Student Research Projects


Kim McClain DaCosta
Sociology
"Remaking the Color Line: Social Bases and Implication of the Multiracial Movement"


Caroline Hanley
Sociology
"Labor Market Bifurcation and Wage Inequality in U.S. Cities: A Test of the Global City Hypothesis"


Eric Klinenberg
Sociology
"Dying Alone: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave"


Shelly Malhotra
Sociology
"Policing in Two Communities: The Spatial Control of Black Youth"


Cid Martinez
Sociology
"The Old and The New Pattern of Segregation: The Spatial Marginalization of Latinos in South Central L.A."


Nana Owusu-Darkwa
Anthropology
"Wild Hunger: Crack and Heroin Dependency in Postcolonial Ghana"



Joshua Page
Sociology
"The Political Exploitation of Hope and Fear: An Excavation of the Political Uses of Postsecondary Correctional Education in American Prisons"


Juan Simón Onésimo Sandoval
City and Regional Planning
"The Social Ecology of Work and Welfare: How Welfare Recipients Navigate Within the Urban Opportunity Structure to Overcome Social, Cultural, and Structural Barriers to Find Employment"