Graduate Students

PhD Student
Email: emily.bonner@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interest:  Race and Ethnicity, Stratification, Race and Environmental Studies, Environmental Justice, Religion

MA Student
Email: chloegbyars@ou.edu
Research Interest:  Criminology, Crime/Deviance,  Sociology of the Family

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: Kyle.L.Callen-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Gender, Sexualities, Disability Studies, Native American Studies,  Sociology of Knowledge

PhD Student
Email: mathaus.campos@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/they/them
Research Interests:  Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice, Racial inequalities, Fatphobia, Gender and Sexualities

PhD Candidate
Email: isabella.chiareli@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Women & Gender Studies, Immigration, Cross National Comparative Studies, Mixed Methods

PhD Student
Email: Wdedmond@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research: Social Identity/Belonging, Migration and Integration, Immigrant Political Behavior, Migrant Adaptation Processes in Education, and Social Stratification.

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: ndickson@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research: Sexualities, Polyamory/Non-Monogamies, Gender, Health

BA/MA Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: margaretclaredoyle@ou.edu
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, Women & Gender, Urban Street Gangs, Social Media, Carceral Studeis

BA/MA Student
Email: Laurein.R.Drumm-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Research Interests:  Law, Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Criminology, Inequality, Addiction

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email:  mohammad.saifuddin.durud-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Research Interests: International Migration, Women Empowerment, Social Capital Formation, Globalization and Development

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: ferraro@ou.edu
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Research Interests: Child Abuse and Neglect, Sociology of Family,  Quantitative Methods, Early Childhood

PhD Student
Email:  lfishel@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research: Sociology of Violence,  Extremism & Radicalization, Social Identity, Political Sociology, Ideology and Social Contagion 

PhD Student
CURRICULUM VITAE (available upon request)
Email: kenneth.e.frantz-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Religion, Politics, Gender, Public Sociology

Personal Website

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: afrost@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Women & Gender, Race & Ethnicity, Stratification, Family, Religion, Mental Health

PhD Student
Email: Gamblet@OU.edu
Research Interest:  Environmental Sociology, Social Ecology of Marginalized and Coastal Communities, Mixed Methods, Public Policy

PhD Student
Email: jared.b.griffith-1@ou.edu
Research Interests: Criminology, Sociology of law, Sociology of Education, Political Sociology

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: beth.green@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Intimate Partner Homicides, Quantitative Methods, Criminology, Gender

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

PhD Student
Email: reagan.g.hunt-1@ou.edu
Research Interests:  Marriage and Family, Criminology, Interpersonal Communication 

PhD Student
Email: ajaffery@ou.edu
Research Interests: Qualitative Methods, Juvenile Justice (Youth Diversion Programs), Race, Religion

PhD Student
Email: katharina.jammers-1@ou.edu
Research Interests: School Violence/ School Shootings, Child Abuse/Domestic Violence, Terrorism, Serial Killers

MA Student
Email: koutahi_janiej21@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research Interests: Youth/Adolescence, Sociology of Family, Sociology of Education, Stratification, Social Demography

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email:  Jessie.Laljer@ou.edu
Pronouns: any
Research Interests: Family, Gender, LGBTQ, and Gender Nonconformity

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email:carriemcleslie@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Climate Justice, Global Inequalities, Environmental Ethics, Indigenous Environmental Resistances

PhD Candidate
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

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: oyin.okuwa@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: International Migration, Comparative Political Economy of Development, Family and Children. 

PhD Student
Email: Samira.Rahman-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research Interests: Gender, Race, Religion, Social Technology, Medical Sociology 

MA Student
Email: Isaac.G.Romero-1@ou.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Research Interests: Queer Latinx Societal Issues, Incarcerated Trans People, Mental Health and the Queer Population

BA/MA Student
Email: Karen.i.santillan-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: She/Her
Research Interests: Race & Ethnicity, Education, Gender, Inequality

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: dkschmidgall@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Gender, Criminology, Religion, Sociology of the Body, and Sociology of Law

MA Student
Email: saman.seyfi@ou.edu
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Research Interests: Sociology of Sexuality and Gender, Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Environmental Sociology

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: taceyshurtliff@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Adolescence, Delinquency and Family

BA/MA Student
Email: Aly.stano@ou.edu
Research Interests: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Childhood Poverty, Education and Crime

PhD Candidate
Email: jackieswitzer@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Criminology and Deviance, Class Stratification

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: Kelly.M.Tabbutt@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities, Native Sovereignty, Colonialism, Carceral Studies, Criminology/Deviance, Law and Governance

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: tess0000@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research Interests: Queer Studies, Queer Surveillance, Transgender/Non-Binary Studies, Feminist Theory, Social Control

PhD Student
Email: jessica.r.veal-1@ou.edu
Research Interest: Sociology of Family, Motherhood, and Religion

PhD Student
Email: Sally.m.wiser-1@ou.edu
Research Interest: Crime and Deviance, Family, Juvenile Delinquency, Women in Prison

PhD Candidate
Email: hfxiao@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Demography, Race and Ethnicity, Asian American Studies, Social Stratification

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: s.abby.young@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Gender, Quantitative Methods, Sociology of Education, Work and Family, Educational and Occupational Expectations