Teaching and Advising

Chair of dissertation committees (10)
Cristine Khan (in progress), Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Locating Anti-Blackness, Contesting Racial Ideologies: Constructing ‘Indo-Caribbean’ Second-Generation Identities in New York and Toronto

Angela LaScala-Gruenewald (in progress), Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Transferred Debt: Balancing Crime, Punishment, and Budgets through Legal Financial Obligations

Viktor Andre Bensus Talavera (in progress), Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Rezoning New York: Class and Racial Inequalities in the Struggle for Space

Dakota Ross-Cabrera (in progress), Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Digital Dating and Latinx Identity: How Latinx Young Adult Dating App Users Navigate Online Identity and Relationship

Sangmi (Mia) Sung (in progress), Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Rebuilding Lives in Non-Traditional Destinations: The Impact of Dispersal Placement on Resettled Refugees' Integration in the United States

Kevin Morris (2023), Voting Rights Researcher, Brennan Center for Justice
Dissertation Title: From Voting Rights to Voter Turnout: Three Papers On the Interplay of Racial Resentment, Racial Threat and Politics

Edwin Grimsley (2023), Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College
Dissertation Title: The Construction of Marijuana Possession Laws and Policies: How Policymaking and Enforcement Racialized the War on Marijuana

Kasey Zapatka (2022), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley
Dissertation Title: The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Spatial and Longitudinal Dimensions of Housing Affordability

Hayden Ju (2022), Research Analyst, Office of Applied Research, Evaluation, and Data Analytics, CUNY
Dissertation Title: Navigating Families, Negotiating Identities: Asian-White Mixed Family Experiences

Dialika Sall (2020), Assistant Professor, Lehman College
Dissertation Title: (Re)Defining Blackness: Race, Ethnicity, and the Children of West African Immigrants

Member of dissertation committees (22)
Brittany Suh (in progress), Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Janina Selzer (2023), Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hamilton College
Francisco Lara-García (2022), Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University     
Minh Nguyen (2022), Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia GSAPP                     
Max Papadantonakis (2022), Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Professional Studies              
Magda Maaoui (2021), Urban Planner and Research Associate, Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
Tiffany Huang (2021), Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania                     
Kathleen Griesbach (2020), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin
Rebecca Karam (2020), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University                        
Brenda Gambol (2020), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Dallas                                 
Bailey Brown (2020), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Spellman College                                                    
Brittany Fox-Williams (2020), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Lehman College                 
Nicol Valdez (2019), National Poverty Fellow, Institute for Research on Poverty 
Warren McKinney (2018), Vice President for Equity in Research, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute                                 
Lauren Fox (2018), Senior Director of Policy, Public School Forum of North Carolina               
Adele Lee (2018), Associate Director of Operations, NYC Health + Hospitals
Julie Hyunjung Kim (2018), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Baruch College                                 
Jacquelyn Duran (2018), Director of Science Initiatives, Hollingworth Center, Teachers College
Marina Mazur (2017), Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Tolga Kobas (2017), Independent Scholar          

Devon Wade (2017), Deceased       
Jeremy Heyman (2016), Associate Director, Steppingstone Scholars, STEM & Ventures

Teaching and advising interests
Race, ethnicity, and immigration
American society and public policy
Intergroup relations and racial attitudes
Asian American studies and Latinx studies
Neighborhood integration and urban change
Civic engagment and political participation
Experimental, longitudinal and spatial methods

Courses taught
Graduate Seminars
Urban Social Policy
Immigrant New York
Global Immigrant Cities
Urban Poverty and the City
Qualitative Social Analysis
Qualifying Paper Seminar
Dissertation Development Seminar
Race, Ethnicity and Migration Workshop
Neighborhood Effects and Urban Poverty

Undergraduate Seminars and Lectures
Immigration and the Transformation of American Society
Methods for Social Research
Senior Thesis Seminar
Immigrant New York
Social Statistics