Sociology - The New School for Social Research

Department of Sociology Student Reps

Ian Sager
sageri44@newschool.edu

Amy Stuart
stuara66@newschool.edu

Research Interests of students in the Sociology Department.

Name	E-Mail	Area of Study	Research Interests	Status	Dissertation
Akbari, Anna Elizabeth	akbaa059@newschool.edu	Sociology of Fashion	Everyday life in the public sphere	PhD	The Micropolitics of Visual Self-Presentation in the 21st century
Andersone, Maija	andem316@newschool.edu	Memory, Group Formation	Ethnicity, Nationalism, Race	PhD	Memory and Identity: Case Study of National Identity Formation in Post-Soviet Latvia
Augustsson, Nina	augun405@newschool.edu	Political Sociology and Social Theory	Welfare states, solidarity, constitutionalism
Bliss, Catherine	blisc162@newschool.edu	Sociology of Race	Sociology of Genetic Knowledge	PhD	A Sociological Analysis of the Molecular Discourse of Race
Cadambi, Malini	cadam423@newschool.edu	Historical Sociology	Labor	PhD
Carducci, Vincent A.	cardv366@newschool.edu	Visual Culture	Consumerism and the Global System; Mediation; Subjectivity and Public Spheres; Hierarchies and distinctions in the field of cultural production	PhD
Cimino, Richard	cimir315@newschool.edu	Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Knowledge	Ethnography	PhD	The Most Scientific Religion: the Discource of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs in the Applied Sciences
Crespo, Maria Victoria	cresm049@newschool.edu	Latin American Presidentialism in Historical and Comparative Perspective, State Formation in Latin America, Constitutional Politics in Latin America	Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America, Populism	PhD	The Making of the Presidency in Spanish America, 1810-1860
Dasmariñas, Jules Oreo	dasmj481@newschool.edu	urban sociology, social theory	international migration, ethnicity, race, politics of hiv/aids, social construction of memory	PhD	Hiding from the Host(ile) State? Diasporic Subjectivities, Immigrant Publics, and the Undocumented Filipino in New York City
Dayan, Hilla	dayah271@newschool	Political Sociology, Democratic Theory and the Theory of Dictatorship	International Law, Globalization and the Sociology of Borders	PhD	Regimes of Separation
de Pontes, Nicole L.M.T	depn330@newschool.edu	Sociology of Art, Creativity and Sociological Theoryfocusing on Social Change	Micro-macro approaches to the work of Pierre Bourdieu	PhD	Art, Creativity and State relations in the Mangue Beat Movement from Recife-Brazil
Dekel, Irit	dekei774@newschool.edu	Sociology of Memory, Political Sociology	Sociology of Culture, Theory	PhD	Public Passages: Political Action in and around the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin
Donohue, Westerly	donow833@newschool.edu	Race, Class	Politics of Education	PhD
Emano-Walden, Bess	emanob01@newschool.edu	Urban sociology, comparative historical sociology, ethnography	Politics of tourism and development, migration, knowledge-production, work, justice, publics	PhD	Political economy of smiles: Globalization through the lens of tourism in rural south Philippines
Emeran, Christine	emerc095@newschool.edu	Youth Social Movements	Civil Society and Media	PhD	A study of youth civil society and Ukraine's Organe Revolution
Endo, Kumiko	endok750@newschool.edu	Happiness, Altruism, Globalization, Capitalism	Urban Sociology, East Asia, Co-existence and cooperation	PhD
Fauer, Sarah	faues086@newschool.edu	Culture, Law	Media	PhD
Feldman, Evan	felde849@newschool.edu	Urban Sociology, Gentrification, Subcultures	Consumption and Globalization	PhD
Freeman, Lindsey	freel374@newschool.edu	Sociology of Memory, Place/Space and Identity, Atomic Spaces	Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Media	PhD
Friedman, Eric	friee288@newschool.edu	Sociology of Culture	Ethnography	PhD	Jersey City, New Jersey: An Ethnography of a Changing City
