Layne Amerikaner

Research Interests: Gender, Work, and Family, LGBTQ+ Inequality, Organizations, Occupations, and Work, Health and Well-being, Qualitative Research, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Research

Dissertation Title: "Work and Well-being Among LGBTQ+ Adults in Unsettled Times"

Dissertation Chair: Dr. Liana Sayer

Neerad Deshmukh

Research Interests: Demography, stratification, survey data analysis, gender and employment measurement, labor force statistics

Dissertation Title: "How Stratification Shapes Health in the Face of Rapid Economic, Demographic, and Epidemiological Change: Insights from India"

Dissertation Chair: Dr. Sangeetha Madhavan

Hyejin Jeon

Research Interests: Social Change, Media and Gender, Stratification, Computational Social Science (CSS), Survey Data Analysis, Mixed Methods Research  

Dissertation Title: “Challenging Gendered Discourse: Policy Implementation and Changes in Discourse in Sex Crime Reporting”

Dissertation Chair: Dr. Reeve Vanneman

Teagan Murphy

Research Interests:  Race, Gender, and Class; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Prisons, Incarceration, and Pretrial Processes; Qualitative Research

Dissertation Title: "Danger to the Community": An Ethnographic Analysis of Bond Hearings as a Courtwatcher

Dissertation Chair: Dr. Collin Mueller

Shilpa Reddy

Research Interests: Marriage, Family, Gender inequality, Gender and Development, Feminism, Domestic violence, Immigration, Postcolonial feminism

Dissertation Title: Platonic Co-parenting: A New Lens into the Unfinished Gender Revolution

Dissertation Chair: Dr. Julia Chuang