Name: Terrence (Ma’ruf) Allison
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Race and Ethnic Minorities, and Medical Sociology with emphasis on Mental Health and Race.
Proposed Dissertation: “How Social and Organizational Arrangements Shape Work Stress in a Mental Health Work Setting”
tallis1@luc.edu

Name: Lydia S. Billatos
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Discrimination and Racial Inequality,Gender, Family, Quantitative Statistics
I have taught the following classes: Criminology, SocialDeviance
Email: lbillat@luc.edu

Name: Victoria Brockett
Program: M.A.
Research Interests: Racial Inequality, Public Sociology, Social Justice
Thesis topic: When Theory Meets Practice: How Social Movement Organizations are Facing Racial Inequality
vbrockett@luc.edu, CV

Name: Jennifer E. Cossyleon
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Public Policy, Public Sociology, Criminology, and Race and Crime.
jcossyleon@luc.edu, CV

Name: Amanda Counts
Program: Ph.D. Research Interests: Medicine, science, the body, knowledge
Thesis topic: "The Uses of Expertise: Science, Medicine and Body/Self-Fashioning."My thesis draws on empirical evidence collected from pro-anorexia websites and qualitative interviews with dieters to develop an analysis of the uses of medical and scientific expertise in processes of body- and self-fashioning. Four distinct groups are analyzed: Women diagnosed with anorexia; women diagnosed with EDNOS;dieters using traditional methods of caloric restricting; and dieters using a new method called Primal Dieting. It builds on previous work by examining how ‘lay publics’ refashion expertise in order to use it for new purposes, sometimes contradictory to the purposes of medicine itself. This calls for a reexamination of the relationship between the lay populace’s engagement with expertise in the twenty-first century, under-stood as simultaneously empowering and disempowering, embracive of and resistant to medicalization, subversive and affirmative of cultural norms of the body.
Work in Progress: I am currently involved in a project with colleagues Joseph Renow and Todd Fuist about how users (and body/selves) are discursively and technologicallyco-constructed within biomedical and technoscientific frameworks of health andfitness in the Wii Fit exercise game.
acounts@luc.edu. CV

Name: Cezara Crisan
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: International Migration, Globalization, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Family, Religion, Quantitative, and Qualitative Research Methods.
Dissertation Topic:  A Comparative Study over Time of Eastern European Migration to the United States.
ccrisa1@luc.edu

Name: Whitney Ferrin-Rodriguez
Program: M.A.
Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies. Or more specifically, the social construction of technology and the public understanding of science. I am also interested in the history of science, particularly astronomy. wrodriguez2@luc.edu

Name: Todd Fuist
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Religion, Social Movements, Subcultures, Media, Intersectionality, Aesthetics
Dissertation Topic:  "Ordinary Radicals: Culture, Faith, and the Struggle For Justice in Urban Religious Communities."  This dissertation will examine the moral projects of religious groups/movements with social justice as part of their mission and teaching. 
Work in progress: I am also working on papers on the relationship between denominations and their associated GLBT organizations, boundary maintenance in the Global Justice Movement, and the use of table-top gaming as a cultural tool to explore social issues.
tfuist@luc.edu

Name: Linda Chamberlain Henderson, MA
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Gender, Sexualities, Social Inequalities, Victimization
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Name: Matthew Hoffmann
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Science & Technology Studies, Work & Organizations, Urban Sociology; contemporary food-related movements, regional economies, renewable energy, green jobs; qualitative, community, policy, and evaluation research methods
Dissertation Topic: "Working with Nature: Culture and the Green Economy"
     Other research includes a study of citizen consensus conferences and the institutional limitations of public participation in science and policy formulation. As an intern with the Loka Institute, worked to connect community groups, social service providers, and academics to form a “collaboratory” which sought to improve health and quality of life for poor and working-class Houstonians by utilizing community-based participatory research. In the summer of 2010, worked with David J. Hess on a National Science
Foundation-funded study of state and municipal level policy innovations
aimed at incubating regional green energy industries. The report, "Building Clean Energy Industries and Green Jobs", can be found at: www.davidjhess.org/greenjobs.html. 
     I am currently working on articles that examine the role of social entrepreneurship in Chicago’s urban food system, and the relationship between place and contention in localist movements in the Midwest.
mhoffmann@luc.edu, CV

Name: Melissa Gesbeck Howell
Program: Ph.D. 
MA Loyola - Thesis: "Women's Health Access Project: Defining Women's Health and Health Care Access in Holistic Terms"
Research Interests: My primary research interests are at the intersections of family life and medicine, in particular what happens when the gendered authority domains of medical professionals and family caregiving collide.
I have taught the following classes: Social Problems, Sociology of Sex and Gender, Poverty & Welfare in America
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Name: Thomas J. Josephsohn
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Religion, Culture, Symbolic Boundaries, Qualitative Methods, Mixed Methods research, Social Conflict.
Disertation topic: My dissertation is a comparison of the symbolic boundaries employed by liberal and conservative, Secular, Protestant, and Jewish congregations. Using a mixed method approach I investigate how individuals organize and understand their religious and moral landscape and how boundaries are tied to civic engagement, willingness to work with other groups, and views of others.
tjosephsohn@luc.edu

