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
Bing Han
Ph.D. Expected: 2026
Dissertation Title: Intersecting Stigmas: Understanding the Social Costs of Health Lifestyles during the Life Course
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Trenton Mize (Co-Chair), Dr. Shawn Bauldry(Co-Chair), Dr. Christie Sennott, and Dr. Elliot Friedman
Research Interests: Health and well-being; stereotypes and stigma; quantitative methodology; computational sociology; social psychology; aging and the life course
Teaching Interests: Medical Sociology, Research Design, Social Psychology, and Aging and the Life Course, Introduction to Statistics, Advanced Quantitative Methods (e.g., experimental design, categorical data analysis, structural equation modeling, longitudinal data analysis)
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