Sociology Student Directory
First name Last name Email Degree  Area of Study
Valentina Paz
Abufhele
 abufv622@newschool.edu PhD  
Barbara Adams AdamsB01@newschool.edu PhD  
Vetrivel 
Muruga
 Adhimoolam MuruA795@newschool.edu PhD  
Gisela Albuquerque AlbuqueG@newschool.edu PhD  
Veronica Alfaro Ahumada alfav729@newschool.edu PhD  
Melissa Amezcua amezm232@newschool.edu PhD  
Berfu Aygenc aygeb017@newschool.edu PhD  
Malgorzata Bakalarz bakam123@newschool.edu PhD  
Achilles Batalas BatalA01@newschool.edu PhD  
Scott Beck becks944@newschool.edu PhD  
Alissa Boguslaw bogua624@newschool.edu PhD collective memory & identity in the former Yugoslavia, Balkan Jewry, constitutionalism
Monica Brannon branm789@newschool.edu PhD My research interests are in the sociology of science and technology, and my dissertation title is:
"From Cold War to Commercialization: The Technopolitics of Satellite Imagery."
Monifa Brinson-Mulraine BrinM529@newschool.edu PhD  
Maria Cabrera cabrm291@newschool.edu PhD I am interested in the sociology of culture, of the material environment, design and socialism. The topic of my dissertation is the material environment of Cuban socialism and its political representation.
Malini Cadambi CadaM423@newschool.edu PhD  
Vincent Carducci CardV366@newschool.edu PhD Consumerism and the Global System, and in particular how ethics and information mediate relationships of exchange in the contemporary cultural economy.
Keerati Chenpitayaton ChenK708@newschool.edu PhD  
Helena Maria Chmielewska-Szlajfer chmih272@newschool.edu PhD  
Brittany Chozinski chozib08@newschool.edu PhD  
Hui-Tun Chuang ChuaH427@newschool.edu PhD  
Paola Contardo ContaP01@newschool.edu PhD
Marcio Jose De Macedo
PhD
Amanda Delong deloa325@newschool.edu PhD
Sociology of health and illness, sociology of culture, reproductive technologies, kinship studies and medical anthropology
Anton Derosa DeroA539@newschool.edu PhD  
Westerly Donohue donow833@newschool.edu PhD Politics of Education
Christopher Eberhardt EberharC@newschool.edu PhD How Chinese citizens understand the boundaries of responsibility to their fellow citizens and how this is reflected in their personal everyday actions.
Bahareh Ebne Alian ebneb454@newschool.edu PhD  
Kumiko Endo endok750@newschool.edu PhD Urban Sociology, East Asia, Co-existence and cooperation
Ilgaz Gurur Ertem ErtemG01@newschool.edu PhD  
Evan Feldman FeldE849@newschool.edu PhD Consumption and Globalization
Nicolas Figueroa Garcia Herreros
   
Lindsey Freeman freel374@newschool.edu PhD Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Media
Rezvaneh Ganji ganjr455@newschool.edu PhD  
Carol Garza GarzC917@newschool.edu PhD
My research interests are media and new media, gender, race and class stratification and urban culture. My dissertation title is at the developmental stage. The Chair of my committee is Professor Terry Williams, and my projected date to defend my dissertation and graduate is September 2012
Camila Gelpi-Acosta gelpc236@newschool.edu PhD  
Tamsyn Laura Gilbert gilbet14@newschool.edu PhD  
Ewa Grigar grigae43@newschool.edu PhD Gender in Post-Communist Art Discourse
Yifat Gutman gutmy472@newschool.edu PhD Space and Memory
Sebastian Gabri Guzman Rivera guzmas31@newschool.edu PhD
Political sociology, class and inequality, social movements, labor, social theory (esp. Weber, Bourdieu, and Habermas), Latin America, sociology of expertise, and research methods.
Dissertation title: "Working-Class Political Consent and Resistance: An Ethnography of Public Housing Mortgage-Debtors in Chile"
Nahed Habiballah habin358@newschool.edu PhD  
Meredith Hall hallm274@newschool.edu    
Mario Hernandez hernm680@newschool.edu PhD
I apply critical theory in the study of the sociology of culture. My areas of interest include identity, embodiment, and the genealogies of ideas which inform everyday interaction and the production of  "common sense". My emphasis is on the study of sub/counter cultures and new media/social media.
Sarah Hoiland hoils518@newschool.edu PhD  
Tyler Horan horat351@newschool.edu PhD Economic sociology, social networks, sociology of law
Aron Hsiao hsiaoa02@newschool.edu PhD New media and social change; new media and social research
methods; sociology of media; social history of technology.
