Current Graduate Students
Current graduate students are listed below alphabetical order by last name in the cohort they entered the department.
2018-2019 Cohort
2017-2018 Cohort
Caitlin Charles
Email: cchar12@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton
Research Interests: Domestic violence; criminology; sexual assault
CV
Dustin Lovercamp
Email: dlover2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Heather Rackin
Research Interests: Family, demography
CV
Marcus Venable
Email: mvenab8@lsu.edu
Advisor: Matthew Valasik
Research Interests: Criminology, sexual assault, sex-offender recidivism, sex-offender registries
CV
2016-2017 Cohort
John K. Aggrey
Email: jaggre1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr
Research Interests: Science & technology studies, health, development
CV
Kyle Breen
Email: kbreen3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michelle A. Meyer &
Research Interests: Education, disaster, social vulnerability, stratification
CV
Andrew Burns
Email: aburn38@lsu.edu
Advisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Media, social psychology, criminology
CV
Lynnette Coto
Email: lcoto1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dana Berkowitz
Research Interests: Criminology, domestic violence, deviance, substance use
CV
Danequa Forrest
Email: danequalashee@yahoo.com
Advisor: Samuel Stroope
Research Interests: Autism spectrum disorder, family, military
CV
Kathryn Keating
Email: kkeati7@lsu.edu
Advisor: Tim Slack
Research Interests: Health/mental health, medical sociology, rural populations
CV
Maretta McDonald
Email: mmcdo53@lsu.edu
Advisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Race/ethnicity, criminology, public policy
CV
Kami Rutherford
Email: kruthe4@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, culture
CV
2015-2016 Cohort
Cihan Aydiner
Email: caydin1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Immigration, social inequality, military
CV
Jiabin Fan
Email: jfan7@lsu.edu
Advisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Social networks, sociology of science and technology, Asian studies
CV
Oliver Garretson
Email: ogarre1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Social networks, new media, science & technology studies
CV
Ashley Maryland
Email: amaryl1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Race, crime, policing
CV
Tim Reling
Email: trelin2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton & Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Criminology, urban sociology, social psychology
CV
2014-2015 Cohort
Ramazan Aydogdu
Email: raydog1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Yoshinori Kamo
Research Interests: Family, religion, military
CV
Elizabeth Brault
Email: emarks7@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton & Matthew Valasik
Research Interests: Corrections, juvenile delinquency, domestic violence
CV
Leah Drakeford
Email: pdrake1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Samuel Stroope
Research Interests: Health, religion, disasters
CV
Brad Ictech
Email: bradictech@gmail.com
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Social psychology, online games, smartphones, virtual reality
CV
Derrick Lathan
Email: dlatha1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Race, race rhetoric & racial depictions, blackness, education
CV
Vanessa Parks
Email: vparks1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Tim Slack
Research Interests: Disasters, environment, health, social capital
CV
J. Carlee Purdum
Email: jsmi488@lsu.edu
Advisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Incarceration in disaster, rural disasters & emergency services, long-term recovery,
social vulnerability
2013-2014 Cohort
Isaiah Cohen
Email: icohen1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Mark J. Schafer
Research Interests: Education, marriage and the family, sociology of law
CV
Tasia Mehzabin Kazi
Email: tmehza1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Dana Berkowitz
Research Interests: Gender, race, immigration policies
CV
Hyojung Kim
Email: hkim42@lsu.edu
Advisor: Yoshinori Kamo
Research Interests: work & family, gender, social inequality, social demography, domestic violence,
oral history
CV
Muhammed Yildiz
Email: myildi1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Yoshinori Kamo
Research Interests: Deviance, mental health, military
CV
2012-2013 Cohort
2011-2012 Cohort
Rose Kelley
Email: rkell29@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker & Mark J. Schafer
Research Interests: Education, race, sociology of sport
CV