Current Graduate Students
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PhD Candidates
Ashley Baber
Advisor: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Stratification & Inequality, Labor Markets, The "Gig" Economy, and Political-Economy of Urban Education
Dissertation Title: The Growth of Flexible Labor, The Labor of Flexible Growth: Labor Market Intermediaries and the City
Email: ababer@luc.edu
Soulit Chacko
Advisor: Rhys Williams, 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
PhD Students
Betsi Burns
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: bburns4@luc.edu
Joseph Butler
Advisor: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD
Email: jbutler2@luc.edu
Michelle Dodson
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Email: mdodson@luc.edu
Bushra Ghaniwala
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: bghaniwala@luc.edu
Christopher Hansen
Advisor: Marlyin Krogh, PhD
Email: chansen6@luc.edu
Stacey Jaksa
Advisor: Marlyin Krogh, PhD
Email: sjaksa@luc.edu
Stephanie Jean-Baptiste
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Email: sjeanbaptiste@luc.edu
Moriah Johnson
Advisor: Marlyin Krogh, PhD
Research Interests: Race & Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality, Intersectionality, Social Policy and Visual Sociology
Email: mjohnson58@luc.edu
Melissa Kinsella
Advisor: Anne Figert, PhD
Research Interests: Gender & Sexuality, Sociology of Violence, and Social Policy
Email: mkinsella1@luc.edu
Dana LaVergne
Advisor: Marlyin Krogh, PhD
Email: dlavergne@luc.edu
Elizabeth Long
Advisor: Marlyin Krogh, PhD
Email: elong2@luc.edu
Skky Martin
Advisor: Anne Figert, PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Health Disparities, Quantitative Methods, Inequalities, Race & Ethnicity, and Gender & Sexuality
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
Tori Olson
Advisor: Marilyn Krogh, PhD
Email: tolson9@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: Marlyin Krogh, PhD
Email: jszamocki@luc.edu
Samir Talati
Advisor: Marlyin Krogh, PhD
Email: ftalati@luc.edu
Sarah Thorngate
Advisor: Marlyin 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
Quintin Williams
Advisor: Peter Rosenblatt, PhD
Research Interests: Race & Ethnicity, Religion in Politics, Political Culture, and Medical Sociology
Email: qwilliams@luc.edu
Ryan SC Wong
Advisor: Rhys Williams, PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, and Deviant & Delinquent
Email: rwong1@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
Leah Allen
Email: lallen3@luc.edu
Kathryn Battafarano
Email: kbattafarano@luc.edu
Thomas Covault
Email: tcovault@luc.edu
Jinjin Du
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Public & Applied Sociology, Housing, Community Development, and Neighborhood Change
Email: jdu5@luc.edu
Kelly Hadfield
Email: khadfield@luc.edu
Anastasia Hite
Email: ahite@luc.edu
Javeria Irfan
Email: jirfan@luc.edu
Jaspreet Kaur
Email: jkaur@luc.edu
Jackson Knoepfler
Email: jknoepfler@luc.edu
Maria Lis
Email: mlis@luc.edu
Camillus Njoku
Email: onjoku@luc.edu
Sophia Noto
Email: snoto@luc.edu
Kajal Patel
Email: kpatel54@luc.edu
Matthew Pink
Research Interests: Social Interactions between Differing Religious Organizations; Specifically, between Religious Institutions and "Non-Believers"
Email: mpink@luc.edu
Lillian Platten
Email: lplatten@luc.edu
Vanessa Rangel
Research Interests: Latinx Studies, Gender & Sexuality, and how public policy can alleviate social and economic inequality
Email: vrangel@luc.edu
Robert Stevenson
Email: rstevenson2@luc.edu
BA/MA Students
Dang Nguyen Kevin Dang
Research Interests: East-Asian Studies, Sociology of Smells, Religion, Masculinity
Email: kdang1@luc.edu
