PhD's on the Market:
PhD Students:
| Duygu Alpan | Ewuraba (Baaba) Annan | Eymorfia (Eve) Argyropoulou | Breanna Brock |
| Fiona Burke | Irissa Cisternino | Gaëlle Aminata Colin | Andrew Collins |
| Karolyn DeKam | Nastassya Ferns | José Guevara Fino | Charles Fung |
| Marion Harper | Nayla Huq | Hannah Judson | Yoshie Kawado |
| Daseul Kim | Jeremy Levine | Bulin Li | Hao Lin |
| Silence Marsh | Dana McIntyre |
Sophia Moore |
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| Ida Nikou | Kajol Patel | Jessica Rojahn | Julian Rostek |
| Gyuho Shin | Katherine Stevick | W. Rafferty Thompson | Danial Vahabli |
| Jayne Yerrick |
Duygu studies international migration, authoritarianism, and political economy with
an emphasis on qualitative methods. Her research examines potential effects of political
repression and state authoritarianism on emigration behaviors in the context of Turkey.
It also addresses how gradual shifts in democracy challenge traditional understandings
of forced and voluntary migration. Her preliminary work on the subject received the
David Street Award for the best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper in
2020. Duygu has taught an undergraduate course in Research Methods and worked as a
Teaching Assistant of several courses including Introduction to Sociology, Historical
Development of Sociological Theory, Ethnic and Race Relations, Sociology of Human
Reproduction, and War and the Military. Prior to her graduate studies, she was a Project
Officer at the Global Political Trends Center in Istanbul, Turkey, where she primarily
worked on second-track diplomacy projects concerning the Cyprus question and Turkey-Armenia
rapprochement.
Email: duygu.alpan@stonybrook.edu
Breanna's work broadly focuses on the construction of race and ethnicity, racial identity, health disparities, and migration. More specifically, she explores racial identity, nativity, and experiences of racial discrimination impact racial and ethnic identity and mental health outcomes in African American and Black immigrant populations in the United States.
Email: breanna.brock@stonybrook.edu
Fiona Burke
Fiona received her MA in Sociology from Texas State University in 2019. She is a second year doctoral student in the program. Her research focuses on disability, medical sociology, gender, and caregiving.
Email: Fiona.Burke@stonybrook.edu
Irissa Cisternino
Irissa primarily studies topics related to identity, media & technology, and digital sociology. Additionally, her previous work has focused on the sociology of gender. She is a mixed-methods researcher, with a focus on computational social science as well as survey methodologies. Irissa teaches courses in introductory sociology, research methods, and media sociology. In her spare time, she enjoys writing fiction, reading fantasy books, and gaming.
Email: irissa.cisternino@stonybrook.edu
Gaëlle Aminata Colin
I am currently developing a dissertation project at the intersection of Black Feminist
Thought and Food Studies. I work on Black women within the African diaspora and use
art-based visual methods. See more on my website
Email: gaelleaminata.colin@stonybrook.edu
Andrew Collins
Andrew holds a BA in Sociology from Clark University and an MSC in Political Sociology
from the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests include computational
social science, social network analysis, and political sociology.
Email: Andrew.Collins@stonybrook.edu
Karolyn DeKam
Karolyn DeKam is a Ph.D. student in Sociology with broad interests in gender, media,
politics, and evangelical Christianity. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
with minors in Gender Studies and Communication from Calvin University. Following
graduation, she spent two years working in political advocacy in the areas of climate
and immigration. Currently, she is looking at progressive Christianity and hostile
religious institutions as microcosms of larger U.S. political polarization.
Email: karolyn.dekam@stonybrook.edu
Nastassya Ferns
Nastassya is interested in technology, collective memory, and transnational politics,
with a particular fascination for how digital media is used to memorialize past tragedies.
Passionate about field research and ethnography, she hopes to further explore the
voices that contribute to, and are shaped by, a rapidly growing technological society.
In her spare time, she enjoys walking, shopping, and playing the sitar.
Email: nastassya.ferns@stonybrook.edu
José Guevara Fino
My interests encompass social movements and sociology of education, with a regional
focus on Latin America. Currently, I am looking into recent cases of student-led protests
in both Colombia and Chile, trying to understand perceptions around what constitutes
a “successful protest”, and how these perceptions transform the political repertoires
available to actors in the long run.
