Current Graduate Students
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See here for MA Students
See here for BA/MA Students
PhD Candidates
Melissa Kinsella
Advisor: Anne Figert, PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Gender; Sociology of Masculinities; Medical Sociology; Qualitative Methodology
Dissertation Title: A “Scary Time” to Be a Man? Comparing Men’s Engagement with Sexual Violence and Anti-Sexual Violence Discourses in the Private and Public Spheres
Email: mkinsella1@luc.edu
Dana LaVergne
Advisor: Dana Garbarski, PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Embodiment; Gender and Sexuality; Qualitative Sociology
Dissertation Title: "Buying Time or Doing Harm?”: Tracing Contestation and Consensus in Debates on Puberty Blockers for Trans Youth
Email: dlavergne@luc.edu
Christopher Hansen
Advisor: Dana Garbarski, PhD
Research Interests: Survey Methodology; Sexual and Gender Minority Population Research; Sex, Gender, and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity
Dissertation Title: Measuring gender diversity in U.S. adolescents: exploring multidimensional survey measurement with a national sample of adolescent-parent dyads
Email: chansen6@luc.edu
PhD Students
Betsi Burns
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: bburns4@luc.edu
Joseph Butler
Advisor: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD
Email: jbutler2@luc.edu
Ahmet Ciftcioglu
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: aciftcioglu@luc.edu
Michelle Dodson
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Email: mdodson@luc.edu
Stacey Jaksa
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: sjaksa@luc.edu
Stephanie Jean-Baptiste
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Email: sjeanbaptiste@luc.edu
Moriah Johnson
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Race & Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality, Intersectionality, Social Policy and Visual Sociology
Email: mjohnson58@luc.edu
Skky Martin
Advisor: Dana Garbarski, PhD
Research Interests: Medical sociology, sociology of education, medical education, health professionals, health disparities, health equity, race and ethnicity, and public health systems
Email: smartin16@luc.edu
Travis Moody
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Race & Ethnicity
Email: tmoody1@luc.edu
Keyla Navarrete
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Higher Education, Stratification, Race & Ethnicity, Public Opinion, Public Policy, Poverty, Law & Society, Gender, and Sex Ratios
Email: knavarrete1@luc.edu
Camillus Njoku
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: onjoku@luc.edu
Tori Olson
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: tolson9@luc.edu
Kajal Patel
Email: kpatel54@luc.edu
Lillian Platten
Email: lplatten@luc.edu
Richard Rodriguez
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: rrodriguez7@luc.edu
John Henry Sienkiewicz III
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Precarious labor, social movements, and organizations.
Email: jsienkiewicz1@luc.edu
Julie Szamocki
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: jszamocki@luc.edu
Samir Talati
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: ftalati@luc.edu
Sarah Thorngate
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: sthorngate@luc.edu
Juanita Vivas
Advisor: Dana Garbarski, PhD
Email: jvivas1@luc.edu
Leslie Erin Watland
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Gender & Sexuality, LGBTQ, Sociology of Higher Education, Sociology of Violence, and Policy Studies
Email: lwatland@luc.edu
Ryan SC Wong
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, and Deviant & Delinquent
Email: rwong1@luc.edu
Eyyup Yilmaz
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: eyilmaz@luc.edu
Fatema Zohara
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Research Interests: International Migration, Immigration & Policy, Sociology of Religion, South Asian Culture & Identity, Colonialism, Race & Ethnicity, and Qualitative Methods
Email: fzohara@luc.edu
MA Students
Yashfeen Agha
Email: yagha@luc.edu
Leah Allen
Email: lallen3@luc.edu
Kathryn Battafarano
Email: kbattafarano@luc.edu
Phoebe Jackson
Email: pjackson8@luc.edu
Bao-Tran Nguyen
Email: bnguyen10@luc.edu
Madelyn Shoemaker
Email: mshoemaker2@luc.edu
Robert Stevenson
Email: rstevenson2@luc.edu
Maleyne Vazquez
Email: mvazquez6@luc.edu
Connor Wood
Email: cwood15@luc.edu
Maxwell Xu
Email: mxu9@luc.edu
BA/MA Students
Areeba Ali
Email: aali@luc.edu
Kaitlin Jones
Email: kjones6@luc.edu
Maggie Jones
Email: mjones34@luc.edu
S Khadija Quadri
Email: squadri3@luc.edu
Benjamin Stringer
Email: bstringer@luc.edu
Austin Wonder
Email: awonder@luc.edu
