Graduate Students

The graduate students are truly the pride of the USC Sociology Department. We recruit diverse graduate students who are theoretically and empirically engaged with research, teaching, and public sociology connected with gender, race, immigration, religion, civic engagement, culture, and families. Our graduate students consistently win College and University level fellowships as well external support from the American Sociological Association, and from foundations such as the National Science Foundation. Additionally, our students publish in prestigious journals such as Gender & Society, The American Sociological Review, and others.  Graduate students' engagement in organizing an annual campus symposium, an on-going brown bag colloquium on Intellectual Activism, and other activities makes this one of the most exciting departments in which to do graduate work. We place a high priority on placing our Ph.D. students in tenure track faculty positions and postdoctoral research positions. For a list of our recent placements, visit our outstanding alumni page.

Link to graduate student cohorts

Link to testimonials of graduate students


Nathaniel Burke

Email: scheidem@usc.edu
B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara 2011
Jessica Butler

Email: jlbutler@usc.edu
M.A. University of Southern California 2009
Stephanie Canizales

Email: canizale@usc.edu
BA UC - Los Angeles 2011
Megan Carroll

Email: mmcarrol@usc.edu
B.A. University of North Texas 2008
Kushan Dasgupta

Email: kushanda@usc.edu
B.A. University of Texas, Austin 2007
Emir Estrada

Email: eloy@usc.edu
M.A. University of Southern California 2010
Yu-Kang Fan

Email: yukangfa@usc.edu
M.A. National Taiwan University 2005
Sandra Florian Segura

Email: sandraf@usc.edu
Master in Urban Planning, University of Southern California 2009
Max Greenberg

Email: maxgreen@usc.edu
BA Univ Massachusetts Amherst 2006-05-28
Hoestevha Heap Of Birds

Email: heapofbi@usc.edu
B.A. University of Oklahoma 2009
Radheeka Jayasundera

Email: jayasund@usc.edu
M.A. University of Southern California 2010-05
Yuen Lam

Email: joylam@usc.edu
M.A. National University of Singapore 2005
Kara Lemma

Email: lemma@usc.edu
B.A. USC 2005-05
Sean McCarron

Email: smccarro@usc.edu
BA Pomona College 2007
Jazmin Muro

Email: jazminmu@usc.edu
BA Univ Denver
Michela Musto

Email: mmusto@usc.edu
BS Univ Michigan Ann Arbor
Caitlin Myers

Email: myerscai@usc.edu
BA Scripps College 2007-05-13
Bradly Nabors

Email: bnabors@usc.edu
M.A. University of Southern California 2009
Thien-Huong Ninh

Email: ninh@usc.edu
M.A. University of Southern California 2009
Tal Peretz

Email: tperetz@usc.edu
B.A. Penn State Univ 2005-05-01
Demetrios Psihopaidas

Email: psihopai@usc.edu
BA UC - San Diego 2008-06-13
Edson Rodriguez

Email: ecrodrig@usc.edu
M.A. University of Southern California 2009-05-15
Jeffrey Sacha

Email: sacha@usc.edu
M.A. University of Southern California 2011
Roxanne Stys

Email: stys@usc.edu
B.A. UC - Los Angeles 2006-09-15
Xiaoxin Zeng

Email: zengx@usc.edu
M.A. CSU - San Diego

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