Former PhD Students (Dissertation Committee Chair)

Zoua M. Vang (2008, Sociology)

Assistant Professor of Sociology, McGill University

American and Irish Ghettos: A Comparison of Race and Residential Segregation in the United States and Ireland

Luisa Heredia (2008)

Lecturer, New York University

Dissertation Title:

The Catholic Church and the Immigrant Rights Movement: The Ethics and Politics of Mobilizing for Immigrant Rights

June Han (2006)

Dissertation Title:

Becoming South Asian: An Examination of Identity, Intergroup Relations, and Responses to 9/11

Wendy Roth (2006, Sociology and Social Policy)

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans’ and Puerto Ricans’ Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility

Karen Chai (Kim) (2000)

Research Associate, Center for Immigration Research, University of Houston

Dissertation Title:

Protestant-Catholic-Buddhist: Korean-Americans and Religious Adaptation in Greater Boston

Christina Gomez (1998)

Associate Professor of Sociology, Latino and Latin American Studies, Northeastern Illinois University

Dissertation Title:

The Racialization of Latinos in the United States: Racial Options in a Changing Society