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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.

Erin Elizabeth Kent

Email: 
ebardin@uci.edu
ebardin
Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Environmental Health, Science and Policy
Cohort: 
2005-2006
Advisor: 
Hoda Anton-Culver, Ph.D.
Interests: 
Social epidemiology, adolescent and young adult cancer, Community-Based Participatory Research, multilevel modeling, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods

Raheleh Khorsan

Email: 
rkhorsan@uci.edu
rkhorsan
Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Planning, Policy and Design
Cohort: 
2009-2010
Advisor: 
Daniel Stokols
Interests: 
integrative health care; healing systems; optimal healing environment
Curriculum Vitae: 

Myesa Nicole Knox Mahoney

Email: 
knoxm@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2002-2003
Interests: 
persons with mental illness and the justice system; offender reentry; specialty/collaborative court systems; drug policy; mental health policy

Spassena (Sena) Koleva

Email: 
skoleva@uci.edu
skoleva
Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behavior
Cohort: 
2005-2006
Advisor: 
Peter Ditto
Interests: 
morality, intimate relationships, political ideology, attachment, mate selection, religious beliefs, culture differences, terror management theory

Akhila Lalitha Ananth

Email: 
aananth@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2007-2008
Interests: 
juvenile dependency and the foster care system; minors' rights; anthropology of space; feminist ethnography

Suman "Sue" Lam

Email: 
sumanl@uci.edu
sumanl
Degree Program: 
Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behavior
Cohort: 
2006-2007
Advisor: 
Sally Dickerson
Interests: 
Emotion, emotion regulation, relationships, stress physiology

Gavin Lee

Email: 
gavinl@uci.edu
soceco
Cohort: 
2007-2008
Interests: 
capital punishment (including lethal injection challenges, international issues, and public opinion); radical criminological theory; wrongful convictions (especially police and prosecutorial misconduct); survey design; the theoretical examinations of mass murderers, spree killers and serial killers.