Chloe is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University. Chloe’s interests lie in the sociology of emotions, Black fatherhood, and in the sociology of oppression.

Chloe’s second year paper focused on Black fathers, with special attention to how their own childhoods shaped their current parenting practices and beliefs. Their dissertation interrogates childfree people, specifically asking how one’s own childhood experiences shape the decision to — or not to— have children.

Mo Woods is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology who holds prestigious 5 year National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Their research interests include methodology and the intersections of identity, politics, and culture. In addition to the departmental methods sequence, they have received (funded) external training in quantitative text analysis, social network analysis, and machine learning among other methods. Their dissertation explores queer life in Columbus.

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Wes Wislar is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology. Their MA research focused on experiences of addiction, substance use, and alcoholism in the transgender community.

Wes’s dissertation work will explore the relationship between disability, gender, and sexuality, with the aim to include critical disability theory within sociology.

Wes was chosen to be a RWJ Health Policy Research Scholar, a prestigious 4 year fellowship program supporting Doctoral students interested in health equity.

Candice is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. She also has a Master of Arts degree in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University.

Seeking to incorporate the human rights framework in all endeavors, her research interests include: the commodification of punishment, the experiences of incarcerated laborers, collective action, and more. Her second year research project centered around the social lives of formerly incarcerated people. She also has written a book chapter on abolitionism from a feminist and queer perspective.

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Meagan is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. Her interests focus on bisexual identity formation, as well as family sociology, gender, and race-ethnicity.

Her second year paper examines bisexual identity among young adults today

Katie is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology who is interested in feminism, gender, sexuality, and social movements. Their second year paper examines the meaning of feminism for young people today.

Mia Brantley was a post-doctoral scholar at OSU on the Childbearing Biography project, and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Mia’s work focuses on Black maternal health, shifting the paradigm of research in this area from maternal health when children are young to focus on how Black mothers’ health is deeply entrenched in their adolescent and adult children’s experiences with racism. Mia is writing a book manuscript on this topic — check back soon for more details!

Mia is working on a book on Black motherhood.

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Lawrence Stacey graduated from OSU in 2023 and is now an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. His research interests broadly include gender, sexuality, families, health, and demography. His recent work has been published in Demography and the Journal of Marriage and Family.

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Emma is an Assistant Professor at Alma College. Her work is focused on the intersections of sexualities, economic insecurity, and family.

Emma’s recent research uses in-depth interview and survey data exploring economic insecurity in young adulthood and how it varies by sexuality, gender, and race.

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Kait is currently employed as a UX Researcher.

Kait received her PhD in sociology at The Ohio State University in 2021. She is a qualitative researcher with expertise in in-depth interviews and focus groups, and is an experienced project manager.

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Zhe (Meredith) Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the California State University Los Angeles (CSULA), and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the department of sociology at Rice University.

Zhe's research is situated in the fields of family, gender, and health. Her overarching research goals are: (1) to understand the changing family dynamics in the current era; (2) to examine how these family dynamics are connected with family members’ wellbeing over the life course; and (3) how these family dynamics and the effects on wellbeing are further conditioned by social contexts such as gender, sexuality, and class.

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Lauren received her PhD from the Department of Sociology in 2021. Her dissertation was an in-depth interview study of death and dying in the context of hospice care.

Lauren is currently an Associate Engagement Manager at BioVid in Philadelphia , PA

Alex Kissling received her PhD in Sociology in 2020. She served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Maryland Population Research Center, and is currently a Research and Evaluation Analyst at Public Consulting Group in Maine.