Current Graduate Students

Shahed N Alkhazali

Email: Salkha@lsu.edu
Advisor: Hyunsu Oh and Ed Shihadeh
Research interests: Criminology and Social Psychology, Deviance and Social Control, Culture and Identity and Digital & Media Sociology.

Alkhazali's CV

Michael A Carroll

Email: Michael.Carroll1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mark Walker
Research interests: Urban Sociology, Spatial inequality, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change, and Policing.

Carroll's CV

Guadalupe Guevara

Email: Guadalupe.Guevara@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather O'Connell
Research interests: Disaster Preparedness, Recovery, and Resilience, with a focus on Social Vulnerability, Environmental Justice, Hispanic and Undocumented Communities.

Guevara's CV

Alee V Hawkins

Email: Alee.Hawkins@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather O'Connell
Reseach interests: Racial Inequality, Racial Disparities in Health Outcomes, Co-Occurring Disorders, Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders, Poverty, Public Health.

Hawkins's CV

Gavin C Juge

Email: Gavin.Juge@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mark Walker
Research interests: Social Psychology, Subjective Framing of Well-Being, Coping with Adversity.

Juge's CV

Haley M Scott-Cruz

Email: Haley.Scott@lsu.edu
Advisor: Ed Shihadeh
Research interests: Narrative Criminology, Youth Crime, Victimization, and Spatial Topics

Scott-Cruz's CV

Iretiayo Rebecca Akinjo

Email: iakinj1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Tim Slack
Research interests: Rural/Agricultural Sociology, Leveraging AI for Social Behavior Analysis and Predictive Modeling in Rural Communities.

Akinjo's CV

Asal Amini

Email: aamini8@lsu.edu
Advisor: Tim Slack
Research interests: Social Inequality, Poverty, Crime.

Amini's CV

Sophie Burns

Email: sburn39@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather O’Connell
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Sexualities; Social Inequality; Social Psychology; Sociology of Media; Qualitative Methods.

Burns's CV

Marine Harutyunyan

Email: mharut2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mark Schafer and Tom Wooten
Research Interests: Refugee Studies & Forced Migration, Gender Studies, Qualitative Methods. 

Harutyunyan's CV

Rita Kagaju

Email: rkagaj1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather O'Connell
Research interests: Sociology of Culture, Conflict Theory, Collective Memory, Cultural and Intergenerational Trauma.

Kagaju's CV

Su Min Park

Email: spar152@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mark Walker and Hope Xu Yan
Research interests: Health Inequality, Mental Health, Family, Race/Gender, Social Psychology, and Quantitative Methods.

Park's CV

Mollie Schloss

Email: mschlo2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Wesley Shrum
Research interests: Sociology of Religion; Global Studies; Social Media; Parasociology

Schloss's CV

Claire Thomas

Email: ctho429@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mark Walker
Research interests: Gender and Family, Cognitive and Emotional Labor, Maternal Mental Health.

Thomas's CV

Carine Villasanti

Email: cmor116@lsu.edu
Advisor: Tim Slack
Research Interests:  Communities,  Social Movements and Environmental Sociology.

Villasanti's CV

Judith Amegbe

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

Amegbe's CV

Hanieh Lashkarbolouki

Email: hlashk1@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Rick Weil 
Research Interests: Gender Stereotypes, Gender and Religion, Democracy, Patriarchy in the Middle East.

Lashkarbolouki's CV

Naduni Jayasnghe

Email: kjayas1@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Heather Rackin and Kevin T. Smiley
Research Interests: Public Policy, Sociology of Disaster, Development, Economic Sociology, and Social Capital

Jayasnghe's CV

Tarikat Khan

Email: tkhan8@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Heather Rackin and Tom Wooten
Research Interests: Gender, Culture

Khan's CV

Muhammad Saifuddin

Email: msaifu1@lsu.edu 
Advisor: Kevin Smiley
Research Interests: Religious and Rural Education, Immigration, Bangladeshi Diaspora

Saifuddin's CV

Nana Osei Asiamah

Email: nasiam2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Wesley Shrum
Research Interests: Social Networks; Technology; Mental Health

Asiamah's CV

Isaac Carson

Email: icarso1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Ed Shihadeh
Research Interests: Corrections; Juvenile Delinquency; Public Policy; Capital Punishment

Carson's CV

Zara Houser

Email: zhouse3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather O'Connell
Research Interests: Reproductive Health; Reproductive Justice; Race/Ethnicity; Gender

Houser's CV

Heath McNeese

Email: rmcnee3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Kevin Smiley
Research Interests: Sex, Gender and Sexuality; Space, Place, and Community

McNeese's CV

Arijita Pal

Email: apal9@lsu.edu
Advisor: Tim Slack
Research Interests: Social Policy; Human Rights; Child Rights; Agriculture; Economic Development

Pal's CV

Shiniji Roy

Email: sroy45@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Childhood; Parenting; Digital Technologies; Urban Spaces; South Asian Studies

Roy's CV

Xiaoxu Yang

Email: xyang36@lsu.edu
Advisor: Rick Weil
Research Interests: Community, Social Capital, Health and Fertility.

Yang's CV

Seunghwan Yoo

Email: syoo7@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather Rackin
Research Interests: Social Demography, Marriage & Fertility, Digital Media, Narrative & Public Discourse, Social Inequality.

Yoo's CV

Jamila Freightman

Email: jfreightman@lsu.edu
Advisor:  Sarah Becker
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

Jeong's CV

Katherine Seals

Email: KSeals@agcenter.lsu.edu
Advisor: Mark Schafer
Research Interests: Criminology; Environmental Design; Perception of Crime; Crime & Health

Seals CV

Jonathan Yevuyibor

Email: jyevuy1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Kevin Smiley
Research Interests: Urban Sluma; Media; Environmental Justice; Urban Sociology; Health & Development

Yevuyibor's CV

Jazmin Robinson-Smith

Email: Jrob293@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Race/Ethnicity; Gender/Sexuality; Media; Criminology; Black Studies; Romantic Relationships