Below are the current UCSD Graduate Student Affiliates.
Jesús Ayala-Candia
Ph.D. Student of Sociology
Email: jayalacandia@ucsd.edu
Research Focus: International Migration Systems, Border Enforcement/Borderland Policing
Systems, Law and Society, Qualitative Methods.
Morgen A. Chalmiers
MD/PhD Candidate of Anthropology
Email: Morgen.Chalmiers@gmail.com
Research Focus: Explores reproductive decision-making in the context of displacement through person-centered ethnographic research with Syrian refugees in Jordan. Her fieldwork and clinical practice are informed by the paradigm of reproductive justice and a commitment to addressing health disparities through an intersectional framework. She is passionate about integrating anthropological insights into clinical practice and health policy through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Melina Economou
Ph.D. Student of Anthropology
Email: meconomo@ucsd.edu
Research Focus: Transnational Migration, Refugee and Asylum Policy, Well-being and Health.
Precious P. Fasakin
Ph.D. Student of Economics
Email: pfasakin@ucsd.edu
Research Focus: The socioeconomic consequences of climate-induced migration and displacement, spatial economics, economic and environmental refugees, the political economy of borders, global indigeneity and disarmament
Armand Gutierrez
Ph.D. Student of Sociology
Email: arg055@ucsd.edu
Research Focus: The economic, political, and social lives of first- and second-generation migrants. His latest work utilizes quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the economic prospects for those in the U.S. and in their countries of origin.
Twitter: @ArmandGutz29
Doreen Hsu
Ph.D. Student of Sociology
Email: dohsu@ucsd.edu
Research focus: My research interests include race and ethnicity, immigration, gender, education, Asian American and East Asian studies.
Website: https://doreenhsu.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @doreen_hsu
Hee Eun Kwon
Ph.D. Candidate of Sociology
Email: hekwon@ucsd.edu
Research Interest: Hee Eun's research interests include international migration, culture, gender, and qualitative methods. Her dissertation employs an intersectional approach to understand the everyday practices of belonging among temporary migrants in the Gulf.
Website: https://www.hekwon.com/
Karen Le
Ph.D. Student of Sociology
Email: kal081@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Immigrant political integration, immigration detention, criminality, and race
Dasom Lee
Ph.D. Student of Sociology
Email: dal257@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Labor Migration, Race, Class and Gender in East Asia, Migrant Illegality, Citizenship, Global Ethnography
Jiaqi Liu (Mars)
Ph.D. Student of Sociology
Email: jil1202@ucsd.edu
Research interests: Emigration policy, return migration, citizenship politics, refugee migration, political sociology, law and society
Website: https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/jiaqi-liu/
Twitter: @JiaqiLiuUCSD
Ana Lopez-Ricoy
Ph.D. Student of Sociology
Email: alopezri@ucsd.edu
Research interests: Social movements, transnational feminism, femicide, social violence and gender-based violence, globalization, political sociology, migration
Angela Y. McClean
Ph.D. Candidate of Sociology
Email: aymcclean@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Angela's research interests include international migration, forced migration, social movements, and Asian and Asian-American studies. In her dissertation, Angela explores refugee reception and resettlement in South Korea by examining some of the most influential domestic actors participating in Korea's politics of asylum – the public, political and bureaucratic elites, and civil society.
Benjamin Merrill
PhD Student of Psychological Anthropology
Email: bmmerrill@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Medical Humanitarianism, Public Health, and Global Mental Health; Border Governance as it pertains to Refugee and Asylum Seeker Reception and Resettlement; Political Subjectivity and Critical Phenomenology.
Connor Redpath
PhD Candidate in Economics
Email: credpath@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: How immigrants form same-sex couples and how policies affecting same-sex marriage affects immigrants coupling patterns with citizens. In more general terms, my research focuses are: Couple Formation and Marriage, Race and Gender Inequality.
Sevin Gulfer Sagnic
Email: ssagnic@ucsd.edu and gssagnic@gmail.com
Research Interests: International migration, Refugee and Asylum Policy, Citizenship, Political Sociology
Karina Shklyan
PhD Student of Sociology
Email: kshklyan@ucsd.edu
Research Focus: Immigrant integration, immigration policy, local contexts of reception, federalism, and ethnic return migration
Jessica Wan
Ph.D. Student of Oceanography, SIO, UC San Diego
Email: j4wan@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Climate change and human migration, socioeconomic responses to sea level rise, coastal vulnerability and adaptation, coupled modeling systems
