My research interests include incarceration and post incarceration as it relates to personal finances and race.

My research interests include communities and crime, as well as environmental criminology.

Kaylin is a doctoral student who earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of North Florida and her Master of Arts from the University of Iowa.

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Iowa. I use both qualitative and computational methods to examine the causes and consequences of organizational and social change, and, in particular, the role that technology and collective action play in this change.

I graduated from Benedictine College in 2012 with my Bachelor of Arts. I majored in Economics, International Studies, and Foreign Language. I’m interested in inequality, immigrant experiences in the US, cultures, methodology, economics, sociolinguistics and many other topics.

I earned an AA degree with an Emphasis in Math and Science from Cypress College in 2020 before transferring to California State University, Fullerton where I graduated in 2023 with a BA in Sociology with a Concentration in Social Inequalities and a minor in Philosophy.

I'm Isaac from Benin City, Nigeria. My research interest is the intersection between Migration and Crime.

I'm Mahdi and I grew up in Tehran, Iran. My interest in sociology deals with the intersection of politics and economics.

Patrick is native of Vancouver, WA and graduated from BYU with a Bachelor's in Sociology.

I am a first-year PhD student from the small town of Athens, OH. I graduated from Ohio University with my B.A in Sociology (2020), B.S in Psychology (2021) and M.A in Sociology (2022) where I studied the effects of COVID-19 on the self-perceived mental health of first-year college students.

Kimberly holds B.S. degrees in Psychological Science and Criminal Justice/Criminology from Ball State University and an M.S. degree in Criminal Justice Sciences from Illinois State University. Her research interests include queer criminology, gender-based violence and victimization, and sex offending.

My name is Donghyun "Henry" Kim (김동현; 金東鉉). I obtained B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Chung-Ang University, South Korea. During that period, I aimed to contribute to the understanding of social anxiety disorder by investigating how individuals with social anxiety are sensitive to non-verbal social cues and how this sensitivity affects their emotions and social functioning in negative ways. 

After earning a 4-year Bachelors of Science degree in Sociology with a Psychology minor at Northeastern University, I came to the University of Iowa to pursue a PhD and gain expertise in teaching. In December of 2019, I successfully defended my MA thesis; and in 2021 I passed my comprehensive exams in Social Psychology (with distinctions) and Mental Health.

I’m a native of Illinois. I went to Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, for my undergraduate studies, majoring in sociology with minors in Spanish and psychology.

I graduated from University of Iowa in 2021 with B.A.s in Criminology and Spanish, as well as a minor in Latino/a/x Studies.

Asa's primary research interests include social stratification and crime, specifically white-collar and corporate crime and corruption. He is interested in studying how environmental factors and geographical locations affect crime rates, as well as which demographic populations are affected the most. 

My passion for sociology started at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Sociology along with a minor in Mathematics.

I was born and raised in California, but my family is originally from Jalisco, Mexico! My research experience has focused primarily on non-traditional college students to understand how institutions of higher education can better support their unique needs. My broader research interests are higher education, racial inequality, immigration, and utilizing feminist methodologies.

I grew up in Northern Colorado near the Rocky Mountains and then I went on to graduate from Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) in 2019 with a B.A. in Criminology and Honors.

I earned my B.A. in International Relations and Development Studies at International Christian University in Japan (2017), and MSc in Development Studies at London School of Economics (2018).

My main research interest lies in Social Psychology, its application, and the micro-macro link.

I am a doctoral student who earned a BA in Sociology from Adams State University, and after an internship with the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics went on to earn an MS in Statistical Science from the University of Idaho.

I completed a BA in Psychology from Southern New Hampshire University, and an MA in clinical mental health counseling from Adler University in Chicago. My sociological interests are regarding the systems affecting gender expansive/transgender, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized youth in the education and mental health realms.

Chad Rhym is a Graduate Student in the Department of Sociology from Athens, GA. He is a recent 2019 graduate from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.

I graduated from Indiana University in 2020 with B.S. degrees in human biology and psychology. My research interests lie at the intersection of public health, sociology, and criminology.

I graduated from Utah State University with a BA in Sociology and a minor in Biology. While there I worked primarily with West Nile Virus in a virology laboratory.

My fields of interest include social ecology and environmental criminology.

In 2018 and 2019, I received my BS in Psychology and my BA in Sociology with a minor in LGBTQ+ studies from Louisiana State University. I then went on to get my MA in Sociology from the University of Central Florida.

My research focuses on the social construction, maintenance, and change of cultural beliefs and norms in ordinary interactions of everyday life. I am interested in identifying social psychological mechanisms driving cultural consensus or non-consensus using computational, experimental, and mixed-method approaches.

I’m a post-comprehensive exam PhD student in the department of sociology and criminology. My primary research interests are gender, sexualities, masculinities, and the sociology of culture, especially media and popular culture.

I obtained an MA in Sociology at Portland State University and wrote my thesis on how racial heterogeneity in adolescent friendship networks impacts mental health outcomes.

Hannah is a recent graduate from the University of Iowa with a B.S. in sociology. For their undergraduate thesis, they developed a case study of a racialized medical algorithm to study how ideas about race travel through citation networks.