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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Tugce (Too-ché) Ellialti
2008 Cohort
McNeil 327
Research Interests
Gender and sexuality, feminist theory, feminism and modernity in Turkey and the Middle East; violence against women; sociology of law; socio-legal studies; gender, law, and sexual violence; cultural sociology; political sociology; qualitative methods; social inequalities.
Contact: ellialti@sas.upenn.edu
Linkedin: Tugce on Linkedin
Dissertation Title
"Gender Justice in the Wake of Legal Reform and Socio-Political Change: Sexual Violence on Trial in Turkey" (tentative)
Faculty Advisors
Robin L. Leidner (co-chair), Emily C. Hannum (co-chair), Deborah A. Thomas (Anthropology), Fatma Muge Gocek (University of Michigan, Sociology and Women’s Studies)
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Jeylan Erman
2015 Cohort
McNeil 342Read Bio
Adira Fierro-Villa
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
PhD Candidate, Sociology and Education (dual-degree)
McNeil 342
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
Bullets, Books, and Brotherhood: Grief and Recovery in an Urban All-Boys High School after Three Fatal Shootings of Friends
Faculty Advisors
Camille Charles and Kathleen Hall (Co-Chairs), John Jackson
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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
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
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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Jordan Weiss
2016 Cohort
216 McNeil Building
Research Interests
Demography, population aging and the life course, medical sociology, health services research, causal inference and statistical methods, health disparities, risk factors for cognitive aging and dementia
Dissertation Title
Forecasting the burden of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States
Faculty Advisors
Michel Guillot (Chair), Samuel H. Preston, Norma B. Coe (Medical Ethics and Health Policy), Dylan S. Small (Statistics)
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