Current Graduate Students
Current graduate students are listed below alphabetical order by last name in the cohort they entered the department.
2021-2022 Cohort
Windsor Adcox
Email: wadcox1@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Criminology; criminal violence; juvenile crime; rehabilitation
CV
Nana Osei Asiamah
Email: nasiam2@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Social Networks; technology; mental health
CV
Isaac Carson
Email: icarso1@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Corrections; juvenile delinquency; public policy; capital punishment
CV
Zara Houser
Email: zhouse3@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Reproductive health; reproductive justice; race/ethnicity; gender
CV
Heath McNeese
Email: rmcnee3@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Environmental sociology; environmental justice; inequalities; social movements;
social change
CV
Arijita Pal
Email: apal9@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Social policy; human rights; child rights; agriculture; economic development
CV
Shinjini Roy
Email: sroy45@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Childhood; parenting; digital technologies; urban spaces; South Asian studies
CV
Xiaoxu Yang
Email: xyang36@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Sociology of education; life course; social stratification
CV
Seunghwan Yoo
Email: syoo7@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Discourse analysis; text as data approach; social stratification; prejudice/stigma;
cultural sociology
CV
Fangyue Zou
Email: fzou2@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Social stratification; family; media; social networks; Asian studies
CV
2020-2021 Cohort
Katie Cali
Email: kpatto7@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Religion; criminology; race; assisted suicide; death penalty
CV
Jamila Freightman
Email: jfreightman@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Rural sociology; arrested mobility; race; wealth inequality; economic development.
CV
Yoon Jung Jeong
Email: yjeong3@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Gender; media; online culture; activism
CV
Savannah Mattox
Email: smatto2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Black descendants of chattel slavery; gender & sexuality; stigma; intergenerational
trauma; intracommunity healing
CV
Samantha Ramey
Email: sramey3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Rick Weil
Research Interests: Children & adolescence; mental health; Internet communications
CV
Harleen Sandhu
Email: hsandh1@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Sociology of religion; military sociology; subaltern studies; gender studies; culture;
community & urban sociology; public policy
CV
Katherine Seals
Email: KSeals@agcenter.lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests: Criminology; environmental design; perception of crime; crime & health
CV
Shriya Thakkar
Email: sthakk1@lsu.edu
Advisor:
Research Interests:Gender; migration; development; urban slums; media; South Asia
CV
Jonathan Yevuyibor
Email: jyevuy1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr
Research Interests: Urban sluma; media; environmental justice; urban sociology; health & development
CV
2019-2020 Cohort
Rebecca Bock
Email: Rbock2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Rhiannon A. Kroeger
Research Interests: Family demography; mental health; fertility; quantitative methods
CV
Jazmin Robinson-Smith
Email: Jrob293@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity; gender/sexuality; media; criminology; Black studies; romantic relationships
CV
Courtney Williams
Email: wcourt2@lsu.eduAdvisor: Rhiannon A. Kroeger
Research Interests: Reproductive health; medicalization; family; gender & bodies
CV
2018-2019 Cohort
Dominique Dillard
Email: ddilla4@lsu.edu
Advisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests:Black sexuality; sexual violence; slavery; race
CV
Jennifer LaRose
Email: jlaros7@lsu.edu
Advisor: Jose Torres
Research Interests: Gun violence; media & crime; criminology, quantitative methods, qualitative methods
CV
Rob Matchett
Email: rmatch1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Dana Berkowitz
Research Interests: Gender & sexuality; health, self & identity; LGBT Studies; qualitative research
CV
2017-2018 Cohort
Caitlin Charles
Email: cchar12@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton
Research Interests: Domestic violence; criminology; sexual assault
CV
Marcus Venable
Email: mvenab8@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton
Research Interests: Criminology, sexual assault, sex-offender recidivism, sex-offender registries
CV
2016-2017 Cohort
Kyle Breen
Email: kbreen3@lsu.eduAdvisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Disaster, environmental justice, social vulnerability, qualitative methods
CV
Andrew Burns
Email: aburn38@lsu.eduAdvisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Media, social psychology, criminology
CV
Maretta McDonald
Email: mmcdo53@lsu.eduAdvisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity, criminology, public policy
CV
Kami Rutherford
Email: kruthe4@lsu.eduAdvisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, culture
CV
2015-2016 Cohort
Jiabin Fan
Email: jfan7@lsu.eduAdvisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Social networks, sociology of science and technology, Asian studies
CV
Oliver Garretson
Email: ogarre1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Social networks, new media, science & technology studies
CV
Ashley Maryland
Email: amaryl1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Race, crime, policing
CV
2014-2015 Cohort
Elizabeth Brault
Email: emarks7@lsu.eduAdvisor: Michael S. Barton & Matthew Valasik
Research Interests: Reentry, community organization, social support, crime & delinquency
CV
Derrick Lathan
Email: dlatha1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Race, race rhetoric & racial depictions, blackness, education
CV
2013-2014 Cohort
Tasia Mehzabin Kazi
Email: tmehza1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Dana Berkowitz
Research Interests: Gender, race, immigration policies
CV
