Research Interests: Fertility, Labor Force, Gender, Work and Family, Migration, Quantitative Methods, Social Demography
Dissertation Title: Determinants of Differential Regional Fertility Rates in India: An Examination of Fertility Intention, Behavior and the Unmet Need for Contraception
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Sonalde Desai
Research Interests: Social Movements and Environmental Sociology, with special emphasis on Movement Tactics, Environmental Politics, and Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: Powerful Polluters: The Politics of Disproportionate Emissions in the Coal-Fired Power Industry
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Dana R. Fisher
Research Interests: Social Inequality, Political Economy, Labor and Employment, Culture, Intersectionality, Gender and Sexuality, and Migration
Dissertation Title: Rural Migrant Workers' Agency in Capitalist Production in China
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Patricia Hill Collins
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative and Qualitative Methodology
Dissertation Title: Beyond Honorary Whiteness: Ideologies of Belonging and Korean Adoptee Identities
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Rashawn Ray
Research Interests: Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Identities, Race and Mental Health, Quantitative Methodology, Gender, Work & Family
Dissertation Title: Racial Classification, Misclassification, and Psychological Wellbeing of Afro-Latin Americans in the United States
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Kris Marsh
Research Interests: Families, Inequality, Gender, Life Course, Culture, Methods
Dissertation Title: Inequality and the Household Economy
Dissertation Chairs: Dr. Liana Sayer and Dr. Philip Cohen
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Technology and Privacy, Digital Labor, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods
Dissertatation Title: Camming Performers' Perspectives on Digitally Mediated Sex Work
Dissertation Chair: Dr. George Ritzer
Research Interests: Sociology of Culture, Inequality and Social Exclusion, Space & Place, Race & Ethnicity, Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Title: In the Name of Culture: The Politics of Public Celebration in the Multicultural Civil Sphere
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Dana Fisher
Research Interests: Gender, Race and Class, Labor Market Inequalities, Work and Family, Care Work, Social Demography, Life Course
Dissertation Title: Intersecting Inequalities in the Paid Care Work Sector Under Changing Social and Economic Contexts
Dissertation Chairs: Dr. Feinian Chen and Dr. Wei-hsin Yu
