Faith is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Fellow. Adopting a mixed-methodological approach that illuminates community and individual experiences, this project aims to extend our understanding of collective justice experiences and its impact on daily life and health profiles of involved communities.

Faith’s dissertation work will center around pretrial release via commercial bail bonds to examine the process(es) of meeting bail from a network perspective. She is interested in exploring how indebtedness, or financial obligation to expensive institutions, shape social life and health disparities for individuals and their communities. student in the Department of Sociology and graduate trainee in the Population Research Center. in Latin American Studies from Tufts University.įaith Deckard is a Ph.D.

Alison holds a Master’s Degree in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. Her research focuses on the politics of climate adaptation and urban development, conflicts over land and property, housing, and social movements. Her dissertation fieldwork is funded by a Graduate Research Fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and a grant from the Swedish Excellence Endowment at UT-Austin.Īlison Coffey is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. Her dissertation, “Sexual Violence and Gender Equality in Sweden,” investigates the persistence of gendered sexual violence in a country where gender equality has been a core feature of the political agenda for four decades. Through interviews with activists, state bureaucrats, social service providers, and legal professionals, she challenges the ways in which sexual violence is understood from a socio-legal perspective. Candidate in the Department of Sociology. She holds a BA in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology from Brandeis University.Ĭaitlin Carroll is a Ph.D. Her current project examines the relationship between self-care and liberation movements. She is broadly interested in feminism, collective subjectivities, and racial capitalism. Gwen Berumen Sanchez is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and a WGS affiliate. Monica’s academic research has been published in Environmental Sociology and she is currently writing an article on work and sustainability in ecological intentional communities. Findings from this study will contribute to conversations about inequality and environmental policy, and particularly how environmental solutions can consider race, gender, and class inequalities from an intersectional perspective. Activists in these communities understand social justice to be a necessary aspect of sustainability. In her ethnographic study of two ecological intentional communities, Monica considers the relationship between intersectionality and sustainability from the perspective of environmental activists. EICs are communal living experiments that attempt to build alternatives to unsustainable and unequal dominant institutions through shared values, visions and goals that include sustainability. Monica’s dissertation project examines how environmental activists in ecological intentional communities (EICs) conceptualize and practice sustainability. Her research interests include gender, environmental sociology, and intentional communities. She received a Bachelor of Science in Sociology at Northeastern University and a Masters of Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Monica Bhatia is a PhD Candidate in the Sociology Department and a Graduate Fellow of the Urban Ethnography Lab. Nino’s dissertation research is about the emergence and socio-economics of the Peruvian gastronomic boom. His research interests include the political and cultural dynamics of markets, institutional emergence, organizational change, and inequality. Nino Bariola is a Ph.D student in the Department of Sociology. In August 2022 she will start a position as Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice Sciences and Latin American and Latino Studies at Illinois State University. Her research interests include immigration policy, race/ethnicity, and criminology. Marta Ascherio is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology. To learn more about UEL’s Graduate Fellow Alumnae/i, please scroll below. Below you will find an alphabetical list of the Graduate Fellows of the Urban Ethnography Lab with information about their research and areas of interest.

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