Brown, Ivana

History teacher, St. John's School, HoustonE-mail: brown.ivana@gmail.com Ivana Brown is a history teacher at St. John's School in Houston, a K-12 college preparatory school. Ivana teaches World Cultures course in the Middle School and is a 6th-grade advisor.

Chen, Ping-Hsin

Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Rutgers – New Jersey Medical SchoolEmail: chenpi@njms.rutgers.eduWebsite: http://njms.rutgers.edu/resource_locator/find_people/profile.cfm?mbmid=chenpi#tab-bio Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine. She has extensive experience in conducting domestic violence training, intervention programs and research in health care settings. As the lead author, Dr. Chen recently wrote a four-part monograph on domestic violence for FP Essentials, one of the largest educational activities of the American Academy of Family Physicians, by providing up-to-date knowledge to family physicians nationally. She is currently the Director of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program and a member of the Community-Engaged Service Learning (CESL) Leadership Team at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Chen has been aprincipal investigator on several grants from National Institute of Health and foundations for studies on domestic violence. Dr. Chen's areas of expertise also include large-scale survey research, cohort studies, randomized trials, and chart review studies. Dr. Chen serves as the Residency Program's research director. Dr. Chen is reviewer for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant applications. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications.

Hemler, Jennifer R.

Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Research Division, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School—Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyEmail: hemlerje@rwjms.rutgers.edu Jennifer R. Hemler earned her Ph.D. from the department in 2015. Her dissertation, Life with, after, or beyond Cancer: Breast Cancer Survivorship and the New Normal, examines the cognitive strategies and social practices women use to define self and illness after diagnosis. She is producing articles and a book manuscript from this research. After completing her degree, Dr. Hemler accepted a position within the Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health, Research Division, at Rutgers University as a qualitative researcher. She is currently working on the Evaluating System Change to Advance Learning and Take Evidence to Scale (ESCALATES) project, the AHRQ-funded external national evaluation of their EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care initiative. The goal of EvidenceNOW is to increase the capacity of small, primary care practices to implement evidence-based research and improve the heart health of their patients; the goal of ESCALATES is to identify and disseminate best practices for doing so. Dr. Hemler also received her M.A. from the department for her work on the medicalization of compulsive buying, published by Springer. She co-authored "Constructing Order: Classification and Diagnosis" with Dena T. Smith for Social Issues in Diagnosis: An Introduction for Students and Clinicians (eds. Jutel and Dew) and several articles on cancer screening and survivorship care. She has taught several classes at Rutgers, including Deviance, Social Problems, Contemporary Sociological Theory, and Expository Writing, and was an associate editor for Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, the quarterly public sociology magazine of the American Sociological Association.

Yohanani, Lior

Flagg, Julia

Assistant professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Connecticut College Website: https://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/julia-flagg/Email: julia.flagg@conncoll.edu Julia Flagg is an assistant professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College. After finishing her PhD at Rutgers, she completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Her research and teaching interests include climate change, Costa Rica, disasters, and water. 

Luth, Elizabeth

T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Behavioral Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College. Email: eal2003@med.cornell.edu Elizabeth Luth's research focuses on aging, end-of-life care quality and health disparities. During her fellowship she will research racial and ethnic disparities in caregiver perceptions of end-of-life care quality in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias. Ultimately, she will design and test interventions aimed at improving caregiver satisfaction with end-of-life care in patients with dementia.

Kato, Kelly

Research Associate/Coordinator, Atlantic Health SystemEmail: kelly.kato@atlantichealth.org or kellykatok18@gmail.com Kelly Kato completed her Ph.D. in Sociology with a focus on health disparities, paradoxes in the health literature and methodological issues in measuring health among racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. In her current position at the Atlantic Center for Population Health Sciences at Atlantic Health System (AHS), Kelly helps to translate scientific knowledge into applicable health interventions. She provides methodological and data support to community partners working on population health issues, and assists in the development and evaluation of community health initiatives. She also serves as a member of the North Jersey Community Health Needs Assessment Data Committee at AHS, which conducts primary and secondary data collection, analysis and reporting to identify emerging social and health needs of North Jersey communities. 

