UEL Alumni Ascherio, Marta (PhD 2022) – Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Sciences & Latin American and Latino Studies, Illinois State University (Website) Areas: Race/ethnicity, international migration, criminology Methods: Quantitative methods Averett, Kate (PhD 2016) – Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, SUNY University at Albany (Website) Areas: Gender, sexuality, races/class/gender, children and youth Methods: Qualitative methods Azar, Riad (PhD 2021) – User Experience Researcher, Meta (Website) Banchik, Anna Veronica (PhD 2016) – Senior UX Researcher, Digital Public Works (Website) Bariola, Nino (PhD 2022) – Postdoctoral Fellow, Culinaria Research Centre, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough (Website) Areas: Food culture and race, sustainability, gender and racial inequalities in organizations Bhatia, Monica (PhD 2024) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington State University (Website) Areas: Gender, environment, cooperatives, intentional communities, inequality, gendered and racialized organizations Methods: Ethnography, in-depth interview methods Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal (PhD 2017) – Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Florida State University (Website) Areas: Culture, race and racism, gender, sexualities, intimacy and relationship/family formation, digital life, work inequity in academia Methods: In-depth interviews, content analysis, photo and platform elicitation interviews, digital ethnography, autoethnography Collins, Caitlyn (Caity) (PhD 2016) – Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis (Website) Areas: Gender inequality, work and occupations, families, social policy Methods: In-depth interviews, field observation Cuvi, Jacinto (PhD 2017) – Associate Professor of Sociology and Development Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Website) Areas: The politics of rights in informal economies, bureaucracy Methods: Ethnography, interviewing Deckard, Faith M. (PhD 2024) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA (Website) Areas: How families navigate relationships, finances, and other facets of life under the thumb of the (U.S.) carceral state Methods: Ethnography, in-depth interviews Derpic, Jorge C. (PhD 2017) – Assistant Director and Academic Professional Associate, the University of Georgia, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (Website) Areas: Collective violence, collective organization, urban inequalities, corruption, State bureaucracies Methods: Ethnography, participant observation, in-depth interviews, archival Diamond, Alex (PhD 2023) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University (Website) Areas: Criminality, violence, drug economies, political and economic transformations Methods: Ethnography Dunning-Lozano, Jessica (PhD 2015) – Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ithaca College (Website) Areas: Race, education, crime, law and deviance, poverty Methods: Ethnography Friedman, Ilana (PhD 2023) – Assistant Professor of Law, J. David Rosenberg College of Law, University of Kentucky (Website) Areas: Law, civil rights, police misconduct, prosecutorial decision making Methods: Ethnography, in-depth interviews Garnaik, Upasana (PhD 2025) – Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley (Website) Areas: Economic sociology, sociology of gender, sociology of the law Methods: Observational methods, in-depth interviews, archival research Goldstein-Kral, Jess (PhD 2022) – Employment and Education Coach, Amplify Center, UT Health Austin (Website) Grajeda, Erika (PhD 2016) – Senior Research Associate, Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing, University of Texas at Austin (Website) Areas: Child-welfare practices and community engagement Methods: Evidence-based research, program evaluation Ha, Hyun Jeong (PhD 2017) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University (Website) Areas: Religion, politics, and gender in the Middle East Methods: Ethnography Hernandez, Maricarmen (PhD 2020) – Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University (Website) Areas: Urban marginality, social movements, environmental inequality, political ecology, Latin America Methods: Ethnography, interviews Jensen, Katherine (PhD 2018) – Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies, UW-Madison (Website) Areas: Race/racism, the state, and immigration in Latin America Methods: Ethnography Kilanski, Kristine (PhD 2015) – Director of Institutional Research, Stanford University (Website) Levy, Eldad J. (PhD 2023) – Incoming Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio State University; Current Assistant Professor, Rollins College (Website) Areas: Criminology, economic sociology, urban sociology, organizations Methods: Ethnography Liang, Chen (PhD 2025) – Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University (Website) Areas: Race and ethnicity, political sociology, immigration, gender Methods: Ethnography, interviews Malone Gonzalez, Shannon (PhD 2021) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Website) Areas: Black