Jihye Yoo Lee
PhD Date: July 2023 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Friendship Networks and Adolescent Behavior: The Role of Network Structures in Facilitating Delinquent and Substance Use Behavior
Areas of Research/Teaching: Crime, Law, and Deviance; Drug and Society; Family; Demography; Quantitative Research Methods
Dissertation Committee: Ann Owens (Chair), Timothy Biblarz, Lynne Casper, Thomas Valente
Email: yoojihye@usc.edu
Kyunghwan Lee
PhD Date: Spring 2023 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Making the Economy through the National Income
Areas of Research/Teaching: Economic Sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociological Theory; Science Knowledge and Technology; Political Sociology
Dissertation Committee: Andrew Lakoff (Chair), Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Kyung Moon Hwang
Email: kyunghwl@usc.edu
Mary Ippolito
PhD Date: Spring 2023 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Postsecondary possibilities or private problems: Narrative futures in a public school
Areas of Research/Teaching: Sociology of Education; Sociology of Culture; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Emerging Adulthood; Imagined Futures; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Introduction to Sociology; Education; Social Problems; Qualitative Methods; Sociological Theory; Social Psychology Families
Dissertation Committee: Ann Owens (Chair), Paul Lichterman, Jody Agius Vallejo, Julie Posselt
Email: maippoli@usc.edu
Blanca Ramirez
PhD Date: Spring 2023 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Between Unjust Law and Racialized Client: The Role of the Immigration Attorney in a Legally Violent Context
Areas of Research/Teaching: International Migration; Sociology of Law; Latina/o Sociology; Gender; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation Committee: Jody Agius Vallejo (Chair), Manuel Pastor, Natalia Molina, Hajar Yazdiha
Email: baramire@usc.edu
Karina Santellano
PhD Date: Spring 2023 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: Selling and Drinking Cultura: Latinx Coffeeshops in Southern California
Areas of Research/Teaching: Latinx Middle Class; Entrepreneurship; Culture; Intersectionality; Racial Capitalism; Urban Sociology; Higher Education
Dissertation Committee: Jody Agius Vallejo (Chair), Leland Saito, Ben Carrington, Natalia Molina
Email: ksantell@usc.edu
Website: karinasantellano.wordpress.com/
Elisabeth Shimada
PhD Date: Spring 2023 (Expected)
Dissertation Title: In Health, in Sickness: Romantic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Areas of Research/Teaching: Family Sociology; Social Stratification; Social Problems; Qualitative Methods; Intersectional Sociology; Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
Dissertation Committee: Jennifer Hook (Chair), Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Ann Owens, Emily Smith-Greenaway, Chris Finley
Email: eshimada@usc.edu