Alena Alamgir
Email:
Carolyn Barber
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
My current research interest examines our relationship with time as a key dimension of environmentalism.
Andrea Barra
E-mail:
Office: B212
Phone: 732-445-0976
My interests are mainly focused in two areas: media and religion. In media, I am currently working on a project updating work done on the romance novel and the romance industry. In religion, I have several projects in the works, including one on homosexuality and one on social service program participation among congregations.
Crystal Bedley
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
Megan Bentley
E-mail:
Colleen Bloom
Email:
Office: B212
Phone: 732-445-0976
Susan Bodnar-Deren
Email:
Office: A251
Phone: 862-266-6587 (cell)
I am a third year graduate student in the sociology department. My areas of interest are medical sociology, aging and the life course, and demography.
Ivana Brown
Email:
Office: B214
Phone: 732-445-2445
Analena Bruce
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Allison Burger
Email:
Kathryn Burrows
Email: 
I am currently interested in the intersection between health and
social control, especially as it relates to psychiatry and gender
construction. A specific area of questioning involves the taxonomy of
psychiatric and psychological diagnoses on the
normal-abnormal/sick-well continuum, and what affect powerful
structures and institutions have on this taxonomy.
Angel Butts
Email:
Office: B208
Phone: 732-445-4039
Angel M. Butts is entering her sixth year of the graduate program. She
has taught Introduction to Sociology, Criminology, Sociology of
Deviant Behavior, and Mass Communication in Modern Society. Her
research interests include sexuality, culture, media, and deviance.
She is currently working on her dissertation proposal, which will
examine the concept of subcultural longevity–the ability of a
subculture to endure over time. The goth subculture will serve as the
lens for this exploration.
Laurie Cohen
Email:
Office: B221
Phone: 732-445-0499
Interests: Networks, religion and family. First QP is on the effect of number of siblings (sibship) in a family on self-esteem.
João Cowperthwaite
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
My interests include hidden social meanings and the social unconscious, sociological theory, cognition, the sociology of science and mental health.
Karen Danna-Lynch
Email:
Anna da Silva
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Thomas DeGloma
Email:
Office: A257
Phone: 732-445-0498
Phone: 609-576-2297
Website: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~samoht
Thomas DeGloma has a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master's in Sociology from Rutgers University. His research interests include culture and cognition, social movements, mental health and illness, sociological theory, the sociology of knowledge, and cultural trauma. His dissertation is an analysis of the socio-cognitive strategies of survivor movements and counter-movements in conflicts concerning child sex abuse, American slavery, the Vietnam War, and other contested traumatic experiences.
Shruti Devgan
Office: B212
Phone: 732-445-0976
Email:
Interests: Sociology of culture and cognition especially symbolism; diaspora studies particularly the space-place dimension.
Audrey Devine-Eller
Email:
Website: http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~auderey/
Office: B215
Phone: 732-445-4152
My interests are in sociology of education, especially test-prep and access to higher education; language and cognition; and gender.
Jeffrey Dowd
Email:
Office: B215
Phone: 732-445-4152
Stephen Fichter
Phone: 201-925-3814
Email:
My main interest is in the field of Sociology of Religion especially themes that deal with the Catholic Church, its clergy, and celibacy.
Anna Forster
Email:
Office: A257
Phone: 732-445-0498
I am interested in contemporary sociological theory, social epistemology and ontology, and gender theory. My dissertation will be a study of concept-formation in sociology, using the concept of gender as an example of both success and failure. I plan to (atempt to) devise a new/better/more productive heuristic of how the world enters into concept and how sociologists then seek to use concepts to re-enter the world into sociological knowledge.
Asia Friedman
Email:
Asia Friedman's areas of interest include gender theory, the body, perception and cognition. Her dissertation project is tentatively entitled "Sex Seen: The Socio-Optical Enactment of Sex and the SexGender Continuum."
Rachelle Germana
Email:
Office: B211
Phone: 732-445-6912
My interests include gender, sexuality, feminist theories, and "hyphenated" identities.
Neha Gondal
Email:
Office: B210
Phone: 732-445-2608
I have a Bachelor?s and Master?s degree in Economics from Delhi
University and the London School of Economics respectively. My current
research interests include globalization and market liberalization in
developing nations with its associated impact on individual decision making. I am also currently interested in the theory and application
of Network Analysis including but not limited to the social
construction of knowledge, decision-making and genealogy.
Daina Cheyenne Harvey
Email:
Website: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dharvey/
Office: A261
Phone: 732-445-7918
Broadly speaking, I am interested in the sociology of culture, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, collective memory, cognition, comparative historical sociology, economic sociology, globalization, and media. Some of my past research has focused on the differentiation of space and place, the commemoration of space for Black culture, and the media framing of the Federal Arts Projects. My dissertation will focus on the nexus of memory, cognition and culture as I engage in a comparative historical analysis of the collective memory of slavery.
Jennifer Hemler
Email:
Office: B208
Phone: 732-445-4039
website: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jhemler
Jennifer is interested in constructions of selfhood, meaning-making, and boundary work. Her current project lies between the realms of economic sociology and sociology of mental illness, focusing on the emergence of compulsive buying as a social problem/biomedical issue.
Jenna Howard
Email:
Interests: cognitive sociology, sociology of mental health, temporality, identity. Please see this page for my CV and information about my dissertation.
Maria Islas-Lopez
Email: 
My research interests center on cultural sociology, qualitative methodology, social theory, temporality and the social experience of migration. My dissertation project examines temporary Mexican migration to the U.S. and focuses on the ways in which this experience is informed by migrants' envisioning of a future in Mexico.
