Migration Doctoral Fellows 2023-2024

Research Interests: Crime and Punishment; Immigration; Inequality and Stratification; Poverty; Qualitative Methods; Race and Ethnicity; Social Policy; Sociology of Law

Saúl Ramírez is a PhD student in Sociology. He graduated with a B.A. from the...

Research interests: Religion and US global-imperial power; Asian/Latinx mobility; critical Asian-American studies; border and citizenship; religion and neoliberalism; religious-racial history of the Cold War; and religion, race, and American nativism.

Shelby is an advanced doctoral candidate, Presidential Merit Fellow, and Fulbright recipient in Government. Her work focuses broadly on the political economy of education and employment and on migration and forced displacement in low- and middle-income...

Edom Tesfa is a critical education researcher with an interest in the experiences of Black immigrant-origin adolescents in the United States. Her scholarship draws from Black studies, migration studies, sociology, anthropology, and critical race theory...