Meunier, Etienne

Senior Qualitative Researcher, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygieneemail: emeunier@health.nyc.gov Since earning his PhD in 2016, Étienne Meunier has been conducting research on HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and the health of sexual and gender minority populations. He served as Associate Research Scientist at the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University for seven years before joining the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in 2023. He has served as Co- or Principal Investigator on several qualitative or mixed-method studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. His research has looked at the acceptability of newly developed HIV/STI prevention strategies and at innovative ways to deliver sexual-health services in community settings. He has published in several peer-reviewed journals and serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Sex Research and Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health. 

Pristavec, Teja

Research Assistant Professor (Statistical Sciences), Social and Decision Analytics Division, Biocomplexity Institute, University of VirginiaEmail: tp2sk@virginia.eduCurriculum Vitae Website Teja is a sociologist and a Research Assistant Professor of statistical sciences at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, Social and Decision Analytics Division. She obtained her BA in cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana and received her MA and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University. Her research interests include spatial analysis, administrative data, quantitative methods, health, and inequality. Her work has been published in the Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and Food, Culture, & Society. She is passionate about computational social science and looking for answers to sociological questions using quantitative analysis. In her position as Research Assistant Professor, Teja works on multidisciplinary collaborative projects using quantitative methods to develop evidence-based research and inform effective policy-making.

Devgan, Shruti

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bowdoin CollegeEmail: sdevgan@bowdoin.edu Shruti Devgan received her B.A. from Lady Shriram College (University of Delhi), M.A./M.Phil. from JNU, and Ph.D. from Rutgers in 2015. She studies stories of trauma, collective memory, emotions, media and transnational flows with a focus on the Sikh diaspora and India. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the digital, diasporic, and intergenerational memories of the anti-Sikh violence of 1984.

Stevens, Lindsay

Senior User Experience Researcher, ZS AssociatesLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lindsaystevensphd 

Kao, Ying-Chao

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University Email: yckao@vcu.edu | yckao512@gmail.com Curriculum Vitae Website: https://vcu.academia.edu/YingChaoKao Ying-Chao Kao, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his PhD in Sociology from Rutgers University in 2018. Professor Kao’s research interests include sexualities, gender and masculinities, global religions, and inequalities. His current research tracks the global flows of Christian conservative activism, exploring how Taiwanese and American pro-family organizations have shaped and mobilized the global structures to oppose the sexual citizenship of the tongzhi (LGBTQI+) people. The ongoing globalized oppositional moral movements against marriage equality and “tongzhi education” are particularly examined in the contexts of neo-liberalism, geopolitics, and hetero-hegemony. Bridging the sociological research on religion, sexualities, and transnationalism, Kao’s analysis relates sexual politics and the resurgence of global Christianity to reveal the transnational networks of social conservatism and critically examine the changes in global inequalities. Professor Kao has published his work in the journals Contexts, Sexuality Research in China, and Gender Equity Education Quarterly (in Chinese). His research on military masculinity was published in East Asian Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Desire (Palgrave, 2017) and Masculinities in in a Global Era (Springer, 2013 and co-authored with H-D Bih). His traditional Chinese translation of Laud Humphreys’ Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places (Socio, 2016) won the Editorship Award at the Taipei International Book Exhibition in 2017.To learn more, please visit his website: https://vcu.academia.edu/YingchaoKao

Raia-Hawrylak, Alicia

Project Manager and Supervisor of Evaluation, School Climate Transformation Project, Rutgers University Email: alicia.raia@rutgers.edu Alicia Raia-Hawrylak completed her Ph.D. in sociology in 2019, with a focus on cultural factors impacting learning conditions in schools. Her research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore how peer interpersonal aggression varies between and within high schools. Alicia is a Project Manager and Supervisor of Evaluation with the School Climate Transformation Project (SCTP), a partnership between the Graduate School for Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University and the New Jersey Department of Education. The SCTP supports K-12 schools in New Jersey in using data to inform school climate improvement.

