Current Graduate Students
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PhD Candidates
Soulit Chacko
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: gender & families, international migration, citizenship, race & ethnicity, and transnational feminism
Dissertation Title: Immigrant Women in the Ethnic Beauty Salon Business
Email: schacko1@luc.edu
Christopher Duncan
Advisor: Judson Everitt, PhD & Anne Figert, PhD
Dissertation Title: The Inhabited School in the Era of Accountability
Email: cduncan2@luc.edu
Catherine Gillis
Advisor: Phillip Nyden, PhD
Research Interests: Urban studies, social inequality, housing and social welfare policy, community organizations
Dissertation Title: Conceptualizing “Productive Use”: Dominant Narratives and Alternative Visions of Land Use in Detroit
Email: cgillis@luc.edu
Nathalia Hernandez Vidal
Advisor: Kelly Moore, PhD
Dissertation Title: Community Knowledge and Political Mobilization: A study of La Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia
Email: nhernandezvidal@luc.edu
Joseph Renow
Advisor: Kelly Moore, PhD
Dissertation Title: Grounding Science: A Study of Place-Making at an Archeological Research Site
Email: jrenow@luc.edu
Joel Ritsema
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Dissertation Title: Paradise for Whom?: Lifestyle Migration Discourse in the Caribbean
Email: jritsema@luc.edu
Steven Sacco
Advisor: Kelly Moore, PhD
Research Interests: Economic sociology, sociology of science and technology, organizational sociology
Dissertation Title: Computer Fabricated/Hand Made: Kit Boats and the Evolution of Production and Consumption
Email: ssacco@luc.edu
Serhan Tanriverdi
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Research Interests: Islam and Muslims in the West, human rights & social justice, sociology of religion, political sociology, & qualitative research methods
Dissertation Title: New Reformist Voices of Islam: American Muslim Intellectuals’ Quest for Justice, Liberty, and Equity
Email: stanriverdi@luc.edu
Steven Tuttle
Advisor: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD
Research Interests: Urban sociology, race and ethnicity, gentrification, race and space, segregation and diversity, culture, mass media
Dissertation Title: Storefront: Local Businesses Acting Locally in Two Chicago Neighborhoods
Email: stuttle2@luc.edu
Cameron Williams
Advisor: Ayana Karanja, PhD
Research Interests: Race and ethnicity; public policy; criminal justice, law and society; teaching and learning; social change; critical race theory; global and transnational sociology; qualitative methods
Dissertation Title: Saving Place: Racial Interactions in Public Housing and in the Campaign to Save a Community in Chicago
Email: cwilliams22@luc.edu
Kyle Woolley
Advisor: Kelly Moore, PhD
Research Interests: political sociology, social movements, families, development, globalization, Latin America, urban marginality with a focus on the politics of water in informal urban settlements in the Global South
Dissertation Title: Spaces of Liberation: Women's Activism in Lima, Peru
Email: kwoolley@luc.edu
Sean Young
Advisor: Phillip Nyden, PhD
Research Interests: Public and applied sociology, urban theory, social movements, housing and gentrification, collaborative community based research, political sociology, sociology of culture and media, race/ethnicity
Dissertation Title: Pathways For Democracy: Organizational and Individual Impacts of Community Organizing
Email: syoung@luc.edu
PhD Students
Ashely Baber
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Stratification and Inequality, Labor Markets, The "Gig" Economy, Political-Economy of Urban Education
Email: ababer@luc.edu
William Burr
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Research Interests: Organizational Behavior; Organizations & Institutions; Institutional Logics; and Corporate Culture in the United States since 1980
Email: wburr@luc.edu
Joseph Butler
Advisor: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD
Email: jbutler2@luc.edu
Michelle Dodson
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Email: mdodson@luc.edu
Bilal Hussain
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Research Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Religion, Islam and Muslim-Americans
Email: bhussain1@luc.edu
Stephanie Jean-Baptiste
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Email: sjeanbaptiste@luc.edu
Melissa Kinsella
Advisor: Anne Figert, PhD
Research Interests: Gender and sexuality, sociology of violence, social policy
Email: mkinsella1@luc.edu
Skky Martin
Advisor: Anne Figert, PhD
Email: smartin16@luc.edu
Julia Mendes
Advisor: Helena Dagadu, PhD
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Immigration and Migration, Gender, Sociology of the Body
Email: jmendes@luc.edu
Travis Moody
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity
Email: tmoody1@luc.edu
Keyla Navarrete
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: higher education, stratification, race/ethnicity, public opinion, public policy, poverty, law and society, gender, and sex ratios
Email: knavarrete1@luc.edu
Richard Rodriguez
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: rrodriguez7@luc.edu
John Henry Sienkiewicz III
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: labor, urban sociology, and public sociology
Email: jsienkiewicz1@luc.edu
Leslie Erin Watland
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Gender/Sexuality, LGBTQ, Sociology of Higher Education, Sociology of Violence, Policy Studies
Email: lwatland@luc.edu
Quintin Williams
Advisor: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity, religion in politics, political culture, medical sociology
Email: qwilliams@luc.edu
Ryan SC Wong
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, social theory, deviant and delinquent
Email: rwong1@luc.edu
Fatema Zohara
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Email: fzohara@luc.edu
MA Students
Sylvia Acosta Chavez
Research Interests: Human Rights, Immigration, Culture, Stratification and Inequality, Mixed Methods Research
Email: sacostachavez@luc.edu
Marsha DeVolt
Email: mdevolt@luc.edu
Jinjin Du
Research Interests: Urban Sociology; Public and Applied Sociology; Housing, Community Development, and Neighborhood Change
Email: jdu5@luc.edu
Lynsey Ellingwood
Email: lellingwood@luc.edu
Jaspreet Kaur
Email: jkaur@luc.edu
Jessica Ordinario
Email: ordinario@luc.edu
Matthew Pink
Research Interests: social interactions between differing religious organizations, and more specifically, between religious institutions and those designated as "Non-believers"
Email: mpink@luc.edu
Vanessa Rangel
Research Interests: Womxn & Gender studies, Latinx Studies, social inequality and policy implications
Email: vrangel@luc.edu
Monica A. Reyna
Research Interests: sociology of knowledge, cultural sociology, political sociology and social science research methods
Email: mreyna1@luc.edu
Joshua Turner
Research Interests: Sex, gender, sexuality, race
Email: Jturner9@luc.edu
BA/MA Students
Alexander James Baker
Email: abaker4@luc.edu
Yasmeen Khayr
Research Interests: sociology of religion and culture, applied sociology
Email: ykhayr@luc.edu
Silvia Valadez
Email: svaladez@luc.edu
