Current Graduate Students

Judith Amegbe

Email: jamegb1@lsu.edu
Advisor: 
Research Interests: Technology, Deviance, Social Networks, and Health

Amegbe CV 2024

Hanieh Lashkarbolouki

Email: hlashk1@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Rick Weil 
Research Interests: gender stereotypes, gender and religion, democracy, patriarchy in the middle east.

Xinying (Nunnally) Zou

Email: xzou3@lsu.edu 
Advisor: 
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Spatial Analysis, Health, Social Network

Zou CV 2024

Naduni Jayasnghe

Email: kjayas1@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley and Heather Rackin
Research Interests: Public policy, sociology of disaster, development, economic sociology, and social capital

Naduni's CV

Tarikat Khan

Email: tkhan8@lsu.edu 
Advisor:
Research Interests: Gender, culture

Tarikat's CV

KayLynn Larrison

Email: klarri5@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity, inequality, quantitative methods

Larrison CV 2024

Muhammad Saifuddin

Email: msaifu1@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests: Religious and rural education, immigration, Bangladeshi Diaspora

Windsor Adcox

Email: wadcox1@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Criminology; criminal violence; juvenile crime; rehabilitation

Windsor's CV

Nana Osei Asiamah

Email: nasiam2@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Social Networks; technology; mental health

Asiamah CV 2024

Isaac Carson

Email: icarso1@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Corrections; juvenile delinquency; public policy; capital punishment

Zara Houser

Email: zhouse3@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Reproductive health; reproductive justice; race/ethnicity; gender

Heath McNeese

Email: rmcnee3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests: Environmental sociology; environmental justice; inequalities; social movements; social change

Arijita Pal

Email: apal9@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Social policy; human rights; child rights; agriculture; economic development

Pal CV 2024

Shinjini Roy

Email: sroy45@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Childhood; parenting; digital technologies; urban spaces; South Asian studies
CV

Xiaoxu Yang

Email: xyang36@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Sociology of education; life course; social stratification
CV

Seunghwan Yoo

Email: syoo7@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather Rackin
Research Interests: Discourse analysis; text as data approach; social stratification; prejudice/stigma; cultural sociology
CV

Katie Cali

Email: kpatto7@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Religion; criminology; race; assisted suicide; death penalty

Jamila Freightman

Email: jfreightman@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Rural sociology; arrested mobility; race; wealth inequality; economic development.

Yoon Jung Jeong

Email: yjeong3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Gender; media; online culture; activism, masculinities

Savannah Mattox

Email: smatto2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Race & Ethnicity, Interracial Relationships, Interracial Families, Gender & Sexualities

Mattox CV 2024

Samantha Ramey

Email: sramey3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Rick Weil
Research Interests: Children & adolescence; mental health; Internet communications

Harleen Sandhu

Email: hsandh1@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Sociology of religion; military sociology; subaltern studies; gender studies; culture; community & urban sociology; public policy

Katherine Seals

Email: KSeals@agcenter.lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Criminology; environmental design; perception of crime; crime & health

Shriya Thakkar

Email: sthakk1@lsu.edu
Advisor:Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests:Gender; migration; development; urban slums; media; South Asia

Jonathan Yevuyibor

Rebecca Bock

Email: Rbock2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Rhiannon A. Kroeger
Research Interests: Family demography; mental health; fertility; quantitative methods
Rebecca's CV

Heeya Datta

Email: hdatta1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker

Jazmin Robinson-Smith

Email: Jrob293@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity; gender/sexuality; media; criminology; Black studies; romantic relationships

Brooke Barrett

Email: bbarr33@lsu.edu
Advisor: 
Research Interests:
Brooke's CV

Dominique Dillard

Email: ddilla4@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests:Black sexuality; sexual violence; slavery; race
Dominique's CV

Rob Matchett

Jordan Pedalino

Email: jpedal1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton
Research Interests:
Jordan's CV

Ewart Forde

Email: eforde2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Lori L. Martin

Joy Ngelor

Email: jngelo1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton

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