Bodnar-Deren, Susan

Associate Professor - SociologyCo-Director Perinatal Health Research, Institute for Women's HealthCollege of Humanities and SciencesVirginia Commonwealth UniversityFounders Hall, 827 West Franklin Street, Room 210Richmond, VA 23284-2040 Phone: (804) 827-0523 E-mail: smbodnar@vcu.eduWebsite: https://sociology.vcu.edu/people/faculty/bodnar-deren.html I am a medical sociologist whose research focuses on the life course and social determinants of health and health behaviors, and the ways that macro social factors affect individual-level health and well-being. Broadly, my research interests take a life course perspective in the areas of environmental gerontology, applied sociology, health /illness, and social psychology all within medical sociology, but my work spans various sub-disciplines, including behavioral health, health disparities, and social policy. I have a Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and am currently an tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at VCU and co-Director of Perinatal Health Research at the VCU, School of Medicine, Institute for Women's Health. Prior to coming to VCU, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Excellence Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Among the courses that I teach are: Medical Sociology (undergraduate and graduate), Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (undergrad and grad), Sociology of Mental Disorder, and Senior Seminar. I also do active teaching and research annually in South Africa and in 2018 was named the VCU, College of Humanities and Sciences Distinguished Teacher. I am a Community Based Participatory Researcher (CBPR) and I mainly examine two distinct areas of the life course – maternal reproductive years (postpartum depression and breastfeeding) and older age (and the end-of-life). In both areas of my research, the projects on which I am working seek to illuminate the links between individual and environmental factors that affect health beliefs and behaviors. Select publications: 2018 Alice Freeman, Susan Bodnar-Deren, RaShel Charles, Renatta Lewis, and Kay Hamlin. Collaboration to Develop Capacity for Neighborhood Based Breastfeeding Promotion and Reduce Breastfeeding Disparities. - Journal of Human Lactation. 2017 Susan Bodnar-Deren, Emma Benn, Amy Balbierez, and Elizabeth Howell. Stigma and postpartum depression treatment acceptability among black and white women in the first six-months postpartum. Maternal and Child Health. Accepted 1/2/2017 DOI 10.1007/s10995-017-2263-6 PMID: 28102504 2016 Susan Bodnar-Deren, Kimberly Klipstein, Eyal Shemesh, Madeline Fersh, and Elizabeth Howell. (2016). Suicidal ideation during the postpartum period. Journal of Women’s Health. PMID: 27227751 DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2015.5346 2016 Howard Leventhal, Susan Bodnar-Deren, Jessica Yu, and Elaine Leventhal. (2016) “Cognitive Mechanisms and Common Sense Management of Cancer Risk: Do Patients Make Decisions?” Handbook of Decision Sciences. M. Diefenbach Ed. Springer: New York. ISBN: 9781493934843 2016 Joann Hash-Converse, Susan Bodnar-Deren, Howard Leventhal. (2016). Chronic Illness with Complexity and Advance Care Planning. Omega, The Journal of Death and Dying. January 2016. 1:1-22. DOI:10.1177/0030222816675250. 2015 Amy Balbierez, Susan Bodnar-Deren, Elizabeth Howell. Postpartum Depression and Its Association with Parental Practices. Journal of Maternal and Child Health. 19:1212-1219. DOI 10.1007/s10995-014-1625-6. 2014 Elizabeth Howell, Susan Bodnar-Deren, Amy Balbierez, Pablo Mora, and Howard Leventhal. An Intervention to Reduce Postpartum Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial Archives of Women’s Mental Health. 17:57-63. DOI 10.1007/s00737-013-0381-8. PMCID: PMC3947932. 2013 Elizabeth Howell, Susan Bodnar-Deren, Amy Balbierez, and Michael Paridus. An Intervention to Extend Breastfeeding among Black and Latina Postpartum Mothers. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Editor’s Choice October, 2013. 210(3) 239e1-239e5. DOI 10.1016/j.ajog.2013.11.028. PMCID: PMC3938878. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2013.11.028. 2012 Howard Leventhal, Susan Bodnar-Deren, Jessica Breland, Joanne Hash-Converse, L. Alison Philips, Elaine Leventhal, and Linda Cameron. Modeling Health and Illness Behavior: The Approach of the Common Sense Model (CSM). In A. Baum, T. Revenson, and J. Weinman (Eds.). Handbook of Health Psychology. New York: Erlbaum. Print ISBN: 9780805864618, DOI: 10.4324/9780203804100.ch1. 2008 Biren Saraiya, Susan Bodnar-Deren, Howard Leventhal, Elaine Leventhal. End of Life Planning: Is it Relative for Patients and Oncologists. Decisions in Choosing Cancer Therapy and Palliative Care. Cancer. December 15; 113(12 Suppl): 3540–3547. doi:10.1002/cncr.23946

