CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
Rebecca M. Amin
[email protected]
Specializations
Health and Life Course
Research Interests
My research interests include health disparities and their impact over the life course. I am also interested in issues involving older adults and what influences their decisions to age in place
Joy Dillard Appel
[email protected]
Specializations
Race and Urban Studies
Research Interests
Sociology of Race and Indigeneity, Urban and Community Studies, Sociology of Religion, Comparative Historical Sociology, Governance, Qualitative Methods and Social Network Analysis, Gerontology and the Life Course.
Publications
Google Scholar
Patricia M. Barrett
[email protected]
Specializations
Aging and the Life Course, Long-term Care and Healthcare Organizations, Families and Households, Gender and Sexuality, Education and Applied Research Methods
Logan Cline
[email protected]
Specializations
Health & Gender
Research Interests
LGBTQ topics, HIV and healthcare.
Jessica Fisher
[email protected]
Specializations
Gender, sexuality, transgender studies, non-binary gender expression, Gender identity formation and expression in 21st century United States
Research Interests
As an agender transgender woman I have a vested interest in the research that I do, particularly around non-binary gender and non-binary gender potentialities in the 21st century in the United States.
Tiara Giddings
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Urban Studies
George R. Greenidge Jr.
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Urban
Research Interests
Economic development of urban cities and affordable housing and the impact of displacement/gentrification on its residents.
Sarah Hanson
[email protected]
Specializations
Gender & Sexuality
Research Interests
Gender, sex and sexuality and various topics include the intersection of these with pornography, BDSM, relationship and sexual satisfaction and queer social movements.
Amanda Hodge
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Gender
Research Interests
Human rights, educational policy, international children’s rights and macro social work.
Tabitha Ingle
[email protected]
Specializations
Life Course
Research Interests
Current research focuses on a person’s life course as affected by health, health risk behaviors and socioeconomic factors. I am also interested in stratification, health, urban constructions around race and Geographical Information System (GIS) technology.
Monisha Jackson
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Gender
Research Interests
Experiences of queer Black women and Women of Colour (WOC); how we experience intersecting forms of oppression and negotiate our identities in different spaces.
Angela Jones
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Urban Studies
Research Interests
Urban and race studies, as well as how these topics intersect with gender. I am also interested in research regarding how social problems disproportionately affect different groups in society.
Jennie Lambert
[email protected]
Specializations
Gender, Mental Health, Sexuality
Research Interests
Gender, feminist theory, disability studies and mental health, as I believe medical sociology should be radicalized by feminist theory.
Jenna-Ashley Lee
[email protected]
Rachel McCrosky
[email protected]
Specializations
Health & Gender
Research Interests
the influence of gender and sexuality on health care experiences and diagnoses. Broader areas of interest include the social construction of pain, injury and bodily deviance.
Josephine Misaro
[email protected]
Specializations
Lifecourse & Health
Research Interests
Lifecourse and health which centers on quality of life in later years.
Zuri Murphy
[email protected]
Research Interests
Social movements, identity and community resilience.
Hersheda Patel
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Urban Studies
Research Interests
Race, stratification, organizations and higher education. Specifically, I am interested in how universities balance the needs for academic excellence, competitiveness and diversity in enrollment and how that balance affects students’ persistence and retention.
Sarah Davis Roche
[email protected]
LinkedIn
Specializations
Urban and community sociology
Research Interests
Neighborhoods; Schools; Social networks; Geographic Mobility; Economic Mobility; Housing; Gentrification; Race; Inequality; Social psychology; Child development; Research design; Network analysis; Spatial analysis; Quantitative methods.
Ashley Rockwell
[email protected]
Specializations
Gender & Sexuality
Research Interests
Analysis of gender narratives and representations in Super Bowl commercials, the impact of introductory sociology courses on the empathy of undergraduates, race and gender inequalities in obituaries and how gender and gendered segregated occupations relate to retirement, physical and psychological health and friendship networks.
Veronica B. Salcedo
[email protected]
Specializations
Race/Ethnicity & Gender
Research Interests
Intersections of race, ethnicity and gender limit SNC Pinays’ social and romantic interactions.
Bethany Stevens
Specializations
Sexuality & Gender
Research Interests
Sexuality research, particularly the politics of pleasure and working to end disparities in sexual health.
Shanae Stover
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Health
Melanie Turner-Harper
[email protected]
Specializations
Urban Studies & Sexuality
Research Interests
Sex work and sex trafficking narratives; pedestrianism, public space negotiation and street harassment; and social-political behavior of artists/musicians.
Ifeanyi Ukpabi
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Urban Studies
Research Interests
Examine the perpetual transformations of urban neighborhoods through their symbolic and built environments, their human populations and their lived experiences. Specifically, I focus on how class and racialized inequalities are inscribed within the urban geography.
Christina Wan
Specializations
Race & Gender
Research Interests
Multiracial identity and intersectionality.
Stefanie Wellons
[email protected]
Specializations
Ethnicity, Gender, Education, Racism, Identity
Research Interests
The complex interplay between identity, culture and power in (re)producing and contesting racist-sexist structures particularly observed in education and penal institutions.
Kam Williams
Specializations
Race & Urban
Research Interests
Historical content analysis, the social construction of race as it applies to the justice system, urban space, identity (amongst African descendants), gangs, mental health and racial movements (historic and non-historic) throughout the country.
Asantewaa Darkwa
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Urban Studies
Research Interests
Race/ethnicity, gender and incarceration.
Celessia Cannon
[email protected]
Specializations
Race & Sexuality
Research Interests
Research interests are race, sexuality and gender. Specifically, the point in which those three areas intersect. She is interested in adopting an intersectional, Afro-pessimism and black feminist approach. While researching Black women, whether mass incarceration or in the academy, intentionally centering joy is important.
Zoe E. R. Fawcett
[email protected]
Specializations
Gender & Sexuality
Research Interests
Zoe has varied research interests, but in general finds herself looking at topics within the realms of gender, sexual and/or racial inequality, as well as how we can create counter hegemonic spaces that promote equality and challenge oppressive systems.
Tyler Gay
[email protected]
Specializations
Race and Sexuality
Research Interests
Intersections of race, gender and sexuality. His specific focus is on the experiences of Black queer masculinities and of Black queer culture.
Leanna Greenwood
[email protected]
Specializations
Gender & Sexuality
Research Interests
Immigrant assimilation and gender development.
Kara Tsukerman
[email protected]
Specializations
Urban Studies & Health
Research Interests
The prevalence of sex and labor trafficking among homeless youth in Atlanta, Georgia.
Contact Us
The Department of Sociology
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Department Chair
Department Specialist
Director of Instruction
Undergraduate Director
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Director of Graduate Studies
Director of Online Sociology BA Program
Office / Delivery Address
Georgia State University
Department of Sociology
38 Peachtree Center Ave. SE
Suite 941
Atlanta, GA 30303
USPS Mailing Address
Georgia State University
Department of Sociology
P.O. Box 3965
Atlanta, GA 30302