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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.

Jeff Cho

Email: 
jccho@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2007-2008

Lyndsey Christoffersen

Email: 
LChristo@uci.edu
Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Planning, Policy and Design
Cohort: 
2007-2008
Advisor: 
Joseph DiMento
Interests: 
Human Trafficking

Kenneth Cruz

Email: 
cruzka@uci.edu
Cohort: 
2009-2010
Interests: 
social and legal justice; the interface of juvenile justice and mental health systems; qualitative methods; critical theory

Ashley Demyan

Email: 
ademyan@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2007-2008
Interests: 
trends in imprisonment (specifically regarding aging prisoners); the sociology of punishment; sites of agency, resistance, and rehumanization within American prisons.

Rachel Diggs

Email: 
rdiggs@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2008-2009
Interests: 
race and Inequality; prisons; crime victim's rights; labor unions

Rachel Dioso-Villa

Email: 
rdioso@uci.edu
rdioso
Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society
Cohort: 
2004-2005
Advisor: 
Dr. Simon Cole, Department Chair and Associate Professor
Interests: 
forensic science, law and society; miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions; representations of crime and forensic science; juries, courts and social science research

Sharon Farrell

Email: 
farrells@uci.edu
Cohort: 
2008-2009
Interests: 
psychology and law; punishment; prison programs; prisoner reentry