Current Graduate Students
Current graduate students are listed below alphabetical order by last name in the cohort they entered the department.
2019-2020 Cohort
Courtney Williams
Email: wcourt2@lsu.edu
Advisor: Rhiannon A. Kroeger
Research Interests: Reproductive health; medicalization; family; gender & bodies
CV
2018-2019 Cohort
Rob Matchett
Email: rmatch1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Mark H. Walker
Research Interests: Disability; social psychology; gender& sexuality
CV
2017-2018 Cohort
Caitlin Charles
Email: cchar12@lsu.edu
Advisor: Michael S. Barton
Research Interests: Domestic violence; criminology; sexual assault
CV
James Jordan
Email: jjord73@lsu.eduAdvisor: Mark J. Schafer
Research Interests: Community; altruism, morality and social solidarity; environmental sociology; collective behavior and social movements
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.eduAdvisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr
Research Interests: Science & technology studies, health, development
CV
Kyle Breen
Email: kbreen3@lsu.edu
Advisor: Sarah Becker
Research Interests: Disaster, environmental justice, social vulnerability, qualitative methods
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: Gender, sexuality, race, and queer studies
CV
Danequa Forrest
Email: danequalashee@yahoo.com
Advisor: Samuel Stroope
Research Interests: Health, race, applied statistics
CV
Kathryn Keating
Email: kkeati7@lsu.edu
Advisor: Tim Slack
Research Interests: Health/mental health, family, human-environment systems, disaster, 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
Jiabin Fan
Email: jfan7@lsu.eduAdvisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Social networks, sociology of science and technology, Asian studies
CV
Oliver Garretson
Email: ogarre1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Wesley M. Shrum, Jr.
Research Interests: Social networks, new media, science & technology studies
CV
Ashley Maryland
Email: amaryl1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Lori L. Martin
Research Interests: Race, crime, policing
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: Reentry, community organization, social support, crime & delinquency
CV
Leah Drakeford
Email: pdrake1@lsu.edu
Advisor: Samuel Stroope
Research Interests: Corrections, health, religion
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
2013-2014 Cohort
Tasia Mehzabin Kazi
Email: tmehza1@lsu.eduAdvisor: Dana Berkowitz
Research Interests: Gender, race, immigration policies
CV