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School of Sociology
Social Sciences 400
P.O.Box 210027
Tucson, AZ 85721-0027
Tel: (520) 621-3531
Fax: (520) 621-9875
Director
Dr. Albert Bergesen
Social Sciences 417C
Tel: (520) 621-3303
"albert@email.arizona.edu"
Students
Graduate Associate
Social Sciences 439B
Kathryn is a second-year Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Arizona. She is interested in race/ethnicity, health and health care, urban sociology, inequality, and quantitative methods. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the social sources of health disparities. She has an M.S. in Sociology from Oklahoma State University (2011) and a B.A. in Sociology from the...
Nadina Anderson is currently a 2nd year PhD student in Sociology, having received her B.A. in 2010 in Sociology from Stanford University. Her interests include social psychology, gender, and Eurasian Studies. She is currently writing her master's thesis on Ukrainian emigration and is interested in gender and social identity in post-Soviet regions.
(520) 621-3696
Soc Sci 416
Tracy is a doctoral candidate in sociology. Her interests include consumption, food, culture, social networks, and organizations. She is developing a dissertation project that examines the organizations involved in creating discourse around the family meal and the extent to which families' actual consumption practices correspond with that discourse. She has taught several courses, including...
Ph.D. Candidate
(520) 621-1089
Soc Sci 426
Sondra N. Barringer is currently a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Arizona she is scheduled to defend her dissertation in April 2013. Her dissertation and collaborative research all center around her research program which focuses on understanding the nature and consequences of organizational interdependencies for higher education organizations and their constituencies. Her...
Research Interests:
Stratification, Economic sociology, Political sociology, Urban sociology (particularly interested in how space matters while studying representations and behaviors).
Previous researches:
I did my MA thesis on Transantiago, the reform of public transportation in Santiago de Chile. The research sought to understand the process of modernization using literacy on public policies...
Ph.D. Candidate
520-621-3531
520-621-9875
436C
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Arizona. My dissertation examines the emotional experiences of workers in emotionally intensive workplaces. In particular, I use the case of hospice workers to better understand the diversity of ways that emotions are felt, expressed, managed, and interpreted within routinized care work.
Hannah is a second-year Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Arizona. Her interests include culture, consumers and consumption, economic sociology, urban studies, and religion. She is especially interested in the relationship between consumer culture and community, particularly its effects on collective identity and inequality. She received her M.A. in Sociology from Boston College and...
Ph.D. Candidate
(520) 260-9538
(520) 621-9875
Soc Sci 436
Jessie K. Finch is a Sociology Ph.D. Candidate currently in her 4th year. She specializes in race and ethinicty and immigration as well as culture, specifically popular culture and media. She has a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Arizona (2011) and a B.A. in Sociology and Music from the University of Tulsa (2007). Jessie has also won the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research...
Soc Sci 426a
Krista is a second-year PhD student in Sociology at The University of Arizona. She is interested in gender, organizations, social movements, and law. Currently, she is interested in Family Responsibility Discrimination in the workplace and studying the benefits of organizational integration of work/life balance accommodations. She received both a BS (2008) and MS (2012) in Sociology from BYU,...
Graduate Teaching Associate
Michael Gibson is a PhD student at the University of Arizona in the Department of Sociology.He received his BA in Sociology in 2009 from the University of Missouri - Saint Louis.
Substantive areas of interest include the Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, the Production of Culture, Capital Mobilization, Media, Art, Consumption, and Ethnographic methods.
Social Sciences 412
René is a first-year PhD student in sociology at the University of Arizona. She is interested in economic sociology, race/ethnicity, gender, and culture. She received a B.A. cum laude with honors in Afro-American studies and a minor in ethics from Smith College (2008). She served as a research associate for a project focused on educated women and financial knowledge, and is third author on a...
PhD Candidate
(520) 621-3696
Soc Sci 416
Megan M. Henley is a PhD candidate in Sociology. She completed her M.A. in Sociology at the University of Arizona in 2010, after earning her B.A. at the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Her dissertation explores how doulas use scientific evidence versus alternative knowledge systems to legitimate their supportive role in childbirth to the medical community, and to potential clients.
Ph.D. Candidate
(520) 621-3696
Social Sciences 413A
Dee Hill Zuganelli is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Arizona. Before arriving at Arizona, he completed a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Kentucky in 2005, specializing in community mental health service delivery, parenting instruction, and adolescent well-being. He completed his Master's in sociology at Arizona in 2010. His substantive...
Research/Teaching Associate
Daniel E. Martinez recently successfully defended his dissertation in the School of Sociology and is currently an affiliate of the Binational Migration Institute in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Catholic University of America in Washington DC where he teaches courses on Juvenile Delinquency...