Katie Fallon | email
Katie Fallon is a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology. She focuses on how physical and social factors in urban neighborhoods impact individual behavior and outcomes. Drawing on neighborhood-based studies, human geography, and ideas about group formation, her current project takes a historical and geo-spatial approach to understand how gentrifying and diversifying space impacts material inequality and access to local neighborhood resources.
Daanika Gordon | email
Daanika Gordon is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Her research explores the institutional and everyday decision-making processes that structure modern law enforcement practices.
Johanna Quinn | email
Johanna Quinn is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison. Her research examines United State’s teachers as a gendered and racialized labor force and seeks to understand their experiences of teaching in a stratified labor market. Her work investigates how changing relations of accountability and authority in schools and policies like No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (RTTP) impact teachers’ work and lives.
katrina quisumbing king | email | website
katrina is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include: the construction of race and nation, empire, welfare states, citizenship, and how scholars of race and immigration theorize domestic and foreign Others. In her dissertation, katrina explores how U.S. state actors made decisions about revoking military benefits to Filipino veterans who served on behalf of the United States in World War II, categorically excluding them from social citizenship.
Casey Stockstill | email | website
Casey Stockstill is a PhD candidate in Sociology. Casey uses original data to investigate the micro-level foundations of race, class, and gender inequalities. Her dissertation is an ethnography of children’s social experiences in class-segregated preschools. The project details how children react to peers’ and teachers’ socialization attempts, how children understand their material circumstances, and how children organize pretend play. She argues that class-segregated classrooms may produce experiences just as divergent as what children might have experienced at home. Casey has also conducted an experimental study of how people react to racial identity assertions and an interview-based study of how elite women construct family and career timelines.