|
|
|
|
|
Duygu studies international migration, authoritarianism, and political economy with an emphasis on qualitative methods. Her research examines potential effects of political repression and state authoritarianism on emigration behaviors in the context of Turkey. It also addresses how gradual shifts in democracy challenge traditional understandings of forced and voluntary migration. Her preliminary work on the subject received the David Street Award for the best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper in 2020. Duygu has taught an undergraduate course in Research Methods and worked as a Teaching Assistant of several courses including Introduction to Sociology, Historical Development of Sociological Theory, Ethnic and Race Relations, Sociology of Human Reproduction, and War and the Military. Prior to her graduate studies, she was a Project Officer at the Global Political Trends Center in Istanbul, Turkey, where she primarily worked on second-track diplomacy projects concerning the Cyprus question and Turkey-Armenia rapprochement. |
|
|
|
|
|
Ahmad is a political sociologist with an interest in political economy, industrial relations, development and revolutions. His dissertation, The Invisible Hand in the Arab Spring: An Investigation into the Role of Capital in Revolutions , is a comparative historical research project that focuses on the politics, economics, and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa region. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alec is a medical sociologist focusing on vaccine hesitancy, public health policy,
and political ideology using qualitative and computational methods. They also conduct
research on alternative medicine, race, gender, and class. Alec's work has been published
in anthologies and paperback books. In addition to scholarly work, Alec enjoys teaching
and engaging with the wider Stony Brook community, having received a leadership award
from the Graduate Student Organization. In their spare time, Alec enjoys reading and
watching movies with their cats.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Irissa primarily studies topics related to identity, media & technology, and digital
sociology. Additionally, her previous work has focused on the sociology of gender.
She is a mixed-methods researcher, with a focus on computational social science as
well as survey methodologies. Irissa teaches courses in introductory sociology, research
methods, and media sociology. In her spare time, she enjoys writing fiction, reading
fantasy books, and gaming.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I work on the African Diaspora in France and Europe. Currently, I am interested in European Black Feminism and solidarity building. I also have an interest in family studies and collective archives as a form of resistance. My preferred methods are qualitative, I hope to expand my skills to visual methods and digital ethnography. |
|
|
|
|
|
Andrew holds a BA in Sociology from Clark University and an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests include computational social science, social network analysis, and political sociology. |
|
|
|
|
|
Broadly speaking, Robert’s research utilizes a comparative, cross-national perspective
to examine how technologically mediated globalization impacts culture and sexualities.
He constructed an original, extensive, one-of-a-kind dataset of 5000 location-based
mobile dating app (LBMDA) user profiles from New York City, London, Vienna, and Tel
Aviv, which allowed unique quantitative examination of global and local sexual cultures.
Furthermore, during the past 18 months, Robert has been working in collaboration with
Dr. Amy Braksmajer at SUNY Geneseo on a research project that explores sexual behavior
and risk among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the COVID-19 period. In addition
to his research, Robert also has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses
on sociological theory, research methods, and gender and sexualities. Robert lives
with his partner and their two guinea pigs, Peanut and Pistachio, and he is a huge
LEGO fan.
|
|
|
|
| Nastassya is interested in technology, collective memory, and transnational politics, with a particular fascination for how digital media is used to memorialize past tragedies. Passionate about field research and ethnography, she hopes to further explore the voices that contribute to, and are shaped by, a rapidly growing technological society. In her spare time, she enjoys walking, shopping, and playing the sitar. | |
|
|
|
|
|
My interests encompass social movements and sociology of education, with a regional focus on Latin America. Currently, I am looking into recent cases of student-led protests in both Colombia and Chile, trying to understand perceptions around what constitutes a “successful protest”, and how these perceptions transform the political repertoires available to actors in the long run. |
|
|
|
|
Jess is a political sociologist studying global norm diffusion, with a focus on democracy and women's rights. Her peer-reviewed research exploring these topics appears in Sociology of Development, Sociology Compass, Sociological Science, and Human Rights Quarterly. Jess's dissertation, which explores how democracy-promoting international non-governmental organizations (DINGOs) impacts democratization, has received a number of internal and external grants, including the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, the Stony Brook Foundation Trustees Dissertation Fellowship, and the Judith Tanur Dissertation Award. In addition to her research, Jess also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at Stony Brook on sociological theory, statistics, and global sociology. In her free time, Jess enjoys running, triathlons, coaching CrossFit, and anything fitness-related. She is currently training for the Wineglass Marathon. Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Kim, Jessica. 2020. “The Diffusion of International Women’s Rights Norms to Individual
Attitudes: The Differential Roles of World Polity and World Society.” Sociology of
Development 6(4): 459-492.