Gardiner, Joyce W.	gardj123@newschool.edu	Politial Sociology	Historical Sociology	PhD	Political Conflict and Change With a Focus on Loyalists During and After the American Revolutionary War
Gentzkow, Tina	gentzt69@newschool.edu	Social Theory	Political Sociology	MA
Gibbons, Joseph R.	gibbj574@newschool.edu	Historical Sociology		MA
Grigar, Ewa	grigae43@newschool.edu	Sociology of Art and Culture, Contemporary Art in Poland	Gender in Post-Communist Art Discourse	PhD
Gümplova, Petra	gumplovp@newschool.edu	Political and Social Theory	Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, Deliberative Democracy	PhD	Sovereignty and Constitutional Democracy
Gutman, Yifat	gutmy472@newschool.edu	Sociology of Culture	Space and Memory	PhD	Local Sites of Absence and Their Communities
Horan, Tyler J	horat351@newschool.edu	Sociology of Knowledge & Art; Social Theory	Media, Civil Society and Perception	MA
Howell, Fanon John	howef760@newschool.edu	Governance, Race/Identity, Political Economy	Marginality, Knowledge Production, Theory, Corporate Practice	PhD	Deviance and National Identity: Knowledge Production and Social Control of Corporate and Underclass Crime in America, 1960-2005
Huang, Weishan	huangw01@newschool.edu	International Migration, Sociology of Religion, Gender Theories	Ethnicity and Race	PhD	Between Nations: Three Transnational Ethnic -Chinese Religious Organizations and Their Presence in New York Chinese Immigrant Communities
Jones, Angela	jonea169@newschool.edu	Gender & Queer Studies, African American Intellectual History	Social Change and Social Movements, Ethnography	PhD	The Niagara Movement 1905-1910: Intellectual Networks, Social Change, & the Making of a Black Public Sphere
Keppis, Jose	keppj663@newschool.edu	Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Latin America Sociology		PhD	Conservative Think Thanks in the US and Latin American Foreign Policy
Koleman, Karen	Colemk01@newschool.edu		Sociology of art, museums, art criticism, public art	PhD
Krasniqi, Eli	elikrasniqi@gmail.com	Memory and Media, Feminist thought, Documentary film
Lester, Robin	lester77@newschool.edu	Urban Sociology, Cultural Capital	Impact of Technology on Social Behavior	MA
Leuprecht, Eva	leupre00@newschool.edu	Political Sociology, Migration, Citizenship, Gender	Labor Market	MA
Lipscomb, Lisa		Culture & Media, Visual Sociology	Death in the Media, Gender & Queer Studies
Lopez-Menendez, Marisol	lopem128@newschool.edu	Sociological approaches to martyrdom, Human Rights, Civil Society, Cultural Dimensions of State Formation Processes	Collective Memory, Totalitarianism and Transitional Justice	PhD	Something to die for. The construction of narratives of martyrdom within the human rights movement in Mexico.
Marina, Peter	arip715@newschool.edu	Ethnography, Subcultures	Cultural Criminology, Sociology of Knowledge	PhD	Getting the Holy Ghost: An Ethnography on an African American Congregation in Brownsville, Brooklyn
Mehozay, Yoav	mehoy848@newschool.edu	Political Sociology, Sociology of Law,	Post-colonialism and Critical Theory	PhD	Expansion and Exception: A Colonial Analysis of Israel's "Perogative Legal System"
Muhaxhiri, Artan	muhaa854@newschool.edu	Sociology of Culture	Social and Cultural Theories and Analysis; Social Research; Culture and Power; Social Impacts of Media; Pop Culture	MA - PhD	(Tentative thesis ) Cultural reproduction in Kosova: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach
Nicholas, Darini	nichd356@newschool.edu	Immigration Policy	Comparative Study of the U.K. and U.S.A.	PhD
Nuno, Luis F.	nunol342@newschool.edu	Making sense of public sensibilities and social policy in the era of mass incarceration		PhD	Living with COPS: New York City and the Transition to Community-Oriented Police Services
