Subfield: Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Middle East and North Africa

Subfield: Gender, Development, Labor and Employment, Politics, Social Movements, Middle East and North Africa

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods, Social Stratification and Mobility

Subfield: Sociology of gender, political sociology, socialism and postsocialism, comparative and historical sociology, ethnography

Subfield: Gender and Sexuality, Sociology of Law, Jurisprudence, Social Psychology

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity; Economic Sociology; Urban and Suburban Sociology; Housing; Health; Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility; Ethnography

Subfield: International Migration, Race & Ethnicity, Social Stratification & Mobility, Quantitative Methods

 I analyze diverse expressions of organized crime and social violence in the North America region. My current research uses computational methods such as machine learning for crime forecasting, and social network analysis to understand criminal networks.

Subfield: - Computational Sociology- Economic Sociology- Violence- Organized Crime

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Medical Sociology

Irene is currently studying the relationship between the medical training in the US and the ways in which medical students take actions against health inequities related to race, gender, and sexuality. Irene earned a B.A. in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a M.A. in Gender and Women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Internal grants from both institutions and a fellowship from the Fogarty Institute facilitated her previous research, which explores how class, gender, and ethnicity shape the experiences of teen pregnancy and home birth in Perú.

Subfield: Sociology of Medicine, Sociology of Gender, Ethnography, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice, Health Inequalities 

Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Labor, Political Sociology. 

• Gaddis, S. Michael and Nicholas V. DiRago. “Housing Audit Studies in the Social Sciences.” Forthcoming in Essays on the Sociology of Housing, edited by B. J. McCabe and E. Rosen.
• Gaddis, S. Michael, Nicholas V. DiRago, and Raj Ghoshal. “Searching for a Roommate: A Correspondence Audit Examining Racial Discrimination among Millennials.” In preparation.
• DiRago, Nicholas V. “Land Banks and Inequality in Shrinking Cities: How Organizations Govern Abandoned Urban Neighborhoods in the Contemporary United States.” In preparation.

Subfield: community and urban sociology; inequality, poverty, and mobility; sociology of population; political sociology; organizations, occupations, and work

Subfield: International Migration, Political Sociology, Forced Migration, Refugee Resettlement, Organizations, Qualitative Methods

Subfield: Gender, Social Demography, Family

Subfield: political sociology, the anthropology of the state, social movements, historical sociology and contemporary social theory, Middle Eastern Studies

Subfield: Sociology of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Comparative Historical Sociology; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Health

Subfield: Medical Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Social Movements; Critical Race Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Black Feminist Thought

 My research interests revolve around the relationships between cultural politics and nation-building processes, both for international and domestic consumption. 

Subfield: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Tourism, Caribbean Studies

Subfield: Gender, social categorization, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology

Subfield: Social Stratification and Inequality, Education, Comparative Political Economy, Organizations

Subfield: Comparative Historical Sociology, Organizations, Economic Sociology

Subfield: Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Stratification, Middle East & West Asia

Subfield: Race, Nationalism, Trauma, Collective Memory, Belonging, Identity Formation, Sikh Punjabis

Subfield: Social Network Analysis, Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, Ethnography, Political Polarization

Subfield: Computational Social Science; Urban Sociology

Subfield: International Migration, Legal Status, Race and Ethnicity, Health, Social Stratification, Youth Development

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Social Interaction

Subfield: Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Ethnography; Mixed Methods; Public Policy

Description of Previous and Ongoing Research Projects

• The Formation of Cosmologies on Death and Dying in Gang Members (2017)
• The Construction of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project and Gentrification in the Crenshaw District (2017) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Karida Brown

• The Effectiveness of Homeless Court Programs in Los Angeles (2017-2018) - Research Assistantship, Dr. Yeheskel "Zeke" Hasenfeld, (Rest In Peace, Zeke)

• The Contributions of Joan Moore to the Development of Critical Gang Studies and Reflexive Research Methodology (2019) - Collaboration with Dr. Robert Weide

• Traumatic Loss and Social Reproductions of Urban Violence in L.A. (ongoing)
• Income Generation Strategies, Job Seeking and Employment for Gang Members in a Gentrifying Los Angeles (ongoing)

Subfield: Critical Gang Studies; Material Scarcity; Social Violence; Hyper-Incarceration; Ethnography; Theory

Subfield: Subfield: Race & Ethnicity, Economy Sociology, Quantitative and Computational Methods

Subfield: Social Stratification and Mobility; Education; Race

Language and social interaction. Reciprocity and exchange behavior. Economic conversation analysis. Exposure, leaks, and sense making of contentious interactions.  Spanish conversation.  

Subfield: Conversation Analysis, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Language and Social Interaction, Linguistic Anthrpology, SociolinguisticsComprehensive exams: Conversation Analysis and Economic Sociology

Subfield: Political sociology, international migration, displacement, development, Southeast Asia, comparative ethnography and qualitative methods

Subfield: Sociology of law; gender and sexuality; ethnography; carcerality; race and ethnicity  

Subfield: Comparative-Historical; Race & Ethnicity; Gender; Inequality; Distribution, Maintenance, and Protection of Power

Subfield: International Migration; Globalization; Economic Sociology; East Asia; Qualitative Methods.

Subfield: Urban Sociology, Policing, Race & Ethnicity

Subfield: Social stratification, race and ethnicity, social demography, international migration

Subfield: Medical Sociology, Mixed Methods

Subfield: Carcerality; Black Feminist Thought; Race and Ethnicity; Law and Society; Critical Race Theory; Gender; Urban and Suburban Sociology; Historical Sociology Methods Specialization: Archival Ethnography; Geographic Information Systems

Subfield: Rental housing and landlords, political sociology, economic sociology, urban sociology, ethnography 

Subfield: Political Sociology; Social Movements; Development; Infrastructure and Land-use Policies; Environment & Natural Resources; Welfare Policies; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Ethnographic Methods; Brazil & India.

Subfield: Race and Ethnicity, Media, Culture

Subfield: Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender; Latinx and Black feminist theory; Nationalism; Qualitative methods

Subfield: Political sociology, comparative historical sociology, ethnography

Subfield: Incarceration; Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Social Movements;

Subfield: Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Socialist and Post-Socialist States, Welfare, Labor, Disability

Subfield: Aging and Life Course, Technology, Culture, Ethnography, Mixed Methods, Temporality