Forster, Anna

Learning Specialist/Educational Services Coordinator, Academic Services for Student Athletes, Rutgers University Email: anna.forster@rutgers.edu Anna Forster is a Learning Specialist and the Educational Services Coordinator in the department of Academic Services for Student-Athletes. She oversees the department's tutoring program and meets with academically at-risk student-athletes for to assist with academic skill-building and course content assimilation. Anna holds an undergraduate degree in Women's Studies and Comparative Development Studies from Trent University and an interdisciplinary master's degree in Canadian Studies from Carleton University. She subsequently completed an MA and PhD in Sociology at Rutgers University. Her MA paper examined Americans' attitudes towards working mothers, using logit regression modeling with General Social Survey data. Her dissertation, a methodological investigation into the function of the concept in sociological study of gender, proposed new insights to guide conceptual development in this sociological subfield. Anna recently completed an MEd in Counseling Psychology through the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers to update her credentials in the post-secondary student services field. In addition to her work with student athletes, Anna has taught undergraduate classes at Rutgers for more than 20 years, including Sociology Department courses at both on- and off-campus locations and upper-level writing classes in the Writing Program and the Political Science Department in New Brunswick.

Kloby, Jerry

Retired, teaching part-time at the County College of MorrisEmail: gkloby@ccm.edu Ph. D. 1988: "Class Polarization in the United States, 1973-1985." Some of my work: https://ccm.academia.edu/JerryKloby

Reinhard, Susan C.

Senior Vice President, AARP Public Policy Institute and a Chief Strategist, Center to Champion Nursing in AmericaEmail: Sreinhard72@gmail.com

Byrne, Noel T.

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State UniversityEmail: byrnen@sonoma.edu

Raileanu, Lilia

PhDEmail: raileanu@scarletmail.rutgers.edu I joined the program through an Open Society Foundation Doctoral Scholarship and received the PhD degree in 2018. In my dissertation, I used an interdisciplinary approach to examine how people experience indeterminate waiting for salient events and how these experiences of uncertainty are impacted by modern institutions. One strand of this research explored alternative ways in which the indeterminate waiting experienced by migrants can be visualized on maps. I presented my research at conferences in the USA: City University of New York, New School for Social Research, Eastern Sociological Society, and Open Society Foundation. Currently, I teach interdisciplinary courses as a part-time lecturer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany and EPICUR, the European University Alliance. The teaching methods are highly interactive, experiential, and stimulating creativity. My central research and teaching interests span over the areas of uncertainty and temporality, migration, communication of climate change, critical cartography, visual and participatory methods, as well as science communication.

Hitchens, Brooklynn K.

Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College ParkWebsite: www.brooklynnhitchens.comEmail: hitchens@umd.edu Brooklynn K. Hitchens joins the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice as a Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 2020) and Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (beginning Fall 2021). Hitchens received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University in July 2020. Hitchens is an urban ethnographer whose research interests include race, class and gender in crime and victimization; urban violence and trauma; Black female survivors of violence; and participatory action research (PAR) methods. Hitchens aims to advance scholarship that centers the lived experiences of marginalized Black Americans and elucidates how structural inequities shape disparate outcomes for that population.
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