O'Connor, Erin	ocone282@newschool.edu	Embodied Knowledge, Culture, Art	Ethnographic Methods, Phenomenology	PhD	The Matter of Culture: An Ethnography of Embodied Knowledge in Glassblowing
Ostovany, Khashayar	OstoK722@newschool.edu	Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Sociology of Religion	The Socio-Political Aspects of the Islamic Movement in Iran	ABD	Interfactional Coalitions and Rivalries within the Islamic Movement in Iran, 1945-2005
Paretskaya, Anna	anichka@juno.com	Political and cultural sociology, comparative-historical sociology, theories of class	origins of democracy and capitalism; democratic theoty; class, culture, and consumption; Soviet and post-Soviet politics and culture	PhD	Making Its Own Gravediggers: Communist Party Discourse, a Soviet Middle Class, and the Twilight of Socialism
Rahman, Zaynah	rahmaz26@newschool.edu	Education Policy	Gender	MA
Rendon, Adriana V.	renda103@newschool.edu	Collective Memory	Representations of Culture	PhD	Gender violence, impunity and collective memory in the case of the murdered women of Ciudad, Mexico
Rivera-Orraca, Lorena	rivel274@newschool.edu	Sociology of Art and Culture	Relationship between cultural institutions and national identity/ Relationship between art and political-social action
Rosenthal, Joshua	rosej855@newschool.edu	Symbolic Interaction, Identity Formation, Ethnographic Methods, Space-time and the Sociology of Knowledge	Social Theory, Urban Sociology	PhD	Accessing and Exiting History: The creation, negotiation and destruction of 'CBGB' space
Russell, Joni	russj168@newschool.edu	Gender and Sexuality	Urban/Rural Sociology, Institutions	MA
Sager, Ian	sageri44@newschool.edu	Group Process, Collective Action, Sociology of Media	Social Informatics	MA
Sairenji, Ayako	saira991@newschool.edu	Sociology of Religion	Urban Sociology	PhD
Savage, Ritchie P.	savar647@newschool.edu	Theory, Culture, Knowledge	Language and Linguistics	PhD
Seggi, Alessandra	segga328@newschool.edu	Sociology of Film, Sociology of Mental Illness	Language and Culture	PhD
Spring, Kimberly	sprik629@newschool.edu	Sociology of morality, sociology of knowledge, civil disobedience		PhD	Military dissertion and conscientious objection
Spurlock, Amanda	spura899@newschool.edu	Sociology of the Media, Urban Sociology, Social Theory, Feminist Theory	Media, Gender, Race, Class
Stamm, Isabel Kathrin	stami642@newschool.edu	Sociology of Emotions, Methodology	Economic Sociology, Social Theory	MA
Stuart, Amy	amys29@gmail.com	Political and cultural sociology, political communication, ethnography	Everyday political talk; publicity and the mass-mediated public sphere; roles of popular culture, historical memory, and community in construction of political ideas	PhD
Tabakoglu, Bahar	tabab174@newschool.edu	Political Sociology, Social Movements	Labor Movement, Comparative Study of Mexico and Turkey	PhD
Tobin, Samuel	tobis131@newschool.edu	sociology of media, sociology of play	play, games, technology, perception, theory	PhD
Tokke, Hans	htokke@newschool.edu	Urbanism, Poverty and Classism	Religion	MA
Topal, Hakan	topalh01@newschool.edu	Sociology of Art, Sociology of Culture, Urban Sociology	Museums; alternative art practices and global cities	PhD
Travieso, Emilio Juan	trave418@newschool.edu	Sociology of Religion, Social Theory	Jesuits	MA
Trpkovic, Sanja	trpks432@newschool.edu	Microsociology, Ethnographic Field Methods, Intimacy and Sexuality in the City	Visual Sociology	PhD	Sensual Soirees in Manhattan: Regulated Sensual "Freedom"
Vaughn, Robin	vaugr701@newschool.edu	Urban Sociology, Inequality, Families, Class	Black Studies, Ethnographic Studies	MA
Vera, Hector	verah192@newschool.edu	Sociology of Knowledge, Economic Sociology, Historical Sociology	Social History of the Systems of Measurement	PhD
Ziff, Elizabeth	ziffe406@newschool.edu	Class Theory, Class Relations, Education	Health Care, Social Theory	PhD

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