Email: jose.guevarafino@stonybrook.edu
Charles Fung
Charles Fung received his Master of Philosophy in Government and Public Administration
at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include state (trans)formation,
fiscal politics, identity-making, geopolitics, and governance, focusing on how these
processes unfold in the context of colonial/imperial rule. What connects all these
research interests is the concern of understanding how the exercise of state power
(effectively or otherwise) and bottom-up resistances in the past co-created the present
circumstances. In short, he is inclined to approach puzzling phenomena from the historical-sociological
lens with archival and comparative-historical methods.
Email: chikeung.fung@stonybrook.edu
Marion Harper
Marion is a Ph.D. student in Sociology with a focus on environmental sociology. Her
research interests center around environmental policies and outcomes. She plans on
examining how differing cultural and institutional factors contribute to disparities
in resource distribution and environmental outcomes.
Email: marion.harper@stonybrook.edu
Nayla Huq
Nayla received her BA in English from UCLA, and MA in Sociology from CSU Northridge. Her research interests are at the intersection of social movements, economic development, and environmental sociology with a geographic focus on South and Southeast Asia. She is currently conducting a cross-national, longitudinal study that explores if import-export relations of forestry commodities challenge long-standing environmental sociological theory. Previously, she studied the work of a fake grassroots education reform social movement organization pushing for neoliberal changes in California public schools.
Nayla was awarded the 2021 US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Indonesian. She has also been awarded academic achievement scholarships at the master’s level, and the 2021 Summer Sociology Graduate Student Research Award from Stony Brook University.
Nayla has taught Sociological Theory and will be teaching Environmental Sociology.
Email: nayla.huq@stonybrook.edu
Daseul Kim
Daseul Kim holds a BA Media and Communications degree from Goldsmiths, University
of London and is completing an MSc in Sociology at the University of Bristol. Her
research interests mainly align with the sociology of art, culture, gender inequality,
youth discourse (including mental health), and she is interested in the interrelated
concepts of sociology, art, and culture.
Email: daseul.kim@stonybrook.edu
Jeremy Levine
Jeremy Levine is a graduate student whose main areas of interests include political
economy, economic sociology, global and transnational sociology, and political sociology.
He completed his Bachelor's in Finance at Fairleigh Dickinson University and his Master's
in Public Policy in International Affairs at William Paterson University. Jeremy has
also previously been an Adjunct Professor at multiple universities in New York and
New Jersey.
Email: jeremy.levine@stonybrook.edu
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Levine, Jeremy. 2023. "Professional Sports, Authoritarian Capitalism, and Their Impact on the Global Community." The International Journal of Sport and Society 14 (2): 51-67. doi:10.18848/2152-7857/CGP/v14i02/51-67.
Levine, Jeremy. 2023. "The Political Dimensions of Conflict and Globalization: What Russia and China Have Recently Taught Us about the Fallout and Political Ramifications of Globalization." The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies 18 (2): 17-30. doi:10.18848/2324-755X/CGP/v18i02/17-30.
Book Chapter Publications:
Levine, Jeremy. 2023. “ Commercialization and Economics of Sports: Human Rights Implications.” In Globalisation, Human Rights, Sports, and Culture, Book #37. Editors, Yvonne Vissing and Joseph Zajda. 39-58. Springer Publishers.
Hao Lin
Hao studies racial inequality, social contagion and social networks. Broadly, she is interested in applying computational methods to study social behavior. She completed her undergrad at Central University of Finance and Economics, China in 2017 and received a MSc in sociology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 2019.
Email: Hao.Lin@stonybrook.edu
Danielle Lucksted
Danielle Lucksted is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook
University. Her research falls at the intersection of memory studies and law and
society, with concentrations on human rights norms and institutions, memory laws,
and comparative memorialization of atrocity. She received an M.A. in Human Rights
from University College London in 2014 and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought
from New York University in 2019. Danielle currently serves as student representative
for the Sociology of Human Rights section of the American Sociological Association.
Before embarking on her Ph.D., Danielle worked full-time in intimate partner violence
prevention.
Email: danielle.lucksted@stonybrook.edu
After completing a BA in Sociology at Hamline University, Silence went on to work
as an Elections Administrator in local government for five years. Silence is a first-year
PhD student with a particular interest in using mixed-methods research to better understand
how political sociology topics such as elections integrity and voting can be situated
in a global context.
