Graduate Alumni

Alex Underwood, MA 2016
Emphases

Teaching and Practicing Sociology

Research Interests

Social Movements, Environmental Sociology, Teaching, and Pedagogy

Final Product

Grassroot Campaigns: How Canvassing Shapes a Canvasser's Political, Social, and Civic Engagement

Alina Randall, MA 2016
Emphasis

Practicing Sociology

Research Interests

Social Justice, social change, juvenile justice, race/ethnicity, social inequality, community organizing and youth activism

Final Product

Experiencing Historical Trauma: American Indian Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

Alison Hong-Novotney, MA 2018
Emphasis

Practicing Sociology

Research Interests

Race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality inequality. Formation of cultural identity.

Final Product

Listening to our graduate students' feedback: Graduate student exit and alumni surveys

Benjamin Andres, MA 2016
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Research Interests

Statistics, Popular Culture, Research Methods, Postmodernism, Race

Final Product

Cue Point Aesthetics: The performing DJ in postmodern DJ culture

Christopher Coker, MA 2018
EMPHASIS

Teaching Sociology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Deviance and Drugs, Drug Policy, Social Inequality, Institutional Research

FINAL PRODUCT

A Little Dab Will Do Ya: An exploration of first-Time Cannabis Dabbers

Colleen O'Sullivan, MA 2014
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Current Career

Colleen is a counselor at Miranda Junior High and South Fork High Schools in Southern Humboldt

Final Product

Victim-Offender Mediation in the Humboldt County Justice System

Dafer Alqarni, MA 2018
Emphasis

Practicing

Research Interests

Religiosity, Social Inequality, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Capitalism, Poverty, and environmental sociology

Final Product

Religion, Language, Gender, and Culture: Challenges Experienced by Saudi Students in Humboldt County

Danielle Daniel, MA 2021
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Research Interests

Psychedelics, social change, social justice, qualitative research methods, deviance and social control.

Final Product

"It kind of polishes all your flaws away": Long-Term Experiences With Psilocybin Mushrooms and the Influence of Set and Setting

Hanna Baus, MA 2017
Emphasis

Practicing Sociology

Research Interests

Gender and Crime, Race, Prisoner Reentry

Final Product

Equine Assisted Learning with Special Populations

Hanna Menefee, MA 2015
Emphasis

Practicing Sociology

Research Interests

Food systems, food policy, and public nutrition

Final Product

The Alternative Food Movement in Humboldt County, CA: Social Bonds and Divisions

Heather Clark, MA 2017
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Research Interests

Criminology, Gender and Sexuality, Popular Culture, Media, Mental Health, and Social Psychology

Final Product

Steven Universe, Exploring Representations of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and Sexuality in Children's Cartoons

Janae Teal, MA 2015
Emphases

Practicing Sociology and Teaching Sociology

Research Interests

Gender, Sexuality, Juvenile Justice, Race, and Education

Final Product

“Black trans bodies are under attack”: gender non-conforming homicide victims in the U.S. 1995-2014

Jennifer Miles, MA 2017
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Research Interest

Micro, meso, and macro analyses of inequality, including race, sexuality, and gender.  Particularly interested in institutional inequality - causes and outcomes.

Final Product

"Aspirants and Interlopers: First-Generation, Underrepresented, Low-Income (FGULI) Master's Students" - an exploration, through literature review and interviews, of FGULI student experiences in master's programs.

Jessica Smith, MA 2018
Emphasis

Practicing

Current Career

Program Manager at Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction (HACHR)

Final Product

"What's so Great About the Alternative? Understanding Individual Motivations for Participating in Humboldt County Alternative Food Networks."

Emphasis

Practicing Sociology

Research Interests

Digital Divide and access to technology as it relates to age/altered abilities/ruralism/socioeconomic status.

Education/Career Goals

Pursue and continue research into Digital Divide and aging in order to support future generational adaptations to technology.

Final Product

"Access to technology in Humboldt County: Measuring Digital Preparedness at the Start of a Pandemic" (2021)

LIZBETH OLMEDO, MA 2017
EMPHASES

Practicing Sociology and Teaching Sociology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Justice, Social Inequalities, Feminist theory, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Social Movements, Xican@/Latin@ studies

FINAL PRODUCT

Navigating the Gender Nonconforming Identity on the Humboldt Campus

Loren Collins, MA 2017
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Research Interests

Theory relating to global capitalism, globalization, world-systems, as well as networks, movements and the media

Final Product

Alternative Visions of Globalization-Occupy and the World Social Forum

Molly Noble, MA 2018
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Research Interests

Religion, Gender/Sexuality studies, Drugs, Deviance and Mental Illness

Final Product

Religiosity and Feminism: Navigating Gender Constructions and Ideologies

Nicole Chappelle, MA 2015
Emphasis

Practicing Sociology

Research Interests

Food Security, Food Policy, Food Justice

Final Product
Patric Esh, MA 2015
Emphasis

Teaching Sociology

Research Interests

Social Movements, Dispute Resolution

Final Product

Rural Police Officers and Their Attitudes and Perceptions of Protest Events