Graduate Students

• Shedrick Boren (PhD Medical)
  
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  Shed Boren is currently working on his PhD dissertation: Ignoring Ambiguity: Legitimating Clinical Decisions under the guidance of Professor John Murphy, PhD and Linda Belgrave, PhD in addition to Stephen Sapp, Professor, Religious Studies and Gerard Magill, PhD, Professor, Health Care Ethics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. The qualitative analysis, scheduled for completion in Fall 2008, reviews the evolution of American Healthcare Ethics Committees (HEC) with a focus on the decision-making process. Shed works as a social worker in addition to his role as the Administrator / CEO of Sister Emmanuel Hospital, a long-term acute care hospital. His areas of interests are varied, and his professional experiences include over 15 years working with HIV+ individuals. Shed holds a BA from Southwestern University (1987), a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Houston (1989), an MBA from the University of Miami (1995) and a certificate in healthcare ethics from Saint Louis University (2006).

• Adrienne Celaya (PhD Race/Criminology)
  
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• Rosa Chang (PhD Criminology/Race)
  
• Tanni Chaudhuri (PhD Medical/Criminology)
  

  
   
  

• Hillary Cook (PhD Medical/Race)
  
• Anthony Greene (PhD Race/Ethnic Relations; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Sport)
  
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• Mary Cherly Hargrove (PhD Medical)
  
• Lauren Kaplan (MA Medical/Criminology)
  
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• Ebony Livingston (MA Race)
  
• Hua Lv (PhD Race/Medical)
  
• Adrienne Milner (MA/PhD Criminology/Race)
  
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• Simone T. O'Bryan (PhD Race)
  
• Ajaykumar Panicker ( PhD Criminology/Race)
  
• Nicole Mixon Perez (PhD Medical/Race)
  
• Karen Pierre (PhD Medical/Race and Ethnic)
  
• Raymond Rasch (PhD Race/Social Movements)
  
• Khary Rigg (PhD Medical/Race)
  
• Kayla Santalla (MA Race/Medical )
  
• Christian Schlaerth (PhD Race)
  
• Erica Smith (PhD Race)
  
• Leah Varga (PhD Medical/Race)
  
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  Interests: Social Construction of Health, Illness, and Disease; Ideologies and Disparities in Health, Health Care Access, Health Care Use, and Definitions of Health; Ideologies and Health Care Policy

• Carleeen Vincent (PhD Criminology /Race)
  
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  Interests: Domestic Violence, Social Disorganization, and Assimilation

• Moneque Walker-Pickett (PhD Race)
  
• Michael Weiss (PhD Criminology/Medical)
  
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