Sarah Adeyinka-Skold
2013 Cohort
McNeil 266
Research Interests
Race and ethnicity, gender, family, immigration, sex and sexualities, and qualitative sociology
Faculty Advisors
Dorothy Roberts and Chenoa Flippen (Co-Chairs), Robin Leidner
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Tuğçe Ellialti-Köse
2008 Cohort
McNeil 327
Research Interests
Gender and Sexuality, Law and Society, Sociology of Law, Cultural Sociology, Violence against Women, Ethnography of the State, Political Sociology, Research Methods
Dissertation Title:
Reforming the Laws: Gender, State, and Cases of Sexual Violence in Turkey
Faculty Advisors:
Robin L. Leidner (co-chair), Emily C. Hannum (co-chair), Deborah A. Thomas (Anthropology), Fatma Muge Gocek (Sociology and Women’s Studies)
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Jeylan Erman
2015 Cohort
McNeil 342
Research Interests
Demography, migration and adaptation, reproductive change, Europe
Dissertation Title
Three Essays on Migration and Family Change
Faculty Advisors
Chenoa Flippen (Chair), Irma T. Elo and Jere R. Behrman
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Adira Fierro-Villa
2014 Cohort
Research Interests
Sociology of education, family and social stratification, and Latin American Studies
Faculty Advisors
Hyunjoon Park, Emily Hannum, Grace Kao
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Nora Gross
Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston College 2014 Cohort
Research Interests
Sociology of education; race and inequality; gender (masculinity); emotion; youth culture; violence; urban sociology; visual sociology; ethnographic, qualitative, and participatory methods; documentary film
Dissertation Title
Brothers in Grief: The Stages of Grieving for a School and its Students Following Three Shooting Deaths of Black Teenage Boys
Faculty Advisors
Camille Charles and Kathleen Hall (Co-Chairs), John Jackson
External dissertation committee members: Nikki Jones and Joseph Nelson
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Elizabeth Jacobs
Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
eljacobs@sas.upenn.edu2158987665
McNeil 327
Research Interests
Labor migration, return migration, global cities, immigrant incorporation
Dissertation Title
Global Gatekeepers: How institutions regulate and constrain skilled migration flows
Faculty Advisors
Emilio Parrado, Chenoa Flippen, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Jose Loya
2014 Cohort
McNeil 313
Research Interests
Race/Ethnicity, Social Stratification, Housing, Quantitative Methodology, and Immigrant Incorporation
Dissertation Title
Social Stratification in the Housing Market Post the Great Recession
Faculty Advisors
Chenoa Flippen, Camille Charles, Tukufu Zuberi
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Andrea Kauffman-Berry
2009 Cohort
McNeil 318
Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Organization
Faculty Advisors
Emilio Parrado, Onoso Imoagene, Tukufu Zuberi
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Francis Prior
Research Interests
Sociology of crime and punishment, urban sociology, the sociology of race and ethnicity, and the sociology of social movements
Contact: fprior@sas.upenn.edu
Personal Website: sites.google.com/site/francisbrucepriori/
Curriculum Vitae
Dissertation Title
"Afterward: Prisoner Reentry in a Street-Level Bureaucracy"
Faculty Advisors
David Grazian (chair), Dorothy Roberts, John MacDonald
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Wensong Shen
PhD Candidate, Sociology 2013 Cohort
McNeil 374
Research Interests
Social Stratification, Education, Health, Family, Children and Youth, Environment, Contemporary China, Quantitative Methods
Faculty Advisors
Emily Hannum (Chair), Paul Allison, Jason Schnittker, Xinyin Chen (Penn GSE)
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David Sorge
PhD Candidate, Sociology 2012 Cohort
McNeil 331
Research Interests
Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation; Social Movements; South Asia; Theory; Face-to-Face Interaction; Internal Conversation and Self-Formation
Faculty Advisors
Randall Collins, Guobin Yang, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Rutgers, Dept. of Anthropology)
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