Current Graduate Students
Jonathan A. Christiansen: Social movements, Transnational labor/class formation under neoliberalism, Political economy of South Asia
Jacqueline M. E. Frazer: World-ecology, Disease ecology, Epidemiology, World-historical method, Anthropocene/Capitalocene, Emotional labor and Service-based labor studies.
B眉艧ra Ferlig眉l: Political sociology, political economy, populism, Latin America
Frank Hughes: Cultural political economy, urban studies, crime and justice studies, competing methodological approaches to social science
: Political sociology, political economy, economic policy, comparative methodologies, extractive industries. My dissertation research explains Suriname's foreign-owned bauxite mining in a time of resource nationalism
Yeon-Hwa Lee: Race, Gender, and Class, Reproduction and Sexuality, Postcoloniality, Historical Sociology, Public Policy and Family, East Asia
Serra Kocak: Gender and Labor, Neoliberalism, Economic Assimilation, Second-Generation American Muslims
Engin Burak Yilmaz: World-Ecology Research, World-Systems Analysis, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Global Environmental Politics
Stephen F. Skelly: Local Labor Regimes, Waves and Expressions of Labor Resistance, World-Hegemonic Cycles, Comparative-Historical Sociology, and World-Historical Method
Marija Radovanovic: Historical Materialism, World-ecology, Political Economy, Class Struggle, US Imperialism, Cybernetic Counterrevolution, Socialism in the World-System, Planetary Management
Francisco J Gachet Paredes: Agrarian Studies, World-System Analysis, Political Economy of Latin America and the Andean Region
Mariah Nelson: American enslavement of Africans, systematic consequences of slavery on black families, and black fatherhood and masculinity
Anna Rebrii: Social Movements, in particular the Kurdish movement in Turkey/Syria and indigenous movements in Mexico; alternative economies, forms of governance and value systems; nation-state, gender and capitalism; oral history and ethnography
Nancy V. Pi帽eiro: Sociology of Translation, Socio-Environmental Struggles in Argentina, Social Movements, Counterhegemonic Translation, Translation Studies, Latin America, Energy
Yeter Tan: Anthropology of Law, Migration, Gender, Alternative Justice Systems, Kurdish Studies
Kenyon Cavender: Housing and the Environment, World-Systems Analysis, History of Capitalism
Hyeonseo Lee: My research critically examines the attention economy and digital mental health through the lenses of world-systems analysis, psychopolitics, and the political economy of information and communication technologies. I explore how rising anxiety, burnout, and ADHD are not personal pathologies but systemic symptoms of platform capitalism, which expropriate human attention as a contested frontier of accumulation.
Sarah Chelius: Historical Sociology, Social Movements, and Small Group Conflict and Collaboration
Javier Ezcurdia: World-Systems, Uneven and combined Development, Hegemonic transitions, Historical Capitalism, World-Ecology, Historical Sociology
Merve Kurt: Social movements, Gender, Children in Social Movements
Edith Avalos-Rodriguez: Territorial Epistemologies from Abya Yala, Insurgent Research Methodologies, Political Ecology, Anarcho-Indigenous Feminisms, Anti-Extractivist Praxis, Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies
Veenit Singh: Labor movements, political sociology, decolonial theory, higher education unionism, Palestine solidarity, transnational activism, racial capitalism, and the political economy of the university