GRADUATE
current students
New Graduate Students
Seven new students will be entering the Department’s graduates programs in the fall. These five PhD students and two Masters students have interests that run the gamut from gender to migration to medical sociology.
NEW PHD STUDENTS
Nancy Coleman is currently BU’s Director of Distance Learning and will be entering the PhD program as a part-time student. She began her academic career in Business Administration, with an undergraduate degree from Northeastern and an MBA from BU. Now she wants to understand those business and educational organizations from a sociological point of view, paying special attention to how work is shaped by gender and generation.
David Levy completed his BA in Sociology at the University of Georgia in 2004, followed by a Masters degree in Nationalism Studies at Central European University in Budapest in 2005. Since then, he has been teaching Sociology at the American University of Central Asia, in Kyrgyzstan. He is interested in the relationship between political and economic systems and the cultural worlds in which they operate.
Kristi Trevino is returning to Boston University, having completed her BA in International Relations in 2005. After a brief stint as a stock broker, family considerations took her to South Dakota, where she is completing an MA in Sociology at South Dakota State. Not surprisingly, her interests are in global and comparative sociology.
Heide Woelfel is currently working in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, after having completed a Bachelors in Communication at Emerson College and then a sojourn to American University, Beirut for a Masters in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Her Masters thesis explored women’s internal migration in Syria, and she is currently serving as an Arabic-speaking volunteer for a newly arrived Iraqi family in Boston. She remains interested in understanding immigration, transnationalism, and forced migration.
NEW MASTERS STUDENTS
Shrina Amin is a 2009 graduate of the University of Connecticut, with a major in Sociology and India Studies. She is interested in family, migration, and South Asia.
Sarah Scampini has a freshly-minted BA in Sociology from Merrimack College and is interested in medical sociology.
Current PhD Students
Donald Changeau
Nancy Coleman
Mia Diaz-Edelman
Hongkyu Ha
David Levy
Katie Light
Kristi Trevino
Heide Woelfel