Research Currently Under Review:
Kim, Jessica. “Save Her a Seat? Evaluating how Gender Quotas and Social Context Shape
Attitudes towards Women in Politics.” Courses Taught:
SOC 361: Historical Development of Sociology
|
|
|
|
|
Ph.D. Expected May 2021
|
|
Michael Lenmark studies public opinion and survey methodology, with an emphasis on
attitudes toward immigration. His dissertation examines how socioeconomic and demographic
changes influence public opinion on immigration policy in a rapidly diversifying American
electorate. |
|
|
|
|
Hao studies racial inequality, social contagion and social networks. Broadly, she
is interested in applying computational methods to study social behavior. She completed
her undergrad at Central University of Finance and Economics, China in 2017 and received
a MSc in sociology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 2019.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Danielle Lucksted
|
Danielle Lucksted is a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at
Stony Brook University with advisor Daniel Levy. Her research falls at the intersections
of memory studies and law and society, with particular concentrations on memory laws
in the European Union and comparative memorialization of atrocity. She received an
M.A. in Human Rights from University College London in 2014 and an M.A. in Humanities
and Social Thought from New York University in 2019. Danielle currently serves as
student representative for the Sociology of Human Rights section of the American Sociological
Association. Before embarking on her PhD, Danielle worked full-time in nonprofit violence
prevention. She currently lives in Port Jefferson, New York with her partner and two
dogs.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dana McIntyre is currently a doctoral student at Stony Brook University where she
is interested in community-engaged research that explores the sociology of anti-blackness
and how It constructs healthcare access, education, global inequality, and structural
oppression across the African Diaspora, more specifically the Caribbean. She is the
recent recipient of the 2021 International Graduate Research Fellowship Award from
the University of Massachusetts Amherst which has given her the opportunity to study
decolonial approaches to research with Afro-Brazilian communities. Dana also has an
MPH in Health Policy & Management from New York University. |
|
|
|
|
Katie is primarily interested in studying the sociology of food and eating, with a
focus on diet culture. Her research interests also include weight bias, medical fatphobia,
and the role of social media communities in the fat liberation movement. Katie graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in May of 2020, with bachelor's degrees in sociology and philosophy. While at IUP, Katie won the 2019 Pennsylvania Sociological Society's undergraduate poster competition for her research on the material hardships, academic success, and quality of life of low-income students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as well as earning second place in the 2020 Howard Z. Fitzgerald philosophy essay contest. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kajol is interested in environmental and political sociology. Currently she is looking
into the relationship between the causes of disparities in air pollution exposure,
the health and educational outcomes attributed to this exposure, and interventions
state and non-state actors have taken to manage this environmental issue. Additionally, in the future Kajol is planning to look into the evolving social and legal understandings of drug policy and usage in Canada and the United States. |
|
|
|
|
Ph.D.Expected May 2021
|
Nick primarily studies political polarization, with special emphasis on ideology formation and the American culture divide. He also researches in the realms of gender, and food. His peer reviewed research has been published in The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Psychology of Popular Media Culture, and The Journal of Gerontology. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and Arkansas Life Magazine. In addition to his research work at Stony Brook University, he currently teaching a course in social science methodology at New York University's Center for Global Affairs. Prior to entering his Ph.D. program, Nick was a trial lawyer in his home state of Arkansas. He lives in Brooklyn with his dog Faulkner.
Rogers, Nick 2017. "How Wrestling Explains Alex Jones and Donald Trump. "The New York
Times, April 25, 2017.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Adam studies immigration policymaking in the United States, with a focus on the role
played by local immigrant-serving organizations in municipal sanctuary policy adoption.
His quantitative research examines the impacts of sanctuary policies on rates of immigrant
arrests and deportations in local contexts, and public health outcomes in Latino/Hispanic
communities. Adam teaches undergraduate courses on American Society and Sociology
of Technology. He lives in Astoria, Queens.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gyuho studies political sociology focused on people's attitude change. He is recently working on how multi-dimensional gender ideology affects people's political affiliation and if that process can be captured with survey data and long-term autobiographic data, i.e., Twitter. Also, he is interested in comparing issues of political sociology and gender ideology of the United States and Korea where he came from. Apart from studying, he enjoys cooking and adding new menus to his recipe book. |
|
|
|
|
|
My interests are in economic sociology, political sociology, comparative methodology, and the sociology of morality. I study political prediction markets. How do political prediction market traders balance their economic interests and political interests? How do individual actors, firms, and regulators in the prediction market field think about the moral status of trading? That is, do they consider it to be a form of gambling? And, more broadly, how did political prediction markets emerge as a new technology to gauge public opinion? |
