Advisory Board
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (Chair; 2006-2008) received her Masters degree in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining the Sociology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she completed three years of graduate study at Tulane University. She is currently a doctoral student, completing dissertation research on spatio-temporal relations of gender and sexuality in the context of Bangkok, Thailand. Her areas of interest include gender, sexuality, the sociology of the body, immigration, Asian and Asian American studies, the sociology of development, and Southeast Asia with a particular emphasis in Thailand. She is co-editor, with Carl L. Bankston III, of Immigration in U.S. History: An Encyclopedia survey of U.S. Immigration and has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Antwan Jones (Secretary/Treasurer; 2006-2008) is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University, where he also received his MA in Sociology/Demography and his MS in Applied Statistics. He received his BA in Sociology and African American Studies with a minor in Psychology at Duke University. His research interests lie in the areas of race/ethnic/cultural studies, mortality and health, spatial/areal demography and quantitative methodology. His current research explores the health and well-being of caregiving grandparents. For more information, visit http://personal.bgsu.edu/~antwanj.
Kristen Barber (2007-2009) is a Doctoral Student in Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include sex and gender, the sociology of the body, sexuality, and qualitative methods. Barber’s current research focuses on masculinity and beauty culture. She is author or co-author of several journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. Her articles are published in the Journal of Bisexuality and the Journal of Public Management and Social Policy. As co-author of The Dyadic Imaginary: Troubling the Perception of Love as Dyadic, she received the 2006 Mid-South Sociological Association Graduate Student Paper of Distinction Award. Prior to continuing her graduate studies at the University of Southern California, Barber received her Masters in Sociology from Tulane University.
Catherine Connell (2007-2009) is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. She received her B.A. in Sociology from New York University in 2002. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, work, and queer identities and
activism. She is the former Managing Editor of Gender & Society. For contact
information, please see
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/sociology/graduate/profiles/Connell/Catherine/.
Audrey Devine-Eller (2007-2009) is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers. She received a B.A. in sociology and philosophy at Seattle University. Her current work focuses on education and inequality, in particular on the transition of 11th graders out of high school. Other interests include culture, language, and cognition. Audrey received an Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program in 2004 and again in 2005. She has taught Intro to Sociology, Research Methods, Classical Theory, and Statistics at Rutgers, and Shaping a Life (a writing ourse) for Douglass College. For more information please visit:http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~auderey/.
Eryn Goldberg (2007-2008) received her Bachelors of the Arts degree in both Sociology and Communication from Rutgers University in 2007. Her research focuses on property crime as it relates to poverty and unemployment. Her research interests include public policy, work/family issues, and criminology. She plans to begin her doctoral degree in California next year.
Camonia Long (2007-2009) is a doctoral student at Howard University in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her areas of study include medical and urban sociology. In addition to her current studies, her MS Ed in Health from Baylor University and CHES certification; she has a special interest in working to decrease health disparities among young African American women ages 13-19. As an advocate of community based-participatory research Camonia’s goal is to empower young women in the black community to become socially aware of their capacity to help themselves and to improve their own health. Camonia is also the President of the Organization of Graduate Sociologists at Howard University. To contact Camonia please email her at crlong@howard.edu.
David Peterson (2007-2009) is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers. He received a double B.A. in Sociology and Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach in 2005. His research interests include sociology of emotions, theory, and sociology of knowledge. His current work attempts to integrate recent findings in neurology with sociological theory. You can email him at dpeterson.rutgers@gmail.com.
Daina Cheyenne Harvey (Past Chair; 2005-2007) is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers. He received a B.B.A. in Finance and a double B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Texas-Austin and received his MA in Sociology at the University of Houston in 2001. His current work focuses on the intersection between culture and cognition. For contact information please visit: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dharvey/.