Graduate Students

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: mdbejar@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research: Crime/Deviance, Theoretical Criminology, Family, and Courtship/Marriage

MA 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: aaron.b.brown@ou.edu
Research Interest:  Crime and Delinquency, Online Extremist Groups, Sociology of Religion, Police Reform

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

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

PhD Student
Email: mathaus.campos@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental social movements, Gender, Sexuality

MA Student
Email: steven.a.carbone@ou.edu
Research Interest:  Criminology, Sociology of the Family, Crime and Deviance

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

PhD Candidate
Email: sarahee@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Education and Stratification

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

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 and Sexual Deviance, Polyamory/Ethical Non-Monogamy, Mixed Methods, Family, Medical Sociology

BA/MA Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: margaretclaredoyle@ou.edu
Research Interests: Criminology, Gang Violence, Carceral System 

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

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

MA Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
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

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

PhD Student
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 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

Personal Website

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

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

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

MA Student
Email: andrew.d.joyce-1@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests:  religion, education,  stratification, mixed methods

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

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

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

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Pronouns: he/him/his
Email: msloflin@ou.edu
Research Interests: Ethnicity/Race, Class Stratification, Criminology

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

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

BA/MA Student
Email: em.ann.murphy@ou.edu
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Research Interests:  Crime and Deviance, Policing and Corrections, Punitiveness, Program Evaluation, Quantitative Methods

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. 

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: dkschmidgall@ou.edu
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, and Social Movements

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: wyatt@ou.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
Research Interests: Cross national comparative studies and Demographics (with international focus)

PhD Student
Email: lauraschwanke@ou.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Racial Inequality, Feminism

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+ 

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

PhD Student
Email: m.e.smith@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Stratification, Social Control, Race, Immigration, Nationalism, Media  

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

PhD Student
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

MA Student
Email: tess0000@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research Interests: Queer Studies, Queer Surveillance, Transgender/Non-Binary Studies, Feminist Theory, Social Control

MA Student
Email: gthurston@ou.edu
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Research Interests: Inequality and Stratification, Gender and Sexuality, Social Stigma, Public Policy

BA/MA Student
Email: brynnvaughan@ou.edu
Research Interest: Stratification, Social Control, Race, Political Sociology, Gender

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

PhD Student
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.baker@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Gender, Quantitative Methods, Sociology Education, Educational Expectations, Structural Equations Modeling