Email: silence.marsh@stonybrook.edu
Dana Annette McIntyre
Dana McIntyre is a Brooklyn Native who is currently a fourth year doctoral student
at Stony Brook University. She is interested in community-engaged research that explores
the sociology of anti-blackness and coloniality and how It constructs collective memory,
the political economy, and black liberation narratives across the African Diaspora,
more specifically in the Caribbean. She was the recipient of the 2021 International
Graduate Research Fellowship Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and
traveled to Ghana in 2022 for a Fulbright-Hayes Group Study Abroad fellowship, which
has given her the opportunity to study decolonial approaches to research and engage
with culturally diverse communities within African Diaspora. Dana also was the recipient
of the 2023 Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS) Summer Research Award to conduct
a project exploring collective memory and culture within West Indian Education. Dana
has an MPH in Health Policy & Management from New York University.
Email: dana.mcintyre@stonybrook.edu
Sophia Moore
Ida Nikou
Ida’s interests are broadly animated by questions about the dynamics of power, inequality,
and social change under global capitalism. In particular, they explore how people
experience and make sense of the social, economic, and political transformations associated
with rapidly intensifying economic precarity and social inequality. Ida’s dissertation
research examines the Iranian labor movement and the erosion of worker rights in the
face of neoliberal globalization policies through a comparative and critical ethnographic
approach. Ida has taught several undergraduate courses in Deviance, Crime, Technology,
and Introduction to Sociology.
Email: ida.nikou@stonybrook.edu
Kajol Patel
Kajol is interested in environmental and political sociology, with a focus on cross-national
analysis. Currently, she is interested in decoding the disparities in air pollution
outcomes globally, giving particular focus to studying the role of institutional actors
such as international non-governmental actors under the world-society framework. Kajol
's future project interests include studying the democracy-environment nexus, climate
migration, the media coverage of climate change or environmental news, and the changes
in global environmental agreements such as those posited yearly at the United Nations'
Climate Change Conference of the Parties.
Along with the environment, Kajol is interested in studying changes in public opinion around drug use and reproductive rights in the United States as the legal status of these subjects continue to shift dramatically over the last decade.
Kajol has previously taught Research Methods in Sociology and will teach Social Deviance in summer 2023.
Email: kajol.patel@stonybrook.edu
Gyuho Shin
Gyuho studies political sociology focused on people's attitude change. He is recently
working on how multi-dimensional gender ideology affects people's political affiliation
and if that process can be captured with survey data and long-term autobiographic
data, i.e., Twitter. Also, he is interested in comparing issues of political sociology
and gender ideology of the United States and Korea where he came from. Apart from
studying, he enjoys cooking and adding new menus to his recipe book.
Email: shin.gyuho@stonybrook.edu
W. Rafferty Thompson
My interests are in economic sociology, political sociology, comparative methodology,
and the sociology of morality. I study political prediction markets. How do political
prediction market traders balance their economic interests and political interests?
How do individual actors, firms, and regulators in the prediction market field think
about the moral status of trading? That is, do they consider it to be a form of gambling?
And, more broadly, how did political prediction markets emerge as a new technology
to gauge public opinion?
Email: wyatt.thompson@stonybrook.edu
Danial Vahabli
Danial Vahabli is a sociology PhD student at Stony Brook University and the Graduate
Fellow of Institute for Advanced Computational Science. His research uses both computational and qualitative methods to study the intersection of culture, globalization, and resistance.
His dissertation project focuses on international media representation of domestic
protests with insights from social movement studies, world society theory, and media
studies. He is also interested in protest art and its role in everyday acts of resistance.
Prior to coming to Stony Brook University, he received a B.Sc in physics from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
Email: danial.vahabli@stonybrook.edu
Website: https://www.danialvahabli.com/
Jayne Yerrick
Jayne Yerrick is a first-year PhD student whose research interests include gender,
inequality, and media. In May 2022, Jayne graduated with a B.S. in Journalism, a minor
in Sociology, and a certificate in Political Communication. Currently, she is focused
on studying gender-based violence, with a particular interest in alcohol-facilitated
sexual violence on college campuses.
Email: jayne.yerrick@stonybrook.edu
Master's Students
Julianna Orlassino
Jonas Kinsey