vermont, Sc.B. Brown University
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    Kristen Ukeomah

    Graduate Student
    kristen_ukeomah@brown.edu
    Research Interests Race, Gender, Class, Law, Stratification/Inequality, Demography, Life Outcomes
    Degree(s) B.A. University of Pennsylvania
  • Ike Uri

    Ike Uri

    Graduate Student
    uri@brown.edu
    Research Interests Climate Change, Environmental Sociology, Risk and Vulnerability, Development, Social Theory
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University, B.A. University Of Kansas
  • Luis Verdin Gomez

    Luis Verdin Gomez

    Graduate Student
    luis_verdin_gomez@brown.edu
    Research Interests Environmental Sociology, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Risk and Vulnerability, Hazards and Disasters, Quantitative Methods
    Degree(s) B.A. Rice University
  • Alexander Wambach

    Alexander Wambach

    Graduate Student
    alexander_wambach@brown.edu
    Research Interests International Migration, Families, Gerontology, Quantitative Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University; B.S. Brigham Young University, B.A. Brigham Young University
  • Keenan Wilder

    Keenan Wilder

    Graduate Student
    keenan_wilder@brown.edu
    Research Interests Political, Economic, and Historical Sociology, Social Inequality, Labor, The Middle East and North Africa, Qualitative Methods, Archival Methods
    Degree(s) M.A. New York University; B.A. University of New Mexico
  • Liangdi Xu

    Liangdi Xu

    Graduate Student
    liangdi_xu@brown.edu
    Research Interests Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology
    Degree(s) M.A. Brown University
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    Xiangning (Amy) Xu

    Graduate Student
    xiangning_xu@brown.edu
    Degree(s) M.A. University of Chicago, M.S. Washington University, B.A. University of Virginia
  • Yulin Yang

    Yulin Yang

    Graduate Student
    yulin_yang@brown.edu
    Research Interests Gender Inequality, Marriage and Family, Cultural Sociology, Demography, Mixed Methods
    Degree(s) LL.B. in Sociology from Renmin University of China
  • Yan Zhou

    Yan Zhou

    Graduate Student
    yan_zhou1@brown.edu
    Research Interests Stratification and Inequalities, Work and Organizations, Demography, Social Policy, Statistical Methods
    Degree(s) M.S. London School of Economics and Political Science; B.S. University College London