Name: Cortney Rowland King
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Education, Policy, and Reproductive Health
cortneyrowland@hotmail.com

Name: Mary Kleinman
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests:  Institutional Change, Medical Education, Women's Health, Sociology of Knowledge

Name: Christopher Lee
Program: M.A.
Research Interests: Organizations, New Media, Culture, Urban inequality
Thesis topic: undecided
clee24@luc.edu

Name: Reginald Nievera
Program: M.A.
Research Interests: Relationships, dating, sex, family, and pop culture.
rnievera@luc.edu

Name: Kenneth R. O'Connor
Program: Ph.D., Student/Part-Time Instructor
Research Interests: Sociology of Culture/Symbolic Interaction/Urban Sociology
kocon8@luc.edu, CV

Name: Katie Pacyna
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Community, Culture,
Thesis/Disertation topic: Cultural Construction of Community
kpacyn1@luc.edu

Name: Leslie Parraguez Sanchez
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Social Movements and Urban Sociology
lparraguezsanchez@luc.edu, lparragu@fulbrightmail.org
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Name: Patrick M. Polasek
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Criminology; Race, Ethnicity, and Crime
Dissertation:  The Criminal Injustice System: The Causes of Overrepresentation of Minorities in the Juvenile Courts 
ppolase@luc.edu

Name: Joseph A. Renow
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Science and Technology; Medicine and Expertise; Space and Place
Dissertation Topic: “From Fields to Spheres and Back Again: The Importance of Place in the Construction and Travel of Scientific Artifacts”
Study examines the construction of scientific artifacts (facts) from the point of their emergence at an archeological field site to their later destinations of an archeology laboratory and a state history museum.
jrenow@luc.edu

Name: Lorrie Riley
Program: M.A.
Research interests: medicine, science and technology, gender and sexuality
Thesis: Undecided
lriley@luc.edu

Name: Timothy Sacco
Program: M.A.
Research Interests: Politics, Community and the Environment
Thesis: Undecided
tsacco@luc.edu

Name: Lucas Sharma
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Urban Sociology, Housing Policy, American Catholics
Thesis topic: Negotiating Parish Political Culture
lsharma@luc.edu, CV

Name: John A. Stover III
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Film and Society, Gender, Qualitative
Methodologies, Religion and New Religious Movements, Sexualities, and
Social Movements
Dissertation topic: “How Does Political Strategy and Artistic Expression Intersect Within Documentary Filmmaking?" Stated another way, what is the process by which social movement activities are being shaped by and com-municated through documentary filmmakers? How do documentary filmmakers navigate the tensions that exist among artistic expression and activist messages? What role - or wrench? – does funding play in these nego-tiations? How explicitly do filmmakers think about the “impact” of particular stories or images they use? Does artistic expression trump activists’ goals, even if those goals are compromised as a result? Or vice versa?
     I am presently exploring these questions using the tools of ethnographic research, both within the New Day Films Collective (a social movement organ-ization unto itself) and with independent filmmakers without organizational affiliations. Four areas of questioning (original catalyst/motivations, process, tensions, outcomes/results) are guiding the in-person interview process (<n=50>), and interviewees are being drawn primarily, but not exclusively, from the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. I am also partici-pating in New Day events and screenings, and am presently collaborating on an online membership survey in partnership with the collective.
Other Achievements: My Master’s level research (2005) earned Loyola
University Chicago’s first award for excellence in graduate student research, and that study has been published in a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Nova Religio (2008). I am also a successful, engaging teacher, having led many sections of courses such as Intro. to Sociology, Film and Society, Religion and Society, and Seminars in The Sociology of Sex & Gender and Documentary Films and Social Movements. I am also an adept and collab-orative administrator and have many management and leadership skills - inclusive of curriculum review and program assessment - to bring to any Sociology or Interdisciplinary Program.
jstove1@luc.edu   CV

Name: Margaretta Swigert-Gacheru
Program: Ph.D.
Dissertation title: Globalizing Kenyan Culture: Jua Kali and the Transformation of Contemporary Kenyan Art: 1960-2010.
Soc. Interests: Globalization, Culture, Social Networks, Media Studies, Gender, Economic sociology

Name: Bhoomi Thakore
Program: Ph.D. Candidate
Research interests: Sociology of race/ethnicity, media sociology, audience studies, sociology of culture and popular culture, South Asian studies, urban sociology
Dissertation topic: South Asians in the Media: Perceptions and Representations
bthakor@luc.edu, cv

Name: Annmarie S. van Altena
Program: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Gender, Consumerism, Work
Thesis/Disertation topic: Work and Gender in a subculture-based industry