People

Faculty

Carla A. Pfeffer (she/her)

Director, Consortium for Sexual and Gender Minority Health
School of Social Work

Kaston Anderson-Carpenter (he/him)

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

Christina DeJong (she/her)

Associate Professor
School of Criminal Justice

LeConté Dill (she/her)

Associate Professor
Department of African American and African Studies

Ning Hsieh (any human pronouns)

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology

Anne Hughes (she/her)

Associate Professor
School of Social Work

Andrea Kelley (they/she)

Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Lyman Briggs College

Cathy Liu (she/her)

Professor
Department of Sociology

Megh Marathe (they/them/theirs)

Assistant Professor
Center for Bioethics and Social Justice

Heather L. McCauley (she/they)

Associate Professor
School of Social Work

Robin Miller (she/her)

Professor
Department of Psychology

Carrie Moylan (she/her)

Associate Professor
School of Social Work

Phillip “PJ” Pettis (he/him)

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology

Jae Puckett (they/them)

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

Kristen Renn (she/her)

Professor
College of Education

Deirdre Shires (she/they)

Assistant Professor
School of Social Work

stef shuster (they/them)

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology

Joanne Smith-Darden (she/her)

Professor
School of Social Work

Tina Timm (she/her)

Associate Professor
School of Social Work



Current Students

Jennifer Allen (she/her)

PhD student
School of Social Work

Pat Arnold (they/them)

Graduate student
Master of Public Health

Lamia Bagasrawala (she/her/hers)

Graduate student
College of Education

Brooke Bandy (she/her)

Undergraduate student
Psychology and Public Policy

Jess Burnham (they/them/theirs)

Graduate student
Department of Sociology

Sterling Bentley (he/him)

MSW student and Consortium Intern
School of Social Work

Kalei Glozier (he/him)

PhD student
Clinical Science

Haley Hill (she/they)

PhD student
School of Social Work

Em Hernandez (she/they)

PhD student
School of Criminal Justice

Jennifer Hirsch (they/them/theirs)

PhD student
School of Social Work

Leo Kattari (he/they)

PhD student
School of Social Work

Drew Kirks-Cler (he/him)

PhD student
Department of Sociology

Jedidiah Knode (he/him/his)

PhD student
School of Criminal Justice

Jamie Kynn (they/them)

PhD student
School of Social Work

Yang "Vincent" Liu (he/him/his)

PhD student
School of Criminal Justice

Ruben "Ruby" Mendoza (they/them)

PhD student
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures

Taylor Murdick (she/they)

Undergraduate student
Sociology, Psychology, and Women*s and Gender Studies

Gerald Roman Nowak III (he/him/his)

PhD student
Department of Sociology

Amanda Isabel Osuna (she/her/hers/ella)

PhD student
School of Criminal Justice

Lucas Prieto (he/him/his)

PhD student
School of Social Work

Taylor Reid

Taylor Reid (she/her/hers)

PhD student
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Sam Safford (they/them)

PhD student
Department of Sociology

Betsie Schoedel (they/them)

PhD student
School of Social Work

LJ Shackleford (she/her/they)

PhD student
College of Education

Amanda R. Witwer (she/her/hers)

PhD student
School of Criminal Justice

Yuan Xiong (she/her/hers)

PhD student
School of Social Work



Alumni

Danielle Chiaramonte

Danielle Chiaramonte (she/her)

Associate Research Scientist
School of Medicine (Yale)