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Satvika Chalasani
Intrests: Population issues in low-income countries, Maternal and child health, Health inequalities, and Quantitative methods
Dissertation Title: “Child health in India – Trends, determinants, and inequalities”
Email:satvika@pop.psu.edu
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Valerie Clark
Interests: Stratification and Crime, Victimization, Sentencing (Intermediate Sanctions and Deterrence)
Dissertation Title: Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Offending and Victimization: An Analysis of Intimate Partner Abuse among Adolescents
Dissertation Chair: Barry Ruback
Email: vac135@psu.edu
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Cassandra Dorius
Interests: Family demography, family instability, fatherhood, work and family, and research methods
Dissertation: His, Hers, and Ours: Multiple Partner Fertility and its Implications for Youth
Email: cassdorius@psu.edu
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Shawn Dorius
Interests: Stratification and Mobility (Global Inequality & Convergence) ; Demography ; Gender; Research Methods
Dissertation Title: Transitions in Inequality: A Theory of Change in Between-Country and Global Inequality
Dissertation Chair: Glenn Firebaugh
Email: sdorius@psu.edu
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Jasmine Fledderjohann
Interests: Demography, Africa, Health Disparities, Stratification, Research Methods, and Gender
Dissertation: “Without Children: An Exploration of the Consequences of Infertility in Ghana.” 
Dissertation Chair: Dr. David Johnson
Email: jjf244@gmail.com
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Matthew Hall
Interests: Urban Sociology, Social Demography, Migration/Immigration, and Public Policy
Dissertation Title: “The Residential Circumstances of America’s New Immigrants”
Dissertation Chair: Barrett Lee
Email: hall@pop.psu.edu
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Mira Hidajat

Interests: Population - Mortality and Morbidity, Population Aging in Southeast Asia and the United States; Health - Sex, Marriage, and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health and Mortality; Quantitative Methods - Event History Analysis, Multistate Life Table Techniques
Dissertation Title: "The Gendering of Mortality within Marriage"
Dissertation Chair: Melissa Hardy
Email: mhadajat@pop.psu.edu
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Jason Houle
Interests: Social Stratification and Mobility, Mental Health, Life Course, Health Disparities
Email: jnh143@psu.edu
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Matthew VanEseltine
Interests: Crime and the Life Course, Social Theory, Criminological Theory, Trends in Violence
Email: mgv115@psu.edu
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Craig Wiernik
Interests: Criminology and Deviance, Social Theory, Consumption and Materialism, Penology, Environmental Sociology
Dissertation Title: "Three Essays on Social Trust"
Dissertation Chair: Jeffery Ulmer
Email: csw162@psu.edu
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