Students on the Market
Mallory Bell
Ph.D. Expected: 2026
Dissertation Title: Differential Returns on Social Determinants of Health Among White and Black Older Adults
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Kenneth F. Ferraro, Dr. Patricia A. Thomas, Dr. Shawn Bauldry, Dr. Elliot M. Friedman
Research Interests: Health and aging, racial health disparities, life course antecedents to cognitive function, quantitative sociology
Teaching Interests: Social Problems, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Aging
Baylee Hudgens
Ph.D. Expected: 2026
Dissertation Title: Limited by the Legislature: An Examination of Protest Repression through Policymaking in the United States
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Rachel L. Einwohner (chair), Dr. Robin Stryker, Dr. Shawn Bauldry, and Dr. Jennifer Earl
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Law and Society, Social Movements
Teaching Interests: Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Research Methods, Law and Society, Political Sociology, and Sociology of Protest/Social Movements
Adam Kotanko
Ph.D. Expected: 2026
Dissertation Title: Conceptualizing and Studying Moral Ambassadors
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Daniel Winchester (chair), Dr. Rachel Einwohner, Dr. Robin Stryker, Dr. Jean Beaman, Dr. Trent Mize
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion; Morality, Emotions, and Identity; Social Movements; Social Stigma; Qualitative Methods
Teaching Interests: Religion; Morality, Altruism, and Solidarity; Emotions; Political Sociology; Qualitative and Community-based Methods; Sociological Theory; Teaching Sociology; Intro and Social Problems
Vasundhara Kaul
Ph.D.: 2025
Dissertation Title: Privacy Apathy: The Cultural and Affective Construction of Legal Consciousness of Online Data Privacy in the U.S. and Germany
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Robin Stryker, Dr. Trenton D. Mize, Dr. Spencer J. Headworth, Dr. Linda Renzulli, and Dr. Swati Srivastava.
Research Interests: Sociology of Law, Technology (Data Privacy and Surveillance), Quantitative and Computational Methods, Social Psychology, Inequality and Social Policy
Teaching Interests: Criminology, Law and Society, Technology and Society, Research Methods (Statistics, Categorical Data Analysis, Experimental Methods, Computational Methods for Text Analysis), Social Psychology