PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: mdbejar@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research: Crime/Deviance, Theoretical Criminology, Family, and Courtship/Marriage
Graduate Students
Matthew D. Bejar
Emily R.D. Bonner
MA Student
Email: emily.bonner@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Stratification, Race and Environmental Studies, Environmental Justice, Religion
Aaron Brown
MA Student
Email: aaron.b.brown@ou.edu
Research Interest: Crime and Delinquency, Online Extremist Groups, Sociology of Religion, Police Reform.
Kyle Callen
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: Kyle.L.Callen-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Social Theory, Sociology of Knowledge, Sexualities, Identity, Native American Studies, Disability Studies
Bella Chiareli
PhD Student
Email: isabella.chiareli@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Women & Gender Studies, Immigration, Cross National Comparative Studies, Mixed Methods
Sarah Connelly
PhD Student
Email: sarahee@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Education and Stratification
Joshua Davis
PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: jdavis@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Crime and Delinquency, Punishment, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Political Sociology
Natalie D. Dickson
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: ndickson@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research: Higher Education, Stratification & Inequality (race/gender/class), Mixed Methods, Medical Sociology
Rin Ferraro
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: ferraro@ou.edu
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Research Interests: Child Abuse and Neglect, Sociology of Family, Quantitative Methods, Early Childhood
Lauren Fishel
PhD Student
Email: lfishel@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research: Sociology of Violence, Extremism & Radicalization, Social Identity, Political Sociology, Ideology and Social Contagion
Kenneth E. Frantz
MA Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: kenneth.e.frantz-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Religion, Politics, Gender, Public Sociology
Ami Mariko Hood Frost
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: afrost@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Women & Gender, Race & Ethnicity, Stratification, Family, Religion, Mental Health
Elizabeth “Beth” M. Green
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: beth.green@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Intimate Partner Homicides, Quantitative Methods, Criminology, Gender
Andi Hamilton
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: andi.hamilton@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Crime, Family, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Decision-Making of Stakeholders in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Peyman Hekmatpour
PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: peyman.hekmatpour@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Cross-National Sociology, Quantitative Analyses, Environmental Sociology, and Sociology of Religion
Meredith Ille
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: Meredith.L.Ille-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Mass murder, Familicide, Genocide, Solitary confinement and mental health, and Corrections
Andrew D. Joyce
MA Student
Email: andrew.d.joyce-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: religion, education, stratification, mixed methods
Jessie Laljer
PhD Candidate
Email: Jessie.Laljer@ou.edu
Pronouns: any
Research Interests: Family, Gender, LGBTQ, and Gender Nonconformity
Heather Lepper-Pappan
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: Heather.lepper-pappan@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her or they/them
Research Interests: Criminology and Deviance, Family, Child Abuse and Neglect, LGBTQ and social justice issues
Carrie McLachlin Leslie
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email:carriemcleslie@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Development Sociology, Women and Gender, Indigenous Studies, Social Movements, Cross-national Sociology
Matthew S. Loflin
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Pronouns: he/him/his
Email: msloflin@ou.edu
Research Interests: Ethnicity/Race, Class Stratification, Criminology
Melissa Maxey
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: mmaxey@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Family, Stratification and Inequality, Education, Family, Research Methods
Elizabeth McElroy
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: elizabeth.mcelroy@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Sexuality, Religion, Gender Development, Social Contagion, Reducing Exploitation of Vulnerable Populations, Cross-Cultural Experiences
Tess McGee
BA/MA Student
Email: teresa.k.mcgee-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: they/them
Research Interests: Gender nonconformity, deviance, social control, social stratification, sociology of family
Oyindamola A. Okuwa
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: oyin.okuwa@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: International Migration, Comparative Political Economy of Development, Family and Children.
Wyatt Schmitz
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: wyatt@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Cross national comparative studies and Demographics (with international focus)
Bria Schwartz
MA Student
Email: bcschwartz@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Criminology, Women and GenderSstudies, Marriage and Family, Female Gangs, Women and Families in Poverty, LGBTQIA+
Tacey M. Shurtliff
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: taceyshurtliff@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Adolescence, Delinquency and Family
Marianne E. Smith
PhD Student
Email: m.e.smith@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Stratification, Social Control, Race, Immigration, Nationalism, Media
Jackie Switzer
PhD Student
Email: jackieswitzer@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Criminology and Deviance, Class Stratification
Kelly Tabbutt
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: Kelly.M.Tabbutt@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Native Nations Sovereignty, US Colonialism, Sociology of Law, Race/Ethnicity, Criminology/Deviance, Policy Evaluation/Analysis
Abigail Renee Tessmer
MA Student
Email: tess0000@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research Interests: Queer Studies, Queer Surveillance, Transgender/Non-Binary Studies, Feminist Theory, Social Control
Gehrig Thurston
MA Student
Email: gthurston@ou.edu
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Research Interests: Inequality and Stratification, Gender and Sexuality, Social Stigma, Public Policy
Brynn Vaughan
BA/MA Student
Email: brynnvaughan@ou.edu
Research Interest: Stratification, Social Control, Race, Political Sociology, Gender
Sally Wiser
PhD Student
Email: Sally.m.wiser-1@ou.edu
Research Interest: Crime and Deviance, Family, Juvenile Delinquency, Women in Prison
Alexandra D. Wood
BA/MA Student
Email: alexandrawood@ou.edu
Research Interests: Mass Violence, Crime and Deviance, Terrorism, Destructive Religious Movements, Criminology
Haifan Xiao
PhD Student
Email: hfxiao@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Demography, Race and Ethnicity, Asian American Studies, Social Stratification
Abby Young
PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: s.abby.baker@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Gender, Quantitative Methods, Sociology Education, Educational Expectations, Structural Equations Modeling
