Affiliated Academic Appointees

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Maurice Anyawie
Postdoctoral Scholar

manyawie@uchicago.edu

Interests: Fertility, formal demography, immigration, marriage, child mortality, and family sociology
Elizabeth S. Avent
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and on the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) at NORC at the University of Chicago

eavent@uchicago.edu

Interests: Elder abuse, late-life intimate partner violence, caregiving, dementia and cognitive impairment, and adverse childhood experiences
Cameron Beckett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Center for Health and Social Sciences (CHESS), and NORC

cbeckett@uchicago.edu

Interests: Medical Sociology; Cross-Cultural Health Research; Informal Caregiving; Lay Expertise and Knowledge; Dementia Care
Elizabeth Bersson
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Sociology and the Mansueto Institute
Chad Broughton
Instructional Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division

ceb@uchicago.edu
Maximilian Cuddy
Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology

Interests: Race, education, urban sociology

mcuddy@uchicago.edu
 
Henry K. Dambanemuya
Assistant Instructional Professor, Masters in Computational Social Science (MACSS)

hdambane@uchicago.edu

Interests: Computer science, communication, global affairs, collective intelligence problems in complex systems
Cameron Day
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

camkday23@uchicago.edu
Pranathi Diwakar
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago

pranathi@uchicago.edu
Hongbo Fang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and Knowledge Lab

hongbofang@uchicago.edu

Interests: Computational social science, innovation, evolution of online communities and social media activities, the societal impact of large language models
Caterina Fugazzola
Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in the the Global Studies Program

cfugazzola@uchicago.edu

Interests: Social movements, gender and sexuality, transnational sociology, social change, culture, East Asia, qualitative methods
Teng Ge
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

tengge@uchicago.edu
Swarnabh Ghosh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology, Urban Theory Lab (UTL), and the Committee on
Environment, Geography and Urbanization

swarnabh@uchicago.edu

Interests: infrastructure and urbanization, critical economic and environmental geography,
empire and colonialism, history and historical geography of capitalism, political ecology,
social theory
Karlyn Gorski
Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

gorski@uchicago.edu

Interests: High schools, ethnography, adolescent development, public policy, sociology of education
april graham-jackson
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation

algjackson@uchicago.edu

Interests: Geographic development, racial capitalism, sub/urban migration, music and sound, Black identity, Chicago Metropolitan Area
Marshall Jean
Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology, M.A. Program in the Social Sciences

marshalljean@uchicago.edu

Interests: Education, urban sociology, social inequality, public policy, data science, quantitative methods, causal inference, hierarchical linear modeling
Dawoon Jeong
Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology and the Knowledge Lab

jdwoon0523@uchicago.edu
Julian Jurgenmeyer
Harper-Schmidt Fellow

juljur@uchicago.edu

Interests: Power, Identity, Resistance
Can Mert Kokerer
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

kokererc@uchicago.edu
Austin Kozlowski
Assistant Director and Senior Research Associate at the University of Chicago Knowledge Lab

Interests: Computational sociology, sociology of culture, political sociology, science and knowledge

akozlo@uchicago.edu
 
Ningzi Li
Postdoctoral Scholar, Data Science Institute

ningzi@uchicago.edu

Interests: Economic sociology, organizational theory, strategic management, computational social science
Jiajie (Jerry) Luo
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and Knowledge Lab

jerryluo8@uchicago.edu

Interests: Mathematics, socially motivated applications and problems, topological data analysis, complex social systems
Jesse McDevitt-Irwin
Harper-Schmidt Fellow

jrmcirwin@uchicago.edu
Nisarg Mehta
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences

nmm2121@uchicago.edu
Sabrina Nardin
Assistant Instructional Professor, Masters in Computational Social Science (MACSS)

Interests: Cultural and political processes

nardin@uchicago.edu
 
Salih Noor
Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow

Research interests: Long-run development, comparative-historical sociology, and institutions and institutional change.

snoor@uchicago.edu
 
Alireza Javadian Sabet
Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology and the Knowledge Lab

javadian@uchicago.edu
Hanock Spitzer
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences

haspitzer@uchicago.edu
Connor Strobel
Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor

strobel@uchicago.edu

Interests: Contested identities, sexuality, gender, sociology of law, health, social movements, sociological theory
Alexandra Tate
Research Director, Section of Hospital Medicine

atate@bsd.uchicago.edu

Interests: decision-making, doctor-patient interactions and relationships, end-of-life care
Jonathan Tollefson
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Sociology and the Mansueto Institute
Robert Ward
Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology and the Knowledge Lab

rbward@uchicago.edu
Elijah Watson
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Health and Social Sciences (CHeSS)
Huadong Xiong
Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology and the Knowledge Lab

hdx@uchicago.edu
Selena Zong
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and on the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) at NORC at the University of Chicago