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Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216

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Yen-hsin Alice Cheng

Interests: Family Demography, Adolescent Health and Development, Health Disparities
Dissertation Title: "Weight Status and the Development of Sexuality from Adolescence to Young Adulthood"
Dissertation Chair: Nancy Landale
Email: yuc121@psu.edu
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Kim Daniels

Interests: Cohabitation, Fertility, Union Formation, Marriage, Life Course, Race and Ethnicity
Dissertation Title: "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Fertility within Cohabiting Unions"
Dissertation Chair: Nancy Landale
Email: kdaniels@pop.psu.edu
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Zach Hays

Interests: Law Enforcement & Policing, Criminological & Criminal Justice Theory, Neighborhood Effects, Social Stratification, and Quantitative Methodology
Dissertation Title: The Doubly Victimized Residents of Disorganized Neighborhoods: Collective Efficacy and the Police Use of Force
Dissertation Chair: Eric Silver
Email: zrh103@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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Stacy Hoskins

Interests: Victimization, Sentencing, Criminal Justice Policy
Dissertation Title: "An Examination of the Effects of Victim-related Contextual Factors on the Criminal Justice System"
Dissertation Chair: Barry Ruback
Email: snh119@psu.edu
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Shelley Irving

Interests: Inequality and Stratification - poverty, social welfare, welfare reform; Family - work and family, marriage, cohabitation, family well-being; Demography - immigration, race/ethnicity
Dissertation Title: "Macroeconomic, Policy, and Structural Explanations for Poverty Exits: Explaining Racial and Ethnic and Nativity Differences"
Dissertation Chair: Gordon DeJong
Email: sirving@pop.psu.edu
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Andrew Lindner

Interests: Mass Media and Communications, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory, Organizations/Institutions, Stratification
Dissertation Title: "When Public Radio Goes Private: The Privatization of Funding for Public Radio and the Rise of Cultural Programming on NPR Stations"
Dissertation Chair: John D. McCarthy
Email: alindner@psu.edu             Website: www.personal.psu.edu/aml286
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