Students on the Market
Robert Frase
Ph.D. Expected: 2022
Dissertation Title: Adult Children's Education and Mother's Health: Exploring Instrumental Support, Emotional Support, and Adult Children's Problems as Underlying Mechanism
Dissertation Committee: J. Jill Suitor (Co-Chair), Shawn Bauldry (Co-Chair), Patricia Thomas, and Megan Gilligan
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Health Inequalities, and Quantitative Methods
Teaching Interests: Introduction to Sociology, Social Problem, Medical Sociology, Statistics
Yifei Hou
Ph.D.: Spring 2022
Dissertation Title: Intergenerational Transmission of Interpersonal Relationships in Adulthood: Patterns and Consequences on Well-Being Within Families
Dissertation Committee: J. Jill Suitor (Chair, Distinguished Professor), Shawn Bauldry, Danielle Kane, and Megan Gilligan
Research Interests: Family Relationships and Well-Being; Aging and the Life Course; Caregiving; Two (Three)-Child Policy and Parental Differential Treatment; Gender; Comparative Perspectives; Quantitative Methods; Mixed-Methods
Teaching Interests: Social Gerontology; Sociology of the Family; Medical Sociology; Social Psychology; Social Network; Social Problems; Sociological Theories; Social Research Method s
Brian McPhail
Ph.D.: Spring 2022
Dissertation Title: The Ecological Effects of Religion on Health and Mortality in China
Dissertation Committee: Fenggang Yang (Chair), Shawn Bauldry, Christopher G. Ellison, Daniel V.A. Olson
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Religion, Health Inequalities, East Asia, Quantitative Methods
Teaching Interests: Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Health, Sociology of Religion, Quantitative Methods
Elle Rochford

Ph.D.: Summer 2022
Current Position: Post-Doctural Research Associate at the University of Delaware Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-base Violence
Dissertation Title: Troubled Pasts and Filtered Futures: Framing Solidarity, Rights, and Threats across Racial Lines in the Reproductive Justice Movement
Dissertation Committee: Rachel Einwohner (Chair), Robin Stryker, Trenton Mize, Jean Beaman (UCSB)
Research Interests: Social Movements, Race/Ethnicity, Law & Society, Digital Sociology
Teaching Interests: Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Deviance and Social Control
Callie Zaborenko
Ph.D. Expected: 2022
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