Kathleen Jackson
Email: 
(W) 215-503-7552
Sociological interests: health & health care related
Karen Jaffe
Email:
Shatima Jones
Email: 
Dmitry Khodyakov
Email: 
Office: B211
Phone: 732-445-6912
My first area of interest includes sociology of trust, sociology of culture, sociology of organizations, and economic sociology. I am currently writing a doctoral dissertation, which analyzes trust-control relationships in large conductorless orchestras. My second area of interest includes a study of factors that influence end-of-life health care planning among older adults and impacts such planning has on their relationships with close family members and friends. Please see this page for my CV and more information about my dissertation.
Maria Kioko
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Erka Kosta
Email:
Mary Kovacs
Email:
Office: B209
Phone: 732-445-0054
Susan Kremmel
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
I'm feeling my way around and looking for inspiration but generally I am interested in interpretive work on identity and issues that intersect with it, including themes like culture, cognition, education, gender, social control and inequalities.
Eric Kushins
Email: 
Oh Jung Kwon
Email:
Yu-Sheng Lin
Email:
Office: B214
Phoen: 732-445-0497
Krysten Lobisch
Email:
Office: A252.
My interests are in the areas of gender, feminist theory and sexual
subcultures, as well as sociology of religion.
Janet Lorenzen
Email:
Office: B210
Phone: 732-445-2608
Janet A. Lorenzen studies situated global consumerism, consumer culture networks, and the reconfiguration of status in nontraditional and/or low resource communities.
Wenbo Lu
Email:
Bijita Majumdar
Email:
Maria Malyk
Email: 
Office: B215
Phone: 732-445-4152
Chantelle Marlor
Email:
Brian Emerson McCormick
Email:
Office: A253
Phone: 732-445-0497
Brian’s interests lie in the cognitive sociology of eroticism. Specifically, he is interested in how society and social inequalities shape individuals’ perceptions of appearance characteristics as being desirable, undesirable, or erotically irrelevant.
Alexis Merdjanoff
Email: 
My main interests include gender, sexuality, sociology of sport, and identity.
Etienne Meunier
Email: 
Sean Monahan
Email:
Office: B211
Phone: 732-445-6912
Dawne Mouzon
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
Interests: broadly interested in social characteristics of health and health care, including culture and race/ethnicity, health literacy, and patient-provider communication.
Baris Mucen
Email:
Office: B209
Phone: 732-445-0054
Manjusha Nair
Email:
Office: B221
Phone: 732-445-0499
Interests: Political Sociology, Historical Sociology and Labor
Movements. The dissertation project is on how peasant-workers in central
India use a trade union to challenge their expendablility within the
nation-state.
Webpage: www.rci.rutgers.edu/~manjusha
Colleen Nugent
Email: 
Benyamin Nuriely
Email:
Office: A253
Phone: 732-445-0497
Nnenna Okeke
Phone: 404-547-0083
Email:
Office: B210
Phone: 732-445-2608
Nnenna's primary research interests revolve around the civic engagement of
the "educated elite" in community, national and global contexts. Her
additional research areas include the sociology of gender, sexuality,
race,and class.
Ignacia Perugorría
Email: 
Office: B214
Phone: 732-445-2445
Webpage: www.iperugorria.com
Interests: Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Latin America
David Peterson
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
I'm interested in Cognition, mental health, theory, the sociology of science and philosophy.
Monique Porow
Email:
Office: B208
Phone: 732-445-4039
John Rand
Phone: 732-672-5297
Email:
Office: A261
Phone: 732-445-7918
Interests: I am particularly interested in sociology of organizations and the workplace. I am studying how post-industrial American organizations and employees are adapting (or not) to new risks and insecurities.
Paul Reck
Email:
Office: A361
Phone: 732-445-6894
Gregory Rubin
Email:
Eiko Saeki
Email: 
Theresa Simpson
Email: 
Sourabh Singh
Email:
Office: B209
Phone: 732-445-0054
I have a bachelor's degree in Physics from Delhi University and
Master's degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University. I am
interested in the application of the relational logic and the notion
of the embodied subject in the study of arts and politics. In my
master?s thesis I examined the processes and experiences related to
the creation of the embodied subject. I am currently developing a
three dimensional mathematical model of the relational structure of
the world of politics.
Vikash Singh
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
Alena J. Singleton
Email:
Office: B213
Phone: 732-445-3686
Interests: sociology of bodies, race/class/gender/sexuality and inequality, mental health and illness, identity, medical sociology, sociology of culture
Eunkyung Song
Email: 
Dena Smith
Email:
Office: A261
Phone: 732-445-7918
My interests lie, broadly, in the sociology of mental health and illness, especially in the history of the mental health professions. More specifically, I'm studying the various American Psychiatric constructions of illness and suffering in different time periods and professional worldviews.
Karen Stein
Email:
Office: B213
Phone: 732-445-3686
Jessica Streeter
Email: 
Andrew Stroffolino
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
Dorota Szymkowiak
Email:
Katsunori Tatematsu
Email: 
Jason Torkelson
Email:
Office: A252
Phone: 732-445-6870
Interests: culture, mass media, and race and ethnicity
Farah Vallera
Email: 
Theresa Viggiano
Email:
Office: A251
Phone: 732-445-3337
Elizabeth Williamson
Email:
Office: B225
Elizabeth is working as a research assistant for a Templeton Foundation funded project about spiritual capital using the Urban Communes dataset. Her dissertation work brings together her interest in qualitative and quantitative methods and her interest in social movements, emotions, religion, and organizations.
Tracie Witte
Email:
Office: B213
Phone: 732-445-3686
Xiaohui Xin
Email: 
Hsin-Yi Yeh
Email: 
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