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Graduate Student Directory

You may search for graduate students within the School of Social Ecology and learn more about their interests. If you are a graduate student looking for information about forms, deadlines and other information please visit information for current graduate students.

Jada Bittle

Email: 
jbittle@uci.edu
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Cohort: 
2008-2009
Interests: 
miscarriages of justice; capital punishment; hate crime; psychology and the law; interplay of justice, morality, and law

Adam Boessen

Email: 
aboessen@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2007-2008
Interests: 
the community context of crime; juvenile delinquency; spatial analysis; quantitative methodologies

Michael Braun

Email: 
mbraun@uci.edu
Cohort: 
2003-2004
Interests: 
privatization of penal institutions; the use of prisoners as private sector laborers; reintegration of prisoners into society

Laura Bringer

Email: 
lbringer@uci.edu
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Cohort: 
2007-2008
Interests: 
the study of public law, particularly the interactions between courts and governments; qualitative methodology; textual analysis

Bryan Burton

Email: 
bburton@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2008-2009
Interests: 
white-collar crime; medicare and medicaid fraud investigation; healthcare research and policy

Larry Bush

Email: 
bushl@uci.edu
Cohort: 
2008-2009

David Busse

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Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behavior
Cohort: 
2008-2009
Advisor: 
Ilona Yim
Interests: 
The effects of stress on physical and mental health, postpartum depression, how psychosocial factors influence stress physiology

Kaitlin Carmody

Email: 
carmodyk@uci.edu
Degree Program: 
Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Cohort: 
2009-2010
Interests: 
Smart Growth, Transit Oriented Developments, Urban Design, and Environmental Psychology

Carrie Carmody

Email: 
ccarmody@uci.edu
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Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behavior
Cohort: 
2005-2006
Advisor: 
Sal Maddi, PhD
Interests: 
identity development and individual differences in virtual social networks; the role of affect in cognitive disengagement from goals

Jessica Chiu

Degree Program: 
Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Cohort: 
2009-2010