Student Profiles

Gast, Melanie. J., Ovink, S. M., & Amoatey, Solomon. (2025). “Giving Back”: Filipina and Latina Mothers’ Intersecting Burdens in Schools and Community-Based Organizations. Socius, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251334160

Gast, Melanie. J., Mekawi, Y., Sajadi, Kristin. H., Roelfs, David. J., & Nasraoui, O. (2025). Racial and gender disparities in faculty perceptions of discrimination, exclusion, and inequities across department and university levels.  Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdhe0000653

Carini, Robert M. (2025).  Customization of U.S. Holidays: Agency and Nonconformity. Social Sciences, 14(3), 179. 

Vincent J. Roscigno, Jasmine Whiteside, Erick Axxe, Anne Mcdaniel, and Oded Mcdossi. (2025). Being first-generation.  Context, vol 24(1), pp.72-74.

Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, Bernard Koch. (2024). Confronting the “Weaponization” of Genetics by Racists Online and Elsewhere. The Hastings Report, 54(S2).  

Whiteside, J. L. (2024).Race, ethnicity, and stratification within the first-generation student experience. Race Ethnicity and Education, 1–20

Dasgupta, Kushan, Nicole Iturriaga, and Aaron Panofsky.  (2024).  “Racist Agnotology: How Myth-Making About Institutions and Knowledge Production Contributes to Racialized Ignorance.” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity. 

Gast, Melanie Jones, Yohimar Sivira-Gonzalez, James Chisholm, & Trisha Douin. 2024. “Multilingual Adolescent Mentors and Tailored College Knowledge for Students of Immigrant Backgrounds.” Supporting College Students of Immigrant Origin: New Insights from Research, Policy, and Practice, edited by Blake Silver & Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Learn more about some of our faculty, graduate students and alumni.

	Meet Dr. David Roelfs      Faculty profile archive Faculty webpages
	Meet grad student, Trisha Douin      Grad student profile archive Grad student webpage
	Watch PhD alum, Dr. Heidi Williams' TED talk here   Alum webpage