PhD Student Directory

Carly Mychl Murray

Doctoral Student

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murraycm@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Anthropology of social work
Anti-Oppression Education and Activism
Child Welfare System
Criminal Legal Policy
Decarceration
Gender, Race, and Class
Harm Reduction
Intersectionality
Policy Implementation
Poverty and Income
Race, Gender and Class
Social Welfare Policy
Transformative Justice
Violence and Trauma
Welfare
Women with incarceration experiences

Grace Newton

Doctoral Student

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gnewton@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
Autoethnography
Child and Youth Development
China
Disability Rights and Justice
Family
Foster Care
Human Rights
Immigration
Intersectionality
Parenting and Families
Qualitative Research Methods
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Suicide
Violence Prevention

Clarice J. Robinson

Doctoral Student

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cjrobinson@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
African Americans
Decarceration
Mass Incarceration
Mental Health
Public Health
Qualitative Research Methods
Reentry
Social Work
Transformative Justice
Trauma Informed Research
Violence and Trauma
Violence Prevention

Elizabeth Sanchez

Doctoral Student

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elizabeths1@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Critical Chicana Feminist Methods and Epistemology
Culturally-sensitive Mental Health Care
Immigration
Latine Mental Health
Latino-Americans
Parenting and Families
Undocumented Immigrant Family Well-being

Sheila Shankar, LSW

Doctoral Student

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sheilashankar@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice
Asian Americans
Autoethnography
Criminal Legal Change
Culturally-sensitive Mental Health Care
Gender
Gender-based and Family Violence
Intersectionality
LGBTQIA+
Mental Health
Parenting and Families
Politicized Healing & Healing Justice
Professional culture, training and apprenticeship
Qualitative Research Methods
Social problems and social policy
Transformative Justice
Trauma-informed Clinical Practice
Violence and Trauma
Women with incarceration experiences

Ye Jin Sohn

Doctoral Student

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sohn@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Gender
Intersectionality
Mental Health
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Trauma-informed Clinical Practice
Violence and Trauma

Seongbo Son

Doctoral Student

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seongboson@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Aging
Community
Housing
Low-income Families
Poverty and Welfare Policy
Urban Inequality

Brianna Suslovic

Doctoral Student

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bsuslovic@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Administrative Burden
Complex institutions
Criminal Legal Change
Criminal Legal Policy
Decarceration
Frontline Policy Implementation
Health disparities
Intersectionality
Mass Incarceration
Mental Health
Policy Implementation
Poverty and Welfare Policy
Program Evaluation
Public Health
Public Policy
Qualitative Research Methods
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Reentry
Research and evaluation methodology
Risk and resilience
Social problems and social policy
Social Welfare
Social Work
Street Level Bureaucracy
Transformative Justice

Resha T. Swanson-Varner

Doctoral Student

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reshas@uchicago.edu

Areas of Expertise
Community Organizing and Development
Health
Poverty and Income
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Work and Family Policies