Jin-Sheng Huang HuanJ545@newschool.edu PhD  
Fong-Wei Hung HungF212@newschool.edu PhD  
Amen Jaffer jaffa994@newschool.edu PhD  
David Janes janed422@newschool.edu PhD War memory in Northeast Asia, economic sociology, sociology of education
Changho Jo joc616@newschool.edu PhD  
Gerard Johnson JohnG379@newschool.edu PhD  
Zafeiria Katsavi KatsZ639@newschool.edu PhD  
Mayuko Kawai kawam445@newschool.edu PhD  
Aysegul Kayagil kayaa094@newschool.edu PhD  
Lorena Kennedy KennL181@newschool.edu PhD  
Andrew Kloppe klopa753@newschool.edu PhD  
Esther Marielle Kreider-Verhalle KreiderE@newschool.edu PhD  
Despina Lalaki LalaD335@newschool.edu PhD  
Federico Ledesma Zaldivar ledef385@newschool.edu PhD Eurocentrism; Philosophy of Liberation, particularly the work of Enrique Dussel; Sociology of Memory; Sociology of Religion; Marxism
Hsu-Chi Lee LeeH611@newschool.edu PhD  
Hay Ding Leung LeunH342@newschool.edu PhD  
Chih-Yuan Lin linc939@newschool.edu PhD  
Lisa Lipscomb lipsl047@newschool.edu PhD  
Marisol Lopez-Menendez lopem128@newschool.edu PhD Social history of martyrdom, human rights and civil society
Marcio Macedo macem969@newschool.edu PhD  
Zeynep Aysel Madra madra377@newschool.edu PhD Comparative Historical Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, Secularization Theories, Secularism, Religion and Politics, Turkey, India
Dissertation Title: Comparison of Secularisms in Turkey and India
Borbala Major majob314@newschool.edu PhD  
Ana Mallen MallA432@newschool.edu PhD  
Laura Martin MartL431@newschool.edu PhD  
Anna Matthiesen matta644@newschool.edu PhD  
Yoav Mehozay MehoY848@newschool.edu PhD Post-colonialism and Critical Theory
Ariel Merkel merka292@newschool.edu PhD
Sociology of culture, sociology of media, disability theory, memory
Zachary Metz metzz793@newschool.edu PhD  My research focuses on the sociological dynamics of intractable, long-term and violent conflict. I am interested in the drivers of intractability, what distinguishes intractable conflict from other types of social stratification, and also the "seams" at which intractability is challenged by people in small, powerful ways reaching across lines of conflict.
John Michalczyk michj343@newschool.edu PhD Sociology of body and embodiment; disability studies; technology
Kei Nakagawa nakak802@newschool.edu PhD  
Atsuko Nakajima NakaA931@newschool.edu PhD  
Radhika Nanda NandaR01@newschool.edu PhD  
Jawied Nawabi NawaJ161@newschool.edu PhD  
Darini Nicholas NichD356@newschool.edu PhD  
Timothy Novak novat684@newschool.edu PhD Political communication, propaganda, right-wing media, right-wing social movements, ethnographic research methods.
Khashayar Ostovany OstoK722@newschool.edu PhD The Middle-East, European History (Germany), Social Theories.  Dissertation Title: Inter-Factional Rivalries within the Shia Islamic Movement in Iran, 1945-2005
Sung Choon Park parks743@newschool.edu PhD  
David Peppas peppd886@newschool.edu PhD  
Robert Proverb provr436@newschool.edu PhD  
Abedin Quader QuadA112@newschool.edu PhD  
Jussara Raxlen raxlj632@newschool.edu PhD  
Baishue Reday redab819@newschool.edu PhD  
Ma Elena Rivera-Beckstrom RiveM622@newschool.edu PhD  
Lorena Rivera-Orraca RiveL274@newschool.edu PhD  
Tim Rosenkranz roset997@newschool.edu PhD Sociology of Markets, Commodity Culture and the
Nation-State, Economic Sociology and Professional Networks
Sociology of Markets, Commodity Culture and the
Nation-State, Economic Sociology and Professional Networks
Ivan Rubenstein-Gillis rubei766@newschool.edu PhD  
Edward Ruggero rugge075@newschool.edu PhD Social Movements, Environmental Sociology, Economic Sociology, Networks, Subcultures, particularly Punk. Dissertation work centers on the development of an innovative theory of social movements and social change; empirical focus connects US radical politics and social movements, the internal cultural schemas and dynamics of US Punk communities, and the nature and effects of Punk's
Ayako Sairenji SairA991@newschool.edu PhD  
Gema Santamaria Balmaceda santg121@newschool.edu PhD  
Ritchie Savage savar647@newschool.edu PhD
Dissertation title: "A Comparative Analysis of Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States"
Research interests: political sociology, comparative-historical sociology, theory, cultural sociology
Harrison Schultz schuh072@newschool.edu PhD
Political sociology, comparative-historical sociology, theory
Anezka Sebek SebekA@newschool.edu PhD  
Alessandra Seggi SeggA328@newschool.edu PhD Language and Culture
Jomal Seligson seligj90@newschool.edu PhD  
Laima Serksnyte serksnyl@newschool.edu PhD  
Roger Sherman SherR445@newschool.edu PhD  
Daniel Sherwood SherD026@newschool.edu PhD  
Valerie Small SmalV237@newschool.edu PhD  
Amy Sodaro SodaroA@newschool.edu PhD  
Kimberly Spring sprik629@newschool.edu PhD  
Maija Spurina AndeM316@newschool.edu PhD  
Amy Stuart stuara66@newschool.edu PhD  
Agnes Szanyi
PhD  
Bahar Tabakoglu tabab174@newschool.edu PhD
Political and economic sociology, comparative-historical sociology, theory
Julie Telrav knolj224@newschool.edu PhD  
Hans Eric Tokke tokkeh45@newschool.edu PhD  
Hasan Ertug Tombus tombh271@newschool.edu PhD  
Hakan Topal TopalH01@newschool.edu PhD Museums; alternative art practices and global cities
Sanja Trpkovic TrpkS432@newschool.edu PhD Interpersonal Behavior, Deviance and Social Control, Subculture and Urban Sociology. Dissertation Title: Behind Masks into the Fantasy: Sensual Soirees in Manhattan
Luis Tsukayama Cisneros tsukl431@newschool.edu PhD  
Hector Vera-Martinez verah192@newschool.edu PhD Social History of the Systems of Measurement
Michael Wang wangm134@newschool.edu PhD  
Wendy Washington WashiW01@newschool.edu PhD  
Elizabeth Ziff ziffe406@newschool.edu PhD Reproductive Technologies, Class/Stratification, Science Studies
Jeffrey Zimmerman zimmj326@newschool.edu PhD
Culture, Economy, Science & Knowledge
 
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