feminism, sociology of knowledge, critical criminology, police violence, families, health, feminist and mixed methods Methods: In-depth and life history interviews, field observations McZeal, Corey (PhD 2018) – Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Public Health Program, University of Colorado Boulder (Website) Areas: Caregiving process of individuals with Alzheimer’s and other forms of early memory loss Methods: Ethnography Murphy, Annie (PhD 2025) – Masters Student, Information Science/Studies, the University of Texas at Austin (Website) Areas: Organizations, family, education, economic sociology Methods: Ethnography Neely, Megan Tobias (PhD 2017) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, the University of Colorado Boulder (Website) Areas: Economic inequality through the lens of gender, race, and social class Methods: Interview and observational methods Neumann, Pamela (PhD 2016) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M International University Areas: Gender-based violence, law, social movements, feminist movements, reproductive health, Central America Methods: Ethnography, in-depth interviews, content analysis O’Quinn, Jamie (PhD 2022) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino (Website) Areas: Sexualities, youth, inequality Methods: Life history interviews Paine, Emily Allen (PhD 2022) – Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Sociology, Columbia University; Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute (Website) Areas: LGBTQIA+, gender, sexuality, health, aging, economic sociology, medical sociology, health inequities, sociobehavioral interventions Methods: In-depth interviews, participant observation, mixed methods Peng, Rui Jie (PhD 2022) – Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Website) Areas: Gender, development, labor, migration, politics of reproduction, China Methods: Ethnography, life history interviews Perez, Marcos Emilio (PhD 2016) – Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University (Website) Areas: Political sociology, social movements Methods: Ethnography, life-history interviews, news archives Rogers, Katie Kaufman (PhD 2023) – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Regis University (Website) Areas: Gender, race, work/organizational inequity, the carceral state, the cannabis industry Methods: In-depth interviews, participant observation, qualitative content analysis Scott, Jennifer (PhD 2016 Social Work) – Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Louisiana State University (Website) Areas: Economic and political marginalization, health Methods: Qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods Shaw, Vivian (PhD 2018) – Mellon Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University (Website) Areas: Race and ethnicity, gender and sociology, culture, human rights, social movements, science/technology, environment Methods: Ethnography Silberzahn, Brad (PhD 2025) – Postdoc, Brown University Health Areas: Health, law and deviance Methods: Ethnography, quantitative methods Simon, Samantha J. (PhD 2020) – Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology and School of Government and Public Policy, The University of Arizona (Website) Areas: Policing, gender, race, state violence Methods: Ethnography, qualitative interviewing Slavinski, Ilya (PhD 2021) – Qualitative UX Researcher, Meta (Website) Sobering, Katherine (PhD 2018) – Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Texas (Website) Areas: Inequality, gender and sexuality, work and organizations, family Methods: Ethnography, in-depth interviewing Stitt, Mary Ellen (PhD 2020) – University at Albany, SUNY (Website) Areas: The criminal legal governance of illness and substance use Methods: Ethnography, interviews, archival research Sullivan, Esther (PhD 2015) – Associate Professor of Sociology, the University of Colorado Denver; Nonresident Fellow, The Urban Institute (Website) Areas: Urban sociology, poverty, inequality, housing insecurity, manufactured housing Methods: Qualitative and ethnographic methods, geographic mapping Takasaki, Kara (PhD 2021) – Environmental Health Researcher, US Environmental Protection Agency (Website) Tate, Maggie (PhD 2016) – Adjunct Assistant Professor, Southside Virginia Community College; Program Manager, Go God, Go Green CSA; Technical Copywriter, Work Evolution Framework; Local Administrator, Roanoke CIRCLE Homeschool Cooperative (Website) Wheatley, Christine (PhD 2017) – Chief Strategy & Impact Officer, Own a Pod; Executive Director, New-Age Environmental Development of Africa (Website) Youssef, Maro (PhD 2021) – Diplomat, U.S. Department of State; Visiting Scholar, The George Washington University (Website) Areas: Gender, political sociology, social movements, religion, democratization, the Middle East and North Africa Methods: Ethnography, interviews Zarrugh, Amina (PhD 2016) – Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Texas Christian University (Website) Areas: Gender, global and transnational sociology, law, political sociology, race and ethnicity, religion, social movements, North Africa Methods: Mixed methods
