Sociology Graduate Student Profiles

Jacob Avery (javery@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Texas Lutheran University |
Research interests include: Urban Sociology, Stratification?inequality, Culture

Claire Barshied (barshied@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | AB, Princeton University |
Research interests include: Sociology of Medicine, Pregnancy, and Family

Anna Blaszczyk (ablaszcz@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology| MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | BS, US Naval Academy |
Research interests include: Interactions, Social Theory, Social Psychology

Keith Brown (brownkei@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. (May 2008), Sociology | MA, University of Massachusetts | BA, College of New Jersey |
Research interests include: Stratification, Race and Ethnicity; Culture

Rachelle Brunn (rjbrunn@ssc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. (August 2008), Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, University of Delaware |
Research interests include: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and Urban Studies

Ruth Burke (ruthh@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania |

Carolyn Chernoff (chernoff@dolphin.upenn.edu)
PhD Candidate, Education and Sociology (Education, Culture, Society) | BA, Amherst College | MSEd, University of Pennsylvania | Research interests include: Education, Arts and Culture, Qualitative Methods

Linda Cornwell (hellolindac@aol.com)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology | Currently conducting dissertation research on beliefs about the morality of hunting. | Research interests include: Culture, Gender, and Social Aspects of Animal-Human Relations. | Teaching experience includes deviance and social control, and Introductory sociology as a writing seminar.

Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom (bdicicco@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania |

Maryann Erigha (meriga@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | BA, University of Notre Dame |
Research interests: Race & Ethnicity, Culture, Media, Money

Jamie J. Fader (jjfader@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. (August 2008), Sociology | MA, University of Delaware | BA, University of Florida |
Research interests: Crime & Deviance; Urban Sociology; Social Inequality

Ksenia Gorbenko (kseniago@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, Central European University, Diploma, Vologda State University |
Research interests include: Nationalism, Ethnicity, International Exchanges

Alexander Jerneck (ajerneck@soc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MSSc, Lund University, Sweden |
Research interests include: Organizations, Economic sociology, Political Sociology, Conflict and Cooperation, Inequality

Colette Joyce (cjoyce@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA Bryn Mawr College |
Research interests include: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Aging

Sarah Kaplan (sbkaplan@ssc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. (ABD), Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | AB, Brown University, Sociology and Judaic Studies | Research interests include: Families, Childhood, and Gender. | Doctoral Dissertation: "An In Between Time at an In Between Age: Exploring choices of after-school arrangements and how parents and children view this period of time."

Diana Khuu (dkhuu@sas.upenn.edu )
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | BA, Pomona College|
Research interests include: Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Family, Education

Stefan Klusemann (stefankl@ssc.upenn.edu )
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania; Diploma, Free Universitat Berlin |
Research interests Include:Macro-Historical Sociology of Political, Cultural, and Economic Change, Theory, and Violence

Rory Kramer (rorya@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Williams College |
Research interests include Inequality, Non-profits, Education, Social networks

Arielle Kuperberg (akuperbe@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology and Demography | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, CUNY Hunter College |
Research interests include: Gender and Work, Family, Demography, Policy

Alicia Lee (alicial@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology | MA University of Pennsylvania | BA, Texas A&M University |
Research interests include: Migration, Refugee resettlement, Race and Ethnicity

Elizabeth Lee (leeeli@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Smith College |
Research interests include: Class and Education

Ke Liang (liangke@ssc.upenn.edu
Ph.D. (August 2008), Sociology | MA, University of Peking |
Research interests include: Medical Sociology

Rachel Margolis (mlrachel@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate Demography and Sociology | MA London School of Economics | BA Cornell University
Research interests include: Demography, health and aging, family

Catherine Mayer (van de Ruit) (catheri4@soc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology | MA, University of Natal, Durban, SA | BA, University of Natal, South Africa |
Research Interests include: Medical Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Identity and Stratification, African Studies with an Emphasis on South Africa

Fareeda McClinton (fareedam@ssc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology | MA, Demography, University of Pennsylvania, BA, Paine College |
Research interests include: in the context of South Africa and the United States; Racial residential segregation, Race and ethnicity, Fertility and schooling achievement.

Carla Medalia (medalia@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Colorado College |
Research interests include: gender; Work; Family; Cross-national sociology.

Jessica McCrory (jmccrory@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania |

Keri Monahan (kerimon@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student in Sociology | MPH, Drexel University, AB, Stanford University|
Research interests include: Sociology of Culture and Medical Sociology

Laryssa Mykyta (lmykyta@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, New School for Social Research| BA, Economics, Temple University |
Research Interests Include: Demography, Gender, Work, Urban Sociology

Laura Napolitano (lnapolit@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania, BS, Saint Joseph's University |
Research interests include: Urban sociology, Education, Social stratification, Qualitative sociology.

Bridget Rose Nolan (brnolan@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MSEd, University of Pennsylvania, AB, Princeton University |
Research interests include: Sociology of Education

Yetunde (Yea) Afolabi Pillischer (yetunde@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Georgetown |
Research interests include: Race and Inequality; Representation of people of African Descent in the Media and Popular Culture; Africana Studies

Simone Polillo (spolillo@ssc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. (August 2008), Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Hampshire College | University of Rome |
Research Interests Include: Economic Sociology; Theory; Networks

Alessandro Pratesi (pratesi@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. (August 2008) Sociology | MA, Ecole des Hautes Etud. | BA, University of Florence |
Research Interests include: Family, Gender, Social Care, AIDS

Elizabeth Raleigh (eraleigh@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Brown University |
Research interests include: Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, and Transnational Adoption

Mollie Rubin (mollier@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MS, Education, CUNY Brooklyn | MA, BA University of Pennsylvania |
Research Interests include: Urban Education

Caroline Sten (csten@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Demography and Sociology | BA, Brown University |
Research interests include: Family, Fertility, and Transitions to adulthood

Julia Szymczak (jszymcza@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology |MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Brandeis University | Research Interests include: Medical Sociology, Culture, Technology

Kristin Turney (turney@ssc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Northwestern University, Sociology and Journalism |
Research interests include: Sociology of the Family, Medical Sociology,
Child and Adolescent Well-being, Social Inequality

Joanna Veazey (jveazey@sas.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Sociology | MBE, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Furman University
Research interests include: Medical Sociology, Bioethics

Emily West (emwest@ssc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. (August 2008), Sociology | MA, University of Pennsylvania | BA, Skidmore College |
Research interests include: Disadvantaged Youth, Teen Pregnancy

Lijun Yang (lijunyg@soc.upenn.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology | MA, University of Akron | BA, Beijing University of Foreign Studies |
Research Interests include: Demography, Life Course, Social Psychology