Graduate Students

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: christopher.a.baroody-1@ou.edu
Research Interest: Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Criminology, Social Control 

PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: emily.bonner@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interest:  Structural oppression, Race & Ethnicity, Class Inequality, Family, Quantitative and Mixed Methods

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 Candidate
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: Gender, Reproduction and Menopause, Medical Sociology, Health Communication, Media Studies, Feminist Theory and Praxis, Qualitative Methods, Women's and Gender Studies

PhD Candidate
Email: Wdedmond@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research: Immigrant Adaptation and Social Identity, Gendered Migration and Belonging Processes, Social Organization and Power Relations

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

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

MA Student
Email:  caroline.drummond@ou.edu
Research Interests: Criminology, Women in Prison, Law, Crime and Deviance

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

MA Student
Email: elizabethkaiser@ou.edu
Research Interests: Missing Persons, Feminist Criminology, Sociology of Family, Intersectional Media Studies

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: mmaxey@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Family, Stratification and Inequality, Education, Family, Research Methods

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

PhD Student
Email: Isaac.G.Romero-1@ou.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Research Interests: Jotería Studies, Chicano/a/e Studies, Queer Methods, Hispanic/Latin Cultural Constructs, Gender Identity

PhD Candidate
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: dkschmidgall@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/they
Research Interests: Reproductive Justice, Gender, Criminology, White Christian Nationalism, and Mixed Methodologies

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

MA Student
Email: Taysir.M.Siddiki-1@ou.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Criminology, Foster Care

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 Student
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Email: tess0000@ou.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Research Interests: race, gender, whiteness, transgender studies, queer methods, intersectionality

MA Student
Email: jordyn.a.vann-1@ou.edu
Research Interest: Childhood Crime, Rehabilitation, Childhood Trauma

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

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