ASA Student Forum Advisory Board Members
2005-2006
Louis
Esparza (Chair; 2004-2006) is a doctoral student in the Department of
Sociology at Stony Brook University. He received his BA in Sociology and
Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University in 2003. His research
interests include Political, Economic, and Global Sociology. He also sits
on the Steering Committee of the Tufts Progressive Alumni Network. For
more information visit
http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/lesparza.
Cassandra
Crawford (Secretary; 2004-2006) is a Ph.D. candidate in medical sociology at the
University of California San Francisco. Her work resides at the
intersection between the sociology of health and illness, and science and
technology studies. More specifically, her dissertation research explores
the relationship between phantom limb syndrome and prosthetic innovation.
Melissa Barnett (2005-2007) is a PhD candidate at Florida
State University. Missy's research interests include international
migration, citizenship issues, aging and work and political economy and
organizations. For the past two years, Missy has served as the project
manager for the Tallahassee, FL, component for the international Workforce
on Aging in the New Economy (WANE) project headquartered at the University
of Western Ontario. Presently, Missy
and Dr. Melissa Hardy are revising their co-authored manuscript Identity
Formation Among Repatriates and Foreigners in Post-WWII Germany, and
Missy's sole-authored manuscript, Maintaining Independence and
Companionship: Social Construction and Character of a Residential
Hierarchy in an Assisted Living Community is under review. Prior to
attending FSU, Missy received her BA in English --writing from Denison
University and studied vocal performance at the New England Conservatory
of Music. Missy also enjoys pottery, yoga and biking.
Pamela Brown
(Past Chair; 2003-2005) is a post-graduate
student in the Department of Political Science at the CUNY, Graduate
Center. She holds a B.A. degree in Sociology and a minor in Social Work.
She received her M.A. in Urban Policy and Public Administration. Her
research interests include women and public policy, social stratification,
racial and ethnic politics in the U.S. Her current research interests
focus on Refugee women and human rights/international sociology. She has
published in the official Newsletter of the section on Racial and Ethnic
Minorities of the American Sociological Association. She is currently
working on a manuscript titled "Refugee Women Seeking Political Asylum in
the United States: the analysis of the Illegal Immigration Act of 1996."
Delores A.
Edelen (2004-2006), MA in Applied Sociology from the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, is the
first candidate accepted into the department’s new PhD program. Her
interests include: the Sociology of Mental Illness, Education, Work and
Occupations; and Clinical, Organizational, and Urban Sociology. A research
associate with the department’s Institute of Social and Behavioral
Sciences (ISBS), she has conducted a variety of social problems research
for local policy makers. Her latest publication, drawn from her thesis
work on the community effects of churn (population turnover) is a
co-authored encyclopedia entry on public housing. She is the 2003-04
winner of the Society for Applied Sociology (SAS) problem-solving
competition.
Daina Cheyenne Harvey
(2005-2007) is a
doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers. He received a
B.B.A. in Finance and a double B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from the
University of Texas-Austin and received his MA in Sociology at the
University of Houston in 2001. His current work focuses on the
intersection between collective memory and culture. His most recent
publication looks at how commemoration practices affect attempts at
cultural regeneration. For contact information please visit
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dharvey/.
Andrea Miller
(2004-2005) is an ABD in the Department of Sociology at American
University in Washington DC. She received her MA in Sociology from
American University in 2003. Her research focuses on the social
construction of genders and sexualities. She is currently working on her
dissertation titled "Bi Boundaries: Bisexual Identity Misappropriation and
Bisexual Resistance." She also spends time teaching gender and sexualities
classes as an adjunct instructor at American University.
Jung Park (2005-2007)
Faculty Advisor for the
Student Forum
Board Members